Understanding the dynamic of biological landscapes
Spatial Ecology
Global change including land use and climate changes are impacting ecosystems. Our studies seek to understand and forecast the changes in the biological (i.e. the distribution of species, communities, and ecosystems) and cultural landscape (under influence from human use) in space and time using spatial models. Shifts in biodiversity and ecosystem structure are expected to decrease the quality of the ecosystem goods and services provided within landscapes. Forecasts of how species assemblage will shift in response to global change and impact the provision of services is essential for planning. In addition, we study how ecosystems changed in the past (e.g. climate change during the Quaternary), which provide a crucial understanding to forecast how global changes will impact current ecosystems. To solve those questions, we combine field experiments, mathematical and statistical models.
Recent Publications
- Novel trophic interactions under climate change promote alpine plant coexistence
Patrice Descombes; Camille Pitteloud; Gaëtan Glauser; Emmanuel Defossez; Alan Kergunteuil; Pierre-Marie Allard; Sergio Rasmann; Loïc Pellissier
Science, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6523/1469 DEC 2020 - Rapid climate change results in long-lasting spatial homogenization of phylogenetic diversity
Saladin, Bianca; Pellissier, Loic; Graham, Catherine H.; Nobis, Michael P.; Salamin, Nicolas; et al.
Nature Communications DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18343-6 SEP 16 2020 - Greater topoclimatic control of above- versus below-ground communities
Mod HK; Scherrer D; Di Cola V; Broennimann O; Blandenier Q; Breiner, FT; Buri A; Goudet, J; Guex, N; Lara, E; Mitchell, EAD; Niculita-Hirzel, H; Pagni, M; Pellissier, L; Pinto-Figueroa, E; Sanders, IR; Schmidt, BR; Seppey, CVW; Singer, D; Ursenbacher, S; Yashiro, E; van der Meer, JR; Guisan, A
Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15330 DEC 2020 - Marine fish diversity in Tropical America associated with both past and present environmental conditions
Polanco, Andrea F.; Fopp, Fabian; Albouy, Camille; Brun, Philipp; Boschman, Lydian; et al.
Journal Of Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13985 DEC 2020 - SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature
Lembrechts, Jonas J; Aalto, Juha; Ashcroft, Michael B; De Frenne, Pieter; Kopecky, Martin; et al.
Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123 NOV 2020 - Inflection point in climatic suitability of insect pest species in Europe suggests non-linear responses to climate change
Gruenig, Marc; Calanca, Pierluigi; Mazzi, Dominique; Pellissier, Loic
Global Change Biology DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15313 NOV 2020 - Contrasting responses of above- and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation
Pitteloud, Camille; Descombes, Patrice; Sanchez-Moreno, Sara; Kergunteuil, Alan; Ibanez, Sebastien; et al.
Oecologia DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04778-7 NOV 2020 - Saproxylic species are linked to the amount and isolation of dead wood across spatial scales in a beech forest
Haeler, Elena; Bergamini, Ariel; Blaser, Stefan; Ginzler, Christian; Hindenlang, Karin; et al.
Landscape Ecology DOI: 10.1007/s10980-020-01115-4 OCT 2020 - Integrating ecosystem services within spatial biodiversity conservation prioritization in the Alps
Ramel, Cindy; Rey, Pierre-Louis; Fernandes, Rui; Vincent, Claire; Cardoso, Ana R.; et al.
Ecosystem Services DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101186 OCT 2020 - Reptile species richness associated to ecological and historical variables in Iran
Kafash, Anooshe; Ashrafi, Sohrab; Yousefi, Masoud; Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar; Rajabizadeh, Mahdi; et al.
Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74867-3 OCT 23 2020 - A landscape-scale assessment of the relationship between grassland functioning, community diversity, and functional traits
van't Veen, Hanneke; Chalmandrier, Loic; Sandau, Nadine; Nobis, Michael P.; Descombes, Patrice; et al.
Ecology And Evolution DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6650 SEP 2020 - Forecast increase in invasive rabbit spread into ecosystems of an oceanic island (Tenerife) under climate change
Bello-Rodriguez, Victor; Mateo, Ruben G.; Pellissier, Loic; Cubas, Jonay; Cooke, Brian; et al.
Ecological Applications OI: 10.1002/eap.2206 SEP 2020 - Harnessing paleo-environmental modeling and genetic data to predict intraspecific genetic structure
Yannic, Glenn; Hagen, Oskar; Leugger, Flurin; Karger, Dirk N.; Pellissier, Loic
Evolutionary Applications DOI: 10.1111/eva.12986 JUL 2020 - Crop and forest pest metawebs shift towards increased linkage and suitability overlap under climate change
Grunig, Marc; Mazzi, Dominique; Calanca, Pierluigi; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Pellissier, Loic
Communications Biology DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0962-9 MAY 11 2020 - A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition
van den Hoogen, Johan; Geisen, Stefan; Wall, Diana H.; Wardle, David A.; Traunspurger, Walter; et al.
Scientific Data DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0437-3 MAR 26 2020 - Plant physical and chemical traits associated with herbivory in situ and under a warming treatment
Descombes, Patrice; Kergunteuil, Alan; Glauser, Gaetan; Rasmann, Sergio; Pellissier, Loic
Journal Of Ecology DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13286 MAR 2020 - Global vulnerability of marine mammals to global warming (vol 10, 548, 2020)
Albouy, Camille; Delattre, Valentine; Donati, Giulia; Frolicher, Thomas L.; Albouy-Boyer, Severine; et al.
Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61227-4 MAR 3 2020 - Global determinants of freshwater and marine fish genetic diversity
Manel, Stephanie; Guerin, Pierre-Edouard; Mouillot, David; Blanchet, Simon; Velez, Laure; Albouy, Camille; Pellissier, Loic
Nature Communications 11(1) Article Number: 692 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14409-7 FEB 10 2020 - Global vulnerability of marine mammals to global warming
Albouy, Camille; Delattre, Valentine; Donati, Giulia; Frolicher, Thomas L.; Albouy-Boyer, Severine; et al.
Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-57280-3 JAN 17 2020 - Consistency of spatio-temporal patterns of avian migration across the Swiss lowlands
Tschanz, Philippe; Pellissier, Loic; Shi, Xu; Liechti, Felix; Schmid, Baptiste
REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, DOI: 10.1002/rse2.143, DEC 2019 - A Minimal Model for the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient Suggests a Dominant Role for Ecological Limits
Etienne, Rampal S.; Cabral, Juliano Sarmento; Hagen, Oskar; Hartig, Florian; Hurlbert, Allen H.; et al.
American Naturalist, https://doi.org/10.1086/705243, NOV 2019 - The productivity-biodiversity relationship varies across diversity dimensions
Brun, Philipp; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Graham, Catherine H.; Lavergne, Sebastien; Pellissier, Loic; Munkemuller, Tamara; Thuiller, Wilfried
Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13678-1, 2019 - Model complexity affects species distribution projections under climate change
Brun, Philipp; Thuiller, Wilfried; Chauvier, Yohann; Pellissier, Loic; Wueest, Rafael O.; et al.
Journal Of Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13734 2019 - A Minimal Model for the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient Suggests a Dominant Role for Ecological Limits
Etienne, Rampal S.; Cabral, Juliano Sarmento; Hagen, Oskar; Hartig, Florian; Hurlbert, Allen H.; Pellissier, Loic; Pontarp, Mikael; Storch, David
American Naturalist, DOI: 10.1086/705243 2019 - Plant physical and chemical traits associated with herbivory in situ and under a warming treatment
Descombes, P; Kergunteuil, A; Glauser, GG; Rasmann, S; Pellissier, L
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13286, OCT 2019 - A process-based model supports an association between dispersal and the prevalence of species traits in tropical reef fish assemblages
Donati, GFA; Parravicini, V; Leprieur, F; Hagen, O; Gaboriau, T; Heine, C; Kulbicki, M; Rolland, J; Salamin, N; Albouy, C; Pellissier, L
ECOGRAPHY, 10.1111/ecog.04537 2019 - Ecological constraints coupled with deep-time habitat dynamics predict the latitudinal diversity gradient in reef fishes
Gaboriau, T; Albouy, C; Descombes, P; Mouillot, D; Pellissier, L; Leprieur, F
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 286 (1911):10.1098/rspb.2019.1506 SEP 18 2019 - Cross-scale effects of land use on the functional composition of herbivorous insect communities
Neff, F; Bluthgen, N; Chiste, MN; Simons, NK; Steckel, J; Weisser, WW; Westphal, C; Pellissier, L; Gossner, MM
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 34 (8):2001-2015; 10.1007/s10980-019-00872-1 AUG 2019 - Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale
van den Hoogen, J; Geisen, S; Routh, D; Ferris, H; Traunspurger, W; Wardle, DA; de Goede, RGM; Adams, BJ; Ahmad, W; Andriuzzi, WS; Bardgett, RD; Bonkowski, M; Campos-Herrera, R; Cares, JE; Caruso, T; Caixeta, LD; Chen, XY; Costa, SR; Creamer, R; Castro, JMD; Dam, M; Djigal, D; Escuer, M; Griffiths, BS; Gutierrez, C; Hohberg, K; Kalinkina, D; Kardol, P; Kergunteuil, A; Korthals, G; Krashevska, V; Kudrin, AA; Li, Q; Liang, WJ; Magilton, M; Marais, M; Martin, JAR; Matveeva, E; Mayad, E; Mulder, C; Mullin, P; Neilson, R; Nguyen, TAD; Nielsen, UN; Okada, H; Rius, JEP; Pan, K; Peneva, V; Pellissier, L; da Silva, JCP; Pitteloud, C; Powers, TO; Powers, K; Quist, CW; Rasmann, S; Moreno, SS; Scheu, S; Setala, H; Sushchuk, A; Tiunov, AV; Trap, J; van der Putten, W; Vestergard, M; Villenave, C; Waeyenberge, L; Wall, DH; Wilschut, R; Wright, DG; Yang, JI; Crowther, TW
NATURE, 572 (7768):194-+; 10.1038/s41586-019-1418-6 AUG 8 2019 - Urban bumblebees are smaller and more phenotypically diverse than their rural counterparts
Eggenberger, H; Frey, D; Pellissier, L; Ghazoul, J; Fontana, S; Moretti, M
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY, 10.1111/1365-2656.13051 2019 - Comparing temperature data sources for use in species distribution models: From in-situ logging to remote sensing
Lembrechts, JJ; Lenoir, J; Roth, N; Hattab, T; Milbau, A; Haider, S; Pellissier, L; Pauchard, A; Backes, AR; Dimarco, RD; Nunez, MA; Aalto, J; Nijs, I
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY, 10.1111/geb.12974 2019 - Mountain building, climate cooling and the richness of cold-adapted plants in the Northern Hemisphere
Hagen, O; Vaterlaus, L; Albouy, C; Brown, A; Leugger, F; Onstein, RE; de Santana, CN; Scotese, CR; Pellissier, L
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 46 (8):1792-1807; 10.1111/jbi.13653 AUG 2019 - Correlated Induction of Phytohormones and Glucosinolates Shapes Insect Herbivore Resistance of Cardamine Species Along Elevational Gradients
Robert, CAM; Pellissier, L; Moreira, X; Defossez, E; Pfander, M; Guyer, A; van Dam, NM; Rasmann, S
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY, 45 (7):638-648; 10.1007/s10886-019-01084-2 JUL 2019 - Climate and land-use changes reshuffle politically-weighted priority areas of mountain biodiversity
Vincent, C; Fernandes, RF; Cardoso, AR; Broennimann, O; Di Cola, V; D'Amen, M; Ursenbacher, S; Schmidt, BR; Pradervand, JN; Pellissier, L; Guisan, A
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, 17 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00589 JAN 2019 - The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary
Pontarp, M; Bunnefeld, L; Cabral, JS; Etienne, RS; Fritz, SA; Gillespie, R; Graham, CH; Hagen, O; Hartig, F; Huang, S; Jansson, R; Maliet, O; Munkemuller, T; Pellissier, L; Rangel, TF; Storch, D; Wiegand, T; Hurlbert, AH
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 34 (3):211-223; 10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.009 MAR 2019 - Disentangling the processes driving plant assemblages in mountain grasslands across spatial scales and environmental gradients
Scherrer, D; Mod, HK; Pottier, J; Litsios-Dubuis, A; Pellissier, L; Vittoz, P; Gotzenberger, L; Zobel, M; Guisan, A
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 107 (1):265-278; 10.1111/1365-2745.13037 JAN 2019 - …

Prof. Dr. Loïc Pellissier
ETH Zurich
Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems
8092 Zurich
Tel: +41 (0)44 632 32 03
Publications
Research topics
- Species distribution, interaction and community assembly
- The role of historical event in shaping current biodiversity
- Monitoring changes in ecosystems
- Climate and land-use change
- Changes along environmental gradients
- Biogeography
Interdisciplinary
- Plant-insect interactions
- Plant defense strategies
- Community ecology
- Phylogeography
- Ecosystem good and services