Biodiversity science

Multi-scale species richness estimation with deep learning
Preprint
Revision requested from Nature Communications.
2025 arXiv
Victor Boussange, P. Brun, J. T. Malle, G. Midolo, J. Portier, T. Sanchez, N. E. Zimmermann, I. Axmanova, H. Bruelheide, M. Chytry, S. Kambach, J. Lososova, M. Vecera, N. Birrun, K. T. Ecker, J. Lenoir, J. C. Svenning, D. N. Karger
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Spatial biodiversity indicators and a composite index for conservation prioritization in Switzerland
Peer-reviewed
Accepted in Ecology.
2025 bioRxiv
A. Adde, Victor Boussange, Y. Chauvier, M. A. Dahito, J. Fruh, A. Gross, S. Stofer, E. Rey, P. Sieber, F. Fopp, R. Schouten, B. Van Moorter, A. Guisan, C. Graham, L. Pellissier, N. E. Zimmermann, F. Altermatt
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Species loss in key habitats accelerates regional food web disruption
Peer-reviewed
2025 Communications Biology
M. Reji Chacko, C. Albouy, F. Altermatt, Victor Boussange, M. Brändle, N. Farwig, M. M. Gossner, H. C. Ho, A. Joss, F. Neff, L. Pellissier
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A species-level multi-trophic metaweb for Switzerland
Peer-reviewed
2024 Scientific Data
M. Reji Chacko, C. Albouy, F. Altermatt, J. Casanelles Abella, M. Brändle, Victor Boussange, F. Campell, W. N. Ellis, F. Fopp, M. Gossner, H. C. Ho, A. Joss, P. Kipf, F. Neff, A. Petrović, V. Prié, Ž. Tomanović, N. Zimmerli, L. Pellissier
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Accelerating renewable energy development while enhancing biodiversity protection in Switzerland
Book/report
Contributing author of chapters 2 and 5.
2024 RE-BD AR2024
RE-BD AR2024
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Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace’s Line
Peer-reviewed
2023 Science
Alexander Skeels, Lydian Boschman, Ian R. McFadden, Elizabeth Marie Joyce, Oskar Hagen, Octavio Jiménez Robles, Wilhelmine Bach, Victor Boussange, Thomas Keggin, Walter Jetz, Loïc Pellissier
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Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace’s Line
On combining machine learning-based and theoretical ecosystem models
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In this post, I explore the benefits and drawbacks of using empirical (ML)-based models versus mechanistic models for predicting ecosystem responses to perturbations, and further develeop a hybrid approach combining their strengths.
Victor Boussange
Mar 31, 2023 14 min read
Ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast trajectories of ecosystem under climate change
Peer-reviewed
2023 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
I. G. Alsos, Victor Boussange, D. P. Rijal, M. Beaulieu, A. G. Brown, U. Herzschuh, J. C. Svenning, L. Pellissier
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Forward and inverse modelling of eco-evolutionary dynamics in ecological and economic systems
Book/report
2022
Victor Boussange
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Forward and inverse modelling of eco-evolutionary dynamics in ecological and economic systems
Eco-evolutionary model on spatial graphs reveals how habitat structure affects phenotypic differentiation
Peer-reviewed
2022 Communications Biology
Victor Boussange, Loïc Pellissier
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Eco-evolutionary model on spatial graphs reveals how habitat structure affects phenotypic differentiation