Julien Pétillon

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

1. Evidence that organic farming promotes pest control

   2018 · 203 citations

2. Influence of abiotic factors on spider and ground beetle communities in different salt-marsh systems

   2007 · 90 citations

3. Impact of an invasive plant (Elymus athericus) on the conservation value of tidal salt marshes in western France and implications for management: Responses of spider populations

   2005 · 89 citations

4. The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits

   2021 · 77 citations

5. Factors affecting the success of early salt-marsh colonizers: seed availability rather than site suitability and dispersal traits

   2009 · 69 citations

6. Spider conservation in Europe: a review

   2021 · 55 citations

7. Impact of cutting and sheep grazing on ground-active spiders and carabids in intertidal salt marshes (Western France)

   2007 · 52 citations

8. Improving occurrence‐based rarity metrics in conservation studies by including multiple rarity cut‐off points

   2011 · 50 citations

9. Top ten priorities for global saltmarsh restoration, conservation and ecosystem service research

   2023 · 50 citations

10. Farming system and landscape characteristics differentially affect two dominant taxa of predatory arthropods

    2018 · 47 citations

11. Hypoxic coma as a strategy to survive inundation in a salt-marsh inhabiting spider

    2009 · 44 citations

12. Phenological and meteorological determinants of spider ballooning in an agricultural landscape

    2016 · 44 citations

13. Responses of ground-dwelling spider assemblages to changes in vegetation from wet oligotrophic habitats of Western France

    2019 · 44 citations

14. Does the invasive plant Elymus athericus modify fish diet in tidal salt marshes?

    2005 · 42 citations

15. Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

    2021 · 42 citations

16. Disentangling the influence of local and landscape factors on alpha and beta diversities: opposite response of plants and ground‐dwelling arthropods in wet meadows

    2015 · 41 citations

17. Evaluating the success of managed realignment for the restoration of salt marshes: Lessons from invertebrate communities

    2014 · 40 citations

18. Effect of grazing removal on aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank composition in sub-alpine grasslands of northern Iran

    2016 · 40 citations

19. Satellite‐derived vegetation indices as surrogate of species richness and abundance of ground beetles in temperate floodplains

    2013 · 39 citations

20. Explicit integration of dispersal-related metrics improves predictions of SDM in predatory arthropods

    2020 · 38 citations

21. Saline stress tolerance partly matches with habitat preference in ground‐living wolf spiders

    2011 · 36 citations

22. Physiological costs during the first maternal care in the wolf spider Pardosa saltans (Araneae, Lycosidae)

    2016 · 36 citations

23. A common framework for developing robust soil fauna classifications

    2022 · 36 citations

24. Relative importance of management and natural flooding on spider, carabid and plant assemblages in extensively used grasslands along the Loire

    2016 · 34 citations

25. Short‐term resilience of arthropod assemblages after spring flood, with focus on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) and carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

    2015 · 31 citations

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