Antoine Guisan and Marco Keiluweit, both professors at the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment at UNIL, are featured on the prestigious list of the most cited scientists of 2025, compiled by Clarivate.

Lors de la Cérémonie d’ouverture des cours & de remise des prix de la FBM qui s’est tenue le 21 septembre 2021, 13 prix de Faculté, 2 prix d’Excellence et 16 prix spécifiques (dont 4 de 2020) ont été décernés à des étudiant·e·s, doctorant·e·s ou professionnel·le·s qui se sont distingué·e·s par leurs travaux ou leur engagement personnel.

Modelling in Ecology and Evolution Meeting 2020 in Lausanne

The questions of how much abiotic environment contributes to explain species distributions, and which abiotic factors are the most influential, are key when projecting species realized niches in space and time. In a new paper, D. Scherrer and A. Guisan show that answers to these questions can be obtained by using species’ ecological indicator values (EIVs)

The paper proposes a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling scoring of studies based on species distribution models for use in biodiversity assessments. It should promote transparency and repeatability, eventually leading to higher quality of SDMs and the inferences used in assessments.