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D-Index
59
Citations
13007
World Ranking
3089
National Ranking
1200

Overview

Alain F. Plante is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial contribution to Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering as key subfields of study.

Their work encompasses a variety of topics, notably in Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Susan E. Crow
  • Alison M. Hoyt
  • Shane Stoner
  • Jeffrey Beem-Miller
  • Carlos A. Sierra

Their recent papers consist of:

  • "Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence," 2021, published in Global Change Biology
  • "An open-source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: International Soil Radiocarbon Database (ISRaD) version 1.0," 2020, published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Global fjords as transitory reservoirs of labile organic carbon modulated by organo-mineral interactions," 2022, published in Science Advances
  • "Decomposability of soil organic matter over time: the Soil Incubation Database (SIDb, version 1.0) and guidance for incubation procedures," 2020, published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Ecosystem services-based soil quality index tailored to the metropolitan environment for soil assessment and management," 2022, published in The Science of The Total Environment

Alain F. Plante has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Geoderma
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Case Studies in the Environment
  • Soil Science Society of America Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Soil carbon saturation: concept, evidence and evaluation

    Catherine E. Stewart;Keith Paustian;Richard T. Conant;Alain F. Plante;Alain F. Plante

  • Beyond clay: Towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

    Craig Rasmussen;Katherine Heckman;William R. Wieder;Marco Keiluweit

  • Sensitivity of organic matter decomposition to warming varies with its quality

    Richard T. Conant;Rhae A. Drijber;Michelle L. Haddix;William J. Parton

  • Clay-sized organo-mineral complexes in a cultivation chronosequence: revisiting the concept of the “primary organo-mineral complex”

    Claire Chenu;Alain Plante

  • Old and stable soil organic matter is not necessarily chemically recalcitrant: Implications for modeling concepts and temperature sensitivity

    Markus Kleber;Peter S. Nico;Alain Plante;Timothy Filley

  • Application of thermal analysis techniques in soil science.

    Alain F. Plante;José M. Fernández;J. Leifeld

  • Impact of soil texture on the distribution of soil organic matter in physical and chemical fractions

    Alain F. Plante;Richard T. Conant;Catherine E. Stewart;Keith Paustian

  • Soil Carbon Saturation: Linking Concept and Measurable Carbon Pools

    Catherine E. Stewart;Alain F. Plante;Keith Paustian;Richard T. Conant

  • Changes in extracellular enzyme activity and microbial community structure with soil depth at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory

    M.M. Stone;J.L. DeForest;A.F. Plante

  • Experimental warming shows that decomposition temperature sensitivity increases with soil organic matter recalcitrance

    Richard T. Conant;J. Megan Steinweg;Michelle L. Haddix;Eldor A. Paul

  • Does the acid hydrolysis-incubation method measure meaningful soil organic carbon pools?

    Eldor A. Paul;Sherri J. Morris;Richard T. Conant;Alain F. Plante

  • Improving estimates of maximal organic carbon stabilization by fine soil particles

    Wenting Feng;Alain F. Plante;Johan Six

  • Biological, chemical and thermal indices of soil organic matter stability in four grassland soils

    Alain F. Plante;José M. Fernández;Michelle L. Haddix;J. Megan Steinweg

  • Soil aggregate dynamics and the retention of organic matter in laboratory-incubated soil with differing simulated tillage frequencies

    A.F. Plante;W.B. McGill

  • Soil carbon saturation: Implications for measurable carbon pool dynamics in long-term incubations

    Catherine E. Stewart;Catherine E. Stewart;Keith Paustian;Richard T. Conant;Alain F. Plante;Alain F. Plante

  • Soil carbon saturation : evaluation and corroboration by long-term incubations

    Catherine E. Stewart;Keith Paustian;Richard T. Conant;Alain F. Plante;Alain F. Plante

  • Patterns of substrate utilization during long-term incubations at different temperatures

    J. Megan Steinweg;Alain F. Plante;Richard T. Conant;Eldor A. Paul

  • Adsorption and molecular fractionation of dissolved organic matter on iron-bearing mineral matrices of varying crystallinity

    Elizabeth K Coward;Tsutomu Ohno;Alain F. Plante

  • Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons.

    Tess E. Brewer;Emma L. Aronson;Keshav Arogyaswamy;Sharon A. Billings

  • Aggregation and carbon storage in silty soil using physical fractionation techniques

    M. Balabane;A. F. Plante

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Six
Johan Six ETH Zurich
Richard T. Conant
Richard T. Conant Colorado State University
Eldor A. Paul
Eldor A. Paul Colorado State University
Alexander J. Thompson
Alexander J. Thompson Ascension Health
Thomas Kätterer
Thomas Kätterer Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Erika Marin-Spiotta
Erika Marin-Spiotta University of Wisconsin–Madison
Craig Rasmussen
Craig Rasmussen University of Arizona
Claire Chenu
Claire Chenu University of Paris-Saclay
Sabine Houot
Sabine Houot University of Paris-Saclay
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe University of California, Merced

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