Alain Pierret

Overview

Best Publications

• How to study deep roots—and why it matters

  Jean-Luc Maeght;Boris Rewald;Alain Pierret

  405
  Citations

• Understanding deep roots and their functions in ecosystems: an advocacy for more unconventional research

  Alain Pierret;Jean Luc Maeght;Corentin Clément;Jean Pierre Montoroi

  393
  Citations

• Water Uptake by Plant Roots: II – Modelling of Water Transfer in the Soil Root-system with Explicit Account of Flow within the Root System – Comparison with Experiments

  Claude Doussan;Alain Pierret;Emmanuelle Garrigues;Loïc Pagès

  375
  Citations

• 3D reconstruction and quantification of macropores using X-ray computed tomography and image analysis

  A. Pierret;Yvan Capowiez;Luc Belzunces;C.J. Moran

  325
  Citations

• Root Functional Architecture: A Framework for Modeling the Interplay between Roots and Soil

  Alain Pierret;Claude Doussan;Yvan Capowiez;François Bastardie

  267
  Citations

• Conventional detection methodology is limiting our ability to understand the roles and functions of fine roots.

  Alain Pierret;Alain Pierret;Christopher J. Moran;Claude Doussan

  243
  Citations

• Digging Deeper for Agricultural Resources, the Value of Deep Rooting

  Kristian Thorup-Kristensen;Niels Halberg;Mette Nicolaisen;Jørgen Eivind Olesen

  232
  Citations

• Root functional parameters along a land‐use gradient: evidence of a community‐level economics spectrum

  Iván Prieto;Iván Prieto;Catherine Roumet;Remi Cardinael;Christian Dupraz

  225
  Citations

• Water uptake by plant roots: I - Formation and propagation of a water extraction front in mature root systems as evidenced by 2D light transmission imaging

  Emmanuelle Garrigues;Claude Doussan;Alain Pierret

  175
  Citations

• IJ_Rhizo: an open-source software to measure scanned images of root samples

  Alain Pierret;Santimaitree Gonkhamdee;Christophe Jourdan;Jean-Luc Maeght

  152
  Citations

• Soil exploration and resource acquisition by plant roots: an architectural and modelling point of view

  Claude Doussan;Loïc Pagès;Alain Pierret

  146
  Citations

• 3D skeleton reconstructions of natural earthworm burrow systems using CAT scan images of soil cores

  Y. Capowiez;A. Pierret;O. Daniel;P. Monestiez

  129
  Citations

• Microbiological and chemical properties of soil associated with macropores at different depths in a red-duplex soil in NSW Australia

  C.E. Pankhurst;A. Pierret;B.G. Hawke;J.M. Kirby

  126
  Citations

• X-ray computed tomography to quantify tree rooting spatial distributions

  Alain Pierret;Alain Pierret;Yvan Capowiez;Christopher J Moran;André Kretzschmar

  119
  Citations

• Differentiation of soil properties related to the spatial association of wheat roots and soil macropores

  A. Pierret;C.J. Moran;C.E. Pankhurst

  110
  Citations

• Vegetation as a driver of temporal variations in slope stability: The impact of hydrological processes

  John H. Kim;John H. Kim;Thierry Fourcaud;Christophe Jourdan;Jean‐Luc Maeght

  102
  Citations

• X-ray absorption and phase contrast imaging to study the interplay between plant roots and soil structure

  C. J. Moran;A. Pierret;A. W. Stevenson

  96
  Citations

• Contradictory hydrological impacts of afforestation in the humid tropics evidenced by long-term field monitoring and simulation modelling

  Guillaume Lacombe;Olivier Ribolzi;Anneke de Rouw;Alain Pierret

  94
  Citations

• Linking crop structure, throughfall, soil surface conditions, runoff and soil detachment: 10 land uses analyzed in Northern Laos

  Guillaume Lacombe;Christian Valentin;Phabvilay Sounyafong;Anneke de Rouw

  86
  Citations

• Land use and water quality along a Mekong tributary in northern Lao P.D.R.

  Olivier Ribolzi;Juliette Cuny;Phonexay Sengsoulichanh;Claire Mousquès

  78
  Citations