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Alexandre Buttler is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and works extensively within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily addresses ecological and soil science questions, with a strong focus on peatlands and wetlands ecology as well as soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant responses to water stress

Subfields connected to their research activity are:

  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science

Buttler has published research in multiple respected journals, including frequent publications in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecology and Evolution

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Buttler include:

  • "Ericoid shrub encroachment shifts aboveground-belowground linkages in three peatlands across Europe and Western Siberia" (2023), published in Global Change Biology
  • "Shift in plant-soil interactions along a lakeshore hydrological gradient" (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Other relevant studies from the associated authorship group include:

  • "Species identity, rather than species mixtures, drives cover crop effects on nutrient partitioning in unfertilized agricultural soil" (2020), published in Plant and Soil
  • "Spatio-temporal patterns and drivers of CH4 and CO2 fluxes from rivers and lakes in highly urbanized areas" (2024), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Assessing the responses of Sphagnum micro-eukaryotes to climate changes using high throughput sequencing" (2020), published in PeerJ

Alexandre Buttler frequently collaborates with other researchers including:

  • Luca Bragazza
  • Vincent E. J. Jassey
  • Pierre Mariotte
  • Thomas Guillaume
  • Mathieu Santonja

Best Publications

  • A framework to implement Stakeholder participation in environmental projects

    Vincent Luyet;Rodolphe Schlaepfer;Marc B. Parlange;Alexandre Buttler

  • Raised atmospheric CO2 levels and increased N deposition cause shifts in plant species composition and production in Sphagnum bogs

    Frank Berendse;Nico van Breemen;HÅkan Rydin;Alexandre Buttler

  • Plant species richness and environmental heterogeneity in a mountain landscape: effects of variability and spatial configuration

    Alexia Dufour;Fawziah Gadallah;Helene H. Wagner;Antoine Guisan

  • Biogeochemical plant-soil microbe feedback in response to climate warming in peatlands

    Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza;Julien Parisod;Julien Parisod;Alexandre Buttler;Alexandre Buttler;Alexandre Buttler;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Above‐ and belowground linkages in Sphagnum peatland: climate warming affects plant‐microbial interactions

    Vincent E. J. Jassey;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Genevieve Chiapusio;Philippe Binet;Alexandre Buttler;Alexandre Buttler;Alexandre Buttler

  • Exploitation of northern peatlands and biodiversity maintenance: a conflict between economy and ecology

    Steve Chapman;Alexandre Buttler;André-Jean Francez;Fatima Laggoun-Défarge

  • Modern pollen assemblages from grazed vegetation in the western Pyrenees, France: a numerical tool for more precise reconstruction of past cultural landscapes

    Florence Mazier;Didier Galop;Cecile Brun;Alexandre Buttler

  • Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands

    Pierre Mariotte;Pierre Mariotte;Charlotte Vandenberghe;Paul Kardol;Frank Hagedorn

  • Ecology of testate amoebae (Protozoa : Rhizopoda) in Sphagnum peatlands in the Jura mountains, Switzerland and France

    Edward A. D. Mitchell;Alexandre J. Buttler;Barry G. Warner;Jean-Michel Gobat

  • Climatic modifiers of the response to nitrogen deposition in peat-forming Sphagnum mosses: a meta-analysis

    J. Limpens;Gustaf Granath;Urban Gunnarsson;R. Aerts

  • High nitrogen deposition alters the decomposition of bog plant litter and reduces carbon accumulation

    Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza;Alexandre Buttler;Alexandre Buttler;Jonathan Habermacher;Lisa Brancaleoni

  • An unexpected role for mixotrophs in the response of peatland carbon cycling to climate warming

    Vincent E. J. Jassey;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Constant Signarbieux;Constant Signarbieux;Stephan Hättenschwiler;Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza

  • Linking soil microbial communities to vascular plant abundance along a climate gradient

    Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza;Richard D. Bardgett;Edward A. D. Mitchell;Alexandre Buttler;Alexandre Buttler;Alexandre Buttler

  • Structure of microbial communities in Sphagnum peatlands and effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment

    Edward A. D. Mitchell;Daniel Gilbert;Alexandre Buttler;Christian Amblard

  • Growth potential of three Sphagnum species in relation to water table level and peat properties with implications for their restoration in cut-over bogs

    P. Grosvernier;Y. Matthey;A. Buttler

  • Relationships among testate amoebae (Protozoa), vegetation and water chemistry in five Sphagnum-dominated peatlands in Europe

    Edward A. D. Mitchell;Alexandre Buttler;Philippe Grosvernier;HÅkan Rydin

  • Herbaceous angiosperms are not more vulnerable to drought-induced embolism than angiosperm trees

    Frederic Lens;Catherine Picon-Cochard;Chloé E.L. Delmas;Constant Signarbieux

  • Tipping point in plant-fungal interactions under severe drought causes abrupt rise in peatland ecosystem respiration.

    Vincent E.J. Jassey;Vincent E.J. Jassey;Vincent E.J. Jassey;Monika Katarzyna Reczuga;Malgorzata Zielinska;Sandra Slowinska

  • Multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing local pastoral activities: an example from the Pyrenean Mountains (Pays Basque):

    Florence Mazier;Didier Galop;Marie-José Gaillard;Christine Rendu

  • Vapor-pressure deficit and extreme climatic variables limit tree growth.

    Paula Sanginés de Cárcer;Paula Sanginés de Cárcer;Yann Vitasse;Yann Vitasse;Josep Peñuelas;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Vincent E. J. Jassey

  • Horizontal distribution patterns of Testate amoebae (Protozoa) in a Sphagnum magellanicum carpet

    Edward A. D. Mitchell;Daniel Borcard;Alexandre J. Buttler;Philippe Grosvernier

  • Habitat differentiation in a narrow hybrid zone between diploid and tetraploid Anthoxanthum alpinum

    M. Felber-Girard;François Felber;Alexandre Buttler

Frequent Co-Authors

Luca Bragazza
Luca Bragazza Agroscope
François Gillet
François Gillet University of Franche-Comté
Vincent E. J. Jassey
Vincent E. J. Jassey Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Edward A. D. Mitchell
Edward A. D. Mitchell University of Neuchâtel
Bjorn J. M. Robroek
Bjorn J. M. Robroek Radboud University Medical Center
Fatima Laggoun-Défarge
Fatima Laggoun-Défarge University of Orléans
Daniel Gilbert
Daniel Gilbert University of Franche-Comté
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Harri Vasander
Harri Vasander University of Helsinki
Robert Huber
Robert Huber Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

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