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Bertrand Guenet is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily contributes to Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing notably on subfields such as Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics of Guenet's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Soil and Unsaturated Flow.

They have published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Biogeosciences
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation, 2022, Functional Ecology
  • Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown, 2021, Nature Climate Change

Guenet's collaborations have involved frequent co-authors including Philippe Ciais, Elisa Bruni, Ronny Lauerwald, Claire Chenu, and Dan Zhu.

In addition to journal publications, Guenet has contributed to the book "Stocker du carbone dans les sols français," published by éditions Quae eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

    Olivier Boucher;Jérôme Servonnat;Anna Lea Albright;Olivier Aumont

  • Priming effect: bridging the gap between terrestrial and aquatic ecology

    Bertrand Guenet;Michael Danger;Michael Danger;Luc Abbadie;Gérard Lacroix

  • Increasing soil carbon storage: mechanisms, effects of agricultural practices and proxies. A review

    Marie-France Dignac;Delphine Derrien;Pierre Barré;Sébastien Barot

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage

    Bertrand Guenet;Benoit Gabrielle;Claire Chenu;Dominique Arrouays

  • Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands.

    Jinfeng Chang;Philippe Ciais;Thomas Gasser;Pete Smith

  • Is there a linear relationship between priming effect intensity and the amount of organic matter input

    Bertrand Guenet;Cathy Neill;Gérard Bardoux;Luc Abbadie

  • Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation

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  • Global forest carbon uptake due to nitrogen and phosphorus deposition from 1850 to 2100

    Rong Wang;Rong Wang;Rong Wang;Daniel Goll;Daniel Goll;Yves Balkanski;Yves Balkanski;Didier Hauglustaine;Didier Hauglustaine

  • Large Differences in Global and Regional Total Soil Carbon Stock Estimates Based on SoilGrids, HWSD, and NCSCD: Intercomparison and Evaluation Based on Field Data From USA, England, Wales, and France

    Marwa Tifafi;Bertrand Guenet;Christine Hatté

  • ORCHIDEE-MICT (v8.4.1), a land surface model for the high latitudes: model description and validation

    Matthieu Guimberteau;Dan Zhu;Fabienne Maignan;Ye Huang

  • Impact of priming on global soil carbon stocks

    Bertrand Guenet;Marta Camino-Serrano;Philippe Ciais;Marwa Tifafi

  • Evidence that stable C is as vulnerable to priming effect as is more labile C in soil.

    Bertrand Guenet;Sabrina Juarez;Gérard Bardoux;Luc Abbadie

  • Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuanyuan Huang;Phillipe Ciais;Yiqi Luo;Dan Zhu

  • Linking variability in soil solution dissolved organic carbon to climate, soil type, and vegetation type

    Marta Camino-Serrano;Bert Gielen;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais

  • A representation of the phosphorus cycle for ORCHIDEE (revision 4520)

    Daniel S. Goll;Nicolas Vuichard;Fabienne Maignan;Albert Jornet-Puig

  • Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration

    Philippe Ciais;Philippe Ciais;Yitong Yao;Thomas Gasser;Alessandro Baccini

  • High clay content accelerates the decomposition of fresh organic matter in artificial soils

    Hui Wei;Bertrand Guenet;Sara Vicca;Naoise Nunan

  • Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2

    Rose Z. Abramoff;Bertrand Guenet;Haicheng Zhang;Katerina Georgiou;Katerina Georgiou

  • The impact of long-term CO2 enrichment and moisture levels on soil microbial community structure and enzyme activities

    B. Guenet;K. Lenhart;J. Leloup;S. Giusti-Miller

  • Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands.

    Chunjing Qiu;Chunjing Qiu;Philippe Ciais;Dan Zhu;Dan Zhu;Bertrand Guenet;Bertrand Guenet

  • Accounting for carbon and nitrogen interactions in the global terrestrial ecosystem model ORCHIDEE (trunk version, rev 4999): multi-scale evaluation of gross primary production

    Nicolas Vuichard;Palmira Messina;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Bertrand Guenet

  • Fast mineralization of land-born C in inland waters: first experimental evidences of aquatic priming effect

    Bertrand Guenet;Michael Danger;Loic Charles Pierre Harrault;Beatrice Allard

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire Chenu
Claire Chenu University of Paris-Saclay
Ronny Lauerwald
Ronny Lauerwald University of Paris-Saclay
Daniel S. Goll
Daniel S. Goll Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Sebastiaan Luyssaert Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Pierre Regnier
Pierre Regnier Université Libre de Bruxelles
Luc Abbadie
Luc Abbadie Sorbonne University

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