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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
84
Citations
29910
World Ranking
779
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Claire Chenu is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and has a research focus spanning Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work primarily addresses soil science, ecology, and plant science, with additional interests in molecular biology and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's publications explore multiple topics related to soil and ecosystem dynamics, including soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies. Further areas of interest include soil and water nutrient dynamics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and polar research and ecology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Claire Chenu include:

  • "Dynamic interactions at the mineral-organic matter interface," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "The ecology of heterogeneity: soil bacterial communities and C dynamics," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Emerging multiscale insights on microbial carbon use efficiency in the land carbon cycle," 2024, Nature Communications
  • "Temperature and soil management effects on carbon fluxes and priming effect intensity," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Claire Chenu frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Anke M. Herrmann
  • Luc Abbadie
  • Julie Leloup
  • Xavier Raynaud
  • Louis Dufour

The scholar often publishes in journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, SSRN Electronic Journal, Geoderma, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Their most numerous publications appear in Soil Biology and Biochemistry and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon

    Uta Stockmann;Mark A. Adams;John W. Crawford;Damien J. Field

  • Relationship of soil organic matter dynamics to physical protection and tillage

    J Balesdent;C Chenu;M Balabane

  • Organic Matter Influence on Clay Wettability and Soil Aggregate Stability

    C. Chenu;Y. Le Bissonnais;D. Arrouays

  • Responses of soil heterotrophic respiration to moisture availability: An exploration of processes and models

    Fernando E. Moyano;Stefano Manzoni;Claire Chenu

  • The effects of organic inputs over time on soil aggregate stability – a literature analysis

    Samuel Abiven;Safya Menasseri;Safya Menasseri;Claire Chenu

  • Dynamics of soil organic matter associated with particle-size fractions of water-stable aggregates

    P. Puget;C. Chenu;J. Balesdent

  • How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal.

    Pete Smith;Jean‐Francois Soussana;Denis Angers;Louis Schipper

  • Increasing organic stocks in agricultural soils: Knowledge gaps and potential innovations

    Claire Chenu;Denis A. Angers;Pierre Barré;Delphine Derrien

  • Particulate organic matter as a functional soil component for persistent soil organic carbon.

    Kristina Witzgall;Alix Vidal;David I. Schubert;Carmen Höschen

  • Total and young organic matter distributions in aggregates of silty cultivated soils

    P. Puget;C. Chenu;J. Balesdent

  • Isolating organic carbon fractions with varying turnover rates in temperate agricultural soils : a comprehensive method comparison

    Christopher Poeplau;Axel Don;Johan Six;Michael Kaiser;Michael Kaiser

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

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

  • Carbon dynamics in topsoil and in subsoil may be controlled by different regulatory mechanisms

    Clémence Salomé;Naoise Nunan;Valérie Pouteau;Thomas Z. Lerch

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

    Claire Chenu;Alain Plante

  • Aggregate stability and microbial community dynamics under drying-wetting cycles in a silt loam soil

    Diego Cosentino;Claire Chenu;Yves Le Bissonnais

  • Ecosystem services provided by soils of urban, industrial, traffic, mining, and military areas (SUITMAs)

    Jean Louis Morel;Jean Louis Morel;Claire Chenu;Klaus Lorenz

  • Soil Security: Solving the Global Soil Crisis

    Andrea Koch;Alex McBratney;Mark Adams;Damien Field

  • Clay- or sand-polysaccharide associations as models for the interface between micro-organisms and soil: water related properties and microstructure

    Claire Chenu

  • Nature of carbohydrates associated with water-stable aggregates of two cultivated soils

    P Puget;D.A Angers;C Chenu

  • Fate of particulate organic matter in soil aggregates during cultivation

    E. Besnard;C. Chenu;J. Balesdent;P. Puget

  • The 4p1000 initiative: Opportunities, limitations and challenges for implementing soil organic carbon sequestration as a sustainable development strategy

    Cornelia Rumpel;Farshad Amiraslani;Claire Chenu;Magaly García Cardenas

Frequent Co-Authors

Naoise Nunan
Naoise Nunan Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas Kätterer
Thomas Kätterer Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Bertrand Guenet
Bertrand Guenet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alain F. Plante
Alain F. Plante University of Pennsylvania
Jérôme Balesdent
Jérôme Balesdent Aix-Marseille University
Daniel P. Rasse
Daniel P. Rasse Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
André Mariotti
André Mariotti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Denis A. Angers
Denis A. Angers Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Sylvie Recous
Sylvie Recous INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Bent T. Christensen
Bent T. Christensen Aarhus University

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