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Overview

Eric Blanchart is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France, focusing on research within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scientific work spans multiple subfields including Soil Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Agronomy and Crop Science, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Blanchart's research addresses topics that include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis

Recent publications by Blanchart include:

  • Quantification of the global impact of agricultural practices on soil nematodes: A meta-analysis, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Soil aggregation, ecosystem engineers and the C cycle, 2020, Acta Oecologica
  • Agroecosystem diversification with legumes or non-legumes improves differently soil fertility according to soil type, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Effects of the earthworm Pontoscolex corethrurus on rice P nutrition and plant-available soil P in a tropical Ferralsol, 2020, Applied Soil Ecology
  • Increasing plant diversity promotes ecosystem functions in rainfed rice based short rotations in Malagasy highlands, 2021, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Frequent co-authors in Blanchart's research collaborations include:

  • Jean Trap
  • Tantely Razafimbelo
  • Thierry Becquer
  • Laëtitia Bernard
  • Onja Ratsiatosika

Key publication venues where Blanchart has contributed multiple articles are:

  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • European Journal of Soil Biology
  • Sustainability

Best Publications

  • A Hierarchical Model for Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Application to Soils of the Humid Tropics

    P. Lavelle;E. Blanchart;A. Martin;S. Martin

  • Global distribution of earthworm diversity

    Helen R P Phillips;Carlos A Guerra;Marie L C Bartz;Maria J I Briones

  • Agricultural intensification, soil biodiversity and agroecosystem function in the tropics: the role of earthworms

    C. Fragoso;G.G. Brown;J.C. Patron;Eric Blanchart

  • Ecological importance of soil bacterivores for ecosystem functions

    Jean Trap;Michael Bonkowski;Claude Plassard;Cécile Villenave

  • Impact of Soil Fauna on the Properties of Soils in the Humid Tropics

    P. Lavelle;E. Blanchart;A. Martin;A. V. Spain

  • Conservation agriculture cropping systems in temperate and tropical conditions, performances and impacts. A review

    Eric Scopel;Bernard Triomphe;François Affholder;Fernando Antonio Macena Da Silva

  • Regulation of soil structure by geophagous earthworm activities in humid savannas of Côte d'Ivoire

    E. Blanchart;P. Lavelle;E. Braudeau;Y. Le Bissonnais

  • Pasture damage by an Amazonian earthworm

    Armand Chauvel;Michel Grimaldi;Eleusa Barros;Eric Blanchart

  • Endogeic earthworms shape bacterial functional communities and affect organic matter mineralization in a tropical soil.

    Laetitia Bernard;Lydie Chapuis-Lardy;Tantely Razafimbelo;Malalatiana Razafindrakoto

  • Fourteen years of evidence for positive effects of conservation agriculture and organic farming on soil life

    Ludovic Henneron;Laetitia Bernard;Mickaël Hedde;Céline Pelosi

  • Effects of earthworms on plant production in the tropics

    George Brown;B. Pashanasi;Cécile Villenave;J.C. Patron

  • Long-term effect of a legume cover crop (Mucuna pruriens var. utilis) on the communities of soil macrofauna and nematofauna, under maize cultivation, in southern Benin

    E. Blanchart;C. Villenave;A. Viallatoux;B. Barthès

  • Effects of tropical endogeic earthworms on soil erosion

    Eric Blanchart;A. Albrecht;G. Brown;T. Decaens

  • SOM management in the tropics: Why feeding the soil macrofauna?

    Patrick Lavelle;Eleusa Barros;Eric Blanchart;George Brown

  • Soil macrofaunal communities in permanent pastures derived from tropical forest or savanna

    T. Decaëns;J.J. Jiménez;E. Barros;A. Chauvel

  • Changes in carbon stock and greenhouse gas balance in a coffee (Coffea arabica) monoculture versus an agroforestry system with Inga densiflora, in Costa Rica

    Kristell Hergoualc’h;Kristell Hergoualc’h;Eric Blanchart;Ute Skiba;Catherine Hénault

  • Soil microbial diversity drives the priming effect along climate gradients: a case study in Madagascar.

    Kanto Razanamalala;Tantely Razafimbelo;Pierre-Alain Maron;Lionel Ranjard

  • Earthworm communities of tropical agroecosystems : origin, structure and influence of management practices

    C. Fragoso;P. Lavelle;Eric Blanchart;B.K. Senapati

  • The interaction of soil biota and soil structure under global change

    Iain. M. Young;Eric. Blanchart;Claire Chenu;Mark. Dangerfield

  • Earthworm activity affects soil aggregation and organic matter dynamics according to the quality and localization of crop residues: An experimental study (Madagascar)

    Sylvain Coq;Bernard G. Barthès;Robert Oliver;Bodovololona Rabary

  • Charles Darwin, earthworms and the natural sciences: various lessons from past to future

    Christian Feller;George G Brown;Eric Blanchart;Pierre Deleporte

  • Utilization of earthworms and termites for the restoration of ecosystem functioning

    Pascal Jouquet;Eric Blanchart;Yvan Capowiez

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Lavelle
Patrick Lavelle Sorbonne University
Christian Feller
Christian Feller Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
George G. Brown
George G. Brown Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Martial Bernoux
Martial Bernoux Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Juan J. Jiménez
Juan J. Jiménez Spanish National Research Council
Thibaud Decaëns
Thibaud Decaëns University of Montpellier
Claude Plassard
Claude Plassard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Thierry Becquer
Thierry Becquer Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Yvan Capowiez
Yvan Capowiez University of Avignon
Philippe Hinsinger
Philippe Hinsinger INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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