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Overview

Franck Poly is affiliated with the University of Lyon System in France. Their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these fields, their focus includes several subfields such as Ecology, Forestry, Soil Science, Plant Science, and Process Chemistry and Technology.

The main topics in Franck Poly's work encompass Pasture and Agricultural Systems, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Polar Research and Ecology, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • Plant growth drives soil nitrogen cycling and N-related microbial activity through changing root traits, 2020, Fungal ecology
  • Early spring snowmelt and summer droughts strongly impair the resilience of bacterial community and N cycling functions in a subalpine grassland ecosystem, 2023, Oikos
  • Sniffer: A Device for Sampling Gases from River, 2021, Instrumentation Mesure Métrologie
  • Raw Data and Scripts for manuscript submitted to Oikos as 'Early Spring Snowmelt and Summer Droughts Strongly Impair the Resilience of Key Microbial Communities in a Subalpine Grassland Ecosystems', 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Early Spring Snowmelt and Summer Droughts Strongly Impair the Resilience of Key Microbial Communities in Subalpine Grassland Ecosystems, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Franck Poly has also contributed to book publications, including a work titled Biogeochemical Cycles published by the American Geophysical Union in 2020.

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Thomas Pommier, Hafeez Farhan, Bernard Lionel, Clément Jean-Christophe, and Jean-Christophe Clément.

Their publications appear in a variety of venues, with notable concentrations in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Fungal ecology
  • Oikos
  • Instrumentation Mesure Métrologie
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Improvement in the RFLP procedure for studying the diversity of nifH genes in communities of nitrogen fixers in soil

    Franck Poly;Lucile Jocteur Monrozier;René Bally

  • Characterization of Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities by Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis Fingerprints: Biological and Methodological Variability

    L. Ranjard;F. Poly;J.-C. Lata;C. Mougel

  • Comparison of nifH Gene Pools in Soils and Soil Microenvironments with Contrasting Properties

    Franck Poly;Lionel Ranjard;Sylvie Nazaret;François Gourbière

  • Monitoring complex bacterial communities using culture-independent molecular techniques: application to soil environment.

    Lionel Ranjard;Franck Poly;Sylvie Nazaret

  • Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

    Karl Grigulis;Sandra Lavorel;Ute Krainer;Nicolas Legay

  • Decline of soil microbial diversity does not influence the resistance and resilience of key soil microbial functional groups following a model disturbance.

    Sophie Wertz;Valerie Degrange;James Ivor Prosser;Franck Poly

  • Maintenance of soil functioning following erosion of microbial diversity

    Sophie Wertz;Valérie Degrange;James I. Prosser;Franck Poly

  • EFFECTS OF GRAZING ON MICROBIAL FUNCTIONAL GROUPS INVOLVED IN SOIL N DYNAMICS

    A. K. Patra;L. Abbadie;A. Clays-Josserand;V. Degrange

  • Heterogeneous Cell Density and Genetic Structure of Bacterial Pools Associated with Various Soil Microenvironments as Determined by Enumeration and DNA Fingerprinting Approach (RISA).

    L. Ranjard;F. Poly;J. Combrisson;A. Richaume

  • Effects of management regime and plant species on the enzyme activity and genetic structure of N‐fixing, denitrifying and nitrifying bacterial communities in grassland soils

    Ashok K. Patra;Luc Abbadie;Annie Clays-Josserand;Valérie Degrange

  • Shifts between Nitrospira- and Nitrobacter-like nitrite oxidizers underlie the response of soil potential nitrite oxidation to changes in tillage practices

    E. Attard;F. Poly;C. Commeaux;F. Laurent

  • Resource pulses can alleviate the biodiversity–invasion relationship in soil microbial communities

    Cyrus A. Mallon;Franck Poly;Xavier Le Roux;Irene Marring

  • The impact of failure: unsuccessful bacterial invasions steer the soil microbial community away from the invader’s niche

    C A Mallon;X Le Roux;G S van Doorn;F Dini-Andreote

  • First exploration of Nitrobacter diversity in soils by a PCR cloning-sequencing approach targeting functional gene nxrA

    Franck Poly;Franck Poly;Franck Poly;Sophie Wertz;Sophie Wertz;Sophie Wertz;Elisabeth Brothier;Elisabeth Brothier;Elisabeth Brothier;Valérie Degrange;Valérie Degrange;Valérie Degrange

  • High molecular weight DNA recovery from soils prerequisite for biotechnological metagenomic library construction

    Hélène Bertrand;Franck Poly;Van Tran Van;Nathalie Lombard

  • Are plant-soil feedback responses explained by plant traits?

    Catherine Baxendale;Kate H. Orwin;Kate H. Orwin;Franck Poly;Thomas Pommier

  • Niche construction by the invasive Asian knotweeds (species complex Fallopia ): impact on activity, abundance and community structure of denitrifiers and nitrifiers

    Nicolas Dassonville;Nadine Guillaumaud;Nadine Guillaumaud;Florence Piola;Pierre Jacques Meerts

  • Community niche predicts the functioning of denitrifying bacterial assemblages.

    Joana Falcao Salles;Franck Poly;Bernhard Schmid;Xavier Le Roux

  • Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

    N. Legay;Catherine Baxendale;K. Grigulis;U. Krainer

  • Response of soil microbial communities to the herbicide mesotrione: a dose-effect microcosm approach.

    Olivier Crouzet;Olivier Crouzet;Isabelle Batisson;Isabelle Batisson;Pascale Besse-Hoggan;Pascale Besse-Hoggan;Frédérique Bonnemoy;Frédérique Bonnemoy

  • Using plant traits to explain plant-microbe relationships involved in nitrogen acquisition.

    Amélie A. M. Cantarel;Thomas Pommier;Marie Desclos-Theveniau;Marie Desclos-Theveniau;Sylvain Diquélou;Sylvain Diquélou

  • Evidence for biological denitrification inhibition (BDI) by plant secondary metabolites

    Clément Bardon;Florence Piola;Floriant Bellvert;Feth el Zahar Haichar

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Le Roux
Xavier Le Roux Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Joana Falcão Salles
Joana Falcão Salles University of Groningen
Jean-Christophe Clément
Jean-Christophe Clément Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Laurent Philippot
Laurent Philippot INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Michael Schloter
Michael Schloter Technical University of Munich
James I. Prosser
James I. Prosser University of Aberdeen
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Jan Dirk van Elsas
Jan Dirk van Elsas University of Groningen

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