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Overview

François Buscot is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including Plant Science, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work encompasses a range of topics centered around ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity, with particular focus on:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Plant and animal studies

Recent publications by François Buscot include:

  • "Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity" (2021), published in Science
  • "Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungi associated with the invasive weed Chromolaena odorata (Siam weed)" (2020), published in Fungal Diversity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with François Buscot include:

  • Kezia Goldmann
  • Anna Heintz-Buschart
  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Witoon Purahong
  • Benjawan Tanunchai

Research output by François Buscot has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Choosing and using diversity indices: Insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories

    E. Kathryn Morris;E. Kathryn Morris;Tancredi Caruso;François Buscot;François Buscot;Markus Fischer

  • Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

    Christoph Scherber;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Wolfgang W Weisser;Bernhard Schmid

  • Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists.

    Annegret Kohler;Annegret Kohler;Alan Kuo;Laszlo G Nagy;Laszlo G Nagy;Emmanuelle Morin;Emmanuelle Morin

  • Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

    Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Oliver Bossdorf;Sonja Gockel;Falk Hansel

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Fons van der Plas;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Mineral vs. Organic Amendments: Microbial Community Structure, Activity and Abundance of Agriculturally Relevant Microbes Are Driven by Long-Term Fertilization Strategies

    Davide Francioli;Elke Schulz;Guillaume Lentendu;Tesfaye Wubet

  • Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

    Martin M. Gossner;Martin M. Gossner;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Tiemo Kahl;Fabrice Grassein

  • Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

    Wolfgang W. Weisser;Christiane Roscher;Sebastian T. Meyer;Anne Ebeling

  • A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

    Nico Blüthgen;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati;Valentin H. Klaus

  • Life in leaf litter: novel insights into community dynamics of bacteria and fungi during litter decomposition

    Witoon Purahong;Tesfaye Wubet;Guillaume Lentendu;Michael Schloter

  • Horizon-Specific Bacterial Community Composition of German Grassland Soils, as Revealed by Pyrosequencing-Based Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes

    Christiane Will;Andrea Thürmer;Antje Wollherr;Heiko Nacke

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Markus Fischer

  • Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research.

    Carlos A. Guerra;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Johannes Sikorski;Antonis Chatzinotas

  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Peter Manning

  • The impact of even‐aged and uneven‐aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests

    Peter Schall;Martin M. Gossner;Steffi Heinrichs;Markus Fischer

  • Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

    Andreas Schuldt;Thorsten Assmann;Matteo Brezzi;Matteo Brezzi;François Buscot

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Böhnke;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • Differences in the species composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in spore, root and soil communities in a grassland ecosystem

    Stefan Hempel;Stefan Hempel;Carsten Renker;Carsten Renker;François Buscot;François Buscot

  • Microorganisms in soils: roles in genesis and functions.

    [edited by] Francois Buscot;Ajit Varma

Frequent Co-Authors

Tesfaye Wubet
Tesfaye Wubet Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Carsten Renker
Carsten Renker Natural History Museum Vienna
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Jessica L. M. Gutknecht
Jessica L. M. Gutknecht University of Minnesota
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern
Jürgen Bauhus
Jürgen Bauhus University of Freiburg
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University

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