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François P. Teste is affiliated with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, covering a broad range of subfields including plant science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, insect science, and global and planetary change.

The researcher's work addresses multiple key topics, notably:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions
  • Plant parasitism and resistance
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics

François P. Teste has contributed to research published in several prominent venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Plant and Soil
  • Fungal Ecology
  • Science
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers authored or coauthored by François P. Teste include:

  • Soil microbial communities are driven by the declining availability of cations and phosphorus during ecosystem retrogression, published in 2021 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Plant-soil feedback: incorporating untested influential drivers and reconciling terminology, published in 2023 in Plant and Soil
  • Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates, published in 2022 in Science
  • Plant-soil feedback in the 'real world': how does fire fit into all of this?, published in 2022 in Plant and Soil
  • Stealth invasions on the rise: rapid long-distance establishment of exotic pines in mountain grasslands of Argentina, published in 2020 in Biological Invasions

The frequent coauthors working alongside François P. Teste include:

  • Tomás Milani
  • Hans Lambers
  • Erik J. Veneklaas
  • Martín A. Núñez
  • Jonathan R. De Long

Best Publications

  • Mycorrhizal networks: Mechanisms, ecology and modelling

    Suzanne W. Simard;Kevin J. Beiler;Marcus A. Bingham;Julie R. Deslippe

  • Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands

    François P. Teste;François P. Teste;Paul Kardol;Benjamin L. Turner;Benjamin L. Turner;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle

  • How does pedogenesis drive plant diversity

    Etienne Laliberté;James B. Grace;Michael A. Huston;Hans Lambers

  • Proteaceae from severely phosphorus-impoverished soils extensively replace phospholipids with galactolipids and sulfolipids during leaf development to achieve a high photosynthetic phosphorus-use-efficiency.

    Hans Lambers;Gregory R. Cawthray;Patrick Giavalisco;John Kuo

  • How belowground interactions contribute to the coexistence of mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal species in severely phosphorus-impoverished hyperdiverse ecosystems

    Hans Lambers;Felipe Albornoz;Lukasz Kotula;Etienne Laliberté;Etienne Laliberté

  • Dual-mycorrhizal plants: their ecology and relevance.

    François P. Teste;François P. Teste;Melanie D. Jones;Ian A. Dickie

  • Access to mycorrhizal networks and roots of trees: importance for seedling survival and resource transfer

    François P. Teste;Suzanne W. Simard;Daniel M. Durall;Robert D. Guy

  • Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

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  • Low levels of ribosomal RNA partly account for the very high photosynthetic phosphorus-use efficiency of Proteaceae species.

    Ronan Sulpice;Hirofumi Ishihara;Armin Schlereth;Gregory R Cawthray

  • Mycorrhizal networks and distance from mature trees alter patterns of competition and facilitation in dry Douglas-fir forests.

    François P. Teste;Suzanne W. Simard

  • Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plants: do non-mycorrhizal species at both extremes of nutrient availability play the same game?

    Hans Lambers;François P. Teste

  • Phosphorus nutrition of phosphorus-sensitive Australian native plants: threats to plant communities in a global biodiversity hotspot

    Hans Lambers;Idriss Ahmedi;Idriss Ahmedi;Oliver Berkowitz;Oliver Berkowitz;Chris Dunne;Chris Dunne

  • Complementary plant nutrient-acquisition strategies promote growth of neighbour species

    Francois P. Teste;Erik J. Veneklaas;Kingsley W. Dixon;Kingsley W. Dixon;Hans Lambers

  • Role of mycorrhizal networks and tree proximity in ectomycorrhizal colonization of planted seedlings

    François P. Teste;Suzanne W. Simard;Daniel M. Durall

  • Soil fertility shapes belowground food webs across a regional climate gradient

    Etienne Laliberté;Etienne Laliberté;Paul Kardol;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;François P. Teste;François P. Teste

  • Net carbon transfer between Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca seedlings in the field is influenced by soil disturbance

    François P. Teste;Suzanne W. Simard;Daniel M. Durall;Robert D. Guy

  • Methods to control ectomycorrhizal colonization: effectiveness of chemical and physical barriers

    François P. Teste;Justine Karst;Melanie D. Jones;Suzanne W. Simard

  • The rise and fall of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity during ecosystem retrogression

    Manuela Krüger;François P. Teste;François P. Teste;Etienne Laliberté;Etienne Laliberté;Hans Lambers

  • Mycorrhizal fungal biomass and scavenging declines in phosphorus-impoverished soils during ecosystem retrogression

    François P. Teste;François P. Teste;Etienne Laliberté;Etienne Laliberté;Hans Lambers;Yasha Auer

  • Tree proximity, soil pathways and common mycorrhizal networks: their influence on the utilization of redistributed water by understory seedlings

    Amanda L. Schoonmaker;François P. Teste;Suzanne W. Simard;Robert D. Guy

  • Plant Mineral Nutrition

    Hans Lambers;Michael Shane;Etienne Laliberte;N. Swarts

Frequent Co-Authors

Etienne Laliberté
Etienne Laliberté University of Montreal
Hans Lambers
Hans Lambers University of Western Australia
Benjamin L. Turner
Benjamin L. Turner Gyeongsang National University
Suzanne W. Simard
Suzanne W. Simard University of British Columbia
Kingsley W. Dixon
Kingsley W. Dixon Curtin University
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Victor J. Lieffers
Victor J. Lieffers University of Alberta
Erik J. Veneklaas
Erik J. Veneklaas University of Western Australia
Michael Bunce
Michael Bunce Curtin University
Paul Kardol
Paul Kardol Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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