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Overview

Grégoire T. Freschet is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Within these broader fields, their work focuses on subfields including plant science, soil science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research interests cover a variety of topics, notably soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, plant and animal studies, and legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis.

Frequent collaborators include Larry M. York, Catherine Roumet, Michael McCormack, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, and Alexandra Weigelt.

Freschet has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants, 2020, Science Advances
  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs, 2020, New Phytologist
  • A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements, 2021, New Phytologist
  • An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective, 2021, New Phytologist
  • RhizoVision Explorer: open-source software for root image analysis and measurement standardization, 2021, AoB Plants

Their publications appear frequently in venues such as New Phytologist, Journal of Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Functional Ecology.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants.

    Joana Bergmann;Alexandra Weigelt;Fons van der Plas;Daniel C. Laughlin

  • Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Richard S. P. Van Logtestijn;Rien Aerts

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

    Grégoire T Freschet;Grégoire T Freschet;Catherine Roumet;Louise H Comas;Monique Weemstra

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

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  • Linking litter decomposition of above‐ and below‐ground organs to plant–soil feedbacks worldwide

    Grégoire T. Freschet;William K. Cornwell;David A. Wardle;Tatyana G. Elumeeva

  • A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

    Grégoire T Freschet;Loïc Pagès;Colleen M Iversen;Louise H Comas

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

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

  • A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Rien Aerts;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

  • Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

    Angela T. Moles;Sarah E. Perkins;Shawn W. Laffan;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • An integrated framework of plant form and function: The belowground perspective

    Alexandra Weigelt;Liesje Mommer;Karl Andraczek;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Contrasting effects of plant inter‐ and intraspecific variation on community‐level trait measures along an environmental gradient

    Emilie Kichenin;David A. Wardle;Duane A. Peltzer;Chris W. Morse

  • A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology.

    Colleen M. Iversen;M. Luke McCormack;A. Shafer Powell;Christopher B. Blackwood

  • Integrated plant phenotypic responses to contrasting above- and below-ground resources: key roles of specific leaf area and root mass fraction.

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Elferra M. Swart;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

  • Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes;Caroline M. Tucker;Joseph M. Craine

  • Allocation, morphology, physiology, architecture: the multiple facets of plant above- and below-ground responses to resource stress.

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Cyrille Violle;Malo Y. Bourget;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  • A worldview of root traits: the influence of ancestry, growth form, climate and mycorrhizal association on the functional trait variation of fine-root tissues in seed plants.

    Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes;Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes;Grégoire T. Freschet;Catherine Roumet;Christopher B. Blackwood

  • Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home‐field advantage with a new hypothesis

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Rien Aerts;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

  • Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

    Guofang Liu;Grégoire T. Freschet;Xu Pan;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Roumet
Catherine Roumet University of Montpellier
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Hendrik Poorter
Hendrik Poorter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia Hasselt University
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
M. Luke McCormack
M. Luke McCormack Morton Arboretum
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Colleen M. Iversen
Colleen M. Iversen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society

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