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Plant Science and Agronomy
France
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
79
Citations
33436
World Ranking
431
National Ranking
5

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
83
Citations
41763
World Ranking
695
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in France Leader Award

Overview

Jean-François Soussana is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, encompassing a total of 34 publications across these fields.

The scientist has contributed notably to the study of soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, climate change impacts on agriculture, peatlands and wetlands ecology, soil and unsaturated flow, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, energy and environment impacts, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Soussana include:

  • Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage? (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • The impact of interventions in the global land and agri-food sectors on Nature's Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Ensemble modelling, uncertainty and robust predictions of organic carbon in long-term bare-fallow soils (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Ensemble modelling of carbon fluxes in grasslands and croplands (2020, Field Crops Research)
  • Feasibility of the 4 per 1000 aspirational target for soil carbon: A case study for France (2021, Global Change Biology)

In addition to journal articles, Soussana has contributed to book publications, including the title Global assessment of soil carbon in grasslands (2023) published by FAO eBooks.

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Pete Smith
  • Lorenzo Brilli
  • Christopher D. Dorich
  • Fiona Ehrhardt
  • Nuala Fitton

Major venues where Soussana's work is published encompass a range of scientific outlets:

  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Field Crops Research
  • BMJ
  • The Lancet

Their research contributions span several subfields including soil science, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, agronomy and crop science, as well as civil and structural engineering.

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

  • EURO-CORDEX : new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research

    Daniela Jacob;Juliane Petersen;Bastian Eggert;Antoinette Alias

  • Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

    S. Mark Howden;Jean François Soussana;Francesco N. Tubiello;Francesco N. Tubiello;Netra Chhetri

  • Food, fibre and forest products

    W.E. Easterling;P.K. Aggrawal;P. Batima;Keith Brander

  • Crop and pasture response to climate change

    Francesco N. Tubiello;Jean François Soussana;S. Mark Howden

  • Potential of legume-based grassland–livestock systems in Europe: a review

    Andreas Lüscher;I. Mueller-Harvey;Jean-François Soussana;R.M. Rees

  • Carbon cycling and sequestration opportunities in temperate grasslands

    J.-F. Soussana;P. Loiseau;N. Vuichard;E. Ceschia

  • How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal.

    Pete Smith;Jean‐Francois Soussana;Denis Angers;Louis Schipper

  • Mitigating the greenhouse gas balance of ruminant production systems through carbon sequestration in grasslands

    Jean-François Soussana;T. Tallec;Vincent Blanfort

  • Full accounting of the greenhouse gas (CO2, N2O, CH4) budget of nine European grassland sites

    J.F. Soussana;V. Allard;K. Pilegaard;P. Ambus

  • Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water-use efficiency at the ecosystem level

    C. Beer;P. Ciais;M. Reichstein;D. Baldocchi

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance

    Reimo Kindler;Reimo Kindler;Jan Siemens;Jan Siemens;Klaus Kaiser;David Christopher Walmsley

  • Coupling carbon and nitrogen cycles for environmentally sustainable intensification of grasslands and crop-livestock systems

    Jean-François Soussana;Gilles Lemaire

  • Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance

    E. D. Schulze;S. Luyssaert;S. Luyssaert;P. Ciais;A. Freibauer

  • Plant traits and functional types in response to reduced disturbance in a semi‐natural grassland

    F. Louault;V.D. Pillar;J. Aufrère;E. Garnier

  • Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target

    Eva Wollenberg;Eva Wollenberg;Meryl Richards;Meryl Richards;Pete Smith;Petr Havlik

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • Ecosystems and Their Goods and Services

    H. Gitay;S. Brown;W. Easterling;B. Jallow

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Pierre Cellier
Pierre Cellier University of Paris-Saclay
Kim Pilegaard
Kim Pilegaard Technical University of Denmark
Nicolas Vuichard
Nicolas Vuichard University of Paris-Saclay
Vincent Allard
Vincent Allard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University
Eva K. Wollenberg
Eva K. Wollenberg University of Vermont
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University

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