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Laurent Kergoat is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable expertise in several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Forestry, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics, such as:

  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Laurent Kergoat has contributed research to a variety of publication venues with repeated appearances in:

  • Nature
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kergoat include:

  • "An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel," Nature, 2020
  • "Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands," Nature, 2023
  • "Environmental determinants of E. coli, link with the diarrheal diseases, and indication of vulnerability criteria in tropical West Africa (Kapore, Burkina Faso)," PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2021
  • "Contrasting responses of woody and herbaceous vegetation to altered rainfall characteristics in the Sahel," Biogeosciences, 2021
  • "Hydrological regime of Sahelian small waterbodies from combined Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter data," Hydrology and earth system sciences, 2023

Frequent collaborators in Laurent Kergoat's research include:

  • Manuela Grippa
  • Élodie Robert
  • Pierre Hiernaux
  • Emma Rochelle-Newall
  • Amadou Abdourhamane Touré

Best Publications

  • Landscapes as patches of plant functional types: An integrating concept for climate and ecosystem models

    Gordon B. Bonan;Samuel Levis;Laurent Kergoat;Keith W. Oleson

  • Global-Scale Assessment of Vegetation Phenology Using NOAA/AVHRR Satellite Measurements

    Sophie Moulin;Laurent Kergoat;Nicolas Viovy;Gérard Dedieu

  • An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

    Martin Brandt;Compton J. Tucker;Ankit Kariryaa;Kjeld Rasmussen

  • Determination of phenological dates in boreal regions using normalized difference water index

    Nicolas Delbart;Laurent Kergoat;Thuy Le Toan;Julien Lhermitte

  • Re-Greening Sahel: 30 Years of Remote Sensing Data and Field Observations (Mali, Niger)

    C. Dardel;L. Kergoat;P. Hiernaux;E. Mougin

  • Remote sensing of spring phenology in boreal regions: A free of snow-effect method using NOAA-AVHRR and SPOT-VGT data (1982-2004)

    Nicolas Delbart;Nicolas Delbart;Thuy Le Toan;Laurent Kergoat;Violetta Fedotova

  • Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): analysis of differences in light absorption and light‐use efficiency

    A. Ruimy;L. Kergoat;A. Bondeau

  • AMMA-CATCH studies in the Sahelian region of West-Africa: an overview

    Thierry Lebel;Bernard Cappelaere;Sylvie Galle;Niall Hanan

  • Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

    S. Janicot;C. D. Thorncroft;A. Ali;N. Asencio

  • The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP)

    Aaron Boone;Patricia de Rosnay;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars

  • Seasonal variations of leaf area index of agricultural fields retrieved from Landsat data

    M.C. González-Sanpedro;M.C. González-Sanpedro;T. Le Toan;J. Moreno;L. Kergoat

  • Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity for Africa using eddy covariance data

    Martin Sjöström;M. Zhao;S. Archibald;Almut Arneth

  • The AMMA-CATCH Gourma observatory site in Mali: Relating climatic variations to changes in vegetation, surface hydrology, fluxes and natural resources

    E. Mougin;P. Hiernaux;L. Kergoat;M. Grippa

  • Precipitation as driver of carbon fluxes in 11 African ecosystems

    L. Merbold;J. Ardo;A. Arneth;R.J. Scholes

  • Spring phenology in boreal Eurasia over a nearly century time scale

    Nicolas Delbart;Ghislain Picard;Ghislain Picard;Thuy Le Toan;Laurent Kergoat

  • Actual evapotranspiration in drylands derived from in-situ and satellite data: Assessing biophysical constraints

    Monica García;Inge Sandholt;Pietro Ceccato;Marc Ridler

  • Importance of vegetation feedbacks in doubled‐CO2 climate experiments

    H. Douville;S. Planton;J.-F. Royer;D. B. Stephenson

  • The impact of snow depth and snowmelt on the vegetation variability over central Siberia

    M. Grippa;L. Kergoat;T. Le Toan;N. M. Mognard

  • Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands

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  • A model for hydrological equilibrium of leaf area index on a global scale

    Laurent Kergoat

  • Multi-scale soil moisture measurements at the Gourma meso-scale site in Mali

    P. de Rosnay;C. Gruhier;F. Timouk;F. Baup

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Françoise Guichard
Françoise Guichard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pierre Hiernaux
Pierre Hiernaux Goddard Space Flight Center
Bernard Cappelaere
Bernard Cappelaere Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Thierry Lebel
Thierry Lebel Grenoble Alpes University
Béatrice Marticorena
Béatrice Marticorena Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rasmus Fensholt
Rasmus Fensholt University of Copenhagen
P. de Rosnay
P. de Rosnay European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Thuy Le Toan
Thuy Le Toan Paul Sabatier University
Benjamin Sultan
Benjamin Sultan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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