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Lionel Ranjard is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their work extensively covers subfields such as Ecology, Soil Science, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Key topics in their research include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Lionel Ranjard has authored several research papers, some of the notable recent publications are:

  • Inferring microbiota functions from taxonomic genes: a review (2022, GigaScience)
  • Ecotoxicity of copper input and accumulation for soil biodiversity in vineyards (2021, Environmental Chemistry Letters)
  • A meta-analysis of the ecotoxicological impact of viticultural practices on soil biodiversity (2020, Environmental Chemistry Letters)
  • Impact of farming systems on soil ecological quality: a meta-analysis (2021, Environmental Chemistry Letters)
  • Grassland-cropland rotation cycles in crop-livestock farming systems regulate priming effect potential in soils through modulation of microbial communities, composition of soil organic matter and abiotic soil properties (2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Pierre-Alain Maron
  • Battle Karimi
  • Samuel Dequiedt
  • Christophe Djemiel
  • Julie Tripied

Lionel Ranjard's work has been published regularly in several scientific venues, most notably:

  • Environmental Chemistry Letters
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • GigaScience
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Best Publications

  • Characterization of Bacterial and Fungal Soil Communities by Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis Fingerprints: Biological and Methodological Variability

    L. Ranjard;F. Poly;J.-C. Lata;C. Mougel

  • High Microbial Diversity Promotes Soil Ecosystem Functioning.

    Pierre-Alain Maron;Amadou Sarr;Aurore Kaisermann;Jean Lévêque

  • Determinants of the distribution of nitrogen-cycling microbial communities at the landscape scale

    D Bru;Alban Nicolas Ramette;N P A Saby;S Dequiedt;S Dequiedt

  • Impact of wheat straw decomposition on successional patterns of soil microbial community structure

    Fabiola Bastian;Fabiola Bastian;Lamia Bouziri;Lamia Bouziri;Bernard Nicolardot;Lionel Ranjard

  • Sampling strategy in molecular microbial ecology: influence of soil sample size on DNA fingerprinting analysis of fungal and bacterial communities.

    Lionel Ranjard;David P. H. Lejon;Christophe Mougel;Lucie Schehrer

  • Stimulation of Different Functional Groups of Bacteria by Various Plant Residues as a Driver of Soil Priming Effect

    Noémie Pascault;Lionel Ranjard;Lionel Ranjard;Aurore Kaisermann;Dipankar Bachar

  • Metaproteomics: A New Approach for Studying Functional Microbial Ecology

    Pierre-Alain Maron;Lionel Ranjard;Christophe Mougel;Philippe Lemanceau

  • Dynamics and identification of soil microbial populations actively assimilating carbon from 13C-labelled wheat residue as estimated by DNA- and RNA-SIP techniques.

    Laetitia Bernard;Christophe Mougel;Pierre-Alain Maron;Virginie Nowak

  • Biogeographical patterns of soil molecular microbial biomass as influenced by soil characteristics and management

    S. Dequiedt;N. P. A. Saby;M. Lelievre;C. Jolivet

  • Validation and Application of a PCR Primer Set to Quantify Fungal Communities in the Soil Environment by Real-Time Quantitative PCR

    Nicolas Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré;Richard Christen;Samuel Dequiedt;Christophe Mougel

  • Microbial diversity and ecological networks as indicators of environmental quality

    Battle Karimi;Pierre Alain Maron;Nicolas Chemidlin-Prevost Boure;Nadine Bernard

  • Turnover of soil bacterial diversity driven by wide-scale environmental heterogeneity.

    L. Ranjard;S. Dequiedt;N. Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré;J. Thioulouse;J. Thioulouse

  • Biogeography of soil bacteria and archaea across France

    Battle Karimi;Sébastien Terrat;Samuel Dequiedt;Nicolas P. A. Saby

  • Shifts in microbial diversity through land use intensity as drivers of carbon mineralization in soil

    Vincent Tardy;Aymé Spor;Olivier Mathieu;Jean Lévèque

  • Dynamic of the genetic structure of bacterial and fungal communities at different developmental stages of Medicago truncatula Gaertn. cv. Jemalong line J5.

    C. Mougel;P. Offre;L. Ranjard;T. Corberand

  • Soil conditions and land use intensification effects on soil microbial communities across a range of European field sites

    Bruce C. Thomson;Emilie Tisserant;Pierre Plassart;Stéphane Uroz

  • Assessing genetic structure and diversity of airborne bacterial communities by DNA fingerprinting and 16s rDNA clone library

    Pierre-Alain Maron;David P.H. Lejon;Esmeralda Carvalho;Karine Bizet

  • Stability of soil microbial structure and activity depends on microbial diversity

    Vincent Tardy;Olivier Mathieu;Jean Lévêque;Sébastien Terrat

  • Microbial community structure and density under different tree species in an acid forest soil (Morvan, France)

    David P. H. Lejon;Rémi Chaussod;Jacques Ranger;Lionel Ranjard

  • A microcosm experiment to evaluate the influence of location and quality of plant residues on residue decomposition and genetic structure of soil microbial communities

    Bernard Nicolardot;Lamia Bouziri;Lamia Bouziri;Fabiola Bastian;Fabiola Bastian;Lionel Ranjard

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre-Alain Maron
Pierre-Alain Maron INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Philippe Lemanceau
Philippe Lemanceau INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Dominique Arrouays
Dominique Arrouays INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Nicolas P.A. Saby
Nicolas P.A. Saby INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Laurent Philippot
Laurent Philippot INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Jean Thioulouse
Jean Thioulouse Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Robert I. Griffiths
Robert I. Griffiths University of Oxford
Richard Christen
Richard Christen Université Côte d'Azur
Corinne Cruaud
Corinne Cruaud Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission

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