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Overview

Mathieu Javaux is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered in Javaux's work include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Irrigation Practices and Water Management
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control

Javaux has contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed papers. Some key recent publications are:

  • "Soil hydrology in the Earth system", 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought", 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • "Experimental platforms for the investigation of spatiotemporal patterns in the rhizosphere-Laboratory and field scale", 2020, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
  • "Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation", 2024, Nature
  • "Sensing the electrical properties of roots: A review", 2020, Vadose Zone Journal

Frequent co-authors in Javaux's research include Jan Vanderborght, Andrea Carminati, Andrea Schnepf, Harry Vereecken, and Mutez Ali Ahmed.

Javaux has published extensively in several scientific venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Plant and Soil
  • Vadose Zone Journal
  • in silico Plants
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Best Publications

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • Using pedotransfer functions to estimate the van Genuchten-Mualem Soil Hydraulic Properties: a review.

    Harry Vereecken;Mélanie Weynants;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux;Y. Pachepsky

  • Critical knowledge gaps and research priorities in global soil salinity

    Jan W. Hopmans;A.S. Qureshi;I. Kisekka;R. Munns;R. Munns

  • Use of a Three-Dimensional Detailed Modeling Approach for Predicting Root Water Uptake

    Mathieu Javaux;Tom Schröder;Jan Vanderborght;Harry Vereecken

  • Indices of sediment connectivity: opportunities, challenges and limitations

    Tobias Heckmann;Marco Cavalli;Olivier Cerdan;Saskia Foerster

  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system

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  • Nutrient acquisition from arable subsoils in temperate climates: A review

    Timo Kautz;Wulf Amelung;Frank Ewert;Thomas Gaiser

  • Reviews and syntheses: Isotopic approaches to quantify root water uptake: a review and comparison of methods

    Youri Rothfuss;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux

  • Modelling root–soil interactions using three–dimensional models of root growth, architecture and function

    Vanessa M. Dunbabin;Johannes A. Postma;Andrea Schnepf;Loïc Pagès

  • Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought.

    Andrea Carminati;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux

  • Revisiting Vereecken Pedotransfer Functions: Introducing a Closed-Form Hydraulic Model

    Mélanie Weynants;H. Vereecken;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux

  • Soil hydrology: Recent methodological advances, challenges, and perspectives

    H. Vereecken;J. A. Huisman;H. J. Hendricks Franssen;N. Brüggemann

  • A simple three-dimensional macroscopic root water uptake model based on the hydraulic architecture approach

    Valentin Couvreur;Jan Vanderborght;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux

  • Model-assisted integration of physiological and environmental constraints affecting the dynamic and spatial patterns of root water uptake from soils

    Xavier Draye;Yangmin Kim;Guillaume Lobet;Mathieu Javaux

  • Quantitative imaging of solute transport in an unsaturated and undisturbed soil monolith with 3-D ERT and TDR

    Johannes Koestel;Andreas Kemna;Andreas Kemna;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux;Andrew Binley

  • Plant Water Uptake in Drying Soils

    Guillaume Lobet;Valentin Couvreur;Félicien Meunier;Mathieu Javaux

  • What indicators can capture runoff-relevant connectivity properties of the micro-topography at the plot scale?

    Michael Antoine;Mathieu Javaux;Charles Bielders

  • Three-dimensional monitoring of soil water content in a maize field using Electrical Resistivity Tomography

    Laure Beff;T. Günther;Bertrand Vandoorne;Bertrand Vandoorne;Valentin Couvreur

  • Root Water Uptake: From Three-Dimensional biophysical Processes to Macroscopic Modeling Approaches

    Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux;Valentin Couvreur;Jan Vanderborght;Harry Vereecken

  • Three-dimensional electrical resistivity tomography to monitor root zone water dynamics

    Sarah Garré;Mathieu Javaux;Jan Vanderborght;Loïc Pagès

  • A global multilevel coordinate search procedure for estimating the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties

    Sébastien Lambot;Mathieu Javaux;François Hupet;Marnik Vanclooster

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Vanderborght
Jan Vanderborght Forschungszentrum Jülich
Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Marnik Vanclooster
Marnik Vanclooster Université Catholique de Louvain
Xavier Draye
Xavier Draye Université Catholique de Louvain
Guillaume Lobet
Guillaume Lobet Forschungszentrum Jülich
Andreas Kemna
Andreas Kemna University of Bonn
Charles Bielders
Charles Bielders Université Catholique de Louvain
Andrea Schnepf
Andrea Schnepf Forschungszentrum Jülich
Frédéric Nguyen
Frédéric Nguyen University of Liège

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