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Overview

Nicolas Gross is affiliated with the University of Clermont Auvergne in France, contributing extensively to research in environmental and agricultural sciences. Their work spans multiple fields including Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant focus on nature conservation, ecosystem processes, and plant science.

Their main research topics encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Gross has published frequently in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Plants

Their recent prominent papers include:

  • Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity (2020, Science)
  • Biogeography of global drylands (2021, New Phytologist)
  • Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Functional rarity and evenness are key facets of biodiversity to boost multifunctionality (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Plant-soil synchrony in nutrient cycles: Learning from ecosystems to design sustainable agrosystems (2023, Global Change Biology)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet
  • Hugo Sáiz
  • David J. Eldridge
  • Miguel Berdugo
  • Fernando T. Maestre

Gross's research covers several notable subfields such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology

Their contributions support understanding of ecosystem thresholds, biodiversity dynamics, and the relationships between land use and ecosystem functionality, often integrating cross-disciplinary approaches to tackle environmental challenges. Their work on nutrient cycles and ecosystem multifunctionality reflects ongoing interests in sustainable agroecosystem design and resilience against global environmental changes.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

    Miguel Berdugo;Miguel Berdugo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Santiago Soliveres;Rocío Hernández-Clemente

  • 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

  • Increasing crop heterogeneity enhances multitrophic diversity across agricultural regions

    Clélia Sirami;Clélia Sirami;Nicolas Gross;Aliette Bosem Baillod;Aliette Bosem Baillod;Colette Bertrand;Colette Bertrand;Colette Bertrand

  • Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality.

    Nicolas Gross;Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet;Pierre Liancourt;Miguel Berdugo

  • Climate mediates the biodiversity-ecosystem stability relationship globally.

    Pablo García-Palacios;Nicolas Gross;Juan Gaitán;Fernando T Maestre

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality.

    Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet;Santiago Soliveres;Nicolas Gross;Rubén Torices

  • Biogeography of global drylands

    Fernando T. Maestre;Blas M. Benito;Miguel Berdugo;Laura Concostrina-Zubiri

  • Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands

    Enrique Valencia;Fernando T. Maestre;Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet;José Luis Quero

  • Habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly explain species relative abundance within grassland communities along fertility and disturbance gradients.

    Vincent Maire;Vincent Maire;Nicolas Gross;Luca Börger;Raphaël Proulx;Raphaël Proulx

  • Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

    Ethan E. Butler;Abhirup Datta;Habacuc Flores-Moreno;Ming Chen

  • Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

    Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet;Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet;Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Fernando T. Maestre;Vincent Maire

  • Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

    Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso;David J. Eldridge;Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Santiago Soliveres

  • Complementarity as a mechanism of coexistence between functional groups of grasses

    N Gross;K. N Suding;S Lavorel;C Roumet

  • Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

    Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Luca Börger;Luca Börger;Sara I. Soriano‐Morales;Sara I. Soriano‐Morales;Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet

  • Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

    Nicolas Gross;Georges Kunstler;Pierre Liancourt;Francesco De Bello

  • Towards sustainable and multifunctional agriculture in farmland landscapes: Lessons from the integrative approach of a French LTSER platform

    Vincent Bretagnolle;Vincent Bretagnolle;Elsa Berthet;Nicolas Gross;Bertrand Gauffre

  • Trade-off between root nitrogen acquisition and shoot nitrogen utilization across 13 co-occurring pasture grass species

    Vincent Maire;Nicolas Gross;Laise Da Silveira Pontes;Catherine Picon-Cochard

  • Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality

    Enrique Valencia;Enrique Valencia;Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;Nicolas Gross;José L. Quero;Carlos P. Carmona

  • Leaf dry matter content and lateral spread predict response to land use change for six subalpine grassland species

    Nicolas Gross;Katharine Nash Suding;Sandra Lavorel

  • Habitat quality as a predictor of spatial variation in blue tit reproductive performance: a multi-plot analysis in a heterogeneous landscape.

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Samuel Caro;Samuel Caro;Anne Charmantier;Nicolas Gross

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet King Juan Carlos University
Fernando T. Maestre
Fernando T. Maestre King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Pierre Liancourt
Pierre Liancourt University of Tübingen
Luca Börger
Luca Börger Swansea University
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Spanish National Research Council
Santiago Soliveres
Santiago Soliveres University of Alicante
Yann Clough
Yann Clough Lund University

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