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Overview

Nicolas P.A. Saby is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable emphasis on soil-related fields.

Their prominent subfields of study include soil science, environmental engineering, environmental chemistry, civil and structural engineering, and pollution. These areas align with their interest in soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil geostatistics and mapping, soil and unsaturated flow, geochemistry and geologic mapping, soil and water nutrient dynamics, soil erosion and sediment transport, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several publication venues, with frequent outputs in:

  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Geoderma
  • SOIL
  • Geoderma Regional
  • CATENA

Recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Nicolas P.A. Saby include:

  • "Pesticide Residues in French Soils: Occurrence, Risks, and Persistence" (2023), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Can soil properties and land use explain glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) accumulation? A nationwide survey in France" (2020), published in CATENA
  • "Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stock prediction" (2023), published in SOIL
  • "Agriculture increases the bioavailability of silicon, a beneficial element for crop, in temperate soils" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Integrating additional spectroscopically inferred soil data improves the accuracy of digital soil mapping" (2023), published in Geoderma

Nicolas P.A. Saby collaborates regularly with several researchers. Among the frequent co-authors are:

  • Antonio Bispo
  • Dominique Arrouays
  • Claudy Jolivet
  • Claire Froger
  • Manuel Martín

Best Publications

  • Rates and spatial variations of soil erosion in Europe: A study based on erosion plot data

    O. Cerdan;G. Govers;Y. Le Bissonnais;K. Van Oost

  • 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

  • Mapping field-scale spatial patterns of size and activity of the denitrifier community.

    Laurent Philippot;Laurent Philippot;Jiri Čuhel;Nicolas P.A. Saby;Dominique Chèneby;Dominique Chèneby

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

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

  • Soil monitoring in Europe: a review of existing systems and requirements for harmonisation.

    X. Morvan;N.P.A. Saby;D. Arrouays;C. Le Bas

  • 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

  • Impact of alley cropping agroforestry on stocks, forms and spatial distribution of soil organic carbon — A case study in a Mediterranean context

    Rémi Cardinael;Rémi Cardinael;Tiphaine Chevallier;Bernard G. Barthès;Nicolas P.A. Saby

  • Will European soil‐monitoring networks be able to detect changes in topsoil organic carbon content?

    Nicolas P. A. Saby;Patricia H. Bellamy;Xavier Morvan;Dominique Arrouays

  • Estimating and mapping the carbon saturation deficit of French agricultural topsoils

    D.A. Angers;D. Arrouays;N.P.A. Saby;Christian Walter

  • Spatial patterns of bacterial taxa in nature reflect ecological traits of deep branches of the 16S rRNA bacterial tree.

    Laurent Philippot;Laurent Philippot;David Bru;David Bru;Nicolas P. A. Saby;Jiří Čuhel

  • Modeling climate change effects on the potential production of French plains forests at the sub-regional level.

    Denis Loustau;Alexandre Bosc;Antoine Colin;Jérôme Ogée

  • Soil legacy data rescue via GlobalSoilMap and other international and national initiatives

    Dominique Arrouays;Johan G. B. Leenaars;Anne C. Richer-de-Forges;Kabindra Adhikari

  • Geostatistical assessment of Pb in soil around Paris, France.

    N. Saby;D. Arrouays;L. Boulonne;C. Jolivet

  • Fine resolution map of top- and subsoil carbon sequestration potential in France

    Songchao Chen;Songchao Chen;Manuel P. Martin;Nicolas P.A. Saby;Christian Walter

  • Physico-chemical characteristics of topsoil for contrasted forest, agricultural, urban and industrial land uses in France.

    Sophie Joimel;Jerome Cortet;Claudy Jolivet;Nicolas Saby

  • Evaluation of modelling approaches for predicting the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stocks at the national scale

    M. P. Martin;T. G. Orton;E. Lacarce;Jeroen Meersmans

  • Mapping and predictive variations of soil bacterial richness across France.

    Sébastien Terrat;Walid Horrigue;Samuel Dequietd;Nicolas P. A. Saby

  • Relationships between particle‐size distribution and organic carbon in French arable topsoils

    D. Arrouays;N. Saby;C. Walter;B. Lemercier

  • Changes in soil organic carbon in a mountainous French region, 1990-2004

    N. P. A. Saby;D. Arrouays;V. Antoni;B. Lemercier

  • National calibration of soil organic carbon concentration using diffuse infrared reflectance spectroscopy

    Michaël Clairotte;Clovis Grinand;Ernest Kouakoua;Aurélie Thébault

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Arrouays
Dominique Arrouays INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christian Walter
Christian Walter Institut Agro, France
Lionel Ranjard
Lionel Ranjard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean Thioulouse
Jean Thioulouse Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
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
Jeroen Meersmans
Jeroen Meersmans Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
R. M. Lark
R. M. Lark University of Nottingham
Laurent Philippot
Laurent Philippot INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Denis A. Angers
Denis A. Angers Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada

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