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Pierre-Alain Maron 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 Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial focus on Ecology and Soil Science, supported by work in Molecular Biology and Plant Science. Their investigations delve into several specialized subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in their scientific work include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology

Their publication record includes multiple recent papers, notably:

  • "Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation" (2022) published in Functional Ecology
  • "Inferring microbiota functions from taxonomic genes: a review" (2022) published in GigaScience
  • "Ecotoxicity of copper input and accumulation for soil biodiversity in vineyards" (2021) published in 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) published in Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • "Urban land uses shape soil microbial abundance and diversity" (2023) published in The Science of The Total Environment

Several frequent co-authors have collaborated extensively with Pierre-Alain Maron, including:

  • Lionel Ranjard
  • Christophe Djemiel
  • Samuel Dequiedt
  • Sébastien Terrat
  • Julie Tripied

Their work has been published repeatedly across various venues, with notable frequent publication outlets being:

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

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications, including:

  • "Prospective scientifique pour la recherche française sur la biodiversité - 2023" published by Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement in 2023

Best Publications

  • Fungi mediate long term sequestration of carbon and nitrogen in soil through their priming effect

    S. Fontaine;C. Henault;A. Aamor;N. Bdioui

  • Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil.

    Laurent Philippot;Aymé Spor;Catherine Hénault;David Bru

  • Increasing soil carbon storage: mechanisms, effects of agricultural practices and proxies. A review

    Marie-France Dignac;Delphine Derrien;Pierre Barré;Sébastien Barot

  • High Microbial Diversity Promotes Soil Ecosystem Functioning.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fungal communities are more sensitive indicators to non-extreme soil moisture variations than bacterial communities

    A. Kaisermann;P.A. Maron;L. Beaumelle;J.C. Lata

  • Advancing the mechanistic understanding of the priming effect on soil organic matter mineralisation

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

    Vincent Tardy;Aymé Spor;Olivier Mathieu;Jean Lévèque

  • 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

  • Pyrosequencing evidences the impact of cropping on soil bacterial and fungal diversity in Laos tropical grassland

    Pascal Lienhard;Pascal Lienhard;Sébastien Terrat;Nicolas Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré;Virginie Nowak

  • Grass populations control nitrification in savanna soils

    Jean-Christophe Lata;Valérie Degrange;Xavier Raynaud;Pierre-Alain Maron

  • Inferring microbiota functions from taxonomic genes: a review

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  • Molecular biomass and MetaTaxogenomic assessment of soil microbial communities as influenced by soil DNA extraction procedure.

    Sébastien Terrat;Richard Christen;Richard Christen;Samuel Dequiedt;Mélanie Lelièvre

  • Soil microbial diversity drives the priming effect along climate gradients: a case study in Madagascar.

    Kanto Razanamalala;Tantely Razafimbelo;Pierre-Alain Maron;Lionel Ranjard

  • Soil microbial diversity: Methodological strategy, spatial overview and functional interest.

    Pierre-Alain Maron;Christophe Mougel;Lionel Ranjard

  • Soil microbial diversity affects soil organic matter decomposition in a silty grassland soil

    Karen Baumann;Marie-France Dignac;Cornelia Rumpel;Gérard Bardoux

  • Evaluation of the ISO standard 11063 DNA extraction procedure for assessing soil microbial abundance and community structure.

    Pierre Plassart;Sebastien Terrat;Bruce C. Thomson;Robert I. Griffiths

Frequent Co-Authors

Lionel Ranjard
Lionel Ranjard 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
Jean Thioulouse
Jean Thioulouse Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Richard Christen
Richard Christen Université Côte d'Azur
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Matthieu Chauvat
Matthieu Chauvat University of Rouen
Laurent Philippot
Laurent Philippot INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Sylvie Recous
Sylvie Recous INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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