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Romain L. Barnard publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Romain L. Barnard sits on this spectrum.

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Romain L. Barnard D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Romain L. Barnard sits on this spectrum.

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3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Romain L. Barnard 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 as well as Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, they focus on several subfields, including Plant Science, Ecology, Soil Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of Romain L. Barnard's work include:

  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Romain L. Barnard has published several papers in recognized journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Rewetting of soil: Revisiting the origin of soil CO2 emissions," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Drought Stress Memory at the Plant Cycle Level: A Review," 2021, Plants
  • "Bacterial communities drive the resistance of soil multifunctionality to land-use change in karst soils," 2021, European Journal of Soil Biology
  • "Strategies for breeding crops for future environments," 2023, Trends in Plant Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Romain L. Barnard include Pascal A. Niklaus, Marion Prudent, Ilonka Engelhardt, Florian Bizouard, and Marie-Christine Breuil.

The scientist has contributed often to several publication venues, most prominently:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Plant and Soil
  • Plants
  • European Journal of Soil Biology

Best Publications

  • Responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to extreme desiccation and rewetting.

    Romain L Barnard;Catherine A Osborne;Catherine A Osborne;Mary K Firestone

  • Evaluating rRNA as an indicator of microbial activity in environmental communities: limitations and uses

    Steven J Blazewicz;Romain L Barnard;Romain L Barnard;Rebecca A Daly;Rebecca A Daly;Mary K Firestone;Mary K Firestone

  • Global change, nitrification, and denitrification: A review

    Romain Barnard;Paul W. Leadley;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

    Wolfgang W. Weisser;Christiane Roscher;Sebastian T. Meyer;Anne Ebeling

  • Drought effects on allocation of recent carbon: from beech leaves to soil CO2 efflux

    Nadine K. Ruehr;Christine A. Offermann;Arthur Gessler;Jana Barbro Winkler

  • Tracing carbon and oxygen isotope signals from newly assimilated sugars in the leaves to the tree-ring archive.

    Arthur Gessler;Elke Brandes;Nina Buchmann;Gerhard Helle

  • Changing precipitation pattern alters soil microbial community response to wet-up under a Mediterranean-type climate

    Romain L Barnard;Catherine A Osborne;Mary K Firestone

  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

    Fons van der Plas;Thomas Schröder-Georgi;Alexandra Weigelt;Kathryn E. Barry

  • Effectiveness of ecological rescue for altered soil microbial communities and functions.

    Kadiya Calderón;Aymé Spor;Marie Christine Breuil;David Bru

  • Rewetting of soil: Revisiting the origin of soil CO2 emissions

    Romain L. Barnard;Steven J. Blazewicz;Mary K. Firestone

  • Temporal dynamics of the carbon isotope composition in a Pinus sylvestris stand: from newly assimilated organic carbon to respired carbon dioxide

    Naomi Kodama;Romain L. Barnard;Yann Salmon;Christopher Weston

  • A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

    Eric Allan;Eric Allan;Wolfgang W. Weisser;Wolfgang W. Weisser;Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • Symbiont identity matters: carbon and phosphorus fluxes between Medicago truncatula and different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    Mark Lendenmann;Cécile Thonar;Cécile Thonar;Romain L. Barnard;Romain L. Barnard;Yann Salmon;Yann Salmon

  • Depth matters: effects of precipitation regime on soil microbial activity upon rewetting of a plant-soil system

    Ilonka C. Engelhardt;Amy Welty;Amy Welty;Steven J. Blazewicz;David Bru

  • Effects of drought and N-fertilization on N cycling in two grassland soils

    Adrian A. Hartmann;Romain L. Barnard;Sven Marhan;Pascal A. Niklaus;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands.

    Raphaël Proulx;Christian Wirth;Winfried Voigt;Alexandra Weigelt;Alexandra Weigelt

  • Several components of global change alter nitrifying and denitrifying activities in an annual grassland

    R. Barnard;X. Le Roux;B. A. Hungate;E. E. Cleland

  • Soil environmental conditions and microbial build-up mediate the effect of plant diversity on soil nitrifying and denitrifying enzyme activities in temperate grasslands.

    Xavier Le Roux;Bernhard Schmid;Franck Poly;Romain L. Barnard

  • The δ18O of root crown water best reflects source water δ18O in different types of herbaceous species

    Romain L. Barnard;Francesco de Bello;Anna K. Gilgen;Nina Buchmann

  • Evaporative enrichment and time lags between δ18O of leaf water and organic pools in a pine stand

    Romain L. Barnard;Yann Salmon;Naomi Kodama;Karin Sörgel

  • Drought effects on allocation of recent carbon: From beech leaves to soil CO2 efflux

    N. K. Ruehr;C. A. Offermann;A. Gessler;J. B. Winkler

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal A. Niklaus
Pascal A. Niklaus University of Zurich
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Alexandru Milcu
Alexandru Milcu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Xavier Le Roux
Xavier Le Roux Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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