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Sébastien Barot is affiliated with the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Paris in France. Their academic focus encompasses several fields related to environmental and agricultural sciences, with a significant body of work in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science.

The scientist's research spans a variety of subfields including Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Key topics in their research include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Sébastien Barot has contributed to various scientific publications and has coauthored papers with researchers such as Jean-Christophe Lata, Xavier Le Roux, Kouamé Fulgence Koffi, Nicolas Loeuille, and Luc Abbadie.

The primary venues for their work include:

  • Acta Oecologica
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Peer Community In Ecology
  • Agronomy for Sustainable Development
  • Oikos

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Sébastien Barot are:

  • Plant-soil synchrony in nutrient cycles: Learning from ecosystems to design sustainable agrosystems (2023) published in Global Change Biology
  • Global distribution of soil fauna functional groups and their estimated litter consumption across biomes (2022) published in Scientific Reports
  • Temperature and soil management effects on carbon fluxes and priming effect intensity (2020) published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models. I. review and model concept (2020) published in PeerJ
  • The causes of the selection of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) in relation to ecosystem functioning and a research agenda to explore them (2022) published in Biology and Fertility of Soils

In addition to articles, Sébastien Barot has contributed to book publications, including a work published by the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, titled "Prospective scientifique pour la recherche française sur la biodiversité - 2023".

Best Publications

  • Stability of organic carbon in deep soil layers controlled by fresh carbon supply

    Sébastien Fontaine;Sébastien Barot;Pierre Barré;Nadia Bdioui

  • Soil invertebrates and ecosystem services

    Patrick Lavelle;Thibaud Decaëns;M. Aubert;Sébastien Barot

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

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

  • Size and functional diversity of microbe populations control plant persistence and long-term soil carbon accumulation

    Sébastien Fontaine;Sébastien Barot

  • DEMOGRAPHY OF A SAVANNA PALM TREE: PREDICTIONS FROM COMPREHENSIVE SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSES

    Sébastien Barot;Jacques Gignoux;Jean-Claude Menaut

  • Earthworm services for cropping systems. A review

    Michel Bertrand;Michel Bertrand;Sébastien Barot;Manuel Blouin;Joann Whalen

  • Pesticides and earthworms. A review

    Céline Pelosi;Sébastien Barot;Yvan Capowiez;Mickaël Hedde

  • Fisheries-induced trends in reaction norms for maturation in North Sea plaice

    R.E. Grift;A.D. Rijnsdorp;S. Barot;Mikko Heino

  • Contribution of exudates, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and litter depositions to the rhizosphere priming effect induced by grassland species

    Tanvir Shahzad;Claire Chenu;Patricia Genet;Sébastien Barot

  • Designing mixtures of varieties for multifunctional agriculture with the help of ecology. A review

    Sébastien Barot;Vincent Allard;Amélie Cantarel;Jerome Enjalbert

  • Contrasted effect of biochar and earthworms on rice growth and resource allocation in different soils

    Diana Noguera;Diana Noguera;Marco Rondón;Kam-Rigne Laossi;Valerio Hoyos

  • Plant Preference for Ammonium versus Nitrate: A Neglected Determinant of Ecosystem Functioning?

    Simon Boudsocq;Audrey Niboyet;Jean Christophe Lata;Xavier Raynaud

  • Vermicompost significantly affects plant growth. A meta-analysis

    Manuel Blouin;Julien Barrere;Nicolas Meyer;Silène Lartigue

  • LONG-TERM TREND IN THE MATURATION REACTION NORM OF TWO COD STOCKS

    S. Barot;M. Heino;L. O'Brien;U. Dieckmann

  • Mechanisms promoting plant coexistence: can all the proposed processes be reconciled?

    Sébastien Barot

  • Unfolding the potential of wheat cultivar mixtures: A meta-analysis perspective and identification of knowledge gaps

    J. Borg;Lars Pødenphant Kiær;C. Lecarpentier;I. Goldringer

  • Priming effect and microbial diversity in ecosystem functioning and response to global change: a modeling approach using the SYMPHONY model.

    Nazia Perveen;Sébastien Barot;Gaël Alvarez;Katja Klumpp

  • Establishment and early persistence of tree seedlings in an annually burned savanna

    Jacques Gignoux;Gaëlle Lahoreau;Romain Julliard;Sébastien Barot

  • Integrating ecosystem engineering and food webs

    Dirk Sanders;Clive G. Jones;Elisa Thébault;Tjeerd J. Bouma

  • Estimating reaction norms for age and size at maturation when age at first reproduction is unknown

    Sébastien Barot;Mikko Heino;Ulf Dieckmann

  • Effects of plant diversity on plant biomass production and soil macrofauna in Amazonian pastures

    Kam-Rigne Laossi;Sébastien Barot;Deurival Carvalho;Thierry Desjardins

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria R. Finckh
Maria R. Finckh University of Kassel
Luc Abbadie
Luc Abbadie Sorbonne University
Thibaud Decaëns
Thibaud Decaëns University of Montpellier
Patrick Lavelle
Patrick Lavelle Sorbonne University
Xavier Le Roux
Xavier Le Roux Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jean Roger-Estrade
Jean Roger-Estrade Agro ParisTech
Vincent Allard
Vincent Allard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Ulf Dieckmann
Ulf Dieckmann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Mikko Heino
Mikko Heino University of Bergen
Bruno Andrieu
Bruno Andrieu INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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