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Overview

Sophie Cornu is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and conducts research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses significantly on subfields such as Soil Science, Plant Science, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Silicon Effects in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the European Journal of Soil Science, Geoderma, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), SSRN Electronic Journal, and Scientific Reports.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaboration network are Nicolas Saby, Nádia Castanheira, Claire Chenu, Saskia Keesstra, and Lilian O'Sullivan.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sophie Cornu include:

  • National soil data in EU countries, where do we stand? (2023), European Journal of Soil Science
  • European agricultural soil management: Towards climate-smart and sustainability, knowledge needs and research approaches (2023), European Journal of Soil Science
  • Barriers and opportunities of soil knowledge to address soil challenges: Stakeholders' perspectives across Europe (2022), Journal of Environmental Management
  • The role of silicon in the supply of terrestrial ecosystem services (2022), Environmental Chemistry Letters
  • Agriculture increases the bioavailability of silicon, a beneficial element for crop, in temperate soils (2020), Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • A review on the potentiality of Rare Earth Elements to trace pedogenetic processes

    C. Laveuf;S. Cornu

  • Atmosphere–soil carbon transfer as a function of soil depth

    Jérôme Balesdent;Isabelle Basile-Doelsch;Joël Chadoeuf;Sophie Cornu

  • Adsorption of arsenic (V) on kaolinite and on kaolinite-humic acid complexes. Role of humic acid nitrogen groups.

    A Saada;D Breeze;C Crouzet;S Cornu

  • Evidence of titanium mobility in soil profiles, Manaus, central Amazonia

    Sophie Cornu;Yves Lucas;Eric Lebon;J.P Ambrosi

  • Lessivage as a major process of soil formation: A revisitation of existing data

    Laurence Quénard;Anatja Samouëlian;Bertrand Laroche;Sophie Cornu

  • Tracing contamination sources in soils with Cu and Zn isotopic ratios.

    Z. Fekiacova;S. Cornu;S. Pichat

  • Location of natural trace elements in silty soils using particle-size fractionation

    Michel Hardy;Sophie Cornu

  • Rare earth elements as tracers of pedogenetic processes

    Cédric Laveuf;Sophie Cornu;Farid Juillot

  • Trace element accumulation in Mn—Fe—oxide nodules of a planosolic horizon.

    Sophie Cornu;Valérie Deschatrettes;Sébastien Salvador-Blanes;Blandine Clozel

  • Genèse et fonctionnement des sols en milieu équatorial

    Yves Lucas;D. Nahon;S. Cornu;F. Eyrolle

  • Effect of Agricultural Practices on Trace‐Element Distribution in Soil

    David Montagne;Sophie Cornu;Hocine Bourennane;Denis Baize

  • The impact of redox conditions on the rare earth element signature of redoximorphic features in a soil sequence developed from limestone

    Cédric Laveuf;Sophie Cornu;Luiz Roberto G. Guilherme;Luiz Roberto G. Guilherme;Annie Guerin

  • Identifying the Functional Macropore Network Related to Preferential Flow in Structured Soils

    Stéphane Sammartino;Anne-Sophie Lissy;Christina Bogner;Romain Van Den Bogaert

  • The environmental impact of heavy metals from sewage sludge in ferralsols (São Paulo, Brazil)

    Sophie Cornu;Sophie Cornu;Colin Neal;Jean-Paul Ambrosi;Paul Whitehead

  • Paleotemperature of the last interglacial period based on δ18O of Strombus bubonius from the western Mediterranean Sea

    Sophie Cornu;Jürgen Pätzold;Edouard Bard;Joaquin Meco

  • Soil drainage as an active agent of recent soil evolution: a review*

    David Montagne;David Montagne;Sophie Cornu;Lydie Le Forestier;Isabelle Cousin

  • The Influence of pH, Electrolyte Type, and Surface Coating on Arsenic(V) Adsorption onto Kaolinites

    Sophie Cornu;Dominique Breeze;Alain Saada;Philippe Baranger

  • Rare earth elements dynamics along pedogenesis in a chronosequence of podzolic soils

    Marie-Liesse Vermeire;Sophie Cornu;Zuzana Fekiacova;Marie Detienne

  • Impact of drainage on soil-forming mechanisms in a French Albeluvisol: Input of mineralogical data in mass-balance modelling

    David Montagne;Sophie Cornu;Lydie Le Forestier;Michel Hardy

  • Morphological and geochemical properties of soil accumulated in hedge-induced terraces in the Massif Central, France

    S. Salvador-Blanes;S. Cornu;A. Couturier;D. King

  • Iconography : Rare earth elements as tracers of pedogenetic processes

    Cédric Laveuf;Sophie Cornu;Farid Juillot

Frequent Co-Authors

Jérôme Balesdent
Jérôme Balesdent Aix-Marseille University
Christine Hatté
Christine Hatté University of Paris-Saclay
Olivier Evrard
Olivier Evrard University of Paris-Saclay
Farid Juillot
Farid Juillot Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Nicolas P.A. Saby
Nicolas P.A. Saby INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Bertrand Guenet
Bertrand Guenet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Dominique Meunier
Jean-Dominique Meunier Centre for Research and Teaching in Environmental Geoscience
Didier Bourlès
Didier Bourlès Aix-Marseille University
Dominique Arrouays
Dominique Arrouays INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Luiz Roberto Guimarães Guilherme
Luiz Roberto Guimarães Guilherme Federal University of Lavras

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