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  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Xavier Le Roux is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Modeling and Simulation, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. The main topics of their research work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Climate Change and Health Impacts, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

The scientist has contributed to multiple research papers in prominent academic venues. Notable publications include:

  • Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report (2024) published in Climate Change and Law Collection
  • Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research (2020) published in Nature Sustainability
  • Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts (2023) published in Science
  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change (2021) published by Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate (2022) published in Global Change Biology

Xavier Le Roux has frequently collaborated with co-authors including Sean Latham, James Joyce, Mark Gaipa, Hans-Otto Pörtner, and Hien T. Ngo.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

In addition to journal publications, Xavier Le Roux has published a book titled The Little Review "Ulysses" (2020) through Yale University Press.

Recognition of Xavier Le Roux's academic standing includes their election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Determinants of woody cover in African savannas

    Mahesh Sankaran;Niall P. Hanan;Robert J. Scholes;Jayashree Ratnam

  • Nature-based Solutions : New Influence for Environmental Management and Research in Europe

    Hilde Eggermont;Estelle Balian;Jose Manuel N. Azevedo;Victor Beumer

  • Unraveling the Effects of Plant Hydraulics on Stomatal Closure during Water Stress in Walnut

    Hervé Cochard;Lluis Coll;Xavier Le Roux;Thierry Améglio

  • 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

  • Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Sascha Krause;Xavier Le Roux;Pascal A. Niklaus;Peter M. Van Bodegom

  • Decline of soil microbial diversity does not influence the resistance and resilience of key soil microbial functional groups following a model disturbance.

    Sophie Wertz;Valerie Degrange;James Ivor Prosser;Franck Poly

  • Carbon-based models of individual tree growth: A critical appraisal

    Xavier Le Roux;André Lacointe;Abraham Escobar-Gutiérrez;Abraham Escobar-Gutiérrez;Séverine Le Dizès

  • A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services.

    Sandra Lavorel;Jonathan Storkey;Richard D. Bardgett;Francesco de Bello

  • Maintenance of soil functioning following erosion of microbial diversity

    Sophie Wertz;Valérie Degrange;James I. Prosser;Franck Poly

  • Alteration and resilience of the soil microbial community following compost amendment: effects of compost level and compost-borne microbial community.

    Carine Saison;Valérie Degrange;Robert Oliver;Peter Millard

  • Temperature response of leaf photosynthetic capacity in seedlings from seven temperate tree species

    Erwin Dreyer;Xavier Le Roux;Pierre Montpied;François Alain Daudet

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

    Sébastien Barot;Vincent Allard;Amélie Cantarel;Jerome Enjalbert

  • Effects of management regime and plant species on the enzyme activity and genetic structure of N‐fixing, denitrifying and nitrifying bacterial communities in grassland soils

    Ashok K. Patra;Luc Abbadie;Annie Clays-Josserand;Valérie Degrange

  • Grazing triggers soil carbon loss by altering plant roots and their control on soil microbial community

    Katja Klumpp;Sébastien Fontaine;Eléonore Attard;Xavier Le Roux

  • Deliberate introduction of invisible invaders: A critical appraisal of the impact of microbial inoculants on soil microbial communities

    Panji Cahya Mawarda;Xavier Le Roux;Jan Dirk van Elsas;Joana Falcao Salles

  • Resource pulses can alleviate the biodiversity–invasion relationship in soil microbial communities

    Cyrus A. Mallon;Franck Poly;Xavier Le Roux;Irene Marring

  • Community niche predicts the functioning of denitrifying bacterial assemblages.

    Joana Falcao Salles;Franck Poly;Bernhard Schmid;Xavier Le Roux

  • Effects of aboveground grazing on coupling among nitrifier activity, abundance and community structure.

    Xavier Le Roux;Franck Poly;Pauline Currey;Pauline Currey;Claire Commeaux

  • Effects of multiple global change treatments on soil N 2 O fluxes

    Jamie R. Brown;Joseph C. Blankinship;Joseph C. Blankinship;Audrey Niboyet;Audrey Niboyet;Kees Jan van Groenigen

  • Effect of local irradiance on CO2 transfer conductance of mesophyll in walnut

    Clément Piel;Ela Frak;Xavier Le Roux;Bernard Genty

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Vivien
Laurent Vivien University of Paris-Saclay
Delphine Marris-Morini
Delphine Marris-Morini University of Paris-Saclay
Eric Cassan
Eric Cassan University of Paris-Saclay
Giovanni Isella
Giovanni Isella Polytechnic University of Milan
Franck Poly
Franck Poly University of Lyon System
Pavel Cheben
Pavel Cheben National Research Council Canada
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University
Romain L. Barnard
Romain L. Barnard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Luc Abbadie
Luc Abbadie Sorbonne University

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