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Xavier Le Roux

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Senior scientist (DRex) INRAE ; Microbial and ecosystem ecologist . Deputy Director of the Microbial ecology centre of Lyon-Villeurbanne (France) www.ecologiemicrobiennelyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique31

Director of the Research Federation BioEEnViS http://bioenvis.universite-lyon.fr/

Research topics include : response of microbial communities involved in N dynamics (nitrification, denitrification...) to global change factors and disturbances ; and microbial biodiversity-ecosystem functioning/services relationships.

* over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals; h=54 (WoS) or 64 (GoogleScholar)
* Member of the Academy of Europe www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Le_Roux_Xavier
* See my profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/X_Roux/info
* Former Chair & Coordinator of the European network BiodivERsA www.eurobiodiversa.org

Biodiversity Biogeochemistry Climate Change Biology Ecology Ecosystem Science Environmental Impacts Microbiology Soil Science

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Senior Scientist (DRex) ; Deputy Director of the Microbial Ecology Centre of Lyon

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique INRAE

Ecology of not intensively managed ecosystems ECOFA

Fields of Scholarship: * Response of microbial communities involved in soil N dynamics to global change (climate change, land-use changes, plant diversity changes, pollution) * Analysis of microbial diversity-ecosystem functioning-ecosystem services relationships

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PeerJ Contributions

Edited 22

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October 5, 2021

Freezing and thawing cycles affect nitrous oxide emissions in rain-fed lucerne (Medicago sativa) grasslands of different ages

Yuan Li, Yuying Shen, Tao Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12216 PubMed 34707931

April 15, 2021

Diversity patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in urban and suburban park soils of Shanghai, China

Weiwei Zhang, Jigang Han, Haibing Wu, Qicheng Zhong, Wen Liu, Shanwen He, Lang Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11231 PubMed 33959419

February 12, 2021

Effects of dry-wet cycles on nitrous oxide emissions in freshwater sediments: a synthesis

Renata Pinto, Gabriele Weigelhofer, António Guerreiro Brito, Thomas Hein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10767 PubMed 33614277

October 21, 2020

Small-scale distribution of microbes and biogeochemistry in the Great Barrier Reef

Cátia Carreira, Júlia Porto Silva Carvalho, Samantha Talbot, Isabel Pereira, Christian Lønborg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10049 PubMed 33150061

September 18, 2020

Assessing the responses of Sphagnum micro-eukaryotes to climate changes using high throughput sequencing

Monika K. Reczuga, Christophe Victor William Seppey, Matthieu Mulot, Vincent E.J. Jassey, Alexandre Buttler, Sandra Słowińska, Michał Słowiński, Enrique Lara, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Edward A.D. Mitchell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9821 PubMed 32999758

September 18, 2020

Soil fungal networks are more sensitive to grazing exclusion than bacterial networks

Lingling Chen, Jiajia Shi, Zhihua Bao, Taogetao Baoyin

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9986 PubMed 32999771

May 28, 2020

Consequences of removal of exotic species (eucalyptus) on carbon and nitrogen cycles in the soil-plant system in a secondary tropical Atlantic forest in Brazil with a dual-isotope approach

Milena Carvalho Teixeira, Angela Pierre Vitória, Carlos Eduardo de Rezende, Marcelo Gomes de Almeida, Gabriela B. Nardoto

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9222 PubMed 32523812

April 20, 2020

Effects of biodegradable plastic film mulching on soil microbial communities in two agroecosystems

Sreejata Bandopadhyay, Henry Y. Sintim, Jennifer M. DeBruyn

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9015 PubMed 32341903

March 24, 2020

Potential of the economic valuation of soil-based ecosystem services to inform sustainable soil management and policy

Bartosz Bartkowski, Stephan Bartke, Katharina Helming, Carsten Paul, Anja-Kristina Techen, Bernd Hansjürgens

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8749 PubMed 32231877

January 27, 2020

Effects of precipitation changes on soil bacterial community composition and diversity in the Junggar desert of Xinjiang, China

Ke Wu, Wenxuan Xu, Weikang Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8433 PubMed 32025376

January 7, 2020

Soil aggregate size influences the impact of inorganic nitrogen deposition on soil nitrification in an alpine meadow of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Jingjing Li, Chao Yang, Xiaoli Liu, Hanzhong Ji, Xinqing Shao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8230 PubMed 31938575

September 6, 2019

Differential mechanisms underlying responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in a subtropical forest

Yong Li, Dashuan Tian, Jinsong Wang, Shuli Niu, Jing Tian, Denglong Ha, Yuxi Qu, Guangwei Jing, Xiaoming Kang, Bing Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7631 PubMed 31534856

August 22, 2019

Seasonal dynamics of microbial diversity in the rhizosphere of Ulmus pumila L. var. sabulosa in a steppe desert area of Northern China

Tianyu Liang, Guang Yang, Yunxia Ma, Qingzhi Yao, Yuan Ma, Hui Ma, Yang Hu, Ying Yang, Shaoxiong Wang, Yiyong Pan, Gangtie Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7526 PubMed 31497396

May 7, 2019

Deterministic processes dominate soil microbial community assembly in subalpine coniferous forests on the Loess Plateau

Pengyu Zhao, Jiabing Bao, Xue Wang, Yi Liu, Cui Li, Baofeng Chai

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6746 PubMed 31119067

March 18, 2019

Phytobiomes are compositionally nested from the ground up

Anthony S. Amend, Gerald M. Cobian, Aki J. Laruson, Kristina Remple, Sarah J. Tucker, Kirsten E. Poff, Carmen Antaky, Andre Boraks, Casey A. Jones, Donna Kuehu, Becca R. Lensing, Mersedeh Pejhanmehr, Daniel T. Richardson, Paul P. Riley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6609 PubMed 30918757

March 1, 2019

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil, roots and rhizosphere of Medicago truncatula: diversity and heterogeneity under semi-arid conditions

Neji Mahmoudi, Cristina Cruz, Mosbah Mahdhi, Mohamed Mars, Maria F. Caeiro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6401 PubMed 30842895

January 17, 2019

Effects of nickel and cobalt on methane production and methanogen abundance and diversity in paddy soil

Tianwei Wang, Zhaoxia Li, Xueping Chen, Xi-En Long

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6274 PubMed 30671309

October 5, 2018

Trophic state (TSI_SD) and mixing type significantly influence pelagic zooplankton biodiversity in temperate lakes (NW Poland)

Łukasz Sługocki, Robert Czerniawski