SoilMan - Ecosystem services driven by the diversity of soil biota – understanding and
management in agriculture
A. Detailed description of the research area and research plan
A.1
Hypotheses, theories, questions, and novelty (SoilMan rational)
Soil biodiversity is pivotal for delivering food, fibre, biofuels, clean air, drinking water and carbon storage to
society (Bardgett and van der Putten 2014). However, as stated by the European Commission Soil
Thematic Strategy (COM2012/46), our understanding of how soil biodiversity is linked to soil functions and
ecosystem services is still very limited (JRC 2012, Thiele-Bruhn et al. 2012, Lemanceau et al. 2014).
SoilMan is determined to work on a deeper understanding on the interrelationship between soil
management, soil biodiversity, and ecosystem services. SoilMan will especially focus on farm-based
management activities in agroecosystems as the majority of the European land area is used for agriculture.
SoilMan brings together a broad spectrum of expertise in soil biology, soil science, ecology, and socioeconomic sciences. A large number of both traditional and state-of-the-art methods and tools in soil
ecosystem analysis as well as systematic economic and societal valuation of services provided by soil
biodiversity will be applied. Via such an ecological, economic and political valuation of soil biodiversity in
agricultural systems, soil biota will be placed into a socio-ecological context (cf. Pascual et al. 2015). No
other ecosystems provide stronger interfaces between environmental responses to human activities and
vice versa. In order to understand how farm-based soil management systems influence soil biodiversity and
the sustainable provision of ecosystem goods and services, SoilMan will quantify soil ecosystem functions
and multiple ecosystem services based on biodiversity parameters in typical mainstream agriculture in
different European regions graded for the four basic soil management factors (1) tillage, (2) fertilization,
(3) crop rotation, and (4) residue management (Fig.1).
SoilMan aims to create a conceptual and conclusive research on the relationships between soil
management practices, habitat characteristics and the abundance and performance of functional groups of
soil organisms. Due to the character of soil management as a socio-ecological issue SoilMan takes this
research as an inter- and transdisciplinary task. To gain optimized benefit from ecosystem services
provided by soil organisms and to ensure sustainability of the system agricultural soil management has to
balance productivity vs self-preservation (Fig. 2). Hence, knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, and
awareness within the decision making units is crucial to shape future soil management practices and
recommendations in agriculture. European agricultural and environmental policy often neglects soil
biodiversity issues since these are non-marketed, complex, and cryptic. SoilMan results and activities will
enable to understand and to value farm-based soil management practices in the light of soil biodiversity
driven ecosystem services. The overarching hypothesis of SoilMan is: Knowledge on soil biodiversity and
its functioning will allow identification of sustainable best soil management practices to improve soil health,
soil fertility and agricultural production.
Fig. 1: Scheme of the site selection framework in SoilMan for the grading of different farm-based soil management tools.
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Fig. 2: Ecosystem services and/or
disservices as induced by the activity
of soil biota. Biota is the driver
inducing processes which become
functions. These functions can be
taken as services or disservices in
the human (farmer/society)
perspective. Soil management in
land use is the crucial factor for
ensuring both the benefit (permanent
profitable skimming of surplus
proceeds) as well as the
sustainability of the system. Here
expressed as self-preservation.
The configuration of farm-based soil management measures like tillage, fertilization, crop rotation, and crop
residue management in current intensive agricultural systems is attributed to be detrimental to several
guilds of soil biota due to food limitations, perturbation, and direct killing (Tsiafouli et al. 2015, PostmaBlaauw et al. 2010, Kibblewhite et al. 2008). Recent research more and more visualised the enormous
diversity of soil organisms across Europe (Pulleman et al. 2012, Stone et al. 2015, Rutgers et al. 2016) and
its big value in sense of farmers as well as society welfare (Brady et al. 2015, Pascual et al. 2015). The net
primary production of an ecosystem and hence also for a cropping systems relies on major soil functions
like nutrient and water supply. Nutrient dynamics in soil are almost entirely driven by biological processes
(Wardle and Lavelle 1997) and ecosystem engineers such as earthworms are major drivers of the
hydrology of soils (Shipitalo and Le Bayon 2004). On the other hand, habitat characteristics mediated by
soil management practices control the abundance and activity of soil organisms setting the scene for
important feedbacks (Fig. 3). Therefore, habitat conditions as a result of soil management practices are
keys for the diversity and performance of soil biota and its functioning. SoilMan will analyse these impacts
for the four main soil management factors as shown in Fig. 1.
Detrimental effects on soil biota are of major concern as the soil food web is responsible for the system
response to perturbations and therefore defines the resistance and resilience of the system (Fig 2).
SoilMan investigates how changes in the structure and activity of soil biota driven by farm-based soil
management decisions propagate into changes in ecosystem processes. Identifying the mechanisms
involved and the responsible traits of organisms will allow to develop strategies for sustainable
management of soil functions in a regional context and will support policy driven activities on the European
scale. Using this approach, the value of biodiversity is defined from an anthropocentric perspective
integrating both intrinsic and instrumental values (Decaens 2006). Instrumental values comprise ecosystem
services and drivers to ensure productivity and sustainability of ecosystems including benefit for cropping
systems and famers (Fig. 2). Intrinsic values take biodiversity as a service on its own based on ethical and
cultural considerations. Conservation programs and soil management systems need to integrate both the
intrinsic and instrumental values for protecting soil biodiversity and its functioning. In this sense SoilMan
intends to explore and disseminate the internal feedback and benefit mechanisms in cropping systems by
getting close to soil management tools that farmers really have at hand.
The way how changes in habitat conditions translate into changes in the mass or number of organisms at
the genetic, species and community level are addressed in WP1 (Fig. 3). It is assumed that these
translations can be depicted by key habitat characteristics which are reflected by indicator organisms. How
changes at the organism level are translated into changes in ecosystem functioning are addressed in WP2.
The effectiveness of translations depends on (1) specific inputs and outputs throughout trophic levels and
(2) the biomass and abundance of the drivers present at a specific place and time. Both will be addressed
in WP3 by using a combined approach including analysis of spatial patterns across sites and combining
WP1 and WP2 output into mechanistic models for biota interactions and their impact on carbon turnover
and pathogen pressure. In dialog with farmers and other stakeholders (especially national and international
policy and decision makers) these ecological results and conceptions will transform into socio-ecological
and socio-economical valuation of biota driven services and soil management practices in WP4. We will
address also the policy and legislation dimension of soil biodiversity (WP5) by policy briefs targeted at a
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European public and especially to policy makers (e.g. European Parliament and European Commission) as
well as farmers and related institutions. This approach, to disseminate not only for the scientific
communities (economics as well as soil sciences), promises to influence the national and international
framework and confronts stakeholders with a number of often hidden but essential policy drivers.
Fig. 3: Scheme of the biotic expression of
ecosystem functions. Habitat conditions act
as central filter for biota communities. In
agricultural soils these conditions are
driven by farm-based soil management
practices to a large extent. Via soil biota,
soil management and ecosystem functions
are indirectly linked. SoilMan
workpackages are coordinated along these
relationships.
SoilMan’s main hypotheses are:
(1) Soil biodiversity in agricultural systems is determined by farm-based soil management practices and
shaped by regional constraints.
(2) Soil ecosystem functioning and services can be quantitatively projected by the abundance and activity
of specific functional groups of soil biota and their interactions.
(3) Soil biodiversity has a high value for the European society as it provides services for the sustainability
and productivity of soils. Its changes can be expressed in ecological, social and economic impacts.
(4) Awareness and consideration of soil biota in national environmental policies and laws are not consistent
across Europe. European welfare can be increased by raising awareness to consistent high levels.
Consequently, the main research questions concern how to determine, evaluate, conserve, and promote
the drivers of soil ecosystem functioning to ensure a sustainable productivity of agricultural soils and halting
a downward spiral of degradation and biodiversity loss, which are pressing threats related to
biodiversity in soils of agroecosystems.
The main novel aspects in soil biodiversity research raised by SoilMan will be to combine different
perspectives on soil biota with a clear focus on farm-based soil management tools. Referring to the main
conception of the FP7 Ecofinders-project by allocating the research to four major biogeographical regions
SoilMan will now increase the resolution for cropping systems instead of comparing larger land use units.
The idea is to compare the impact of different management tools at different regions rather than to compare
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the biota communities themselves. Ecofinders provided important new suggestions for monitoring soil
biodiversity and provided method improvements. SoilMan will emphasis into farming systems using
experiences from FP7 Catch-C project (cf. Pronk et al. 2015), SUSTAIN (EU-Snowman network) and the
running Biodiversa-project VineDivers. Due to the close relation to Vinedivers it will be possible to compare
annual cropping systems with vineyards as perennial systems. The approach of SUSTAIN, which had a
strong focus on tillage, will be scaled up to a European dimension and more management factors. SoilMan
will partly adapt the successful stakeholder involvement from SUSTAIN. Moreover, for the interpretation
and evaluation of data obtained in SoilMan, data from national soil montoring networks will be used for
comparison (RMQS in France, Cluzeau et al., 2012; BDF system in Germany, Beylich and Graefe 2009).
Knowledge gained within these programs concerning species distribution and ecological traits can
contribute to model development within SoilMan. Further, the experience gained in soil monitoring
programs concerning sampling and sample processing will be helpful when developing SoilMan sampling
protocols
A.2
Objectives
(1)
Explore soil biodiversity as a function of soil management characteristics and regional
constraints.
SoilMan will investigate soil biodiversity patterns resulting from graded intensities in soil management and
farming inputs and other environmental factors interacting under different regional conditions. The
understanding of how the farmer’s management factors drive and modulate the assembly of soil biota is still
limited. SoilMan follows two trails here: (1) the SoilMan consortium will use sites graded for the intensity of
soil management measures as listed above and (2) integration of datamining approaches (meta-analysis).
(2)
Explore the impact of soil biodiversity on soil functioning and the provision of soil related
ecosystem services.
Field and/or lab experiments will be carried out to quantify ecosystem service provisioning as an outcome
of processes driven by soil biota. Key functions explicitly addressed are soil formation, soil aggregation,
water infiltration, nutrient turnover (availability, release, loss), decomposition, carbon sequestration,
suppression of plant pathogens. Keydata on the performance of functional groups of soil biota and on their
regulative functions directed to soil sustainability factors as resistance and resilience to soil threats like
erosion, compaction and others will be provided.
(3)
Develop an integrative approach for management induced biological interactions and ESS
provision in the soil system.
SoilMan will provide (1) a deeper understanding of the consequences of perturbations to soil communities
and (2) the implementation of soil biota activity into models of carbon sequestration.
(4)
Value the most important goods and services that soil biodiversity can provide for society and
assess the impact of policy on its provision.
SoilMan will assess and value on the most important public and private goods and services that soil
biodiversity can provide and assess the impact of policy on its provision to the society and the well-being of
future generations.
(5)
Compare the specific regional results and to link them with the European policies and laws
debate in such a way that the results of SoilMan can be useful for policy and decision makers.
This part of SoilMan will address the ongoing debate on soil conservation after the retraction of the
European Soil framework directive. SoilMan aims to analyze the legal and political framework, and to
develop a set of effective and easy to use indicators in order to contribute to sustainable development and
to inform stakeholders and policy makers (policy briefs).
A.3
Workplan and division of workpackages
WP0: SoilMan coordination (M. Potthoff, UGOE, Germany; G. Pérès, (Agrocampus Ouest))
Task 0.1 Project day to day management (see section D)
Task 0.2 Data base creation, implementation and data management
Leader: M. Potthoff (UGOE), CoLeader: M. Guernion (INRA), M Sandor (USAMV )
Implementation of a Soil Biodiversity Database which will be the repository for all data generated by
SoilMan: biological and abiotic data as well as metadata. The database architecture will allow data checks
and will ensure data quality. This database will be hosted in the EcoBioSoil portal (see communication
plan).
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Task 0.3 Datamining
Leader: T. Roslin (SLU), CoLeader: S. Schrader (TI), o. contributors: J.A. Navas (CSIC), M. Guernion
(INRA)
The wealth of existing data within the consortium and beyond will be used in data mining activities and
systematic meta-analysis to integrate findings from individual studies using data pools like the German
Edaphobase. In addition, to the SoilMan fieldsite investigations meta-analysis using existing data will be
carried out shaped for the farm-based soil management factors in the SoilMan conception.
WP1: Habitat and Diversity (D. Cluzeau, UR1 France; B. B. Landa, CSIC Spain)
Hypotheses:
 Soil biodiversity depends on local filters defined by farm-based soil management inputs in different
European areas.
 Soil biodiversity benefits from reductions in farm-based soil management intensities.
Workprogram
Soil biodiversity will be assessed on different taxonomic levels including classical and molecular diversity
approaches. Sampling campaigns will be managed locally. To ensure uniformity of methods and sampling
protocols and to set standards for metadata on non-biological factors like physical and chemical properties,
land-use histories and climate, all methods will be based on ISO standards and ENVASSO (ENvironmental
ASsessment
of
SOil
for
monitoring)
recommendations
(Bispo
et
al.
2009;
http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/envasso/).
Task 1.0 Homogenization of sampling protocols and procedures (Workshop)
Leader: D. Cluzeau (UR1), CoLeader: Ulfert Graefe (IFAB), Mignon Sandor (UASVM), other contributors:
Method agreements will be worked out in an initial WP1 workshop (kick-off meeting) at the beginning of
SoilMan during which a sampling training will be proposed to all partners. Soil samples from all countries
will be mailed to each laboratory being responsible for analyses of the specific soil indicators.
Task 1.1 Structural and genetic inventory of soil organisms’ diversity
Leader: D. Cluzeau (UR1), CoLeader: B. B. Landa (CSIC), other contributors: M. Montes (CSIC)
Within the SoilMan study sites from Andalusia to Romania, WP1 partners will study the three top indicators
of soil organisms recommended by the European ENVASSO program (Earthworms-Enchytraeida,
Collembola, soil respiration) completed by other key soil organism guilds and next generation sequencing
analysis for total bacterial, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal and total fungal communities.
Enchytraeidae (responsible partners: U. Graefe (IFAB), A. Beylich, (IFAB))
Soil samples from all countries will be mailed to IFAB which will manage enchytraeidae extraction and
determination. The vertical gradient of enchytraeid activity will be assessed via stratified sampling.
Enchytraeids will be identified at species level and classified according to their functional traits.
Earthworms (responsible partners: D.Cluzeau (UR1), S. Scheu (UGOE))
Earthworms will be sampled in all countries and mailed to UR1 where earthworm community will be
expressed in terms of abundance, biomass, specific structures, ecological group structure (anecic,
endogeic, epigeic) and biological traits (life, ecological and functional traits).
Genetic variation in earthworm species will be investigated in the Apporectodea caliginosa complex. The
different morphs will be identified as eco-types. Genetic diversity and structure of ecotypes will be
investigated using a set of molecular markers including mtDNA (COI, COII, 16S rDNA), ribosomal genes
(18S rDNA) and protein coding nuclear genes (e.g. ef1 alpha).
Collembola and Mites (responsible partners: S. Scheu (UGOE), M. Maraun (UGOE))
Mites will be classified into the sub-orders Mesostigmata, Prostigmata, Astigmata and Oribatida and
abundance of these groups will be recorded. For the most abundant mite groups (Mesostigmata, Oribatida)
and the Collembola, abundance, species richness and diversity will be assessed. Collembola will also be
classified by using functional groups (epi-, hemi- and eu-edaphic) and biological traits (life, ecological and
functional traits).
Gastropods (responsible partners: A. Nicolai (UR1), S. Scheu (UGOE))
Gastropods will be sampled in all countries and mailed to UR1 as well as soil/litter samples from all
countries. Species richness and diversity of gastropods will be assessed and classified in functional groups
using biological traits (life history and ecological traits). Two common species sampled in all studied
countries will be chosen to analyze intraspecific genetic variability across Europe.
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Fungi, bacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (responsible partners: B. B. Landa (CSIC), M.
Öpik (UTAR), V. Stoian (UASVM))
Total DNA will be extracted from all soil samples and a barcode PCR-based approach will be used to
amplify 16S rRNA gene (bacteria), ITS (fungi) and SSU (AM fungi) rRNA gene sequences that will be
taxonomically assigned to the species level. Different α- and β-diversity indexes will be estimated to
determine the microbial community composition.
Soil respiration and microbial functional diversity (responsible partners: M. Sandor, R. Pop (UASVM),
M. Potthoff (UGOE)) Microbial metabolic activity will be assessed for all soil samples as ability of the soil
microflora to metabolise different organic carbon compounds (substrates). Community level physiological
profile (CLPP) measured by MicroResp method will be used as soil functional diversity indicator and
comparison between study sites will be performed.
Task 1.2 Habitat structure and management
Leader: G. Guzmán (CSIC), CoLeader J. A. Gómez (CSIC), other partners M. Guernion (INRA), M Buta
(UASVM)
For all sites, metadata will be recorded in order to explain biological patterns (site location and description,
climate conditions, agricultural practices and history).
Soil samples from all locations will be analyzed for physical and chemical properties (texture, C, N, P, CEC,
%OM, pH). Vegetation analysis will be implemented.
WP2: Soil functions and processes (S. Schrader, TI Germany; J. Bengtsson, SLU Sweden)
Hypotheses:
 Processes related to services or disservices are induced and directed by the presence, the
abundance, and the activity of functional groups of soil biota.
 Dynamics and interactions in the soil biota community control ecosystem functions and services.
Workprogram
This workpackage will address the most important biota driven soil functions within four separate
experimental tasks. These functions are effective in halting, buffering or restoring soil degradation by main
soil threats and functions as defined in the EU Soil Framework Directive. It will explicitly address the
European dimension by conducting studies on SoilMan sites located in different regions and in case of
laboratory/greenhouse studies by working with soil or soil monoliths originated from SoilMan locations.
Task 2.0: Kick-off workshop: conceptualisation and standardisation
Leader: M. Potthoff (UGOE), CoLeader: J. Bengtsson (SLU)
Topics: (i) Harmonize and standardize the various approaches within this workpackage, (ii) Adjust the
expected outputs with other workpackages, (iii) Coordinate tasks for an efficient workflow and utilization of
resources within the project and to work out a time table for the tasks, (iv) Discuss the outline of a metaanalysis article on the effects of soil biodiversity on ecosystem functioning.
Task 2.1: Litter decomposition & Carbon cycling
Leader: A. Taylor (SLU), CoLeader M. Potthoff (UGOE), other contributors: M. Sandor (UASVM)
It will be determined how farm-based soil management tools alter trophic interactions between fauna and
microorganisms, during the decomposition of isotopically labelled litter and modified carbon cycling
(emission / translocation / storage). A combination of litter bag approaches and incubations will be
established.
Task 2.2 Soil Structure, biological aggregation, water flux (infiltration, retention) and water quality
Leader: G. Pérès (Agrocampus Ouest), CoLeader S. Schrader (TI) other contributors: J. A. Gómez
(CSIC), S. Menasseri (Agrocampus Ouest), V. Hallaire (INRA)
Studying the impact of biological mechanism on soil structure, its dynamic and its resilience, and the
consequences through the biostructures created on aggregate stability and water movements (in terms of
quantity, i.e. water flux, and quality). Biological mechanism impacting soil aggregate stability will be
assessed at short and long-term by standard methods to evaluate and better understand the effect of
biological mechanisms under different soil type, vegetation and climate conditions. Soil structure will be
described using the visual method of Shepherd et al. (2008.) and correlated to biological activity with
indicators used in WP1 and to organic carbon content in WP3 following the procedure of Six et al. (2002).
Specific impact of key soil engineers, earthworms, on water flux (infiltration and water retention) will be
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studied in order to specify the functional role of the different functional groups i.e. anecic and endogeic. The
consequences on element transfer in soil will be focussed on phosphorous and pesticides.
Task 2.3: Crop yield, nutrient turnover
Leader: M. Potthoff (UGOE), CoLeader A. Taylor (SLU), G. Pérès (Agrocampus Ouest), other contributors:
M. Sandor (UASVM), T. Morvan (INRA)
Disentangle the influence of soil biodiversity and particular key organisms (e.g. ecosystem engineers) on
the storage and release of plant nutrients and nitrogen fluxes. Lab incubations using dynamic microcosms
and stable isotopes will be carried out.
Task 2.4: Suppression of plant pathogens and detoxification by soil biota
Leaders: B. B. Landa (CSIC) and S. Schrader (TI), other contributors: A. Maxim (UASVM)
Analysis on the importance of soil biodiversity on the general soil suppressiveness to major selected
soilborne plant pathogens will be carried out. The general hypothesis is that promoting soil biodiversity
performance will mitigate vulnerability of agroecosystems to be attacked by soil-borne plant pathogens and
will strengthen mycotoxin degradation in soil.
WP3: From practices to services (T. Roslin, SLU Sweden; S. Scheu, UGOE Germany)
Hypotheses:
 Perturbations of complex soil communities by farm-based soil management practices cause direct
and indirect losses in ecosystem services provision
 Reduced soil management intensities stimulate soil biota activities and increase soil carbon
sequestration thereby compensating global CO2 emission
 The performance of functional groups depends on likewise controlling soil management factors
across Europe.
Workprogram
WP3 aims to bridge the gap between mechanistic experiments on the functioning of simple species or
functional modules (WP 2) and samples of complex systems at all SoilMan field sites (WP1).
Task 3.1 Comprehensive analysis of patterns across sites
Leader: T. Roslin (SLU), CoLeader: J.A. Navas-Cortés (CSIC), other contributors: M. Potthoff (UGOE),
A. Nicolai (Agrocampus)
The relationships within microbial and fauna groups will be identified and the relationships with abiotic
factors will be analyzed. Objectives are to (i) assess patterns in biological data considering individual
groups separately and combined, (ii) explore relationships between biota and abiotic habitat factors, and
(iii) explore links between biological and abiotic habitat variables. The analyses will direct at establishing
cost-effective indicators of soil biodiversity in relation to farm-based soil management. Multivariate,
regression and data mining procedures will be applied.
Task 3.2 Quantitative blending of biodiversity in sites and ecosystem service provision
Leader: M. Potthoff (UGOE), CoLeader: S. Schrader (TI), other contributors: G. Peres (Agrocampus), T.
Morvan (INRA)
This task brings together the data of biodiversity in response to management factors (WP1) and process
quantification in response to the presence or abundance of key species (WP2). Soil management will be
linked to ecosystem service provision, e.g. biomass production (quality and quantity of yield) and water
regulation, accounting on the organisms as drivers.
Task 3.3 Impact of soil biotic interactions on carbon storage and CO2 release
Leader: C. Wolf (UR1) and other contributers: A. Taylor (SLU), M. Potthoff (UGOE), M. Sandor (UASVM)
Within process-oriented models, CENTURY and RothC are the most frequently used to simulate SOM
dynamics at a farm-scale (Viaud, Angers, and Walter 2010). Noticeably, only a few, such as SOMM,
include explicit descriptions of meso- and macrofauna functions and distinguish different forms of organic
matter based on the abundance of the soil fauna (Smith et al. 1998). As part of the PhD of Kevin Hoeffner,
we build a model integrated the interactions between soil decomposers (earthworms-microorganisms)
based on RothC model with 5 organic compartments (DPM, RPM, BIO, HUM & IOM) and three soil
horizons (O, A & S) to simulate the contribution of theses soil biota activities on carbon litter transfers and
to quantify the changes in the carbon cycle balance (emission / translocation / storage).
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Task 3.4 Impact of soil biotic interactions on disease suppression
Leader: B. B. Landa (CSIC), CoLeader: J.A. Navas (CSIC), other contributors: S. Schrader (TI), A. Maxim
(UASVM )
This task brings together the data of soil suppressiveness in response to management factors (WP1) and
to the presence or abundance of key microbial or fauna species (WP2). Quantitative evaluation of disease
development will be linked to this ecosystem service provision.
WP4: Socio-economic valuation of services provided by soil organisms (Leader: M. Banse, TI
Germany; Co-leader: H. Bergmann UGOE Germany)
Hypothesis:
 Soil biodiversity has a crucial impact on economic viability of farms and international trade position
of the EU and vice versa
 Soil biodiversity development over time has a significant influence on economic and social wellbeing on a regional and individual member state scale.
 Trade liberalisation, climate change and EU polices are the most important drivers of current soil
management practices.
Workprogram
The main task of this WP is to value the most important goods and services that soil biodiversity can
provide for society and assess the impact of policy on its provision. The proposed work will follow the
approach proposed by Costanza et al. 1998 and de Groot et al. 2002 of treating biodiversity as nonmarketed commodity and link it on a farm scale as well as on a EU-Level through adapted modeling
approaches to economic viability and efficiency of farming.
Task 4.1. Survey based valuation of goods and services provided by soil biodiversity
Leader: H. Bergmann (UGOE) and Coleader: M. Potthoff (UGOE), other contributors: M.Renault (UR1)
Aiming to assess the cost and benefits of soil biodiversity. This will be accomplished through a
questionnaire-based survey (semi-qualitative and semi-quantitative) on a representative group of 20 land
users per study area (Spain, France, Germany, Romania and Sweden). As well as carrying out up to 20
key person interviews with enterprises (data related to the effective demand for Soil Biodiversity in each
study area), entities (e.g. community groups, national or regional parks, development agencies, extension
services, local action groups under LEADER+) and key local actors and decision-makers (information
relating to broader processes, policies, etc). This work will result in a comparative cost assessment of the
demand and supply for soil biodiversity across European case study areas that will be used in WP5 and in
the communication plan.
Task 4.2. Development of a policy model to assess soil biodiversity
Leader: Martin Banse (TI) and CoLeader H. Bergmann (UGOE)
This task will describe and analyse the impact of policy on soil biodiversity. The goal is to develop a
theoretical framework of land-use evolution analysis on the bases of a system-dynamic model for a farm
household based on procedures described in Bryden et al. 2011 and the insights of WP1 to WP3.
Furthermore as a crucial input in this work load, a CGE approach will be used to develop a better
understanding of policy proposals (e.g. Soil Framework Directive contents and other EU policies related).
This two scale approach aims to explain the contradictions or the convergences between the short-term
choices of farmers and the long-term choices made by the European Institutions in their policies
considering their soil management, especially the potential loss of biodiversity. In such we will use a
combination of a farm-based (Policy Model of Soil Biodiversity, PoMoSoB) with a Computable General
equilibrium (CGE) approach (CGE MAGNET, Banse & Pelikan (2014)) in order to analyse the trade-offs
between soil biodiversity, individual economic behavior on farms and larger scale societal policy decisions
in different interacting EU policies (e.g. Common Agricultural Policy, Common Biodiversity approach,
Common Environmental Policies, even Common Transport Policies, etc.).
For each study area, three meetings with a User Group of Experts and stakeholders to report and discuss
findings will be organised. Particular emphasis will be on a) inter-relationships with territorial development
and the local economy, for example through tourism, recreation, and local quality products, and b) the
influence of a range of different EU, national and regional policies. The results of the user group meetings
will be used for a wide range of policy scenarios that will feed into the model framework developed as well
as to be fed into WP5 and in the communication plan.
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Task 4.3. Efficient risks management and the provision of ecological services
Leader: H. Bergmann (UGOE) and CoLeader M. Banse (TI)
This task aims to explore biodiversity-related insurance schemes when ecosystems services are uncertain.
As documented by an emerging literature (Loreau 2000, Loreau et al. 2001, Kinzig et al. 2005), there is a
negative correlation between biodiversity and the variance of ecosystem services (i.e. stability of
ecosystem properties). Accordingly, one could assimilate the enhancement of biodiversity with a natural
insurance against adverse shocks on ecosystem services. Depending on the insights gained from WP1 to
WP3, there are potentially many different ways for these shocks to affects the environment and the agents,
opening an avenue for different investigations. Generally speaking, the social efficiency of individual
insurance efforts hinges on the nature of uncertainty and risk aversion. Our goal is to uncover the
relationship between ecosystem uncertainty and the optimal efforts of insurance, both at the individual
levels and from a social point of view. Methodological this approach will start with a comprehensive and
cooperative adaption of the existing MAGNET (CGE) approach developed by Banse & Pelikan (2014). This
task partly complements task 4.2, in order to understand the role of uncertainty on optimal soils
management and adds to the micro-level approaches an international trade, climate and policy dimension,
especially valuable for WP5.
Task 4.4. Assessment of the overall society value of soil biodiversity
Leader: H. Bergmann (UGOE) and CoLeader J. Bengstsson (SLU), other contributors: M.Renault (UR1)
The derivation and development of an adapted Cost-Benefit-Analysis of soil biodiversity is aimed in task
4.4. This step will include the results of the Task 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 as well as refer back to the results of the
quantity structure of costs and benefits. It will enhance our knowledge of the economic consequences of a
number of policy measures that could be taken and relate them back to the ecological as well as social
consequences. This will allow in relation to WP5 to assess the policy implications of any policy targeted on
soil biodiversity protection and enhancement so to support sustainable development.
WP5: Cross national comparison and policy issues (M. Banse, TI Germany, A. Langlais, UR1 France)
This WP aims to compare the specific regional results and to link them with the European policy debate so
to develop policy and legal recommendations to support policy and decision makers. We will assess the
relation of soil biodiversity-related goods and services and study-area-specific economic and legal systems.
Special attention will be given to the resilience of these systems using the farm modelling approach and by
comparison of cross-national policy and data. In this regard, there is no legal definition of soil or general
legal definition of ecosystem services. But these two words are already in European and national law. The
output will be crucial for the dissemination of the whole project in the communication plan.
Hypothesis:
 On behalf of the principle of integration, biodiversity of agricultural soils should be considered in all
policies of the European Union such as the common agricultural policy.
 A better understanding of the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem services should
require new leagal tools or at least the evolution of existing legal tools.
 Price and weather volatility has a major influence on basic soil management practices
 Soil management practices most are driven by policy development, world trade liberalisation and
past farmer’s decisions.
 Known trade-offs between profitability and soil biodiversity conservation can be changed into
complementarity by adapted EU and national regulations and incentive based approaches.
Task 5.1 Analysis of the political and ecological legal framework
Leader: A. Langlais (UR1) and CoLeader M. Köchy (TI)
To make a relevant analysis of the legal framework on soil biodiversity, two types of legal tools especially
need our attention at the national and European scales.
Upstream, the environmental assessment tools need to take into account the biodiversity of agricultural soil
and ecosystem services. This task analyzes the impact of this inclusion on the authorization of projects.
The conditions of ecological compensation will be particularly explored.
Downstream, the emphasis will be placed on contracts which encourage some farming practices favorable
to the preservation of the biodiversity of agricultural soils and ecosystem services. Discussions on green
infrastructure is an important aspect here. However, the legal obstacles hindering the development of
incentives contractualized measures which promote the production of environmental goods and services by
farmers will also be analyzed. More broadly, we will think about the spatial and temporal scales of the
management of agricultural soils in a more holistic dimension.
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Task 5.2 Assessment and Development of Indicators
Leader: M. Potthoff (UGOE) and CoLeader A. Nicolai (Agrocampus)
Based on the insights gained by task 5.1, this task will collect, compute and assess the usefulness of
existing indicators for soil biodiversity. We will develop a conclusive proposal for indicators that are both,
cost-effective and policy-relevant indicators. These indicators can be used to assess the economic and
ecological impact of the Soil Framework Directive and other possible policy changes on a regional and
national scale in task 5.3. Moreover, they will be transfer to stakeholders through workshop and different
support (see communication plan).
Task 5.3 Development of policy recommendations and briefs
Leader: M. Banse (TI) and CoLeader: all partners
This task will summarize, compare and contrast the national results from WP1 to WP4, using the
consolidated data bank. In particular this task will
 Identify the strength of policy influence (most prominently European Framework Directive and
European agricultural as well as regional policy) on soil biodiversity in different regional, national
and European contexts.
 Identify commonalities and differences between the national results, and suggest ways of
classifying/combining different types of soil biodiversity functions.
 Contribute to the further development of an adapted European policy model for soil biodiversity
provision and sustainable development of the European Union.
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European added value of the proposed research
SoilMan is designed for an efficient use of available resources for research, by (i) sharing experimental
infrastructure among the consortium members and beyond, (ii) coordinating related activities at the
European level by setting up similar experimental infrastructure and sampling protocols from Spain and
France to Romania, Germany, Estonia and Sweden. The SoilMan project coordinator and individual WPleaders will facilitate the exchange of data, develop a project data base and ensure sharing of research
facilities where appropriate. Moreover, SoilMan will also encourage regional studies allowing for research
on future conceptions in agricultural, as well as the investigation of scale issues. To a large extend SoilMan
will apply sites of national long term observation programs synchronizing their soil biota methods.
Most of the SoilMan partners are or were already engaged in biodiversity and ecosystem services research
and policy in their countries providing an important basis for the advancement of this research topic in
Europe. SoilMan management will focus on encouraging and supporting cooperation among partners by
furthering international research agenda’s, and increasing coordination, standardisation and comparative
research in ecosystem services research. This collaborative effort will lead to the development of bestpractices in encouraging and funding research on ecosystem services, and promoting the use and
application of its results in policy and practice as the non-scientific end users of SoilMan results.
SoilMan will generate a substantial European added value through the extension of existing research
networks as well as the establishment of new trans-national interdisciplinary partnerships among
consortium members. The SoilMan consortium is strongly linked to the network of current and recent
projects related to soil ecological research such as, Catch-C (EU), VineDivers (BiodivERsA 2014), Sustain
(Snowman-Network), Ecofinders (EU), SoilService (EU) and other national and international activities.
Moreover, SoilMan intends to serve as a communication platform for soil related activities of current
BiodivErSA-projects. Policy briefs and stakeholder recommendations of high impact for soil biodiversity are
expected from the SoilMan setting.
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Communication plan (SoilMan - Dissemination, WP6)
(G. Pérès, (Agrocampus Ouest) France; M. Potthoff (UGOE) Germany)
We will devote large effort to raising public awareness for the importance of soil protection, soil
sustainability, and to communicate the crucial role of soil biology in sustaining life and human society on
the planet. SoilMan will contribute to the dissemination of biodiversity knowledge, between SoilMan
partners and towards other scientists as well as toward a large public. Dissemination to scientists,
stakeholders and also in education and public awareness will be achieved by:
Task 6.1 EcoBioSoil Portal and Website
Leader: M. Potthoff (UGOE) and O. Troccaz (UR1)
A SoilMan website will be developed on the French EcoBioSoil Portal. A public section will inform on the
program and its evolution, while a non-public section will insure interactions between SoilMan partners.
Task 6.2 Scientific dissemination
all partners
To ensure wide dissemination of SoilMan scientific advances, the results will be presented at large
international conferences and the main findings will be synthesized and published in well-known
scientific peer-reviewed journals in the ecology, soil biology and soil science domains as well as
socio-ecological and agricultural journals (see planned deliveries). SoilMan plans to organize
scientific sessions on soil management–biodiversity impacts at European and International
conferences. For EuroSoil2016 in Istanbul a corresponding symposium suggestion has already been
submitted by the SoilMan consortium. SoilMan intends to support communication within soil related
Biodiversa projects and working groups to increase visibility and impact of Biodiversa efforts to soil
biodiversity research (workshops).
Task 6.3 Stakeholder engagement (communication and technology transfer)
M. Potthoff (UGOE) and all partners
Technology transfer of knowledge will be managed by M.Potthoff (UGOE) and will be done to the EU
stakeholders, through 2 workshops: (i) at the beginning of the project to establish networks and
receive from the stakeholders their needs of knowledge; (ii) at the end of the project to communicate and
discuss the results of the project. Moreover, along the project, the leader will facilitate communication
between the scientists and the stakeholders to ensure relevance of output of research to the Soil
Thematic Strategy maintaining research of high scientific impact. As a minimum this will be achieved by
knowledge and information transfer every 6 months. Furthermore, end-users dissemination will be
done through the publication of technical guide lines, and brochures. The recommendations from the
BiodivERsA stakeholder handbook will guide these activities.
Task 6.4 Education and Public awareness
G.Pérès (AGROCAMPUS) and M. Potthoff (UGOE)
This task aims to raise awareness of soil biodiversity through several actions: (i) the creation of
educational support tools (posters, films, talks) which can be widely distributed to schools or exposed
to the general public. SoilMan partners will be involved in making the educational material multi-lingual
to allow it to be used by an audience as wide as possible; (ii) the organization of open days at the
field site locations, (iii) the participation at national or local events addressed to large public like Science
Week in France (AGROCAMPUS, UR1) or Night of Sciences at UGOE.
Task 6.5 Training
D. Cluzeau (UR1) and M. Potthoff (UGOE)
Training will be both addressed to scientists and stakeholders (farmers, technicians): i) European summer
school (postgraduate training course, scientists), announced internationally, will be organized (“Soil
Biodiversity and Ecosystem services”) by Agrocampus and UR1, ii) several training courses addressed to
farmers and dealing with “Impacts of agricultural practices on soil biodiversity and soil functioning” and
“Evaluation tools of soil biodiversity quality” will be organized in the different countries during the three
years of the SoilMan project .
Task 6.6 Policy Briefs:
M. Potthoff (Germany) and all partners
As a Biodiversa project we plan to host a dialogue session (DS) on soil biodiversity and its impact on
soil fertility and health at the next GlobalSoilWeek scheduled for 2017. Also see task 5.3.
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Task 0.1 Project day to day management
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WP1: Habitat and Diversity
Task 1.0 Homogenization of sampling protocols and procedures (Workshop)
Task 1.1 Structural and genetic inventory of soil organisms’ diversity
Task 1.2 Habitat structure and management
WP2: Soil functions and processes
Task 2.0: Kick-off workshop: conceptualisation and standardisation
Task 2.1: Litter decomposition & Carbon cycling
Task 2.2 Soil Structure, biological aggregation and Water quality OR pollution Task 2.3: Crop yield, nutrient turnover
Task 2.4: Suppression of plant pathogens and detoxification by soil biota
WP3: From practices to services
Task 3.1 Comprehensive analysis of patterns across sites
Task 3.2 Quantitative blending of biodiversity in sites and ecosystem service provision
Task 3.3 Impact of fauna – microbial interactions on carbon storage and CO2 release
Task 3.4 Impact of soil biotic interactions on disease suppression
WP4: Socio-economic valuation of services provided by soil organisms
Task 4.1. Survey based valuation of goods and services provided by soil biodiversity
Task 4.2. Development of a policy model to assess soil biodiversity
Task 4.3. Efficient risks management and the provision of ecological services
Task 4.4. Assessment of the overall society value of soil biodiversity
WP5: Cross national comparison and policy issues
Task 5.1 Analysis of the political and ecological legal framework
Task 5.2 Assessment and Development of Indicators
Task 5.3 Development of policy recommendations and briefs
WP6: Communication plan (SoilMan - Dissemination)
Task 6.1 EcoBioSoil Portal and Website
Task 6.2 Scientific dissemination
Task 6.3 Stakeholder engagement
Task 6.4 Education and Public awareness
Task 6.5 Training
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D. Description of project management
Martin Potthoff from UGOE as the coordinator and Guenola Peres from Agrocampus Ouest as the cocoordinator will jointly manage SoilMan. They will be responsible for the technical and administrative
management on a day-to-day basis. Martin Potthoff will be the official contact for Biodiversa. Guenola
Peres acts as the deputy and will take responsibilities especially in the administration of stakeholder
engagement. To ensure an efficient and successful project management for the whole consortium SoilMan
will be administrated and managed by an executing office implemented as a temporary unit within the
Centre of Biodiversity and sustainable land use (CBL) at the University of Göttingen with support of the EUoffice of the university. From a technical point of view, the coordinators will rely on the Work packageleaders (Fig. 4).
Consortium communication: (i) Dynamic email lists will be set up to aid inter and intra WP communication
between project partners in compliment to the coordination. This list will permit to keep project partners
informed of milestones. (ii) An internal area on the webpage and in addition (if applicable) a dropbox or
cloud implementation will guaranty availability of data and activities around the consortium. (iii) With funding
and implementation of SoilMan structures the consortium will approve an agreement on research integrity
including rules for authorships and ownership of data. Such agreement will rely on transparency and trust.
The coordination of a large project with many partners such as SoilMan implies as an ongoing task to keep
all project partners working in the same direction, keeping everyone aware of results from other WPs and
preventing double work. This task will aid the labor’s coordination by providing a readily available and easily
customized source of communication to allow specific partners to be informed of events and requests made
as and when necessary.
Fig 4: Scheme of the governance within SoilMan.
Steering committee
The steering committee is composed of one representative per partner (including work package leaders),
each having one vote for decision making. The Steering Committee will be in charge of the operational
management of all the activities of the project and re-orientation whenever necessary, budget revision,
incorporation of new contractors, measures towards defaulting partners. It will survey ethical and gender
issues. The Steering Committee will supervise the work of the project management including quality
control, preparation and transmission of deliverables. Meetings of the Steering Committee are held once a
year, unless the interest of the projects may require intermediate meetings. The Steering Committee makes
decisions upon simple majority with casting vote for the coordinator in case of equality of votes.
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WP Leaders
WP Leaders are in charge of monitoring all activities contributing to the objectives of the workpackages.
They will take any operational decision regarding the WP management. They are in charge of preparing the
decisions to be taken by the Steering Committee and ensuring that these decisions are properly
implemented. They are also in charge of addressing and documenting internal risks which may impair the
progress towards the objectives of the WP and suggest strategies to anticipate and minimize such internal
risks.
Advisory board
Leading researchers and stakeholders will advise on the project orientations and will be consulted by the
project coordinator for specific questions. The advisory board can make any proposal or transmit any
information it deems useful to the Steering Committee. The board will meet once a year. Prior to the
beginning of its activity, each member of the board will enter into a non-disclosure agreement. The
following experts have been selected to become members of the SoilMan advisory board:
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Britta Reimers (Kiel, farmer and former member of the European Parliament)
Jack Faber (Altera/Wageningen UR; Ecofinders)
Johann Zaller (BoKu Vienna, BiodivERsA-Vinedivers)
Antonio Bispo (ADEME, Agence de l'Environment et de La Maîtrise de l'Energie)
Olivier Manceau (CRAB, Regional Chamber of Agriculture)
Activities for quality control within the project
The overarching goals of SoilMan activities for quality control within the project will be to store and deliver
scientific information in order to facilitate interdisciplinary research and scientific discovery. The main goals
are to: (1) assure data integrity (correctness at all times of all items in the database), (2) improve data
security (protection against data loss), (3) facilitate access to datasets and metadata by the original
investigator(s) and by other researchers within the consortium when needed, and (4) enhance the usability
of data and metadata for current and future generations of scientists, policy makers and other stakeholders.
Risk planning and associated contingency plans
All SoilMan participants are experts in their respective fields and are from institutions where regular internal
and external reviews of scientific quality and productivity are assessed. SoilMan will be part of this. SoilMan
governance structures will ensure that the consortium is well integrated and will achieve the objectives and
will make effective use of the given resources. Kick-off workshops organized by the respective work
package leaders will guarantee that sampling standards, experimental set-up and design will be
standardized among participating groups; for most groups tasks partners will manage the sampling
campaigns locally. This procedure has worked very well in previous collaboration and ensures identical
techniques, apparatus, analysis and interpretation of results.
All participants in the project have expertise, resources and ability to cover additional areas if needed.
Hence, participants who prove unable to complete their tasks for what reason ever, these tasks should be
taken over and completed by another participant in order to conclude the project on time.
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E. CVs
(1)
Banse, Martin (TI); Germany
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Bengtsson, Jan (SLU); Sweden
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Bergmann, Holger (UGOE); Germany
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Buta, Mihai (UASVM); Romania
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Cluzeau, Daniel (UR1); France
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Gomes, Jose (CSIC); Spain
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Guernion, Muriel (INRA); France
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Guzman, Gema (CSIC); Spain
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Hallaire, Vincent (INRA); France
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Köchy, Martin (TI); Germany
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Landa, Blanca (CSIC); Spain
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Langlais, Alexandra (UR1); France
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Maraun, Mark (UGOE); Germany
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Maxim, Aurel (UASVM); Romania
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Montes, Miguel (CSIC); Spain
(16)
Morvan, Thierry (INRA); France
(17)
Navas, Juan (CSIC); Spain
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Nicolai, Annegret (Agrocampus Ouest); France
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Öpik, Maarja (UTAR); Estonia
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Pérès, Guénola (Agrocampus Ouest); France
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Pop, Rodica (UASVM); Romania
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Potthoff, Martin(UGOE); Germany
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Renault, Michel (UR1); France
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Roslin, Tomas (SLU); Sweden
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Sandor, Mignon (UASVM); Romania
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Scheu, Stefan (UGOE); Germany
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Schrader, Stefan (TI); Germany
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Stoian, Horea Vlad (UASVM); Romania
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Taylor, Astrid (SLU); Sweden
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Wolf, Cedric (UR1); France
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Martin Banse, PD Dr.
Area of expertise: Agricultural food economics, economic modeling, impact analysis of
policy measures, project management
Address
Thünen-Institute of Market Analysis
Bundesallee 50
38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone:
+ 49 531 - 596 5301
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: www.ti.bund.de
Personal data
Year of birth:
Nationality:
Gender:
1961
German
male
Academic education and degree
2009
1990 - 1996
1984 - 1990
Agricultural economics, (Habilitation: Development and application of
equilibrium models to analyze the competitiveness of the agricultural and
food economy and the impact of increasing demand for bioenergy on
agricultural markets) Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany.
Agricultural economics, (Ph.D. Thesis: Transition of Hungarian Agri-food
Industries) Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany.
Agricultural economics (Diploma Thesis: Economy-wide impact of
agricultural policies in Germany), Diploma (MSc), Georg-August University
of Göttingen, Germany.
Professional Career
Since Nov. 2009 Director and Professor (Steering and supervising of institute activities),
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (TI)
2006 - 2009
Senior Researcher (Steering and supervising of company activities), LEI,
Den Haag, The Netherlands
2001 - 2006
Assistant Professor (Lectures, Modelling with partial and general
equilibrium models, Agricultural policy advice) Georg-August University of
Göttingen, Germany
Editorials
Since 2009
Since 2011
Editorial Board, German Journal of Agricultural Economics
Head of Editorial Board, German Journal of Agricultural Economics
Fellowships
GEWISOLA (Gesellsch. für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des
Landbaus)
EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists)
IAAE (International Association of Agricultural Economists)
Awards and Honours
EAAE Quality of Policy Contribution Award 2008
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Selected publications
Banse M, Junker F, Gerdien Prins A, Stehfest E, Tabeau A, Woltjer G, Meijl H van (2014)
Global Impact of multinational biofuel mandates on land use, feedstock prices,
international trade and landuse greenhouse gas emissions. Landbauforsch Appl Agric
Forestry Res 64(2):59-72.
Pelikan J, Banse M (2014) Auswirkungen regionaler Freihandelsabkommen auf deutsche
und europäische Agrarmärkte. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut.
Thünen Working Paper 17.
Hoefnagels R, Banse M, Dornburg V, Faaij A (2013) Macro-economic impact of large-scale
deployment of biomass resources for energy and materials on a national level - A
combined approach for the Netherlands. Journal of Energy Policy 59:727–744.
Banse M, Hellmann F, Meijl H van, Tabeau A, Verburg P and Woltjer G (2010). Impact of EU
Biofuel Policies on World Agricultural Production and Land Use. Biomass and Bioenergy
35(6): 2385-2390.
Sorda G, Banse M and Kemfert C (2010). An overview of biofuel policies across the world.
EnergyPolicy 38(11): 6977-6988
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Bengtsson, Jan, Professor
area of expertise: Agricultural ecology, biodiversity, ecosystem services, soil ecology,
metacommunities, spatial ecology
Address
NJ-faculty, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Ulls väg 16, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone:
+ 46 18 671516
Fax:
+ 46 18 672890
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.slu.se/en/departments/ecology/personal-webbpages/bengtsson-jan-/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1955
Nationality:
Swedish
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
1995
Professor in Ecology and environmental research at SLU
1995
Docent in Ecology and environmental research
1988
Ph D in Animal ecology
1981
B Sc (Fil kand) in Biology
Scientific Career
1995-2020
Professor in ecology and environmental research, SLU, Uppsala (presently at the
Department of Ecology)
2013-2015
Visiting research fellow at STIAS (Stellenbosch Inst for Adv Studies) South Africa
(in total 3 months)
2005-2012
Collaborative research with Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University,
South Africa (in total 8 months)
2000-2010
Associated scientist, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm.
1993-1999
Visiting Scientist, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park,
Ascot, England (in total 5 months)
1989-1995
Researcher in metapopulation and forest soil ecology, SLU, Uppsala.
1981-1989
Ph D student and researcher, Dept. Animal Ecology, Uppsala University
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Editorials
Sub-editor for Ecology Letters, Environmental Management, Organic farming
Sub-editor in Polis et al., Food webs (1995)
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
1993-98
Visiting scientist (invited) Centre for Population Biology, Silwood Park, Ascot UK
2013-15
Visiting fellow at STIAS (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies), South Africa
Selected publications
Bengtsson, J. 2015. Biological control as an ecosystem service: partitioning
contributions of nature and human inputs to yield. Ecological Entomology 40
(Suppl. 1): 45–55
Tuck, S.L., C. Winqvist, F. Mota, J. Ahnström, L.A. Turnbull & J. Bengtsson. 2014.
Land-use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a
hierarchical meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology 51: 746-755.
Gamfeldt, L., T. Snäll, … J. Moen & J. Bengtsson. 2013. Higher levels of multiple
ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species. Nature
Communications 4:1340 | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2328
Jonason, D., G.K.S. Andersson, E. Öckinger, H.G. Smith, M. Rundlöf & J.
Bengtsson. 2011. Assessing the effect of the time since transition to organic
farming on plants and butterflies. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 543–550
Viketoft M., J. Bengtsson, B. Sohlenius, M.P. Berg, O. Petchey, C. Palmborg, and K.
Huss-Danell. 2009. Long-term effects of plant diversity and composition on
soil nematode communities in grasslands. 90: 90-99.
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Bergmann, Holger, Lecturer Dr.
area of expertise: rural economics, agricultural and environmental economics, social capital,
effects of climate change, renewable energies
Address
Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Phone:
+ 49 + 551 39 4813
Fax:
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1969
Nationality:
German
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2003
Dr. sc. Agr. In Agricultural Economics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen
(magna cum laude), Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. R. Marggraf, Prof. Dr. J.
Isselstein
1997
Diploma, Agricultural Economics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen,
Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. T. Becker
Scientific Career
Since 2013
Full time lecturer at the Department for Agricultural Economics
2008 – 2012
Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department for Agricultural
Economics
2005 – 2008
Research Fellow at the Business School, University of Aberdeen (Scotland,
UK), supervisor: Prof. K. Thomson, Prof. E. Phimister
2000 – 2005
Research fellow at the Department for Agricultural Economics (Prof. Dr.
Marggraf)
1998 .- 1999
Research assistant at the Department for Agricultural Economics (Prof. Dr.
Marggraf)
1997 – 1998
Research assistant (BMU financed project on success factors of Nature
protection)
Funded
projects
http://www.organicresidues.com (BMBF/PTJ FKZ 0330847F) in cooperation
with Prof. Dr. Lu Wencong (Zheijiang University, Hangzhou, PRC) and Prof.
Marggraf (2008 – 2012)
http://nitrogen-management.wzw.tum.de/
(BMBF/PTJ
0330800D)
in
cooperation with Prof. Dr. Huang Jikun (CCAP, Beijing, PRC) and Prof.
Marggraf (2008 – 2012)
VINEDIVERS, Socio-Econonmic Subproject, Biodiversa ERA Net funded in
2014, approximately 180.000 € with Dr. habil. Martin Potthoff and European
partners, lead by BOKU Vienna (Austria), http://www.vinedivers.eu/
Job market relevance of the Biogasindustry in Lower Saxony, Funded by the
Ministry of Agriculture in Lower Saxony, approximately 70.000 € with Prof. Dr.
Theuvsen, (2011- 2013)
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Selected Publications (5)
Hofmeier, M, Roelcke, M.; Hanc,Y., Lanc, T., Bergmann, H., Böhm, D. Cai, Z., Nieder, R.
(2015): Nitrogen management in a rice–wheat system in the Taihu Region:
Recommendations based on field experiments and surveys, Agriculture, Ecosystems &
Environment; Volume 209, p. 60–73
Böhm, D. & Bergmann, H. (2012): The capability of fundamental values and guanxi to reduce
negative
external
effects
of
Chinese
agriculture,
Food
Economics,
DOI:10.1080/16507541.2012.695146
Bergmann, H. and Thomson, K.J. (2010) The influence of migration processes on rural
development: a case study from Scotland, in: Juvancic, L. (ed.) Rural development:
governance, policy design and delivery, Proceedings of the 118th EAAE Seminar, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, 25-27. August 2010, Biotechnical Faculty, Zootechnical Department, p. 327 –
341, ISBN 978-961-6204-51-4
Bergmann, H. and Weber, D. (2010) Nitrogen use and profits of Chinese farmers. Aspects of
Applied Biologiy 105, Water & nitrogen use efficiency in plants and crops, pp.125-133
Bergmann, H. (2007) Willingness-to-Pay in Contingent Valuation – A matter of interview
situation or respondents?, Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 123 (4), p. 271 - 280
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Mihai Buta, Lecturer PhD
area of expertise: Peatlands Conservation and Protection; Soil science, Geology and
Pedological Forestry.
Address
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine ClujNapoca
3-5 Manastur, 400372, Romania
Phone:
+ 40744752158
Fax:
+ 40264593792
Email:
[email protected], [email protected]
Internet: http://www.usamvcluj.ro
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1978
Nationality:
Romanian
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2004-2009
PhD in Agronomy, UASVM Cluj Napoca
2008-2009
Msc. degree, Land Organization and Rural Development at USAMV ClujNapoca
1999-2004
Graduated the Faculty of Horticulture, Specialization Horticulture, University of
Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
Scientific Career
2011-present
Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences and
Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
2008-2011
Teaching asisstant, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences
and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
Editorials
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2012
Professor Bologna
2008
Environmental Horticulture Summer School in Konya, - Erasmus Intensive
Programme Turkey 23.06.2008 – 05.07.2008
Selected Publications (5)
2015
Erzsebet Buta, Maria Cantor, Răzvan M. Ștefan, Rodica Pop, Ioana Mitre jr.,
Mihai Buta and Radu E. Sestraș*, 2015. FT-IR Characterization of Pollen
Biochemistry, Viability, and Germination Capacity in Saintpaulia H. Wendl.
Genotypes. Journal of Spectroscopy, Volume 2015, Article ID 706370, 7 pages,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/706370, FI:0.538.
2014
Erzsébet Buta, Anamária Török, Árpád Csog, Bilassé Zongo, Maria Cantor,
Mihai Buta, Cornelia Majdik, 2014. Comparative Studies of the Phytoextraction
Capacity of Five Aquatic Plants in Heavy Metal Contaminated Water. Not Bot
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Hort Agrobot. 42(1):173-179, IF 0.4760.
2014
Paulette Laura, Feodor Filipov, Ioan Oroian, Mircea Mihalache, Antonia
Odagiu, Mihai Buta, 2014. Use of Soil Conditioners in Greenhouses Soils.
ProEnviron 7:185 – 189.
2013
Mihai Buta, Ioan Pacurar, Laura Paulette and Erzsebet Buta*, 2013. The
assessment of carbon dioxide emissions in the peatlands of the Apuseni
Mountains, Romania. J Food, Agric &Environ. 11(3-4):2601-2604.
2012
Paulette Laura, Ioan Gh. Oroian, Mihai Buta, Antonia Odagiu, 2012. Soils
Inventory of Cluj Napoca as Background Study for Different Use. ProEnviron 5:
243 – 247.
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Daniel Cluzeau, Dr.
area of expertise: earthworm biology, functional ecology, land use interactions with
earthworm communities, applications to the multicriteria management of suburban and rural
areas
Address
Lab. « UMR CNRS EcoBio » Ecosystems - Biodiversity - Evolution
Team RBPE Role of Biodiversity in Ecological Processes
Rennes University - Campus de Beaulieu, Bâtiment 14 A – F-35042 Rennes, France.
Mailing address: Station Biologique, F-35380 Paimpon
Phone:
+ 33 6 0714 8555
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: https://ecobio.univ-rennes1.fr/page.php?16
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1958
Nationality:
French
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2005
Habilitation in Soil Ecology, University Rennes 1
1992
Doctoral graduation in Biology (Dr.), University Rennes 1
Scientific Career
Since 2008
Director of Biological Research Station of the University Rennes 1
Since 1997
UMR-CNRS 6553 EcoBio, University Rennes 1 (senior lecturer)
1984-1997
Research Center for Biological and Social Studies (CREBS), France (research
engineer)
Responsibility Director of professional master ERPUR (rural planning management and
of teaching
suburbanisation)
Director of professional licence PARTAGER (Agricultural practices, Rural
Development, Alternative Techniques & Ecological Management Environmental
Resources)
Involvement in Synthesis in web site https://ecobiosoil.univ-rennes1.fr/page.php?78
some research 2011-2015 : European Programm SUSTAIN (ERANET- SNOWMAN) Soil
programs
Functional Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a Transdisciplinary
Approach ;
2010-2015 : contributor of participated programm on Soil Bioindicators
(Agrinnov) managed by INRA Dijon and OFSV
2005-2009 : coordinator of the project of French Programme on Soil
Bioindication managed by ADEME : the RMQS BioDiv which studies the Soil
Biodiversity at regional scale.
2000-2012 : Network of ecological engineering research with the Universities
of Shanghai, supported by the CNRS INEE (co-coordinator).
1990-2016 : coordinator of long term program of Champagne vineyard
practices on soil biota levels : how to integrate the knowledge gained on this
soil biodiversity heritage at the base of the sustainability of the vineyards of
Champagne? (VitiEcoBioSoil).
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Selected Publications (5)
C. Pelosi, B. Pey, M. Hedde, G. Caro, Y. Capowiez, M. Guernion, J. Peigné, D. Piron, M.
Bertrand, D. Cluzeau (2014). Reducing tillage in cultivated fields increases earthworm
functional diversity. Applied Soil Ecology, 83, 79-87
JF. Ponge, G. Pérès, M. Guernion, N. Ruiz-Camacho, J. Cortet, C. Pernin, C. Villenave, R.
Chaussod, F. Martin-Laurent, A. Bispo, D.Cluzeau (2013). The impact of agricultural
practices on soil biota: A regional study. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 67, 271-284
M. Blouin, M. E. Hodson, E. A. Delgado, G. Baker, L. Brussaard, K. R. Butt, J. Dai, L.
Dendooven, G. Peres, J. E. Tondoh, D. Cluzeau and J.-J. Brun (2013). A review of
earthworm impact on soil function and ecosystem services. European Journal of Soil
Science, 64-2, 161-182.
D. Cluzeau, M. Guernion, R. Chaussod, F. Martin-Laurent, C. Villenave, J. Cortet, N. RuizCamacho, C. Pernin, T. Mateille, L. Philippot, A. Bellido, L. Rougé, D. Arrouays, A. Bispo,
G. Pérès. (2012). Integration of biodiversity in soil quality monitoring: Baselines for
microbial and soil fauna parameters for different land-use types. European Journal of Soil
Biology, 49, Pages 63-72
G.Pérès, F.Vandenbulcke, M.Guernion, M.Hedde, T.Beguiristain, F.Douay, S.Houot, D.Piron,
A.Richard, A.Bispo, C.Grand, L.Galsomies, D.Cluzeau (2011). Earthworm indicators as
tools for soil monitoring, characterization and risk assessment. An example from the
national Bioindicator programme (France). Pedobiologia, Supplement, Pages S77-S87
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Gómez Calero, José Alfonso, PhD
area of expertise: soil and water conservation in agricultural areas
Address
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council.
Apartado 4084. 14080 Cordoba. Spain.
Phone:
+ 34 957 499 2010, +34 957 499 200
Fax:
+ 34 957 499 252
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.ias.csic.es/
http://www.ias.csic.es/jagc/myweb2/index.htm
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1969
Nationality:
Spanish
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
1998
PhD in Agricultural Engineering. Year of qualification: 1998. Name of institution: University of Cordoba Country: Spain.
1995
Agricultural Engineer. Year of qualification: 1995. Name of institution:
University of Cordoba. Country: Spain.
Language
Writing
Reading
Conversation
Spanish
Good
Good
Fluent
English
Good
Good
Fluent
Scientific Career
Since 2012
Job Title: Director of Institute .Organization Name: Institute for Sustainable
Agriculture. CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Organization Town/City: Cordoba Organization Country: Spain. Organization
Type: Public Research Centre. Organization Size: Institute 200 employees,
whole CSIC 12,000 employees. Employed From: 04/2012. Current Job.
Since 2002
Job Title: Staff Scientist Organization Name: Institute for Sustainable Agriculture. CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Organization
Town/City: Cordoba Organization Country: Spain. Organization Type: Public
Research Centre. Organization Size: Institute 200 employees, whole CSIC
12,000 employees. Employed From: 05/2002 Current Job
2001-2002
Job Title: Postodoctoral Research Associate. Organization Name: Purdue
University. Organization Town/City: West Lafayette. Organization Country: US
Organization Type: Higher Education Establishments. 500-1999 employees Employed From: 07/2001 Employed To: 05/2002
1999-2001
Job Title: Visiting Fellow. Organization Name: USDA-ARS Organization
Town/City: West Lafayette. Organization Country: US. Organization Type:
Public Research Centre. Organization Size: 500-1999 employees. Department/Sector/Field: National Soil Erosion Laboratory. Employed From:
08/1999 Employed To: 07/2001
1999
Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate. Organization Name: Institute for
Sustainable Agriculture. CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Organization Town/City: Cordoba Organization Country: Spain. Organiza-
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tion Type: Public Research Centre. Organization Size: Institute 200 employees, whole CSIC 12,000 employees. Employed From: 01/1999 Employed To:
07/1999
1995-1998
Job Title: Graduate fellow Organization Name: Institute for Sustainable Agriculture. CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Organization
Town/City: Cordoba Organization Country: Spain. Organization Type: Public
Research Centre. Organization Size: Institute 200 employees, whole CSIC
12,000 employees. Employed From: 05/1995 Employed To: 12/1998
Editorials
Topical Editor of Soil, the Journal of the European Geosciences Union.
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
Positive evaluation of TWO Research Periods (2/2) (‘Sexenios’), by the Spanish
National Commission of Research ‘C.N.E.A.I.’ from Ministerio de Educación y
Ciencia. Periods: 1997-2002; 2003-08. A third, 2008-2014, currently under evaluation.
Positive evaluation of Three Research Periods (3/3) (‘Quinquenios’), by the
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Periods:1995-1999, 2000-2004, 20072011.
Supervisor of 3 PhD projects (plus 1 in course) ETSIAM-UCO, 7 Master of Science
projects at ETSIAM-UCO, Wageningen University and International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), and 13 Graduation projects
for Agricultural Engineering, ETSIAM-UCO.
"Nuñez de Prado award mention". For research on soil conservation in organic
agriculture. Year 2005.
“Silver Medal of Andalusia”, Andalusian regional government. For research on
preventing soil degradation in olive crop production. Year 2014.
Selected Publications (5)
47 scientific papers within JCR-SCI in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Earth and Planetary
Sciences or , Environmental Science. Average citation rate per document 13.7 citations per document, h-index: 14. As Scopus, date January 8th 2014. 61.2% of the articles published in journals within 1st quartile, 27. 7% within 2nd quartile, 8.5% within 3rd quartile, and 2.1% within 4rd
quartile in their categories. Also 12 scientific and technical papers in non-referred journals, 5
books, 10 book chapters and 146 communications to scientific conferences.
Soil properties in organic olive orchards following different weed management in a rolling
landscape of Andalusia, Spain Date : 2013-01-01. Authorship : Co-Author. Renewable
Agriculture
and
Food
Systems
On
line
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1742170512000361
The effects of cover crops and conventional tillage on soil and runoff loss in vineyards and
olive groves in several Mediterranean countries.Date : 2011 Authorship : Co-Author. Soil
Use and Management 27: 502 -514.
Estimation of aggregate stability indices in Mediterranean soils by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Date 2010. Authorship : Co-Author. Geoderma 158: 78 – 84.
Soil management effects on runoff, erosion and soil properties in an olive grove of Southern
Spain. Date: 2009. Authorship : Co-Author. Soil and Tillage Research 102: 5 – 13.
Development of a soil degradation assessment tool for organic olive groves in southern
Spain. Date : 2009. Authorship : Co-Author. Catena 79. 9 – 17.
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Code of good practices for sustainable development of olive orchards located in areas characterized by fragile ecosystems. Date : 2009. Authorship : Co-Author. International Olive
Oil
Council.
Link
to
the
publication:
http://www.internationaloliveoil.org/projects/consejo/index.htm
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Muriel Guernion, Msc.
area of expertise: Soil ecology, soil fauna, earthworm, database, data management, website
Address
UMR 6553 EcoBio
University Rennes 1
Station Biologique de Paimpont, “Beauvais”, 35380, Paimpont, France
Phone:
+ 33 +(0)2 99 61 81 78
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1984
Nationality:
French
Gender:
female
Academic education and degree
2007
Master degree in Environmental Sciences, Rennes1 University
2005
Licence degree (3 year University degree) in Biology, Laval University
(Québec) and Bretagne Sud University (Vannes)
Scientific Career
Since 2015
University Rennes1, Paimpont (research engineer)
2013-2014
University Rennes1, Paimpont (research engineer)
2012-2013
Teacher of Biology Secondary School
2007-2012
University Rennes1, Paimpont (research engineer)
Selected Publications (5)
Pey, B., Laporte, M-A., Nahmani, J., Auclerc, A., Capowiez, Y., Caro, G., Cluzeau, D., Cortet,
J., Decaëns, T., Dubs, F., Joimel, S., Guernion, M., … & Hedde, M. (2014). A Thesaurus
for Soil Invertebrate Trait-Based Approaches.
PlosOne, 9(10): e108985.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108985
Pelosi, C., Pey, B., Hedde, M., Caro, G., Capowiez, Y., Guernion, M., ... & Cluzeau, D. (2013).
Reducing tillage in cultivated fields increases earthworm functional diversity. Applied Soil
Ecology.
Ponge, J. F., Pérès, G., Guernion, M., Ruiz-Camacho, N., Cortet, J., Pernin, C., ... & Cluzeau,
D. (2013). The impact of agricultural practices on soil biota: a regional study. Soil Biology
and Biochemistry, 67, 271-284.
Cluzeau, D., Guernion, M., Chaussod, R., Martin-Laurent, F., Villenave, C., Cortet, J., RuizCamacho, N., Pernin, C., Mateille, T., Philippot, L., … & Pérès, G. (2012). Integration of
biodiversity in soil quality monitoring: Baselines for microbial and soil fauna parameters for
different land-use types. European Journal of Soil Biology, 49, 63-72.
Pérès, G., Vandenbulcke, F., Guernion, M., Hedde, M., Beguiristain, T., Douay, F., Houot, S., Piron,
D., Richard, A., Bispo, A., Grand, C., Galsomies, L., Cluzeau, D. (2011). Earthworm
indicators as tools for soil monitoring, characterization and risk assessment. An example
from the national Bioindicator programme (France). Pedobiologia, 54, S77-S87.
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Gema Guzmán, Dr.
area of expertise: Soil and sediment tracing techniques for understanding environmental
processes. Agricultural management practices for preserving soil quality and biodiversity
Address
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS)
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Department: Agronomy. Campus Alameda del Obispo, Avenida Menéndez Pidal s/n, 14004
Alameda del Obispo, Córdoba
Phone:
+ 34 957 49 92 00
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1981
Nationality:
Spanish
Gender:
female
Academic education and degree
2014
Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering, University of Córdoba, Spain (UCO).
2011
European PhD. in Agronomy, UCO.
2007
Master in Environmental Hydraulics, Universities of Granada, Málaga and
UCO.
2007
Bachelor degree in Agricultural Engineering, UCO.
Scientific Career
Since 2015
Postdoctoral researcher for the European project VineDivers: Biodiversitybased ecosystem services in vineyards: analyzing interlinkages between
plants, pollinators, soil biota and soil erosion across Europe. IAS-CSIC.
2012-2014
Postdoctoral researcher for the European project CATCH-C: FP7-KBBECompatibility of agricultural management practices and types of farming in the
EU to enhance climate change mitigation and soil health. UCO.
2011-2012
Postdoctoral researcher for the Regional project P08-AGR-03643 ‘Study and
modelling the transport of carbon and phosphorus associated to hydrological
fluxes in hillslope olive orchards regarding soil type and management system’.
IAS-CSIC.
2006-2011
PhD. student for the National project AGL2006/10927-C03-01/AGR
Development of sediment tracers to study soil redistribution and sediment
dynamic due to water erosion. IAS-CSIC.
2004-2005
Undergraduate student for the project ‘Modification of soil properties in olive
orchards under cover grass soil management’. Department of Agronomy,
University of Córdoba
Editorials
2015
Co-editor: Special issue ‘Advancements in data acquisition for soil erosion
studies’. 2015. SOIL. Eds. E. Taguas, J. A. Gómez, M. Seeger, G. Guzmán, J.
Quinton, A. Millares, and Y. Yuan.
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Topical editor of: Keizer et at. 2015. Assessing the performance of a plastic
optical fibre turbidity sensor for measuring post-fire erosion from plot to
catchment scale. SOIL, 1, 641-650.
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2015
Young Scientist's Travel Award for Europeans 'Adoption and farmer perception
of best management practices in Southern Spain'. European Geosciences
Union General Assembly (EGU-GA). 2015.
2014
Secondary Award to the Best PhD in Agricultural issues. XVI edition. Fertiberia,
S.A. 2014.
2014
Young Scientist's Travel Award for Europeans 'A meta-analysis of the effects of
agricultural management on soil physical quality for different farm typologies
across Europe'. EGU-GA. 2014.
2013
Young Scientist's Travel Award for Europeans 'Tracing and modelling water and
sediment dynamics in a conventional irrigated bed system under different
scenarios'. EGU-GA. 2013.
2007-2011
Research fellowship research training (phD). Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science. 2007-2011.
2010
Best poster award 'Analysis of water retention curve as a potential tool in
comparing the effect of different soil management in two olive orchard in
southern Spain'. Soil Science System Division - EGU-GA. 2010.
2010
Mobility fellowship for a three months stay at CIEMAT (Spain). Spanish Ministry
of Education and Science. 2010.
2010
Mobility fellowship for a three months stay at BAW-IKT (Austria). Spanish
Ministry of Education and Science. 2010.
2009
Mobility fellowship for a two months stay at SWRC-USDA (USA). Spanish
Ministry of Education and Science. 2009.
2008
Mobility fellowship for a two months stay at LEC-University of Lancaster (UK).
Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. 2008.
2006
Mobility fellowship for Master studies. Spanish Ministry of Education and
Science and University of Córdoba. 2006.
2004
Research fellowship ‘Syngenta plots’ University of Córdoba. 2004.
Selected Publications (5)
Guzmán G, Laguna A, Cañasveras JC., Boulal H, Barrón V, Gómez-Macpherson H, Giráldez
JV, Gómez JA. 2015. Study of sediment movement in an irrigated maize–cotton system
combining rainfall simulations, sediment tracers and soil erosion models. Journal of
Hydrology 524: 227-242.
Spiegel H, Zavattaro L, Guzmán G, D’Hose T, Pecio A, Lehtinen T, Schlatter N, ten Berge H,
Grignani C. 2015. Impacts of soil management practices on crop productivity, on indicators
for climate change mitigation, and on the chemical, physical and biological quality of soil.
Compatibility of Agricultural Management Practices and Types of Farming in the EU to
enhance Climate Change Mitigation and Soil Health: CATCH-C, www.catch-c.eu, pp. 41.
Taguas EV, Arroyo A, Lora A, Guzmán G, Vanderlinden K, Gómez JA. 2015. Are biodiversity
indices of spontaneous grass covers in olive orchards good indicators of soil degradation?
SOIL Discussions 2: 233-263.
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Guzmán G, Sáenz de Rodrigánez M, Laguna A, Giráldez JV, Vanderlinden K, ten Berge H.
2014. A meta-analysis of the effects of agricultural management on soil physical quality for
different farm typologies across Europe, at the EGU conference 2014, 27 April - 7 May
2014, Vienna, Austria.
Gómez JA, Guzmán G, Giráldez JV, Fereres E. 2009. The influence of cover crops and tillage
on water and sediment yield, and on nutrient, and organic matter losses in an olive orchard
on a sandy loam soil. Soil & Tillage Research 106(1): 137-144.
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Hallaire, Vincent, senior scientist
area of expertise: soil science, agronomy
Address
INRA – UMR SAS
65 rue de Saint-Brieuc, CS 84215, F35042 Rennes Cedex
Phone:
+ 33 2 23 48 54 29
Fax:
+ 33 2 23 48 54 30
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www6.rennes.inra.fr/umrsas/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1954
Nationality:
French
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
1973
Agronomist engineer
1981
PhD
2003
Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (Accreditation to supervise research)
Scientific Career
1980-1981
ONIC Montpellier
1982-1986
INRA Avignon
From 1986
INRA Rennes
Selected Publications (5)
Le Couteulx, A.; Wolf, C.; Hallaire, V. Pérès, P., 2015. Burrowing and casting activities of three
endogeic earthworm species affected by organic matter location. Pedobiologia, 58, 97-103.
Bottinelli, N; Menasseri-Aubry, S; Cluzeau, D; Hallaire, V. 2013. Response of soil structure and
hydraulic conductivity to reduced tillage and animal manure in a temperate loamy soil. Soil
Use and Management 29: 401-409.
Bottinelli, N.; Jouquet, P.; Duc Tran, T.; Hallaire V., 2012. Morphological characterisation of
weathered earthworm casts by 2D-image analysis. Biology and Fertility of Soils 48(7): 845849.
Gicquel, A; Francez, A.J.; Delhaye, T.; Gruau, G.; Hallaire, V.; Binet, F. 2012. Understanding
the fate andlinkage of N and S in earthworm-engineered peat soil by coupling stable.
Biogeochemistry 112: 165-177.
Piron, D.; Peres, G.; Hallaire, V.; Cluzeau, D. 2012. Morphological description of soil structure
patterns produced by earthworm bioturbation at the profile scale. European Journal of Soil
Biology 50: 83-90.
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Martin Köchy, PhD
area of expertise: landscape ecology, vegetation ecology, food security, climate change,
ecosystem sevices, modelling, project management
Address
Thünen Institute, Institute of Market Analysis
Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone:
+ 49 531 586 5324
Email:
[email protected]
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1965
Nationality:
German
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
1999
Doctoral degree in Biology (PhD.), University of Regina, Canada
1994
Diploma degree in Biology, University of Göttingen
1991
Bachelor of Science, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Scientific Career
Since 2012
Thünen Institute of Market Analysis, Braunschweig, Germany (scientific
coordinator)
2009-2012
Thünen Institute of Climate Smart Agriculture, Braunschweig, Germany
(researcher)
2001-2009
Department of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany
(researcher)
2000-2001
Institute for Environmental Assessment, Swedish Agricultural University,
Uppsala, Sweden (researcher)
1994-1999
Department of Biology, University of Regina, Canada (research assistant)
Selected Publications (5)
Köchy M., Wilson S.D., 1997. Litter decomposition and nitrogen dynamics in aspen forest and
mixed-grass prairie. Ecology 78, 732-739.
Köchy M., Wilson S.D., 2005. Variation in nitrogen deposition and available soil nitrogen in a
forest–grassland ecotone in Canada. Landscape Ecology 20, 191-202.
Köchy M., 2009. A species-neutral, quantitative ecological value of ecosystem service capacity
(A common ecosystemic currency for assessing regional tradeoffs in ecosystem
services). Joint Actions on Climate Change, 8.-10. June 2009, Aalborg Denmark.
http://gin.confex.com/gin/2009/webprogram/Manuscript/Paper2290/Koechy-paper.pdf
Köchy M., Bråkenhielm S., 2008. Separation of effects of moderate N deposition from natural
change in ground vegetation of forests and bogs. Forest Ecology and Management 255,
1654-1663.
Köchy M., Mathaj M., Jeltsch F., Malkinson D., 2008. Resilience of stocking capacity to
changing climate in arid to Mediterranean landscapes. Regional Environmental Change
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Köchy M., Don A., van der Molen M.K., Freibauer A., 2015. Global distribution of soil organic
carbon – Part 2: Certainty of changes related to land use and climate. Soil 1, 367-380.
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Blanca Landa, Dr.
area of expertise: population biology and biogeography of plant pathogens and biocontrol
agents; integrated control of plant pathogens; soil and rhizosphere microbial ecology; genetic
diversity and molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens and their biocontrol agents;
metagenomic analysis of microbial populations; suppressive soils
Address
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC),
Department: Crop Protection
Campus Alameda del Obispo, Avenida Menéndez Pidal s/n, 14004 Alameda del Obispo,
Córdoba
Phone:
+ 34 957 49 92 00
Fax:
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1970
Nationality:
Spanish
Gender:
female
Academic education and degree
2011
MSc. Bioinformatics, International University of Andalucía
2000
B.S. Food Science and Technology, University of Córdoba, Spain (UCO)
1999
Ph.D. Agricultural Engineer, UCO
1995
B.Eng. Agricultural Engineer, UCO
Scientific Career
Since 2012
Research Scientist and Deputy Director. IAS-CSIC
2007-2009
Tenures Scientist. IAS-CSIC
2002-2007
‘Ramón y Cajal’ Scientific fellowship & Assistant Professor, UCO
2000-2001
Post-Doctoral Fulbright fellowship, USDA-ARS, Washington State University,
WA, USA
Editorials
2011-2013
Associated Editor of the “Spanish Journal of Scientific Research”, ISI-JCR, 2nd
quartil.
2014-now
Consulting Editor of “Plant and Soil”, ISI-JCR, 1st quartil.
2014-now
Review Editor of “Frontiers in Environmental Sciences and Technology
“Agroecology and Land Use Systems””, ISI-JCR, 1st quartil.
2014-now
Associate Editor of “Annals of Applied Biology”, ISI-JCR, 1st quartil.
2014-now
Review Editor of “Frontiers in Environmental Sciences and Technology
“Agroecology and Land Use Systems””, ISI-JCR, 1st quartil.
2014-now
Associate Editor of “Peer J”, ISI-JCR, 1st quartil.
2013-now
Section Chief Editor of the “Spanish Journal of Scientific Research”, ISI-JCR,
2nd quartil.
2010-2014
Editor of the Bulletin form the Spanish Phytopathological Society
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Anonymous reviewer of more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific journals
on Plant Sciences, Agronomy, etc.
2011
Landa BB, Navas-Cortés JA, Montes-Borrego M, Steingberg C. 2011.
IOBC/WPRS Bulletin. “Multitrophic interactions in soil”. Proceedings of the
meeting in Córdoba. IOBC/WPRS Bulletin. 71, 172 pp. Montfavet Cedex
(Francia): Working Group “Multitrophic interactions in soil. ISBN 978-92-9067248-7.
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
1995-1999
PhD Scholar, Spanish National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable
Agriculture. Biological Control of Fusarium wilt of chickpea by antagonistic
microorganism.
1999-2000
Post-doctoral fellowship. CSIC, Dep. Crop Protection, Institute for Sustainable
Agriculture, Spain.
2000-2001
MEC-Fulbright Ph.D. Scholar, Pullman, WA, USA, USDA-ARS, Washington
State University. Biological Control of soilborne Pathogens by introduced and
naturally-occurring rhizobacteria in disease suppressive soils.Award "José
María Bergillos" ex equo to the best Master Project in the Agricultural and
Forestry Engineering School of the University of Córdoba (1994/1995).
2002-2007
‘Ramón y Cajal’ Scientific fellowship & Assistant Professor, University of
Córdoba, Córdoba
2001
“Fertiberia” award to the Best PhD Thesis defended in 1998/1999 (4th Call) in
Agriculture in Spain (2001)
2000-2001
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, USDA-ARS, Dep. Plant Pathology (Washington
State University, WA, EEUU
2001
CIIE-Fulbright fellowship, 7th meeting Florida Phytopathological Society
2010
Research Awards: Best oral presentation at the Congress of the XV Spanish
Society of Plant Pathology
Selected Publications (5)
Caliz J, Montes-Borrego M, Triadó-Margarit X, Landa BB, Metsis M, Casamayor EO. 2015.
Influence of edaphic, climatic, and agronomic factors on the composition and abundance of
nitrifying microorganisms in the rhizosphere of commercial olive crops.PLoS ONE10(5):
e0125787 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125787.
Landa BB, Montes-Borrego M, Aranda S, Soriano MA, Gómez JA, Navas-Cortés JA. 2014. Soil
type and management system determine the structure and diversity of soil bacterial
communities in commercial organic olive orchards at Southern Spain. Environmental
Microbiology Reports, 6: 196-207.
Montes-Borrego M, Metsis M, Landa BB. 2014. Arbuscular mycorhizal fungi associated with
the olive crop across the Andalusian landscape: Factors driving community differentiation.
PLoS ONE 9(5): e96397. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096397.
Montes-Borrego M, Navas-Cortés JA, Landa BB. 2013. Linking microbial functional diversity of
olive rhizosphere soil to management systems in commercial orchards in southern Spain.
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 181:169-178.
Aranda S, Montes-Borrego M, Jiménez-Díaz RM, Landa BB. 2011. Microbial communities
associated with the root system of wild olives (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var.
sylvestris) are good reservoirs of bacteria with antagonistic potential against Verticillium
dahliae. Plant and Soil 343: 329-345.
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Alexandra Langlais, lawyer
area of expertise: environmental law, ecosystem services, soil, biodiversity
Address
University of Rennes 1, Faculty of law
9 rue Jean Macé CS 54203 - 35042 Rennes Cedex FRANCE
Phone:
+ 33 06 64 53 12 35
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.iode.univ-rennes1.fr/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1973
Nationality:
French
Gender:
female
Academic education and degree
PhD in law in
2001 :
What legal status for agricultural waste?
Scientific Career
Since 2014
Member of the technology network “soil and territories”
Since 2012
Member of the Scientific Council "GESSOL" ("Environmental functions and soil
management heritage) - ADEME- Ministry of environment-
2011- 2014
Researcher in the project “normasol” : “Research on the legal protection of soil
functions and services”, Ministry of ecology, program GESSOL, coordination :
Philippe Billet, Faculty of Lyon 3.
2012
Organization of a seminar on soil, "In search of a characterization of soil
quality, interdisciplinary approach" under the GESSOL program and action
Incitative, emerging projects from the University of Rennes 1, 6 - September 7,
2012, Rennes.
2012
Organization of an international congress “ Agriculture and payments for
environmental services. Which juridical issues ?”
2012
Scientific responsible of the project “payments for environmental services in the
light of the CAP”, CNRS research Programm ( PEPS).
Editorials
2015
A book : “Agriculture and payments for environmental services. Which juridical
issues ?”
2007
A book : «Le droit de l’épandage des déchets agricoles», Editions TECHNIP et
France Agricole, Paris, octobre, 2007, 153 pages. Préfaciers: C. Lepage,
ancienne ministre de l’environnement et M. PAPPALARDO, ancienne
Présidente de l’ADEME.
2003
A book : «Le droit et les déchets agricoles», Editions L’HARMATTAN, Coll.
Logiques juridiques, Paris, 2003, 253 pages. Préfacier: Raphaël ROMI,
professeur de droit public à l’université de Nantes.
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2014
Bronze Medal of the CNRS
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2012
the scientific installation allowance of Rennes
2015
A fellowships from the university of Rennes to my PhD student : B. Ravutsova
on “Law and dynamics of agricultural landscapes : for a rethought legal
framework”
Selected Publications (5)
A. Langlais, «L’appréhension juridique de la qualité des sols agricoles par le prisme des
services écosystémiques», Revue de droit rural, août-sept. 2015, n° 435, pp. 28-33.
A. Langlais et N. Hervé-Fournereau, “Ecosystem services: promoting new synergies between
European strategies on climate and biodiversity?” (co-écrit avec Nathalie HervéFournereau (CR1, CNRS, IODE)) in F. Maes, A. Cliquet, W. du Plessis et H. MacLeodKilmurray ( sous la dir.), Biodiversity and climate change, Linkages at International,
National and local levels, Actes du colloque de l’Académie de droit international de
l’environnement (UICN), Edward Elgar Editor, 2013, pp. 65-93.
«Les paiements pour services environnementaux, une nouvelle forme d’équité
environnementale pour les agriculteurs? Réflexions juridiques», Revue environnement et
développement durable, Lexisnexis, Janvier 2013, n° 1, pp. 32-41.
C. Walter, C. Chenu, A. Bispo, A. Langlais et C. Schwartz, «Les services écosystémiques des
sols: du concept à sa valorisation», DEMETER, Cahiers «Agriculture et foncier:
concurrence entre usages des sols et entre usagers des sols: la question foncière
renouvelée», janvier 2015, pp. 53-68.
«Les paiements pour services environnementaux comme réponse pertinente en faveur d’une
agriculture durable?» in M.-L. Demeester et V. Mercier (dir.), «Agriculture durable: contributions juridiques, scientifiques et économiques pour l’élaboration d’un cadre normatif»,
bruylant, à paraître 2015.
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Maraun, Mark, Prof. Dr.
area of expertise: soil ecology, oribatid mites, soil microbiology, stable isotopes (15N,
fatty acids (NLFAs)
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C),
Address
Insitute of Zoology and Anthropology, Department of Ecology, Georg August University
Göttingen
Berliner Str. 28, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Phone:
+ 49 + 551 39 5443
Fax:
+ 49 + 551 39 5448
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1966
Nationality:
German
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2015
apl. Professorship, University of Göttingen
2007
“venia legendi“ in Soil Biology (Habilitation), University of Technology
Darmstadt
2007
“venia legendi“ in Soil Biology (Privatdozentur), University of Technology
Darmstadt
2005
Habilitation: Ecology and evolution of oribatid mites
1997
PhD: Oribatid mites (Oribatida) in beech forests: feeding biology and influence
on nutrient and carbon dynamics’; University of Göttingen. Supervisor: PD Dr.
S. Scheu
1994
Diploma in Biology at the University of Göttingen. Title of the Diploma Thesis
‘Zur Dynamik der Mikroflora in Kotpartikeln von Glomeris marginata (VILLERS)
nach Fraß von Buchenlaubstreu (Fagus sylvativa):
Laborexperimente.‘ University of Göttingen.Examiner: Professor Dr. M.
Schaefer
Scientific Career
Since 2008
Assistant Professor (permanent position), Institute of Zoology and
Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Germany
1998-2008
PostDoc at the Institute of Biology, University of Technology Darmstadt
1994-1998
Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen (research
assistant)
Editorials
Since 2014
Subject Editor of Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Since 2014
Borad member of Experimental and Applied Acarology
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Selected Publications (5)
Heidemann K, Scheu S, Ruess L, Maraun M, 2011. Molecular detection of nematode predation
and scavenging in oribatid mites: laboratory and field experiments. Soil Biology and
Biochemistry 43:2229-2236.
Schaefer I, Norton RA, Scheu S, Maraun M, 2010. Precambrian mites colonized land and
formed parthenogenetic clusters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57:113-121.
Maraun M, Erdmann G, Schulz G, Norton RA, Scheu S, Domes K , 2009. Multiple convergent
evolution of arboreal life in oribatid mites indicates the primacy of ecology. Proceedings of
the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276:3219-3227.
Domes K, Maraun M, Scheu S, Cameron S, 2008. The complete mitochondrial genome of the
sexual oribatid mite Steganacarus magnus: genome rearrangements and loss of tRNAs.
BMC Genomics 9:532.
Domes K, Norton RA, Maraun M, Scheu S, 2007. Re-evolution of sex in oribatid mites breaks
Dollo’s law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America 104:7139-7144.
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Maxim Aurel, PhD Senior Lecturer
area of expertise: plants protection, agrobiodiversity, agroecology
Address
Faculty, Institute, University: Agriculture Sciences and Veterinary Medicine University
CLUJ-NAPOCA
street, postal code, country: Manastur Street, 400372, ROMANIA
Phone:
+ 40.264.596.384
Fax:
+ 40.264.593.792
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.usamvcluj.ro/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1967
Nationality:
Romanian
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2000
PhD in Agronomy, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
1991
Bachelor degree in Horticulture, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca
Scientific Career
2008
present: senior lecturer at UASVM Cluj-Napoca
2004 - 2008
lecturer at UASVM Cluj- Napoca
2002- 2004
senior researcher II at Bistrita Fruit and Growing Research Station, plant
protection and ecology laboratory
1998-2002
senior researcher III at Bistrita Fruit and Growing Research Station, plant
protection and ecology laboratory
1995-1998
junior researcher at Bistrita Fruit and Growing Research
protection and ecology laboratory
Station, plant
1992-1995
research assistant at Bistrita Fruit and Growing Research
protection and ecology laboratory
Station, plant
Editorials
Editor of the Proenvironment/Promediu UASMV-CN-IPM
(http://journals.usamvcluj.ro/index.php/promediu)
1997-2004
Editor of the Horticultural Documentary-Informative Bulletin of the Romanian
National Horticultural Society, branch Bistrita-Nasaud,
member of the organising commitee and editor of the Fighting viruses and
micoplasma at cultural plants, international symposium held in Bistrita,
September 1994
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2007
RENAR FPS 1 Course “Presenting the SR EN ISO/CEI 17025:2005
requirements”, Cluj-Napoca
2003
Plant genetic manipulation, University of Nottingham, Great Britain
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1999
Molecular technicals for diagnosys of plant viruses (RT-Polymerase Chain
Reaction,
Western blotting), Praha – Czech Republic
2001
Producing ˮVirus freeˮ nursing material for fruit-trees, Angers - France
1997
Immunoelectron mycroscopy, Chişinău-Moldavia Republic
1996
Serological diagnosys of fruit trees viruses, Chisinău- Moldavia Republic
1993
AgroExpert system for warning phytosanitaire trataments of diseases and
pests,
Bucharest
1993
MS-DOS computer system and shell Windows, Bucharest
1992
automatical system AgroExpert for warning phytosanitaire trataments of
phytopathogene agents fruit trees, Wien – Austria
1996
Award of Romanian Plant Protection Society for the best scientific paper of
youth researcher for 1996
2003
Award of Romanian Horticultural Society (2003) for the book ˮVirology of
Pomologyˮ
Selected Publications (5)
Maxim A., Andrei Stoie, Mignon Șandor, Antonia Odagiu, Viorela Pertea, Lucia Mihalescu,
2015, The Natural Rehabilitation of Tailing Ponds from Căpuș, Bulletin of University of
Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca Series Agriculture, 72 (1):
154-160
Maxim, A., Şandor, M., Bolboacă, V., Odagiu, A., Mihalescu, L., Maxim, I.O., 2014. Behaviour
of some Tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) and Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
Landraces to some Phytophagous Parasites. ProEnvironment 7 (2014) 225 – 230
Maxim, A., Şandor, M., Bolboacă, V., Odagiu, A., Mihalescu, L., Maxim, I. O., 2012. Romanian
Landraces of Tomates. Bulletin of the University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary
Medicine, Cluj-Napoca Series Agriculture, 69: 83-91
Maxim, A., Odagiu, A., Sandor, M., 2011. Preservation and Valuation of Animal
Breeds by Traditional Products, ProEnvironment 4 (2011) 291- 294
Local
Maxim, A., Sandor, M., Mihalescu, L., Maxim, O., Mare Roşca O., 2011, Research Concerning
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. Mill) Genetic Diversity. Bulletin UASMV Agriculture 68(2):
89-93
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Miguel Montes, Dr.
area of expertise: Population biology and biogeography of plant pathogens and biocontrol
agents; Integrated control of plant pathogens; Soil and Rhizosphere microbial ecology;
Genetic diversity and Molecular diagnosis of plant pathogens and their biocontrol agents;
Metagenomic analysis of microbial populations. Suppressive soils.
Address
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS)
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Department: Crop Protection. Campus Alameda del Obispo, Avenida Menéndez Pidal s/n,
14004 Alameda del Obispo, Córdoba
Phone:
+ 34 957 49 92 00
Email:
[email protected]
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1979
Nationality:
Spanish
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2003
B.Eng. Agricultural Engineer, University of Córdoba, Spain (UCO).
2009
Ph.D. Agricultural Engineer, UCO.
Scientific Career
Since 2012
Hired PhD researcher (Postdoctoral). IAS-CSIC.
2009-2012
Hired PhD researcher (Postdoctoral). IAS-CSIC.
2004-2009
PhD grant. UCO.
2011-2013. Diseño y aplicación de bioindicadores y metagenómica para la
Selected
participation in caracterización del estatus fitosanitario y nivel de supresividad de suelos de
projects:
olivar a la Verticilosis (METAGENSUS). CICE, Junta de Andalucía. 185.000 €.
P10-AGR-05908. Participant investigator.
2011-2013. Desarrollo y aplicación de marcadores moleculares DArT, PCR
cuantitativa a tiempo real (qPCR) y espectroscopía de infrarrojo cercano
(NIRS) para la caracterización de genotipos de adormidera por su resistencia
al mildiu y el desarrollo de variedades resistentes con alto contenido en
alcaloides. CICE, Junta de Andalucía. 153.400 €.P10-AGR-05908. Principal
investigator.
2009-2011. Effect of olive management systems on biological fertility and
phytosanitary status of olive orchards soils as determined by biological and
functional diversity of the rhizosphere ecosystem. 145.200€. MEC- CICYT.
Spain. Participant investigator.
Editorials
2011
Landa, B.B.; Navas-Cortés, M.; MONTES-BORREGO, M.; Steingberg, C.
IOBC/WPRS Bulletin. “Multitrophic interactions in soil”. Proceedings of the
meeting in Córdoba. IOBC/WPRS Bulletin. 71, pp. 1 - 172. Montfavet
Cedex(Francia): Working Group “Multitrophic interactions in soi. ISBN 978-929067-248-7
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Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2006-2008
Postgraduate fellowships CSIC “Training and Specialization in research lines
for industrial sector
2010-2012
Postdoctoral fellowships Regional government (Junta de Andalucía)
2012-2014
Postdoctoral fellowships Regional government Junta de (Andalucía)
Selected Publications (5)
Montes-Borrego M, Metsis M, Landa BB. 2014. Arbuscular mycorhizal fungi associated with
the olive crop across the Andalusian landscape: Factors driving community differentiation.
Plos One 9: e96397-1- e96397-12.
Voglmayr H, Montes-Borrego M, Landa BB. 2014. Disentangling Peronospora on Papaver:
Phylogenetics, Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Host Range of Downy Mildew of Opium
Poppy (Papaver somniferum) and Related Species. Plos One 9: e96838-1- e96838-17.
Montes-Borrego M, Navas-Cortés JA, Landa BB. 2013. Linking microbial functional diversity of
olive rhizosphere soil to management systems in commercial orchards in Southern Spain.
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 181: 169-178.
Montes-Borrego M, Landa BB, Navas-Cortés JA, Muñoz-Ledesma FJ, Jiménez-Díaz RM.
2009. A Role of oospores as primary inoculum for epidemics of downy mildew caused by
Peronospora arborescens in opium poppy crops in Spain. Plant Pathology, 58: 1092-1103.
Montes-Borrego M, Muñoz-Ledesma FJ, Jiménez-Díaz RM, Landa BB. 2009. A nested-PCR
protocol for the detection and population biology studies of Peronospora arborescens, the
downy mildew pathogen of opium poppy, using herbarium specimens and asymptomatic
fresh plant tissues. Phytopathology 99:73-81.
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Juan A. Navas-Cortés, Dr.
area of expertise: Development of quantitative models to facilitate prediction of plant
diseases and design efficient control strategies; Spatio-temporal dynamics of plant disease
epidemics; Impacts of climatic change on plant pathogens; and Detection, monitoring and
quantification of plant disease epidemics by remote sensing.
Address
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS)
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Department: Crop Protection. Campus Alameda del Obispo, Avenida Menéndez Pidal s/n,
14004 Alameda del Obispo, Córdoba
Phone:
+ 34 957 49 92 26
Email:
[email protected]
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1963
Nationality:
Spanish
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
1992
Ph.D. Biological Sciences, Plant Pathology, University of Córdoba, Spain
(UCO).
1986
B.S. Biological Sciences, Botany, UCO.
Scientific Career
Since 2012
Head of the Plant Health Research Group, IAS-CSIC.
Since 2010
Research Scientist. IAS-CSIC.
2000-2009
Tenure Scientist. IAS-CSIC.
1996-2000
Postdoctoral Researcher. IAS-CSIC.
1994-1995
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Hannover, Germany.
2012-2015
Development of a decision support system to mitigate the impact of soil-borne
pathogens in olive crops and promote beneficial soil microbiota under current
and future climate scenarios. Financial entity: Spanish Ministry of Economy and
Competiveness. AGL2012-37521. Principal Investigator.
2009-2013
Impact of climate change on plant diseases. Verticillium wilt of olive, its
interactions with beneficial soil microbiota and plant parasitic nematodes, and
early detection by remote sensing. Financial entity: Andalusian Council of
Innovation, Science & Enterprise. P08-AGR-03528. Principal Investigator.
2006-2009
Genetic and pathogenic diversity of Sclerotium rolfsii, as main factor
determining epidemics of Root rot diseases. Financial entity: Spanish Ministry
of Science and Technology. AGL2005-00751. Principal Investigator.
Editorials
Associated Editor of the “Spanish Journal of Scientific Research”, ISI-JCR, 2nd
quartil.
Associated Editor of “Phytopatologia Mediterranea”, ISI-JCR, 2nd quartil.
Anonymous reviewer of more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific journals on Plant
Sciences, Agronomy, etc.
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Landa BB, Navas-Cortés JA, Montes-Borrego M, Steingberg C. 2011.
IOBC/WPRS Bulletin. “Multitrophic interactions in soil”. Proceedings of the
meeting in Córdoba. IOBC/WPRS Bulletin. 71, 172 pp. Montfavet Cedex
(Francia): Working Group “Multitrophic interactions in soil. ISBN 978-92-9067248-7.
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
1987-1992
Post-graduate fellowship. Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. Dep.
Agronomy, ETSIAM, University of Córdoba, Spain.
1993
Post-doctoral fellowship. CSIC, Dep. Crop Protection, Institute for Sustainable
Agriculture, Spain.
1994-1995
Post-doctoral fellowship. CSIC, Institute for Plant Diseases and Crop
Protection, University of Hannover, Germany.
Research Awards: Best oral presentation at the Congress of the XV Spanish
Society of Plant Pathology, 2010
Selected Publications (5)
Palomares-Rius JE, Castillo P, Montes-Borrego M, Navas-Cortés JA, Landa BB. 2015. Soil
properties and olive cultivar determine the structure and diversity of plant-parasitic
nematode communities infesting olive orchards soils in southern Spain. PLoS ONE 10,
e0116890.
Calderón R, Lucena C, Trapero-Casas JL, Zarco-Tejada PJ, Navas-Cortés JA. 2014. Soil
temperature determines Verticillium wilt reaction in olive cultivars to Verticillium dahliae
pathotypes. PLoS ONE 9, e1106648.
Calderón R, Navas-Cortés JA, Lucena C, Zarco-Tejada PJ. 2013. High-resolution airborne
hyperspectral and thermal imagery for early detection of Verticillium wilt of olive using
fluorescence, temperature and narrow-band spectral indices. Remote Sensing of
Environment 139: 231-245.
Jiménez-Díaz RM, Olivares-García C, Landa BB, Jiménez-Gasco MM, Navas-Cortés JA. 2011.
Region-wide analysis of genetic diversity in Verticillium dahliae populations infecting olive
in Andalusia and agricultural factors influencing the distribution and prevalence of
vegetative compatibility groups and pathotypes. Phytopathology 101: 304-315.
Navas-Cortés JA, Landa BB, Mercado-Blanco J, Trapero-Casas JL, Rodríguez-Jurado D,
Jiménez-Díaz RM. 2008. Spatiotemporal analysis of spread of infections by Verticillium
dahliae pathotypes within a high tree density olive orchard in southern Spain.
Phytopathology 98: 167-180.
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Nicolai, Annegret, Dr.
Area of expertise: Conservation biology, Ecophysiology (thermal), Terrestrial Gastropods
Address
UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio, University Rennes 1, France
Campus Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France
Phone:
+ 33 2 23 23 32 63
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1976
Nationality:
German
Gender:
female
Academic education and degree
2010
Doctoral graduation in Biology (Dr. rer. nat.), University Rennes 1 and
University Bremen, Germany
2002
Master’s degree in Evolution-Ethnology-Ecology, University Rennes 1
1997-2001
DEUG, Licence (B.Sc.), Maîtrise (1st Master year) in Biology, Universities
Clermont-Ferrand and Nancy, France, and University Laval Québec, Canada
Scientific Career
Since 2014
2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
2005-2006
2004-2005
2003-2004
UMR-CNRS 6553 EcoBio, University Rennes 1 (lecturer)
(Member of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada)
Institute of Biology and Applied Ecology, Catholic University of the West, Angers,
France (senior lecturer)
Brent J. Sinclair-Thermal Biology lab, University of Western Ontario, Canada
(post doc)
National Museum of Natural History Paris, France (research engineer)
(Consulting for UNDP/GEF project in Russia)
UMR-CNRS 6553 EcoBio, University Rennes 1 (research engineer)
Applied Research Institute, University of Economy and Environment Nürtingen,
Germany (associate researcher)
IUCN, WWF, Bystrinski and Nalychevo Nature Reserve on Kamchatka, Russia
(research volunteer)
Study journey across Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2006-2010
Doctoral Scholarship of DBU (Federal Foundation for Environment in Germany)
2012-2013
Canadian DFAIT (Dep. Foreign Affairs and Internat. Trade) Post-doctoral
Fellowship
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Selected Publications (5)
H.A. MacMillan, L.V. Ferguson, A. Nicolai, A. Donini, J.F. Staples, B.J. Sinclair (2015) Parallel
ionoregulatory adjustments underlie phenotypic plasticity and evolution of Drosophila cold
tolerance. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 218: 423-432
C.M. Williams, L.V. Ferguson, A. Nicolai, M. Bernards, J.J. Hellman, B.J. Sinclair (2014) Cold
hardiness and plasticity of overwintering Papilio zelicaon pupae. COMPARATIVE
PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY A, 178: 51-58,
Nicolai, P. Vernon, R. Lenz, J. Le Lannic, V. Briand, M. Charrier. (2013) Well wrapped eggs:
effects of egg shell structure on heat resistance and hatchling mass in the invasive land
snail Cornu aspersum. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY A, 319(2): 63-73
Nicolai, J. Filser, R. Lenz, C. Bertrand, M. Charrier. (2012) Quantitative assessment of
haemolymph metabolites in respect to the physiological state in two populations of the land
snail Helix pomatia. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY 83(3): 274-284
Nicolai, J. Filser, R. Lenz, C. Bertrand, M. Charrier. (2011) Adjustment of metabolite
composition in the haemolymph to seasonal variations in the land snail Helix pomatia.
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B 181: 457-466
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Öpik, Maarja, PhD
area of expertise: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, diversity, biogeography, DNA-based
species identification, biodiversity databases and bioinformatics
Address
Department of Botany
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences
Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Tartu
40 Lai St., 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Phone:
+372-7376224
Fax:
+ 372-7376380
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.botany.ut.ee/planteco/en/staff/maarja_opik.html
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1972
Nationality:
Estonian
Gender:
female
Academic education and degree
2004
PhD (botany and ecology), University of Tartu
1998
MSc (botany and mycology), University of Tartu
1995
BSc (botany and mycology), University of Tartu
Scientific Career
Since 2011
Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Estonia (Senior Research Fellow,
plant ecology)
2008-2011
Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Estonia (Research Fellow, plant
ecology)
2006-2008
Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK (EU Marie Curie Post-Doctoral
Fellow)
2002-2005
Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Estonia (Research Fellow, plant
ecology)
Editorial Boards
Since 2013
Editor of New Phytologist
Feb 2014March 2015
Academic Editor of PLoS ONE
Since 2014
Editorial board member of Environmental Microbiology / Environmental
Microbiology Reports
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Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2006-2008
EU FP6 Marie Curie Post-doctoral fellowship GENFUNDIV (MEIF-CT-2005024657): Linking the genetic and functional diversity patterns of arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungal communities in disturbed and undisturbed environments.
(MÖ: responsible researcher; PI: T.Daniell)
Selected Publications (5)
2015
Davison J, Moora M, Öpik M, Adholeya A, Ainsaar L, Ba A, Burla S, Diedhiou
AG, Hiiesalu I, Jairus T, Johnson NC, Kane A, Koorem K, Kochar M, Ndiaye C,
Pärtel M, Reier Ü, Saks Ü, Singh R, Vasar M, Zobel M. Global assessment of
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus diversity reveals very low endemism. Science
349: 970-973. Citations: 0
2015
Hart MM, Aleklett K, Chagnon PL, Egan C, Ghignone S, Helgason T, Lekberg
Y, Öpik M, Pickles BJ, Waller L. Navigating the labyrinth: A guide to sequencebased, community ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist
207: 235-247. Citations: 0
2014
Öpik M, Davison J, Moora M, Zobel M. DNA-based detection and identification
of Glomeromycota: the virtual taxonomy of environmental sequences. Botany
92: 135-147. Citations: 16 (ISI WoS), 22 (GoogleScholar)
2014
Moora M, Davison J, Öpik M, Metsis M, Saks Ü, Jairus T, Vasar M, Zobel M.
Anthropogenic land use shapes the composition and phylogenetic structure of
soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology
90: 609-621. Citations: 5 (ISI WoS), 5 (GoogleScholar)
2013
Öpik M, Zobel M, Cantero JJ, Davison J, Facelli JM, Hiiesalu I, Jairus T, Kalwij
JM, Koorem K, Leal ME, Liira J, Metsis M, Neshataeva V, Paal J, Phosri C,
Põlme S, Reier Ü, Saks Ü, Schimann H, Thiery O, Vasar M, Moora M. Global
sampling of plant roots expands the described molecular diversity of arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhiza 23: 411-430. Citations: 52 (ISI WoS), 75
(GoogleScholar)
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Guénola Pérès, Dr.
area of expertise: Soil ecology, soil functioning, earthworm, soil monitoring, indicators
Address
UMR INRA/Agrocampus 1069 SAS (Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation), Team MO-Sol
Agrocampus Ouest
65, rue de St-Brieuc, CS 84215, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France
Phone:
+ 33 +(0)2 23 48 70 43
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1968
Nationality:
French
Gender:
Female
Academic education and degree
2003 Doctoral graduation in Biology (PhD degree), Rennes 1 University
1995 Master degree in Geosciences, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Rennes
1992 Licence degree in Biology, Rennes1 University
Selected Publications (5)
2016
2015
2013
2013
2012
M. Rutgers, A. Orgiazzi; C. Gardi; J. Römbke; S. Jänsch; A. Keith; R. Neilson;
B. Boag; O. Schmidt; A. Murchie; R. Blackshaw; G. Pérès; D. Cluzeau; M.
Guernion; M. Briones; J. Rodeiro; R. Piñeiro; D.J Díaz Cosín; J. P. Sousa; I.
Kos; P.H. Krogh; J. H Faber; C. Mulder; J.J Bogte; H. J van Wijnen; A. J
Schouten; D. de Zwart. 2016. Mapping earthworm communities in Europe.
Applied soil Ecology. 97, 98-111
Le Couteulx A., Hallaire V., Wolf C., Pérès G. 2015 Effect of organic matter
location on the bioturbation, casts production and burrowing, of three endogeic
earthworms in controlled conditions. Pedobiologia 58, 97-103
G. Pérès, D. Cluzeau, S. Menasseri, J.F. Soussana, H. Bessler, C. Engels, M.
Habekost, G. Gleixner, A. Weigelt, W. W. Weisser, S. Scheu, N. Eisenhauer.
2013 Mechanisms linking plant diversity and functional groups to soil
aggregate stability in experimental grassland. Plant and soil. 373:285–299•
Blouin, M., Aranda Delgado, E., Baker, G., Brussaard, L., Butt, K., Dai, J.,
Dendooven, L., Hodson, M.E., Pérès, G., Tondoh, J., Cluzeau, D., Brun, J.J.,
2013. A review of earthworm impact on ecosystem services. European Journal
of Soil Sciences, 64, 2, 161-182.
M. Pulleman, R. Creamer, U. Hamer, J. Helder, C. Pelosi, G. Pérès, Michiel
Rutgers, 2013. Soil biodiversity, biological indicators and soil ecosystem
services-an overview of European approaches, Curr Opin Environ Sustain, 4,
1-10.
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POP RODICA, Lecturer PhD
area of expertise: soil microbiology, molecular markers techniques, in vitro culture of woody
and ornamental plants
Address
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine ClujNapoca
Calea Manastur, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Phone:
+ 40.264.596.384 int 245
Fax:
+ 40.264.593.792
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
http://www.usamvcluj.ro/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1964
Nationality:
Romanian
Gender:
female
Academic education and degree
2009
1998
1997
PhD in Agronomy, UASVM Cluj Napoca
Master degree in Agricultural Biotehnology, UASVM Cluj Napoca
Bachelor degree in Agronomy, UASVM Cluj Napoca
Scientific Career
Since 2007
2002-2007
university lecturer at the UASVM Cluj-Napoca (teaching and research
activity)
university assistant at UASVM Cluj-Napoca (teaching and research activity)
Selected Publications (5)
NISTE Monica, Roxana VIDICAN, I. ROTAR, V. STOIAN, Raluca MICLEA, Rodica POP, 2014,
In vitro culture of red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) on
nitrogen free MS medium, Research Journal of Agricultural Science, 46 (2), 233-239
NISTE Monica, Roxana VIDICAN, I. ROTAR, V. STOIAN, Rodica POP, 2014, Characterization
of bacteria isolated from root nodules of clover (Trifolium pratense L.) and alfalfa
(Medicago sativa L.) and the effect on nodulation and plant growth, Romanian Journal of
Grassland and Forage Crops, pg. 69-77.
Pop, R., Rânba, E. And Hârţa, M., 2013, Molecular characterization of some Carnivorous
Plants using RAPD Markers, Bulletin UASVM Horticulture, 70(1), 195-200
Bordea, D., Oroian, I.Gh., Odagiu, A., Pop, R., Milăşan, A., 2013, The action of ethanolic
solutions obtained from selenium enriched garlic against Erwinia cartovora, Bulletin
UASMV serie Agriculture 70(2)/2013, 423-424
Rodica Pop, I. Haş, Iulia Francesca Pop, Monica Harta, D. Pamfil, 2011, Genetic Diversity
Analysis of Maize Inbred Lines from SCDA Turda - Romania Revealed by RAPD Molecular
Markers, Bulletin UASVM Agriculture, 68(1) 277-283
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Martin Potthoff, PD Dr.
area of expertise: soil ecology, soil fauna, soil microbiology, stable isotopes, project
management
Address
Centre of Biodiversity and sustainable Land use (CBL), University of Göttingen
Grisebachstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Phone:
+ 49 + 551 39 66960
Email:
[email protected]
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1965
Nationality:
German
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2009
“venia legendi“ in Soil Biology (Privatdozentur), University of Göttingen
2009
“venia legendi“ in Soil Biology (Habilitation), University of Kassel
1999
Doctoral graduation in Biology (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Göttingen
1994
Diploma degree in Biology, University of Göttingen
Scientific Career
Since 2011
Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), Section Agriculture
and the
Environment, Goettingen, Germany (scientific coordinator)
2006-2011
Research Centre Agriculture and Environment (ZLU), Goettingen, Germany
(scientific
coordinator)
2005-2008
Department of Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition, Kassel
Germany
(scientific staff)
2004-2005
Institute of Soil Science and Forest Nutrition, Goettingen, Germany
(researcher)
2002-2003
Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California at Davis (associate
researcher, post doc)
1999-2002
Institute of Soil Science and Forest Nutrition, Goettingen, Germany (associate
researcher, post doc)
1995-1998
Research Center for Agriculture and the Environment (ZLU), Goettingen
(research assistant)
1994-1995
Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Goettingen (research assistant)
(Witzenhausen),
Selected Publications (5)
Eck T, Potthoff M, Dyckmans J, Wichern F, Joergensen RG 2015. Priming effects of
Aporrectodea caliginosa on young rhizodeposits and old soil organic matter following
wheat straw addition. European Journal of Soil Biology: in press.
Wachendorf C, Potthoff M, Ludwig B, Joergensen, RG 2014. Effects of addition of maize litter
and earthworms on C mineralization and aggregate formation in single and mixed soils
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differing in soil organic carbon and clay content. Pedobiologia 57, 161-169.
Lukas S, Abbas SJ, Karlovsky P, Potthoff M, Joergensen RG 2014 Substrate use and survival
of fungal plant pathogens on maize residues at winter temperatures around freezing point.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry 77: 141-149.
Lukas S, Potthoff M, Dyckmans J, Joergensen RG 2013. Microbial use of 15N-labelled maize
residues affected by winter temperature scenarios. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 65: 2232.
Gailing O, Hickey E, Lilleskov E, Szlavecz K, Richter K, Potthoff M 2012. Genetic comparisons
between North American and European populations of Lumbricus terrestris L. Biochemical
Systematics and Ecology 45: 23-30.
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Renault Michel, Associate professor, Research Fellow
area of expertise: Valuation process, social indicators, well-being indicators
Address
University of Rennes 1, Faculty of Economics
7 place Hoche, CS 86514, 35065 Rennes Cedex, France
Phone:
+ 33(0)2 23 23 35 81
Fax:
+ 33(0)2 99 38 80 84
Email: [email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1963
Nationality:
French
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
1991
PhD in Economics
1993
Habilitation to Direct Research
Scientific Career
Since 1992
Associate professor, university of Rennes 1
Editorials
Member of the Editorial Committee of Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Member of the Scientific Council of the University of Rennes 1
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
Award for the best contribution, from the 3rd OECD World Forum, Statistics,
Knowledge and Policy, “Charting progress, building visions, improving life”,
Busan (Korea), October 27-30, 2009
Selected Publications (5)
2016 « Une approche transactionnelle des démarches d’élaboration participatives
d’indicateurs sociétaux. La méthode du Conseil de l'Europe », article accepté-sous
presse, Innovations, 2016/1, (p.203-225).
2013 « Ordre spontané ou ordre délibéré : un retour critique sur les fondements », La Revue
des Sciences de Gestion, 2013/5, n° 263-264, (p. 125-133).
2012 « Dire ce à quoi nous tenons et en prendre soin-John Dewey, La formation des valeurs
», Revue Française de Socio-Économie, n° 9, 2012/1, (p. 247-253).
2009 « Perspectivisme, moralité et communication. Une approche transactionnelle de la
responsabilité sociale des entreprises », Revue Française de Socio-Economie, n°4-2009,
(p.15-37).
2007 « Une conception pragmatique de la firme partenariale » (avec Y.Renou), Economie
Appliquée, tome LX, n°4, décembre, (p.51-80).
2007 « Une approche transactionnelle de l'action et de l'échange: la nature d'une économie
partenariale », Revue du MAUSS, n° 30- second semestre, (p. 138-160).
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Roslin, Tomas, professor
area of expertise: food web ecology, diversity-ecosystem functioning relations
Address
Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
P.O. Box 7044, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone:
+ 358 40 865 3611
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.helsinki.fi/foodwebs/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1969
Nationality:
Finnish
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
1994
University of Helsinki, MSc
1999
University of Helsinki, Doctor of Philosophy
2006
University of Helsinki, Docent of Ecology
Scientific Career
1999-2003
Academy Post doctoral Research Fellow,
University of Helsinki and University of Alberta, Canada
2005-2010
Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki
2009-2015
University Lecturer in Agroecology, University of Helsinki
2015-present
Professor of Insect Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Editorials
Ecological
Entomology
Member of Editorial Board
Annales
Zoologixi
Fennici
Member of Editorial Board
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2005
Academy of Finland Recognition Award
2011
Oskar Öflund foundation, Grand Prize
2014
Ella & Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, inspirational gran
Selected Publications (5)
Wirta, H. K., Hebert, P. D. N., Kaartinen, R. Prosser, S. W., Várkonyi, G. & Roslin, T. 2014.
Complementary molecular information changes our perception of food web structure.
PNAS111: 1885–1890.
Morris, R., Gripenberg, S., Lewis, O. & Roslin, T. 2014. Antagonistic interaction networks are
structured independently of latitude and host guild. Ecology Letters53: 340–349.
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Roslin, T., Várkonyi, G., Koponen, M., Vikberg, V. & Nieminen, M. 2013. Species-area
relationships across four trophic levels –decreasing island size truncates food chains.
Ecography37: 443-453.
Basset, Y. et al [32 authors]. 2012. Arthropod Diversity in a Tropical Forest. Science338: 1481–
1484.
Tack, A., Roslin, T. and Gripenberg, S. 2012. Cross-kingdom interactions matter: fungalmediated interactions structure an insect community on oak. Ecology Letters15: 177–185.
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Sandor, Mignon Severus, Lecturer PhD
area of expertise: soil ecology, soil macrofauna, decomposition, soil quality, agroecology
Address
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine ClujNapoca
Calea Manastur, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Phone:
+ 40.264.596.384 int 263
Fax:
+ 40.264.593.792
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.usamvcluj.ro/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1975
Nationality:
Romanian
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2009
PhD in Agronomy, University of Agricultural Studies and Veterinary Medicine
Cluj Napoca
2001
Master degree in Systemic Ecology and Conservation of Biodiversity,
University Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Biology
1999
Bachelor degree in Biology, University Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of
Biology
Scientific Career
Since 2009
university lecturer at the UASVM Cluj-Napoca (teaching and research
activity)
2010-2012
post doc position at UASVM Cluj-Napoca (research activity)
2004-2009
university assistant at UASVM Cluj-Napoca (teaching and research activity)
2002-2004
university preparator at UASVM Cluj-Napoca (teaching and research activity)
Editorials
Editor of the Proenvironment/Promediu UASMV-CN-IPM
(http://journals.usamvcluj.ro/index.php/promediu)
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2005–
Postgraduate course - Environmental impact assesment, Eco-Management
Center, Technical University Cluj-Napoca
2006 and 2007- DBU fellowship at the Agroecology Institute of Braunschweig, Germany
Selected Publications (5)
Brad T., A. Fekete, M. Sandor, C. Purcărea, 2015, Natural attenuation potential of selected
hydrokarst systems in the Carpathian Mountains (Romania), Water Science & Technology:
Water Supply 15 (1):196–206
Sandor M, Opruta C., 2012, The Effects of Mineral and Organic Fertilizers on Soil Respiration
in a Potato Field, Bulletin UASVM, Agriculture 69(2): 122-127
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Vidican R., Albus A., Sandor M., 2012, Community level phisiological profile: a tool to assess
functional microbial diversity in soil, Proenvironment, 5: 231-233
Sandor, M., T. Brad, A. Maxim, C. Toader, 2011, The influence of selected meteorological
factors on microbial biomass and mineralization of two organic fertilizers, Not. Bot. Hort.
Agrobot. Cluj, 39 (1):107-113
Sandor M., S. Schrader, 2011, Interaction of earthworms and enchyraeids in organically
amended soil, North-Western Journal of Zoology, 8 (1): 46-56
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Stefan Scheu, Prof. Dr.
area of expertise: animal ecology, soil food webs, trophic interactions, belowground –
aboveground interrelationships, soil fauna – plant interactions
Address
JFB Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen
Berliner Str. 28, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Phone:
+ 49 + 551 39 5445
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1959
Nationality:
German
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2008
Chair in Animal Ecology, University of Göttingen, Germany
1997
Professor for Zoology and Ecology, Darmstadt University of Technology
1997
Venia legendi (Habilitation) in Zoology, University of Göttingen
1992
Postdoctoral fellow at University of Calgary, Canada
1989
Doctoral graduation in Biology (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Göttingen
1986
Diploma degree in Biology, University of Göttingen
1979
Highschool degree (Abitur), Hermann Hesse Gymnasium Calw, Germany
Scientific Career
Since 2008
University professor (W3) for Animal Ecology, JFB Institute of Zoology and
Anthropology, Goettingen, Germany
1997-2008
University professor (C3), Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
1993-1997
Postdoctoral fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Assistant), Zoology Institute, University
of Göttingen
1992-1993
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Calgary, Canada
1989-1992
Postdoctoral fellow (Wissenschaftlicher Assistant), Zoology Institute, University
of Göttingen
1986-1989
PhD candidate, Zoology Institute, University of Göttingen
1981-1986
Studies in biology, University of Göttingen
1979-1981
Studies in biology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Editorials
1996-1997
Editorial Board of Pedobiologia
1997-2010
Subject Editor of Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Since 1998
Editor-in-Chief von Pedobiologia
Since 1998
Editorial Board Member of Oecologia
Since 1999
Editorial Board Member of Basic and Applied Ecology
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Since 2007
Editorial Board Member of Frontiers in Zoology
Since 2014
Editorial Board Member of Food Webs
Fellowships, Awards and Honours
1992-1993
Postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation
Selected Publications (5)
Brose U, Scheu S (2014) Into darkness: unravelling the structure of soil food webs. Oikos 123:
1153-1156
Eitzinger B, Unger E.M, Traugott M, Scheu S (2014) Effects of prey quality and predator body
size on prey DNA detection success in a centipede predator. Molecular Ecology 23: 37673776
Handa IT, Aerts R, Berendse F, Berg MP, Bruder A, Butenschoen O, Chauvet E, Gessner MO,
Jabiol J, Makkonen M, McKie BG, Malmqvist B, Peeters ETHM, Scheu S, Schmid B, Van
Ruijven J, Vos VCA, Hättenschwiler S (2014) Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter
decomposition across biomes. Nature 509: 218-221
Jousset A, Eisenhauer N, Materne E, Scheu S (2013) Evolutionary history predicts the stability
of cooperation in microbial communities. Nature Communications 4: 2573
Scherber C, Eisenhauer N, Weisser WW, Schmid B, Voigt W, Schulze E-D, Roscher C, Weigelt
A, Allan E, Beßler H, Bonkowski M, Buchmann N, Buscot F, Clement LW, Ebeling A, Engels
C, Fischer M, Halle S, Kertscher I, Klein A-M, Koller R, König S, Kowalski E, Kummer V,
Kuu A, Lange M, Lauterbach D, Middelhoff C, Migunova VD, Milcu A, Müller R, Partsch S,
Petermann JS, Renker C, Rottstock T, Sabais ACW, Scheu S, Schumacher J, Temperton
VM and Tscharnke T (2010) Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on biotic interactions in a
biodiversity experiment. Nature 468: 553-556
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Stefan Schrader, Prof. Dr.
area of expertise: soil ecology, soil fauna, soil biodiversity, ecosystem services, project
management
Address
Institute of Biodiversity, Thünen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry
and Fisheries (TI)
Bundesallee 50, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone:
+ 49 + 531 596 2514
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1962
Nationality:
German
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2006
Professor for Soil Biology and Soil Ecology, Technical University of
Braunschweig
1999
venia legend in Soil Biology and Soil Ecology (Habilitation), Technical
University of Braunschweig
1993
Doctoral graduation in Biology (Dr. rer. nat.), Technical University of
Braunschweig
1989
Diploma degree in Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig
Scientific Career
Since 2003
Institute of Biodiversity, Thünen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural
Areas, Forestry and Fisheries (TI), Braunschweig, Germany (Senior Scientist)
2003
Institute of Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin
(UCD), Dublin, Ireland (Visiting Fellow)
2000-2002
Institute of Zoology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
(Associate Professor)
1994-2000
Institute of Zoology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany (Assistant
Professor)
Editorials
Since 2007
Field editor of the European Journal of Soil Biology
Since 2008
Editorial board member of Soil and Tillage Research
2012
Editor (with co-editor R.M. Schmelz) of Newsletter on Enchytraeidae No. 12;
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Enchytraeidae, 14-16 July
2010, Braunschweig, Germany; Landbauforschung – vTI Agriculture and
Forestry Research, Special Issue 357, 102 S.
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Fellowships, Awards and Honours
2003
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Resource Management
(University College Dublin, Ireland); supported by the Royal Irish Academy
Selected Publications (5)
Wolfarth F, Wedekind S, Schrader S, Oldenburg E, Brunotte J 2015. Regulation of the
mycotoxin deoxynivalenol by Folsomia candida (Collembola) and Aphelenchoides
saprophilus (Nematoda) in an on-farm experiment. Pedobiologia 58: 41-47.
Rogasik H, Schrader S, Onasch I, Kiesel J, Gerke HH 2014. Micro-scale dry bulk density
variation around earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris L.) burrows based on X-ray computed
tomography. Geoderma 213: 471-477.
van Capelle C, Schrader S, Brunotte J 2012. Tillage-induced changes in the functional
diversity of soil biota - A review with a focus on German data. European Journal of Soil
Biology 50: 165-181.
Wolfarth F, Schrader S, Oldenburg E, Weinert J, Brunotte J 2011. Earthworms promote the
reduction of Fusarium biomass and deoxynivalenol content in wheat straw under field
conditions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43: 1858-1865.
Fründ H-C, Butt K, Capowiez Y, Eisenhauer N, Emmerling C, Ernst G, Potthoff M, Schädler M,
Schrader S 2010. Using earthworms as model organisms in the laboratory:
recommendations for experimental implementations. Pedobiologia 53: 119-125.
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Stoian Horea Vlad, Dr.
area of expertise: soil microbiology, microbial ecology, biodiversity
Address
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine ClujNapoca
Calea Mănăştur 3-5, 400372, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Phone:
+ 40741046063
Fax:
+ 40.264.593.792
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.usamvcluj.ro/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1984
Nationality:
romanian
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2011
PhD in Agronomy, UASVM Cluj Napoca
2010
Master Degree in Plant protection, UASVM Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Agriculture
2008
Agronomy Bachelor Degree, UASVM Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Agriculture
Scientific Career
2014 – present
university assistent at UASVM Cluj-Napoca (teaching and research activity)
Selected Publications (5)
Vidican, R., Stoian, V., Rotar, I., & Păcurar, F. (2014). The Potential Of Using Mycorrhizal Fungi
To Forecast Disturbances In Ecosystems Caused By Management Changes.
Proenvironment/Promediu, 7(18)., 90-95
Stoian, V., Vidican, R., Rotar, I., & Păcurar, F. (2013). Assessing The Differentiated Influence Of
Climatic And Technological Factors Over Mycorrhizal Colonization Parameters At The End
Of Vegetation Period Of Festuca Rubra Plants. Romanian Journal Of Grasslands And
Forage Crops (8), 55-65
Stoian, V., Vidican, R., Rotar, I., & Păcurar, F. (2013). Assessing The Differentiated Influence Of
Climatic And Technological Factors Over Mycorrhizal Colonization Parameters At The End
Of Vegetation Period Of Festuca Rubra Plants. Romanian Journal Of Grasslands And
Forage Crops (8), 55-65
Niste, M., Vidican, R., Rotar, I., Stoian, V., Pop, R., & Miclea, R. (2014). Plant Nutrition Affected
by Soil Salinity and Response of Rhizobium Regarding the Nutrients Accumulation.
ProEnvironment/ProMediu, 7(18), 71-75.
Păcurar F., Rotar I., Reif A., Vidican R., Stoian V., Gärtner S. M. & Allen R. B. (2014). Impact
Of Climate On Vegetation Change In A Mountain Grassland – Succession And
Fluctuation, Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 2(42), 347-356.
Sfechis S., Vidican R., Rotar I., Stoian V. (2014). Influence Of Mineral Fertilization And Zeolite
On Soybean Productivity Elements In Climatic Conditions From ARDS Turda, Bulletin
Usamv Series Agriculture 71(2), 316-321.
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Taylor, Astrid, Dr.
area of expertise:
services
soil ecology, soil fauna (ecology & taxonomy), biodiversity, ecosystem
Address
Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Department of Ecology, Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Ulls väg 16, 75651 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone:
+ 46 18 67 22 16
Fax:
+ 46 18 67 28 90
Email:
[email protected]
Internet: http://www.slu.se/en/departments/ecology/personal-webbpages/taylor-astrid-/
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1969
Nationality:
German
Gender:
female
Academic education and degree
2006
Doctoral degree in Soil Ecology (Dr. rer. nat.), Justus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany
1995
Diploma degree in Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Scientific Career
Since 2011
Researcher, Study Director of Research School ‘Bioenergy’, Department of
Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
2007-2011
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Ecology, SLU, Uppsala,
Sweden
2006-2007
Researcher, Department of Ecology and Environmental Research, SLU,
Uppsala, Sweden
1996-2006
Research Assistant, Department of Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany
Selected Publications (5)
Kolb GS, Palmborg C, Taylor AR, Bååth E, Hambäck PA (2015) Effects of nesting cormorants
(Phalacrocorax carbo) on soil chemistry, microbial communities and soil fauna.
Ecosystems, DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9853-1
Gagic V, Bartomeus I, Jonsson T, Taylor AR, Winqvist C, Fischer C, Slade E, SteffanDewenter I, Emmerson M, Potts S, Tscharntke T, Weisser W, Bommarco R (2015)
Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functions better than
species-based
indices.
Proc.
R.
Soc.
B
282:20142620.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2620
Taylor AR, Ranius T (2014) Tree hollows harbour a specialised oribatid mite fauna. Journal of
Insect Conservation 18, 39-55.
Taylor AR, Taylor ASF (2014) Assessing bioturbation by earthworms: using fungal spores as a
natural soil marker to estimate gut transit time. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 50, 179-183.
Taylor AR, Pflug A, Schröter D, Wolters V (2010) Impact of microarthropod biomass on the
composition of the soil fauna community and ecosystem processes. European Journal of
Soil Biology, 46, 80-86.
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Cedric Wolf, Dr.
area of expertise: Modelling ; population dynamics ; optimization ; Multi-scale modelling;
Reaction–diffusion equation ; ODE
Address
UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio
OSUR
University Rennes 1, France
Bât. 14A, Campus de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes cedex, France
Phone:
+ 33 (0)2 23 23 62 37
Fax:
+
Email:
[email protected]
Internet:
Personal data
Year of Birth: 1977
Nationality:
French
Gender:
male
Academic education and degree
2002-2005
Doctoral graduation in Applied Mathematics (Dr.), University Bordeaux 1
Scientific Career
Since 2006
UMR-CNRS 6553 EcoBio, University Rennes 1 (senior lecturer)
others
In charge of the master MODE (Modelling in ecology) at the university of
Rennes 1, since 2012.
Selected Publications (5)
Le Couteulx, A.,Wolf, C.,Hallaire, V., and Pérès, G. (2015). Burrowing and casting activities
of three endogeic earthwormspecies affected by organic matter location. Pedobiologia,
58(2–3) :97–103. 72, 79, 80, 112
Madec S., Wolf C. (2012) A multi-structured epidemic problem with direct and indirect
indirect transmission in heterogeneous environments Journal of Biological Dynamics
- 6(2), 235-266
Wolf, C., Sauvage, F., Pontier, D. and Langlais, M. (2006) A multi-patch model
with periodic demography for a bank vole-hantavirus system with variable maturation
rate. Mathematical Population Studies, volume 13, Number 3 july-September 2006,
153-177.
Wolf, C. (2004) A mathematical model for the propagation of a hantavirus in
structured populations, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B, Vol 4,
Number 4, 1065-1089
Fitzgibbon, W.E. , Langlais, M., Morgan, J. J., Pontier D. and Wolf, C. (2004)
An age-dependent model describing the spread of panleucopenia virus within feline
populations, Mathematical Modelling of Population dynamics, Banach Center Publications,
Vol. 63, 197-207
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