EMFEED team

Area of expertise:

Ecology of microbial communities in soils in relation to the functioning of agroecosystems and the fate of chemical and biological inputs of agricultural origin.

Research areas:

• Understanding the role of biodiversity, abiotic and biotic interactions (between plants and microorganisms, but also between microorganisms) in soil ecosystem services.
• Monitoring and assessing the impact of agroecosystem management strategies on soil microbial communities and associated soil functions, in order to promote ecosystem multifunctionality.
• Understanding the role of functional microbial communities in regulating the nitrogen cycle, nitrous oxide emissions (a greenhouse gas) and the biodegradation of organic pollutants, including pesticides.
• Ecological engineering of microbial communities to improve the sustainability of agroecosystems (bioremediation, biocontrol and biostimulation)
• Assessment of the ecotoxicological impact of contaminants (e.g. micro- and nano-plastics, antibiotics) and chemical and/or biological inputs on soil microbial communities and associated functions

Projets financés :

• Projet ERA-NET BiodivERsA financé par l’UE -- MICROSERVICES: Predicting climate change impacts on the crop microbiome and cascading effects on ecosystem services delivery in agroecosystems
• Projet ANR PRCI -- NO-PIMS : What is the role of exogenous NO for plants, microorganisms and their interactions in soil?
• Projet H2020 financé par l’UE – SOILGUARD: Understanding the effects of soil management and climate change on soil biodiversity & ecosystem services to promote evidence-based conservation strategies
• Projet H2020 financé par l’UE – ARISTO: Research and Training Network fOr AdVanced Assessment of the EcoToxicity of Pesticides on Soil Microbes in Europe
• Projet H2020 financé par l’UE – MINAGRIS: MIcro and NAno plastics in aGRIcultural Soils
• Projet ANR programme CHLORDECONE -- CHLOR2NOU : Chlordecone et ses produits de transformation : nouveaux outils et connaissances
• Projet ANR PRCE -- IMMINENT: IMproving Microbial Inoculation based on Ecological Niche Theory–From theory to practice
• Projet ANR PRCE – EPURSOL :Bioaugmentation for the treatment of agricultural soils polluted by pesticides: Effectiveness and side effects
• Projet PIA ADEME – SCLEROZA :: Development of a microbial biocontrol agent for rapeseed
• Projet financé par le MétaProgramme INRAE HoloFlux -- INT-BXL : INTrogression of Xenobiotic Biodegradation Capacities in Polluted Soils and Sediments

Productions scientifiques :

2024

• Ascensio-Schultz E., Barbier E., Mounier A., Raynaud T., Spor A. & P. Piveteau. (2024) Idiosyncratic invasion trajectories of human bacterial pathogens facing temperature disturbances in soil microbial communities. Scientific Reports.
• Jacquiod S., Bouchard E., Béguet J., Roure F., Cheviron N., Mougin C., Coffin A., Blouin M. & F. Martin-Laurent. (2024) Effect of plastic film and hemp canvas mulching on soil properties, microbial diversity and lettuce yield. Plant and Soil.
• Jeanbille M., Romdhane S., Breuil M.C., Bru D., Geisen S., Mounier A., Spor A. & L. Philippot. (2024) Size-exclusion experiment in a grassland field unravels top-down control of the soil fauna on microbial community assembly. Ecology Letters.
• Li C., Li X., Romdhane S., Cheng Y., Li G., Cao R., Li P., Xu J., Zhao Y, Yang Y., Jiao J., Hu F., Wu J., Li H., Philippot L. (2024) Deciphering the biotic and abiotic drivers of coalescence asymmetry between soil and manure microbiomes. Science of The Total Environment.
• Litchman E., Villéger S., Zinger L., Auguet J.C., Thuiller W., Munoz F., Kraft N.J.B., Philippot L., Violle C. (2024) Refocusing the microbial rare biosphere concept through a functional lens. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
• Meyer C, Jeanbille M, Breuil M-C, Bru D., Höfer K., Screpanti C., Philippot L. 2024. Soil microbial community fragmentation reveals indirect effects of fungicide exposure mediated by biotic interactions between microorganisms. Journal of Hazardous Materials.
• Moitinho M.R., Philippot L., Gonzaga L.C., Bru D., Nunes Carvalho J.L. (2024) Biochar addition reduces N2O emissions in fertilized soils under energy cane cultivation. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.
• Papin M., Philippot L., Breuil M.C., Bru D., Dreux-Zigha A., Mounier A., Le Roux X., Rouard N. & A. Spor. (2024) Survival of a microbial inoculant in soil after reccurent inoculations. Scientific Reports.
• Philippot, L., Chenu, C., Kappler, A., Rillig M., Fierer N. (2024) The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties. Nature Reviews Microbiology.
• Romdhane S., Huet S., Spor A., Bru D., Breuil M.C. & L. Philippot. (2024) Manipulating the physical distance between cells during soil colonization reveals the importance of biotic interactions in microbial community assembly. Environmental Microbiome.
• Thieffry S., Aubert J., Devers-Lamrani M., Martin-Laurent F., Romdhane S., Rouard N., Siol M. & A. Spor. (2024) Engineering multi-degrading bacterial communities to bioremediate soils contaminated with pesticides residues. Journal of Hazardous Materials.

2023

• Banerjee, S., Zhao, C., Garland, G., Edlinger A., García-Palacios P., Romdhane S., Degrune F., Pescador D.S., Herzog C., Camuy-Velez L.A., Bascompte J., Hallin S., Philippot L., Maestre F.T., Rillig M.C., van der Heijden MGA. (2023) Biotic homogenization, lower soil fungal diversity and fewer rare taxa in arable soils across Europe. Nature Communications.
• Barneze A.S., van Groenigen J.W., Philippot L., Bru D., Abalos D., De Deyn G.B. (2023) Plant communities can attenuate flooding induced N2O fluxes by altering nitrogen cycling microbial communities and plant nitrogen uptake. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
• Edlinger, A., Garland, G., Banerjee, S., Degrune, F., García-Palacios, P., Herzog, C., Pescador, D. S., Romdhane, S., Ryo, M., Saghaï, A., Hallin, S., Maestre, F. T., Philippot, L., Rillig, M. C., & van der Heijden, M. G. A. (2023) The impact of agricultural management on soil aggregation and carbon storage is regulated by climatic thresholds across a 3000 km European gradient. Global Change Biology.
• Engelhardt I.C., Niklaus P.A., Bizouard F., Bru D., Breuil M.C., Rouard N., Mounier A., Philippot L., Barnard R.L. (2023) Precipitation patterns and N availability legacy govern microbial response to rewetting in a plant-soil system. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
• Huet S., Romdhane S., Breuil M.C., Bru D., Mounier A., Spor A. & L. Philippot. (2023) Experimental community coalescence sheds light on microbial interactions in soil and restores impaired functions. Microbiome.
• Spor A. (2023) ONT long-read sequencing and illumine short-read sequencing of 16S rDNA amplicons give comparable results in terms of bacterial community structure in marine sediments. Recommendation for PCI Microbiology.
• Zhang M., Wang S., Zhang L., Li W., Cao M., Huang S., Xu X., He P., Zhou W., Philippot L., Ai C. (2023) Microbial ecological clusters structured by environments drive maize residue decomposition at the continental scale. Science of The Total Environment.