Researcher Aurélien Saghaï *protected email* Institute: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Research area: Environment and climate change, Natural resource management Research region: Europe-Central Asia Open to collaboration with: Other researchers Professional experience Co-supervisor of PhD Lecturing Main supervisor of PhD PhD defence Supervision of Master’s students Supervision of Bachelor’s students Other experience Collaboration with civil society organisations Collaboration with government agencies Collaboration with private sector Consultancy contracts Evaluations Lecturing and workshops Statistical analysis Survey creation and analysis Personal institution page Publications Loss in soil microbial diversity constrains microbiome selection and alters the abundance of N-cycling guilds in barley rhizosphere Applied Soil Ecology Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts Nature Ecology & Evolution Land-use intensification differentially affects bacterial, fungal and protist communities and decreases microbiome network complexity Environmental Microbiome The Positive Effects of Soil Organic Carbon on European Cereal Yields Level Off at 1.4% Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment Can nitrate‐reducing ammonifiers increase nitrogen retention in soil and support ammonium‐based cropping systems? Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment Phyloecology of nitrate ammonifiers and their importance relative to denitrifiers in global terrestrial biomes Nature Communications Seed treatment with plant-defense elicitors decreases the abundance of ammonia oxidizers associated with winter wheat roots Soil Biology and Biochemistry 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 Distribution and Environmental Drivers of Fungal Denitrifiers in Global Soils Microbiology Spectrum Diversity of archaea and niche preferences among putative ammonia‐oxidizing Nitrososphaeria dominating across European arable soils Environmental Microbiology Diversity and ecology of NrfA-dependent ammonifying microorganisms Trends in Microbiology Phylogenetics and environmental distribution of nitric oxide forming nitrite reductases reveals their distinct functional and ecological roles ISME Communications The impact of fungi on soil protist communities in European cereal croplands Environmental Microbiology Genomes of Abundant and Widespread Viruses from the Deep Ocean mBio Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil multifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems Nature Food Metagenome-based diversity analyses suggest a significant contribution of non-cyanobacterial lineages to carbonate precipitation in modern microbialites Frontiers in Microbiology Genomes of Abundant and Widespread Viruses from the Deep Ocean mBio Comparative metagenomics unveils functions and genome features of microbialite-associated communities along a depth gradient Environmental Microbiology Unveiling microbial interactions in stratified mat communities from a warm saline shallow pond Environmental Microbiology Functional shifts in microbial mats recapitulate early Earth metabolic transitions Nature Ecology & Evolution