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 Maize root growth, oxygen and N availability drive formation of N2O hotspots in soil Geoderma Resistance and resilience of co-occurring nitrifying microbial guilds to drying-rewetting stress in soil Soil Biology and Biochemistry Resistance and resilience of co-occurring nitrifying microbial guilds to drying-rewetting stress in soil Soil Biology and Biochemistry Microbial controls of nitrogen retention and N2O production in cropping systems supporting soil carbon accrual Soil Biology and Biochemistry Denitrification is a community trait with partial pathways dominating across microbial genomes and biomes Nature Communications Denitrification is a community trait with partial pathways dominating across microbial genomes and biomes Nature Communications Diverse crop rotations offset yield-scaled nitrogen losses via denitrification Communications Earth & Environment 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
