Alain Brauman
SupAgro
86 Papers
663 Citations
Alain Brauman is an academic researcher from SupAgro. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil biology & Organic matter. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 80 publications. Previous affiliations of Alain Brauman include Institut national de la recherche agronomique & World Agroforestry Centre.
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The effect of the soil-feeding termite Cubitermes niokoloensis on soil microbial activity in a semi-arid savanna in West Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the role of termite mounds in organic matter dynamics, taking the soil nitrogen cycle as representative of microbial mediated activity, was investigated in semi-arid savannas.
Influence of bacterial-feeding nematodes (Cephalobidae) on soil microbial communities during maize growth
TL;DR: Results from this study provide evidence for the ability of microbial feeding nematodes to alter microbial activity, microbial community structure, nitrogen mineralisation and growth of maize seedlings in a Sahelian soil from Senegal, West Africa.
Bacterial community structure in soil microaggregates and on particulate organic matter fractions located outside or inside soil macroaggregates
Aimeric Blaud,Tiphaine Chevallier,Iñigo Virto,Iñigo Virto,Anne-Laure Pablo,Claire Chenu,Alain Brauman +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) profiles revealed that bacterial communities structure of organo-mineral soil fractions were significantly different in comparison to the unfractionated soil.
Interactions between Zeldia punctata (Cephalobidae) and bacteria in the presence or absence of maize plants
TL;DR: The impact of nematode grazing on the overall soil microbial community seems to primarily affect microbial activity and relative dominance rather than microbial diversity.
Endogeic earthworms shape bacterial functional communities and affect organic matter mineralization in a tropical soil.
Laetitia Bernard,Lydie Chapuis-Lardy,Tantely Razafimbelo,Malalatiana Razafindrakoto,Anne-Laure Pablo,Elvire Legname,Julie Poulain,Thomas Brüls,Michael J. O’Donohue,Alain Brauman,Jean-Luc Chotte,Eric Blanchart +11 more
TL;DR: The coupling between DNA-SIP (stable isotope probing) and pyrosequencing showed that stimulation of both the mineralization of wheat residues and the PE can be linked to the stimulation of several groups especially belonging to the Bacteroidetes phylum.