Aline Frossard

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Aline Frossard is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Aline Frossard has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Aline Frossard's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers), Polar Research and Ecology (12 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers). Aline Frossard is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers), Polar Research and Ecology (12 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (9 papers). Aline Frossard collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and South Africa. Aline Frossard's co-authors include Beat Frey, Mark O. Gessner, Don A. Cowan, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Michael Mutz, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Eoin Gunnigle, Ángel Valverde, Martin Hartmann and Mary Seely and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Aline Frossard

40 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Microbial ecology of hot desert edaphic systems

2015 279 citations Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Ángel Valverde et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Fundamental shifts in soil and sediment microbial communities and functions during 10 year of early catchment succession 2025 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·(unknown), Michael Mutz, Mark O. Gessner, (unknown), Aline Frossard	1
2	Fungal diversity as a key driver of soil multifunctionality along a European latitudinal gradient 2025 ·Geoderma ·Xingguo Han, (unknown), Jonathan Donhauser, Constantin M. Zohner, Lidong Mo, Thomas W. Crowther, Joan Pere Casas‐Ruiz, Karen Jordaan, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Anna M. Romaní, Anders Priemé, Aline Frossard	0
3	Soil functions are shaped by aridity through soil properties and the microbial community structure 2025 ·Applied Soil Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), Xingguo Han, Joan Pere Casas‐Ruiz, (unknown), Jonathan Donhauser, Karen Jordaan, Steven Allison, Aline Frossard, Anders Priemé, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Anna M. Romaní	1
4	Modelling soil prokaryotic traits across environments with the trait sequence database ampliconTraits and the R package MicEnvMod 2024 ·Ecological Informatics ·Jonathan Donhauser, (unknown), Xingguo Han, Karen Jordaan, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Aline Frossard, Anna M. Romaní, Anders Priemé	3
5	Soil organic matter properties drive microbial enzyme activities and greenhouse gas fluxes along an elevational gradient 2024 ·Geoderma ·Xingguo Han, (unknown), Joan Pere Casas‐Ruiz, Jonathan Donhauser, Karen Jordaan, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Anders Priemé, Anna M. Romaní, Aline Frossard	4
6	Environment and microbiome drive different microbial traits and functions in the macroscale soil organic carbon cycle 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), Xingguo Han, (unknown), Aline Frossard, Erick Zagal, Pascal Boeckx, Sebastian Döetterl	14
7	Long-term functional recovery and associated microbial community structure after sediment drying and bedform migration 2023 ·Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Aline Frossard, Michael Mutz, Ute Risse‐Buhl	4
8	Synthetic oligonucleotides as quantitative PCR standards for quantifying microbial genes 2023 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Xingguo Han, Karin Beck, Helmut Bürgmann, Beat Frey, Beat Stierli, Aline Frossard	11
9	Organo-mercury species in a polluted agricultural flood plain: Combining speciation methods and polymerase chain reaction to investigate pathways of contamination 2022 ·Environmental Pollution ·(unknown), (unknown), Aline Frossard, Adrien Mestrot	4
10	Global distribution of soil fauna functional groups and their estimated litter consumption across biomes 2022 ·Scientific Reports ·Petr Hědenec, Juan J. Jiménez, (unknown), Xavier Domene, Davorka K. Hackenberger, Sébastien Barot, Aline Frossard, Lidia Oktaba, Juliane Filser, Pavel Kindlmann, Jan Frouz	36
11	Will accelerated soil development be a driver of Arctic Greening in the late 21st century?^# 2021 ·Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science ·Sebastian Döetterl, Jake M. Alexander, Simone Fior, Aline Frossard, Cara Magnabosco, Marijn Van de Broek, Kristine Bakke Westergaard	10
12	Shotgun metagenomics reveals distinct functional diversity and metabolic capabilities between 12 000-year-old permafrost and active layers on Muot da Barba Peider (Swiss Alps) 2021 ·Microbial Genomics ·Carla Perez-Mon, Weihong Qi, Surendra Vikram, Aline Frossard, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Don A. Cowan, Beat Frey	18
13	Attributes of Drying Define the Structure and Functioning of Microbial Communities in Temperate Riverbed Sediment 2021 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·(unknown), Michael Mutz, Clara Mendoza‐Lera, Aline Frossard	17
14	Functional and Structural Responses of Arctic and Alpine Soil Prokaryotic and Fungal Communities Under Freeze-Thaw Cycles of Different Frequencies 2020 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Carla Perez-Mon, Beat Frey, Aline Frossard	42
15	Mercury emission from industrially contaminated soils in relation to chemical, microbial, and meteorological factors 2019 ·Environmental Pollution ·Stefan Osterwalder, Jen‐How Huang, Waleed H. Shetaya, Yannick Agnan, Aline Frossard, Beat Frey, Christine Alewell, Ruben Kretzschmar, Harald Biester, Daniel Obrist	37
16	The Soil Microbiome of GLORIA Mountain Summits in the Swiss Alps 2019 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·(unknown), Frank Hagedorn, Sonja Wipf, Jonathan Donhauser, Pascal Vittoz, Christian Rixen, Aline Frossard, Jean‐Paul Theurillat, Beat Frey	77
17	Namib Desert Soil Microbial Community Diversity, Assembly, and Function Along a Natural Xeric Gradient 2017 ·Microbial Ecology ·(unknown), Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Aline Frossard, Olivier Zablocki, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, (unknown), Mary Seely, Don A. Cowan	53
18	Flow Cytometric Assessment of Bacterial Abundance in Soils, Sediments and Sludge 2016 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Aline Frossard, Frederik Hammes, Mark O. Gessner	72
19	Water regime history drives responses of soil Namib Desert microbial communities to wetting events 2015 ·Scientific Reports ·Aline Frossard, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Mary Seely, Don A. Cowan	48
20	Microbial ecology of hot desert edaphic systems breakdown → 2015 ·FEMS Microbiology Reviews ·Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Ángel Valverde, Eoin Gunnigle, Aline Frossard, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Don A. Cowan	279

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