Gabin Piton

480 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 288 citations indexed

About

Gabin Piton is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Gabin Piton has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 288 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Soil Science, 10 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Gabin Piton's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (15 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Gabin Piton is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (15 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Gabin Piton collaborates with scholars based in France, Netherlands and Sweden. Gabin Piton's co-authors include Arnaud Foulquier, Jean‐Christophe Clément, Nicolas Legay, Mohammad Bahram, Steven Allison, Falk Hildebrand, Kathleen K. Treseder, Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Adam C. Martiny and Cindy Arnoldi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Gabin Piton

19 papers receiving 288 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes
    2023 81 citations Gabin Piton, Steven Allison et al. Nature Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gabin Piton France 10 143 133 76 65 43 20 288
Puchang Wang China 10 110 0.8× 91 0.7× 180 2.4× 83 1.3× 43 1.0× 37 331
Yang Peng China 8 133 0.9× 114 0.9× 120 1.6× 39 0.6× 45 1.0× 22 308
Haiying Cui China 10 157 1.1× 102 0.8× 135 1.8× 45 0.7× 44 1.0× 19 296
Hongbiao Zi China 10 175 1.2× 177 1.3× 89 1.2× 31 0.5× 68 1.6× 19 324
Ursula Bausenwein Germany 9 137 1.0× 92 0.7× 139 1.8× 36 0.6× 46 1.1× 10 305
Guillaume Patoine Germany 8 127 0.9× 92 0.7× 48 0.6× 17 0.3× 67 1.6× 10 243
Courtney G. Collins United States 7 152 1.1× 153 1.2× 157 2.1× 32 0.5× 114 2.7× 17 371
Marie Dam Denmark 8 143 1.0× 122 0.9× 98 1.3× 15 0.2× 33 0.8× 11 254
Tania L. Maxwell France 7 146 1.0× 133 1.0× 45 0.6× 21 0.3× 39 0.9× 14 265

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gabin Piton

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Han Y. H., Gabin Piton, César Terrer, et al.. (2025). The complementarity hypothesis reversed: Root trait similarity in species mixtures promotes soil organic carbon in agroecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 203. 109736–109736. 2 indexed citations
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Khan, Md. Zulfikar, Abad Chabbi, Gabin Piton, et al.. (2025). Whole soil warming promotes surface soil carbon loss but deep soil carbon gain, depending on land management practices in temperate climate. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 207. 109832–109832. 4 indexed citations
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Piton, Gabin, Arnaud Foulquier, Aurélie Bonin, et al.. (2025). Mineral fertilization reduces the drought resistance of soil multifunctionality in a mountain grassland system through plant-soil interactions. Peer Community Journal. 5. 1 indexed citations
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Ros, Margarita, Elena Testani, Corrado Ciaccia, et al.. (2025). Linking plant and microbial traits to soil organic carbon dynamics: A functional approach. Applied Soil Ecology. 213. 106308–106308.
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Piton, Gabin, Steven Allison, Mohammad Bahram, et al.. (2024). Reply to: Microbial dark matter could add uncertainties to metagenomic trait estimations. Nature Microbiology. 9(6). 1431–1433. 3 indexed citations
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Piton, Gabin, Steven Allison, Mohammad Bahram, et al.. (2023). Life history strategies of soil bacterial communities across global terrestrial biomes. Nature Microbiology. 8(11). 2093–2102. 81 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ibanez, Sébastien, Arnaud Foulquier, Marie‐Pascale Colace, et al.. (2023). The contrasted impacts of grasshoppers on soil microbial activities in function of primary production and herbivore diet. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1 indexed citations
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Piton, Gabin, Christophe Jourdan, Clément Piel, et al.. (2023). Carbon and nutrient colimitations control the microbial response to fresh organic carbon inputs in soil at different depths. Geoderma. 440. 116729–116729. 8 indexed citations
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Jourdan, Christophe, et al.. (2022). Root distribution and properties of a young alley-cropping system: effects on soil carbon storage and microbial activity. Plant and Soil. 482(1-2). 601–625. 13 indexed citations
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Saillard, Amélie, Lucie Zinger, Cindy Arnoldi, et al.. (2022). Differential effects of soil trophic networks on microbial decomposition activity in mountain ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 172. 108771–108771. 9 indexed citations
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Piton, Gabin, Julien Renaud, Arnaud Foulquier, et al.. (2021). Strong links between plant traits and microbial activities but different abiotic drivers in mountain grasslands. Journal of Biogeography. 48(11). 2755–2770. 8 indexed citations
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Ibanez, Sébastien, et al.. (2021). Litter and soil characteristics mediate the buffering effect of snow cover on litter decomposition. Plant and Soil. 460(1-2). 511–525. 15 indexed citations
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Piton, Gabin, Arnaud Foulquier, Laura B. Martínez‐García, et al.. (2020). Resistance–recovery trade‐off of soil microbial communities under altered rain regimes: An experimental test across European agroecosystems. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(2). 406–418. 18 indexed citations
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Piton, Gabin, Sylvain Abdulhak, Philippe Choler, et al.. (2020). Climate, soil resources and microbial activity shape the distributions of mountain plants based on their functional traits. Ecography. 43(10). 1550–1559. 16 indexed citations
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Piton, Gabin, Arnaud Foulquier, Laura B. Martínez‐García, et al.. (2020). Disentangling drivers of soil microbial potential enzyme activity across rain regimes: An approach based on the functional trait framework. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 148. 107881–107881. 25 indexed citations
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Piton, Gabin, et al.. (2020). The beaver’s menu: species and spatial selection of a European beaver population and implications for riverbank bioengineering. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 28(6). 901–908. 11 indexed citations
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Lalande, Sophie, et al.. (2018). Un agenda de recherche pour la médecine générale française. 29(141). 112–119. 1 indexed citations
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Legay, Nicolas, Gabin Piton, Cindy Arnoldi, et al.. (2017). Soil legacy effects of climatic stress, management and plant functional composition on microbial communities influence the response of Lolium perenne to a new drought event. Plant and Soil. 424(1-2). 233–254. 23 indexed citations

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