Nicolas Legay

1.5k total citations
29 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Legay is a scholar working on Soil Science, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Legay has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Soil Science, 14 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Legay's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers). Nicolas Legay is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (17 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers). Nicolas Legay collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Germany. Nicolas Legay's co-authors include Jean‐Christophe Clément, Sandra Lavorel, Cindy Arnoldi, Thomas Pommier, Franck Poly, Karl Grigulis, Michael Bahn, Richard D. Bardgett, Catherine Baxendale and Michael Schloter and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Legay

29 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicolas Legay France 19 450 446 326 318 218 29 1.1k
Mira Liiri Finland 12 448 1.0× 293 0.7× 203 0.6× 376 1.2× 192 0.9× 15 965
Seyed Mohsen Hosseini Iran 18 550 1.2× 266 0.6× 235 0.7× 328 1.0× 152 0.7× 47 987
R. Sagar India 19 236 0.5× 323 0.7× 620 1.9× 262 0.8× 291 1.3× 40 1.3k
Rosemary E. Booth United Kingdom 9 237 0.5× 536 1.2× 374 1.1× 292 0.9× 154 0.7× 10 1.1k
Heidy Schimann France 18 426 0.9× 461 1.0× 298 0.9× 496 1.6× 171 0.8× 38 1.2k
Deliang Kong China 20 577 1.3× 931 2.1× 492 1.5× 220 0.7× 369 1.7× 58 1.5k
Odhran S. O’Sullivan United Kingdom 16 213 0.5× 623 1.4× 289 0.9× 312 1.0× 804 3.7× 24 1.4k
Ellen Cieraad New Zealand 19 239 0.5× 251 0.6× 344 1.1× 349 1.1× 467 2.1× 52 1.1k
Alicia Moretto Argentina 16 295 0.7× 246 0.6× 403 1.2× 299 0.9× 171 0.8× 40 862
Kechang Niu China 22 368 0.8× 435 1.0× 668 2.0× 473 1.5× 220 1.0× 53 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicolas Legay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicolas Legay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Legay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicolas Legay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicolas Legay based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nicolas Legay. Nicolas Legay is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Baude, Mathilde, Benjamin Bergerot, Benoît Geslin, et al.. (2024). From Stream to Bloom: Exploring the Potential Role of Aquatic Insects for Pollination in Wetland Environments. Journal of Applied Entomology. 149(5). 711–724. 2 indexed citations
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Legay, Nicolas, et al.. (2024). Linking Plant Diversity and Urban Uses at the City-Block Scale to Inform Urban Planning. Land. 14(1). 3–3. 3 indexed citations
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Legay, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). How managers and city dwellers relate to spontaneous vegetation in cities: Towards an integrative approach. Urban forestry & urban greening. 82. 127876–127876. 12 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, 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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Legay, Nicolas, Jean‐Christophe Clément, Fabrice Grassein, et al.. (2020). Plant growth drives soil nitrogen cycling and N-related microbial activity through changing root traits. Fungal ecology. 44. 100910–100910. 22 indexed citations
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Périgon, Sophie, et al.. (2019). Metabolic adaptation of fungal strains in response to contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(15). 14943–14950. 21 indexed citations
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Moison, Michaël, Anne Marmagne, Sylvie Dinant, et al.. (2018). Three cytosolic glutamine synthetase isoforms localized in different-order veins act together for N remobilization and seed filling in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany. 69(18). 4379–4393. 51 indexed citations
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Szukics, Ute, Karl Grigulis, Nicolas Legay, et al.. (2018). Management versus site effects on the abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in European mountain grasslands. The Science of The Total Environment. 648. 745–753. 21 indexed citations
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Bonthoux, Sébastien, et al.. (2018). Improving nature experience in cities: What are people's preferences for vegetated streets?. Journal of Environmental Management. 230. 335–344. 35 indexed citations
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Blondel, C., Nicolas Legay, Cindy Arnoldi, et al.. (2017). Assessing the dynamic changes of rhizosphere functionality of Zea mays plants grown in organochlorine contaminated soils. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 331. 226–234. 13 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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Binet, Marie-Noëlle, Diederik van Tuinen, Florence Souard, et al.. (2016). Responses of above- and below-ground fungal symbionts to cessation of mowing in subalpine grassland. Fungal ecology. 25. 14–21. 13 indexed citations
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Baptist, Florence, Íker Aranjuelo, Nicolas Legay, et al.. (2015). Rhizodeposition of organic carbon by plants with contrasting traits for resource acquisition: responses to different fertility regimes. Plant and Soil. 394(1-2). 391–406. 38 indexed citations
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Legay, Nicolas, Catherine Baxendale, Karl Grigulis, et al.. (2014). Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities. Annals of Botany. 114(5). 1011–1021. 139 indexed citations
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Legay, Nicolas, Fabrice Grassein, T. Matthew Robson, et al.. (2013). Comparison of inorganic nitrogen uptake dynamics following snowmelt and at peak biomass in subalpine grasslands. Biogeosciences. 10(11). 7631–7645. 24 indexed citations
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Legay, Nicolas, Emmanuelle Personeni, Sophie Slezack‐Deschaumes, Séverine Piutti, & Jean‐Bernard Cliquet. (2013). Grassland species show similar strategies for sulphur and nitrogen acquisition. Plant and Soil. 375(1-2). 113–126. 14 indexed citations
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Legay, Nicolas, et al.. (2012). Temporal variation in the nitrogen uptake competition between plant community and soil microbial community. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7413. 6 indexed citations

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