Dr Rémy Beugnon

My interest is to understand ecosystem functioning. We are losing species from all phyla in all ecosystems all around the world. However, the consequences of such loss for ecosystem functioning remain unpredictable. Understanding how species interact and how they are linked to their environment is a prerequisite to the understanding of ecosystem functioning and the consequences of species loss.

My Ph.D. was based on a tree Biodiversity Ecosystem Functioning experiment (BEF China), where I was focusing on tree-tree interaction effects on carbon cycling from forest productivity to soil carbon storage through its effects on microbial community and litter decomposition. I am doing this work as part of the TreeDì doctoral school which is aiming to understand tree – tree interactions in Chinese subtropical forest within the BEF China platform.

Following the latest results of my thesis, my current project SoilDivTemp is aiming to understand how vegetation diversity is modulating temperature and the consequences for soil functions at the global scale.

Coming soon

Beugnon, Rémy; Bu, Wensheng; Bruelheide, Helge; Davrinche, Andréa; Du, Jianqing; Haider, Sylvia; Kunz, Matthias; von Oheimb, Goddert; Perles-Garcia, Maria D.; Saadani, Mariem; Scholten, Thomas; Seitz, Steffen; Singavarapu, Bala; Trogisch, Stefan; Wang, Yanfen; Wubet, Tesfaye; Xue, Kai; Yang, Bo; Cesarz, Simone & Eisenhauer, Nico (under review): Abiotic and biotic drivers of scale-dependent tree trait effects on soil microbial biomass and soil carbon concentration. Ecological Monographs

Beugnon, Rémy; Eisenhauer, Nico; Bruelheide, Helge; Davrinche, Andréa; Du, Jianqing; Haider, Sylvia; Haehn, Georg; Saadani, Mariem; Singavarapu, Bala; Sünnemann, Marie; Thouvenot, Lise; Wang, Yanfen; Wubet, Tesfaye; Xue, Kai; Cesarz, Simone (under review): Tree diversity effects on litter decomposition are mediated by litterfall and microbial processes. Functional Ecology

Schnabel, Florian†; Beugnon, Rémy†; Bo, Yang†; Castro Izaguirre, Nadia Cristina; Cesarz, Simone; Eisenhauer, Nico; Garcia, Maria Dolores Perles; Haehn, Georg; Härdtle, Werner; Huang, Yuanyuan; Kunz, Matthias; Liu, Xiaojuan; Niklaus, Pascal A.; von Oheimb, Goddert; Pietsch, Katherina A.; Richter, Ronny; Schmid, Bernhard; Trogisch, Stefan; Wirth, Christian; Ma, Keping & Bruelheide Helge (in prep.): The role of tree species richness for temperature buffering below forest canopies.

2021

Beugnon Rémy, Ladouceur Emma, Sünnemann Marie, Cesarz Simone, Eisenhauer Nico (2021). Diverse forests are cool: Promoting diverse forests to mitigate carbon emissions and climate change. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment. DOI: 10.1002/sae2.12005

BeugnonRémy (2021). Ph.D. thesis: From trees to soil: microbial and spatial mediation of tree diversity effects on carbon cycling in subtropical Chinese forests. PDF

Beugnon Rémy, Du Jianqing, Cesarz Simone, Jurburg Stephanie D., Pang Zhe, Singavarapu Bala, Wubet Tesfaye, Xue Kai, Wang Yanfen, Eisenhauer Nico (2021). Tree diversity and soil chemical properties drive the linkages between soil microbial community and ecosystem functioning. ISME Communications (1). DOI: 10.1038/s43705-021-00040-0

Singavarapu Bala, Beugnon Rémy, Bruelheide Helge, Cesarz Simone, Du Jianqing, Eisenhauer Nico, Guo Liang-Dong, Nawaz Ali, Wang Yanfen, Xue Kai, Wubet Tesfaye (2021). Tree mycorrhizal type and tree diversity shape the forest soil microbiota. Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15690

Phillips Helen R. P., et al (2021). Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties. Scientific Data (8). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z

Thouvenot Lise, Ferlian Olga, Beugnon Rémy, Kuenne Tom, Lochner Alfred, Thakur Madhav P., Tueke Manfred, Eisenhauer Nico (2021). Do Invasive Earthworms Affect the Functional Traits of Native Plants?. Frontiers in Plant Science (12). DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.627573

2019

Cesarz Simone, Schulz Annika Eva, Beugnon Rémy, Eisenhauer Nico (2019). Testing soil nematode extraction efficiency using different variations of the Baermann-funnel method. Soil Organisms (91). DOI: 10.25674/so91201

Beugnon Rémy, Steinauer Katja, Barnes Andrew D., Ebeling Anne, Roscher Christiane, Eisenhauer Nico (2019). Chapter Five - Plant functional trait identity and diversity effects on soil meso- and macrofauna in an experimental grassland. Advances in Ecological Research (61). DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.004

Professional experiences:

April 2022 – present

Position: postdoctoral researcher

@: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Experimental Interaction Ecology group, Leipzig, Germany

@: Centre d’Ecologie Functionelle et Evolutive – Montpellier (France)   

Focus: Vegetation diversity buffering for soil microclimate

July 2018 – March 2022

Position: doctoral researcher

@: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Experimental Interaction Ecology group, Leipzig, Germany

Focus:From trees to soil: microbial and spatial mediation of tree diversity effects on carbon cycling in subtropical Chinese forests.

January 2018 – June 2018

Position: Master’s student

@:BioDiCée lab, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM) – Montpellier (France)

Focus: Modelling of non-trophic interactions effects on plants communities.

April 2017– July 2017

Position: intern

@: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) – Umea (Sweden)

Focus: Root trait effects of alpine plant communities on plant-soil feedback effects performed in two greenhouse experiments.

Education:

July 2018 – March 2022

Ph. D. Thesis

@: Leipzig University – Leipzig (Germany)

Focus: From trees to soil: microbial and spatial mediation of tree diversity effects on carbon cycling in subtropical Chinese forests.

September 2017 – June 2018

Master’s degree in Biology, Ecology and Evolution (B2E-DARWIN)

@: Montpellier University – Montpellier (France)

Focus: Fundamental Ecology, Functional Ecology, Climate change, Animal behaviour, Evolutive Biology, Biostatistics, Modelling.

February 2016 – June 2016

Erasmus exchange semester

@: SGGW - WULS – Warsaw (Poland)

Focus: Soil ecology, water microbiology, grassland ecology

September 2014 – November 2018

Agricultural engineering diploma

@: Montpellier SupAgro – Montpellier (France)

Focus: With ecology lectures and laboratory technique practices