Sébastien Fontaine

The paper shows that sterile soils can generate Krebs cycle intermediates from glucose and citrate over 6 months, suggesting non-cellular metabolic activity in modern ecosystems.

This study shows that soil respiration can occur through non-living processes, with soil catalysts enabling organic compound oxidation to CO2 without living cells.

The paper investigates rhizosphere priming effects in treeline soils, finding that organic soils show greater priming magnitude than mineral soils, with priming direction influenced by plant productivity and sampling time.