CV

• since2005 : Chargée de recherche (CR1) CNRS section 30 (CR HC since 2021)
• 2004-2005: Research associate, Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (Montpellier, France)
• 1999-2004: Research associate and teatcher, Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse)
• 1998: PhD in microbial ecology (Université de Provence, Marseille, France)
• 1995: Forest ingineer (École Nationale du Génie Rural des Eaux et des Forêts, Nancy, France)
• 1995: Master degree, microbial ecology (Univ. Claude Bernard, Lyon, France)

Selected projects

TALVEG2: Une approche innovante pour l'aménagement et le monitoring des écosystèmes (2015-2019) Partners: société Valorhiz, INRA (coord. Alexia Stokes), CNRS (coord. Nathalie Fromin), financing FEDER - Région Occitanie.

SoilForEurope: Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under ongoing climate change (2017-2019). Financing ERANET BiodivERsA, coordination Stephan Hättenschwiler. see https://websie.cefe.cnrs.fr/soilforeurope/

DIV-TROP: What biological mechanisms link biodiversity to tropical forest functioning? A tree experiment in Brazil (2018-2019) Financing LabEx Centre Médirerranéen Environnement et Biodiversité, coordination Joannes Guillemot (CIRAD - UMR Eco&Sols).

BELOW : Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem multifunctionality in Occitanie under Water constraints. Défi-clé Occitanie BIODIVOC. Coordination Grégoire Freschet (SETE Moulis) & Stephan Hättenschwiler (UMR CEFE).

SOLALECOLE: La transition agroécologique dans les écoles : quelles perceptions, potentiels et engagements nécessaires pour un meilleur bien-être des humains et des sols ? (2021-2022) Appel à projet CO3: Co-construction des Connaissances. Coordination : Nathalie Fromin (CEFE), Pierre Ganault (association CoSciences),

SOL'EYNE:Indicateurs biologiques de la qualité des sols comme outils de gestion et de conservation des sols dans la Réserve Naturelle de la Vallée d'Eyne. Coordination : Nathalie Fromin (CEFE), Alain Brauman (Eco&Sols), financement LabEx CeMEB, défi clé BiodivOc (AAP Recherche et politiques publiques en environnement).

Selected publications

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• Praeg N., Steinwandter, M., Urbach D., Snethlage M.A., Alves R.P., Apple M.E., Britton A.J., Bruni E.P., Chen T.-W., Dumack K., Fernandez-Mendoza F., Freppaz M., Frey B., Fromin N., Geisen S., Grube M., Guariento E., Guisan A., Ji Q.Q., Jiménez J.J., Maier S., Malard L.A., Minor M.A., Mc Lean C.C., Mitchell E.A.D., Peham T., Pizzolotto R., Taylor A., Vernon P., van Tol J.J., Wu Y., Wu D., Xie Z., Weber B., Illmer P., Seeber J. (2025) Biodiversity in mountain soils above the treeline. Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70028

• Brondani M., Robin A., Marchal J., Pablo A.-L., Personne A.-L., Desmarais E., Cerqueira F., Mahé F., Degrune F., Guillemot J., Brancalion H.S., Fromin N. (2025) Large variability of soil microbial diversity and functions in a Eucalyptus grandis plantation. Applied Soil Ecology 209: 106008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106008

• Fromin N. (2025) Impacts of soil storage on microbial parameters. SOIL 11: 247-265. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-247-2025

• Bopp M.-C., De Deyn G. B., Zwetsloot M. J., Moinet G. Y. K., Fried G., Metay A., Fromin N., Fort F., Buatois B., Bastiaans L., and Kazakou E. (2025) Weed management modifies functional properties of both weeds and microbial nitrogen-cycling communities in Mediterranean vineyards. Journal of Applied Ecology 62: 388-400. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14833

• Ganault P., Nahmani J., Capowietz Y., Fromin N., Shihan A., Bertrand I., Buatois B., Milcu A. (2024) Earthworms and plants can decrease soil greenhouse gases emissions by modulating soil moisture fluctuations and soil porosity in a mesocosm experiment. PLoS ONE 19(2): e0289859. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289859

• Bourget M.Y., Fanin N., Fromin N., Hättenschwiler S., Roumet C., Shihan A., Huys R., Sauvadet M., Freschet G.T. (2023) Plant litter chemistry drives long-lasting changes in the catabolic capacities of soil microbial communities. Functional Ecology 37: 2014-2028. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14379

• Gillespie L., Prada-Salcedo L.D., Shihan A., Fromin N., Goldmann K., Milcu A., Buscot F., Buatois B., Hättenschwiler S. (2023) Taxonomical and functional responses of microbial communities from forest soils of differing tree species diversity to drying-rewetting cycles. Pedobiologia 97-98: 150875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2023.150875

• Huys R., Poirier V., Bourget M.Y., Roumet C., Hättenschwiler S., Fromin N., Munson A.D., Freschet G. (2022) Plant litter chemistry controls coarse-textured soil carbon dynamics. Journal of Ecology 110: 2911-2928. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13997

• Shihan A., Hättenschwiler S., Fromin N. (2022) Root traits rather than functional diversity of soil microorganisms respond to drought and plant species composition in Mediterranean shrubland species. Frontiers in Forest and Global Change 5: 921191 https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.921191

• Mao Z., Roumet C., Rossi L.M.W., Merino-Martín L., Rowe N., Nespoulos J., Taugourdeau O., Boukcim H., Fourtier S., Del Rey-Granado M., Ramel M., Ji K., Zuo J., Fromin N., Stokes A., Fort F. (2022) Inter- and intraspecific variations in root mechanical traits for 12 herbaceous plants and their link with the root economics space. Oïkos 1: e09032 http://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09032

• Dupin B., Durand B., Cambecèdes J., Fromin N. (2022) Plants playing at home: Advantage of native plant seeds for ski slope revegetation in the French Pyrénées. Ecological Engineering 174: 106463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106463

• Gillespie L., Hättenschwiler S., Milcu A., Wambsganss J., Shihan A., Fromin N. (2021) Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests. Functional Ecology 35: 2190-2204. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13877

• Coq S., Nahmani J., Kazakou E., Fromin N., David J.-L. (2020) Do litter-feeding macroarthropods disrupt cascading effects of land use on microbial decomposition activity? Basic and Applied Ecology 46:24-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.03.004

• Gillespie L.M., Fromin N., Milcu A., Buatois B., Pontoizeau C., Hättenschwiler S. (2020) Higher tree diversity increases soil microbial resistance to drought. Communications Biology 3:377. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-1112-0

• Rossi L.M.W., Mao Z.., Merino-Martin L., Roumet C., Fort F., Taugourdeau O., Boukcim H., Fourtier S., Del Rey Granado M., Chevallier T., Cardinael R., Fromin N., Stokes A. (2020) Pathways to persistence: plant root traits alter carbon accumulation in different soil carbon pools. Plant and Soil 452: 457-478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04469-5

• Fromin N., Shihan A., Santonja M., Baldy V., Hättenschwiler S. (2020) Soil microbial activity in a Mediterranean garrigue responds more to changing shrub community than to reduced rainfall Plant and Soil 449(1): 405-421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04501-8

Reports

• Béchet B. (coord.), Le Bissonnais Y. (coord.), Ruas A. (coord.), Desrousseaux M., Aiguilera A., André M., Andrieu H., Ay J.-S., Beaumont C., Barbe E., Beaudet-Vidal L., Belton-Chevallier L., Berthier E., Billet Ph., Bonin O., Cavailhès J., Chancibault  K., Cohen M., Coisnon T., Colas R., Cornu S., Cortet J., Dablanc L., Darly S., Delolme C., Facchinetti-Mannone V ., Fack G., Fromin N., Gadal S., Gauvreau B., Géniaux G., Gilli F., Guelton S., Guérois M., Hedde M., Houet T., Humbertcalude S., Jolivet L., Keller C., Le Berre I., Madec P., Mallet C., Marty P., Mering C. Musy M., Oueslati W., Paty S., Polèse M., Pumain D., Puissant A., Riou S., Rodriguez F., Ruban V., Salanié J., Schwartz C., Sotura A., Thébert M., Thévenin T., Thisse J., Vergnès A., Weber C., Werey C. (2017) Sols artificialisés et processus d’artificialisation des sols : Déterminants, impacts et leviers d’action. IFSTTAR et INRA (France), 650 p. (rapport), 127 p. (synthèse). https://www.inrae.fr/actualites/sols-artificialises-processus-dartificialisation-sols

• FAO, ITPS, GSBI, SCBD, and EC. 2020. State of knowledge of soil biodiversity - Status, challenges and potentialities, Report 2020. Rome, FAO. The state of knowledge on soil biodiversity, Convention sur la Diversité Biologique & Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture (FAO). Participation au Chapitre 4: Threats to soil biodiversity – global and regional trends (lead authors : Monica Kobayashi, Miguel Cooper & Georg Brown), section 4.2.4 (Threats to soil biodiversity – Loss of soil organic matter and soil organic carbon, Fromin N. & Foereid B.), pp 205-208.