Gilles Billen

ORCID: 0000-0003-4413-4169
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Research Areas
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • French Urban and Social Studies
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Phosphorus and nutrient management
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Historical and Environmental Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Odor and Emission Control Technologies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Aquatic and Environmental Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Sorbonne Université
2015-2024

Milieux environnementaux, transferts et interactions dans les hydrosystèmes et les sols
2015-2024

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2015-2024

École Pratique des Hautes Études
2016-2023

Laboratoire Eau, Environnement et Systèmes Urbains
2018

Université Paris Cité
1996-2017

Continental (United States)
2005-2015

Fédération Ile de France de recherche sur l'environnement
2015

Université Paris 8
2002-2014

Saint Mary's University
2011

Nitrogen (N) is crucial for crop productivity. However, nowadays more than half of the N added to cropland lost environment, wasting resource, producing threats air, water, soil and biodiversity, generating greenhouse gas emissions. Based on FAO data, we have reconstructed trajectory followed, in past 50 years, by 124 countries terms yield total nitrogen inputs (manure, synthetic fertilizer, symbiotic fixation atmospheric deposition). During last five decades, response agricultural systems...

10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/105011 article EN cc-by Environmental Research Letters 2014-10-01

An integrated modeling approach was used to connect socioeconomic factors and nutrient management river export of nitrogen, phosphorus, silica carbon based on an updated Global NEWS model. Past trends (1970–2000) four future scenarios were analyzed. Differences among the for in agriculture a key factor affecting magnitude direction change DIN export. In contrast, connectivity level sewage treatment P detergent use more important differences DIP particulate calculated decrease all scenarios,...

10.1029/2009gb003587 article EN Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2010-05-12

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenarios for 2000 to 2050 describe contrasting future developments in agricultural land use under changing climate. Differences are related the total crop and livestock production efficiency of nutrient agriculture. with a reactive approach environmental problems show increases N P soil balances all developing countries. In proactive attitude, decrease no change or slight increase. Europe North America, balance will decline scenarios, most strongly...

10.1029/2009gb003576 article EN Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2009-12-01

Livestock production systems currently occupy around 28% of the land surface European Union (equivalent to 65% agricultural land). In conjunction with other human activities, livestock affect water, air and soil quality, global climate biodiversity, altering biogeochemical cycles nitrogen, phosphorus carbon. Here, we quantify contribution these major impacts. For each environmental effect, is expressed as shares emitted compounds used, compared whole sector. The results show that sector...

10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/115004 article EN cc-by Environmental Research Letters 2015-11-01

Nitrogen (N) limits crop and grass production, it is an essential component of dietary proteins. However, N mobile in the soil-plant system can be lost to environment. Estimates flows provide a critical tool for understanding improving sustainability equity global food system. This letter describes integrated analysis changes human diets, use efficiency (NUE) cropping livestock systems, pollution traded feed products 12 world regions period 1960–2050. The largest absolute change consumption...

10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095007 article EN cc-by Environmental Research Letters 2016-09-01

The nitrogen cycle of pre-industrial ecosystems has long been remarkably closed, in spite the high mobility this element atmosphere and hydrosphere. Inter-regional international commercial exchanges agricultural goods, which considerably increased after generalization use synthetic fertilizers, introduced an additional type mobility, nowadays rivals atmospheric hydrological fluxes intensity, causes their enhancement at local, regional global scales. Eighty-five per cent net anthropogenic...

10.1098/rstb.2013.0123 article EN Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2013-05-28

Management of nitrogen (N) inputs into agricultural systems is increasing interest due to the intensive use synthetic fertilizers in modern cash crop systems, which has caused considerable environmental damage, including nitrate contamination surface and groundwater, eutrophication coastal marine areas emission greenhouse gases. The legumes grown rotations or intercropping nowadays regarded as an alternative sustainable way introducing N low‐input cropping systems. In order develop a simple...

10.1890/es14-00353.1 article EN cc-by Ecosphere 2015-03-01

Seasonal succession of diatoms and Chlorophyceae have been analyzed in the Seine River system (France), which is characterized by a temperate oceanic hydrological regime high nutrient enrichment. Phytoplankton development invariably initiated decrease discharge spring. When this occurs early spring, bloom dominated that severely deplete silica, regular increase their biomass observed along river continuum from headwaters to estuary. The earlier downstream than upstream. succeed end May...

10.4319/lo.1995.40.4.0750 article EN Limnology and Oceanography 1995-06-01
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