Javaux Mathieu

Ehosioke, S., Garré, S., Huisman, J. A., Zimmermann, E., Javaux, M., & Nguyen, F. (2025). Technical note: Investigating saline water uptake by roots using spectral induced polarization. Biogeosciences, 22(12), 2853-2869. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2853-2025 (Original work published 2025)

Koch, A., Cai, G., Ahmed, M. A., Meunier, F., Carminati, A., Vanderborght, J., & Javaux, M. (2025). On the importance of rhizosphere conductance and soil–root contact in drying soils. Annals of Botany. Published. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf082 (Original work published 2025)

Delval, L., Bates, J., Jonard, F., & Javaux, M. (2025). Field heterogeneity of soil texture controls leaf water potential spatial distribution predicted from UAS-based vegetation indices in non-irrigated vineyards. Biogeosciences, 22(2), 513-534. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-513-2025 (Original work published 2025)

De Simone Borma, L., Fabio Sakagushi, Wilian Demetrio, Breno Pupin, Dione Ventura, Carlos Daniel Meneghetti, Delvoie, B., Dermauw, C., Parmentier, L., & Javaux, M. (2024). Tropical humid forests: water consumers or producers? The case of a forest fragment in the Atlantic Forest. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna.

Samuel le Gall, Dagmar van Duschoten, Adrian Lattacher, Mona Giraud, Moritz Harings, Paulina Deseano Diaz, Ahmet Sircan, Christian Poll, Lobet, G., Javaux, M., & Youri Rothfuss. (2024). Investigating the impact on water fluxes and physiological development of the combination of contrasted root wheat cultivars from isotopic analysis. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna.

Fabian J. P. Wankmüller1, Delval, L., Peter Lehmann, Martin J. Baur, Sebastian Wolf, Dani Or, Javaux, M., & Andrea Carminati. (2024). Soil hydraulic conductivity determines the onset of water-limited evapotranspiration across scales. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna.

Javaux, M. (2024). Are we rooting for the right Interface? Understanding and Modeling the SoilRoot contact. ISRR 12th, Leipzig.

Florian Stoll, Osman Mustafa, Asegidew Akale, Andrea Carminati, Jan Vanderborght, Javaux, M., & Mutez Ali Abdelrahman Ahmed, u. (2024). Root hairs prevent excessive losses in leaf water potential of field grown maize at high atmospheric vapor pressure deficits even in wet soils. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna.

Delval, L., & Javaux, M. (2024). In situ grapevine hydraulic response to drought is soil-texture specific. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna.

Bouda, M., Jan Vanderborght, Couvreur, V., Václav Šípek, & Javaux, M. (2024). Quantifying cross-scale hydrodynamic effects of root ecophysiology. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna.

Fabian J. P. Wankmüller, Delval, L., Peter Lehmann, Martin J. Baur, Sebastian Wolf, Dani Or, Javaux, M., & Andrea Carminati. (2024). Soil Texture Controls the Relative Importance of Vapor Pressure Deficit and Soil Moisture for Ecosystem Water Limitation Globally. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna.

Couvreur, V., Lobet, G., Heymans, A., Javaux, M., Vandenborght, J., Bennnett, M. J., & Draye, X. (2024). Emergent properties of root hydraulic anatomies. Hydrofield workshop, Lyon.

Andrea Carminati, Fabian Wankmüller, Delval, L., Martin J Baur, Javaux, M., Sebastian Wolf, Peter Lehmann, & Dani Or. (2024). Ecosystem scale evapotranspiration is controlled by small scale processes and soil hydraulic properties. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna.

Wankmüller, F. J. P., Delval, L., Lehmann, P., Baur, M. J., Cecere, A., Wolf, S., Or, D., Javaux, M., & Carminati, A. (2024). Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation. Nature. Published. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08089-2 (Original work published 2024)

Carminati, A., & Javaux, M. (2024). When is a soil too dry for plants to take up water? Nature. Published. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03764-w (Original work published 2024)

Vanderborght, J., Couvreur, V., Javaux, M., Leitner, D., Schnepf, A., & Vereecken, H. (2024). Mechanistically derived macroscopic root water uptake functions: The α and ω of root water uptake functions. Vadose Zone Journal. Published. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20333 (Original work published 2024)

Delval, L., Vanderborght, J., & Javaux, M. (2024). Combination of plant and soil water potential monitoring and modelling demonstrates soil-root hydraulic disconnection during drought. Plant and Soil : international journal on plant-soil relationships. Published. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-07062-2 (Original work published 2024)

Delval, L., Jonard, F., & Javaux, M. (2024). Simultaneous in situ monitoring of belowground, trunk and relative canopy hydraulic conductance of grapevine demonstrates a soil texture-specific transpiration control. OENO One, 58(4). https://doi.org/10.20870/oeno-one.2024.58.4.8257 (Original work published 2024)

Javaux, M., Cecere, A., Delval, L., Fabian Wankmüller, & Andrea Carminati. (2023). Soil hydraulic conductivity defines minimum Root:Shoot surface ratio in moisture-limited environments. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Fabian Wankmüller, Delval, L., Cecere, A., Peter Lehmann, Javaux, M., & Andrea Carminati. (2023). Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Controls Soil Moisture Limitation of Transpiration Globally. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Delval, L., Jonard, F., & Javaux, M. (2023). Belowground hydraulic resistance generates stomatal closure of grapevine in soil water-limited conditions. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Heymans, A., & Javaux, M. (2023). Modelling root plastic responses to soil water status heterogeneity. FSPM2023, Berlin, Germany.

Jan Vanderborght, Couvreur, V., Juan Baca-Cabrera, Daniel Leitner, Lobet, G., Javaux, M., & Andrea Schnepf. (2023). H21B-06 Efficient representation of soil and root hydraulic properties in root water uptake models. AGU23, San Francisco, California.

Patrick Duddek, Mutez Ali Abdelrahman Ahmed, u., Javaux, M., Jan Vanderborght, Goran Lovric, Andrew King, & Andrea Carminati. (2023). The role of root hairs in root water uptake - Insights from an image-based 3D model. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Jan Vanderborght, Andrea Schnepf, Daniel Leitner, Couvreur, V., & Javaux, M. (2023). A mechanistic derivation of ‘alpha-omega’ root water uptake models. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Alonso, A., Hall, D., Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, & Javaux, M. (2023). Shrinking and swelling soil cycles control a tropical wetland flooding through non-stationary infiltration effects. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Cecere, A., & Javaux, M. (2023). Experimental investigation of the relationship between root:shoot ratio and soil-plant hydraulics. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Andrea Schnepf, Christopher K. Black, Couvreur, V., Benjamin M. Delory, Claude Doussan, Adrien Heymans, Javaux, M., Deepanshu Khare, Axelle Koch, Timo Koch, Christian W. Kuppe, Magdalena Land, Daniel Leitner, Lobet, G., Meunier, F., Johannes Postma, Ernst Schäfer, Tobias Selzner, Jan Vanderborght, & Harry Vereecken. (2023). Benchmarking of Functional-Structural Root Architecture Models. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Koch Axelle, Gaochao Cai, Meunier, F., Mutez Ali Abdelrahman Ahmed, u., & Javaux, M. (2023). Explicit 3D modelling of the rhizosphere processes at plant scale demonstrates the impact of soil texture on root water uptake. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna.

Giraud, M., Gall, S. L., Harings, M., Javaux, M., Leitner, D., Meunier, F., Rothfuss, Y., van Dusschoten, D., Vanderborght, J., Vereecken, H., Lobet, G., Schnepf, A., & Amy, M.-C. (2023). CPlantBox: a fully coupled modelling platform for the water and carbon fluxes in the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. in silico Plants, 5(2), 36. https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diad009 (Original work published 2023)

Guillaume, B., Aroui Boukbida, H., Bakker, G., Bieganowski, A., Brostaux, Y., Cornelis, W., Durner, W., Hartmann, C., Iversen, B. V., Javaux, M., Ingwersen, J., Lamorski, K., Lamparter, A., Makó, A., Mingot Soriano, A. M., Messing, I., Nemes, A., Pomes-Bordedebat, A., van der Ploeg, M., et al. (2023). Reproducibility of the wet part of the soil water retention curve: a European interlaboratory comparison. SOIL, 9(1), 365-379. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-365-2023 (Original work published 2023)

Cai, G., Carminati, A., Gleason, S. M., Javaux, M., & Ahmed, M. A. (2023). Soil‐plant hydraulics explain stomatal efficiency‐safety tradeoff. Plant, Cell and Environment. Published. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14536 (Original work published 2023)

Duddek, P., Ahmed, M. A., Javaux, M., Vanderborght, J., Lovric, G., King, A., & Carminati, A. (2023). The effect of root hairs on root water uptake is determined by root–soil contact and root hair shrinkage. New Phytologist, 240, 2484-2497. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19144 (Original work published 2023)

Ehosioke, S., Garré, S., Huisman, J. A., Zimmermann, E., Placencia‐Gomez, E., Javaux, M., & Nguyen, F. (2023). Spectroscopic approach towards unraveling the electrical signature of roots. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. Published. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg007281 (Original work published 2023)

Vanderborght, J., Leitner, D., Schnepf, A., Couvreur, V., Vereecken, H., & Javaux, M. (2023). Combining root and soil hydraulics in macroscopic representations of root water uptake. Vadose Zone Journal. Published. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20273 (Original work published 2023)

Schnepf, A., Black, C. K., Couvreur, V., Delory, B. M., Doussan, C., Heymans, A., Javaux, M., Khare, D., Koch, A., Koch, T., Kuppe, C. W., Landl, M., Leitner, D., Lobet, G., Meunier, F., Postma, J. A., Schäfer, E. D., Selzner, T., Vanderborght, J., & Vereecken, H. (2023). Collaborative benchmarking of functional-structural root architecture models: Quantitative comparison of simulated root water uptake. in Silico Plants. Published. https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diad005 (Original work published 2023)

Alonso, A., Froidevaux, M., Javaux, M., Laloy, E., Mattern, S., Roisin, C., Vanclooster, M., & Bielders, C. (2023). Fine-resolution profile-scale data to depict the impact of tillage treatment and machine traffic on agricultural soil structure and hydrologic properties. Data in Brief, 51, 109759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109759 (Original work published 2023)

Deseano Diaz, P., Nong, T., Brüggemann, N., Dubbert, M., Javaux, M., Orlowski, N., Vereecken, H., & Rothfuss, Y. (2023). Insights into tension‐mediated and antecedent water effects on soil water isotopic composition. Vadose Zone Journal, 22:e20288. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20288 (Original work published 2023)

Carminati, A., Marin, M., Couvreur, V., Zarebanadkouki, M., Declerck, S., & Javaux, M. (2023). Root water uptake and myco-rhizosphere hydraulic properties. In J. Goss (M), Oliver (M) (dir.) (ed.), Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-822974-3.00222-6

Meunier, F., Couvreur, V., Draye, X., Lobet, G., Huber, K., Schroeder, N., Jorda, H., Koch, A., Landl, M., Schnepf, A., Vanderborght, J., Vereecken, H., & Javaux, M. (2022). Investigating Soil–Root Interactions with the Numerical Model R-SWMS. In Lucas, M. (ed.), Methods in Molecular Biology : Plant Systems Biology (p. p. 259-283). Humana. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1816-5_13

Meunier, F., Couvreur, V., Vanderborght, J., & Javaux, M. (2022). How to Define the Appropriate Spatial Resolution of Root Segments When Solving in Root System Hydraulic. In Lucas, M. (ed.), Methods in Molecular Biology : Plant Systems Biology (p. p. 285-291). Humana. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1816-5_14

Schnepf, A., Carminati, A., Ahmed, M. A., Ani, M., Benard, P., Bentz, J., Bonkowski, M., Knott, M., Diehl, D., Duddek, P., Kröner, E., Javaux, M., Landl, M., Lehndorff, E., Lippold, E., Lieu, A., Mueller, C. W., Oburger, E., Otten, W., et al. (2022). Linking rhizosphere processes across scales: Opinion. Plant and Soil : international journal on plant-soil relationships, online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05306-7 (Original work published 2022)

Alonso, A., Froidevaux, M., Javaux, M., Laloy, E., Mattern, S., Roisin, C., Vanclooster, M., & Bielders, C. (2022). A hybrid method for characterizing tillage-induced soil physical quality at the profile scale with fine spatial details. Soil & Tillage Research, 216, 105236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2021.105236 (Original work published 2022)

Abdalla, M., Ahmed, M. A., Cai, G., Wankmüller, F., Schwartz, N., Litig, O., Javaux, M., & Carminati, A. (2022). Stomatal closure during water deficit is controlled by below-ground hydraulics. Annals of Botany, 129 (2), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab141 (Original work published 2022)

Deseano Diaz, P. A., van Dusschoten, D., Kübert, A., Brüggemann, N., Javaux, M., Merz, S., Vanderborght, J., Vereecken, H., Dubbert, M., & Rothfuss, Y. (2022). Response of a grassland species to dry environmental conditions from water stable isotopic monitoring: no evident shift in root water uptake to wetter soil layers. Plant and Soil : international journal on plant-soil relationships. Published. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05703-y (Original work published 2022)

Jorda, H., Ahmed, M. A., Javaux, M., Carminati, A., Duddek, P., Vetterlein, D., & Vanderborght, J. (2022). Field scale plant water relation of maize (Zea mays) under drought – impact of root hairs and soil texture. Plant and Soil : international journal on plant-soil relationships. Published. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05685-x (Original work published 2022)

Vereecken, H., Amelung, W., Bauke, S. L., Bogena, H., Brüggemann, N., Montzka, C., Vanderborght, J., Bechtold, M., Blöschl, G., Carminati, A., Javaux, M., Konings, A. G., Kusche, J., Neuweiler, I., Or, D., Steele-Dunne, S., Verhoef, A., Young, M., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Soil hydrology in the Earth system. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Published. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00324-6 (Original work published 2022)

Schnepf, A., Leitner, D., Bodner, G., & Javaux, M. (2022). Editorial: Benchmarking 3D-Models of Root Growth, Architecture and Functioning. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.902587 (Original work published 2022)

Delval, L., Jonard, F., & Javaux, M. (2022). Consequences of the 2021 season on yields from vineyards in Wallonia. IVES Technical Reviews. Published. https://doi.org/10.20870/IVES-TR.2022.5539 (Original work published 2022)

Cai, G., König, M., Carminati, A., Abdalla, M., Javaux, M., Wankmüller, F., & Ahmed, M. A. (2022). Transpiration response to soil drying and vapor pressure deficit is soil texture specific. Plant and Soil : international journal on plant-soil relationships. Published. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05818-2 (Original work published 2022)

Doris Vetterlein, Maxime Phalempin, Eva Lippold, Steffen Schlüter, Susanne Schreiter, Mutez A. Ahmed, Andrea Carminati, Patrick Duddek, Helena Jorda, Gerd Patrick Bienert, Manuela Desiree Bienert, Mika Tarkka, Minh Ganther, Eva Oburger, Michael Santangeli, Javaux, M., & Jan Vanderborght. (2022). Root hairs matter at field scale for maize shoot growth and nutrient uptake, but root trait plasticity is primarily triggered by texture and drought. Plant and Soil : international journal on plant-soil relationships. Published. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-022-05434-0 (Original work published 2022)

Rasmussen, C. R., Eva Rosenqvist, Fulai Liu, Dorte Bodin Dresbøll, Kristian Thorup-Kristensen, & Javaux, M. (2022). Rapeseed reaches 4 meters depth – but does it escape drought stress? EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna.

Delval, L., Javaux, M., Jonard, F., & Delvaux, B. (2022). Quantification of intrafield variability of vine water status using Sentinel 2: case study of two Belgian vineyards. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna.

Javaux, M., & Mehmandoostkotlar, A. (2022). Root activity for water uptake: a hydraulic approach. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna.

Andrea Schnepf, Couvreur, V., Benjamin Delory, Claude Doussan, Javaux, M., Deepanshu Khare1, Koch, A., Timo Koch, Christian Kuppe, Daniel Leitner, Lobet, G., Félicien Meunier, Johannes Postma, Ernst Schäfer, Jan Vanderborght, & Harry Vereecken. (2022). Quantitative comparison of root water uptake simulated by functional-structural root architecture models. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna.

Delval, L., Javaux, M., Jonard, F., & Delvaux, B. (2022). Quantification of intra plot variability of vine water status using Sentinel 2 case study of two Belgian vineyards. Young Soil Scientists Day, Bruxelles.

Vanderborght, J., Couvreur, V., Meunier, F., Bouda, M., Schnepf, A., & Javaux, M. (2022). From soil-root hydraulic architectures to macroscopic representations of hydraulics in land surface models. Book of Abstracts, p. 203 p.

Bouda, M., Jan Vandergborght, Couvreur, V., & Javaux, M. (2022). Predicting plant water limitation in heterogeneously drying soils: the upscaling approach to improving soil-plant hydrodynamics in ESMs. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna.

Paulina Alejandra Deseano Diaz, Dagmar van Dusschoten, Kübert, A., Nicolas Brüggemann, Javaux, M., Steffen Merz, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken, Maren Dubbert, & Youri Rothfuss. (2022). Investigating root water uptake dynamics of a grassland species under varying hydro-climatic conditions with non-destructive isotopic monitoring. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna.

Toussaint, F., Alonso, A., & Javaux, M. (2022). Questioning the adequacy of an invasive plant management technique through remote sensing observations. EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna.

Barczi, J.-F., Beroueg, A., Buck-Sorlin, G., Couvreur, V., Danjon, F., Delory, B. M., Doussan, C., De Swaef, T., Draye, X., Drouet, J.-L., Dupuy, L., Garre, S., Gérard, F., Heymans, A., Hinsinger, P., Javaux, M., Koch, A., Landl, M., Lecompte, F., et al. (2021). Loïc Pagès, founding scientist in root ecology and modelling. in silico Plants, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diab035 (Original work published 2021)

Flores, O., Deckmyn, G., Curiel Yuste, J., Javaux, M., Uvarov, A., van der Linde, S., De Vos, B., Vereecken, H., Jiménez, J., Vinduskova, O., & Schnepf, A. (2021). KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models—II: model description, implementation and testing. PeerJ, 9, e10707. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10707 (Original work published 2021)

Javaux, M., & Carminati, A. (2021). Soil hydraulics affect the degree of isohydricity. Plant Physiology, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab154 (Original work published 2021)

Hopmans, J. W., Qureshi, A. S., Kisekka, I., Munns, R., Grattan S.R., Rengasamy, P., Ben-Gal, A., Assouline, S., Javaux, M., Minhas, P. S., Raats, P. A. C., Skaggs, T. H., Wang, G., De Jong van Lier, Q., Jiao, H., Lavado, R. S., Lazarovitch, N., Li, B., & Taleisnik, E. (2021). Critical knowledge gaps and research priorities in global soil salinity. Advances in Agronomy, 169, 1-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2021.03.001 (Original work published 2021)

Jorda, H., Huber, K., Kunkel, A., Vanderborght, J., Javaux, M., Oberdörster, C., Hammel, K., & Schnepf, A. (2021). Mechanistic modeling of pesticide uptake with a 3D plant architecture model. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. Published. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14878-3 (Original work published 2021)

Vanderborght, J., Couvreur, V., Meunier, F., Schnepf, A., Vereecken, H., Bouda, M., & Javaux, M. (2021). From hydraulic root architecture models to macroscopic representations of root hydraulics in soil water flow and land surface models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 4835-4860. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4835-2021 (Original work published 2021)

Javaux, M. (2021). Modelling soil and plant hydraulic resistances from root to field scale. D-USYS, Zurich.

Jorda Guerra, H., Ahmed, M., Coolens, A., Javaux, M., & Vetterlein, D. (2021). Field measured and simulated soil-plant water relations in maize. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2021-15662. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15662 (Original work published 2021)

Carminati, A., & Javaux, M. (2021). A modelling framework to predict transpiration reductions during drought based on soil hydraulics. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2021-9407. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9407 (Original work published 2021)

Abdalla, M., Carminati, A., Cai, G., Javaux, M., & Ahmed, M. (2021). Declining soil-root hydraulic conductance drives stomatocal closure of tomato under drought. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2021-4192. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-4192 (Original work published 2021)

Alonso, A., Bielders, C., froidevaux, M., Javaux, M., laloy, E., Mattern, S., Roisin, C., & Vanclooster, M. (2021). Depicting the effect of tillage treatments and vehicle traffic on the agricultural soil physical quality with a high level of spatial details. JORNADAS INTERNACIONALES DE INVESTIGACIÓN by the Institute for Innovation & Sustainable Development in Food Chain, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

Javaux, M., & Carminati, A. (2021). Impact of soil hdyraulic properties on water-soil-plant relations. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2021-15969. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15969 (Original work published 2021)

Vanderborght, J., Couvreur, V., Meunier, F., Schnepf, A., Vereecken, H., Bouda, M., & Javaux, M. (2021). Towards the consideration of soil-root resistances in root water uptake models for macroscopic representations of hydraulic root architecture. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2021-8151. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8151 (Original work published 2021)

Bouda, M., Vanderborght, J., & Javaux, M. (2021). A general approach for analytically upscaling the exact root water uptake equations despite heterogeneous soil moisture at the soil-root interface. Geophysical Research Abstracts, EGU2021-13601. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-13601 (Original work published 2021)