Dr Sandrine Petit, Inrae

National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (Inrae) UMR Agroécologie, Dijon, France

Contact: sandrine.petit-michaut@inrae.fr

I am a landscape (agro)ecologist developing research on the impacts of land use change on farmland biodiversity and associated ecosystem services.

Since joining INRAE in 2007, I am leading research projects on the field-scale and landscape-scale drivers of arable communities (weeds, arthropods). I also focus on pest control services in farmland, with a focus on weed regulation by seed-eating predators. I am coordinating the French national long-term monitoring network SEBIOPAG and associated projects which focus on the management drivers of biodiversity and biological pest control at multiple scales.

Since 2019, I am an editor for Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.

Keywords: Agroecology; Landscape ecology, Conservation Biological Control, Landscape-scale management

APPOINTMENTS

2018-present Research Director DR1 INRAe, Agroecology Unit, Dijon, FR
2016-2021 - Deputy Head of the Agroecology unit.
2016-2021 - Head of the Sustainable Weed Management Lab

2007- Research Director DR2 INRAe, Agroecology Unit, Dijon, FR
1999-2007 - Research scientist, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, NERC, UK
1998 - Post-doc Louvain University, Belgium
1997 - Post-doc CNRS, Rennes University, FR
1996 - Post-doc, Stirling University, UK

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Muneret, L., Alignier, A., Ricci, B., Dosset, A., Allart, R., Ducourtieux, C., Laurent, E., Aviron, S., Vialatte, A., & Petit, S. (2025). Reduced temporal turnover in carabid communities enhances biomass stability in agricultural landscapes. Journal of Animal Ecology, 00, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70063
Gandara, T., Gardarin, A., Desaegher, J., Petit, S., Porcher, E., Michelot-Antalik, A. (2025). A crop yield-based pollination index reveals the impacts of land cover and pesticide use on realized pollination at a landscape scale. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 392, 109747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109747.
Bannwart, P., Gardarin, A. , Petit, S. (2025). Do semi-natural habitats enhance overwintering of generalist predators inarable cropping systems? A meta-analysis. Biological Control 201 105700. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2025.105700
Daouti, E., Neidel, V. Carbonne, B. Vašková, V.,Traugott, M., Wallinger, C., Bommarco, R., Feit, B., Bohan, D.A., Saska, P., Skuhrovec, J., Vasconcelos, S., Petit, S., van der Werf, W. Jonsson, M. (2024). Functional redundancy of weed seed predation is reduced by intensified agriculture. Ecology Letters http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14411
Courson, E., Ricci, B., Muneret, L., Petit, S.(2024). Reducing pest pressure and insecticide use by increasing hedgerows in the landscape. Science of the Total Environment 916, 170182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170182
Veldkamp, T., Li, Y, Alignier, A., Audet, P., Bajocco, S., Chen, X., Cheng, Y., Drinkwater, L.E. Lewis, K.A., Petit, S., Saggar, S., Toyota, K. Zheng, X. (2024). How to get your paper published in ‘Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment’. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 359, 108687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108687
Petit, S., Carbonne, B., Etcheverria, Z., Colbach, N., Bohan, D.A. (2023). Field margins enhance weed seed predation in adjacent fields in early spring. Frontiers in Agronomy, section Agroecological Cropping Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2023.1228395
Perthame, L. Petit, S. Colbach, N. (2023). Modelling weed seed predation by carabids and its effects on crop production under contrasted farming systems. European Journal of Agronomy 151 126953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2023.126953
Charalabidis, A., Derocles S.A.P., Mosquera-Muñoz, D.M., Petit, S., Dechaume-Moncharmont, FX, Bohan, D.A. (2023). Sex-specific foraging response to interspecific interactions in carabid beetles. Biological Control 185 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2023.105302
Carbonne*, B., Muneret*, L., Laurent, E., Felten, E., Ducourtieux, C., Henon, N., Matejicek, A., Goumon, A.L., Chauvel, B., Petit S. (2023).Conservation agriculture affects multitrophic interactions driving the efficacy of weed biological control. Journal of Applied Ecology; https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14475

Petit, S. & Landis, D.A. (2023). Landscape-scale management for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Editorial of Special Issue. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108370
Deguine J.P., ......, Petit, S., .....et al. (2023) Agroecological crop protection for sustainable agriculture. Advances in Agronomy, 178, 1-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2022.11.002.
Muneret, L.; Ricci, B.; Vialatte, A.; …; Petit, S. (2023).Carabid beetles have hump-shaped responses to disturbance and resource gradients within agricultural landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14357
Petit, S. et al. (2023) Building capacities for the design of agroecological landscapes: The added-value of Landscape Monitoring Networks. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2023, 342, pp.108263. https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03853832
Metcalfe, H. et al. (2023). The utility of the “Arable Weeds and Management in Europe” data collection: Challenges and opportunities of combining weed survey data at a European scale. Weed Research 63 https://doi.org/10.1111/wre.12562. OA
Courson E., Petit S., Poggi S., Ricci B. (2022). Weather and landscape drivers of the regional level of pest occurrence in arable agriculture: A multi-pest analysis at the French national scale. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 338, 108105, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03766524
Adeux G., Yvoz S., Biju-Duval L., Cadet E., Farcy P., Fried G., Guillemin J.-P., Meunier D., Munier-Jolain N., Petit S., Cordeau S. (2022). Cropping system diversification does not always beget weed diversity. European Journal of Agronomy, 133, 126438, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03566019
Bürger J., et al. (2022) Two sides of one medal: Arable weed vegetation of Europe in phytosociological data compared to agronomical weed surveys. Applied Vegetation Science, 25 (1), https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03637578, OA
Yvoz S., Cordeau S., Petit S. (2022). Enhancing weed multifunctionality at a landscape scale: A simulation study. Landscape and Urban Planning, 228, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03845062, OA
Gascuel-Odoux C., Lescourret F., Dedieu B., Détang-Dessendre C., Faverdin P., Hazard L., Litrico-Chiarelli I., Petit S., Roques L., Reboud X., Tixier-Boichard M., de Vries H., Caquet T. (2022). A research agenda for scaling up agroecology in European countries. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 42 (3), 53, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03707415, OA
Carbonne B., Bohan D., Foffová H., Daouti E., Frei B., Neidel V., Saska P., Skuhrovec J., Petit S. (2022). Direct and indirect effects of landscape and field management intensity on carabids through trophic resources and weeds. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59 (1), 176-187, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03604950
Jeanneret P., Aviron S., Alignier A., Lavigne C., Helfenstein J., Herzog F., Kay S., Petit S. (2021). Agroecology landscapes. Landscape Ecology, 36 (8), 2235-2257, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03534493, OA
Petit S., Deytieux V., Cordeau S. (2021). Landscape-scale approaches for enhancing biological pest control in agricultural systems. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 193 (75),, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03256028
Yvoz S., Petit S., Cadet E., Dessaint F., Cordeau S. (2021). Taxonomic and functional characteristics of field edge weed communities along a gradient of crop management intensity. Basic and Applied Ecology, 57, 14-27, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03483108, OA
Yvoz S., Cordeau S., Ploteau A., Petit S. (2021). A framework to estimate the contribution of weeds to the delivery of ecosystem (dis)services in agricultural landscapes. Ecological Indicators, 132, 108321, https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03483120, OA
Gray C., Ma A., Mclaughlin O., Petit S., Woodward G., Bohan D. (2021). Ecological plasticity governs ecosystem services in multilayer networks. Communications Biology, 4 (1), https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03125364, OA