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Luis Lopez-Sangil

Soil Quality Technologist & Lab Safety Coordinator

Research Interests

I’m a soil biogeochemist interested in the following topics:

- Soil Organic Matter

- Soil Quality & Classification

- Drought/Rewetting impacts on soil functions

- Soil (organo-mineral) fractionation

- Development of soil physical-chemical methods

- GHG emissions in agro-ecosystems (CO2, N2O)

- Agroforestry

- Lopez-Sangil L, Hartley IP, Rovira P, Casals P, Sayer EJ (2018). Drying and rewetting conditions differentially affect the mineralization of fresh plant litter and extant organic matter. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 124, 81-89.

- Brechet LM, Lopez-Sangil L, George C, Birkett AJ, Baxendale C, Castro-Trujillo B, Sayer EJ (2018). Distinct responses of soil respiration to experimental litter manipulation in temperate woodland and tropical forest. Ecology and Evolution 8, 3787-3796.

- Lopez-Sangil L, George C, Medina-Barcenas E, Birkett AJ, Baxendale C, Brechet LM, Estradera-Gumbau E, Sayer EJ (2017). The Automated Root Exudate System (ARES): a method to apply solutes at regular intervals to soils in the field. Methods of Ecology and Evolution 8, 1042-1050.

- Baptist F, Aranjuelo I, Legay N, Lopez-Sangil L, Molero G, Rovira P, Nogues S (2015). Rhizodeposition of organic carbon by plants with contrasting traits for resource acquisition: responses to different fertility regimes. Plant and Soil 394, 391-406.

- Lopez-Sangil L, Rovira P (2013). Sequential chemical extractions of the mineral-associated soil organic matter: An integrated approach for the fractionation of organo-mineral complexes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 62, 57-67.

- Lopez-Sangil L, Rovira P, Casals P (2013). Decay and vertical reallocation of organic C, and its incorporation into carbonates, in agricultural soil horizons at two different depths and rewetting frequencies. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 61, 33-44.

- Lopez-Sangil L, Rovira P (2013). Individual Closed Chamber: an alternative method for quantifying 14C in both labelled organic and inorganic carbon substrates. Biogeochemistry 112, 139-148.

- Casals P, Lopez-Sangil L, Carrara A, Gimeno C, Nogues S (2011). Autotrophic and heterotrophic contributions to short-term soil CO2 efflux following simulated summer precipitation pulses in a Mediterranean dehesa. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 25 (3).

- Lopez-Sangil L, Rousk J, Wallander H, Casals P (2011). Microbial growth rate measurements reveal that land-use abandonment promotes a fungal dominance of SOM decomposition in grazed Mediterranean ecosystems. Biology and Fertility of Soils 47, 129-138.