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Overview

Cristina Santín is a researcher affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their primary area of expertise lies within Environmental Science, a field in which they have contributed extensively through 83 publications.

Their research covers several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Soil Science
  • Atmospheric Science

Key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact

Their frequent co-authors demonstrate collaborative research efforts within the field and include:

  • Stefan H. Doerr
  • Matthew W. Jones
  • Julia Kelly
  • Natascha Kljun
  • Carmen Sánchez-García

Santín's research has been published repeatedly in notable venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Recent publications reflect their engagement with diverse environmental science topics. Selected papers are:

  • "Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change," 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system," 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Fires prime terrestrial organic carbon for riverine export to the global oceans," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply," 2021, Hydrological Processes
  • "A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands," 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Best Publications

  • Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

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  • Wildland fire ash: Production, composition and eco-hydro-geomorphic effects

    Merche B. Bodí;Merche B. Bodí;Deborah A. Martin;Victoria N. Balfour;Cristina Santín

  • Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world.

    Stefan H. Doerr;Cristina Santín

  • Towards a global assessment of pyrogenic carbon from vegetation fires

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Evan S. Kane;Caroline A. Masiello

  • Fire effects on soils: the human dimension.

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr

  • Pyrogenic organic matter production from wildfires: a missing sink in the global carbon cycle

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Caroline M. Preston;Gil González‐Rodríguez

  • The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system

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  • Global fire emissions buffered by the production of pyrogenic carbon

    Matthew W. Jones;Matthew W. Jones;Cristina Santín;Guido R. van der Werf;Stefan H. Doerr

  • Characterizing humic substances from estuarine soils and sediments by excitation-emission matrix spectroscopy and parallel factor analysis

    C. Santín;Y. Yamashita;X. L. Otero;M. Á. Álvarez

  • Fires prime terrestrial organic carbon for riverine export to the global oceans.

    Matthew W. Jones;Alysha I. Coppola;Cristina Santín;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Carbon sequestration potential and physicochemical properties differ between wildfire charcoals and slow-pyrolysis biochars.

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Agustin Merino;Thomas D. Bucheli

  • A global synthesis of fire effects on ecosystem services of forests and woodlands

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  • Forest floor chemical transformations in a boreal forest fire and their correlations with temperature and heating duration

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Agustín Merino;Robert Bryant

  • Quantity, composition and water contamination potential of ash produced under different wildfire severities.

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Xosé L. Otero;Chris J. Chafer

  • Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply

    François Nicolas Robinne;Dennis W. Hallema;Kevin D. Bladon;Mike D. Flannigan

  • Prescribed fire and its impacts on ecosystem services in the UK.

    Ashleigh R. Harper;Stefan H. Doerr;Cristina Santin;Cynthia A. Froyd

  • Chemical composition of wildfire ash produced in contrasting ecosystems and its toxicity to Daphnia magna

    Ashleigh R. Harper;Cristina Santin;Stefan H. Doerr;Cynthia A. Froyd

  • Assessing water contamination risk from vegetation fires: Challenges, opportunities and a framework for progress

    Joao P. Nunes;Stefan H. Doerr;Gary Sheridan;Jonay Neris

  • Saltmarsh soil evolution after land reclamation in Atlantic estuaries (Bay of Biscay, North coast of Spain)

    Susana Fernández;Cristina Santín;Jorge Marquínez;Miguel A. Álvarez

  • The nitrogen budget of laboratory-simulated western US wildfires during the FIREX 2016 Fire Lab study

    James M. Roberts;Chelsea E. Stockwell;Chelsea E. Stockwell;Robert J. Yokelson;Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw

  • Wildfires influence on soil organic matter in an Atlantic mountainous region (NW of Spain)

    Cristina Santín;Heike Knicker;Susana Fernández;Rosana Menéndez-Duarte

  • Carbon loads, forms and sequestration potential within ash deposits produced by wildfire: new insights from the 2009 ‘Black Saturday’ fires, Australia

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Richard A. Shakesby;Rob Bryant

  • Characterization of humic substances in salt marsh soils under sea rush (Juncus maritimus)

    C. Santín;M. González-Pérez;X.L. Otero;P. Vidal-Torrado

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan H. Doerr
Stefan H. Doerr Swansea University
Xosé Luis Otero
Xosé Luis Otero University of Santiago de Compostela
Gary J. Sheridan
Gary J. Sheridan University of Melbourne
Caroline M. Preston
Caroline M. Preston Natural Resources Canada
William J. Elliot
William J. Elliot US Forest Service
Agustín Merino
Agustín Merino University of Santiago de Compostela
Peter R. Robichaud
Peter R. Robichaud United States Department of Agriculture
Samuel Abiven
Samuel Abiven University of Zurich
Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Caroline A. Masiello
Caroline A. Masiello Rice University

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