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Overview

Gervasio Piñeiro is affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions in soil science, global and planetary change, ecology, plant science, and environmental chemistry.

The major topics in Piñeiro's work include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, agroforestry and silvopastoral systems, peatlands and wetlands ecology, agriculture sustainability, environmental impact, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Frequent co-authors in Piñeiro's collaborative efforts are José M. Paruelo, Priscila Pinto, Estéban G. Jobbágy, Tomás Della Chiesa, and Laura Yahdjian. Publications often appear in several recurring venues, including The Science of The Total Environment, Atmospheric Environment, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Ecología Austral, and the Journal of Vegetation Science.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Piñeiro include:

  • Plant rhizodeposition: A key factor for soil organic matter formation in stable fractions (2021, Science Advances)
  • Agroecology in Large Scale Farming-A Research Agenda (2020, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems)
  • Grazers and fires: Their role in shaping the structure and functioning of the Río de la Plata Grasslands (2022, Ecología Austral)
  • Rise of toxic cyanobacterial blooms is promoted by agricultural intensification in the basin of a large subtropical river of South America (2023, Global Change Biology)
  • LAND-USE INTENSIFICATION TRENDS IN THE RIO DE LA PLATA REGION OF SOUTH AMERICA: TOWARD SPECIALIZATION OR RECOUPLING CROP AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION (2021, Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering)

Best Publications

  • The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls

    Robert B. Jackson;Kate Lajtha;Susan E. Crow;Gustaf Hugelius

  • How to evaluate models : Observed vs. predicted or predicted vs. observed?

    Gervasio Piñeiro;Susana Perelman;Juan P. Guerschman;José M. Paruelo

  • Pathways of Grazing Effects on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen

    Gervasio Piñeiro;José M. Paruelo;Martín Oesterheld;Esteban G. Jobbágy

  • Plant rhizodeposition: A key factor for soil organic matter formation in stable fractions.

    Sebastián H. Villarino;Sebastián H. Villarino;Priscila Pinto;Robert B. Jackson;Gervasio Piñeiro;Gervasio Piñeiro

  • Cambios en el uso de la tierra en Argentina y Uruguay : marcos conceptuales para su análisis

    J.M. Paruelo;J.P. Guerschman;G. Piñeiro;E.G. Jobbágy

  • Seasonal Variation in Aboveground Production and Radiation-use Efficiency of Temperate rangelands Estimated through Remote Sensing

    Gervasio Piñeiro;Martín Oesterheld;José M. Paruelo

  • Soil C and N changes with afforestation of grasslands across gradients of precipitation and plantation age.

    Sean T. Berthrong;Gervasio Piñeiro;Esteban G. Jobbágy;Robert B. Jackson

  • Grazing effects on belowground C and N stocks along a network of cattle exclosures in temperate and subtropical grasslands of South America

    Gervasio Piñeiro;José M. Paruelo;Esteban G. Jobbágy;Robert B. Jackson

  • Shifts in soil organic carbon for plantation and pasture establishment in native forests and grasslands of South America

    Roxana P. Eclesia;Roxana P. Eclesia;Esteban G. Jobbagy;Robert B. Jackson;Fernando Biganzoli

  • Ecosystem changes associated with grazing in subhumid South American grasslands

    A. Altesor;G. Piñeiro;F. Lezama;R.B. Jackson

  • The ecosystem functioning dimension in conservation: insights from remote sensing

    Javier Cabello;Néstor Fernández;Néstor Fernández;Domingo Alcaraz-Segura;Cecilio Oyonarte

  • Greater humification of belowground than aboveground biomass carbon into particulate soil organic matter in no-till corn and soybean crops

    Sebastián R. Mazzilli;Armen R. Kemanian;Oswaldo R. Ernst;Robert B. Jackson

  • Increased cropping intensity improves crop residue inputs to the soil and aggregate-associated soil organic carbon stocks

    Leonardo Esteban Novelli;Octavio Pedro Caviglia;Octavio Pedro Caviglia;Octavio Pedro Caviglia;Gervasio Piñeiro

  • Potential long‐term impacts of livestock introduction on carbon and nitrogen cycling in grasslands of Southern South America

    Gervasio Piñeiro;José Maria Paruelo;Martin Oesterheld

  • Analytical models of soil and litter decomposition: Solutions for mass loss and time-dependent decay rates

    Stefano Manzoni;Gervasio Piñeiro;Gervasio Piñeiro;Robert B. Jackson;Esteban G. Jobbágy

  • Priming of soil organic carbon decomposition induced by corn compared to soybean crops

    Sebastián R. Mazzilli;Armen R. Kemanian;Oswaldo R. Ernst;Robert B. Jackson

  • Agroecology in large scale farming : A research agenda

    Pablo Tittonell;Gervasio Piñeiro;Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi;Santiago Dogliotti

  • Soil carbon, multiple benefits

    Eleanor Milne;Eleanor Milne;Steven A. Banwart;Elke Noellemeyer;David James Abson

  • Deforestation impacts on soil organic carbon stocks in the Semiarid Chaco Region, Argentina

    Sebastián Horacio Villarino;Sebastián Horacio Villarino;Guillermo Alberto Studdert;Pablo Baldassini;Maria Gabriela Cendoya

  • Forestación en pastizales: hacia una visión integral de sus oportunidades y costos ecológicos

    E. G. Jobbágy;M. Vasallo;K. A. Farley;G. Piñeiro

  • How does agricultural management modify ecosystem services in the argentine Pampas? The effects on soil C dynamics

    Constanza Caride;Gervasio Piñeiro;José María Paruelo

  • Estimating forage quantity and quality under different stress and senescent biomass conditions via spectral reflectance

    Martín Durante;Martín Oesterheld;Gervasio Piñeiro;María Mercedes Vassallo

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban G. Jobbágy
Esteban G. Jobbágy National University of San Luis
José M. Paruelo
José M. Paruelo University of Buenos Aires
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Martín Oesterheld
Martín Oesterheld University of Buenos Aires
Christopher Martius
Christopher Martius Center for International Forestry Research, Germany
Lars J. Munkholm
Lars J. Munkholm Aarhus University
Louis A. Schipper
Louis A. Schipper University of Waikato
Victor O. Sadras
Victor O. Sadras Flinders University
Charles W. Rice
Charles W. Rice Kansas State University
Denis A. Angers
Denis A. Angers Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada

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