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Overview

Gustavo Saiz is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, soil science, and mechanics of materials.

The scientist's recent publications cover various environmental topics and have appeared in several recognized journals. These include:

  • Variations in soil chemical and physical properties explain basin-wide Amazon forest soil carbon concentrations (2020, SOIL)
  • Post-fire ecological restoration in Latin American forest ecosystems: Insights and lessons from the last two decades (2022, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • Variations in soil aggregation, microbial community structure and soil organic matter cycling associated to long-term afforestation and woody encroachment in a Mediterranean alpine ecotone (2021, Geoderma)
  • MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields tree cover needs calibrating in tropical savannas (2022, Biogeosciences)

Frequent coauthors in Gustavo Saiz's work include J. Flavio Espinoza-Monje, Robinson Muñoz, Laura Azócar, Oliver L. Phillips, and Pablo Souza-Alonso. Collaborative efforts with these researchers appear repeatedly across multiple studies.

The scientist has contributed notably to research on a range of main topics such as:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Forest biomass utilization and management
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Remote sensing in agriculture

Gustavo Saiz's work has been published frequently in venues including the SSRN Electronic Journal, SOIL, Forest Ecology and Management, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and Geoderma, reflecting a consistent presence in respected environmental science and ecology forums.

Best Publications

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • The Pyrogenic Carbon Cycle

    Michael I. Bird;Jonathan G. Wynn;Gustavo Saiz;Christopher M. Wurster

  • Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

    T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;R. J. W. Brienen;E. Gloor

  • Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands.

    Thomas Ferreira Domingues;Patrick Meir;Ted R. Feldpausch;Gustavo Saiz

  • Stand age‐related effects on soil respiration in a first rotation Sitka spruce chronosequence in central Ireland

    Gustavo Saiz;Kenneth A. Byrne;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Ralf Kiese

  • Seasonal and spatial variability of soil respiration in four Sitka spruce stands

    Gustavo Saiz;Carly Green;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Ralf Kiese

  • Rapid degradation of pyrogenic carbon

    Michael Zimmermann;Michael Zimmermann;Michael I. Bird;Christopher Wurster;Gustavo Saiz

  • On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

    Mireia Torello-Raventos;Ted R. Feldpausch;Elmar Veenendaal;Franziska Schrodt

  • Savanna burning and the assessment of long-term fire experiments with particular reference to Zimbabwe

    Peter A. Furley;Robert M. Rees;Casey M. Ryan;Gustavo Saiz

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Variation in soil carbon stocks and their determinants across a precipitation gradient in West Africa

    Gustavo Saiz;Gustavo Saiz;Michael I. Bird;Tomas Domingues;Franziska Schrodt

  • The potential of Miscanthus to sequester carbon in soils: comparing field measurements in Carlow, Ireland to model predictions

    Marta Dondini;Astley Hastings;Gustavo Saiz;Michael B. Jones

  • Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?

    E Veenendaal;M. Torello-Raventos;T.R. Feldpausch;T.F. Domingues

  • Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest-savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function

    J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;T. F. Domingues;F. Schrodt;F. Y. Ishida

  • Assessment of soil CO2 efflux and its components using a process-based model in a young temperate forest site

    Gustavo Saiz;Kevin Black;Brian Reidy;Sandra Lopez

  • Variations in soil chemical and physical properties explain basin-wide Amazon forest soil carbon concentrations

    Carlos Alberto Quesada;Claudia Paz;Claudia Paz;Erick Oblitas Mendoza;Oliver Lawrence Phillips

  • Inventory and eddy covariance-based estimates of annual carbon sequestration in a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) forest ecosystem

    K. Black;T. Bolger;P. Davis;M. Nieuwenhuis

  • Post-fire ecological restoration in Latin American forest ecosystems: Insights and lessons from the last two decades

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  • Do water-saving ground cover rice production systems increase grain yields at regional scales?

    Meiju Liu;Meiju Liu;Shan Lin;Michael Dannenmann;Yueyue Tao

  • Carbon stock and stock changes across a Sitka spruce chronosequence on surface-water gley soils

    Kevin Black;Kenneth A. Byrne;Maurizio Mencuccini;Brian Tobin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
Tomas F. Domingues
Tomas F. Domingues Universidade de São Paulo
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Mato Grosso State University
Elmar M. Veenendaal
Elmar M. Veenendaal Wageningen University & Research

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