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Jorge Mataix-Solera

Jorge Mataix-Solera

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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
10701
World Ranking
3495
National Ranking
89

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Jorge Mataix-Solera is affiliated with Miguel Hernandez University in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with numerous contributions focusing on various subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including fire effects on ecosystems, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, aeolian processes and effects, rangeland and wildlife management, biocrusts and microbial ecology, lichen and fungal ecology, and soil erosion and sediment transport.

Frequent co-authors of Jorge Mataix-Solera include Fuensanta García-Orenes, Minerva García-Carmona, Victoria Arcenegui, Endla Reintam, and Abdallah Alaoui. The collaboration with these researchers appears in multiple publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

The most common publication venues for their work are the Spanish Journal of Soil Science, Applied Soil Ecology, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, and the Journal of Environmental Management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jorge Mataix-Solera include:

  • The role of mosses in soil stability, fertility and microbiology six years after a post-fire salvage logging management (2020) - Journal of Environmental Management
  • Visual assessment of the impact of agricultural management practices on soil quality (2020) - Agronomy Journal
  • Moss biocrust accelerates the recovery and resilience of soil microbial communities in fire-affected semi-arid Mediterranean soils (2022) - The Science of The Total Environment
  • Salvage logging alters microbial community structure and functioning after a wildfire in a Mediterranean forest (2021) - Applied Soil Ecology
  • Manuring effects on visual soil quality indicators and soil organic matter content in different pedoclimatic zones in Europe and China (2021) - Soil and Tillage Research

Best Publications

  • Fire effects on soil aggregation: A review

    J. Mataix-Solera;J. Mataix-Solera;A. Cerdà;A. Cerdà;V. Arcenegui;V. Arcenegui;A. Jordán

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

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

  • The interdisciplinary nature of SOIL

    E.C. Brevik;A. Cerdà;J. Mataix-Solera;L. Pereg

  • Hydrophobicity and aggregate stability in calcareous topsoils from fire-affected pine forests in southeastern Spain

    J Mataix-Solera;S.H Doerr

  • Near infrared spectroscopy for determination of various physical, chemical and biochemical properties in Mediterranean soils

    R. Zornoza;C. Guerrero;J. Mataix-Solera;K.M. Scow

  • Soil microbial biomass and activity under different agricultural management systems in a semiarid Mediterranean agroecosystem

    F. García-Orenes;C. Guerrero;A. Roldán;J. Mataix-Solera

  • Effects of agricultural management on surface soil properties and soil–water losses in eastern Spain

    F. García-Orenes;A. Cerdà;J. Mataix-Solera;C. Guerrero

  • Factors controlling the aggregate stability and bulk density in two different degraded soils amended with biosolids

    F. García-Orenes;C. Guerrero;J. Mataix-Solera;J. Navarro-Pedreño

  • The wettability of ash from burned vegetation and its relationship to mediterranean plant species type, burn severity and total organic carbon content.

    Merche B. Bodí;Merche B. Bodí;Jorge Mataix-Solera;Stefan H. Doerr;Artemi Cerdà

  • Soil structural stability and erosion rates influenced by agricultural management practices in a semi‐arid Mediterranean agro‐ecosystem

    F. García-Orenes;A. Roldán;J. Mataix-Solera;A. Cerdà

  • Changes in soil microbial community structure following the abandonment of agricultural terraces in mountainous areas of Eastern Spain.

    R. Zornoza;C. Guerrero;J. Mataix-Solera;K.M. Scow

  • Assessing air-drying and rewetting pre-treatment effect on some soil enzyme activities under Mediterranean conditions

    R. Zornoza;C. Guerrero;J. Mataix-Solera;V. Arcenegui

  • Soil microbial recolonisation after a fire in a Mediterranean forest

    Gema Bárcenas-Moreno;Fuensanta García-Orenes;Jorge Mataix-Solera;Jorge Mataix-Beneyto

  • Forest Fire Effects on Soil Microbiology

    Jorge Mataix-Solera;César Guerrero;Fuensanta García-Orenes;Gema M. Bárcenas

  • Short-term effects of experimental fire for a soil under eucalyptus forest (SE Australia)

    Arturo J.P. Granged;Antonio Jordán;Lorena M. Zavala;Miriam Muñoz-Rojas;Miriam Muñoz-Rojas

  • Water repellency under different plant species in a calcareous forest soil in a semiarid Mediterranean environment

    J. Mataix-Solera;V. Arcenegui;C. Guerrero;A. M. Mayoral

  • Effect of fire severity on water repellency and aggregate stability on Mexican volcanic soils

    Antonio Jordán;Lorena M. Zavala;Jorge Mataix-Solera;Alejandra L. Nava;Alejandra L. Nava

  • Immediate effects of wildfires on water repellency and aggregate stability in Mediterranean calcareous soils

    V. Arcenegui;J. Mataix-Solera;C. Guerrero;R. Zornoza

  • Modelling the Impacts of Wildfire on Ash Thickness in a Short-Term Period

    P. Pereira;A. Cerdà;X. Úbeda;J. Mataix-Solera

  • Microbial recolonization and chemical changes in a soil heated at different temperatures

    César Guerrero;Jorge Mataix-Solera;Ignacio Gómez;Fuensanta García-Orenes

  • Soil organic matter and aggregates affected by wildfire in a Pinus halepensis forest in a Mediterranean environment

    J. Mataix-Solera;I. Gómez;J. Navarro-Pedreño;C. Guerrero

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Arcenegui
Victoria Arcenegui Miguel Hernandez University
Fuensanta García-Orenes
Fuensanta García-Orenes Miguel Hernandez University
Artemi Cerdà
Artemi Cerdà University of Valencia
César Guerrero
César Guerrero Miguel Hernandez University
Antonio Jordán
Antonio Jordán University of Seville
Raúl Zornoza
Raúl Zornoza Polytechnic University of Cartagena
Stefan H. Doerr
Stefan H. Doerr Swansea University
Agata Novara
Agata Novara University of Palermo
Minggang Xu
Minggang Xu Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Cristina Santín
Cristina Santín Swansea University

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