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Leonor Calvo

Leonor Calvo

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
5344
World Ranking
5409
National Ranking
177

Overview

Leonor Calvo is affiliated with the University of Leon in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, producing a significant body of work focused primarily on fire effects on ecosystems.

Their research spans several interrelated main and subfields, notably:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Soil Science

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Leonor Calvo has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga
  • Susana Suárez-Seoane
  • Elena Marcos
  • Víctor Fernández-García
  • Rayo Pinto

Their work has been published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Fire Ecology
  • Forests
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Remote Sensing

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Wildfire effects on diversity and composition in soil bacterial communities," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Fire regimes shape diversity and traits of vegetation under different climatic conditions," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Vegetation structure parameters determine high burn severity likelihood in different ecosystem types: A case study in a burned Mediterranean landscape," 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Hybrid inversion of radiative transfer models based on high spatial resolution satellite reflectance data improves fractional vegetation cover retrieval in heterogeneous ecological systems after fire," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Soil-vegetation relationships in Mediterranean forests after fire," 2021, Forest Ecosystems

Best Publications

  • Post-fire natural regeneration of a Pinus pinaster forest in NW Spain

    Leonor Calvo;Sara Santalla;Luz Valbuena;Elena Marcos

  • Effect of high temperatures on seed germination of two woody Leguminosae

    R. Tarrega;L. Calvo;L. Trabaud

  • Burn severity metrics in fire-prone pine ecosystems along a climatic gradient using Landsat imagery

    Víctor Fernández-García;Mónica Santamarta;Alfonso Fernández-Manso;Carmen Quintano

  • Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Postfire Vegetation Survey Campaigns through Large and Heterogeneous Areas: Opportunities and Challenges.

    José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga;Enoc Sanz-Ablanedo;Susana Suárez-Seoane;Leonor Calvo

  • Regeneration after wildfire in communities dominated by Pinus pinaster, an obligate seeder, and in others dominated by Quercus pyrenaica, a typical resprouter

    L. Calvo;S. Santalla;E. Marcos;L. Valbuena

  • Land surface temperature as potential indicator of burn severity in forest Mediterranean ecosystems

    C. Quintano;A. Fernández-Manso;L. Calvo;E. Marcos

  • Secondary succession after perturbations in a shrubland community

    Leonor Calvo;Reyes Tárrega;Estanislao de Luis

  • Abandonment and management in Spanish dehesa systems: effects on soil features and plant species richness and composition.

    Reyes Tárrega;Leonor Calvo;Ángela Taboada;Sergio García-Tejero

  • The dynamics of mediterranean shrubs species over 12 years following perturbations

    Leonor Calvo;Reyes Tárrega;Estanislao De Luis

  • Effect of high temperatures on seed germination of Pinus sylvestris and Pinus halepensis

    M.R Núñez;L Calvo

  • Environmental drivers of fire severity in extreme fire events that affect Mediterranean pine forest ecosystems

    Paula García-Llamas;Susana Suárez-Seoane;Angela Taboada;Alfonso Fernández-Manso

  • Wildfire effects on soil properties in fire-prone pine ecosystems: Indicators of burn severity legacy over the medium term after fire

    Víctor Fernández-García;Jessica Miesel;M. Jaime Baeza;Elena Marcos

  • Evaluation and comparison of Landsat 8, Sentinel-2 and Deimos-1 remote sensing indices for assessing burn severity in Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems

    Paula García-Llamas;Susana Suárez-Seoane;José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga;Víctor Fernández-García

  • Recovery after Experimental Cutting and Burning in Three Shrub Communities with Different Dominant Species

    L. Calvo;R. Tárrega;E. Luis;L. Valbuena

  • The role of fire frequency and severity on the regeneration of Mediterranean serotinous pines under different environmental conditions

    Víctor Fernández-García;Peter Z. Fulé;Elena Marcos;Leonor Calvo

  • Regeneration patterns in a Calluna vulgaris heathland in the Cantabrian mountains (NW Spain): effects of burning, cutting and ploughing

    Leonor Calvo;R. Tarrega;E. Luis

  • Space-time distribution patterns of Erica australis L. subsp. aragonensis (Willk) after experimental burning, cutting, and ploughing

    Leonor Calvo;Reyes Tarrega;Estanislao de Luis

  • Impact of land cover change on ecosystem service supply in mountain systems: a case study in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW of Spain)

    Paula García-Llamas;Ilse R. Geijzendorffer;Ana P. García-Nieto;Leonor Calvo

  • Wildfire effects on diversity and composition in soil bacterial communities.

    Luis E. Sáenz de Miera;Rayo Pinto;Juan J. Gutierrez-Gonzalez;Leonor Calvo

  • Fire regimes shape diversity and traits of vegetation under different climatic conditions.

    Víctor Fernández-García;Elena Marcos;Peter Z. Fulé;Otilia Reyes

  • Plant and carabid beetle species diversity in relation to forest type and structural heterogeneity

    Ángela Taboada;Reyes Tárrega;Leonor Calvo;Elena Marcos

  • Using predictive models as a spatially explicit support tool for managing cultural landscapes

    Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez;Susana Suárez-Seoane;Leonor Calvo;Estanislao de Luis

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Härdtle
Werner Härdtle Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Felipe Bravo
Felipe Bravo University of Valladolid
David G. Williams
David G. Williams University of Wyoming
Matthias M. Boer
Matthias M. Boer Western Sydney University
Karen Anderson
Karen Anderson University of Exeter
Michael D. Cramer
Michael D. Cramer University of Cape Town
Richard E. Brazier
Richard E. Brazier University of Exeter
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Juan Pedro Ferrio
Juan Pedro Ferrio Spanish National Research Council

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