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Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja

Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
8816
World Ranking
4046
National Ranking
124

Overview

Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja is affiliated with the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work across several subfields including global and planetary change, soil science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and earth-surface processes.

Their recent publications cover a variety of topics and include several notable papers:

  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives, 2021, Air Soil and Water Research

Lucas-Borja's research topics consistently address several main areas:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Forest ecology and management

Their frequent coauthors include Demetrio Antonio Zema, Pedro Antonio Plaza-Álvarez, Misagh Parhizkar, Isabel Miralles, and Daniel Moya.

Lucas-Borja has published extensively in multiple scientific journals, with a particular concentration of work appearing in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Forests
  • Ecological Engineering

Best Publications

  • Soil erosion modelling: A global review and statistical analysis.

    Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Pasquale Borrelli;Christine Alewell;Pablo Alvarez;Jamil Alexandre Ayach Anache

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts.

    Nancy Shackelford;Nancy Shackelford;Gustavo B. Paterno;Gustavo B. Paterno;Daniel E. Winkler;Todd E. Erickson

  • The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review

    Giacomo Certini;Daniel Moya;Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja;Giovanni Mastrolonardo

  • Unravelling the importance of forest age stand and forest structure driving microbiological soil properties, enzymatic activities and soil nutrients content in Mediterranean Spanish black pine(Pinus nigra Ar. ssp. salzmannii) Forest.

    M.E. Lucas-Borja;J. Hedo;A. Cerdá;D. Candel-Pérez

  • Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives

    Nieves Fernandez-Anez;Andrey Krasovskiy;Mortimer Müller;Harald Vacik

  • The use of check dams in watershed management projects: Examples from around the world.

    Naseer Ahmed Abbasi;Xiangzhou Xu;Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja;Weiqin Dang

  • Effects of land use and seasonality on stream water quality in a small tropical catchment: The headwater of Córrego Água Limpa, São Paulo (Brazil).

    Valdemir Rodrigues;Joan Estrany;Mauricio Ranzini;Valdir de Cicco

  • Soil erosion modelling: A bibliometric analysis.

    Nejc Bezak;Matjaž Mikoš;Pasquale Borrelli;Christine Alewell

  • The impact of straw mulching and salvage logging on post-fire runoff and soil erosion generation under Mediterranean climate conditions.

    M.E. Lucas-Borja;J. González-Romero;P.A. Plaza-Álvarez;J. Sagra

  • Soil microbiological properties and enzymatic activities of long-term post-fire recovery in dry and semiarid Aleppo pine ( Pinus halepensis M.) forest stands

    J. Hedo;M. E. Lucas-Borja;C. Wic;M. Andrés-Abellán

  • Plant diversity and soil stoichiometry regulates the changes in multifunctionality during pine temperate forest secondary succession

    Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

  • Soil microbial community structure and activity in monospecific and mixed forest stands, under Mediterranean humid conditions

    M. E. Lucas-Borja;D. Candel;K. Jindo;J. L. Moreno

  • Assessing climate–growth relationships under contrasting stands of co-occurring Iberian pines along an altitudinal gradient

    D. Candel-Pérez;J.C. Linares;B. Viñegla;M.E. Lucas-Borja

  • Spatial patterns of sediment connectivity in terraced lands: Anthropogenic controls of catchment sensitivity

    Aleix Calsamiglia;Josep Fortesa;Julián García-Comendador;Manuel E. Lucas-Borja

  • Short-term changes in infiltration between straw mulched and non-mulched soils after wildfire in Mediterranean forest ecosystems

    Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja;Demetrio Antonio Zema;Bruno Gianmarco Carrà;Artemio Cerdà

  • Thinning and recovery effects on soil properties in two sites of a Mediterranean forest, in Cuenca Mountain (South-eastern of Spain)

    C. Wic Baena;M. Andrés-Abellán;M.E. Lucas-Borja;E. Martínez-García

  • Genetic Diversity of Pinus nigra Arn. Populations in Southern Spain and Northern Morocco Revealed By Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat Profiles

    Angela Rubio-Moraga;David Candel-Perez;Manuel E. Lucas-Borja;Pedro A. Tiscar

  • Microbial diversity regulates ecosystem multifunctionality during natural secondary succession

    Xiuzhen Shi;Jianqing Wang;Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja;Zhenyu Wang

  • The burn severity and plant recovery relationship affect the biological and chemical soil properties of Pinus halepensis Mill. stands in the short and mid-terms after wildfire.

    D. Moya;S. González-De Vega;E. Lozano;F. García-Orenes

  • The effects of human trampling on the microbiological properties of soil and vegetation in mediterranean mountain areas

    M. E. Lucas-Borja;F. Bastida;J. L. Moreno;C. Nicolás

  • Evaluating the effects of check dams on channel geometry, bed sediment size and riparian vegetation in Mediterranean mountain torrents.

    Demetrio Antonio Zema;Giuseppe Bombino;Pietro Denisi;Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja

Frequent Co-Authors

Demetrio Antonio Zema
Demetrio Antonio Zema University of Reggio Calabria
Jorge de las Heras
Jorge de las Heras University of Castilla-La Mancha
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Alain Dejean
Alain Dejean Paul Sabatier University
Tim Newbold
Tim Newbold University College London
Samantha L. L. Hill
Samantha L. L. Hill World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Tony R. Walker
Tony R. Walker Dalhousie University
Jérémy Bouyer
Jérémy Bouyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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