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Yolanda Cantón

Yolanda Cantón

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
7288
World Ranking
6148
National Ranking
168

Overview

Yolanda Cantón is affiliated with the University of Almería in Spain. Their research spans several fields, predominantly Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these areas, they focus particularly on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The topics central to their work include Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Lichen and Fungal Ecology, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, Algal Biology and Biofuel Production, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Yolanda Cantón has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Water Regulation in Cyanobacterial Biocrusts from Drylands: Negative Impacts of Anthropogenic Disturbance, 2020, Water
  • Land degradation effects on composition of pioneering soil communities: An alternative successional sequence for dryland cyanobacterial biocrusts, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Overcoming field barriers to restore dryland soils by cyanobacteria inoculation, 2020, Soil and Tillage Research
  • Assessing the viability of cyanobacteria pellets for application in arid land restoration, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero, Sonia Chamizo, Raúl Román, Borja Rodríguez-Lozano, and Beatriz Roncero-Ramos.

Their work appears regularly in specific publication venues, with multiple contributions to The Science of The Total Environment, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Journal of Environmental Management, CATENA, and Geoderma.

Best Publications

  • Biological soil crust development affects physicochemical characteristics of soil surface in semiarid ecosystems

    Sonia Chamizo;Yolanda Cantón;Isabel Miralles;Francisco Domingo

  • A review of runoff generation and soil erosion across scales in semiarid south-eastern Spain

    Y. Cantón;A. Solé-Benet;J. de Vente;C. Boix-Fayos

  • Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain.

    Fernando T. Maestre;Matthew A. Bowker;Yolanda Cantón;Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy

  • Temporal and spatial patterns of soil moisture in semiarid badlands of SE Spain

    Y. Cantón;A. Solé-Benet;F. Domingo

  • Crust Composition and Disturbance Drive Infiltration Through Biological Soil Crusts in Semiarid Ecosystems

    Sonia Chamizo;Yolanda Cantón;Roberto Lázaro;Albert Solé-Benet

  • Effects of biological soil crusts on surface roughness and implications for runoff and erosion

    Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;Yolanda Cantón;Sonia Chamizo;Ashraf Afana

  • Hydrological and erosion response of a badlands system in semiarid SE Spain

    Y Cantón;F Domingo;A Solé-Benet;J Puigdefábregas

  • Aggregate stability in range sandy loam soils Relationships with runoff and erosion

    Yolanda Cantón;Albert Solé-Benet;C. Asensio;Sonia Chamizo

  • Topographic controls on the spatial distribution of ground cover in the Tabernas badlands of SE Spain

    Y Cantón;G Del Barrio;A Solé-Benet;R Lázaro

  • Biocrusts positively affect the soil water balance in semiarid ecosystems

    Sonia Chamizo;Sonia Chamizo;Yolanda Cantón;Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;Francisco Domingo

  • Effects of biocrust on soil erosion and organic carbon losses under natural rainfall

    Sonia Chamizo;Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;José Raúl Román;Yolanda Cantón

  • The influence of competition between lichen colonization and erosion on the evolution of soil surfaces in the Tabernas badlands (SE Spain) and its landscape effects

    R. Lázaro;Y. Cantón;A. Solé-Benet;J. Bevan

  • Surface temperature cooling trends and negative radiative forcing due to land use change toward greenhouse farming in southeastern Spain

    Pablo Campra;Mónica García García;Yolanda Cantón;Alicia Palacios-Orueta

  • Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts

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  • Controls of infiltration–runoff processes in Mediterranean karst rangelands in SE Spain

    Xiao Yan Li;Xiao Yan Li;Sergio Contreras;Albert Solé-Benet;Yolanda Cantón

  • Soil Loss and Runoff in Semiarid Ecosystems: A Complex Interaction Between Biological Soil Crusts, Micro-topography, and Hydrological Drivers

    Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;Yolanda Cantón;Sonia Chamizo;Roberto Lázaro

  • Soil–geomorphology relations in gypsiferous materials of the Tabernas Desert (Almerı́a, SE Spain)

    Y. Cantón;A. Solé-Benet;R. Lázaro

  • Cyanobacteria inoculation enhances carbon sequestration in soil substrates used in dryland restoration.

    M. Muñoz-Rojas;M. Muñoz-Rojas;J.R. Román;B. Roncero-Ramos;T.E. Erickson

  • Runoff at contrasting scales in a semiarid ecosystem: A complex balance between biological soil crust features and rainfall characteristics

    Sonia Chamizo;Yolanda Cantón;Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;Francisco Domingo

  • Role of dewfall in the water balance of a semiarid coastal steppe ecosystem

    O. Uclés;L. Villagarcía;M. J. Moro;Y. Canton

  • Restoring soil functions by means of cyanobacteria inoculation: Importance of soil conditions and species selection

    José Raúl Román;Beatriz Roncero-Ramos;Sonia Chamizo;Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero

  • Weathering of a gypsum-calcareous mudstone under semi-arid environment at Tabernas, SE Spain: laboratory and field-based experimental approaches

    Yolanda Cantón;Albert Solé-Benet;Ignasi Queralt;Roberto Pini

  • Ecosystem services provided by biocrusts: From ecosystem functions to social values

    Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero;Antonio J. Castro;Antonio J. Castro;Sonia Chamizo;Sonia Chamizo;Cristina Quintas-Soriano;Cristina Quintas-Soriano

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco Domingo
Francisco Domingo Spanish National Research Council
Albert Solé-Benet
Albert Solé-Benet Spanish National Research Council
Juan Puigdefábregas
Juan Puigdefábregas Spanish National Research Council
Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
Miriam Muñoz-Rojas University of New South Wales
Estela Nadal-Romero
Estela Nadal-Romero Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
Francesc Gallart
Francesc Gallart Spanish National Research Council
Jérôme Latron
Jérôme Latron Spanish National Research Council
Jesús Rodrigo-Comino
Jesús Rodrigo-Comino University of Granada
Ramon J. Batalla
Ramon J. Batalla University of Lleida
Juan Albaladejo
Juan Albaladejo Spanish National Research Council

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