Luis Lopez Sangil. PhD.
Current address: Dprt. of Environment, Earth & Ecosystems, The Open University (UK)
His research in the CTFC focused on the soil carbon stabilization in Mediterranean agroecosystems and the interactions of organic matter with the microbial and the mineral components in soils. Currently working on the functional fractionation of the mineral-stabilized SOM.
Selected papers:
Lopez-Sangil L, Rovira P, Casals P 2013. Decay and vertical reallocation of organic C, and its incorporation into carbonates, in agricultural soil horizons at two different depths and rewetting frequencies. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 61, 33-44
Lopez-Sangil L, Rovira P 2013. Sequential chemical extractions of the mineral- associated soil organic matter: an integrated approach for the fractionation of organo- mineral complexes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 62, 57-67.
Lopez-Sangil L, Rousk J, Wallander H, Casals P, 2011. Microbial growth measurements reveal that land-use abandonment promotes a fungal dominance in grazed Mediterranean ecosystems. Biology and Fertility of Soils 47, 129 – 138.
Casals P, Lopez-Sangil L, Carrara A, Gimeno C, Nogués S, 2011. Autotrophic and heterotrophic contributions to short-term soil CO2 efflux following simulated summer precipitation pulses in a Mediterranean dehesa. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 25, GB3012.
Lopez-Sangil L, Rovira P, 2011. Individual closed chamber: an alternative method for quantifying 14C in both labeled organic and inorganic carbon substrates. Biogeochemistry, DOI 10.1007/s10533-011-9643-6.