Producción Científica

Proyectos

2024-2028. FONDECYT Regular. Project Title: ‘Post-fire soil organic matter and nutrient dynamics across contrasting native ecosystems in central Chile. Aiding more focused decisions on wildfire restoration management’. FONDECYT Regular Nº 1241438. Investigador principal

2024-2025. Desafíos para la Recuperación Post-Incendios Etapa 1. Project Title: ‘Science and innovation to assess the impacts of wildfires on ecosystems of central-southern chile and generate proposals for fire-resilient landscapes based on different environmental change scenarios’. ANID grant Nº PINC230030. Investigador principal

2021-2023. “Pyrogenic carbon sequestration in Australian soils” Discovery Project. Australian Research Council (Australia). DP Grant 210100881. Co-Investigador

2021-2025. “Biorefinery of urban greening waste for the production of solid biofuels and chemical building blocks, based on a hydrothermal carbonization process”. FONDECYT Regular Nº 1211209. Co-Investigador

2020 – 2021.”ES-CL” Uso de corteza de eucaliptus generada en la industria de procesamiento de madera en la región del Bío Bío para la generación de compost y tecnosuelo como enmienda de suelos urbanos” Proyecto I+D. Co-Investigador

2020-2022. Fondo Interno para la Adquisición de Equipamiento Científico Tecnológico (UCSC). Project Title: ‘Espectrometría de Masas Isotópica (IRMS) para el estudio de materiales acuáticos y terrestres’. Investigador principal

2019-2022. FONDECYT Regular. Project Title: ‘The impact of wildfire severity on soil pyrogenic carbon across contrasting fire-prone ecosystems in central Chile: Temporal dynamics and related-effects on soil properties’. FONDECYT Regular Nº 1191905. Investigador Principal.

2019-2021. Fondo de Innovación para la Competitividad Regional (FIC-R) Biobío (Chile). Project Title: ‘Generación de Bioenergía para combustion a partir de manejo forestal sustentable’. Modalidad de Alto Impacto, Código BIP 40011065. Co-Investigador

2015-2019. The science underpinning the West-African forest island phenomenon, Royal Society-DFID Africa Capacity Building Initiative Programme Grants – Round 1 (UK). Investigador Asociado

2015. European Facility for Airborne Research (EUFAR) Transnational Access proposal. Particulate-Aerosol Emissions and Radiative Impact from Forest Fires (PAERIFF). Co-investigador

2014-2015. DFG Grant Proposal (Germany) ‘Use of biochar in agricultural soils as a potential abatement for both greenhouse gas emissions and the biological availability of lead in soybean plants’. DFG Grant SA 2537/2-1. Investigador Principal

2011. AINSE Research Award Proposal (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering). Title: ‘Past and present tropical vegetation dynamics and their impact on soil organic carbon pools’. C-14 AMS analysis. ALNGRA Grant 13/507. Investigador Principal

2011. ECR/New Staff Grant James Cook University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Australia). Project Title ‘Tropical vegetation shifts’. Investigador Principal

2009-2011. Spanish State Development Agency and Eurofor S.A. Project Title ‘Organic carbon sequestration in the urban area of Burgos, Spain’. Investigador Principal

2006. European Science Foundation (ESF) Exchange Grant within the Scientific Programme: The Role of Soils in the Terrestrial Carbon Balance (RSTCB). Project Title ‘Simulation of carbon cycling in a Sitka spruce chronosequence’. Grant ref. 1002. Investigador Principal

1999. EU structural funds. ‘Reclamation and improvement of mining habitats’. Consejería de Industria, Castilla y Leon Council, Spain. Grant obtained for Eurofor SA.

1998. EU structural funds. Common Agrarian Policy. ‘Afforestation of agricultural lands’. Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Castilla y Leon Council, Spain. Grant obtained for Eurofor SA

Publicaciones
Todas las publicaciones están indexadas en WoS (Core Collection: Science Citation Index Expanded), salvo que se indique otra indexación.

Veloso F, Souza-Alonso P, Saiz G (2025) Improving wildfire resilience in the Mediterranean central-south regions of Chile. Fire 8, 212. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire8060212

Wang X, Chen G, Awange J, Song Y, Wu Q, Li Xiaowei, February E, Saiz G, Kiese R, Li Xing, Xiao J, Zhao X, Wen B (2024) Establishing the global isoscape of leaf carbon in C3 plants through the integrations of remote sensing, carbon, geographic, and physiological information. Remote Sensing of Environment 302: 113987. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113987.

Espinoza-Monje JF, Garcés HO, Díaz J, Adam R, Lazo J, Muñoz R, Coronado M, Saiz G, Azócar L (2024) Investigating the properties of shrub biomass pellets through additive and sawdust admixing. Renewable Energy 229, 120764. doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2024.120764

Espinoza-Monje JF, Saiz G, Cifuentes G, Muñoz R, Valdebenito F, Ramírez G, Ariz S, and Azócar L (2023) Management of invasive shrubs to mitigate wildfire through fuel pellet production in central Chile. Fuel 354, 129342. doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2023.129342

Adzhar R, Kelley DI, Dong N, George C, Torello Raventos M, Veenendaal E, Feldpausch TR, Phillips OL, Lewis SL, Sonké B, Taedoumg H, Schwantes Marimon B, Domingues T, Arroyo L, Djagbletey G, Saiz G, Gerard F (2022) MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields tree cover needs calibrating in tropical savannas. Biogeosciences 19(5): 1377-1394. DOI: 10.5194/bg-19-1377-2022.

Ortiz C, Fernández-Alonso MJ, Kitzler B, Díaz-Pinés E, Saiz G, Rubio A, Benito M (2022) Variations in soil aggregation, microbial community structure and soil organic matter cycling associated to long-term afforestation and woody encroachment in a Mediterranean alpine ecotone. Geoderma 405: 115450. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115450.

Souza-Alonso P, Saiz G, García RA, Pauchard A, Ferreira A, Merino A (2022) Post-fire ecological restoration in Latin American forest ecosystems: insights and lessons from the last two decades. Forest Ecology and Management 509: 120083. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120083.

Djagbletey GD, Addo-Danso SD, Duah-Gyamfi A, Veenendaal EM, Feldpausch TR, Schrodt F, Domingues TF, Saiz G, Affum-Baffoe K, Bird M, Lloyd J, Meir P (2021) Woody plant composition, diversity and conservation status of a protected area in the transition zone of Ghana. Journal of the Ghana Science Association 20: 6-16. Revista indexada en Scopus.

ForestPlots.net, Blundo C, Carilla J, (…), Saiz G, (…) (2021) Taking the pulse of Earth’s tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation 260: 108849. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108849.

Loubota Panzou GJ, Fayolle A, Jucker T, Phillips OL, Bohlman S, Banin LF, Lewis SL, (…), Saiz G, (…), Feldpausch TR (2021) Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(2): 459-475. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13231.

Quesada CA, Paz C, Oblitas Mendoza E, Phillips OL, Saiz G, Lloyd J (2020) Variations in soil chemical and physical properties explain basin-wide Amazon forest soil carbon concentrations. Soil 6(1): 53-88. DOI: 10.5194/soil-6-53-2020.

Fungo B, Chen Z, Butterbach-Bahl K, Lehmannn J, Saiz G, Braojos V, Kolar A, Rittl TF, Tenywa M, Kalbitz K, Neufeldt H, Dannenmann M (2019) Nitrogen turnover and N2O/N2 ratio of three contrasting tropical soils amended with biochar. Geoderma 348: 12-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.04.007.

Gerschlauer F, Saiz G, Schellenberger Costa D, Kleyer M, Dannenmann M, Kiese R (2019) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Biogeosciences 16(2): 409-424. DOI: 10.5194/bg-16-409-2019.

Abaker WE, Berninger F, Saiz G, Pumpanen J, Starr M (2018) Linkages between soil carbon, soil fertility and nitrogen fixation in Acacia senegal plantations of varying age in Sudan. PeerJ 6: e5232. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5232.

Saiz G, Goodrick I, Wurster C, Nelson PN, Wynn J, Bird M (2018) Preferential production and transport of grass-derived pyrogenic carbon in NE-Australian savanna ecosystems. Frontiers in Earth Science 5: 115. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00115.

Díaz-Pinés E, Molina-Herrera S, Dannenmann M, Braun J, Haas E, Willibald G, Arias-Navarro C, Grote R, Wolf B, Saiz G, Aust C, Schnitzler J-P, Butterbach-Bahl K (2017) Nitrate leaching and soil nitrous oxide emissions diminish with time in a hybrid poplar short-rotation coppice in southern Germany. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 9(3): 613-626. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12367.

Hu B, Zhou M, Dannenmann M, Saiz G, Simon J, Bilela S, Liu X, Hou L, Chen H, Zhang S, Butterbach-Bahl K, Rennenberg H (2017) Comparison of nitrogen nutrition and soil carbon status of afforested stands established in degraded soil of the Loess Plateau, China. Forest Ecology and Management 389: 46-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.12.011.

Pelster D, Rufino M, Rosenstock T, Mango J, Saiz G, Diaz-Pines E, Baldi G, Butterbach-Bahl K (2017) Smallholder farms in eastern African tropical highlands have low soil greenhouse gas fluxes. Biogeosciences 14(1): 187-202. DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-187-2017.

Tejedor J, Saiz G, Rennenberg H, Dannenmann M (2017) Thinning of beech forests stocking on shallow calcareous soil maintains soil C and N stocks in the long run. Forests 8(5): 167. DOI: 10.3390/f8050167.

Zhang Y, Liu M, Saiz G, Dannenmann M, Guo L, Tao Y, Shi J, Zuo Q, Butterbach-Bahl K, Li G, Lin S (2017) Enhancement of root systems improves productivity and sustainability in water saving ground cover rice production system. Field Crops Research 213: 186-193. DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2017.08.008.

Abaker WE, Berninger F, Saiz G, Braojos V, Starr M (2016) Contribution of Acacia senegal to biomass and soil carbon in plantations of varying age in Sudan. Forest Ecology and Management 368: 71-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.003.

Feldpausch TR, Phillips OL, (…), Saiz G, (…) (2016) Amazon forest response to repeated droughts. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 30(7): 964-982. DOI: 10.1002/2015GB005133.

Saiz G, Wandera FM, Pelster DE, Ngetich W, Okalebo JR, Rufino MC, Butterbach-Bahl K (2016) Long-term assessment of soil and water conservation measures (Fanya-juu terraces) on soil organic matter in South Eastern Kenya. Geoderma 274: 1-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.03.022.

Bird MI, Wynn JG, Saiz G, Wurster CM, McBeath A (2015) The pyrogenic carbon cycle. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 43(1): 273-298. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060614-105038.

Ferreira Domingues T, Ishida FY, Feldpausch TR, Grace J, Meir P, Saiz G, Sene O, Schrodt F, Sonké B, Taedoumg H, Veenendaal EM, Lewis S, Lloyd J (2015) Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon. Oecologia 178(3): 659-672. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3250-5.

Liu M, Dannenmann M, Lin S, Saiz G, Yan G, Yao Z, Pelster DE, Tao H, Sippel S, Tao Y, Zhang Y, Zheng X, Zuo Q, Butterbach-Bahl K (2015) Ground cover rice production systems increase soil carbon and nitrogen stocks at regional scale. Biogeosciences 12(15): 4831-4840. DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-4831-2015.

Lloyd J, Domingues TF, Schrodt F, Ishida FY, Feldpausch TR, Saiz G, Quesada CA, Schwarz M, Torello-Raventos M, Gilpin M, Marimon BS, Marimon-Junior BH, Ratter JA, Grace J, Nardoto GB, Veenendaal E, Arroyo L, Villarroel D, Killeen TJ, Steininger M, Phillips OL (2015) Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function. Biogeosciences 12(22): 6529-6571. DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-6529-2015.

Saiz G, Wynn JG, Wurster CM, Goodrick I, Nelson PN, Bird MI (2015a) Pyrogenic carbon from tropical savanna burning: production and stable isotope composition. Biogeosciences 12(6): 1849-1863. DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-1849-2015.

Saiz G, Bird M, Wurster C, Quesada CA, Ascough P, Domingues T, Schrodt F, Schwarz M, Feldpausch TR, Veenendaal E, Djagbletey G, Jacobsen G, Hien F, Compaore H, Diallo A, Lloyd J (2015b) The influence of C3 and C4 vegetation on soil organic matter dynamics in contrasting semi-natural tropical ecosystems. Biogeosciences 12(16): 5041-5059. DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-5041-2015.

Schrodt F, Domingues TF, Feldpausch TR, Saiz G, Quesada CA, Schwarz M, Ishida FY, Compaore H, Diallo A, Djagbletey G, Hien F, Sonké B, Toedoumg H, Zapfack L, Hiernaux P, Mougin E, Bird MichaelI, Grace J, Lewis SL, Veenendaal EM, Lloyd J (2015) Foliar trait contrasts between African forest and savanna trees: genetic versus environmental effects. Functional Plant Biology 42(1): 63. DOI: 10.1071/FP14040.

Tao Y, Zhang Y, Jin X, Saiz G, Jing R, Guo L, Liu M, Shi J, Zuo Q, Tao H, Butterbach-Bahl K, Dittert K, Lin S (2015) More rice with less water – evaluation of yield and resource use efficiency in ground cover rice production system with transplanting. European Journal of Agronomy 68: 13-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2015.04.002.

Veenendaal EM, Torello-Raventos M, Feldpausch TR, Domingues TF, Gerard F, Schrodt F, Saiz G, (…) (2015) Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations? Biogeosciences 12(10): 2927-2951. DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-2927-2015.

Bloomfield KJ, Domingues TF, Saiz G, Bird MI, Crayn DM, Ford A, Metcalfe DJ, Farquhar GD, Lloyd J (2014) Contrasting photosynthetic characteristics of forest vs. savanna species (Far North Queensland, Australia). Biogeosciences 11(24): 7331-7347. DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-7331-2014.

Nardoto GB, Quesada CA, Patiño S, Saiz G, Baker TR, Schwarz M, Schrodt F, Feldpausch TR, Domingues TF, Marimon BS, Marimon Junior B-H, Vieira ICG, Silveira M, Bird MI, Phillips OL, Lloyd J, Martinelli LA (2014) Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest nitrogen-cycling characteristics as inferred from plant and soil 15N:14N measurements. Plant Ecology & Diversity 7(1-2): 173-187. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.807524.

Saiz G, Goodrick I, Wurster CM, Zimmermann M, Nelson PN, Bird MI (2014) Charcoal re-combustion efficiency in tropical savannas. Geoderma 219-220: 40-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.12.019.

Liu M, Lin S, Dannenmann M, Tao Y, Saiz G, Zuo Q, Sippel S, Wei J, Cao J, Cai X, Butterbach-Bahl K (2013) Do water-saving ground cover rice production systems increase grain yields at regional scales? Field Crops Research 150: 19-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2013.06.005.

Torello-Raventos M, Feldpausch TR, Veenendaal E, Schrodt F, Saiz G, (…) (2013) On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions. Plant Ecology & Diversity 6(1): 101-137. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2012.762812.

Wurster CM, Saiz G, Schneider MPW, Schmidt MWI, Bird MI (2013) Quantifying pyrogenic carbon from thermosequences of wood and grass using hydrogen pyrolysis. Organic Geochemistry 62: 28-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.06.009.

Butler A, Meir P, Saiz G, Maracahipes L, Marimon BS, Grace J (2012) Annual variation in soil respiration and its component parts in two structurally contrasting woody savannas in Central Brazil. Plant and Soil 352(1-2): 129-142. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0984-7.

Feldpausch TR, Lloyd J, Lewis SL, Brienen RJW, Gloor M, Monteagudo Mendoza A, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Banin L, (…) Saiz G, (…) (2012) Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates. Biogeosciences 9(8): 3381-3403. DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-3381-2012.

Saiz G, Bird MI, Domingues T, Schrodt F, Schwarz M, Feldpausch TR, Veenendaal E, Djagbletey G, Hien F, Compaore H, Diallo A, Lloyd J (2012) Variation in soil carbon stocks and their determinants across a precipitation gradient in West Africa. Global Change Biology 18(5): 1670-1683. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02657.x.

Wurster CM, Lloyd J, Goodrick I, Saiz G, Bird MI (2012) Quantifying the abundance and stable isotope composition of pyrogenic carbon using hydrogen pyrolysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 26(23): 2690-2696. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6397.

Zimmermann M, Bird MI, Wurster C, Saiz G, Goodrick I, Barta J, Capek P, Santruckova H, Smernik R (2012) Rapid degradation of pyrogenic carbon. Global Change Biology 18(11): 3306-3316. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02796.x.

Feldpausch TR, Banin L, Phillips OL, Baker TR, Lewis SL, Quesada CA, (…), Saiz G, (…), Wöll H, Lloyd J (2011) Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees. Biogeosciences 8(5): 1081-1106. DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-1081-2011.

Domingues TF, Meir P, Feldpausch TR, Saiz G, Veenendaal EM, Schrodt F, Bird M, Djagbletey G, Hien F, Compaore H, Diallo A, Grace J, Lloyd J (2010) Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands: Nutrients constraints on photosynthesis in African woodlands. Plant, Cell & Environment 33(6): 959-980. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02119.x.

Wurster CM, Saiz G, Calder A, Bird MI (2010) Recovery of organic matter from mineral-rich sediment and soils for stable isotope analyses using static dense media. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 24(1): 165-168. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4358.

Black K, Byrne KA, Mencuccini M, Tobin B, Nieuwenhuis M, Reidy B, Bolger T, Saiz G, Green C, Farrell ET, Osborne B (2009) Carbon stock and stock changes across a Sitka spruce chronosequence on surface-water gley soils. Forestry 82(3): 255-272. DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpp005.

Dondini M, Hastings A, Saiz G, Jones MB, Smith P (2009) The potential of Miscanthus to sequester carbon in soils: comparing field measurements in Carlow, Ireland to model predictions. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 1(6): 413-425. DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2010.01033.x.

Furley PA, Rees RM, Ryan CM, Saiz G (2008) Savanna burning and the assessment of long-term fire experiments with particular reference to Zimbabwe. Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment 32(6): 611-634. DOI: 10.1177/0309133308101383.

Black K, Bolger T, Davis P, Nieuwenhuis M, Reidy B, Saiz G, Tobin B, Osborne B (2007) Inventory and eddy covariance-based estimates of annual carbon sequestration in a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) forest ecosystem. European Journal of Forest Research 126(2): 167-178. DOI: 10.1007/s10342-005-0092-4.

Saiz G, Black K, Reidy B, Lopez S, Farrell EP (2007) Assessment of soil CO2 efflux and its components using a process-based model in a young temperate forest site. Geoderma 139(1): 79-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2006.12.005.

Saiz G, Green C, Butterbach-Bahl K, Kiese R, Avitabile V, Farrell EP (2006a) Seasonal and spatial variability of soil respiration in four Sitka spruce stands. Plant and Soil 287(1): 161-176. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-006-9052-0.

Saiz G, Byrne KA, Butterbach-Bahl K, Kiese R, Blujdea V, Farrell EP (2006b) Stand age-related effects on soil respiration in a first rotation Sitka spruce chronosequence in central Ireland. Global Change Biology 12(6): 1007-1020. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01145.x.

Black K, Tobin B, Saiz G, Byrne KA, Osborne B (2004) Improved estimates of biomass expansion factors for Sitka spruce. Irish Forestry 61(1): 50-65. Comité Editorial.

Capítulos de libros
Saiz G, Albrecht A (2016) Methods for smallholder quantification of soil carbon stocks and stock changes. En: Rosenstock TS, Rufino MC, Butterbach-Bahl K, Wollenberg L, Richards M (Eds.) Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture (pp. 135-162). Springer International Publishing, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29794-1_7.

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