Diego Ábalos

5.5k citations

81 papers · 3.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 31

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.2%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Environmental Chemistry top 0.5%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Soil Science 56
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 53
Environmental Chemistry 20
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics 20

Co-authors: Simon Jeffery Antonio Vallejo Jan Willem van Groenigen Alberto Sanz-Cobeña Frank Verheijen Guillermo Guardia Bruce A. Hungate Gerlinde B. De Deyn
Journals: Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (9 papers)The Science of The Total Environment (9 papers)Soil Biology and Biochemistry (8 papers)Environmental Research Letters (5 papers)Global Change Biology (5 papers)
Partner nations: Denmark Spain United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Diego Ábalos

70 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Biochar boosts tropical but not temperate crop yields 2017 · 542 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Environmental Research Letters
2016 Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2014 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

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1	Balancing legume-cereal proportions in cover crop mixtures to minimize N2O emissions Geoderma ·Guillermo Guardia, Diego Ábalos, K.J. Monty, Bangjian Zhou, علی اصغر مفرد بوشهری, Betty Waller, Vincenzo Tabaglio, Miguel Ibáñez, Ji Chen, Andrea Fiorini	2025	0
2	How do diet shifts affect the greenhouse gas balance of agricultural soils? Denmark as a case study Agricultural Systems ·Do‐Young Kim, Emanuele Lugato, Panos Panagos, 大助山岡, Florian Freund, Arwyn Jones, Diego Ábalos	2025	1
3	A comparison of chamber-based methods for measuring N2O emissions from arable soils Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Yuchen Dai, 隆一荒木, Søren O. Petersen, Poul Erik Lærke, Diego Ábalos, Peter Sørensen, Jordana de Souza Silva, Sander Bruun, Jørgen Eriksen, Christian Dold	2025	1
4	The complementarity hypothesis reversed: Root trait similarity in species mixtures promotes soil organic carbon in agroecosystems Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·María Jesús Rodríguez Entrena, Han Y. H. Chen, Gabin Piton, César Terrer, Zhenghu Zhou, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Isabelle Bertrand, Daniel P. Rasse, Ji Chen, José A. Navarro‐Cano, Diego Ábalos	2025	2
5	Ten-year effects of perennial cropping systems on soil organic carbon stock and stability in sandy soils: Mechanisms and biochemical drivers European Journal of Agronomy ·Ricardo Arturo Guardián Chávez, Diego Ábalos, Ji Chen, Zhi Liang, Yue Li, Lars Elsgaard, Christopher Poeplau, Marcus Schiedung, Uffe Jørgensen	2025	0
6	Combining automated and manual chambers to provide reliable estimates of N2O emissions in annual and perennial cropping systems Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Наталія Плєшакова, Diego Ábalos, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Pullens, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, Uffe Jørgensen, Poul Erik Lærke	2025	0
7	Calcium-rich parent materials enhance multiple soil functions and bacterial network complexity Communications Earth & Environment ·Peilei Hu, Wei Zhang, Wolfgang Wanek, Ji Chen, Diego Ábalos, Jie Zhao, Dong Pan, Xinyu Hou, Juan Li, Hongsong Chen, Jun Xiao, Xionghui Liao, R. Oechsner, Hanqing Wu, Kelin Wang	2025	0
8	Seasonal response of soil microbial community structure and life history strategies to winter snow cover change in a temperate forest The Science of The Total Environment ·María Jesús Rodríguez Entrena, Motohiro Nakamura, Diego Ábalos, Yuming Guo, Xuesen Pang, Fredrik Frenning, Fiske	2024	2
9	Addressing challenges associated with nitrification inhibitors Trends in Microbiology ·Santos Andrea Souza, Diego Ábalos, Xiaoli Cheng	2024	3
10	Different straw return methods have divergent effects on winter wheat yield, yield stability, and soil structural properties Soil and Tillage Research ·Yue Li, Diego Ábalos, Emmanuel Arthur, Hao Feng, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Ji Chen	2024	26
11	Towards efficient N cycling in intensive maize: role of cover crops and application methods of digestate liquid fraction GCB Bioenergy ·علی اصغر مفرد بوشهری, Diego Ábalos, Ștefania Codruța Mariș, Bangjian Zhou, Shu-wang Li, Vincenzo Tabaglio, Andrea Fiorini	2023	5
12	Land inclination controls CO ₂ and N ₂ O fluxes, but not CH ₄ uptake, in a temperate upland forest soil SOIL ·Melissa Frangella Lozano, Mirian Nagae Hideko Espinosa, Diego Ábalos, Peter Finke, Sophie Zechmeister‐Boltenstern, Stephan Glatzel, Eugenio Díaz‐Pinés	2023	2
13	Identifying criteria for greenhouse gas flux estimation with automatic and manual chambers: A case study for N ₂ O European Journal of Soil Science ·Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Pullens, Diego Ábalos, Søren O. Petersen, Asger Roer Pedersen	2023	8
14	Models can enhance science–policy–society alignments for climate change mitigation Nature Food ·Davide Cammarano, Jørgen E. Olesen, Katharina Helming, Christine H. Foyer, Martin Schönhart, Gianluca Brunori, Sigrid Andrea Ramos Carvajal, Marco Bindi, Gloria Padovan, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, Florian Freund, Diego Ábalos	2023	8
15	Liming modifies greenhouse gas fluxes from soils: A meta-analysis of biological drivers Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Huimin Zhang, Zhi Liang, Yong Li, Zhaoxiong Chen, Jinbo Zhang, Zucong Cai, Lars Elsgaard, Yi Cheng, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Diego Ábalos	2022	27
16	Plant traits of grass and legume species for flood resilience and N₂O mitigation Functional Ecology ·Natalie J. Oram, Donato Creanza, Diego Ábalos, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Susan E. Hartley, Gerlinde B. De Deyn	2021	10
17	Stimulation of ammonia oxidizer and denitrifier abundances by nitrogen loading: Poor predictability for increased soil N₂O emission Global Change Biology ·Santos Andrea Souza, Fitriani Nurutami, Diego Ábalos, Yiqi Luo, Dafeng Hui, Bruce A. Hungate, Pablo García‐Palacios, Yakov Kuzyakov, Jørgen E. Olesen, Uffe Jørgensen, Ji Chen	2021	80
18	Effects of pH on nitrogen transformations and soil microbiology in a long-term liming field trial EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Diego Ábalos, Zhi Liang, Lars Elsgaard	2019	1
19	Global importance of soil freeze-thaw induced emissions of nitrous oxide from croplands AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Claudia Wagner‐Riddle, Kate A. Congreves, Diego Ábalos, Aaron Berg, Shannon E. Brown, Jaison Thomas Ambadan, Xiaodong Gao, Mario Tenuta	2017	2
20	Yield-scaled mitigation of ammonia emission from N fertilization: the Spanish case Environmental Research Letters ·Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Luis Lassaletta, Fernándo Estellés, A. del Prado, Guillermo Guardia, Diego Ábalos, Eduardo Aguilera, Guillermo Orozco Pardo, Antonio Vallejo, Mark A. Sutton, Josette Garnier, Gilles Billen	2014	72

About Diego Ábalos

Diego Ábalos is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, having authored 81 papers that have together received 3.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (53 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (20 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (10 papers), Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (9 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (8 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (8 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (7 papers) and Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (2.6k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.0k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (662 citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (406 citations) and Pollution (404 citations). Diego Ábalos has collaborated with scholars based in Denmark, Spain and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Simon Jeffery, Antonio Vallejo, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Alberto Sanz-Cobeña, Frank Verheijen, Guillermo Guardia, Bruce A. Hungate, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Marija Prodana and Ana Catarina Bastos. Their work appears in journals such as Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, The Science of The Total Environment, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Environmental Research Letters and Global Change Biology.

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