Lucía Vivanco

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Lucía Vivanco is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucía Vivanco has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Soil Science, 7 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Lucía Vivanco's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (13 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 papers). Lucía Vivanco is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (13 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (4 papers). Lucía Vivanco collaborates with scholars based in Argentina, United States and Uruguay. Lucía Vivanco's co-authors include Amy T. Austin, Luis I. Pérez, Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Carlos L. Ballaré, Nicolás Rascovan, Laura Yahdjian, Marcela Méndez, Priscila Pinto, Marina Omacini and Jason P. Kaye and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Ecology and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Lucía Vivanco

18 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Plant litter decomposition in a semi-arid ecosystem controlled by photodegradation
    2006 643 citations Amy T. Austin, Lucía Vivanco Nature profile →

Peers

Lucía Vivanco
Becky Fasth United States
Milton N. Garcia Panama
Olaf Butenschoen Germany
Gregory S. Newman United States
Zhiyou Yuan China
Ashley D. Keiser United States
Lydie‐Stella Koutika France
Päivi Merilä Finland
Yongbiao Lin China
Becky A. Ball United States
Becky Fasth United States
Lucía Vivanco
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Countries citing papers authored by Lucía Vivanco

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lucía Vivanco

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucía Vivanco

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lucía Vivanco. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lucía Vivanco based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lucía Vivanco. Lucía Vivanco is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2026). Photodegradation and microbial decomposition of soybean and maize crop residues before and after harvest. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 401. 110293–110293.
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Vivanco, Lucía & Jennifer B. H. Martiny. (2025). Rethinking assumptions about plant litter decomposition. BioScience. 75(6). 490–498. 2 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2024). Magnesium addition increases microbial metabolic efficiency during decomposition of Patagonian leaf litter. Plant and Soil. 507(1-2). 749–761. 3 indexed citations
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Pinto, Priscila, Cecilia Casas, Marcela Méndez, et al.. (2024). From plant litter to soil organic matter: a game to understand carbon dynamics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 22(4). 8 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2023). Pathways of glyphosate effects on litter decomposition in grasslands. Functional Ecology. 37(5). 1377–1389. 2 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2022). Summer sunlight impacts carbon turnover in a spatially heterogeneous Patagonian woodland. Plant and Soil. 480(1-2). 523–540. 5 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2020). Soil bacterial communities remain altered after 30 years of agriculture abandonment in Pampa grasslands. Oecologia. 193(4). 959–968. 4 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2020). Sunlight Doubles Aboveground Carbon Loss in a Seasonally Dry Woodland in Patagonia. Current Biology. 30(16). 3243–3251.e3. 34 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2020). Sunlight Doubles Aboveground Carbon Loss in a Seasonally Dry Woodland in Patagonia. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía & Amy T. Austin. (2019). The importance of macro- and micro-nutrients over climate for leaf litter decomposition and nutrient release in Patagonian temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 441. 144–154. 40 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, Nicolás Rascovan, & Amy T. Austin. (2018). Plant, fungal, bacterial, and nitrogen interactions in the litter layer of a native Patagonian forest. PeerJ. 6. e4754–e4754. 16 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2014). Nonlinear responses in salt marsh functioning to increased nitrogen addition. Ecology. 96(4). 936–947. 35 indexed citations
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Austin, Amy T., et al.. (2014). There's no place like home? An exploration of the mechanisms behind plant litter–decomposer affinity in terrestrial ecosystems. New Phytologist. 204(2). 307–314. 210 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía, et al.. (2012). The Effect of Nitrogen Enrichment on C1-Cycling Microorganisms and Methane Flux in Salt Marsh Sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 90–90. 24 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía & Amy T. Austin. (2010). Nitrogen addition stimulates forest litter decomposition and disrupts species interactions in Patagonia, Argentina. Global Change Biology. 17(5). 1963–1974. 106 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía & Amy T. Austin. (2008). Tree species identity alters forest litter decomposition through long‐term plant and soil interactions in Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Ecology. 96(4). 727–736. 284 indexed citations
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Vivanco, Lucía & Amy T. Austin. (2006). Intrinsic effects of species on leaf litter and root decomposition: a comparison of temperate grasses from North and South America. Oecologia. 150(1). 97–107. 132 indexed citations
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Austin, Amy T. & Lucía Vivanco. (2006). Plant litter decomposition in a semi-arid ecosystem controlled by photodegradation. Nature. 442(7102). 555–558. 643 indexed citations breakdown →

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