Roberto Lázaro

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Roberto Lázaro is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Lázaro has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 24 papers in Soil Science and 15 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Roberto Lázaro's work include Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (43 papers), Lichen and fungal ecology (25 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (20 papers). Roberto Lázaro is often cited by papers focused on Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (43 papers), Lichen and fungal ecology (25 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (20 papers). Roberto Lázaro collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Germany. Roberto Lázaro's co-authors include Yolanda Cantón, Albert Solé‐Benet, Francisco Domingo, Sonia Chamizo, Fernando T. Maestre, Juan Puigdefábregas, Miguel Berdugo, Matthew A. Bowker, Antonio Gallardo and Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Global Change Biology and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Lázaro

72 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World

2016 386 citations Fernando T. Maestre, Matthew A. Bowker et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roberto Lázaro Spain	27	1.7k	828	824	760	617	75	3.1k
Eli Zaady Israel	35	1.6k 1.0×	676 0.8×	775 0.9×	871 1.1×	780 1.3×	105	3.5k
Nichole N. Barger United States	35	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	858 1.0×	624 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	79	3.5k
Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero Spain	31	2.3k 1.4×	606 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	651 0.9×	591 1.0×	87	3.3k
Albert Solé‐Benet Spain	33	1.0k 0.6×	705 0.9×	602 0.7×	1.8k 2.4×	898 1.5×	66	3.5k
Maik Veste Germany	28	993 0.6×	469 0.6×	522 0.6×	323 0.4×	389 0.6×	90	2.0k
Aaron Yair Israel	30	949 0.6×	468 0.6×	414 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	680 1.1×	58	2.4k
Giora J. Kidron Israel	41	3.8k 2.3×	989 1.2×	2.0k 2.4×	864 1.1×	478 0.8×	145	5.2k
Steven D. Warren United States	27	615 0.4×	427 0.5×	319 0.4×	535 0.7×	782 1.3×	56	2.1k
Jörg Steinkamp Germany	15	748 0.4×	749 0.9×	366 0.4×	153 0.2×	393 0.6×	21	1.8k
R. Evans United Kingdom	40	446 0.3×	744 0.9×	597 0.7×	2.1k 2.7×	1.5k 2.5×	82	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Lázaro

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Lázaro, Roberto, et al.. (2024). Surface instability driven by wetting-drying cycles hinders the colonization by biocrusts in Tabernas Desert. Biologia. 80(5). 1153–1167.

Kim, Minsu, et al.. (2024). Unravelling the main mechanism responsible for nocturnal CO2 uptake by dryland soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 926. 171751–171751. 2 indexed citations

Lázaro, Roberto, et al.. (2023). Patterns in biocrust recovery over time in semiarid southeast Spain. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1184065–1184065. 4 indexed citations

Lázaro, Roberto, et al.. (2023). Runoff and soil loss in biocrusts and physical crusts from the Tabernas Desert (southeast Spain) according to rainfall intensity. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1171096–1171096. 11 indexed citations

García‐Velázquez, Laura, Antonio Gallardo, Victoria Ochoa, et al.. (2022). Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools. Journal of Ecology. 110(9). 2074–2087. 4 indexed citations

Lázaro, Roberto, et al.. (2022). Water vapor adsorption by dry soils: A potential link between the water and carbon cycles. The Science of The Total Environment. 824. 153746–153746. 21 indexed citations

Lázaro, Roberto, et al.. (2021). Development of a new low‐cost device to measure calcium carbonate content, reactive surface area in solid samples and dissolved inorganic carbon content in water samples. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(5). 770–777. 4 indexed citations

Bettermann, Antje, Doreen Babin, Erik Cammeraat, et al.. (2021). Importance of microbial communities at the root-soil interface for extracellular polymeric substances and soil aggregation in semiarid grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 159. 108301–108301. 27 indexed citations

Miralles, Isabel, Roberto Lázaro, Manuel Sánchez‐Marañón, Miguel Soriano, & Raúl Ortega. (2019). Biocrust cover and successional stages influence soil bacterial composition and diversity in semiarid ecosystems. The Science of The Total Environment. 709. 134654–134654. 78 indexed citations

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Miralles, Isabel, Susana E. Jorge Villar, Bas van Wesemael, & Roberto Lázaro. (2016). Raman spectroscopy detection of biomolecules in biocrusts from differing environmental conditions. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 171. 40–51. 20 indexed citations

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Büdel, Burkhard, Claudia Colesie, T. G. Allan Green, et al.. (2014). Improved appreciation of the functioning and importance of biological soil crusts in Europe: the Soil Crust International Project (SCIN). Biodiversity and Conservation. 23(7). 1639–1658. 78 indexed citations

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Chamizo, Sonia, Yolanda Cantón, Roberto Lázaro, Emilio Rodríguez‐Caballero, & Francisco Domingo. (2012). The role of biological soil crusts on soil moisture. EGUGA. 13058. 1 indexed citations

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Maestre, Fernando T., Matthew A. Bowker, Yolanda Cantón, et al.. (2011). Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain. Journal of Arid Environments. 75(12). 1282–1291. 219 indexed citations

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Cantón, Yolanda, et al.. (2009). Meteorización y erosión en el Sub-Desierto de Tabernas, Almería. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 6 indexed citations

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Alexánder, Roy, et al.. (2009). Interacción de procesos geomórficos y distribución de componentes de la superficie del suelo en relación a la evolución de los abarrancamientos de Tabernas (Almería. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 4 indexed citations

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Chamizo, Sonia, et al.. (2009). How development and disturbance of biological soil crust do affect runoff and erosion in drylands. Hispana. 203–206. 4 indexed citations

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Alexánder, Roy, Adolfo Calvo‐Cases, Eva Arnau-Rosalén, Anne E. Mather, & Roberto Lázaro. (2008). Erosion and stabilisation sequences in relation to base level changes in the El Cautivo badlands, SE Spain. Geomorphology. 100(1-2). 83–90. 37 indexed citations

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Puigdefàbregas, Joan, José M. Alonso, Francisco Domingo, et al.. (1996). The Rambla Honda field site: interactions of soil and vegetation along a catena in semi-arid Southeast Spain.. Evidence-Based Dentistry. 10(1). 137–168. 30 indexed citations

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Lázaro, Roberto. (1986). Sobre la flora y vegetación gypsícola almeriense (Fanerógamas). 131–150. 1 indexed citations

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Lázaro, Roberto, et al.. (1985). Un método de análisis cuantitativo en Fenología. 39–50. 1 indexed citations

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