ignacio.santaregina (+@irnasa.csic.es)
923219606 ext. 431612

Dr. Ignacio Santa-Regina is a Research Scientist at IRNA-CSIC in Salamanca. He graduated in Biology and received a PhD from Salamanca University. He has supervised several Ph.D. theses. His field of interest is within nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems, plant ecology, soil biogeochemistry and soil biology. Current work is revealing significant effects of plant community dynamics in late field succession and soil characteristics in Dehesa ecosystems (interaction, decomposition, production). He has participated in EU-funded projects on organic matter and physiological parameters of major relevance in the functioning of ecosystems. Also his research works are mainly based on screening of plant communities to determine their As and heavy metal accumulation capacity and assessment of their potential in phytoremediation of contaminated mining soils to reduce human health and ecotoxicological risks. He is performing research works on (1) arsenic and heavy metal uptake by native plant species in the abandoned mines of Salamanca, and (2) mechanisms of metal transport, hyperaccumulation, detoxification, and tolerance in plants.

PUBLICACIONES DESTACADAS

Falster, D.S.; Santa-Regina, I.; et al. 2015. BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants. Ecology, 96: 1445.

Otones, V., Alvarez-Ayuso, E., Garcia-Sanchez, A., Santa-Regina, I., Murciego, A. 2011. Mobility and phytoavailability of arsenic in an abandoned mining area. Geoderma 166, 153-161.

Alvarez-Ayuso, E., Otones, V., Murciego, A., Garcia-Sanchez, A., Santa-Regina, I. 2012.Antimony, arsenic and lead distribution in soils and plants of an agricultural area impacted by former mining activities.Science of the total environment. 439, 35-43.
Alvarez-Ayuso, E., Otones, V., Murciego, A., Garcia-Sanchez, A., Santa-Regina, I.2013. Mobility and phytoavailability of antimony in an area impacted by a former stibnite mine exploitation. Science of the total environment. 449, 260-268.

Anawar, H.M., Canha, N., Santa-Regina, I., Freitas, M. C. 2013.Adaptation, tolerance and evolution of plant species in a pyrite mine in response to contamination level and chemical property of mine tailings: sustainable rehabilitation.Journal of Soils and Sediments. 13, 4 730-741.

Gallego, H.A., Rico, M., Moreno, G., Santa-Regina, I. 1992. Water potential and stomatal conductance in Qercus pyrenaica Willd forests. Tree Physiology 14, 1039-1047.

Santa-Regina, I., Tarazona, T.; Calvo, R. 1997. Nitrogen as a limitng factor in the development of beech forests in the Sierra de la Demanda (Spain). Plant Ecology 133, 49-56.

Santa-Regina, I. 2000. Biomass estimation and nutrient pools in four Quercus pyrenaica in Sierra de Gata Mountains, Salamanca, Spain. For Ecol. Manag. 132, 127-141.

van der Putten, W.H., Mortimer, S., Hedlund, K., Van Dijk, C., Brown, W.K., Leps, J., Rodríguez-Barrueco, C., Roy, J., Díaz, T., Gormsen, D., Korthals, G.W., Lavorel, S., Santa-Regina, I., Smilauer, P. 2000. Plant species diversity as a driver of early succession in abandoned fields : a multi-site approach. Oecologia 124, 91-99.

Leps, J., Brown, W.K., Díaz, T.A., Gormsen, D., Hedlund, K., Kailova, J., Korthals, G.W., Mortimer, S., Rodríguez-Barrueco, C., Roy, J., Santa-Regina, I., van der Putten, W.H. 2001. Separating the chance effect from the other diversity effects in the functioning of plant communities. Oikos 92, 123-134.

Santa-Regina, I. 2001. Litter fall, decomposition and nutrient release in three semi-arid forests of the Duero basin, Spain. Forestry 74, 347-358.

Hedlund, K., Santa-Regina, I., van der Putten, W.H., Leps, J., Díaz,T., Korthals, G. W., Lavorel, S., Brown, V.K., Mortimer, S., Rodríguez-Barrueco, C., Roy, J., Smilauer, P., Smilauerova, M., van Dijk, C. 2003. Plant species diversity, plant biomass and responses of the soil community on abandoned land across Europe: Idiosyncracy or above-belowground time lags. Oikos. 103, 45-58.

Igual, J.M., Valverde, A., Velázquez, E., Santa-Regina, I., Rodríguez-Barrueco, C. (2006). Natural diversity of nodular microsymbionts of Alnus glutinosa in the Tormes river basin. Plant and Soil. 280,373-383.

Gondard, H., Romane, F., Santa-Regina, I., Leonardi. S. (2006). Forest management and plant species diversity in chestnut stands of three Mediterranean areas. Biodiversity and Conservation. 15,4, 1129-1142.

Leps, J., Dolezal, J., Bezemer, T., Martjin, T., Brown, V.K., Hedlund, K., Igual, M.A., Joergensen, H.B., Lawson, C., Mortimer, S.R., Péix, A., Rodríguez-Barrueco, C., Santa-Regina, I., Smilauer, P., van der Putten, W.H. (2007). Long term effectiveness of sowing high and low diversity seed mixtures to enhance plant community development on ex arable fields in five European countries. Applied Vegetation Science 10, 97-110.

Valverde, A., Péix, A., Rivas, R., Velázquez, E., Santa-Regina, I., Rodríguez-Barrueco, C., Igual, J.M. (2008).Paenibacillus castaneae sp. Nov., isolated from the phyllosphere of Castanea sativa Millar.International Journal of Systematic & Evolutionary Microbiology. 58, 2560-2564.

Anawar, H.M., García-Sánchez, A., Santa-Regina, I. (2008). Chemical extraction methods to estimate the plant bioavailable arsenic in mine soils. Chemosphere. 70, 8, 1459-1467.

García-Sánchez, A., Murciego, A., Alvarez-Ayuso, E., Santa-Regina, I., Rodríguez-González, M.A. (2009). Mercury in soils and plants in an abandoned cinnabar mining. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 168 1319-1324.

Péix, A., Lang, E., Verbag, S., Rivas, R., Santa-Regina, I., Mateos, P.F., Martínez-Molina, E., Rodríguez-Barrueco, C., Velázquez, E. (2009). Acinetobacter strains IH9 and OCI1, two rhizospheric phosphate solubilizing strains able to promote plant growth, constitute a new genomovar of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 32 334-341.

Salazar, S., Sánchez, L.E., Alvarez, J., Valverde, A., Galindo, P., Igual, J.M., Péix, A., R., Santa-Regina, I. (20011). Correlation among soil enzyme activities under different forest system management practices. Ecological Engineering. 37, 1123-1131.

Anawar, H.M., Freitas, M. C., Canha, N., Santa-Regina, I. (2011). Arsenic, antimony and other trace element contamination in a mining affected area and phytoremediation. Environmental Geochemistry and Health.33, 353-362.

Valverde, A., González-Tirante, M., García-Sánchez, A., Santa-Regina, I., Igual, J.M. (2011). Diversity and community structure of culturable arsenic-resistant bacteria across a soil arsenic gradient at an abandoned tungsten-tin mining area. Chemosphere. 85 129-134.

Otones, V., Alvarez-Ayuso, E., García-Sánchez, A., Santa-Regina, I., Murciego, A. (2011). Arsenic distribution in soils and plants of an arsenic impacted former mining area. Environmental pollution. 159 2637-2647.