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    • Aponte, Humberto; Herrera, Wence; Cameron, Clare; Black, Helaina; Meier, Sebastián; Paolini, Jorge; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Cornejo, Pablo (Elsevier, 2020)
      Copper (Cu) mining has to address a critical environmental issue related to the disposal of heavy metals and metalloids (HMs). Due to their deleterious effects on living organisms, Cu and arsenic (As) have gained global ...
    • Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Díaz, O.; Pizarro, C.; Segura, R.; Vines, M.; Zúñiga, G.; Moreno Jiménez, E. (Elsevier, 2013-03-06)
      The Pre-Andean area of Chile exhibits saline soils of volcanic origin naturally contaminated with arsenic (As), and we hypothesise that revegetation with resistant species may be a valid alternative for soil management in ...
    • Pfeiffer Jakob, Marco; Padarian, José; Osorio, Rodrigo; Bustamante, Nelson; Olmedo, Guillermo Federico; Guevara, Mario; Aburto, Felipe; Albornoz, Francisco; Antilen, Mónica; Araya, Elías; Arellano, Eduardo; Barret, Maialen; Barrera, Juan; Boeckx, Pascal; Briceño, Margarita; Bunning, Sally; Cabrol, Lea; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Cornejo, Pablo; Corradini, Fabio; Curaqueo, Gustavo; Doetterl, Sebastián; Durán, Paola; Escudey, Mauricio; Espinoza, Angelina; Francke, Samuel; Fuentes Espoz, Juan; Fuentes, Marcel; Gajardo, Gonzalo; García, Rafael; Gallaud, Audrey; Galleguillos Torres, Mauricio; Gómez, Andrés; Hidalgo, Marcela; Ivelic Sáez, Jorge; Mashalaba, Lwando; Matus, Francisco; Meza, Francisco; Mora, María de la Luz; Mora, Jorge; Muñoz, Cristina; Norambuena, Pablo; Olivera, Carolina; Ovalle, Carlos; Panichini, Marcelo; Pauchard, Aníbal; Pérez Quezada, Jorge; Radic, Sergio; Ramírez, José; Riveras, Nicolás; Ruiz, Germán; Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Salgado, Iván; Seguel Seguel,Óscar; Sepúlveda, María; Sierra, Carlos; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Tapia, Francisco; Toledo, Balfredo; Torrico, José Miguel; Valle, Susana; Vargas, Ronald; Wolff, Michael; Zagal, Erick (Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH, 2020)
      A critical aspect of predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) concentrations is the lack of available soil information; where information on soil characteristics is available, it is usually focused on regions of high agricultural ...
    • Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Seguel Seguel, Oscar; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Pfeiffer Jakob, Marco; Eslamian, Saied (John Wiley & sons, 2021)
      The complementary use of agroforestry and water harvesting practices is a possible strategy to counter the soil degradation processes occurring in Mediterranean regions. Studies show that implementation of sustainable land ...
    • Nájera de Ferrari, Francisco; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Baginsky Guerrero, Cecilia; Figueroa, V.; Cabeza Pérez, Ricardo; Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo (Soc Chilena Ciencia Suelo, 2015)
      The main aim of this study was to carry out an evaluation of soil fertility and fertilisation practices for irrigated maize (Zea mays L.) under Mediterranean conditions in central Chile. Soil samples were collected from ...
    • Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Oyarzún, Irene; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Fajardo, Mario (Springer, 2016)
      An in situ post tsunami study was conducted to assess the effect of water management and rainfalls in soil properties and water quality at a low-lying coastal area of central Chile affected by Mw8.8 Earthquake Tsunami the ...
    • Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Rojas, Claudia; Avendaño, Fernando; Realini, Piero; Nájera de Ferrari, Francisco; Tapia Fernández, Yasna (Springer, 2015)
      Vegetated buffer strips (BS) can help prevent nitrogen (N) losses from fields by subsurface lateral flow, thus protecting water resources. The purpose of this study was to determine if narrow BS would effectively remove ...
    • Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Ticona, Berthin; Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Gratacós, Eduardo; Pfeiffer Jakob, Marco; Ávila, Gonzalo; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Seguel, Óscar; Sabaini, Carlo (Pontificia Univ. Católica Chile, Fac. Agronomía Ingeniería Forestal, 2020)
      A number of agroecological practices have been proposed for assessing soil quality. Several physical soil properties have been shown to be important for determining soil quality by using the sustainability index (SI) and ...
    • Shi, Zhengyu; Carey, Manus; Meharg, Caroline; Williams, Paul N.; Signes Pastor, Antonio J.; Triwardhani, Eridha Ayu; Pandiangan, Febbyandi Isnanda; Campbell, Katrina; Elliott, Christopher; Marwa, Ernest M.; Jiujin, Xiao; Gomes Farías, Julia; Nicoloso, Fernando Teixeira; De Silva, P. Mangala C. S.; Lu, Ying; Norton, Gareth; Adomako, Eurek; Green, Andy J.; Moreno Jiménez, Eduardo; Zhu, Yongguan; Carbonell Barrachina, Ángel Antonio; Haris, Parvez I.; Lawgali, Youssef F.; Sommella, Alessia; Pigna, Massimo; Brabet, Catherine; Montet, Didier; Njira, Keston; Watts, Michael J.; Hossain, Mahmud; Islam, M. Rafiqul; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Oporto, Carla; Meharg, Andrew A. (Springer, 2020)
      One of cadmium's major exposure routes to humans is through rice consumption. The concentrations of cadmium in the global polished (white), market rice supply-chain were assessed in 2270 samples, purchased from retailers ...
    • Salazar Guerrero, Osvaldo; Manrique, Augusto; Tapia Fernández, Yasna; Casanova Pinto, Manuel; Govan, Joseph; Covarrubias, José I.; Contreras, Américo; Cabeza, Ricardo A. (Springer, 2020)
      The main aim of this study is to develop a mechanistic model of fertilization for recommending the application of zinc (Zn) fertiliser for maize based on the mass balance of Zn. The model would consider the critical Zn ...