Laboratory of Conservation and Dynamics of Volcanic Soils
Filimonenko, E. * Uporova, M., Prikhodko, N., Samokhina, N., Belyanovskaya, N., Kurganova, I., Lopes De Gerenyu, V., Merino, C., Matus, F., Chen, C., Almwarai Alharbi, S., Soromotin, A., Kuzyakov, Y., (2024). Cold climate ecosystems; Carbon and nitrogen cycles; Carbon stability and sequestration; Thermal analysis; Energy release; Organic matter availability; Microbial activity Catena (Accepted)
José Parada, Alexander Neaman, Denisse Zamorano, Francisco Nájera, Francisco Matus, F. (2024). How the carbon sequestration potential of volcanic soils is influenced by liming. Soil Tillage Research (Accepted).
Katharina Runzheimer, Clément Lozano, Jens Boy, Diana Boy, Roberto Godoy, Francisco J. Matus, Denise Engel, Bruno Pavletic, Stefan Leuko, Jean Armengaud and Ralf Moeller (2024) Exploring Andean high-altitude lake extremophiles through advanced proteotyping Journal of Proteome Research (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00538)
Ignacio Jofré-Fernández, Francisco Matus, Carolina Merino-Guzmán (2023) White-rot fungi scavenge reactive oxygen species, which drives pH-dependent exo-enzymatic mechanisms and promotes CO2 efflux. Frontiers in Microbiology DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1148750
Yessica Rivas, Humberto Aponte, Diego Rivera-Salazar, Francisco Matus, Oscar Martínez, Carolina Encina, Jorge Retamal-Salgado (2023) Microbial community and enzyme activity of forest plantation, natural forests, and agricultural land in Chilean coastal cordillera soils. Forest 14, 938. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14050938
Matus, F., Mendoza, D., Nájera, F., Merino, M., Kuzyakov, Y., Wilhelm, K., Boy, J. Aburto, F., Jofré, I., Dippold, M. A. (2023) Freezing-thawing cycles affect organic matter decomposition in periglacial maritime Antarctic soils. Biogeochemistyry.
Pradel, P, Bravo, L.A., Merino, C., Trefault, N., Rodríguez, R. Knicker, H., Jara, C., Larama, G., Matus, F. (2023) "Microbial response to warming and cellulose addition in a Maritime Antarctic soil".
Svenja C. Stock, Moritz Koester, Francisco Nájera, Jens Boy, Francisco Matus, Carolina Merino et al. (2022) "Vegetation strategies for nitrogen and potassium acquisition along a climate and vegetation gradient: From semi-desert to temperate rainforest". Geoderma 425:116077.
Herrera, H, Sanhueza, T, Borges Da Silva Valadares, R., Matus, F., Pereira, G.,Atala, C., Mora, M., L., Arriagada-Escamilla, C. "Diversity of the root-
associated fungi of the terrestrial orchids Gavilea lutea and Chloraea collicensis in temperate forest soils of south-central Chile." J. Fungi, 8, 794.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8080794
Hidalgo, Claudia, y Paz, Fernando, y Báez, Aurelio, y Etchevers, Jorge D., y Velázquez, Alma S., y Matus, Francisco, y Covaleda, Sara, y "Patrones de la distribución del carbono orgánico por fracciones de partículas primarias del suelo." Terra Latinoamericana, vol. 40, no. , 2022, pp. . Redalyc, https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57371833020
Erazo, Karla and Montalván-Burbanoc, Néstor and Aburto, Felipe and Matus, Francisco and Jofré, Ignacio and Duran, Paola and Dorner, Jose and Dippold, Michaela A. and Guzmán, Carolina Merino, Four Decades in Fires Research - a Bibliometric Analysis About the Impact on Mineralogy and Nutrients. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4240406 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4240406
Salazar, O., Casanova, M., Fuentes, J. P., Galleguillos, M., Nájera, F., Perez-Quezada, J. F., ... & Tapia, Y. (2022). Soil research, management, and policy priorities in Chile. Geoderma Regional, 29, e00502.
Alejandro Atenas Navarrete, Felipe Aburto, Gerardo González-Rocha, Carolina Merino Guzmán, Radomir Schmidt, Kate Scow,
Anthropogenic degradation alter surface soil biogeochemical pools and microbial communities in an Andean temperate forest, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 854, 2023, 158508, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158508.
Abdallah K, Stock SC, Heeger F, Koester M, Nájera F, Matus F, Merino C, Spielvogel S, Gorbushina AA, Kuzyakov Y and Dippold MA (2022) Nitrogen Gain and Loss Along an Ecosystem Sequence: From Semi-desert to Rainforest. Front. Soil Sci. 2:817641. doi: 10.3389/fsoil.2022.817641
Boy, D., Moeller, R., Sauheitl, L., Schaarschmidt, F., Rapp, S., Brink, L., et al. (2022). Gradient studies reveal the true drivers of extreme life in the Atacama Desert. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2021JG006714. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006714
Svenja C. Stock, Moritz Koester, Francisco Nájera, Jens Boy, Francisco Matus, Carolina Merino, Khaled Abdallah, Sandra Spielvogel, Anna A. Gorbushina, Michaela A. Dippold, Yakov Kuzyakov,
Vegetation strategies for nitrogen and potassium acquisition along a climate and vegetation gradient: From semi-desert to temperate rainforest, Geoderma, Volume 425, 2022, 116077, ISSN 0016-7061, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116077
Herrera H, Sanhueza T, da Silva Valadares RB, Matus F, Pereira G, Atala C, Mora MdlL, Arriagada C. Diversity of Root-Associated Fungi of the Terrestrial Orchids Gavilea lutea and Chloraea collicensis in a Temperate Forest Soil of South-Central Chile. Journal of Fungi. 2022; 8(8):794. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8080794
I Jofré, F Matus, D Mendoza, F Nájera, C Merino. Manganese-Oxidizing Antarctic Bacteria (Mn-Oxb) Release Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) as Secondary Mn (II) Oxidation Mechanisms to Avoid Toxicity. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10101004
Svenja C Stock, Moritz Koester, Jens Boy, Roberto Godoy, Francisco Nájera, Francisco Matus, Carolina Merino, Khaled Abdallah, Christoph Leuschner, Sandra Spielvogel, Anna A Gorbushina, Yakov Kuzyakov, Michaela A Dippold . Plant carbon investment in fine roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: A cross-biome study on nutrient acquisition strategies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146748
C Merino, I Jofré, F Matus. Soil Redox Controls CO2, CH4 and N2O Efflux from White-Rot Fungi in Temperate Forest Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7080621
Moritz, K., Stock, S., Nájera, F., Abdallah, K., Gorbushina, A., Prietzel, J., Matus, F., Klysubun, W., Boy, J., Kuzyakov, Y., Dippold, M., Spielvogel, S. 2021. From rock eating to vegetarian ecosystems - Disentangling processes of phosphorus acquisition across biomes.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114827
Matus, F. Fine silt and clay content is the main factor defining maximal C and N accumulations in soils: a meta-analysis
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84821-6
Stock, S., Koester, M., Boy, J., Godoy, R., Nájera, F., Matus, F., Merino, C., Abdallah, K., Leuschner, L., Spielvogel, S., Gorbushina, A., Kuzyakov, Y., Dippold, M. Plant carbon investment in fine roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: A cross-biome study on nutrient acquisition strategies.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146748
Merino, C., Matus, F., Kuzyakov, Y., Dyckmans, J., Stock, S., Dippold, M. Contribution of the Fenton reaction and ligninolytic enzymes to soil organic matter mineralisation under anoxic conditions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143397
Neculman, R., Matus, F., Godoy, R., Mora, M., Rumpel, C. Carbon Mineralization Controls in Top- and Subsoil Horizons of Two Andisols Under Temperate Old-Growth Rain Forest. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-020-00400-0
Merino, C. Kuzyakov, Y., Godoy, K., Jofré, I., Nájera, F., Matus, F. 2020. Iron-reducing bacteria decompose lignin by electron transfer from soil organic matter.
Merino, C. Kuzyakov, Y., Godoy, K., Cornejo, P., Matus, F. 2020. Synergy effect of peroxidases enzymes and Fenton reactions greatly increase the anaerobic oxidation of soil organic matter. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67953-z
Aponte, Humberto, Meli, Paula, Benjamin, Butler, Paolini, Jorge, Matus, Francisco, Merino, Carolina, Cornejo Pablo, Kuzyakov Yakov. 2020. Meta-analysis of heavy metal effects on soil enzyme activities. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139744
Nájera, F. Dippold, M.A., Boy, J. Seguel, O., Koester, M., Stock, S., Merino, C., Kuzyakov, Y., Matus, F. 2020 Effects of drying/rewetting on soil aggregate dynamics and implications for organic matter turnover. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-020-01469-6
Pfeiffer, M., Padarian, J., Osorio, R., Bustamante, N., Matus, F., et al. 2020. CHLSOC: The Chilean Soil Organic Carbon database, a multi-institutional collaborative effort. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-457-2020
Matus, F., Stock, S., Eschenbach, W., Dyckmans, J., Merino, C., Nájera, F., Köster, M., Kuzyakov, K., Dippold, M.A. 2019. Ferrous wheel hypothesis: abiotic nitrate incorporation into dissolved organic matter.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.11.020
Stock, S.C., Köster, M., Dippold, M.A., Nájera, F., Matus, F., Merino, C., Boy, J., Spielvogel, S., Gorbushina, A., Kuzyakov, Y. 2019. Environmental drivers and stoichiometric constraints on enzyme activities in soils from rhizosphere to continental scale. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.10.030
Baumann, K., Jung, P., Samolov, E., Lehnert, L.W., Büdel, B., Karsten, U., Bendix, J., Achilles, S., Schermer, M., Matus, F., Oses, R., Osses, P., Morshedizad, M., Oehlschläger, C., Hu, Y., Klysubun, W., Leinweber, P., 2018. Biological soil crusts along a climatic gradient in Chile: richness and imprints of phototrophic microorganisms in phosphorus biogeochemical cycling. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.09.035
Bernhard, N., Moskwa, L-M., Schmidt, K., Oeser, R.A., Aburto, F., Bader, M.Y., Baumann, K., von Blanckenburg, F., Boy, J., van den Brink, L., Brucker, E., Büdel, B., Canessa, R., Dippold, M.A., Ehlers, T.A., Fuentes, J.P., Godoy, R., Jung, P., Karsten, U., Köster, M., Kuzyakov, Y., Leinweber, P., Neidhardt, H., Matus, F., Mueller, K.C., Oelmann, Y., Oses, R., Osses, P., Paulino, L., Samolov, E., Schaller, M., Schmid, M., Spielvogel, S., Spohn, M., Stock, S., Stroncik, N., Tielbörger, K., Übernickel, K., Scholten, T., Seguel, O., Wagner, D., Kühn P. 2018. Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: new insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.018
Oeser, R.A, Stroncik, N., Moskwa, L-M., Bernhard, N., Schaller, M., Canessa, R., van den Brink, L., Köster, M., Brucker, E., Stock, S., Fuentes, J.P., Godoy, R., Matus, F.J., Oses-Pedraza, R., Osses-McIntyre, P., Paulino, L., Seguel, O., Bader, M.Y., Boy, J., Dippold, M.A., Ehlers, T.A. Kühn, P., Kuzyakov, Y., Leinweber, P., Scholten, T., Spielvogel, S., Spohn, M., Übernickel, K., Tielbörger, K., Wagner, D., von Blanckenburg, B. 2018. Chemistry and microbiology of the critical zone along a steep climate and vegetation gradient in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.002
Monreal C.M., Zhang, J. Koziel, S. Vidmar, J. González, M., Matus, F., Baxic, S, Wue, S. DeRosaf, M., Etcheverriag, P. 2018. Bacterial community structure associated with the addition of nitrogen and the dynamics of soluble carbon in the rhizosphere of canola (Brassica napus) grown in a Podzol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2017.11.004
Merino, C., Fontaine, S., Palma, G, Matus, F. 2017 Effect of aluminium on mineralization of water extractable organic matter and microbial respiration in southern temperate rainforest soils. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.08.003
Panichini, M., Neculman, R. Godoy, R., Arancibia, N., Matus, F. 2017. Understanding carbon storage in volcanic soils under selectively logged temperate rainforests. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.04.023
Matus, F., Garrido, E., Hidalgo, C., Paz, F. Etchevers, J., Merino, C. 2016. Carbon saturation in the silt and clay particles in soils with contrasting mineralogy. http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0187-57792016000300311&lng=es&tlng=en
Rivas, Y., Canseco, M.I., Knicker, H., Etcheverría, P., Godoy, R., Matus, F.; Valenzuela, E., Gallardo, R. 2016. Variación en el contenido de glomalina relacionada a las proteínas del suelo, después de un incendio forestal en un Andisol en bosques de Araucaria araucana del centro-sur de Chile. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-92002016000200019.
Merino, C. Godoy, R., Matus, F. 2016. Soil enzymes and biological activity at different levels of organic matter stability. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-9516201600500000
Merino, C., Nannipieri, P., Matus, F., 2015. Soil carbon controlled by plant, microorganism and mineralogy interactions. Journal of Soil Sci Plant Nutr. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-95162015005000030
Valdés-Gómez, H, Gary, C., Brisson, N., Matus, F. 2014 Modelling indeterminate development, dry matter partitioning and the effect of nitrogen supply in tomato with the generic STICS crop–soil model. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2014.05.030
Orrego, R. Ávila, A., Meza, F., Matus, F. (2014) Using a crop simulation model to select the optimal climate grid cell resolution: A study case in Araucanía Region. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-9516201400500003
Matus, F., Rumpel, C., Neculman-Cerda, Panichinni, M., Mora, M.L. (2014) Soil carbon storage and stabilization in Andisols: A review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.04.008
Matus, F., Monreal, C., Lefebvre, M. Wu, S., Desjardins, R. DeRosa, M. (2014). Producing isotopically enriched plant, soil solution and rhizosphere soil materials over a few hours. https://doi.org/10.1080/00103624.2013.875190
Neculman, R., Rumpel, C., Matus, F. Godoy, R., Steffense, M, Mora, M.L. (2013) Organic matter stabilisation in two Andisols of contrasting age under temperate rain forest. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-012-0758-2
Montero-Sommerfeld, H., Díaz, L.M., Alvarez, M., Añazco-Villanueva, C., Matus, F., Boon, N., Boeckx, P., Huygens, D. (2013). High winter diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in shallow and deep grassland soils. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.06.002
Panichini, M., Matus, F., Godoy, R. Bolan, N. S., Rumpel, C. Mora, M.L., Borie, F (2012) Carbon distribution in top- and sub-soil horizons of two contrasting Andisols under pasture or forest. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2389.2012.01488.x
Rivas, Y., Matus, F., Rumpel, C., Knicker, H., and Garrido, G. (2012). Black carbon contribution in volcanic soils affected by wildfire or stubble burning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.03.007
Garrido, E. and Matus, F. (2012) Are organo-mineral complexes and allophane content determinant factors for the carbon level in Chilean volcanic soils?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2011.12.003
Matus, F., Hidalgo, C., Monreal, C., Estrada, I., Fuentes, M., Etchevers, J. (2011) Land use impacts on physical-based soil organic matter fractions on three hillside Ferrasols in Mexico http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-58392011000200014