Manuel López-Vicente Wageningen Environmental Research (WUR), Subdivision Soil, Water and Land Use. Wageningen, Netherlands

Dr. Manuel López-Vicente is a member of the research staff of the Prof. Dr. Yolanda Gogorcena's Lab., in the Department of Pomology, at the Experimental Station of Aula Dei (EEAD-CSIC), in Zaragoza, Spain. His research line is the Evaluation of the hydrological response of the soil in agricultural and forest systems, with special focus on land use changes, and soil and water conservation measures (e.g. cover crops in vineyards and olive orchards), by using field, laboratory, and modelling techniques. Since the beginning of his PhD (2003-2007), he has been assessing the spatial patterns of runoff, soil water content, soil erosion/redistribution and sediment delivery, and the temporal stability of these patterns in many study areas in several countries under distinct climatic and physiographic (edaphic) conditions. As part of the soil erosion dynamic, he studies delivery processes of soil organic carbon (protected and non-protected), nutrients (N-P-K), and radionuclides (mainly Cs-137). To study specific processes in detail, he has used a variety of empirical and process-based models and crop simulators and has developed the DR2 hydrological and the SERT soil erosion GIS-based tools, and the AIC index of structural and functional connectivity.