Líneas de Investigación

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Formación Académica

Septiembre 2008 – octubre 2012, Doctorado en Ecología de Plantas

Universidad de Queensland (UQ), Australia

Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas

2007, Tesis en Genética de Poblaciones

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México

Instituto de Ecología

2003 – 2007, Licenciatura en Biología

Facultad de Ciencias

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México

Promedio Final 9.8

Experiencia profesonal

Posiciones Académicas

2017 – Presente, Joven Investigadora Cátedra CONACYT, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

2017 – Presente, Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI, Nivel 1), México

2016 – 2017, Investigadora Visitante, Escuela de Ciencias de la Tierra, Ambientales y Biológicas (BEES), Universidad de Nueva Gales del Sur (UNSW), Sídney, Australia

2015 – 2016, Investigadora Visitante, Grupo de Ecología Aplicada, Universidad de Tecnología, Sídney (UTS), Australia

Premios y Distinciones

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2022

  1. Santini NS, Cuervo-Robayo AP, Adame MF. En prensa. The impact of agriculture on the degradation of Mexican soils. En Global agriculture and land degradation, Springer.
  2. Santini NS, Miquelajauregui Y. 2022. The restoration of degraded lands by local communities and indigenous peoples. Frontiers in Conservation Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2022.873659
  3. Santini NS, Chamizo S, Lucas-Borja ME, Muñoz-Rojas M. 2022. Editorial: Restoration of degraded terrestrial ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.863845

2021

  1. Adame MF, Santini NS, Torres Talamante O, Rogers K. 2021. Mangrove sinkholes (cenotes) of the Yucatan Peninsula, a global hotspot of carbon sequestration. Biology Letters. 17:20210037. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0037
  2. Adame MF, Reef R, Santini NS, Najera E, Turschwell MP, Hayes MA, Masque P, Lovelock CE. 2021. Mangroves in arid regions Ecology, threats and opportunities. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 248: 106796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106796

2020

  1. Santini NS, Villarruel-Arrollo A, Adame MF, Lovelock CE, Nolan RH, Gálvez-Reyes N, González EJ, Olivares-Resendiz B, Mastretta-Yanes A, Piñero D. 2020. Organic carbon stocks of Mexican montane habitats: Variation among vegetation types and land-use. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 8: 581476. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2020.581476
  2. Sippo JZ, Santos IR, Sanders CJ, Gadd P, Hua Q, Lovelock CE, Santini NS, Johnston SG, Harada Y, Reithmeir G, Maher DT. 2020. Reconstruction extreme climatic and geochemical conditions during the largest natural mangrove dieback on record. Biogeosciences. 17:4704 - 4726. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-4707-2020

2019

  1. Santini NS, Adame MF, Nolan RH, Miquelajauregui Y, Piñero D, Mastretta-Yanes A, Cuervo-Robayo AP, Eamus D. 2019. Storage of organic carbon in the soils of Mexican temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 446: 115 – 125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.05.029
  2. Santini NS, Lovelock CE, Hua Q, Zawadzki A, Mazumder D, Mercer TR, Muñoz-Rojas M, Hardwick S, Madala BS, Cornwell W, Thomas T, Marzinelli EM, Adam P, Paul S, Vergés A. 2019. Natural and regenerated saltmarshes exhibit similar soil and belowground organic carbon stocks, root production and soil respiration. Ecosystems. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00373-x
  3. Vilas MP, Adams MP, Ball MC, Meynecke J, Santini NS, Swales A, Lovelock CE. 2019. Night and day: Shrinking and swelling of stems of diverse mangrove species growing along environmental gradients. PLoS ONE. 14(9): e0221950. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221950
  4. Wood G, Marzinelli EM, Coleman MA, Campbell AH, Santini NS, Kajlich L, Verdura J, Wodak J, Steinberg PD, Vergés A. 2019. Restoring subtidal marine macrophytes in the Anthropocene: trajectories and future-proofing. Marine and Freshwater Research. http://doi.org/10.1071/MF18226

2018

  1. Hardwick SA, Chen WY, Wong T, Kanakamedala B, Deveson IW, Ongley SE, Santini NS, Marcellin E, Smith MA, Nielsen LK, Lovelock CE, Neilan BA, Mercer TR. 2018. Synthetic microbe communities provide internal reference standards for metagenome sequencing analysis. Nature Communications. DOI:10.1038/s41467-018-05555-0
  2. Nolan R, Tarin T, Ruman R, Cleverly J, Fairweather KA, Zolfhagar S, Santini NS, Eamus D. 2018. Contrasting ecophysiology of two widespread arid zone tree species with differing access to water resources. Journal of Arid Environments. 153: 1 – 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.01.003
  3. Santini NS, Cleverly J, Faux R, McBean K, Eamus D.2018. Root xylem characteristics and contrasting hydraulic strategies of species co-occurring in semi-arid Australia. IAWA Journal. http://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-20170188

2017

  1. Nolan RH, Tarin T, Santini NS, McAdam SAM, Ruman R, Eamus D. 2017. Differences in osmotic adjustment, foliar ABA dynamics and contrasting strategies of stomatal regulation during drought in two woody angiosperms. Plant, Cell & Environment. DOI:10.1111/pce.13077
  2. Nolan R, Fairweather KA, Tarin T, Santini NS, Cleverly J, Faux R, Eamus D. 2017. Divergence in plant water-use strategies in semiarid woody species. Functional Plant Biology. http://doi.org/10.1071/FP17079.

2016

  1. Eamus D, Huete A, Cleverly J, Nolan R, Ma X, Tarin T, Santini NS. 2016. Mulga, a major tropical dry open forest of Australia: recent insights to carbon and water fluxes. Environmental Research Letters. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/125011.
  2. Cleverly J, Eamus D, Restrepo-Coupe N, Chen C, Maes W, Li L, Faux R, Santini NS, Rumman R, Yu Q, Huete A. 2016. Soil moisture controls on phenology and productivity in a semi-arid critical zone. Science of the Total Environment. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.14.

2015

  1. Santini NS, Cleverly J, Faux R, Lestrange C, Rumman R, Eamus D. 2015. Xylem traits and water-use efficiency of woody species co-occurring in the Ti Tree Basin arid zone. Trees, Structure and Function. doi 10.1007/s00468-015-1301-5.
  2. Reef R, Markham HL, Santini NS, Lovelock CE. 2015. The response of the mangrove Avicennia marina to heterogeneous salinity measured using a split-root approach. Plant and Soil. doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2489-2.
  3. Guyot A, Ostergaards KT, Fan J, Santini NS, Lockington DA. 2015. Xylem hydraulic properties in subtropical coniferous trees influence radial patterns of sap flow: implications for whole tree transpiration estimates using sap flow sensors. Trees, Structure and Function. doi 10.1007-s00468-014-1144-5.
  4. Adame MA, Santini NS, Tovilla C, Vázquez-Lule A, Castro L, Guevara M. 2015. Carbon stocks and soil sequestration rates of tropical riverine wetlands. Biogeosciences. doi 10.5194/bg-12-3805-2015.
  5. Lovelock CE, Adame MF, Bennion V, Hayes M, Reef R, Santini N, Cahoon DR. 2015. Sea level and turbidity controls on mangrove soil surface elevation change. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. doi 10.1016/j.ecss.2014.11.026.
  6. Santini NS, Reef R, Lockington D, Lovelock CE. 2015. The use of fresh and saline water sources by the mangrove Avicennia marina. Hydrobiologia. doi 10.1007/s10750-014-2091-2.

2014

  1. Adame MF, Teutli C, Santini NS, Zaldívar-Jiménez A, Hernández R, Silveira-Herrera JA. 2014. Root biomass and production of mangroves surrounding a karstic oligotrophic coastal lagoon. Wetlands. doi 10.1007/s13157-014-0514-5.
  2. Lovelock CE, Adame MF, Bennion V, Hayes M, O’Mara J, Reef R, Santini NS. 2014. Contemporary rates of carbon sequestration through vertical accretion of sediments in mangrove forests and saltmarshes of South East Queensland, Australia. Estuaries and Coasts. doi 10.1007/s12237-013-9702-4.

2013

  1. Santini NS, Hua Q, Schmitz N, Lovelock CE. 2013. Radiocarbon dating and wood density chronologies of mangrove trees in arid Western Australia.  PLoS ONE 8(11): e80116. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080116.
  2. Santini NS, Schmitz N, Bennion V, Lovelock CE. 2013. The anatomical basis of the link between density and mechanical strength in mangroves branches. Functional Plant Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/FP12204.

2012

  1. Santini NS, Schmitz N, Lovelock CE. 2012. Variation in wood density and anatomy in a widespread mangrove species. Trees Structure and Function. 26: 1555 – 1563. doi 10.1007/s00468-012-0729-0.
  2. Salas-Lizana R, Santini NS, Miranda-Pérez A, Piñero D. 2012. The Pleistocene glacial cycles shaped the historical demography and phylogeography of a pine fungal endophyte. Mycological Progress. doi 10.007/s11557-011-0774-x.

2021 – Presente, Alan Alejandro Palma Morales. Tesis de licenciatura. Diversidad y funcionalidad de comunidades bacterianas de suelos de bosques templados. Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

2021 – Presente, Andrea Gabriela Guevara Juárez. Tesis de licenciatura. Deforestación, cambio de uso de suelo y densidad de carbono en Áreas naturales protegidas de bosques templados de México durante el periodo 2002 – 2019. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2019 –2021, Betzabeth Olivares Reséndiz. Tesis de licenciatura con mención honorífica. Reservas de carbono orgánico y respiración en suelos de bosques templados de Abies religiosa y Pinus pseudostrobus. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2018 - 2019, Adriana González Contreras. Tesis de licenciatura con mención honorífica. Abundancia de los isótopos estables d13C y d15N en suelos de bosques templados y pastizales alpinos naturales y transformados. Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

2016 Delphine Coste. Proyecto, Alometría de la biomasa aérea de Juncus kraussii y Sporobolus virginicus en el Parque Olímpico de Sídney. Universidad de Nueva Gales del Sur, Australia.

2014 Catherine Lestrange. Proyecto, Rasgos del xilema y eficiencia de uso de agua en especies leñosas que co-habitan la zona árida Ti Tree, Australia. Universidad de Tecnología, Sídney, Australia.