List of works - Sandra M. Díaz

A Rosetta Stone for nature's benefits to people

scientific article

A generic structure for plant trait databases

article

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

article

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

article

A novel meta-analytical approach to improve systematic review of rates and patterns of microevolution

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Accuracy of mammography and clinical breast examination in the implementation of breast cancer screening programs in Colombia

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Applied Vegetation Science in 2010: new opportunities for the vegetation scientists

Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity

article

Assembly of functional diversity in an oceanic island flora

scientific article published on 12 July 2023

Assessing nature's contributions to people

scientific article published in January 2018

Assessing the utility of conserving evolutionary history

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Assessing trait-based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient

scientific article published in 2017

Author Correction: Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

article

Below-ground biomass and productivity of a grazed site and a neighbouring ungrazed exclosure in a grassland in central Argentina

scientific article published in April 2004

Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species

scientific article published on 3 January 2023

Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20

scientific article

Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism

scientific article

Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit

scholarly article by Sandra Myrna Díaz et al published October 2009 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Biodiversity loss threatens human well-being

scientific article

Biodiversity targets after 2010

article

Botanical Monography in the Anthropocene

Can ecosystem properties be fully translated into service values? An economic valuation of aquatic plant services

article

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Community structure in montane grasslands of central Argentina in relation to land use

article

Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales

scientific article published in 2021

Corrigendum: The Influence of Taxonomy and Environment on Leaf Trait Variation Along Tropical Abiotic Gradients

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Covariance of Sun and Shade Leaf Traits Along a Tropical Forest Elevation Gradient

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Disturbance, seeds, restoration, and the importance of experiments and long‐term observations: the Editors' Award for 2005

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

scientific article published in 2014

Does hairiness matter in Harare? Resolving controversy in global comparisons of plant trait responses to ecosystem disturbance

article

Ecological restoration as a central theme for applied vegetation science

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Ecotones, herbivory, acceptance rate and electronic access

scientific article published in 2004

Edaphic patchiness influences grassland regeneration from the soil seed-bank in mountain grasslands of central Argentina

scientific article

Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene: a social–ecological systems perspective on their intertwined futures

Examining variation in the leaf mass per area of dominant species across two contrasting tropical gradients in light of community assembly

scientific article

Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

scientific article published in 2022

Filtering processes in the assembly of plant communities: Are species presence and abundance driven by the same traits?

article

Filtering processes in the assembly of plant communities: Are species presence and abundance driven by the same traits?

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Fine-root traits in the global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article published on 29 September 2021

Fire effects on the soil seed bank and post‐fire resilience of a semi‐arid shrubland in central Argentina

scientific article

Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco.

scientific article published in February 2017

Functional characters, texture and stress

Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees

scientific article published on December 2010

Functional traits of alien plants across contrasting climatic and land-use regimes: do aliens join the locals or try harder than them?

article

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

scientific article

Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ⬇️

2019 report by the United Nations on mass extinction

Global climatic drivers of leaf size.

scientific article published on September 2017

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

scientific article

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

scientific article

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

article

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

article

Grazing and the Phenology of Flowering and Fruiting in a Montane Grassland in Argentina: A Niche Approach

article

IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change

Improving landscape‐scale productivity estimates by integrating trait‐based models and remotely‐sensed foliar‐trait and canopy‐structural data

scientific article published in 2022

Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

scientific article

Increased breast cancer screening and downstaging in Colombian women: A randomized trial of opportunistic breast-screening

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Informing trait-based ecology by assessing remotely sensed functional diversity across a broad tropical temperature gradient

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Interactions between changing climate and biodiversity: Shaping humanity's future

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Invasive species, management for conservation and remote sensing

scientific article published in 2008

Investments' role in ecosystem degradation-Response

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

J. Philip Grime (1935–2021)

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Land-use intensification effects on functional properties in tropical plant communities

scientific article

Large changes in carbon storage under different land-use regimes in subtropical seasonally dry forests of southern South America

Leaf mechanical resistance in plant trait databases: comparing the results of two common measurement methods

scientific article

Leaf traits and herbivore selection in the field and in cafeteria experiments

scientific article published in 2003

Leaf traits as indicators of resource-use strategy in floras with succulent species

scientific article published in 2002

Leaf traits of African woody savanna species across climate and soil fertility gradients: evidence for conservative versus acquisitive resource-use strategies

scientific article published in 2016

Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

scholarly article by Elena M. Bennett et al published June 2015 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society

scientific article

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales.

scientific article

Low resilience at the early stages of recovery of the semi‐arid Chaco forest—Evidence from a field experiment

scientific article published in 2021

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets

preprint

Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets

scientific article published on 28 November 2022

Meta-analysis Shows That Rapid Phenotypic Change in Angiosperms in Response to Environmental Change Is Followed by Stasis

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

More than the sum of its parts? Assessing litter heterogeneity effects on the decomposition of litter mixtures through leaf chemistry

Mycorrhizal colonization mediated by species interactions in arctic tundra

scientific article published on 7 August 2003

Mycorrhizal community resilience in response to experimental plant functional type removals in a woody ecosystem

article

No inflation of threatened species

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Not a melting pot: Plant species aggregate in their non‐native range

scientific article

Not gone with the wind: Vegetation complexity increases seed retention during windy periods in the Argentine Semiarid Chaco

scientific article published in May 2019

Of carrots and sticks

Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment

scientific article

Optimal strategies for sampling functional traits in species-rich forests

article

Oviposition preference and egg eclosion in different salt concentrations in the coastal malaria vector Anopheles aquasalis Curry

scientific article published in March 2006

Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime

scientific article published on 18 August 2023

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

PhenoSpace: A Shiny application to visualize trait data in the phenotypic space of the global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article published on 26 January 2021

Pilot Implementation of Breast Cancer Early Detection Programs in Colombia.

scientific article

Plant Functional Types: Are We Getting Any Closer to the Holy Grail?

article

Plant community resilience in the face of fire: experimental evidence from a semi-arid shrubland

article

Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on July 2015

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in Nature

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant functional traits and environmental filters at a regional scale

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Plant functional types and disturbance dynamics - Introduction

article

Plant functional types and ecosystem function in relation to global change

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Plant functional types and ecosystem function in relation to global change

scientific article published on 24 February 2009

Plant invasions in undisturbed ecosystems: The triggering attribute approach

article

Plant invasions in undisturbed ecosystems: The triggering attribute approach

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

scientific article

Post-burning regeneration of the Chaco seasonally dry forest: germination response of dominant species to experimental heat shock

scientific article published on 25 November 2014

Predicting trait-environment relationships for venation networks along an Andes-Amazon elevation gradient

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Predictive systems ecology.

scientific article published on 2 October 2013

Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services

article

Reply to Romero and Agrawal: Unpacking the specific links between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and social diversity is an essential first step

scholarly article by Sandra Myrna Díaz et al published 24 May 2011 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Reply to: "Global conservation of phylogenetic diversity captures more than just functional diversity"

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Reply to: The risks of overstating the climate benefits of ecosystem restoration

scientific article published in 2022

Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

scientific article published in Science

Response to Vergara et al. (2015)—Fruiting phenology as a “triggering attribute” of invasion process: Do invasive species take advantage of seed dispersal service provided by native birds?

article

Restoration, succession and climatic change

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Rethinking individual relationships with entities of nature

scientific article published on 14 January 2022

Scale dependence of canopy trait distributions along a tropical forest elevation gradient

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

scientific article

Science to Policy Linkages for the Post-2010 Biodiversity Targets

Scientific outcome of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on biodiversity and climate change

scholarly report

Seed bank dynamics in tall‐tussock grasslands along an altitudinal gradient

scientific article

Seed bank dynamics of Lachemilla pinnata (Rosaceae) in different plant communities of mountain grasslands in central Argentina

scientific article published on 1999

Seed size and shape are good predictors of seed persistence in soil in temperate mountain grasslands of Argentina

scientific article published on 16 September 2008

Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

scientific article

Shrub biomass estimation in the semiarid Chaco forest: a contribution to the quantification of an underrated carbon stock

Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) Research: what have we learned and how can we use this information in future research programs

Solar radiation and functional traits explain the decline of forest primary productivity along a tropical elevation gradient ⬇️

scientific article

Sorbitol-fermenting, β-glucuronidase-positive, Shiga toxin-negative Escherichia coli O157:H7 in free-ranging red deer in South-Central Spain.

scientific article published on 5 August 2011

Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leaves

scientific article

Structural and defensive roles of angiosperm leaf venation network reticulation across an Andes-Amazon elevation gradient

scientific article published in 2018

Suites of root traits differ between annual and perennial species growing in the field

scientific article published in January 2006

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

scientific article published in 2022

The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people

research work

The Influence of Taxonomy and Environment on Leaf Trait Variation Along Tropical Abiotic Gradients

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

The acquisitive-conservative axis of leaf trait variation emerges even in homogeneous environments

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

The global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The nature of vegetation science

The past as a lens for biodiversity conservation on a dynamically changing planet

scientific article published on 6 February 2023

Thermal differences between juveniles and adults increased over time in European forest trees

scientific article

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

article

Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

article by Francesco de Bello et al published 10 April 2010 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Toxicity induced by dieldrin and chlorpyrifos in the freshwater crayfish Cambarellus montezumae (Cambaridae).

scientific article

Tropical forest leaves may darken in response to climate change

scientific article published on 19 November 2018

Twentieth year of theJournal of Vegetation Science: the journal for all vegetation scientists

Two measurement methods of leaf dry matter content produce similar results in a broad range of species

scientific article

Urgent need to strengthen the international commitment to IPBES

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach

article

Variation in leaf wettability traits along a tropical montane elevation gradient

scientific article

What drives accelerated land cover change in central Argentina? Synergistic consequences of climatic, socioeconomic, and technological factors

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

article

Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat

article by Lucas A Garibaldi et al published 25 October 2020 in Conservation Letters

[Cutaneous lupus erythematosus in a dog: reflections on human-animal evolutionary connections]

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

List of works by Sandra M. Díaz

A Rosetta Stone for nature's benefits to people

A generic structure for plant trait databases

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

A novel meta-analytical approach to improve systematic review of rates and patterns of microevolution

Accuracy of mammography and clinical breast examination in the implementation of breast cancer screening programs in Colombia

Applied Vegetation Science in 2010: new opportunities for the vegetation scientists

Approaches to defining a planetary boundary for biodiversity

Assembly of functional diversity in an oceanic island flora

Assessing nature's contributions to people

Assessing the utility of conserving evolutionary history

Assessing trait-based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient

Author Correction: Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

Author Correction: Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

Below-ground biomass and productivity of a grazed site and a neighbouring ungrazed exclosure in a grassland in central Argentina

Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species

Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20

Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism

Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit

Biodiversity loss threatens human well-being

Biodiversity targets after 2010

Botanical Monography in the Anthropocene

Can ecosystem properties be fully translated into service values? An economic valuation of aquatic plant services

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

Community structure in montane grasslands of central Argentina in relation to land use

Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales

Corrigendum: The Influence of Taxonomy and Environment on Leaf Trait Variation Along Tropical Abiotic Gradients

Covariance of Sun and Shade Leaf Traits Along a Tropical Forest Elevation Gradient

Disturbance, seeds, restoration, and the importance of experiments and long‐term observations: the Editors' Award for 2005

Does functional trait diversity predict above-ground biomass and productivity of tropical forests? Testing three alternative hypotheses

Does hairiness matter in Harare? Resolving controversy in global comparisons of plant trait responses to ecosystem disturbance

Ecological restoration as a central theme for applied vegetation science

Ecological restoration as a central theme for applied vegetation science

Ecotones, herbivory, acceptance rate and electronic access

Edaphic patchiness influences grassland regeneration from the soil seed-bank in mountain grasslands of central Argentina

Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene: a social–ecological systems perspective on their intertwined futures

Examining variation in the leaf mass per area of dominant species across two contrasting tropical gradients in light of community assembly

Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

Filtering processes in the assembly of plant communities: Are species presence and abundance driven by the same traits?

Filtering processes in the assembly of plant communities: Are species presence and abundance driven by the same traits?

Fine-root traits in the global spectrum of plant form and function

Fire effects on the soil seed bank and post‐fire resilience of a semi‐arid shrubland in central Argentina

Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco.

Functional characters, texture and stress

Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees

Functional traits of alien plants across contrasting climatic and land-use regimes: do aliens join the locals or try harder than them?

Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability

Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ⬇️

Global climatic drivers of leaf size.

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Grazing and the Phenology of Flowering and Fruiting in a Montane Grassland in Argentina: A Niche Approach

IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change

Improving landscape‐scale productivity estimates by integrating trait‐based models and remotely‐sensed foliar‐trait and canopy‐structural data

Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

Increased breast cancer screening and downstaging in Colombian women: A randomized trial of opportunistic breast-screening

Informing trait-based ecology by assessing remotely sensed functional diversity across a broad tropical temperature gradient

Interactions between changing climate and biodiversity: Shaping humanity's future

Invasive species, management for conservation and remote sensing

Investments' role in ecosystem degradation-Response

J. Philip Grime (1935–2021)

Land-use intensification effects on functional properties in tropical plant communities

Large changes in carbon storage under different land-use regimes in subtropical seasonally dry forests of southern South America

Leaf mechanical resistance in plant trait databases: comparing the results of two common measurement methods

Leaf traits and herbivore selection in the field and in cafeteria experiments

Leaf traits as indicators of resource-use strategy in floras with succulent species

Leaf traits of African woody savanna species across climate and soil fertility gradients: evidence for conservative versus acquisitive resource-use strategies

Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

Linking functional diversity and social actor strategies in a framework for interdisciplinary analysis of nature's benefits to society

Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales.

Low resilience at the early stages of recovery of the semi‐arid Chaco forest—Evidence from a field experiment

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets