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List of works by Adrián Escudero Alcántara

A dimmer shade of pale: revealing the faint signature of local assembly processes on the structure of strongly filtered plant communities

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

A model for small-scale seed bank and standing vegetation connection along time

scientific article

A new non-parametric method for analyzing replicated point patterns in ecology

scientific article published in 2016

A tropical epiphytic orchid uses a low-light interception strategy in a spatially heterogeneous light environment

Additive effects of a potentially invasive grass and water stress on the performance of seedlings of gypsum specialists

Alpine vegetation dataset from three contrasting mountain ranges differing in climate and evolutionary history

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

Amphibians of the equatorial seasonally dry forests of Ecuador and Peru ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Analysis of within-population spatial genetic structure in Antirrhinum microphyllum (Scrophulariaceae).

scientific article published in December 2003

Annual plant community assembly in edaphically heterogeneous environments

scientific article published in 2015

Are soil characteristics and understorey composition controlled by forest management?

article

Are soil lichen communities structured by biotic interactions? A null model analysis

article

Are threatened lichen species well-protected in Spain? Effectiveness of a protected areas network

scientific article published in 2006

Artemisia sieberi dominated landscapes of Northeastern Iran host great diversity in lichen and annual plant species

scientific article published in March 2022

Assemblage of a semi-arid annual plant community: abiotic and biotic filters act hierarchically

scientific article

Assessing ant seed predation in threatened plants: a case study

scientific article published on 10 June 2005

Assessing seed and microsite limitation on population dynamics of a gypsophyte through experimental soil crust disturbance and seed addition

scientific article published in 2017

Beyond the classical nurse species effect: diversity assembly in a Mediterranean semi-arid dwarf shrubland

Breeding system of the Iberian endemic shrub Colutea hispanica (Leguminosae)

scientific article published on 10 December 2009

Changes in Foliar Functional Traits of S. pyrenaicus subsp. carpetanus under the Ongoing Climate Change: A Retrospective Survey

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Changes in rainfall amount and frequency do not affect the outcome of the interaction between the shrub Retama sphaerocarpa and its neighbouring grasses in two semiarid communities

scientific article

Characterization of microsatellites in the mountain plant Armeria caespitosa (Plumbaginaceae) and transferability to congeners.

scientific article

Climate and grazing control nurse effects in an Ecuadorian dry shrubby community

scientific article published in 2013

Climate and small scale factors determine functional diversity shifts of biological soil crusts in Iberian drylands

Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands.

scientific article

Climate change and biocrust disturbance synergistically decreased taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in annual communities on gypsiferous soils

scientific article published on 20 December 2021

Climate reverses directionality in the richness-abundance relationship across the World's main forest biomes

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Climate seasonality and tree growth strategies in a tropical dry forest

scientific article published on 16 November 2019

Co-occurring grazing and climate stressors have different effects on the total seed bank when compared to the persistent seed bank

Colonization of abandoned land by Juniperus thurifera is mediated by the interaction of a diverse dispersal assemblage and environmental heterogeneity

scientific article

Comment on "The extent of forest in dryland biomes".

scientific article

Comparative landscape genetics of gypsum specialists with naturally-patchy distributions reveal their resilience to anthropogenic fragmentation

article

Competition may explain the fine-scale spatial patterns and genetic structure of two co-occurring plant congeners

article

Congruence between geographic range distribution and local competitive ability of twoLupinusspecies ⬇️

scientific article published on August 29, 2011

Coordination between water uptake depth and the leaf economic spectrum in a Mediterranean shrubland

scientific article published in 2022

Critical predictors of functional, phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity are geographically structured in lichen epiphytic communities

scientific article published on 12 April 2019

Decline of dry grassland specialists in Mediterranean high-mountain communities influenced by recent climate warming

article

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands.

scientific article

Demographic effects of interacting species: exploring stable coexistence under increased climatic variability in a semiarid shrub community

scientific article published on 04 February 2021

Determinants of high mountain plant diversity in the Chilean Andes: From regional to local spatial scales

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Different intra- and interspecific facilitation mechanisms between two Mediterranean trees under a climate change scenario

scientific article

Direct and indirect effects of climate on demography and early growth of Pinus sylvestris at the rear edge: changing roles of biotic and abiotic factors

scientific article

Dispersal syndrome influences the match between seed rain and soil seed bank of woody species in a Neotropical dry forest

scientific article

Diverse guilds provide complementary dispersal services in a woodland expansion process after land abandonment

scientific article published in 2014

Diverse phylogenetic neighborhoods enhance community resistance to drought in experimental assemblages

scientific article published on 18 November 2021

Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities

scientific article

Does aboveground vegetation composition resemble soil seed bank during succession in specialized vegetation on gypsum soil?

article

Does habitat structure matter? Spatially explicit population modelling of an Iberian gypsum endemic

scientific article published in 2009

Does spatial heterogeneity blur the signature of dispersal syndromes on spatial patterns of woody species? A test in a tropical dry forest

scientific article published in 2015

Dominant plant species modulate responses to hydroseeding, irrigation and fertilization during the restoration of semiarid motorway slopes

article

Early environments drive diversity and floristic composition in Mediterranean old fields: Insights from a long-term experiment

article

Early-successional vegetation changes after roadside prairie restoration modify processes related with soil functioning by changing microbial functional diversity

article

Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain

scientific article published on December 2011

Ecosystem development in roadside grasslands: biotic control, plant-soil interactions, and dispersal limitations

scientific article

Effect of aridity on species assembly in gypsum drylands: a response mediated by the soil affinity of species

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Effects of the duration of cold stratification on early life stages of the Mediterranean alpine plant Silene ciliata.

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

El potencial del Inventario Forestal Nacional para evaluar el estado de conservación de los tipos de Hábitat forestales de Interés Comunitario: nuevos retos para cumplir con las políticas de conservación de la biodiversidad

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental control of germination in semi-arid Mediterranean systems: the case of annuals on gypsum soils

Environmental heterogeneity blurs the signature of dispersal syndromes on spatial patterns of woody species in a moist tropical forest

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Environmental scales on the reproduction of a gypsophyte: a hierarchical approach

scientific article

Equalization of Intracardiac Pressures in Cardiac Tamponade

scientific article published on 01 April 2016

Estimating belowground plant abundance with DNA metabarcoding

scientific article published on 20 July 2019

Every bit helps: The functional role of individuals in assembling any plant community, from the richest to monospecific ones

scientific article published on 09 July 2021

Evidence for a stochastic geometry of biodiversity: the effects of species abundance, richness and intraspecific clustering

article

Evidence of functional species sorting by rainfall and biotic interactions: A community monolith experimental approach

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Extended flowering in a Mediterranean shrub: Seasonal variability in seed quality and quantity

article published in 2012

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

scientific article

Factors controlling the establishment of<i>Helianthemum squamatum,</i>an endemic gypsophile of semi-arid Spain

scientific article published on 12 March 2003

Factors driving species assemblage in Mediterranean soil seed banks: from the large to the fine scale

scientific article published on 16 April 2016

Fencing promotes fast recovery of demographic processes after grazing-driven collapse in Bursera graveolens forests

scientific article published in 2021

Fine spatial pattern of an epiphytic lichen species is affected by habitat conditions in two forest types in the Iberian Mediterranean region

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Fragment quality and matrix affect epiphytic performance in a Mediterranean forest landscape

scientific article

Fragmentation modulates the strong impact of habitat quality and plant cover on fertility and microbial activity of semiarid gypsum soils

article

French broom (Teline monspessulana) invasion in south-central Chile depends on factors operating at different spatial scales

article

Functional diversity regulates the effects of habitat degradation on biocrust phylogenetic and taxonomic diversities

scientific article published in 2022

Functional structure of plant communities along salinity gradients in Iranian salt marshes

scientific article published on 01 March 2022

Generalist diurnal pollination provides greater fitness in a plant with nocturnal pollination syndrome: assessing the effects of a Silene ? Hadena interaction

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Generalist diurnal pollination provides greater fitness in a plant with nocturnal pollination syndrome: assessing the effects of aSilene - Hadenainteraction

article

Genetic patterns of habitat fragmentation and past climate-change effects in the Mediterranean high-mountain plant Armeria caespitosa (Plumbaginaceae).

scientific article

Genetic variation in flowering phenology and reproductive performance in a Mediterranean high-mountain specialist,Armeria caespitosa(Plumbaginaceae)

scientific article published in 2014

Growing with siblings: a common ground for cooperation or for fiercer competition among plants?

scientific article published on 29 April 2009

Gypsophile chemistry unveiled: Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy provides new insight into plant adaptations to gypsum soils

scientific article

Gypsum Physical Soil Crusts and the Existence of Gypsophytes in Semi-arid Central Spain

scientific article published on 21 October 2005

Habitat Fragmentation Differentially Affects Genetic Variation, Phenotypic Plasticity and Survival in Populations of a Gypsum Endemic

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Habitat fragmentation determines diversity of annual plant communities at landscape and fine spatial scales

scientific article published in 2018

High differentiation in functional traits but similar phenotypic plasticity in populations of a soil specialist along a climatic gradient

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

How might edaphic specialists in gypsum islands respond to climate change? Reciprocal sowing experiment to infer local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity

scientific article published in July 2017

Identification and development of eight microsatellite markers for the gypsophyte Helianthemum squamatum and cross-species amplification

article

Images in anesthesiology: Unexpected difficult intubation caused by a subglottic tracheal ring

scientific article

Impact of simulated changes in rainfall regime and nutrient deposition on the relative dominance and isotopic composition of ruderal plants in anthropogenic grasslands

article

Impact of three global change drivers on a Mediterranean shrub

scientific article

Impacts of climate, soil and biotic interactions on the interplay of the different facets of alpine plant diversity

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Inbreeding at the edge: does inbreeding depression increase under more stressful conditions?

scientific article published in 2012

Individual species affect plant traits structure in their surroundings: evidence of functional mechanisms of assembly

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Inherited variability in multiple traits determines fitness in populations of an annual legume from contrasting latitudinal origins

scientific article published on 24 March 2009

Interactions between abiotic gradients determine functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns in Mediterranean-type climate mountains in the Andes

Interactive Effects of Three Ecosystem Engineers on Infiltration in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Grassland

Intraindividual variation in light-related functional traits: magnitude and structure of leaf trait variability across global scales in Olea europaea trees

Intraspecific perspective of phenotypic coordination of functional traits in Scots pine

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Is fire a selective force of seed size in pine species?

scientific article published on 10 October 2002

Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes?

scientific article published on July 2009

Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes? Reply

scientific article published in 2010

Juvenile-adult tree associations in a continental Mediterranean ecosystem: no evidence for sustained and general facilitation at increased aridity

article

Kinship rivalry does not trigger specific allocation strategies in Lupinus angustifolius

scientific article published on 3 May 2012

Landscape- and field-scale control of spatial variation of soil properties in Mediterranean montane meadows

Larger aboveground neighbourhood scales maximise similarity but do not eliminate discrepancies with belowground plant diversity in a Mediterranean shrubland

Lichen species co-occurrence patterns along an edge-interior Mediterranean forest gradient

scientific article published in 2012

Lichen-biocrust diversity in a fragmented dryland: Fine scale factors are better predictors than landscape structure.

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Limited effect of a highway barrier on the genetic structure of a gypsum soil specialist

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Linkages among life-history components through time: Carryover effects on the demography of a short-lived polycarpic plant

scientific article

Livestock settlement affects shrub abundance via plant functional diversity but not species richness in arid environments

scientific article published on 12 September 2020

Local adaptation enhances seedling recruitment along an altitudinal gradient in a high mountain mediterranean plant

scientific article

Maintaining distances with the engineer: patterns of coexistence in plant communities beyond the patch-bare dichotomy.

scientific article

Metabolic and physiological responses of Mediterranean high‐mountain and Alpine plants to combined abiotic stresses

article

Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: towards a unifying framework.

scientific article

Midday Depression vs. Midday Peak in Diurnal Light Interception: Contrasting Patterns at Crown and Leaf Scales in a Tropical Evergreen Tree.

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Migration, genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity of gypsophiles and their role on climate change responses

scientific article

More Ecology is Needed to Restore Mediterranean Ecosystems: A Reply to Valladares and Gianoli

scientific article published in 2008

More than just drought: complexity of recruitment patterns in Mediterranean forests.

scientific article published on 7 September 2014

Multiple-scale environmental modulation of lichen reproduction

scientific article

Natural selection favours drought escape and an acquisitive resource‐use strategy in semi‐arid Mediterranean shrubs

scientific article published in 2022

Negative density dependence and environmental heterogeneity effects on tree ferns across succession in a tropical montane forest

scientific article published in 2014

On the relationship between abiotic stress and co-occurrence patterns: an assessment at the community level using soil lichen communities and multiple stress gradients

scientific article published in 2009

Phenotypic integration does not constrain phenotypic plasticity: differential plasticity of traits is associated to their integration across environments

article by Silvia Matesanz et al published 18 July 2021 in New Phytologist

Photoprotective Strategies in Mediterranean High-Mountain Grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Phylogeography of a gypsum endemic plant across its entire distribution range in the western Mediterranean

scientific article published in 2021

Pine invasions in treeless environments: dispersal overruns microsite heterogeneity ⬇️

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Plant life on gypsum: a review of its multiple facets

scientific article

Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands

scientific article published in January 2012

Plant trait variation along an altitudinal gradient in mediterranean high mountain grasslands: controlling the species turnover effect

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Plants living on gypsum: beyond the specialist model

scientific article published on 4 January 2007

Ploidy level and genome size of locally adapted populations of Silene ciliata across an altitudinal gradient

scientific article published in 2011

Pollination context effects in the high-mountain dimorphic Armeria caespitosa (Plumbaginaceae): Neighborhood is something more than density

scientific article published on 26 August 2009

Poor effectiveness of the Natura 2000 network protecting Mediterranean lichen species

Population structure of two dominant gypsophyte shrubs through a secondary plant succession

article

Positive associations among rare species and their persistence in ecological assemblages

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Positive interactions support complex networks

Previous Land Use Alters the Effect of Climate Change and Facilitation on Expanding Woodlands of Spanish Juniper

article

Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities

scientific article published in 2022

Recent and ancient evolutionary events shaped plant elemental composition of edaphic endemics: a phylogeny‐wide analysis of Iberian gypsum plants

scientific article published on 13 July 2022

Recruitment patterns of four tree species along elevation gradients in Mediterranean mountains: Not only climate matters

article

Relative importance of host plant patch geometry and habitat quality on the patterns of occupancy, extinction and density of the monophagous butterfly Iolana iolas

scientific article published on 8 March 2008

Remnants fragments preserve genetic diversity of the old forest lichen Lobaria pulmonaria in a fragmented Mediterranean mountain forest

scientific article published in 2011

Resistance of an edaphic-island specialist to anthropogenic-driven fragmentation

scientific article published in 2017

Response to artificial drying until drought-induced death in different elevation populations of a high-mountain plant.

scientific article

Runoff at contrasting scales in a semiarid ecosystem: A complex balance between biological soil crust features and rainfall characteristics

scientific article

Seed bank spatial structure in semi-arid environments: beyond the patch-bare area dichotomy

scientific article published in 2007

Seedling dynamics at elevation limits: Complex interactions beyond seed and microsite limitations

scientific article published on 18 October 2010

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Shrub encroachment does not reduce the activity of some soil enzymes in Mediterranean semiarid grasslands

Site effect is stronger than species identity in driving demographic responses of Helianthemum (Cistaceae) shrubs in gypsum environments

scientific article

Small-scale demographic compensation in a high-mountain endemic: the low edge stands still

scientific article published in 2012

Soil Loss and Runoff in Semiarid Ecosystems: A Complex Interaction Between Biological Soil Crusts, Micro-topography, and Hydrological Drivers

Soil seed bank recovery occurs more rapidly than expected in semi-arid Mediterranean gypsum vegetation ⬇️

scientific article published on October 16, 2011

Soil under nurse plants is always better than outside: a survey on soil amelioration by a complete guild of nurse plants across a long environmental gradient

article

Spanish juniper gain expansion opportunities by counting on a functionally diverse dispersal assemblage community.

scientific article published on 09 September 2013

Spatial Scale Dependence of Ecological Factors That Regulate Functional and Phylogenetic Assembly in a Mediterranean High Mountain Grassland

scientific article published in 2021

Spatial analysis of genetic diversity as a tool for plant conservation

scientific article published in 2003

Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community

Spatial pattern and neighbour effects onHelianthemum squamatumseedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community

Species coexistence in a changing world ⬇️

scientific article

Spore fitness components do not differ between diploid and allotetraploid species of Dryopteris (Dryopteridaceae).

scientific article published on 15 July 2006

Stress-induced dynamic adjustments of reproduction differentially affect fitness components of a semi-arid plant

article

Structural equation modelling: an alternative for assessing causal relationships in threatened plant populations

scientific article published in 2003

Summer Freezing Resistance: A Critical Filter for Plant Community Assemblies in Mediterranean High Mountains.

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Survival costs of reproduction in a short-lived perennial plant: Live hard, die young.

scientific article

Survival vs. growth trade-off in early recruitment challenges global warming impacts on Mediterranean mountain trees

article

Tales from the underground: Soil heterogeneity and not only above‐ground plant interactions explain fine‐scale species patterns in a Mediterranean dwarf‐shrubland

scientific article published on 24 March 2020

Temporal dynamics of herbivory and water availability interactively modulate the outcome of a grass-shrub interaction in a semi-arid ecosystem

article

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Urbanization: Response of a Bird Community in the Neotropical Andes

scientific article published on 28 March 2022

The assembly of a plant network in alpine vegetation

scientific article published on 16 September 2018

The colonization of abandoned land by Spanish juniper: Linking biotic and abiotic factors at different spatial scales

article

The decreased competition in expanding versus mature juniper woodlands is counteracted by adverse climatic effects on growth

article

The effect of plant–plant interactions as a key biotic process mediating the spatial variation of phenotypes in a Pinus sylvestris forest

scientific article published on 09 May 2022

The historical reference in restoration ecology: Re-defining a cornerstone concept

The influence of environmental factors on biological soil crust: from a community perspective to a species level approach

The role of root community attributes in predicting soil fungal and bacterial community patterns

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Topography in tropical forests enhances growth and survival differences within and among species via water availability and biotic interactions

scientific article published on 08 December 2021

Trait-based plant ecology: moving towards a unifying species coexistence theory : Features of the Special Section

scientific article published on 20 February 2016

Transgenerational effects of three global change drivers on an endemic Mediterranean plant

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Unravelling genetics at the top: mountain islands or isolated belts?

scientific article

Unveiling annual growth chronologies from inter-nodal branch elongations in a fruticose lichen in southern Europe

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Variance of light-related leaf traits across spatial and temporal scales in the Mediterranean evergreen Olea europaea L

scientific article published in 2017

Warming reverses directionality in the richness–abundance relationship in ephemeral Mediterranean plant communities

scientific article published in 2022

What shapes the altitudinal range of a high mountain Mediterranean plant? Recruitment probabilities from ovule to seedling stage

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Where do seedlings go? A spatio-temporal analysis of seedling mortality in a semi-arid gypsophyte

article

Why and where do adult trees die in a young secondary temperate forest? The role of neighbourhood

Winter is coming: plant freezing resistance as a key functional trait for the assembly of annual Mediterranean communities

scientific article published on 29 December 2017

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