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List of works by Fernando T. Maestre

A Global Survey of Mycobacterial Diversity in Soil

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

A closer look at the functions behind ecosystem multifunctionality: A review

scientific article published in 2020

A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide.

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

scientific article published in January 2018

A missing link between facilitation and plant species coexistence: nurses benefit generally rare species more than common ones

article

A multifaceted view on the impacts of shrub encroachment

scientific article published on July 2016

A resprouter herb reduces negative density-dependent effects among neighboring seeders after fire

scientific article published in 2012

Abiotic and biotic drivers underly short- and long-term soil respiration responses to experimental warming in a dryland ecosystem

preprint

Afforestation with Pinus halepensis reduces native shrub performance in a Mediterranean semiarid area

scientific article published in 2004

Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Albedo estimated from remote sensing correlates with ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands

article

Altered leaf elemental composition with climate change is linked to reductions in photosynthesis, growth and survival in a semi‐arid shrubland

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources

scientific article published in February 2007

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in biological crusts from a Neotropical savanna are not related to the dominant perennial Trachypogon.

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Are Ecosystem Composition, Structure, and Functional Status Related to Restoration Success? A Test from Semiarid Mediterranean Steppes

article

Are Pinus halepensis plantations useful as a restoration tool in semiarid Mediterranean areas?

scientific article published in 2004

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

article

Aridity Decouples C:N:P Stoichiometry Across Multiple Trophic Levels in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Aridity Thresholds Determine the Relationships Between Ecosystem Functioning and Remotely Sensed Indicators Across Patagonia

scientific article

Aridity and Overgrazing Have Convergent Effects on Ecosystem Structure and Functioning in Patagonian Rangelands

Aridity and reduced soil micronutrient availability in global drylands

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands

scientific article published in 2024

Aridity modulates N availability in arid and semiarid Mediterranean grasslands

scientific article

Aridity preferences alter the relative importance of abiotic and biotic drivers on plant species abundance in global drylands

scientific article published on 20 May 2018

Aspects of soil lichen biodiversity and aggregation interact to influence subsurface microbial function

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

scientific article

Australian dryland soils are acidic and nutrient-depleted, and have unique microbial communities compared with other drylands

article

Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 April 2024

Author Correction: Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands

article

Balance between facilitation and resource competition determines biomass-density relationships in plant populations

scientific article published on 4 August 2008

Beyond dual-lattice models: incorporating plant strategies when modeling the interplay between facilitation and competition along environmental severity gradients

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the impact of aridity on soil microbial communities in drylands: observational evidence from three continents

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the negative impacts of increasing aridity on ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands

scientific article

Biocrusts Modulate Climate Change Effects on Soil Organic Carbon Pools: Insights From a 9-Year Experiment

scientific article published in 2022

Biocrusts buffer against the accumulation of soil metallic nutrients induced by warming and rainfall reduction

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions

article

Biocrusts in the Context of Global Change

scientific article published in 2016

Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools

scientific article published in 2022

Biocrusts modulate warming and rainfall exclusion effects on soil respiration in a semi-arid grassland

scientific article

Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth

Biocrust‐forming lichens increase soil available phosphorus under simulated climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Biogeochemical indicators of elevated nitrogen deposition in semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article

Biogeography of global drylands

scholarly article

Biological Soil Crust Microsites Are the Main Contributor to Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Ecosystem

Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils

article

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology

article

Biological soil crusts affect small-scale spatial patterns of inorganic N in a semiarid Mediterranean grassland

Biological soil crusts in a changing world: introduction to the special issue

Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem

article

Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland

Biological soil crusts promote N accumulation in response to dew events in dryland soils

article

Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: an experimental assessment with grassland assemblages

article

Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Topsoil Organic Carbon Concentration in Drylands Have Similar Effects at Regional and Global Scales

scientific article published in 2019

Biotic homogenization, lower soil fungal diversity and fewer rare taxa in arable soils across Europe

scientific article published on 6 January 2024

Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Book Review

Can desertification be mapped? Lights and shadows of a challenging task

scientific article

Can we infer plant facilitation from remote sensing? a test across global drylands.

scientific article published on September 2015

Carbon content and climate variability drive global soil bacterial diversity patterns

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands

scientific article

Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands

article

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

Climate Futures Report: Saudi Arabia in a 3 degrees warmer world

Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article

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

scientific article

Climate change legacies contrastingly affect the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities and multifunctionality to extreme drought

scientific article published in 2022

Climate change may reduce litter decomposition while enhancing the contribution of photodegradation in dry perennial Mediterranean grasslands

scholarly article by María Almagro et al published November 2015 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Climate change will increase savannas at the expense of forests and treeless vegetation in tropical and subtropical Americas

scholarly article by José D. Anadón et al published 24 October 2014 in Journal of Ecology

Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article

Climate legacies drive the distribution and future restoration potential of dryland forests

scientific article published on 25 July 2022

Climate mediates the biodiversity-ecosystem stability relationship globally

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Climatic conditions, soil fertility and atmospheric nitrogen deposition largely determine the structure and functioning of microbial communities in biocrust-dominated Mediterranean drylands

article by Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al published 6 October 2015 in Plant and Soil

Co-occurrence patterns and abiotic stress in sand-dune communities: Their relationship varies with spatial scale and the stress estimator

scientific article published in 2010

Community-aggregated plant traits interact with soil nutrient heterogeneity to determine ecosystem functioning

article

Compensatory Thermal Adaptation of Soil Microbial Respiration Rates in Global Croplands

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts

article

Complex Policy Mixes are Needed to Cope with Agricultural Water Demands Under Climate Change ⬇️

scientific article published in 2023

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity

scientific article published in December 2023

Contingency in ecosystem but not plant community response to multiple global change factors

scientific article

Contrasting mechanisms underlie short- and longer-term soil respiration responses to experimental warming in a dryland ecosystem

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

Corrigendum to García-Palacioset al. ()

scholarly article published in Ecology Letters

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

scientific article

Desertificación: nuevos enfoques para un viejo problema

scientific article

Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis Unfollowed by Solutions

Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios

research paper

Desertifying deserts

scientific article published on 22 June 2020

Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils.

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Differences in thallus chemistry are related to species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil nutrients and microbial communities

article

Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on microbial and biocrust communities alter the resistance of the N cycle in a semiarid grassland

scholarly article by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al published 26 August 2014 in Journal of Ecology

Discarded food and resource depletion

scientific article published on November 2020

Disturbance of the biological soil crusts and performance of Stipa tenacissima in a semi-arid Mediterranean steppe

Diversity Of Biocrust-Forming Cyanobacteria In A Semiarid Gypsiferous Site From Central Spain

article

Diversity and Patch-Size Distributions of Biological Soil Crusts Regulate Dryland Ecosystem Multifunctionality

Diversity of biocrust-forming cyanobacteria in a semiarid gypsiferous site from Central Spain

scientific article published on 01 December 2017

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

scientific article

Do positive interactions increase with abiotic stress? A test from a semi-arid steppe

scientific article

Does Pinus halepensis facilitate the establishment of shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid afforestations?

scientific article published in 2003

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

article

Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands

scientific article published on 11 October 2024

Dung predicts the global distribution of herbivore grazing pressure in drylands

scientific article published on 13 January 2025

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

article

Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article published in July 2018

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

article

Earthworms modify plant biomass and nitrogen capture under conditions of soil nutrient heterogeneity and elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentrations

article

Ecohydrological feedbacks and linkages associated with land degradation: a case study from Mexico

Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands

scientific article published on 30 October 2021

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

scientific article published on December 2011

Ecology and responses to climate change of biocrust-forming mosses in drylands

scientific article published in 2022

Ecosystem aridity and atmospheric CO2-Response

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

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

scientific article

Ecosystem structure and soil-surface conditions drive the variability in the foliar δ13C and δ15N of Stipa tenacissima in semiarid Mediterranean steppes

scientific article published in 2005

Ecosystem structure, function, and restoration success: Are they related?

Ecotechnology as a tool for restoring degraded drylands: A meta-analysis of field experiments

article

Effects of positive interactions, size symmetry of competition and abiotic stress on self-thinning in simulated plant populations

scientific article

El medio ambiente en Sax

written work by Fernando T. Maestre

El medio ambiente en Sax

2000 edition of written work by Fernando T. Maestre

Environmental conditions and biotic interactions acting together promote phylogenetic randomness in semi-arid plant communities: new methods help to avoid misleading conclusions.

scientific article published on October 2012

Environmental correlates of species rank - abundance distributions in global drylands ⬇️

scientific article published on June 2016

Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy

Evaluating the performance of multiple remote sensing indices to predict the spatial variability of ecosystem structure and functioning in Patagonian steppes

scientific article published in 2013

Evolutionary relationships can be more important than abiotic conditions in predicting the outcome of plant-plant interactions

scientific article

Experimental and observational studies find contrasting responses of soil nutrients to climate change

scientific article

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Facilitation and Inhibition of Seedlings of an Invasive Tree (Acer platanoides) by Different Tree Species in a Mountain Ecosystem

article

Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future

article

Fourteen years of continuous soil moisture records from plant and biocrust-dominated microsites

publication published on 20 January 2022

Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Functional leaf and size traits determine the photosynthetic response of 10 dryland species to warming

scientific article published on 08 January 2016

Functional profiles reveal unique ecological roles of various biological soil crust organisms

scientific article published in 2011

Functional rarity and evenness are key facets of biodiversity to boost multifunctionality

scientific article

Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands.

scientific article published in August 2014

Global desertification: building a science for dryland development

scientific article

Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Global monitoring of soil multifunctionality in drylands using satellite imagery and field data

scientific article published on 24 May 2023

Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi

scientific article published in 2022

Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 21 February 2021

Grass-woodland transitions: determinants and consequences for ecosystem functioning and provisioning of services

scholarly article by Osvaldo E. Sala published in October 2014

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 12 April 2024

Human impacts and aridity differentially alter soil N availability in drylands worldwide

scientific article published in 2015

Hydrological and ecological responses of ecosystems to extreme precipitation regimes: A test of empirical-based hypotheses with an ecosystem model

scientific article

Identity of plant, lichen and moss species connects with microbial abundance and soil functioning in Maritime Antarctica

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

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis.

scientific article

Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

scientific article

Increasing microbial carbon use efficiency with warming predicts soil heterotrophic respiration globally

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide

scientific article published on 7 June 2024

Indices based on surface indicators predict soil functioning in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes

article published in 2009

Individual vs. population plastic responses to elevated CO2, nutrient availability, and heterogeneity: a microcosm experiment with co-occurring species

article

Industrial development versus environmental conservation at local scale: a case study from southeastern Spain

scientific article

Inferring local competition intensity from patch size distributions: a test using biological soil crusts

article

Infiltration, penetration resistance and microphytic crust composition in contrasted microsites within a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe

article

Insights into Ecosystem Composition and Function in a Sequence of Degraded Semiarid Steppes

article

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

Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness

scientific article published on June 2015

Intransitivity increases plant functional diversity by limiting dominance in drylands worldwide

scientific article published on 14 June 2018

Introduction: Drylands. Opportunities, challenges, and threats

scientific article published on 6 April 2022

Invasive earthworms modulate native plant trait expression and competition

scientific article published in 2023

Is the cask of facilitation ready for bottling? A symposium on the connectivity and future directions of positive plant interactions.

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments

article

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

It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

scientific article published on November 2012

La costra biológica del suelo: Avances recientes en el conocimiento de su estructura y función ecológica

scientific article published in 2011

La restauración de la cubierta vegetal en zonas semiáridas en función del patrón espacial de factores bióticos y abióticos

written work by Fernando T. Maestre

La vida adaptada a la precariedad: Ecología de las zonas áridas

scientific article published in April 2022

Litter Decomposition Rates of Biocrust-Forming Lichens Are Similar to Those of Vascular Plants and Are Affected by Warming

scientific article

Long-term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity.

scientific article published on September 2014

Mechanisms underlying the interaction betweenPinus halepensisand the native late-successional shrubPistacia lentiscusin a semi-arid plantation

article published in 2004

Mediterranean Landscape Re-Greening at the Expense of South American Agricultural Expansion

Microbial biotechnology as a tool to restore degraded drylands

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Microbial dispersal limitation to isolated soil habitats in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica

Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

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

scientific article

Microsite Differentiation Drives the Abundance of Soil Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria along Aridity Gradients

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Microsite and mycorrhizal inoculum effects on the establishment of Quercus coccifera in a semi-arid degraded steppe

scientific article published in 2002

Microsite differences in fungal hyphal length, glomalin, and soil aggregate stability in semiarid Mediterranean steppes

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

scientific article published in 2008

Moving forward on facilitation research: response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities ⬇️

scientific article

Multifunctionality debt in global drylands linked to past biome and climate

scientific article published on 21 April 2019

Nitrogen deposition alters nitrogen cycling and reduces soil carbon content in low-productivity semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Null model tests for niche conservatism, phylogenetic assortment and habitat filtering

article

Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: the role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity.

scientific article published on December 2012

Nutrient availability and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure modulate the effects of nutrient heterogeneity on the size structure of populations in grassland species

scientific article

On the balance between niche and neutral processes as drivers of community structure along a successional gradient: insights from alpine and sub-alpine meadow communities

scientific article published on 24 August 2007

On the importance of patch attributes, environmental factors and past human impacts as determinants of perennial plant species richness and diversity in Mediterranean semiarid steppes

article

On the importance of shrub encroachment by sprouters, climate, species richness and anthropic factors for ecosystem multifunctionality in semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article

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

On the relative importance of the effects of selection and complementarity as drivers of diversity-productivity relationships in Mediterranean shrublands

scientific article published in 2008

On the relevance of facilitation in alpine meadow communities: An experimental assessment with multiple species differing in their ecological optimum

article

One scientist's six-point recovery plan to tackle COVID-19 anxiety

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, AND NET EFFECTS IN GRASS–SHRUB INTERACTIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN SEMIARID GRASSLANDS

scientific article published in 2003

POTENTIAL FOR USING FACILITATION BY GRASSES TO ESTABLISH SHRUBS ON A SEMIARID DEGRADED STEPPE

scientific article published in 2001

Palaeoclimate explains a unique proportion of the global variation in soil bacterial communities

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Pathways regulating decreased soil respiration with warming in a biocrust-dominated dryland

article

Photosynthesis and growth reduction with warming are driven by nonstomatal limitations in a Mediterranean semi-arid shrub

scientific article

Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality peak at intermediate levels of woody cover in global drylands

scientific article published on December 2014

Plant life on gypsum: a review of its multiple facets

scientific article

Plant responses to soil heterogeneity and global environmental change

scientific article

Plant size and leaf area influence phenological and reproductive responses to warming in semiarid Mediterranean species

scientific article

Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands

article

Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands

scientific article published in January 2012

Plant species richness and shrub cover attenuate drought effects on ecosystem functioning across Patagonian rangelands.

scientific article

Plant species-area relationships are determined by evenness, cover and aggregation in drylands worldwide

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

Plant-driven niche differentiation of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in global drylands

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Plant-plant interactions, environmental gradients and plant diversity: a global synthesis of community-level studies

scientific article

Plantas medicinales y tóxicas del término municipal de Sax

2003 edition of written work by Fernando T. Maestre

Plantas medicinales y tóxicas del término municipal de Sax

written work by Fernando T. Maestre

Plants and biological soil crusts modulate the dominance of N forms in a semi-arid grassland

article

Poor plant performance under simulated climate change is linked to mycorrhizal responses in a semiarid shrubland

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Positive interactions can increase size inequality in plant populations

article

Positive plant interactions in the Iberian Southeast: Mechanisms, environmental gradients, and ecosystem function

article

Publisher Correction: Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function

article

Recommendations for establishing global collaborative networks in soil ecology

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

article

Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi-arid Mediterranean environment

Relative humidity predominantly determines long‐term biocrust‐forming lichen cover in drylands under climate change

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Remnant shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes: effects of shrub size, abiotic factors and species identity on understorey richness and occurrence ⬇️

article

Remote sensing data predict indicators of soil functioning in semi-arid steppes, central Spain

article

Response to comment on "Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystem".

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Sand burial compensates for the negative effects of erosion on the dune-building shrub Artemisia wudanica

Seedling establishment along post-fire succession in Mediterranean shrublands dominated by obligate seeders

scientific article published in 2012

Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems

Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems

scientific article published in February 2024

Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change

scientific article

Shifts in the regeneration niche of an endangered tree (Acer opalus ssp. granatense) during ontogeny: Using an ecological concept for application

scientific article published in 2008

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

Simulated Climate Change Affects How Biocrusts Modulate Infiltration And Desiccation Dynamics

article

Simulated climate change affects how biocrusts modulate water gains and desiccation dynamics after rainfall events

scholarly article by Angela Lafuente et al published September 2018 in Ecohydrology

Simulated climate change reduced the capacity of lichen-dominated biocrusts to act as carbon sinks in two semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems

scholarly article by Mónica Ladrón de Guevara et al published 29 March 2014 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Small-scale Environmental Heterogeneity and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Seedling Establishment in a Semiarid Degraded Ecosystem

article

Small-scale spatial heterogeneity in the vertical distribution of soil nutrients has limited effects on the growth and development of Prosopis glandulosa seedlings

article

Small-scale spatial patterns of two soil lichens in semi-arid Mediterranean steppe.

Small-scale spatial variation in soil CO2 efflux in a Mediterranean semiarid steppe

scientific article published in 2003

Soil characteristics determine soil carbon and nitrogen availability during leaf litter decomposition regardless of litter quality

scholarly article by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al published February 2015 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands ⬇️

article

Soil heterogeneity and community composition jointly influence grassland biomass

article

Soil heterogeneity and community composition jointly influence grassland biomass

Soil lichens have species-specific effects on the seedling emergence of three gypsophile plant species

article

Soil microbial communities drive the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to global change in drylands across the globe

scientific article

Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events

scientific article published on 27 November 2024

Soil moisture dynamics under two rainfall frequency treatments drive early spring CO gas exchange of lichen-dominated biocrusts in central Spain

article

Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO2 and nutrient availability to determine species and assemblage responses in a model grassland community

article

Soil nutrient heterogeneity modulates ecosystem responses to changes in the identity and richness of plant functional groups

scientific article

Soil resources and element stocks in drylands to face global issues

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Soils in warmer and less developed countries have less micronutrients globally

scientific article published on 28 October 2022

Spatial analysis of semi-arid patchy vegetation by the cumulative distribution of patch boundary spacings and transition probabilities

scientific article published in 2004

Spatial associations and patterns of perennial vegetation ina semi-arid steppe: a multivariate geostatistics approach

scientific article published in 2005

Spatial heterogeneity in soil nutrient supply modulates nutrient and biomass responses to multiple global change drivers in model grassland communities

article

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

Spatial patterns of surface soil properties and vegetation in a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe

Spatio-temporal dynamics of chlorophyll fluorescence in a semi-arid Mediterranean shrubland

article

Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in abiotic factors modulate multiple ontogenetic shifts between competition and facilitation

article

Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern

article

Species-specific adaptations determine how aridity and biotic interactions drive the assembly of dryland plant communities

article

Species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil properties under simulated climate change are driven by functional traits

scientific article published on 12 December 2020

Stipa tenacissima Does not Affect the Foliar δ13C and δ15N of Introduced Shrub Seedlings in a Mediterranean Semi-arid Steppe

scientific article published in 2006

Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world

scientific article

Surface indicators are correlated with soil multifunctionality in global drylands

scientific article

Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome

scientific article published on 09 February 2020

Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect

Temperature and aridity regulate spatial variability of soil multifunctionality in drylands across the globe ⬇️

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

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

article

Temporal variations on NDVI predict temporal changes in vegetation cover across Patagonian drylands (Argentina)

scientific article

Ten simple rules towards healthier research labs

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

scientific article

The MARAS dataset, vegetation and soil characteristics of dryland rangelands across Patagonia

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

The Structure Of Plant Spatial Association Networks Increases Plant Diversity In Global Drylands

article

The global biogeography and environmental drivers of fairy circles

scientific article published on 25 September 2023

The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

The interplay between facilitation and habitat type drives spatial vegetation patterns in global drylands

scientific article published on 22 September 2018

The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

The restoration of vegetation cover in the semi-arid Iberian southeast

The role of the perch effect on the nucleation process in Mediterranean semi-arid oldfields

scientific article published in 2006

The soil microbiome governs the response of microbial respiration to warming across the globe

scientific article published in December 2023

The stress-gradient hypothesis does not fit all relationships between plant-plant interactions and abiotic stress: further insights from arid environments

article

The structure of plant spatial association networks is linked to plant diversity in global drylands

article

Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity

scientific article

Traits of neighbouring plants and space limitation determine intraspecific trait variability in semi-arid shrublands

article

UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL DESERTIFICATION: BIOPHYSICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF HYDROLOGY

scholarly article

Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

scientific article published in 2013

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

scientific article published on 7 August 2024

Unraveling Misunderstandings about Desertification: The Paradoxical Case of the Tabernas-Sorbas Basin in Southeast Spain

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Upper boundary on tree cover at global drylands

scientific article published on 16 February 2024

Variation in the methods leads to variation in the interpretation of biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships

scientific article published in 2020

Vascular Plants and Biocrusts Modulate How Abiotic Factors Affect Wetting and Drying Events in Drylands

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Warming reduces the cover and diversity of biocrust-forming mosses and lichens, and increases the physiological stress of soil microbial communities in a semi-arid Pinus halepensis plantation

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Warming reduces the cover, richness and evenness of lichen-dominated biocrusts but promotes moss growth: insights from an 8 yr experiment.

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Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment: implications for ecosystem structure and functioning

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Watering, fertilization, and slurry inoculation promote recovery of biological crust function in degraded soils

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Weak effects of the exotic invasive Carpobrotus edulis on the structure and composition of Portuguese sand-dune communities

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What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community

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

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