Search filters

List of works by Miguel A. Zavala

A Model of Stand Dynamics for Holm Oak-Aleppo Pine Forests

article

A Multifactorial Approach to Value Supporting Ecosystem Services in Spanish Forests and Its Implications in a Warming World

article

A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

article

Adaptation and plasticity in aboveground allometry variation of four pine species along environmental gradients

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

An analytical model of stand dynamics as a function of tree growth, mortality and recruitment: the shade tolerance-stand structure hypothesis revisited.

scientific article published on 9 September 2006

Animal versus wind dispersal and the robustness of tree species to deforestation.

scientific article

Aplicación de modelos ecológicos para el análisis de la estructura y dinámica de los bosques ibéricos en respuesta al cambio climático

Architecture of Iberian canopy tree species in relation to wood density, shade tolerance and climate

article by Lourens Poorter et al published 7 March 2012 in Plant Ecology

Are pine plantations valid tools for restoring Mediterranean forests? An assessment along abiotic and biotic gradients

scientific article published in December 2009

Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Challenges and opportunities in the use of National Forest Inventories for thestudy of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services supply in forests

scholarly article published 30 December 2016

Chasing a moving target: projecting climate change-induced shifts in non-equilibrial tree species distributions

article

Climate and population origin shape pine tree height-diameter allometry

Climate- and successional-related changes in functional composition of European forests are strongly driven by tree mortality

scientific article

Competition and species coexistence in a metapopulation model: can fast asymmetric migration reverse the outcome of competition in a homogeneous environment?

scientific article

Competition and tree age modulated last century pine growth responses to high frequency of dry years in a water limited forest ecosystem

article

Complementarity effects on tree growth are contingent on tree size and climatic conditions across Europe

scientific article

Contemporary richness of holarctic trees and the historical pattern of glacial retreat

scientific article published in 2007

Contemporary richness of holarctic trees and the historical pattern of glacial retreat

article published in 2007

Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Contrasting vulnerability and resilience to drought-induced decline of densely planted vs. natural rear-edge Pinus nigra forests

article

Delayed effects of fire on habitat use by large herbivores in Acacia drepanolobium savanna

scientific article published in 2005

Disentangling the relative importance of climate, size and competition on tree growth in Iberian forests: implications for forest management under global change

article

Disruption of Juniperus thurifera woodland structure in its northwestern geographical range: potential drivers and limiting factors

article by José M. Olano et al published 2 June 2011 in European Journal of Forest Research

Distribution of pines in the Iberian Peninsula agrees with species differences in foliage frost tolerance, not with vulnerability to freezing-induced xylem embolism

scientific article

Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

article

Do adult trees increase conspecific juvenile resilience to recurrent droughts? Implications for forest regeneration

scientific article published in 2018

Do species distribution models explain spatial structure within tree species ranges?

article

Drought impacts on tree growth of two pine species along an altitudinal gradient and their use as early-warning signals of potential shifts in tree species distributions

scientific article published in 2016

ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY, BIRD-MEDIATED DIRECTED DISPERSAL, AND OAK WOODLAND DYNAMICS IN MEDITERRANEAN SPAIN

article

Ecological effects of harvesting biomass for energy in the Spanish Mediterranean

article

Effects of artificial shading and weed mowing in reforestation of Mediterranean abandoned cropland with contrasting Quercus species

scientific article published in 2005

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

scientific article

Effects of climate, species interactions, and dispersal on decadal colonization and extinction rates of Iberian tree species

article

Erratum: Complementarity effects on tree growth are contingent on tree size and climatic conditions across Europe.

scientific article published on 4 June 2018

Estudio, gestión, conservación y restauración de ecosistemas ante el cambio global: 1º Jornadas FORECO en la Universidad de Alcalá

Evaluating restoration of man-made slopes: a threshold approach balancing vegetation and rill erosion

scientific article published in 2011

Evaluating the combined effects of climate and land-use change on tree species distributions

article

Excess plant growth worsens droughts

scientific article published in 2021

Forest Adaptation to Climate Change along Steep Ecological Gradients: The Case of the Mediterranean-Temperate Transition in South-Western Europe

scholarly article by Juan Fernández-Manjarrés et al published 28 August 2018 in Sustainability

Forest Management, Conflict and Social–Ecological Systems in a Changing World

scientific article published in 2021

Functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests

article

Functional traits and plasticity in response to light in seedlings of four Iberian forest tree species

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Functional traits and plasticity linked to seedlings' performance under shade and drought in Mediterranean woody species

article

Global Positioning System as a tool for ecosystem studies at the landscape level: an application in the Spanish Mediterranean

article

Global models for predicting woody plant richness from climate: comment

scientific article

Global patterns of tree density are contingent upon local determinants in the world’s natural forests

scientific article published on 13 January 2023

How do trees respond to species mixing in experimental compared to observational studies?

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Human and non-human determinants of forest composition in southern Spain: evidence of shifts towards cork oak dominance as a result of management over the past century

article

Identifying Forest Structural Types along an Aridity Gradient in Peninsular Spain: Integrating Low-Density LiDAR, Forest Inventory, and Aridity Index

scientific article published on 10 January 2022

Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests

article

Inferring shifts in tree species distribution using asymmetric distribution curves: a case study in the Iberian mountains

Informe de Evaluación sobre Impactos, Vulnerabilidad y Adaptación en los Bosques y la Biodiversidad de España frente al Cambio Climático

article

Integration of drought tolerance mechanisms in Mediterranean sclerophylls: a functional interpretation of leaf gas exchange simulators

scientific article published in 2004

Interspecific differences in sapling performance with respect to light and aridity gradients in Mediterranean pine–oak forests: implications for species coexistence

article

Interspecific differences in tree growth and mortality responses to environmental drivers determine potential species distributional limits in Iberian forests

article

Intra-specific variability and plasticity influence potential tree species distributions under climate change

article by Marta Benito Garzón et al published 28 January 2011 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Is drought the main decline factor at the rear edge of Europe? The case of southern Iberian pine plantations

scientific article published in 2012

Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

scientific article

Land use change in a Mediterranean metropolitan region and its periphery: assessment of conservation policies through CORINE Land Cover data and Markov models

Large-scale assessment of regeneration and diversity in Mediterranean planted pine forests along ecological gradients

article

Last-century forest productivity in a managed dry-edge Scots pine population: the two sides of climate warming

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Long-term Wood Production in Water-Limited Forests: Evaluating Potential CO2 Fertilization Along with Historical Confounding Factors

article

Main biotic drivers of tree growth in a developing Juniperus thurifera stand in central Spain

Mechanisms maintaining biodiversity in Mediterranean pine-oak forests: insights from a spatial simulation model

article

Mediterranean pine and oak distribution in southern Spain: Is there a mismatch between regeneration and adult distribution?

article

Modelling Tree Growth in Monospecific Forests from Forest Inventory Data

scientific article published on 08 June 2021

Modes of functional biodiversity control on tree productivity across the European continent

scientific article published in 2015

Occurrence but not intensity of mortality rises towards the climatic trailing edge of tree species ranges in European forests

scientific article published on 04 May 2021

Ontogenetic conflicts and rank reversals in two Mediterranean oak species: implications for coexistence

article published in 2011

Patterns and drivers of tree mortality in iberian forests: climatic effects are modified by competition

scientific article

Performance of seedlings of Mediterranean woody species under experimental gradients of irradiance and water availability: trade-offs and evidence for niche differentiation.

scientific article

Phenotypic correlates of potential range size and range filling in European trees

scientific article published in 2014

Phylogeny and the prediction of tree functional diversity across novel continental settings

scholarly article by Nathan G Swenson et al published 13 January 2017 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Positive feedbacks and alternative stable states in forest leaf types

scientific article published on 31 May 2024

Positive interactions, discontinuous transitions and species coexistence in plant communities

article

Predictable changes in aboveground allometry of trees along gradients of temperature, aridity and competition

article

Quantitative estimation of phenotypic plasticity: bridging the gap between the evolutionary concept and its ecological applications

article

Rank reversals in tree growth along tree size, competition and climatic gradients for four forest canopy dominant species in Central Spain

article

Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size

scientific article

Recent land cover changes in Spain across biogeographical regions and protection levels: Implications for conservation policies

article

Resilience as a Moving Target: An Evaluation of Last Century Management Strategies in a Dry-Edge Maritime Pine Ecosystem

scientific article published in 2021

Resilience to drought in a dry forest: Insights from demographic rates

scientific article published in 2017

Revealing patterns of local species richness along environmental gradients with a novel network tool

scientific article

Seedling survival responses to irradiance are differentially influenced by low-water availability in four tree species of the Iberian cool temperate–Mediterranean ecotone

article

Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life

article

Shrub encroachment shifts the bioclimatic limit between marcescent and sclerophyllous oaks along an elevation gradient in west-central Spain

article

Soil water content and emergence time control seedling establishment in three co-occurring Mediterranean oak species

Stand dynamics and tree coexistence in an analytical structured model: the role of recruitment.

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

Structural diversity underpins carbon storage in Australian temperate forests

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Sustainability of forest management practices: Evaluation through a simulation model of nutrient cycling

scientific article published in 2005

The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

scientific article

The role of population origin and microenvironment in seedling emergence and early survival in Mediterranean maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton).

scientific article

Tree growth response to drought partially explains regional‐scale growth and mortality patterns in Iberian forests

scientific article published in 2022

Vulnerability of Spanish forests under climatic change: evaluation through models

article

Wood provisioning in Mediterranean forests: A bottom-up spatial valuation approach