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List of works by Silvia Matesanz

A cross-taxon analysis of the impact of climate change on abundance trends in central Europe

scholarly article by D.E. Bowler et al published July 2015 in Biological Conservation

A review and meta‐analysis of intraspecific differences in phenotypic plasticity: Implications to forecast plant responses to climate change

scientific article

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

An ideal weed: plasticity and invasiveness in Polygonum cespitosum.

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Author Correction: The GenTree Dendroecological Collection, tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Biodiversity differences between managed and unmanaged forests: meta-analysis of species richness in Europe.

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Changes in the composition of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and the water uptake of European beech forests across a natural precipitation gradient 

scientific article published on 27 March 2022

Climate-dependent variations in leaf respiration in a dry-land, low productivity Mediterranean forest: the importance of acclimation in both high-light and shaded habitats

scientific article published in 2007

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

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

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Compromises in data selection in a meta-analysis of biodiversity in managed and unmanaged forests: response to Halme et al.

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Contrasting levels of evolutionary potential in populations of the invasive plant Polygonum cespitosum

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

scientific article published in 2022

Corrigendum to “Improving revegetation of gypsum slopes is not a simple matter of adding native species: Insights from a multispecies experiment” [Ecol. Eng. 30 (2007) 67–77]

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Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species’ abundance trends

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Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for Polygonum cespitosum (Polygonaceae).

scientific article published on 23 June 2011

Differential plasticity to water and nutrients between crops and their wild progenitors

article by Silvia Matesanz & Rubén Milla published January 2018 in Environmental and Experimental Botany

Do we underestimate the importance of leaf size in plant economics? Disproportional scaling of support costs within the spectrum of leaf physiognomy

scientific article (publication date: August 2007)

Does higher connectivity lead to higher genetic diversity? Effects of habitat fragmentation on genetic variation and population structure in a gypsophile

Early Dynamics of Plant Communities on Revegetated Motorway Slopes from Southern Spain: Is Hydroseeding Always Needed?

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Early positive biodiversity effects on total biomass in experimental tree seedling assemblages with and without water limitation

scientific article published on 13 November 2021

Ecological and evolutionary responses of Mediterranean plants to global change

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Effects of parental drought on offspring fitness vary among populations of a crop wild relative

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental heterogeneity leads to higher plasticity in dry-edge populations of a semi-arid Chilean shrub: insights into climate change responses

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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 rapid ecological range expansion in a newly invasive plant

scientific article published on 10 April 2015

Fragment size does not matter when you are well connected: effects of fragmentation on fitness of coexisting gypsophiles

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

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

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Functional ecology of a narrow endemic plant and a widespread congener from semiarid Spain

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Functional traits and phylogeny: What is the main ecological process determining species assemblage in roadside plant communities?

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Genetic diversity and population structure in Polygonum cespitosum: insights to an ongoing plant invasion

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Global change and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in plants

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Growing larger with domestication: a matter of physiology, morphology or allocation?

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

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

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

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

High-performance genotypes in an introduced plant: insights to future invasiveness

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Impact of three global change drivers on a Mediterranean shrub

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Improving revegetation of gypsum slopes is not a simple matter of adding native species: Insights from a multispecies experiment

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Is shade beneficial for mediterranean shrubs experiencing periods of extreme drought and late-winter frosts?

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

Limits to Future Adaptation in the Invasive Plant Polygonum cespitosum: Expression of Functional and Fitness Traits at Elevated CO2.

scientific article published on 30 August 2015

Long-term spatial pattern change in a semi-arid plant community: The role of climate and composition

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Looking at past domestication to secure ecosystem services of future croplands

scholarly article by Ruben Milla et al published 19 June 2017 in Journal of Ecology

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

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

scientific article published in 2022

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

Phenotypic plasticity and population differentiation in an ongoing species invasion

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

scientific article published in 2021

Plant domestication disrupts biodiversity effects across major crop types

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Population differentiation in a Mediterranean relict shrub: the potential role of local adaptation for coping with climate change

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Population size, center-periphery, and seed dispersers' effects on the genetic diversity and population structure of the Mediterranean relict shrub Cneorum tricoccon

scientific article published on 5 August 2017

ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in March 2024

ReSurveyGermany: Vegetation-plot time-series over the past hundred years in Germany

scientific article published in 2022

Temporal dynamics of marginal steppic vegetation over a 26-year period of substantial environmental change

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The GenTree Dendroecological Collection, tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

The GenTree Leaf Collection: Inter‐ and intraspecific leaf variation in seven forest tree species in Europe

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

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

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

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

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

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