List of works by Osvaldo E. Sala

A rainout shelter design for intercepting different amounts of rainfall

scientific article published in October 2002

Are Existing Global Scenarios Consistent with Ecological Feedbacks?

article

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Biophysical controls over concentration and depth distribution of soil organic carbon and nitrogen in desert playas

article

Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

scientific article

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

Competition, Facilitation, Seed Distribution and the Origin of Patches in a Patagonian Steppe

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Conference promotes study of ecohydrology of semi-arid landscapes

scientific article

Controls on nitrification in a water-limited ecosystem: experimental inhibition of ammonia-oxidising bacteria in the Patagonian steppe

article by Nancy I. López et al published December 2003 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

scientific article published on June 2004

Cross-Site Comparisons of Dryland Ecosystem Response to Climate Change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research Network

scientific article published in 2022

Differential Controls of Water Input on Litter Decomposition and Nitrogen Dynamics in the Patagonian Steppe

article

Differential sensitivities of grassland structural components to changes in precipitation mediate productivity response in a desert ecosystem

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Directional climate change and potential reversal of desertification in arid and semiarid ecosystems

scientific article published on 06 July 2011

Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands

scientific article published on 11 October 2024

Drought suppresses soil predators and promotes root herbivores in mesic, but not in xeric grasslands

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Dryland soil mycobiome response to long‐term precipitation variability depends on host type

scientific article published in 2022

Dual thinking for scientists

article published in 2015

Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Biodiversity

scientific article published on 25 April 2006

Ecosystem responses to changes in plant functional type composition: An example from the Patagonian steppe

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Ecosystem thresholds, tipping points, and critical transitions

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Ecto- and endoparasitic nematodes respond differently across sites to changes in precipitation

scientific article published on 12 July 2020

Effect of inter-annual precipitation variability on dryland productivity: A global synthesis

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Effect of woody-plant encroachment on livestock production in North and South America

scientific article

Effects of plant species traits on ecosystem processes: experiments in the Patagonian steppe.

scientific article published in February 2012

Enhanced interannual precipitation variability increases plant functional diversity that in turn ameliorates negative impact on productivity

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Enhanced precipitation variability decreases grass- and increases shrub-productivity

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

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

scientific article published in 2022

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship

scientific article

Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the 21st Century

scientific article published in 2002

Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Global patterns and climatic controls of belowground net carbon fixation

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Global-change drivers of ecosystem functioning modulated by natural variability and saturating responses

scientific article

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

scholarly article by Osvaldo E. Sala published in October 2014

Groundwater recharge in desert playas: current rates and future effects of climate change

scholarly article

Growth responses to ultraviolet-B radiation of two Carex species dominating an Argentinian fen ecosystem

article

Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services

scientific article

Hierarchy of responses to resource pulses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems

scientific article published on 18 March 2004

Higher effect of plant species diversity on productivity in natural than artificial ecosystems

scientific article

Inhibition of Nitrification Alters Carbon Turnover in the Patagonian Steppe

article

Interactions among resource partitioning, sampling effect, and facilitation on the biodiversity effect: a modeling approach

scientific article

L. A. S. JOHNSON REVIEW No. 4. Bridging historical and ecological approaches in biogeography

article

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

scientific article

Legacy effects in linked ecological–soil–geomorphic systems of drylands

scientific article

Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges

article

Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation

scientific article

Nematode exclusion and recovery in experimental soil microcosms

Now is the Time for Action: Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems

article

PLANT TRAITS AND ECOSYSTEM GRAZING EFFECTS: COMPARISON OF U.S. SAGEBRUSH STEPPE AND PATAGONIAN STEPPE

scientific article published on 06 June 2007

Plant Species Richness in Multiyear Wet and Dry Periods in the Chihuahuan Desert

scientific article published in 2021

Plant functional types and ecological strategies in Patagonian forbs

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Playa‐Wetlands Effects on Dryland Biogeochemistry: Space and Time Interactions

scientific article published in 2018

Potential Biodiversity Change: Global Patterns and Biome Comparisons

Precipitation effects on nematode diversity and carbon footprint across grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Precipitation legacies in desert grassland primary production occur through previous-year tiller density

scientific article

Preference for different inorganic nitrogen forms among plant functional types and species of the Patagonian steppe

scientific article

Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

scientific article

Recommendations for Interdisciplinary Study of Tipping Points in Natural and Social Systems

article

Reduction of solar UV-B mediates changes in the Sphagnum capitulum microenvironment and the peatland microfungal community.

scientific article published on 4 June 2004

Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multi-year above- and below-average rainfall periods: consequences for responses under climate change.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Response of dominant grass and shrub species to water manipulation: an ecophysiological basis for shrub invasion in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland.

scientific article published on 11 December 2011

Responses of a desert nematode community to changes in water availability

article

Root herbivory controls the effects of water availability on the partitioning between above‐ and below‐ground grass biomass

scientific article published in 2020

Science and Sustainable Use

scientific article published on 01 November 1993

Seedling responses to soil moisture amount versus pulse frequency in a successfully encroaching semi-arid shrub

scientific article published in June 2022

Sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across the United States

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Sheep Grazing Decreases Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Pools in the Patagonian Steppe: Combination of Direct and Indirect Effects

article

Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross-site study

scientific article

Solar UV-B decreases decomposition in herbaceous plant litter in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina: potential role of an altered decomposer community

article

Temporal Effects of Monsoon Rainfall Pulses on Plant Available Nitrogen in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

scientific article published in 2022

The Future of Biodiversity in a Changing World

The origins of C4 grasslands: integrating evolutionary and ecosystem science.

scientific article

Thresholds, memory, and seasonality: understanding pulse dynamics in arid/semi-arid ecosystems.

scientific article published on 5 August 2004

Traversing the Wasteland: A Framework for Assessing Ecological Threats to Drylands

scholarly article

Understory bamboo flowering provides a very narrow light window of opportunity for canopy-tree recruitment in a neotropical forest of Misiones, Argentina

article

Vegetation structure constrains primary production response to water availability in the Patagonian steppe

scientific article published on April 2006

Water controls on nitrogen transformations and stocks in an arid ecosystem

scientific article published in January 2013

Woody Plant Encroachment has a Larger Impact than Climate Change on Dryland Water Budgets

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Woody‐plant encroachment: Precipitation, herbivory, and grass‐competition interact to affect shrub recruitment

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

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