Fernando T. Maestre

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PhD Ecology University of Granada
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Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development (2007) (2140)
Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future (2007) (1495)
Refining the stress‐gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities (2009) (1087)
A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil (2018) (1059)
Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems (2016) (963)
Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands (2012) (897)
Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis. (2011) (876)
Is the change of plant–plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta‐analysis of field results in arid environments (2005) (621)
Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands (2013) (617)
Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands (2015) (578)
Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy (2014) (438)
Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes. (2013) (400)
POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, AND NET EFFECTS IN GRASS–SHRUB INTERACTIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN SEMIARID GRASSLANDS (2003) (393)
Do positive interactions increase with abiotic stress? A test from a semi-arid steppe (2004) (382)
Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality (2018) (357)
POTENTIAL FOR USING FACILITATION BY GRASSES TO ESTABLISH SHRUBS ON A SEMIARID DEGRADED STEPPE (2001) (325)
Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity (2020) (303)
Are Pinus halepensis plantations useful as a restoration tool in semiarid Mediterranean areas (2004) (295)
Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands. (2009) (289)
Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world. (2016) (261)
It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands (2012) (247)
A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide (2019) (238)
Small-scale Environmental Heterogeneity and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Seedling Establishment in a Semiarid Degraded Ecosystem (2003) (223)
Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain. (2011) (215)
Soil microbial communities drive the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to global change in drylands across the globe. (2017) (212)
Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands (2013) (211)
Moving forward on facilitation research: response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities (2015) (198)
Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern (2012) (182)
Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils (2010) (182)
Spatial patterns of surface soil properties and vegetation in a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe (2002) (182)
Small-scale spatial variation in soil CO2 efflux in a Mediterranean semiarid steppe (2003) (178)
The stress‐gradient hypothesis does not fit all relationships between plant–plant interactions and abiotic stress: further insights from arid environments (2006) (161)
Plant life on gypsum: a review of its multiple facets (2015) (158)
Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands. (2015) (148)
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in abiotic factors modulate multiple ontogenetic shifts between competition and facilitation (2010) (146)
Balance between facilitation and resource competition determines biomass-density relationships in plant populations. (2008) (145)
Climate mediates the biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationship globally (2018) (145)
Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change (2012) (145)
Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland (2010) (145)
The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems (2020) (144)
Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: towards a unifying framework. (2011) (144)
The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale (2020) (142)
Biological Soil Crust Microsites Are the Main Contributor to Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Ecosystem (2011) (140)
Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes? (2009) (137)
Carbon content and climate variability drive global soil bacterial diversity patterns (2016) (134)
Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands (2017) (133)
Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands (2013) (132)
Interactive Effects of Three Ecosystem Engineers on Infiltration in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Grassland (2010) (131)
Positive plant interactions in the Iberian Southeast: Mechanisms, environmental gradients, and ecosystem function (2011) (130)
Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness. (2015) (129)
Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities (2010) (128)
Infiltration, penetration resistance and microphytic crust composition in contrasted microsites within a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe (2002) (128)
Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality (2019) (128)
Does Pinus halepensis facilitate the establishment of shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid afforestations? (2003) (125)
Plant-plant interactions, environmental gradients and plant diversity: a global synthesis of community-level studies. (2014) (124)
Microsite differences in fungal hyphal length, glomalin, and soil aggregate stability in semiarid Mediterranean steppes (2003) (124)
Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands (2017) (122)
Functional profiles reveal unique ecological roles of various biological soil crust organisms (2011) (121)
Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality (2017) (117)
Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research (2019) (115)
Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment: implications for ecosystem structure and functioning (2012) (115)
Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils (2018) (114)
Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands (2018) (109)
The role of the perch effect on the nucleation process in Mediterranean semi-arid oldfields (2006) (109)
Remnant shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes: effects of shrub size, abiotic factors and species identity on understorey richness and occurrence (2005) (107)
Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi‐arid Mediterranean environment (2011) (107)
Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts (2010) (106)
Insights into Ecosystem Composition and Function in a Sequence of Degraded Semiarid Steppes (2004) (106)
The restoration of vegetation cover in the semi-arid Iberian southeast (2011) (105)
Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development (2019) (105)
Does spatial pattern matter to ecosystem functioning? Insights from biological soil crusts (2005) (104)
Ecosystem structure, function, and restoration success: Are they related? (2006) (104)
Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality. (2017) (102)
Afforestation with Pinus halepensis reduces native shrub performance in a Mediterranean semiarid area (2004) (101)
Natural and Human Dimensions of Land Degradation in Drylands: Causes and Consequences (2007) (98)
Plant responses to soil heterogeneity and global environmental change (2012) (96)
Soil resources and element stocks in drylands to face global issues (2018) (95)
Climate change will increase savannas at the expense of forests and treeless vegetation in tropical and subtropical Americas (2014) (94)
Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources. (2007) (91)
Small-scale patterns of abundance of mosses and lichens forming biological soil crusts in two semi-arid gypsum environments (2006) (91)
Soil lichens have species-specific effects on the seedling emergence of three gypsophile plant species (2007) (89)
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology (2014) (89)
Watering, Fertilization, and Slurry Inoculation Promote Recovery of Biological Crust Function in Degraded Soils (2006) (88)
Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments (2014) (88)
Vegetation structure is as important as climate for explaining ecosystem function across Patagonian rangelands (2014) (86)
The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands (2020) (85)
Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the negative impacts of increasing aridity on ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands. (2016) (85)
Soil characteristics determine soil carbon and nitrogen availability during leaf litter decomposition regardless of litter quality (2015) (85)
Where do seedlings go? A spatio-temporal analysis of seedling mortality in a semi-arid gypsophyte (2008) (84)
Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity (2021) (84)
Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth (2018) (84)
Shifts in the regeneration niche of an endangered tree (Acer opalus ssp. granatense) during ontogeny: Using an ecological concept for application (2008) (83)
Mechanisms underlying the interaction between Pinus halepensis and the native late‐successional shrub Pistacia lentiscus in a semi‐arid plantation (2004) (82)
Differences in thallus chemistry are related to species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil nutrients and microbial communities (2015) (82)
Assessment of soil organic carbon at local scale with spiked NIR calibrations: effects of selection and extra‐weighting on the spiking subset (2014) (79)
Assemblage of a Semi-Arid Annual Plant Community: Abiotic and Biotic Filters Act Hierarchically (2012) (79)
Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality peak at intermediate levels of woody cover in global drylands. (2014) (79)
Grass–woodland transitions: determinants and consequences for ecosystem functioning and provisioning of services (2014) (77)
Positive interactions can increase size inequality in plant populations (2009) (77)
Ecotechnology as a tool for restoring degraded drylands: A meta-analysis of field experiments (2013) (77)
Dominant plant species modulate responses to hydroseeding, irrigation and fertilization during the restoration of semiarid motorway slopes (2010) (76)
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 (2004) (76)
Aridity and reduced soil micronutrient availability in global drylands (2019) (76)
Biogeography of global drylands. (2021) (74)
Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems (2017) (73)
Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands. (2014) (69)
Diversity and Patch-Size Distributions of Biological Soil Crusts Regulate Dryland Ecosystem Multifunctionality (2013) (69)
Evaluating the performance of multiple remote sensing indices to predict the spatial variability of ecosystem structure and functioning in Patagonian steppes (2013) (68)
Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands (2014) (67)
Climate change may reduce litter decomposition while enhancing the contribution of photodegradation in dry perennial Mediterranean grasslands (2015) (67)
Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats (2019) (67)
Long‐term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems (2020) (67)
On the relevance of facilitation in alpine meadow communities: An experimental assessment with multiple species differing in their ecological optimum (2008) (65)
Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands (2018) (65)
Biocrusts modulate warming and rainfall exclusion effects on soil respiration in a semi-arid grassland. (2015) (65)
Experimental and observational studies find contrasting responses of soil nutrients to climate change (2017) (65)
Temporal dynamics of herbivory and water availability interactively modulate the outcome of a grass–shrub interaction in a semi‐arid ecosystem (2011) (64)
Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on microbial and biocrust communities alter the resistance of the N cycle in a semiarid grassland (2014) (64)
A closer look at the functions behind ecosystem multifunctionality: A review (2020) (63)
Soil nutrient heterogeneity modulates ecosystem responses to changes in the identity and richness of plant functional groups (2010) (62)
Are soil lichen communities structured by biotic interactions? A null model analysis (2008) (60)
Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil multifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems (2021) (59)
Aridity and Overgrazing Have Convergent Effects on Ecosystem Structure and Functioning in Patagonian Rangelands (2018) (59)
Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality (2018) (58)
Indices based on surface indicators predict soil functioning in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes (2009) (57)
Simulated climate change reduced the capacity of lichen-dominated biocrusts to act as carbon sinks in two semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems (2014) (56)
Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: the role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity. (2012) (56)
Microsite and mycorrhizal inoculum effects on the establishment of Quercus coccifera in a semi-arid degraded steppe (2002) (56)
Palaeoclimate explains a unique proportion of the global variation in soil bacterial communities (2017) (55)
Are Ecosystem Composition, Structure, and Functional Status Related to Restoration Success? A Test from Semiarid Mediterranean Steppes (2006) (55)
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. (2007) (54)
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 (2015) (54)
Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO2 and nutrient availability to determine species and assemblage responses in a model grassland community. (2005) (54)
Facilitation and Inhibition of Seedlings of an Invasive Tree (Acer platanoides) by Different Tree Species in a Mountain Ecosystem (2006) (53)
Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions (2013) (53)
Plant Effects on Soils in Drylands: Implications for Community Dynamics and Ecosystem Restoration (2005) (51)
Spatial heterogeneity in soil nutrient supply modulates nutrient and biomass responses to multiple global change drivers in model grassland communities (2006) (50)
Soil heterogeneity and community composition jointly influence grassland biomass (2006) (50)
Plants and biological soil crusts modulate the dominance of N forms in a semi-arid grassland (2010) (50)
Effects of positive interactions, size symmetry of competition and abiotic stress on self-thinning in simulated plant populations. (2010) (50)
Spatial associations and patterns of perennial vegetation ina semi-arid steppe: a multivariate geostatistics approach (2005) (49)
Vascular Plants and Biocrusts Modulate How Abiotic Factors Affect Wetting and Drying Events in Drylands (2014) (49)
Biocrusts in the Context of Global Change (2016) (49)
Altered precipitation seasonality impacts the dominant fungal but rare bacterial taxa in subtropical forest soils (2017) (49)
Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function (2011) (49)
Aridity preferences alter the relative importance of abiotic and biotic drivers on plant species abundance in global drylands (2018) (48)
Nitrogen deposition alters nitrogen cycling and reduces soil carbon content in low-productivity semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems. (2013) (47)
Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity from species abundance data (2014) (47)
Environmental correlates of species rank - abundance distributions in global drylands. (2016) (46)
Ecohydrological feedbacks and linkages associated with land degradation: a case study from Mexico (2006) (46)
On the relationship between abiotic stress and co-occurrence patterns: an assessment at the community level using soil lichen communities and multiple stress gradients (2009) (46)
Biological soil crusts promote N accumulation in response to dew events in dryland soils (2013) (45)
Aridity Modulates N Availability in Arid and Semiarid Mediterranean Grasslands (2013) (43)
Poor plant performance under simulated climate change is linked to mycorrhizal responses in a semi‐arid shrubland (2018) (43)
Photosynthesis and growth reduction with warming are driven by nonstomatal limitations in a Mediterranean semi‐arid shrub (2016) (43)
Small-scale spatial patterns of two soil lichens in semi-arid Mediterranean steppe (2003) (43)
Ten simple rules towards healthier research labs (2019) (42)
Traits of neighbouring plants and space limitation determine intraspecific trait variability in semi‐arid shrublands (2015) (41)
Warming reduces the cover, richness and evenness of lichen-dominated biocrusts but promotes moss growth: insights from an 8 yr experiment. (2018) (41)
Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem (2013) (41)
Increasing microbial carbon use efficiency with warming predicts soil heterotrophic respiration globally (2019) (40)
Early-successional vegetation changes after roadside prairie restoration modify processes related with soil functioning by changing microbial functional diversity (2011) (40)
Plant-driven niche differentiation of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in global drylands (2019) (39)
A global database of shrub encroachment effects on ecosystem structure and functioning (2012) (39)
The Contribution of Photodegradation to Litter Decomposition in Semiarid Mediterranean Grasslands Depends on its Interaction with Local Humidity Conditions, Litter Quality and Position (2017) (38)
Environmental conditions and biotic interactions acting together promote phylogenetic randomness in semi-arid plant communities: new methods help to avoid misleading conclusions. (2012) (38)
Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community (2005) (37)
A Global Survey of Mycobacterial Diversity in Soil (2019) (36)
Microbial biotechnology as a tool to restore degraded drylands (2017) (35)
Can we infer plant facilitation from remote sensing? a test across global drylands. (2015) (35)
Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: an experimental assessment with grassland assemblages (2007) (35)
Seedling establishment along post-fire succession in Mediterranean shrublands dominated by obligate seeders (2012) (35)
More Ecology is Needed to Restore Mediterranean Ecosystems: A Reply to Valladares and Gianoli (2008) (34)
Aspectos socioeconómicos y biofísicos de la desertificación (2005) (34)
Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the impact of aridity on soil microbial communities in drylands: observational evidence from three continents. (2018) (33)
A missing link between facilitation and plant species coexistence: nurses benefit generally rare species more than common ones (2015) (33)
Simulated climate change affects how biocrusts modulate water gains and desiccation dynamics after rainfall events (2018) (32)
On the relative importance of the effects of selection and complementarity as drivers of diversity–productivity relationships in Mediterranean shrublands (2008) (32)
Temperature and aridity regulate spatial variability of soil multifunctionality in drylands across the globe. (2018) (32)
Small-scale spatial heterogeneity in the vertical distribution of soil nutrients has limited effects on the growth and development of Prosopis glandulosa seedlings (2006) (32)
Evolutionary relationships can be more important than abiotic conditions in predicting the outcome of plant-plant interactions. (2012) (32)
Biogeochemical indicators of elevated nitrogen deposition in semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems (2014) (31)
Climatic conditions, soil fertility and atmospheric nitrogen deposition largely determine the structure and functioning of microbial communities in biocrust-dominated Mediterranean drylands (2016) (31)
Community-aggregated plant traits interact with soil nutrient heterogeneity to determine ecosystem functioning (2013) (31)
Ecosystem development in roadside grasslands: biotic control, plant-soil interactions, and dispersal limitations. (2011) (31)
Aridity Decouples C:N:P Stoichiometry Across Multiple Trophic Levels in Terrestrial Ecosystems (2018) (30)
Spatio-temporal dynamics of chlorophyll fluorescence in a semi-arid Mediterranean shrubland (2004) (30)
Human impacts and aridity differentially alter soil N availability in drylands worldwide (2016) (30)
On the Importance of Shrub Encroachment by Sprouters, Climate, Species Richness and Anthropic Factors for Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Semi-arid Mediterranean Ecosystems (2013) (30)
A multifaceted view on the impacts of shrub encroachment. (2016) (30)
La costra biológica del suelo: Avances recientes en el conocimiento de su estructura y función ecológica (2011) (28)
Vascular plants mediate the effects of aridity and soil properties on ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea. (2013) (27)
Beyond dual-lattice models: incorporating plant strategies when modeling the interplay between facilitation and competition along environmental severity gradients. (2009) (27)
Pathways regulating decreased soil respiration with warming in a biocrust‐dominated dryland (2018) (27)
Sand burial compensates for the negative effects of erosion on the dune-building shrub Artemisia wudanica (2013) (27)
Biological soil crusts affect small-scale spatial patterns of inorganic N in a semiarid Mediterranean grassland (2013) (26)
Plant size and leaf area influence phenological and reproductive responses to warming in semiarid Mediterranean species. (2016) (26)
Nutrient availability and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure modulate the effects of nutrient heterogeneity on the size structure of populations in grassland species. (2006) (26)
Diversity of biocrust-forming cyanobacteria in a semiarid gypsiferous site from Central Spain. (2017) (26)
Ecología del esparto (Stipa tenacissima L.) y los espartales de la Península Ibérica (2007) (26)
Surface indicators are correlated with soil multifunctionality in global drylands (2020) (26)
Altered leaf elemental composition with climate change is linked to reductions in photosynthesis, growth and survival in a semi‐arid shrubland (2019) (25)
Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene (2020) (25)
Co-occurrence patterns and abiotic stress in sand-dune communities: their relationship varies with spatial scale and the stress estimator. (2010) (25)
Recent leveling off of vegetation greenness and primary production reveals the increasing soil water limitations on the greening Earth. (2021) (25)
Weak effects of the exotic invasive Carpobrotus edulis on the structure and composition of Portuguese sand-dune communities (2010) (25)
Identity of plant, lichen and moss species connects with microbial abundance and soil functioning in maritime Antarctica (2018) (25)
Plant species richness and shrub cover attenuate drought effects on ecosystem functioning across Patagonian rangelands (2014) (24)
Functional rarity and evenness are key facets of biodiversity to boost multifunctionality (2021) (23)
The structure of plant spatial association networks is linked to plant diversity in global drylands (2018) (23)
Disturbance of the biological soil crusts and performance of Stipa tenacissima in a semi-arid Mediterranean steppe (2010) (22)
Australian dryland soils are acidic and nutrient‐depleted, and have unique microbial communities compared with other drylands (2018) (22)
Null model tests for niche conservatism, phylogenetic assortment and habitat filtering (2012) (22)
Shrub encroachment does not reduce the activity of some soil enzymes in Mediterranean semiarid grasslands (2011) (22)
Contrasting mechanisms underlie short‐ and longer‐term soil respiration responses to experimental warming in a dryland ecosystem (2020) (22)
Synthetic Biology for Terraformation Lessons from Mars, Earth, and the Microbiome (2019) (22)
Spatial analysis of semi-arid patchy vegetation by the cumulative distribution of patch boundary spacings and transition probabilities (2004) (22)
Microsite Differentiation Drives the Abundance of Soil Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria along Aridity Gradients (2016) (21)
The interplay between facilitation and habitat type drives spatial vegetation patterns in global drylands (2018) (21)
Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community (2005) (20)
Individual vs. population plastic responses to elevated CO2, nutrient availability, and heterogeneity: a microcosm experiment with co-occurring species (2007) (20)
Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community (2005) (20)
Functional leaf and size traits determine the photosynthetic response of 10 dryland species to warming (2016) (20)
Hydrological and ecological responses of ecosystems to extreme precipitation regimes: A test of empirical-based hypotheses with an ecosystem model (2016) (20)
Remote sensing data predict indicators of soil functioning in semi-arid steppes, central Spain (2011) (19)
Inferring local competition intensity from patch size distributions: a test using biological soil crusts (2012) (19)
Contingency in ecosystem but not plant community response to multiple global change factors. (2012) (18)
Grazing pressure interacts with aridity to determine the development and diversity of biological soil crusts in Patagonian rangelands (2019) (18)
Albedo estimated from remote sensing correlates with ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands. (2018) (18)
UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL DESERTIFICATION: BIOPHYSICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF HYDROLOGY (2006) (18)
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. (2013) (18)
Increases in aridity lead to drastic shifts in the assembly of dryland complex microbial networks (2019) (18)
Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts (2022) (18)
Ecological mechanisms underlying aridity thresholds in global drylands (2021) (17)
Ecosystem structure and soil-surface conditions drive the variability in the foliar δ13C and δ15N of Stipa tenacissima in semiarid Mediterranean steppes (2005) (17)
What is a biocrust? A refined, contemporary definition for a broadening research community (2022) (17)
Early environments drive diversity and floristic composition in Mediterranean old fields: Insights from a long-term experiment (2008) (16)
Climate and soil micro‐organisms drive soil phosphorus fractions in coastal dune systems (2020) (16)
Variaciones en el patrón espacial a pequeña escala de los componentes de la costra biológica en un ecosistema mediterráneo semiárido (2003) (16)
Soil Organic Matter in Dryland Ecosystems (2018) (16)
Aspects of soil lichen biodiversity and aggregation interact to influence subsurface microbial function (2014) (16)
Relative humidity predominantly determines long‐term biocrust‐forming lichen cover in drylands under climate change (2020) (15)
Recommendations for establishing global collaborative networks in soil ecology. (2019) (15)
Desertifying deserts (2020) (15)
Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Topsoil Organic Carbon Concentration in Drylands Have Similar Effects at Regional and Global Scales (2019) (14)
Heterogeneidad espacial y gestión de medios semiáridos (2004) (14)
Global drivers of methane oxidation and denitrifying gene distribution in drylands (2019) (14)
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in biological crusts from a Neotropical savanna are not related to the dominant perennial Trachypogon. (2017) (13)
Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands (2022) (13)
Biological Soil Crusts as a Model System in Ecology (2016) (13)
Linking the spatial patterns of organisms and abiotic factors to ecosystem function and management: insights from semi-arid environments (2006) (13)
Multifunctionality debt in global drylands linked to past biome and climate (2019) (12)
Impact of simulated changes in rainfall regime and nutrient deposition on the relative dominance and isotopic composition of ruderal plants in anthropogenic grasslands (2012) (12)
Contrasting environmental preferences of photosynthetic and non‐photosynthetic soil cyanobacteria across the globe (2020) (12)
Biocrusts Modulate Responses of Nitrous Oxide and Methane Soil Fluxes to Simulated Climate Change in a Mediterranean Dryland (2020) (12)
Species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil properties under simulated climate change are driven by functional traits. (2020) (12)
Tesis doctoral La restauración de la cubierta vegetal en zonas semiáridas en función del patrón espacial de los factores bióticos y abióticos (2003) (11)
Earthworms modify plant biomass and nitrogen capture under conditions of soil nutrient heterogeneity and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations (2014) (11)
Biological soil crusts in a changing world: introduction to the special issue (2014) (11)
Is the cask of facilitation ready for bottling? A symposium on the connectivity and future directions of positive plant interactions (2009) (11)
Cellular and non-cellular mineralization of organic carbon in soils with contrasted physicochemical properties (2018) (11)
Unraveling Misunderstandings about Desertification: The Paradoxical Case of the Tabernas-Sorbas Basin in Southeast Spain (2020) (10)
Variation in the methods leads to variation in the interpretation of biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships (2020) (10)
The MARAS dataset, vegetation and soil characteristics of dryland rangelands across Patagonia (2020) (10)
Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi (2022) (10)
Spectral Diversity Successfully Estimates the α-Diversity of Biocrust-Forming Lichens (2019) (10)
Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands (2014) (9)
A resprouter herb reduces negative density-dependent effects among neighboring seeders after fire (2012) (9)
Mediterranean Landscape Re-Greening at the Expense of South American Agricultural Expansion (2021) (9)
Positive interactions can produce species-rich communities and increase species turnover through time (2012) (9)
Compensatory Thermal Adaptation of Soil Microbial Respiration Rates in Global Croplands (2020) (9)
Diversity of archaea and niche preferences among putative ammonia-oxidizing Nitrososphaeria dominating across European arable soils. (2021) (9)
Soil moisture dynamics under two rainfall frequency treatments drive early spring CO2 gas exchange of lichen-dominated biocrusts in central Spain (2018) (8)
Biocrusts buffer against the accumulation of soil metallic nutrients induced by warming and rainfall reduction (2020) (8)
Corrigendum to García‐Palacios et al. () (2013) (8)
Plant species-area relationships are determined by evenness, cover and aggregation in drylands worldwide. (2018) (8)
Intransitivity increases plant functional diversity by limiting dominance in drylands worldwide (2018) (7)
Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem (2017) (7)
Publisher Correction: Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality (2018) (7)
Remotely sensed albedo allows the identification of two ecosystem states along aridity gradients in Africa (2019) (7)
Climate change legacies contrastingly affect the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities and multifunctionality to extreme drought (2021) (6)
Análisis y modelización de datos espacialmente explícitos en Ecología (2006) (6)
Response to Comment on “Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands” (2012) (6)
Litter Decomposition Rates of Biocrust-Forming Lichens Are Similar to Those of Vascular Plants and Are Affected by Warming (2021) (6)
Simulated climate change reduced the capacity of lichen-dominated biocrusts to act as carbon sinks in two semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems (2014) (6)
Climate, topography and soil factors interact to drive community trait distributions in global drylands (2016) (5)
Discarded food and resource depletion (2020) (5)
Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect (2020) (5)
Soil resources and element stocks in drylands to face global issues (2018) (5)
Bases ecológicas para la restauración de los espartales semiáridos degradados (2003) (4)
Bryophyte and lichen diversity on arid soils: Determinants and consequences (2017) (4)
Seven steps towards health and happiness in the lab (2018) (4)
Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions and New Scenarios (2022) (4)
Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect (2021) (4)
Species-specific adaptations determine how aridity and biotic interactions drive the assembly of dryland plant communities (2017) (3)
Biocrust‐forming lichens increase soil available phosphorus under simulated climate change (2022) (3)
Abiotic and biotic drivers underly short- and long-term soil respiration responses to experimental warming in a dryland ecosystem (2020) (3)
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands (2022) (3)
Ecology and responses to climate change of biocrust-forming mosses in drylands (2022) (3)
Author Correction: Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands (2018) (2)
I reunión del grupo de trabajo de ecología espacial de la AEET (2009) (2)
Ecological niche differentiation in soil cyanobacterial communities across the globe (2019) (2)
Soils in warmer and less developed countries have less micronutrients globally (2022) (2)
The TeaComposition Initiative: Unleashing the power of international collaboration to understand litter decomposition (2021) (2)
One scientist's six-point recovery plan to tackle COVID-19 anxiety. (2020) (2)
Author response: Experimental and observational studies find contrasting responses of soil nutrients to climate change (2017) (2)
The global distribution and environmental drivers of the soil antibiotic resistome (2022) (2)
Complex Policy Mixes are Needed to Cope with Agricultural Water Demands Under Climate Change (2023) (2)
Climate legacies drive the distribution and future restoration potential of dryland forests (2022) (2)
Towards understanding diversity, endemicity and global change vulnerability of soil fungi (2022) (2)
Biocrusts increase the resistance to warming‐induced increases in topsoil P pools (2022) (1)
Response to comment on “Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystem” (2018) (1)
Temporal variations on NDVI predict temporal changes in vegetation cover across Patagonian drylands (Argentina) (2021) (1)
Stipa tenacissima Does not Affect the Foliar δ13C and δ15N of Introduced Shrub Seedlings in a Mediterranean Semi-arid Steppe (2006) (1)
Continuous monitoring of chlorophyll a fluorescence and microclimatic conditions reveals warming-induced physiological damage in biocrust-forming lichens (2022) (1)
Microbial dispersal limitation to isolated soil habitats in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica (2018) (1)
Environmental correlates of species rank – abundance distributions in 1 global drylands 2 3 (2016) (1)
Relative humidity predominantly determines long-term biocrust-forming lichen survival under climate change (2020) (1)
On the Importance of Shrub Encroachment by Sprouters, Climate, Species Richness and Anthropic Factors for Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Semi-arid Mediterranean Ecosystems (2013) (1)
Chapter 18 UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL DESERTIFICATION : BIOPHYSICAL (2007) (1)
The MARAS dataset, vegetation and soil characteristics of dryland rangelands across Patagonia (2020) (1)
Simulated climate change affects how biocrusts modulate infiltration and desiccation dynamics (2017) (1)
Diversity of biocrust-forming cyanobacteria in a semiarid gypsiferous site from Central Spain (2017) (1)
The structure of plant spatial association networks increases plant diversity in global drylands (2017) (1)
The interplay between facilitation and habitat type drive spatial vegetation patterns in global drylands (2017) (1)
Aspects of soil lichen biodiversity and aggregation interact to influence subsurface microbial function (2014) (1)
Plant species accumulation curves are determined by evenness and spatial aggregation in drylands worldwide. (2018) (1)
Biocrusts Modulate Responses of Nitrous Oxide and Methane Soil Fluxes to Simulated Climate Change in a Mediterranean Dryland (2020) (1)
Contrasting responses between vegetation and soil microbial biomass and nutrient pools may exacerbate the detrimental impacts of climate change in a semiarid shrubland ecosystem (2017) (1)
Ecosystem aridity and atmospheric CO2—Response (2020) (1)
Effects of vegetation on soil cyanobacterial communities through time and space. (2022) (1)
Multifunctionality in Global Drylands'' Response to Comment on ''Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem (2012) (1)
Runoff source or sink? Biocrust hydrological function strongly depends on the relative abundance of mosses (2012) (1)
Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity. (2014) (1)
A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide (2019) (1)
Sand burial compensates for the negative effects of erosion on the dune-building shrub Artemisia wudanica (2013) (0)
Both biocrust cover and soil warming increased inorganic and organic P fractions in a semi-arid ecosystem of Central Spain (2017) (0)
Biocrusts Modulate Climate Change Effects on Soil Organic Carbon Pools: Insights From a 9-Year Experiment (2022) (0)
Biological soil crusts in a changing world: introduction to the special issue (2014) (0)
Entrevista a James F. Reynolds (2004) (0)
James F. Reynolds (2004) (0)
The Contribution of Photodegradation to Litter Decomposition in Semiarid Mediterranean Grasslands Depends on its Interaction with Local Humidity Conditions, Litter Quality and Position (2016) (0)
Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis Unfollowed by Solutions (2022) (0)
Litter Decomposition Rates of Biocrust-Forming Lichens Are Similar to Those of Vascular Plants and Are Affected by Warming (2021) (0)
Biocrusts: the living skin of the earth (2018) (0)
Can desertification be mapped? Lights and shadows of a challenging task (2021) (0)
Correct Figure 1 of the Paper (2014) (0)
Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands (2019) (0)
Complementary effects of above- and belowground biodiversity on ecosystem functions across global grasslands (2023) (0)
Publisher Correction: Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality (2018) (0)
Community-aggregated plant traits interact with soil nutrient heterogeneity to determine ecosystem functioning (2012) (0)
Drylands contribute disproportionately to observed global productivity increases. (2023) (0)
Biological soil crusts modulate effects of changes in temperature and soil moisture on the N cycle (2013) (0)
Climatic conditions, soil fertility and atmospheric nitrogen deposition largely determine the structure and functioning of microbial communities in biocrust-dominated Mediterranean drylands (2015) (0)
Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils (2017) (0)
Spatial Analysis of Patchy Vegetation on Semi-Arid Steppe (2001) (0)
Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands (2017) (0)
oxidizing bacteria and archaea in global 1 drylands 2 3 Running title : Niche differentiation of AOA and AOB 4 5 (2019) (0)
Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the phosphorus uptake capability of beneficial plant symbionts (2021) (0)
Introduction: Drylands. Opportunities, challenges, and threats (2022) (0)
A missing link between facilitation and plant species coexistence: nurses (0)
Semi-arid ecosystem monitoring with remotely-sensed data (2018) (0)
Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality (2018) (0)
Vascular Plants and Biocrusts Modulate How Abiotic Factors Affect Wetting and Drying Events in Drylands (2014) (0)
What is ecosystem multifunctionality ? 1 2 3 (2017) (0)
Vegetation structure determines cyanobacterial communities during soil development across global biomes (2021) (0)
δ 15 N of Introduced Shrub Seedlings in a Mediterranean Semi-arid Steppe (2006) (0)
Maestre structure and functioning crusts in a semi-arid environment : implications for ecosystem Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil (2012) (0)
Strong effect of relative humidity on dryland lichens under climate change (2021) (0)
Drylands amplified productivity increase than greening by enhanced light use efficiency (2023) (0)
Semi-arid ecosystem monitoring using thermal and hyperspectral data (2018) (0)
Biocrusts buffer against the accumulation of soil metallic nutrients induced by warming and rainfall reduction (2020) (0)
Breaking the land degradation-poverty nexus in drylands. (2022) (0)
Author response for "Relative humidity predominantly determines long‐term biocrust‐forming lichen cover in drylands under climate change" (2020) (0)
Do we really need large spectral libraries for the assessment of soil organic carbon at local scale? (2014) (0)
Decomposition of dryland biocrust-forming lichens and mosses contributes to soil nutrient cycling (2022) (0)
Altered precipitation seasonality impacts the dominant fungal but rare bacterial taxa in subtropical forest soils (2016) (0)
Airborne microbial transport limitation to isolated Antarctic soil habitats (2019) (0)
Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions (2013) (0)
Reconsidering functional redundancy in biodiversity research (2023) (0)
Palaeoclimate explains a unique proportion of the global variation in soil bacterial communities (2017) (0)
Fourteen years of continuous soil moisture records from plant and biocrust-dominated microsites (2022) (0)
Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Topsoil Organic Carbon Concentration in Drylands Have Similar Effects at Regional and Global Scales (2019) (0)
Identity of plant, lichen and moss species connects with microbial abundance and soil functioning in maritime Antarctica (2018) (0)
The impact of agricultural management on soil aggregation and carbon storage is regulated by climatic thresholds across a 3000 km European gradient (2023) (0)
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology (2014) (0)
Fourteen years of continuous soil moisture records from plant and biocrust-dominated microsites (2022) (0)
Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem (2012) (0)
Supplementary Materials for 5 Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity (2019) (0)
The VULCAN Project: Toward a better understanding of the vulnerability of soil organic matter to climate change in permafrost ecosystems (2015) (0)
Aridity Decouples C:N:P Stoichiometry Across Multiple Trophic Levels in Terrestrial Ecosystems (2017) (0)
Contrasting mechanisms underlie short-and longer-term soil respiration 1 responses to experimental warming in a dryland ecosystem 2 3 Running head : Warming effects on soil respiration (2020) (0)
Impact of simulated changes in rainfall regime and nutrient deposition on the relative dominance and isotopic composition of ruderal plants in anthropogenic grasslands (2011) (0)
competition is in plant communities and maintains their 1 species richness (0)
Litter decomposition rates of biocrust-forming lichens are similar to that of vascular plants and are affected by warming in a semiarid grassland (2020) (0)
Diversity and Patch-Size Distributions of Biological Soil Crusts Regulate Dryland Ecosystem Multifunctionality (2013) (0)
Aridity Thresholds Determine the Relationships Between Ecosystem Functioning and Remotely Sensed Indicators Across Patagonia (2021) (0)
Desertificación: nuevos enfoques para un viejo problema (2021) (0)
Restauración de ecosistemas degradados y post-incendio (2014) (0)
La vida adaptada a la precariedad: Ecología de las zonas áridas (2022) (0)
Matching for Support : A Scenario Based Study on Creating a Platform for the Rare Disease Population ∗ (2016) (0)

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