Fernando T. Maestre

Publications

• Vascular Plants and Biocrusts Modulate How Abiotic Factors Affect Wetting and Drying Events in Drylands
• Sand burial compensates for the negative effects of erosion on the dune-building shrub Artemisia wudanica
• Plant life on gypsum: A review of its multiple facets
• Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality peak at intermediate levels of woody cover in global drylands
• Moving forward on facilitation research: Response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities
• Grass-woodland transitions: Determinants and consequences for ecosystem functioning and provisioning of services
• Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands
• Erratum: Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments (Biogeosciences (2014) 11 (2991-3013))
• Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on microbial and biocrust communities alter the resistance of the N cycle in a semiarid grassland
• Assessment of soil organic carbon at local scale with spiked NIR calibrations: Effects of selection and extra-weighting on the spiking subset
• Aspects of soil lichen biodiversity and aggregation interact to influence subsurface microbial function
• Aridity Modulates N Availability in Arid and Semiarid Mediterranean Grasslands
• 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.
• Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands
• Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world.
• Plant size and leaf area influence phenological and reproductive responses to warming in semiarid Mediterranean species.
• A multifaceted view on the impacts of shrub encroachment.
• Environmental correlates of species rank - abundance distributions in global drylands.
• Microsite Differentiation Drives the Abundance of Soil Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria along Aridity Gradients.
• Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in biological crusts from a Neotropical savanna are not related to the dominant perennial Trachypogon.
• Biocrusts modulate warming and rainfall exclusion effects on soil respiration in a semi-arid grassland
• Soil characteristics determine soil carbon and nitrogen availability during leaf litter decomposition regardless of litter quality
• Vegetation structure is as important as climate for explaining ecosystem function across patagonian rangelands
• Simulated climate change reduced the capacity of lichen-dominated biocrusts to act as carbon sinks in two semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems
• Plant-plant interactions, environmental gradients and plant diversity: A global synthesis of community-level studies
• Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy
• Earthworms modify plant biomass and nitrogen capture under conditions of soil nutrient heterogeneity and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations
• Climate change will increase savannas at the expense of forests and treeless vegetation in tropical and subtropical Americas
• Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands
• Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands
• Biological soil crusts in a changing world: Introduction to the special issue
• Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology
• Biogeochemical indicators of elevated nitrogen deposition in semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems
• A missing link between facilitation and plant species coexistence: Nurses benefit generally rare species more than common ones
• Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness
• Plant species richness and shrub cover attenuate drought effects on ecosystem functioning across Patagonian rangelands
• Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity.
• Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the negative impacts of increasing aridity on ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands
• Traits of neighbouring plants and space limitation determine intraspecific trait variability in semi-arid shrublands
• Can we infer plant facilitation from remote sensing? a test across global drylands
• Climate change may reduce litter decomposition while enhancing the contribution of photodegradation in dry perennial Mediterranean grasslands
• Climatic conditions, soil fertility and atmospheric nitrogen deposition largely determine the structure and functioning of microbial communities in biocrust-dominated Mediterranean drylands
• 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
• Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems
• Photosynthesis and growth reduction with warming are driven by nonstomatal limitations in a Mediterranean semi-arid shrub
• Vascular plants mediate the effects of aridity and soil properties on ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea
• Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands
• Diversity and Patch-Size Distributions of Biological Soil Crusts Regulate Dryland Ecosystem Multifunctionality
• Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands
• Corrigendum to García-Palacios et al. [Ecol. Lett., 16, (2013) 1045-1053]
• Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands
• Biological soil crusts affect small-scale spatial patterns of inorganic N in a semiarid Mediterranean grassland
• Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions
• Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment: Implications for ecosystem structure and functioning
• Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern
• Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change
• Positive interactions can produce species-rich communities and increase species turnover through time
• Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands
• Plant responses to soil heterogeneity and global environmental change
• Seedling establishment along post-fire succession in Mediterranean shrublands dominated by obligate seeders
• Community-aggregated plant traits interact with soil nutrient heterogeneity to determine ecosystem functioning
• Soil heterogeneity modulates responses to multiple global environmental changes in model grassland communities
• On the Importance of Shrub Encroachment by Sprouters, Climate, Species Richness and Anthropic Factors for Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Semi-arid Mediterranean Ecosystems
• Nitrogen deposition alters nitrogen cycling and reduces soil carbon content in low-productivity semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems
• Evaluating the performance of multiple remote sensing indices to predict the spatial variability of ecosystem structure and functioning in Patagonian steppes
• Ecotechnology as a tool for restoring degraded drylands: A meta-analysis of field experiments
• Impact of simulated changes in rainfall regime and nutrient deposition on the relative dominance and isotopic composition of ruderal plants in anthropogenic grasslands
• Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes
• 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
• Biological soil crusts promote N accumulation in response to dew events in dryland soils
• Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem
• Response to comment on "Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands"
• Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity
• Null model tests for niche conservatism, phylogenetic assortment and habitat filtering
• It is getting hotter in here: Determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands
• Inferring local competition intensity from patch size distributions: A test using biological soil crusts
• Evolutionary relationships can be more important than abiotic conditions in predicting the outcome of plant-plant interactions
• Environmental conditions and biotic interactions acting together promote phylogenetic randomness in semi-arid plant communities: New methods help to avoid misleading conclusions
• Contingency in ecosystem but not plant community response to multiple global change factors
• Assemblage of a semi-arid annual plant community: Abiotic and biotic filters act hierarchically
• A resprouter herb reduces negative density-dependent effects among neighboring seeders after fire
• Ecosystem development in roadside grasslands: Biotic control, plant-soil interactions, and dispersal limitations
• Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: Towards a global synthesis
• Functional profiles reveal unique ecological roles of various biological soil crust organisms
• Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain
• Early-successional vegetation changes after roadside prairie restoration modify processes related with soil functioning by changing microbial functional diversity
• Biological soil crusts: Recent advances in our knowledge of their structure and ecological function | La costra biológica del suelo: Avances recientes en el conocimiento de su estructura y función ecológica
• Biological Soil Crust Microsites Are the Main Contributor to Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Ecosystem
• Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: the role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity.
• Plant responses to soil heterogeneity and global environmental change.
• Environmental conditions and biotic interactions acting together promote phylogenetic randomness in semi-arid plant communities: new methods help to avoid misleading conclusions.
• Evolutionary relationships can be more important than abiotic conditions in predicting the outcome of plant-plant interactions.
• Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain.
• Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: towards a unifying framework.
• Soil nutrient heterogeneity modulates ecosystem responses to changes in the identity and richness of plant functional groups
• Remote sensing data predict indicators of soil functioning in semi-arid steppes, central Spain
• Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi-arid Mediterranean environment
• Positive plant interactions in the Iberian Southeast: Mechanisms, environmental gradients, and ecosystem function
• Co-occurrence patterns and abiotic stress in sand-dune communities: Their relationship varies with spatial scale and the stress estimator
• Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands
• 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
• Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: An experimental assessment with grassland assemblages
• Are ecosystem composition, structure, and functional status related to restoration success? A test from semiarid mediterranean steppes
• Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes?
• Plants and biological soil crusts modulate the dominance of N forms in a semi-arid grassland
• Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes? Reply
• Interactive effects of three ecosystem engineers on infiltration in a semi-arid Mediterranean grassland
• Is the cask of facilitation ready for bottling? A symposium on the connectivity and future directions of positive plant interactions
• The restoration of vegetation cover in the semi-arid Iberian southeast
• Temporal dynamics of herbivory and water availability interactively modulate the outcome of a grass-shrub interaction in a semi-arid ecosystem
• Soil nutrient heterogeneity modulates ecosystem responses to changes in the identity and richness of plant functional groups
• Shrub encroachment does not reduce the activity of some soil enzymes in Mediterranean semiarid grasslands
• Effects of positive interactions, size symmetry of competition and abiotic stress on self-thinning in simulated plant populations
• Dominant plant species modulate responses to hydroseeding, irrigation and fertilization during the restoration of semiarid motorway slopes
• Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: Insights from a Mediterranean grassland
• Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function
• Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: Towards a unifying framework
• Weak effects of the exotic invasive Carpobrotus edulis on the structure and composition of Portuguese sand-dune communities
• Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in abiotic factors modulate multiple ontogenetic shifts between competition and facilitation
• Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities
• Disturbance of the biological soil crusts and performance of Stipa tenacissima in a semi-arid Mediterranean steppe
• Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts
• Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship in soils
• Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities
• Positive interactions can increase size inequality in plant populations
• On the relationship between abiotic stress and co-occurrence patterns: An assessment at the community level using soil lichen communities and multiple stress gradients
• Indices based on surface indicators predict soil functioning in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes
• Beyond dual-lattice models: Incorporating plant strategies when modeling the interplay between facilitation and competition along environmental severity gradients
• Where do seedlings go? A spatio-temporal analysis of seedling mortality in a semi-arid gypsophyte
• Shifts in the regeneration niche of an endangered tree (Acer opalus ssp. granatense) during ontogeny: Using an ecological concept for application
• On the relevance of facilitation in alpine meadow communities: An experimental assessment with multiple species differing in their ecological optimum
• On the relative importance of the effects of selection and complementarity as drivers of diversity-productivity relationships in Mediterranean shrublands
• More ecology is needed to restore mediterranean ecosystems: A reply to valladares and gianoli
• Facilitation in plant communities: The past, the present, and the future
• Early environments drive diversity and floristic composition in Mediterranean old fields: Insights from a long-term experiment
• Balance between facilitation and resource competition determines biomass-density relationships in plant populations
• Are soil lichen communities structured by biotic interactions? A null model analysis
• Soil lichens have species-specific effects on the seedling emergence of three gypsophile plant species
• Individual vs. population plastic responses to elevated CO2, nutrient availability, and heterogeneity: A microcosm experiment with co-occurring species
• Ecology: Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development
• Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources
• Ecosystem structure and soil-surface conditions drive the variability in the foliar δ13C and δ15N of Stipa tenacissima in semiarid Mediterranean steppes
• Ecohydrological feedbacks and linkages associated with land degradation: A case study from Mexico
• Soil heterogeneity and community composition jointly influence grassland biomass
• Book Review
• Small-scale spatial patterns of two soil lichens in semi-arid Mediterranean steppe
• Biological soil crusts control N dynamics and microbial functional diversity in response to nutrient additions
• Evaluando la idoneidad de indicadores de alerta temprana de desertificación en ecosistemas semiáridos mediterráneos
• Biological soil crusts modulate effects of changes in temperature and soil moisture on the N cycle
• Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO2 and nutrient availability to determine species and assemblage responses in a model grassland community
• Database on soil and vegetation attributes of 225 dryland sites from around the world
• Restoration of semi-arid Stipa tenacissima steppes
• Linking the spatial patterns of organisms and abiotic factors to ecosystem function and management: Insights from semi-arid environments
• Small-scale spatial patterns of biological crusts in a Mediterranean semi-arid ecosystem | Variaciones en el patrón espacial a pequeña escala de los componentes de la costra biológica en un ecosistema Mediterráneo semiárido
• Shrub encroachment and dryland desertification: a global analysis
• Watering, fertilization, and slurry inoculation promote recovery of biological crust function in degraded soils
• Understanding global desertification: Biophysical and socioeconomic dimensions of hydrology
• The stress-gradient hypothesis does not fit all relationships between plant-plant interactions and abiotic stress: Further insights from arid environments
• The role of the perch effect on the nucleation process in Mediterranean semi-arid oldfields
• Stipa tenacissima does not affect the foliar δ13C and δ15N of introduced shrub seedlings in a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe
• Small-scale spatial heterogeneity in the vertical distribution of soil nutrients has limited effects on the growth and development of Prosopis glandulosa seedlings
• Small-scale patterns of abundance of mosses and lichens forming biological soil crusts in two semi-arid gypsum environments
• Nutrient availability and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure modulate the effects of nutrient heterogeneity on the size structure of populations in grassland species
• Insights into ecosystem composition and function in a sequence of degraded semiarid steppes
• Do positive interactions increase with abiotic stress? A test from a semi-arid steppe
• Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community
• Spatial associations and patterns of perennial vegetation ina semi-arid steppe: A multivariate geostatistics approach
• Remnant shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes: Effects of shrub size, abiotic factors and species identity on understorey richness and occurrence
• Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments
• Does spatial pattern matter to ecosystem functioning? Insights from biological soil crusts
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of chlorophyll fluorescence in a semi-arid Mediterranean shrubland
• Spatial analysis of semi-arid patchy vegetation by the cumulative distribution of patch boundary spacings and transition probabilities
• 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
• Mechanisms underlying the interaction between Pinus halepensis and the native late-successional shrub Pistacia lentiscus in a semi-arid plantation
• Afforestation with Pinus halepensis reduces native shrub performance in a Mediterranean semiarid area
• Small-scale spatial variation in soil CO2 efflux in a Mediterranean semiarid steppe
• Small-scale Environmental Heterogeneity and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Seedling Establishment in a Semiarid Degraded Ecosystem
• Positive, negative, and net effects in grass-shrub interactions in Mediterranean semiarid grasslands
• Microsite differences in fungal hyphal length, glomalin, and soil aggregate stability in semiarid Mediterranean steppes
• Does Pinus halepensis facilitate the establishment of shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid afforestations?
• Spatial patterns of surface soil properties and vegetation in a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe
• Microsite and mycorrhizal inoculum effects on the establishment of Quercus coccifera in a semi-arid degraded steppe
• Infiltration, penetration resistance and microphytic crust composition in contrasted microsites within a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe
• Potential for using facilitation by grasses to establish shrubs on a semiarid degraded steppe
• Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community
• Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community.
• Do positive interactions increase with abiotic stress? A test from a semi-arid steppe.
• Which community attributes govern ecosystem functioning in drylands? A global assessment
• Pathways regulating decreased soil respiration with warming in a biocrust‐dominated dryland
• Biogeography of global drylands
• The global biogeography and environmental drivers of fairy circles
• Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems
• Potential alternative land covers on Earth
• Upper boundary on tree cover at global drylands
• Temperature increases soil respiration across ecosystem types and soil development, but soil properties determine the magnitude of this effect
• Contrasting environmental preferences of photosynthetic and non‐photosynthetic soil cyanobacteria across the globe
• A closer look at the functions behind ecosystem multifunctionality: A review
• Discarded food and resource depletion
• Relative humidity predominantly determines long‐term biocrust‐forming lichen cover in drylands under climate change
• Species‐specific effects of biocrust‐forming lichens on soil properties under simulated climate change are driven by functional traits
• Mediterranean Landscape Re-Greening at the Expense of South American Agricultural Expansion
• Can desertification be mapped? Lights and shadows of a challenging task
• Climate change legacies contrastingly affect the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities and multifunctionality to extreme drought
• Effects of vegetation on soil cyanobacterial communities through time and space
• Aridity Thresholds Determine the Relationships Between Ecosystem Functioning and Remotely Sensed Indicators Across Patagonia