Publications

• Soil characteristics determine soil carbon and nitrogen availability during leaf litter decomposition regardless of litter quality DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.11.009
• Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness DOI: 10.1111/ele.12456
• Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands DOI: 10.1111/nph.13268
• Differences in thallus chemistry are related to species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil nutrients and microbial communities DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12403
• Biocrusts modulate warming and rainfall exclusion effects on soil respiration in a semi-arid grassland DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.09.019
• A missing link between facilitation and plant species coexistence: Nurses benefit generally rare species more than common ones DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12447
• Vegetation structure is as important as climate for explaining ecosystem function across patagonian rangelands DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12273
• Vascular Plants and Biocrusts Modulate How Abiotic Factors Affect Wetting and Drying Events in Drylands DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9790-4
• Simulated climate change reduced the capacity of lichen-dominated biocrusts to act as carbon sinks in two semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0681-y
• Sand burial compensates for the negative effects of erosion on the dune-building shrub Artemisia wudanica DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1866-y
• Plant-plant interactions, environmental gradients and plant diversity: A global synthesis of community-level studies DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2014.04.001
• Plant species richness and shrub cover attenuate drought effects on ecosystem functioning across Patagonian rangelands DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0673
• Plant life on gypsum: A review of its multiple facets DOI: 10.1111/brv.12092
• Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality peak at intermediate levels of woody cover in global drylands DOI: 10.1111/geb.12215
• Moving forward on facilitation research: Response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities DOI: 10.1111/brv.12110
• Grass-woodland transitions: Determinants and consequences for ecosystem functioning and provisioning of services DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12326
• Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2014.05.001
• Erratum: Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments (Biogeosciences (2014) 11 (2991-3013)) DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-3307-2014
• Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.041
• Earthworms modify plant biomass and nitrogen capture under conditions of soil nutrient heterogeneity and elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.08.002
• Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on microbial and biocrust communities alter the resistance of the N cycle in a semiarid grassland DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12303
• Climate change will increase savannas at the expense of forests and treeless vegetation in tropical and subtropical Americas DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12325
• Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12377
• Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12659
• Biological soil crusts in a changing world: Introduction to the special issue DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0727-1
• Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0658-x
• Biogeochemical indicators of elevated nitrogen deposition in semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3822-6
• Assessment of soil organic carbon at local scale with spiked NIR calibrations: Effects of selection and extra-weighting on the spiking subset DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12129
• Aspects of soil lichen biodiversity and aggregation interact to influence subsurface microbial function DOI: 10.1007/s11104-014-2256-9
• Vascular plants mediate the effects of aridity and soil properties on ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12119
• Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12063
• Soil heterogeneity modulates responses to multiple global environmental changes in model grassland communities EID: 2-s2.0-84895326741
• On the Importance of Shrub Encroachment by Sprouters, Climate, Species Richness and Anthropic Factors for Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Semi-arid Mediterranean Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-013-9683-y
• Nitrogen deposition alters nitrogen cycling and reduces soil carbon content in low-productivity semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.03.060
• Evaluating the performance of multiple remote sensing indices to predict the spatial variability of ecosystem structure and functioning in Patagonian steppes DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.05.007
• Ecotechnology as a tool for restoring degraded drylands: A meta-analysis of field experiments DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.09.066
• Diversity and Patch-Size Distributions of Biological Soil Crusts Regulate Dryland Ecosystem Multifunctionality DOI: 10.1007/s10021-013-9644-5
• Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands DOI: 10.1038/nature12670
• Corrigendum to García-Palacios et al. [Ecol. Lett., 16, (2013) 1045-1053] DOI: 10.1111/ele.12179
• Community-aggregated plant traits interact with soil nutrient heterogeneity to determine ecosystem functioning DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1349-6
• Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes DOI: 10.1111/ele.12137
• 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 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.12.011
• Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12306
• Biological soil crusts promote N accumulation in response to dew events in dryland soils DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.02.015
• Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1404-3
• Biological soil crusts affect small-scale spatial patterns of inorganic N in a semiarid Mediterranean grassland DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2013.01.005
• Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1779-9
• Aridity Modulates N Availability in Arid and Semiarid Mediterranean Grasslands DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059807
• Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment: Implications for ecosystem structure and functioning DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0344
• Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01918.x
• Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00209.x
• Seedling establishment along post-fire succession in Mediterranean shrublands dominated by obligate seeders DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2011.12.001
• Response to comment on "Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands" DOI: 10.1126/science.1220620
• Positive interactions can produce species-rich communities and increase species turnover through time DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rts005
• Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands DOI: 10.1126/science.1215442
• Plant responses to soil heterogeneity and global environmental change DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.02014.x
• Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.09.003
• Null model tests for niche conservatism, phylogenetic assortment and habitat filtering DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00217.x
• It is getting hotter in here: Determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0323
• Inferring local competition intensity from patch size distributions: A test using biological soil crusts DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20192.x
• Impact of simulated changes in rainfall regime and nutrient deposition on the relative dominance and isotopic composition of ruderal plants in anthropogenic grasslands DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0998-1
• Evolutionary relationships can be more important than abiotic conditions in predicting the outcome of plant-plant interactions DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20309.x
• Environmental conditions and biotic interactions acting together promote phylogenetic randomness in semi-arid plant communities: New methods help to avoid misleading conclusions DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01410.x
• Contingency in ecosystem but not plant community response to multiple global change factors DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04271.x
• Assemblage of a semi-arid annual plant community: Abiotic and biotic filters act hierarchically DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041270
• A resprouter herb reduces negative density-dependent effects among neighboring seeders after fire DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2011.08.004
• The restoration of vegetation cover in the semi-arid Iberian southeast DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.08.003
• Temporal dynamics of herbivory and water availability interactively modulate the outcome of a grass-shrub interaction in a semi-arid ecosystem DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18993.x
• Soil nutrient heterogeneity modulates ecosystem responses to changes in the identity and richness of plant functional groups DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01765.x
• Shrub encroachment does not reduce the activity of some soil enzymes in Mediterranean semiarid grasslands DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.04.023
• Remote sensing data predict indicators of soil functioning in semi-arid steppes, central Spain DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.02.015
• Relationships between biological soil crusts, bacterial diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning: Insights from a semi-arid Mediterranean environment DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01236.x
• Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00121.x
• Positive plant interactions in the Iberian Southeast: Mechanisms, environmental gradients, and ecosystem function DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.01.016
• Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: Towards a unifying framework DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2011.06.001
• Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: Towards a global synthesis DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01630.x
• Functional profiles reveal unique ecological roles of various biological soil crust organisms DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01835.x
• Ecosystem development in roadside grasslands: Biotic control, plant-soil interactions, and dispersal limitations DOI: 10.1890/11-0204.1
• Ecology and functional roles of biological soil crusts in semi-arid ecosystems of Spain DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.12.008
• Early-successional vegetation changes after roadside prairie restoration modify processes related with soil functioning by changing microbial functional diversity DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.02.014
• 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 DOI: 10.4067/S0716-078X2011000100001
• Biological Soil Crust Microsites Are the Main Contributor to Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Ecosystem DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9449-3
• Weak effects of the exotic invasive Carpobrotus edulis on the structure and composition of Portuguese sand-dune communities DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9613-2
• Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in abiotic factors modulate multiple ontogenetic shifts between competition and facilitation DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2010.02.003
• Plants and biological soil crusts modulate the dominance of N forms in a semi-arid grassland DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.11.003
• Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes? Reply DOI: 10.1890/10-0391.1
• Interactive effects of three ecosystem engineers on infiltration in a semi-arid Mediterranean grassland DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9335-4
• Effects of positive interactions, size symmetry of competition and abiotic stress on self-thinning in simulated plant populations DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq145
• Dominant plant species modulate responses to hydroseeding, irrigation and fertilization during the restoration of semiarid motorway slopes DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.06.005
• Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0016
• Disturbance of the biological soil crusts and performance of Stipa tenacissima in a semi-arid Mediterranean steppe DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0384-4
• Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01647.x
• Co-occurrence patterns and abiotic stress in sand-dune communities: Their relationship varies with spatial scale and the stress estimator DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2009.10.003
• Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: Insights from a Mediterranean grassland DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0276-7
• Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship in soils DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.10.025
• Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x
• Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01476.x
• Positive interactions can increase size inequality in plant populations DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01562.x
• On the relationship between abiotic stress and co-occurrence patterns: An assessment at the community level using soil lichen communities and multiple stress gradients DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17362.x
• Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes? DOI: 10.1890/08-2096.1
• Is the cask of facilitation ready for bottling? A symposium on the connectivity and future directions of positive plant interactions DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0384
• Indices based on surface indicators predict soil functioning in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2008.12.007
• Beyond dual-lattice models: Incorporating plant strategies when modeling the interplay between facilitation and competition along environmental severity gradients DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.01.011
• Where do seedlings go? A spatio-temporal analysis of seedling mortality in a semi-arid gypsophyte DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.05299.x
• Shifts in the regeneration niche of an endangered tree (Acer opalus ssp. granatense) during ontogeny: Using an ecological concept for application DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.06.012
• On the relevance of facilitation in alpine meadow communities: An experimental assessment with multiple species differing in their ecological optimum DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2007.10.002
• On the relative importance of the effects of selection and complementarity as drivers of diversity-productivity relationships in Mediterranean shrublands DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16910.x
• More ecology is needed to restore mediterranean ecosystems: A reply to valladares and gianoli DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00390.x
• Facilitation in plant communities: The past, the present, and the future DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01295.x
• Early environments drive diversity and floristic composition in Mediterranean old fields: Insights from a long-term experiment DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2008.06.006
• Balance between facilitation and resource competition determines biomass-density relationships in plant populations DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01228.x
• Are soil lichen communities structured by biotic interactions? A null model analysis DOI: 10.3170/2007-8-18366
• Soil lichens have species-specific effects on the seedling emergence of three gypsophile plant species DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.12.019
• 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 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm166
• Individual vs. population plastic responses to elevated CO2, nutrient availability, and heterogeneity: A microcosm experiment with co-occurring species DOI: 10.1007/s11104-007-9289-2
• Ecology: Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development DOI: 10.1126/science.1131634
• Biomass responses to elevated CO2, soil heterogeneity and diversity: An experimental assessment with grassland assemblages DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0577-y
• Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources DOI: 10.1890/06-0421
• Watering, fertilization, and slurry inoculation promote recovery of biological crust function in degraded soils DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9017-0
• Understanding global desertification: Biophysical and socioeconomic dimensions of hydrology DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4260-4_18
• The stress-gradient hypothesis does not fit all relationships between plant-plant interactions and abiotic stress: Further insights from arid environments DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01089.x
• The role of the perch effect on the nucleation process in Mediterranean semi-arid oldfields DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2005.12.004
• Stipa tenacissima does not affect the foliar δ13C and δ15N of introduced shrub seedlings in a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2006.00295.x
• Spatial heterogeneity in soil nutrient supply modulates nutrient and biomass responses to multiple global change drivers in model grassland communities DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01262.x
• Soil heterogeneity and community composition jointly influence grassland biomass DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2006)017[0261:SHACCJ]2.0.CO;2
• Small-scale spatial heterogeneity in the vertical distribution of soil nutrients has limited effects on the growth and development of Prosopis glandulosa seedlings DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-9007-1
• Small-scale patterns of abundance of mosses and lichens forming biological soil crusts in two semi-arid gypsum environments DOI: 10.1071/BT05078
• Nutrient availability and atmospheric CO2 partial pressure modulate the effects of nutrient heterogeneity on the size structure of populations in grassland species DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcl093
• Linking the spatial patterns of organisms and abiotic factors to ecosystem function and management: Insights from semi-arid environments EID: 2-s2.0-33846280891
• Facilitation and inhibition of seedlings of an invasive tree (Acer platanoides) by different tree species in a mountain ecosystem DOI: 10.1007/s10530-004-5163-9
• Ecosystem structure, function, and restoration success: Are they related? DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2006.04.004
• Ecosystem structure and soil-surface conditions drive the variability in the foliar δ13C and δ15N of Stipa tenacissima in semiarid Mediterranean steppes DOI: 10.1007/s11284-005-0091-4
• Ecohydrological feedbacks and linkages associated with land degradation: A case study from Mexico DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6337
• Are ecosystem composition, structure, and functional status related to restoration success? A test from semiarid mediterranean steppes DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00128.x
• Spatial pattern and neighbour effects on Helianthemum squamatum seedlings in a Mediterranean gypsum community EID: 2-s2.0-26444539632
• Spatial associations and patterns of perennial vegetation ina semi-arid steppe: A multivariate geostatistics approach DOI: 10.1007/s11258-004-4641-6
• Soil nutrient heterogeneity interacts with elevated CO2 and nutrient availability to determine species and assemblage responses in a model grassland community DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01547.x
• Remnant shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes: Effects of shrub size, abiotic factors and species identity on understorey richness and occurrence DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2004.11.003
• Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01017.x
• Does spatial pattern matter to ecosystem functioning? Insights from biological soil crusts DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.01000.x
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of chlorophyll fluorescence in a semi-arid Mediterranean shrubland DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2003.08.009
• Spatial analysis of semi-arid patchy vegetation by the cumulative distribution of patch boundary spacings and transition probabilities DOI: 10.1023/B:EEST.0000038015.83910.37
• 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 DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2004.00057.x
• Mechanisms underlying the interaction between Pinus halepensis and the native late-successional shrub Pistacia lentiscus in a semi-arid plantation DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03990.x
• Insights into ecosystem composition and function in a sequence of degraded semiarid steppes DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.03106.x
• Do positive interactions increase with abiotic stress? A test from a semi-arid steppe EID: 2-s2.0-3242886279
• Are Pinus halepensis plantations useful as a restoration tool in semiarid Mediterranean areas? DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.05.040
• Afforestation with Pinus halepensis reduces native shrub performance in a Mediterranean semiarid area DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2003.10.001
• Small-scale spatial variation in soil CO2 efflux in a Mediterranean semiarid steppe DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(03)00050-7
• Small-scale spatial patterns of two soil lichens in semi-arid Mediterranean steppe DOI: 10.1006/lich.2002.0425
• 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 EID: 2-s2.0-0038471281
• Small-scale Environmental Heterogeneity and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Seedling Establishment in a Semiarid Degraded Ecosystem DOI: 10.1007/s10021-002-0222-5
• Positive, negative, and net effects in grass-shrub interactions in Mediterranean semiarid grasslands EID: 2-s2.0-1342288415
• Microsite differences in fungal hyphal length, glomalin, and soil aggregate stability in semiarid Mediterranean steppes DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(03)00185-8
• Does Pinus halepensis facilitate the establishment of shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid afforestations? DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00269-4
• Spatial patterns of surface soil properties and vegetation in a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe DOI: 10.1023/A:1016172308462
• Microsite and mycorrhizal inoculum effects on the establishment of Quercus coccifera in a semi-arid degraded steppe DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(02)00097-6
• Infiltration, penetration resistance and microphytic crust composition in contrasted microsites within a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(02)00021-4
• Potential for using facilitation by grasses to establish shrubs on a semiarid degraded steppe EID: 2-s2.0-0035665826
• Industrial development versus environmental conservation at local scale: A case study from southeastern Spain DOI: 10.1007/s0026702411