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Pichon, B., Kéfi, S., Gounand, I., Gross, N., Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Y., Guerber, J., Eldridge, D., Valencia, E., ... & Maestre, F. T. (2025). Grazing Modulates the Multiscale Spatial Structure of Dryland Vegetation. Global Change Biology, 31(7), e70345.
Zhao, Y., Kéfi, S., Guirado, E., Berdugo, M., Eldridge, D. J., Gross, N., ... & Maestre, F. T. (2025). The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(8), e70098.
Fiedler, S., Perring, M. P., Monteiro, J. A., Branquinho, C., Buzhdygan, O., Cavieres, L. A., ... & Tietjen, B. (2025). Trade‐offs among restored ecosystem functions are context‐dependent in Mediterranean‐type regions. Ecography, e07609.
Yan, P., He, N., Fernández‐Martínez, M., Yang, X., Zuo, Y., Zhang, H., Wang, J., Chen, S., Song, J., Li, G., Valencia, E. ... & Jiang, L. (2025). Plant Acquisitive Strategies Promote Resistance and Temporal Stability of Semiarid Grasslands. Ecology Letters, 28(4), e70110.
Pärtel, M., Tamme, R., Carmona, C. P., Riibak, K., Moora, M., Bennett, J. A., ... & Oja, T. (2025). Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity. Nature, 1-8.
Campos‐Cáliz, A., Valencia, E., Plaza, C., Garland, G., Edlinger, A., Herzog, C., ... & García‐Palacios, P. (2024). The Positive Effects of Soil Organic Carbon on European Cereal Yields Level Off at 1.4%. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 3(4), e70017.
Biancari, L., Aguiar, M. R., Eldridge, D. J., Oñatibia, G. R., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Saiz, H., Gross, N., Austin, Amy T., Ochoa, V., Gozalo, B., Asensio, S., Guirado, E., Valencia, E., ... & Maestre, F. T. (2024). Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands. Science Advances, 10(41), eadn6007.
Gross, N., Maestre, F. T., Liancourt, P., Berdugo, M., Martin, R., Gozalo, B., Ochoa, V., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Maire, V., Saiz, H., Soliveres, S., Valencia, E., ... & Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y. (2024). Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world. Nature, 632, 808–814.
Arias‐Real, R., Delgado‐Baquerizo, M., Sabater, S., Gutiérrez‐Cánovas, C., Valencia, E., ... & Hurtado, P. (2024). Unfolding the dynamics of ecosystems undergoing alternating wet‐dry transitional states. Ecology Letters, 27(8), e14488.
Díaz-Martínez, P., Maestre, F. T., Moreno-Jiménez, E., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eldridge, D. J., Saiz, H., Gross, N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Gozalo, B., Ochoa, V., Guirado, E., García-Gómez, M., Valencia, E., ... & Plaza, C. (2024). Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands. Nature Climate Change, 14, 976-982.
Eldridge, D. J., Ding, J., Dorrough, J., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Sala, O., Gross, N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Mallen-Cooper, M., Saiz, H., Asensio, S., Ochoa, V., Gozalo, B., Guirado, E., García-Gómez, M., Valencia, E., ... & Maestre, F. T. (2024). Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nature Plants, 10, 760–770.
Lucas-Borja, M.E., Valencia, E., Zhou, X. &- Zhou, G. (2024). Belowground biodiversity is essential for supporting mutiple ecosystem functions of forests. Plant Soil, 501, 1–6.
Segrestin, J., Götzenberger, L., Valencia, E., de Bello, F., Lepš, J. (2024). A unified framework for partitioning the drivers of stability of ecological communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(5), e13828.
Li, C., Valencia, E., Shi, Y., & Zhou, G. (2023). N2-fixing bacteria are more sensitive to microtopography than nitrogen addition in degraded grassland. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1240634.
Conti, L., Valencia, E., Galland, T., Götzenberger, L., Lepš, J., E-Vojtkó, A., ... & De Bello, F. (2023). Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(2001), 20230344.
Raggio, J., Pescador, D.S., Gozalo, B., Ochoa, V., Valencia, E., ... & Maestre, F.T. (2023). Continuous monitoring of chlorophyll a fluorescence and microclimatic conditions reveals warming-induced physiological damage in biocrust-forming lichens. Plant and Soil, 482: 261–276.
Maestre, F.T., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eldridge, D., Saiz, H., Berdugo, M., Gozalo, B., Ochoa, V., Guirado, E., García-Gómez, M., Valencia, E., ... & Gross, N. (2022). Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science, 378(6622), 915-920.
Valencia, E., Galland, T., Carmona, C. P., Goberna, M., ... & de Bello, F. (2022). The functional structure of plant communities drives soil functioning via changes in soil abiotic properties. Ecology, 103(12): e3833.
Concostrina-Zubiri, L., Valencia, E., Ochoa, V., Gozalo, B., Mendoza, B.J. & Maestre, F.T. (2022). Biocrust-forming lichens increase soil available phosphorus under simulated climate change. European Journal of Soil Science, 73: e13284.
Valencia, E., de Bello, F., Galland, T., Götzenberger, L., Lepš, J., Durán, J., Carmona, C. P. (2022). Effects of functional and phylogenetic diversity on the temporal dynamics of soil N availability. Plant and Soil, 472, 629–640.
Concostrina-Zubiri, L., Berdugo, M., Valencia, E., Mendoza, B.J. & Maestre, F.T. (2022). Decomposition of dryland biocrust-forming lichens and mosses contributes to soil nutrient cycling. Plant and Soil, 1-12.
Sperandii, M. G., de Bello, F., Valencia, E., Götzenberger. L., Bazzichetto, M., ... & Lepš, J. (2022). LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots. Journal of Vegetation Science, 33(2), e13115.
de Bello, F., Lavorel, S., Hallett, L. M., Valencia, E., Garnier, E., ... & Lepš, J. (2021). Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 36, 822-836.
Concostrina-Zubiri, L., Valencia, E., Ochoa, V., Gozalo, B., Mendoza, B. & Maestre, F.T. (2021). Species‐specific effects of biocrust‐forming lichens on soil properties under simulated climate change are driven by functional traits. New Phytologist, 230(1), 101-115.
Valencia, E., de Bello, F., Galland, T., Adler, P.B., ... & Götzenberger, L. (2020). Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(39), 24345-24351.
de Bello, F., Valencia, E., Ward, D., Hallet, L. (2020). Why we still need permanent plots for vegetation science. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(5), 679-685.
Valencia E., de Bello, F., Lepš, J., Galland, T., E‐Vojtkó, A., ... & Götzenberger, L. (2020). Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year-to-year asynchrony. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(5), 792-802.
Galland, T., Pérez Carmona, C., Götzenberger, L., Valencia, E. & de Bello, F. (2020). Are redundancy indices redundant? An evaluation based on parameterized simulations. Ecological Indicators, 116, 106488.
Galland, T., Adeux, G., Dvořáková, H., E‐Vojtkó, A., Orbán, I., Lussu, M., Puy, J., Blažek, P., Lanta, V., Lepš, J., de Bello , F., Pérez Carmona, C., Valencia, E. & Götzenberger, L. (2019). Colonization resistance and establishment success along gradients of functional and phylogenetic diversity in experimental plant communities. Journal of Ecology, 107(5), 2090-2104.
Lepš, J., Götzenberger, L., Valencia, E. & de Bello, F. (2019). Accounting for long‐term directional trends on year‐to‐year synchrony in species fluctuations. Ecography, 42(10), 1728-1741.
Valencia, E., Gross, N., Quero, J. L., Carmona, C. P., Ochoa, V., Gozalo, B., ... & Bonkowski, M. (2018). Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality. Global change biology, 24(12), 5642-5654 .
Ochoa‐Hueso, R., Eldridge, D. J., Delgado‐Baquerizo, M., Soliveres, S., Bowker, M. A., Gross, N., ... & Arredondo, T. (2018). Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands. Journal of Ecology, 106(1), 242-253.
Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Y., Gross, N., Maestre, F. T., Maire, V., de Bello, F., Fonseca, C. R., ... & Liancourt, P. (2017). Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands. Journal of Ecology, 105(4), 1058-1069.
Valencia, E. (2016). Efectos del cambio climático sobre los atributos de las comunidades bióticas y funcionamiento del ecosistema en zonas áridas. Revista Ecosistemas, 25(3), 154-159.
Valencia, E., Méndez, M., Saavedra, N., & Maestre, F. T. (2016). Plant size and leaf area influence phenological and reproductive responses to warming in semiarid Mediterranean species. Perspectives in plant ecology, evolution and systematics, 21, 31-40.
Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Liancourt, P., Gross, N., De Bello, F., Fonseca, C. R. C., Kattge, J., ... & Maestre, F. T. (2016). Climate, topography and soil factors interact to drive community trait distributions in global drylands (No. e1913v1). PeerJ Preprints.
Valencia, E., Quero, J. L., & Maestre, F. T. (2016). Functional leaf and size traits determine the photosynthetic response of 10 dryland species to warming. Journal of Plant Ecology, 9(6), 773-783.
Maestre, F. T., Bowker, M. A., Eldridge, D. J., Cortina, J., Lázaro, R., Gallardo, A., ... & Valencia, E. (2016). Biological soil crusts as a model system in ecology. In Biological Soil Crusts: An Organizing Principle in Drylands (pp. 407-425). Springer, Cham.
Delgado‐Baquerizo, M., Maestre, F. T., Gallardo, A., Eldridge, D. J., Soliveres, S., Bowker, M. A., ... & Gozalo, B. (2016). Human impacts and aridity differentially alter soil N availability in drylands worldwide. Global ecology and biogeography, 25(1), 36-45.
Almagro, M., Maestre, F. T., Martínez-López, J., Valencia, E., & Rey, A. (2015). Climate change may reduce litter decomposition while enhancing the contribution of photodegradation in dry perennial Mediterranean grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 90, 214-223.
Valencia, E., Maestre, F. T., Bagousse‐Pinguet, L., Quero, J. L., Tamme, R., Börger, L., ... & Gross, N. (2015). Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands. New Phytologist, 206(2), 660-671.
Ulrich, W., Soliveres, S., Maestre, F. T., Torices, R., Gotelli, N. J., Quero, J. L., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Ochoa, V., Gozalo, B., Valencia, E., ... & Zaady, E. (2014). Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands. Journal of Biogeography, 41, 2307–2319.
Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Maestre, F. T., Gallardo, A., Bowker, M. A., Wallenstein, M. D., Quero, J. L., ... & Zaady, E. (2013). Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands. Nature, 502(7473), 672.
Gross, N., Börger, L., Soriano‐Morales, S. I., Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Y., Quero, J. L., García‐Gómez, M., ... & Maestre, F. T. (2013). Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands. Journal of Ecology, 101(3), 637-649.
Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Maestre, F. T., Gallardo, A., Quero, J. L., Ochoa, V., García-Gómez, M., ... & Zaady, E. (2013). Aridity modulates N availability in arid and semiarid Mediterranean grasslands. PloS one, 8(4), e59807.
Maestre, F. T., Quero, J. L., Gotelli, N. J., Escudero, A., Ochoa, V., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., ... & Zaady, E. (2012). Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands. Science, 335(6065), 214-218.
Salvador, P. V., Rubira, J. L. P., Gómez, E. V., & Corz, J. C. (2008). El crecimiento de los brinzales de "Quercus coccifera" y "Q. faginea" responde de manera diferente a la fertilización con nitrógeno. Cuadernos de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales, (28), 177-182.
Salvador, P. V., Rubira, J. L. P., Corz, J. C., & Gómez, E. V. (2008). Efecto de la fertilización nitrogenada durante el cultivo en vivero sobre el desarrollo en campo de "Quercus coccifera" y "Q. faginea". Cuadernos de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales, (28), 183-187.