F. Spirito, S. Velasco Ayuso, P. M. Tognetti, M. S. Campana & L. Yahdjian (2025). Long-term grazing and short-term nutrient addition determine C sequestration in humid grasslands. Ecosystems, manuscript in preparation

P. Calzada, P. Flombaum, A. M. Godeas, F. M. Ibarbalz, V. Silvani, L. Yahdjian, R. R. Ruscica & S. Velasco Ayuso (2025). Biological soil crusts and plants maintain soil surface stability and alleviate desertification: a field approach across Argentinean drylands. Drylands, manuscript in preparation

S. Velasco Ayuso, E. Filippini, A. Navas Romero, E. Mlewski, P. Calzada Giuntini, R. García & I. Garibotti (2025). Discovering a hidden ecological treasure: biological soil crusts of Argentina. Ecología Austral, 35: 201-235 [pdf]

S. Velasco Ayuso, G. R. Oñatibia & L. Yahdjian (2024). Soil multifunctionality increases after grazing cessation in semiarid rangelands. Applied Soil Ecology, 201: 105522 [pdf]

]. T. Maestre, Y. Le Bagousse-Pinguet, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, D. J. Eldridge, H. Saiz, M. Berdugo, B. Gozalo, V. Ochoa, E. Guirado, M. García-Gómez, E. Valencia, J. J. Gaitán, S. Asensio, B. J. Mendoza, C. Plaza, P. Díaz-Martínez, A. Rey, Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He, Jun-Tao Wang, A. Lehamnn, M. C. Rillig, S. Cesarz, N. Eisenhauer, J. Martínez-Valderrama, E. Moreno-Jiménez, O. Sala, …, S. Velasco Ayuso, … (2022). Livestock grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science, 378: 915-920 [pdf]

F. M. Ibarbalz, J. J. Pierella-Karlusich, S. Velasco Ayuso, N. Visintini, L. Guidi, C. Bowler & P. Flombaum (2022). Phytoplankton community composition in the SW South Atlantic in the context of the global ocean. Ecología Austral, 85: 835-848 [pdf]

L. Yahdjian, L. Carboni, S. Velasco Ayuso & G. R. Oñatibia (2022). Intensification of livestock farming in times of climate change. Mètode Science Studies Journal, 13.21553 [pdf] 

A. M. Faist, C. J. Tucker, S. C. Reed, A. J. Antoninka, M. A. Bowker, N. N. Barger, K. Dohrenwend, N. Day, S. Bellagamba, J. Belnap, M. C. Duniway, S. Fick, A. M. Giraldo Silva, C. J. Nelson, J. Bethany, S. Velasco Ayuso & F. García-Pichel (2020). Operation Manual for Biocrust Restoration in Drylands. Wildlife Conservation Society & Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, pp. 37

R. Ochoa-Hueso, E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, S. E. Hobbie, A. C. Risch, S. L. Collins, J. Alberti, H. A. Bahamonde, C. Brown, M. Caldeira, P. Daleo, C. R. Dickman, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, E. Esch, A. Eskelinen, V. Fernández, S. Güsewell, B. Gutiérrez-Larruga, K. Hofmockel, R. Laungani, E. Lind, A. López, R. McCulley, J. Moore, P. Peri, S. A. Power, J. Price, S. M. Prober, C. Roscher, J. Sarneel, M. Schütz, J. Siebert, R. Standish, S. Velasco Ayuso, R. Virtanen, G. M. Wardle, G. Wiehl, L. Yahdjian & T. Zamin (2020). Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands. Global Change Biology, 26: 4572-4582 [pdf]

S. Velasco Ayuso, A. M. Giraldo Silva, N. N. Barger & F. García-Pichel (2020). Microbial inoculum production for biocrust restoration: testing the effects of common versus native soil on yield and community composition. Restoration Ecology, 28: 194-202 [pdf]

A. M Faist, A. J. Antoninka, J. Belnap, M. A. Bowker, M. C. Duniway, F. García-Pichel, C. J. Nelson, S. C. Reed, A. M. Giraldo Silva, S. Velasco Ayuso & N. N. Barger (2020). Inoculum and habitat amelioration efforts demonstrate variable influences on biological soil crust recovery across hot and cold deserts. Restoration Ecology, 28: 96-105 [pdf]

S. Velasco Ayuso, G. R. Oñatibia, F. T. Maestre & L. Yahdjian (2020). Grazing pressure interacts with aridity to determine the development and diversity of biological soil crusts in Patagonian rangelands. Land Degradation and Development, 31: 488-499 [pdf]

N. M. Machado de Lima, V. M. C. Fernandes, D. W. Roush, S. Velasco Ayuso, J.  Rigonato, F. García-Pichel & L. H. Zanini Branco (2019). The compositionally distinct cyanobacterial biocrusts from Brazilian savanna and their environmental drivers of community diversity. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10: 2798 [pdf]

D. W. Roush, A. M. Giraldo Silva, V. M. C. Fernandes, N. M. Machado de Lima, C. J. Nelson, S. McClintock, S. Velasco Ayuso, K. Klicki, B. Dirks, K. Sorochkina & F. García-Pichel (2018). Cydrasil: a comprehensive phylogenetic tree of cyanobacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences. GitHub repository [link] [pdf]

K. Sorochkina, S. Velasco Ayuso & F. García-Pichel (2018). Establishing rates of lateral expansion of biological soil crusts for optimal restoration of degraded lands. Plant and Soil, 429: 199-211 [pdf]

S. Velasco Ayuso, J. M. Medina-Sánchez, R. Guénon & P. Carrillo Lechuga (2017). Ectoenzyme activity ratios reveal interactive effects of nutrient inputs and UVR in a Mediterranean high-mountain lake. Biogeochemistry, 132: 71-85 [pdf]

S. Velasco Ayuso, A. M. Giraldo Silva, C. J. Nelson, N. N. Barger & F. García-Pichel (2017). Microbial nursery production of high-quality biological soil crust biomass for restoration of degraded dryland soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 83: e02179-16 [pdf]

R. Guénon, T. A. Day, S. Velasco Ayuso & R. Gros (2017). Mixing Aleppo Pine and Holm Oak litters increases biochemical diversity and alleviates N-limited microbial activities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 105: 216-226 [pdf]

Y. Kamarianakis, S. Velasco Ayuso, M. E. Cristóbal Rodríguez & M. Toro Velasco (2016). Water temperature forecasting for Spanish rivers by means of nonlinear mixed models. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 5: 226-243 [pdf]

K. D. Doherty, A. J. Antoninka, M. A. Bowker, S. Velasco Ayuso & N. C. Johnson (2014). A novel approach to cultivate biocrusts for restoration and experimentation. Ecological Restoration, 33(1): 13-16 [pdf]

M. E. Cristóbal Rodríguez, S. Velasco Ayuso, A. Justel & M. Toro Velasco (2014). Robust optima and tolerance ranges of biological indicators: a new method to identify sentinels of global warming. Ecological Research, 29: 55-68 [pdf]

M. Toro Velasco, S. Velasco Ayuso & M. E. Cristóbal Rodríguez (2012). Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Water Bodies: Study of the Effect of Climate Change on the Ecological Status of Water Bodies. Technical Report. Center for Hydrographic Studies, CEDEX, Spanish Ministry of Public Works, pp. 520

S. Velasco Ayuso, A. I. López-Archilla, C. Montes del Olmo & M. C. Guerrero (2011). Regulation and spatiotemporal patterns of extracellular enzyme activities in a coastal, sandy aquifer system (Doñana, SW Spain). Microbial Ecology, 62: 162-176 [pdf]

S. Velasco Ayuso, A. I. López-Archilla, C. Montes del Olmo & M. C. Guerrero (2010). Microbial activities in a coastal, sandy aquifer system (Doñana Natural Protected Area, SW Spain). Geomicrobiology Journal, 27: 409-423 [pdf]

M. Toro Velasco, S. Robles, I. Tejero, M. E. Cristóbal Rodríguez, S. Velasco Ayuso, J. R. Sánchez González & A. Pujante (2009). Freshwater ecosystems. Group 32. Inland running waters – lotic ecosystems. Ecological types: 1-32 (30 technical files). In VV. AA. Preliminary Ecological Basis for the Conservation of Habitats of Community Interest in Spain. Madrid, Spanish Ministry of the Environment, ISBN: 978-84-491-0911-9, pp. 135-554

S. Velasco Ayuso, M. C. Guerrero, C. Montes del Olmo & A. I. López-Archilla (2009). Spatiotemporal distribution of a microbial community in a coastal, sandy aquifer system (Doñana, SW Spain). Geobiology, 7: 66-81 [pdf]

S. Velasco Ayuso, P. Acebes, A. I. López-Archilla, C. Montes del Olmo & M. C. Guerrero (2009). Environmental factors controlling the spatiotemporal distribution of a microbial community in a coastal, sandy aquifer system (Doñana, SW Spain). Hydrogeology Journal, 17: 767-780 [pdf]

A. I. López-Archilla, D. Moreira, S. Velasco Ayuso & P. López-García (2007). Archaeal and bacterial community composition of a pristine coastal aquifer in Doñana National Park, Spain. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 47: 123-139 [pdf]