Shrubs affect soil nutrients availability with contrasting consequences for pasture understory and tree overstory production and nutrient status in Mediterranean grazed open woodlands

Shrub encroachment in Mediterranean silvopastoral systems: Retama sphaerocarpa and Cistus ladanifer induce contrasting effects on pasture and Quercus ilex production

(2011) David Rivest et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Agroforestry and grass buffer effects on soil quality parameters for grazed pasture and row-crop systems

(2011) Bodh R. Paudel et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Shrub species affect distinctively the functioning of scattered Quercus ilex trees in Mediterranean open woodlands

(2011) Víctor Rolo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Soil quality in a Mediterranean area of Southern Italy as related to different land use types

(2010) R. Marzaioli et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Using vector analysis to understand temporal changes in understorey-tree competition in agroforestry systems

(2010) Donald J. Mead et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Water storage capacity, stemflow and water funneling in Mediterranean shrubs

(2010) P. Garcia-Estringana et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Shrubs as ecosystem engineers in a coastal dune: influences on plant populations, communities and ecosystems

(2010) J. Hall Cushman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Persistence of flavonoids in Cistus ladanifer soils

(2010) Teresa Sosa et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Changes in limiting resources determine spatio-temporal variability in tree–grass interactions

(2009) G. Gea-Izquierdo et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Plant Water Use Affects Competition for Nitrogen: Why Drought Favors Invasive Species in California

(2009) Katherine Everard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

How do trees affect spatio-temporal heterogeneity of nutrient cycling in mediterranean annual grasslands?

(2009) Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Influence ofQuercus ilextrees on herbaceous production and nutrient concentrations in southern PortugalElena Cubera1, 2

(2009) Jorge Manuel Nunes et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Hydraulic lift: soil processes and transpiration in the Mediterranean leguminous shrub Retama sphaerocarpa (L.) Boiss

(2009) Iván Prieto et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Ability of Cistus L. shrubs to promote soil rehabilitation in extensive oak woodlands of Mediterranean areas

(2009) Maria Paula Simões et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Relationships between Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius), soil nutrients, and plant diversity in the Garry oak savannah ecosystem

(2009) Jacqueline Shaben et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Woody plant encroachment reduces species richness of herb-rich woodlands in southern Australia

(2008) JODI N. PRICE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The role of temporal shrub encroachment for the maintenance of Spanish holm oak Quercus ilex dehesas

(2008) José Alberto Ramírez et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Importance: an overlooked concept in plant interaction research

(2008) Rob W. Brooker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Response of understorey forage to multiple tree effects in Iberian dehesas

(2007) G MORENO   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Plants May Alter Competition by Modifying Nutrient Bioavailability in Rhizosphere: A Modeling Approach

(2007) Xavier Raynaud et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Facilitation ofQuercus ilexrecruitment by shrubs in Mediterranean open woodlands

(2007) Christian Smit et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Multi-proxy evidence for competition between savanna woody species

(2007) Katrin M. Meyer et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS