Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

(2017) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Drylands extent and environmental issues. A global approach

(2016) Remus Prăvălie   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems

(2016) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   Nature Communications

Microbes as Engines of Ecosystem Function: When Does Community Structure Enhance Predictions of Ecosystem Processes?

(2016) Emily B. Graham et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Fertility Island Formation and Evolution in Dryland Ecosystems

(2016) Luca Ridolfi et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Are trees of intermediate density more facilitative? Canopy effects of four East African legume trees

(2015) Anja Linstädter et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Connectivity in dryland landscapes: shifting concepts of spatial interactions

(2015) Gregory S Okin et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits

(2015) Melissa M. Jager et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

(2015) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands

(2015) Enrique Valencia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A Multiscale, Hierarchical Model of Pulse Dynamics in Arid-Land Ecosystems

(2014) S.L. Collins et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Niche partitioning of bacterial communities in biological crusts and soils under grasses, shrubs and trees in the Kalahari

(2014) David R. Elliott et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A Synthesis of Climate and Vegetation Cover Effects on Biogeochemical Cycling in Shrub-Dominated Drylands

(2014) Marie-Anne de Graaff et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Nutrient transfer in plant–fungal symbioses

(2014) Scott W. Behie et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Islands of Fertility: A Byproduct of Grazing?

(2013) Ginger R. H. Allington et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The significance of atmospheric nutrient inputs and canopy interception of precipitation during ecosystem development in piñon–juniper woodlands of the southwestern USA

(2013) Ashley A. Coble et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   NATURE

Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis

(2013) Cory C. Cleveland et al.   OECOLOGIA

Aridity Modulates N Availability in Arid and Semiarid Mediterranean Grasslands

(2013) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   PLoS One

Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions

(2013) Jarrett E. K. Byrnes et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

New primers to amplify the fungal ITS2 region - evaluation by 454-sequencing of artificial and natural communities

(2012) Katarina Ihrmark et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

Soil microbial community response to drying and rewetting stress: does historical precipitation regime matter?

(2011) Sarah E. Evans et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea

(2011) Daniel PR Herlemann et al.   ISME Journal

The role of hydraulic lift on seedling establishment under a nurse plant species in a semi-arid environment

(2011) Iván Prieto et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Assessing occurrence, specificity, and mechanisms of plant facilitation in terrestrial ecosystems

(2011) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

The Fungal Fast Lane: Common Mycorrhizal Networks Extend Bioactive Zones of Allelochemicals in Soils

(2011) E. Kathryn Barto et al.   PLoS One

Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity–productivity pattern

(2010) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

(2008) Robert J. Zomer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Patch dynamics of soil biotic feedbacks in the Sonoran Desert

(2008) B.J. Butterfield et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Pulse dynamics and microbial processes in aridland ecosystems

(2008) Scott L. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY