Larger aboveground neighbourhood scales maximise similarity but do not eliminate discrepancies with belowground plant diversity in a Mediterranean shrubland - Illuminati, A; López-Angulo, J; de la Cruz, M; Chacón-Labella, J; Pescador, DS; Pías, B; Sánchez, AM; Escudero, A; Matesanz, S (Plant And Soil, 2021)

The role of root community attributes in predicting soil fungal and bacterial community patterns - López-Angulo, J; de la Cruz, M; Chacón-Labella, J; Illuminati, A; Matesanz, S; Pescador, DS; Pías, B; Sánchez, AM; Escudero, A (NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 2020)

Tales from the underground: Soil heterogeneity and not only above-ground plant interactions explain fine-scale species patterns in a Mediterranean dwarf-shrubland - Pescador, DS; de la Cruz, M; Chacón-Labella, J; Pavón-García, J; Escudero, A (JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE, 2020)

Estimating belowground plant abundance with DNA metabarcoding - Matesanz, S; Pescador, DS; Pías, B; Sánchez, AM; Chacón-Labella, J; Illuminati, A; de la Cruz, M; López-Angulo, J; Marí-Mena, N; Vizcaíno, A; Escudero, A (Molecular Ecology Resources, 2019)

The shape is more important than we ever thought: Plant to plant interactions in a high mountain community - Pescador, DS; de la Cruz, M; Chacón-Labella, J; Escudero, A (Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2019)

Individual species affect plant traits structure in their surroundings: evidence of functional mechanisms of assembly - Chacón-Labella, J; de la Cruz, M; Pescador, DS; Escudero, A (Oecologia, 2016)

Maintaining distances with the engineer: patterns of coexistence in plant communities beyond the patch-bare dichotomy - Pescador, DS; Chacón-Labella, J; de la Cruz, M; Escudero, A (NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 2014)

Every bit helps: The functional role of individuals in assembling any plant community, from the richest to monospecific ones - Escudero, A; Matesanz, S; Pescador, DS; de la Cruz, M; Valladares, F; Cavieres, LA (Journal Of Vegetation Science, 2021)

A dimmer shade of pale: revealing the faint signature of local assembly processes on the structure of strongly filtered plant communities - López-Angulo, J; de la Cruz, M; Pescador, DS; Sánchez, AM; Escudero, A (Ecography, 2021)

Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities - López-Rubio, R; Pescador, DS; Escudero, A; Sánchez, AM (JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 2022)

Spatial Scale Dependence of Ecological Factors That Regulate Functional and Phylogenetic Assembly in a Mediterranean High Mountain Grassland - Pescador, DS; de Bello, F; López-Angulo, J; Valladares, F; Escudero, A (Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution, 2021)

The assembly of plant-patch networks in Mediterranean alpine grasslands - Pescador, DS; Iriondo, JM; Losapio, G; Escudero, A (Journal Of Plant Ecology, 2020)

Impacts of climate, soil and biotic interactions on the interplay of the different facets of alpine plant diversity - López-Angulo, J; Pescador, DS; Sánchez, AM; Luzuriaga, AL; Cavieres, LA; Escudero, A (Science Of The Total Environment, 2020)

Alpine vegetation dataset from three contrasting mountain ranges differing in climate and evolutionary history - López-Angulo, J; Pescador, DS; Sánchez, AM; Luzuriaga, AL; Cavieres, LA; Escudero, A (Data In Brief, 2019)

Determinants of high mountain plant diversity in the Chilean Andes: From regional to local spatial scales - López-Angulo, J; Pescador, DS; Sánchez, AM; Mihoc, MAK; Cavieres, LA; Escudero, A (Plos One, 2018)

Winter is coming: plant freezing resistance as a key functional trait for the assembly of annual Mediterranean communities - Pescador, DS; Sánchez, AM; Luzuriaga, AL; Sierra-Almeida, A; Escudero, A (Annals Of Botany, 2018)

Soil under nurse plants is always better than outside: a survey on soil amelioration by a complete guild of nurse plants across a long environmental gradient - Mihoc, MAK; Giménez-Benavides, L; Pescador, DS; Sánchez, AM; Cavieres, LA; Escudero, A (Plant And Soil, 2016)

Summer Freezing Resistance: A Critical Filter for Plant Community Assemblies in Mediterranean High Mountains - Pescador, DS; Sierra-Almeida, A; Torres, PJ; Escudero, A (Frontiers In Plant Science, 2016)

Plant Trait Variation along an Altitudinal Gradient in Mediterranean High Mountain Grasslands: Controlling the Species Turnover Effect - Pescador, DS; de Bello, F; Valladares, F; Escudero, A (Plos One, 2015)

Climate and small scale factors determine functional diversity shifts of biological soil crusts in Iberian drylands - Concostrina-Zubiri, L; Pescador, DS; Martínez, I; Escudero, A (Biodiversity And Conservation, 2014)

Vulnerability to global change in Mediterranean high mountains [Vulnerabilidad al cambio global en la alta montaña mediterránea] - Escudero A; García-Camacho R; García-Fernández A; Gavilán RG; Giménez-Benavides L; Iriondo JM; Lara-Romero C; Morente J; Pescador DS (Ecosistemas, 2012)

Effect of different non-ionic surfactants on the biodegradation of PAHs by diverse aerobic bacteria - Fernando Bautista, L; Sanz, Raquel; Carmen Molina, M; Gonzalez, Natalia; Sanchez, David (International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2009)

Continuous monitoring of chlorophyll a fluorescence and microclimatic conditions reveals warming-induced physiological damage in biocrust-forming lichens - Raggio, J; Pescador, DS; Gozalo, B; Ochoa, V; Valencia, E; Sancho, LG; Maestre, FT (PLANT AND SOIL, 2022)

Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands - Pescador, DS; Delgado-Baquerizo, M; Fiore-Donno, AM; Singh, BK; Bonkowski, M; Maestre, FT (Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 2022)

Agricultural management and pesticide use reduce the functioning of beneficial plant symbionts - Edlinger, A; Garland, G; Hartman, K; Banerjee, S; Degrune, F; García-Palacios, P; Hallin, S; Valzano-Held, A; Herzog, C; Jansa, J; Kost, E; Maestre, FT; et al. (Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022)

Fourteen years of continuous soil moisture records from plant and biocrust-dominated microsites - Moreno, J; Asensio, S; Berdugo, M; Gozalo, B; Ochoa, V; Pescador, DS; Benito, BM; Maestre, FT (Scientific Data, 2022)

Diversity of archaea and niche preferences among putative ammonia-oxidizing Nitrososphaeria dominating across European arable soils - Saghaï, A; Banjeree, S; Degrune, F; Edlinger, A; Garcia-Palacios, P; Garland, G; Heijden, MGA; Herzog, C; Maestre, FT; Pescador, DS; Philippot, L; Rillig, MC; et al. (Environmental Microbiology, 2022)

Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil multifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems - Garland, G; Edlinger, A; Banerjee, S; Degrune, F; García-Palacios, P; Pescador, DS; Herzog, C; Romdhane, S; Saghai, A; Spor, A; Wagg, C; Hallin, S; et al. (Nature Food, 2021)

Flexible diets enable pollinators to cope with changes in plant community composition - Morán-López, T; Benadi, G; Lara-Romero, C; Chacoff, N; Vitali, A; Pescador, D; Lomáscolo, SB; Morente-López, J; Vázquez, DP; Morales, JM (Journal Of Ecology, 2022)

The impact of agricultural management on soil aggregation and carbon storage is regulated by climatic thresholds across a 3000 km European gradient - Edlinger, A; Garland, G; Banerjee, S; Degrune, F; García-Palacios, P; Herzog, C; Pescador, DS; Romdhane, S; Ryo, M; Saghaï, A; Hallin, S; Maestre, FT; et al. (Global Change Biology, 2023)

Ecological drivers of fine-scale distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a semiarid Mediterranean scrubland - López-Angulo, J; Matesanz, S; Illuminati, A; Pescador, DS; Sánchez, AM; Pías, B; Chacón-Labella, J; de la Cruz, M; Escudero, A (Annals Of Botany, 2023)

Functional differences between herbs and woody species in a semiarid Mediterranean plant community: A whole-plant perspective on growth, nutrient-use and size - Illuminati, A; Matesanz, S; Pías, B; Sánchez, AM; de la Cruz, M; Ramos-Muñoz, M; López-Angulo, J; Pescador, DS; Escudero, A (Functional Ecology, 2024)

The potential of the National Forest Inventory to assess the state of conservation of forest Habitat types of Community Interest: new challenges to comply with biodiversity conservation policies - Pescador, DS; Vayreda, J; Escudero, A; Lloret, F (Ecosistemas, 2022)

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world. - Gross, N; Maestre, FT; Liancourt, P; Berdugo, M; Martin, R; Gozalo, B; Ochoa, V; Delgado-Baquerizo, M; Maire, V; Saiz, H; Soliveres, S; Valencia, E; et al. (Nature, 2024)

Cloud Forest Tree Growth Responses to Climate and Drought Vary by Island and Species in the Macaronesian Region - García-López, MA; García-Cervigón, AI; Elias, RB; Calvo-Donate, V; Fernández-Palacios, JM; García-Hidalgo, M; Gómez-González, S; Gouveia, M; de Sequeira, MM; Olano, JM; Pescador, DS; Sangüesa-Barreda, G; et al. (Journal Of Biogeography, 2025)

The Positive Effects of Soil Organic Carbon on European Cereal Yields Level Off at 1.4% - Campos-Cáliz, A; Valencia, E; Plaza, C; Garland, G; Edlinger, A; Herzog, C; van der Heijden, MGA; Banerjee, S; Rillig, MC; Hallin, S; Saghaï, A; Maestre, FT; et al. (Journal Of Sustainable Agriculture And Environment, 2024)

Hacia la comprensión de los componentes bióticos de los ecosistemas de alta montaña y su alteración a causa del cambio climático. - Medina Bujalance, Rafael (Investigador/a); Pino Bodas, Raquel (Investigador principal (IP)); Escudero Alcántara, Adrián (Investigador/a); Hurtado Aragüés, Pilar (Investigador/a); González Benítez, Natalia (Investigador/a); Merino Martín, Luis (Investigador/a); Aragón Rubio, Gregorio (Investigador/a); Martínez Moreno, María Isabel (Investigador/a); Sánchez Pescador, David (Investigador/a) (2025)

Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity - Ohlert, Timothy; Smith, Melinda D; Collins, Scott L; Knapp, Alan K; Dukes, Jeffrey S; Sala, Osvaldo; Wilkins, Kate D; Munson, Seth M; Anderson, Maggie I; Avolio, Meghan L; Chen, Anping; Hayden, Meghan T; et al. (Science, 2025)

Diverse crop rotations offset yield-scaled nitrogen losses via denitrification - Saghai, Aurelien; Smith, Monique E; Vico, Giulia; Banerjee, Samiran; Edlinger, Anna; Garcia-Palacios, Pablo; Garland, Gina; Van Der Heijden, Marcel G A; Herzog, Chantal; Maestre, Fernando T; Pescador, David S; Philippot, Laurent; et al. (Communications Earth & Environment, 2025)

The impact of fungi on soil protist communities in European cereal croplands - Degrune, F; Dumack, K; Ryo, M; Garland, G; Romdhane, S; Saghaï, A; Banerjee, S; Edlinger, A; Herzog, C; Pescador, DS; García-Palacios, P; Fiore-Donno, AM; et al. (Environmental Microbiology, 2024)

Biotic homogenization, lower soil fungal diversity and fewer rare taxa in arable soils across Europe - Banerjee, S; Zhao, C; Garland, G; Edlinger, A; García-Palacios, P; Romdhane, S; Degrune, F; Pescador, DS; Herzog, C; Camuy-Velez, LA; Bascompte, J; Hallin, S; et al. (Nature Communications, 2024)

BigBioData, a new AEET working group on monitoring Biodiversity in the Big Data era - Hernandez, L; Alvarez-Martinez, JM; Pescador, DS (Ecosistemas, 2022)

Sierra Nevada (Spain), the southernmost European locality for the polar-alpine Umbilicaria aprina and U. virginis. - Leopoldo G. Sancho; Ana Aramburu; Ana Pintado; Manuel Casares; José Raggio; David S. Pescador (Mediterranean Botany, 2022)

Shift in functional traits along soil fertility gradient reflects non-random community assembly in a tropical African rainforest - Libalah, MB; Droissart, V; Sonké, B; Hardy, OJ; Drouet, T; Pescador, DS; Kenfack, D; Thomas, DW; Chuyong, GB; Couteron, P (Plant Ecology And Evolution, 2017)