Researcher interests: Ecology of herbaceous communities and semiarid rangelands. Impact of climate change, land abandonment and grazing on primary productivity and plant diversity. Adaptation of desert annuals and geophytes to aridity gradients. Seed-bank dynamics in natural and weed communities. Granivory. Environmental control of plant development. Physiology of seed germination. Plant responses to heat and water stress.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences
DEPARTMENT: Plant Sciences and Genetics
Selected Publications
volatiles and tannins in pistacia lentiscus and their role in browsing behavior of goats capra hircus (2019)|
Journal of Chemical Ecology|
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dynamics of soil nutrients in abandoned sheep corrals in semi arid mediterranean planted forests under grazing (2019)|
Journal of Arid Environments|
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cattle foraging in mediterranean oak woodlands effects of management practices on the woody vegetation (2018)|
Forest Ecology and Management|
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insights into the drought and heat avoidance mechanism in summer dormant mediterranean tall fescue (2017)|
Frontiers in Plant Science|
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no precipitation legacy effects on above ground net primary production and species diversity in grazed mediterranean grassland a 21 year experiment (2017)|
Journal of Vegetation Science|
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spatial and temporal activity of cattle grazing in mediterranean oak woodland (2017)|
Applied Animal Behaviour Science|
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seedling emergence and phenotypic response of common bean germplasm to different temperatures under controlled conditions and in open field (2016)|
Frontiers in Plant Science|
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few multiyear precipitation reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity precipitation relationship (2016)|
Global Change Biology|
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targeted grazing of milk thistle silybum marianum and syrian thistle notobasis syriaca by goats preference following preconditioning generational transfer and toxicity (2016)|
Applied Animal Behaviour Science|
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testing the limits of resistance a 19 year study of mediterranean grassland response to grazing regimes (2015)|
Global Change Biology|
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countervailing effects on pine and oak leaf litter decomposition in human altered mediterranean ecosystems (2015)|
Oecologia|
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an integrative analysis of the dynamics of landscape and local scale colonization of mediterranean woodlands by pinus halepensis (2014)|
PLOS ONE|
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