36 SCI papers have already been produced, six of them are still under review. Those already published adhere to the Open Access request by the REA:
- Carmelo Maria Musarella, Antonio Jesús Mendoza-Fernández, Juan Francisco Mota Alessandro Alessandrini, Gianluigi Bacchetta Salvatore Brullo, Orazio Caldarella Giampiero Ciaschetti, Fabio Conti Luciano Di Martino, Amedeo Falci Lorenzo Gianguzzi11, Riccardo Guarino Aurelio Manzi, Pietro Minissale Sergio Montanari, Salvatore Pasta Lorenzo Peruzzi, Lina Podda Saverio Sciandrello, Leonardo Scuderi, Angelo Troia, Giovanni Spampinato. 2018. Checklist of gypsophilous vascular flora in Italy. PhytoKeys 103: 61–82.
- Román, J.R.; Rodríguez-Caballero, E.; Rodríguez-Lozano, B.; Roncero-Ramos, B.; Chamizo, S.; Águila-Carricondo, P.; Cantón, Y. Spectral Response Analysis: An Indirect and Non-Destructive Methodology for the Chlorophyll Quantification of Biocrusts. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 1350.
- Peralta A.M.L., Sánchez, A.M., Luzuriaga, A.L. de Bello, F. & Escudero, A. 2019. Evidence of functional species sorting by rainfall and biotic interactions: A community monolith experimental approach. Journal of Ecology 107: 2772–2788. (Q1)
- Matinzadeh Z., Akhani H., Abedi M., Palacio S. 2019. The elemental composition of halophytes correlates with key morphological adaptations and taxonomic groups. Plant Physiology and Biogeochemistry 141: 259-278. (Q1) doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.05.023
- Concostrina-Zubiri, L., J.M. Arenas, I. Martínez and A. Escudero. 2019. Unassisted establishment of biological soil crusts on dryland road slopes. Web Ecol. 19:39-51.
- Luzuriaga AL, Ferrandis P, Flores J & Escudero, A. 2020. Effect of aridity on species assembly in gypsum drylands: a response mediated by the soil affinity of species. AoB PLANTS, 12(3), plaa020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plaa020.
- Lyons W. B., Welch S. A., Gardner C. B., Sharifi A., AghaKouchak A., Maskour M., Djamali M., Matinzadeh Z., Palacio S., Akhani H. 2020. The Hydrogeochemistry of Shallow Groundwater from Lut Desert, Iran: The Hottest Place on Earth. Journal of Arid Environments 178: 104143. doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104143
- Ghahremaninejad, F., Nejad-Falatoury, A., & Memariani, F. (2020). Typification and an emended description of Astragalus moussavii (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae). Phytotaxa, 441(1), 60-68. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.441.1.5
- Chaves R, Ferrandis P, Escudero A & Luzuriaga AL. 2021. Diverse phylogenetic neighborhoods enhance community resistance to drought in experimental assemblages. Scientific Reports 11: 22499. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01991-z
- Blanco-Sánchez, M., Moore, M. J., Ramos-Muñoz, M., Pías, B., García-Fernández, A., Prieto, M., Plaza, L., Isabel, I., Escudero, A., and Matesanz, S. 2021. Phylogeography of a gypsum endemic plant across its entire distribution range in the western Mediterranean. American Journal of Botany 108(3): 443– 460.
- Ahmadian N, Abedi M, Escudero A, Sohrabi M & Luzuriaga AL. 2022. Artemisia sieberi dominated landscapes of Northeastern Iran host great diversity in lichen and annual plant species. Flora 288: 152019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2022.152019
- Sánchez AM, Peralta AML, Luzuriaga AL, Prieto M. & Escudero A. 2022. Climate change and biocrust disturbance synergistically decreased taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in annual communities on gypsiferous soils. Oikos 2022: e08809. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08809
- Vargas-Colin A, Flores J, Romo-Campos R, Douterlungne D, Yáñez-Espinosa L, González JM & Luzuriaga AL 2022. Changes in rainfall amount and seasonality modulate taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity in a gypsophilous plant community in the Chihuahuan Desert. Plant Ecology & Diversity, 15 (5-6): 265-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2022.2130017
- Cera A., Montserrat-Martí G., Ferrio J.P., Drenovsky R., Palacio S. 2021. Gypsum-exclusive plants accumulate more leaf S than non-exclusive species both in and off gypsum. Environmental and Experimental Botany 182: 104294. doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104294
- Cera, A., Duplat, E., Montserrat-Martí, G., Gómez-Bolea, A., Rodríguez-Echeverría, S., Palacio, S. 2021. Seasonal variation in AMF colonisation, soil and plant nutrient content in gypsum specialist and generalist species growing in P-poor soils. Plant and soil 468: 509-524. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11104-021-05140-3
- Moret-Fernández, D., Latorre, B., Lyons, M.N., Palacio, S. 2021. Smartphone based tension disc infiltrometer for soil hydraulic characterization. Journal of Hydrology 600: 126551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126551
- de la Puente L., Ferrio JP, Palacio S. 2022. Disentangling water sources in a gypsum plant community. Gypsum crystallization water is a key source of water for shallow-rooted plants, Annals of Botany, mcab107, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab107
- Heiden N., Cera A., Palacio S*. 2022. Do soil features condition seed germination of gypsophiles and gypsovags? An analysis of the effect of different natural soils along an alkalinity gradient. Journal of Arid Environments 196: 104638. doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104638 (*corresponding author)
- Matinzadeh Z., López-Angulo J., Escudero A., Palacio S., Abedi M., Akhani H. 2022 Plant functional structure along salinity gradients in Iranian salt marshes. Plant-Environment Interactions 3, 16–27. http://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10070
- Palacio, S., Cera, A., Escudero, A., Luzuriaga, A.L., Sánchez A. M., Mota J., Pérez-Serrano Serrano, M., Merlo, M.E., Martínez-Hernández, F., Salmerón-Sánchez, E., Mendoza-Fernández, A., Pérez-García, F.J., Montserrat-Martí, G., Tejero P. 2022. Recent and ancient evolutionary events shaped the plant elemental composition of edaphic endemics. A phylogeny-wide analysis of Iberian gypsum plants. New Phytologist 235: 2406-2423 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18309
- Cera, A., Montserrat-Martí G., Drenovsky R. E., Ourry A., Brunel-Muguet S., Palacio S. 2022. Gypsum endemics accumulate excess nutrients in leaves as a potential constitutive strategy to grow in grazed extreme soils. Physiologia Plantarum 174(4): e13738. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13738.
- Cera, A., Montserrat-Martí, G., Luzuriaga, A.L., Pueyo, Y., Palacio, S. 2022. When disturbances favour species adapted to stressful soils: grazing may benefit soil specialists in gypsum plant communities. Peer J 10:e14222, DOI 10.7717/peerj.14222
- López-Rubio, R., Pescador, D. S., Escudero, A., & Sánchez, A. M. (2022). Rainy years counteract negative effects of drought on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity: Resilience in annual plant communities. Journal of Ecology, 110, 2308–2320. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13948
- Cera, A., Montserrat-Martí, G., Luzuriaga, A.L., Pueyo, Y., Palacio, S. 2023. Plant affinity to extreme soils and foliar sulphur mediate species-specific responses to sheep grazing in gypsum systems. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 15:5-6, 253-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2022.2155079
- Siebert, S. J., S. Palacio, A. L. Luzuriaga, G. Maggs-Kölling, E. Marais, S. Matesanz, M. Prieto, Y. Pueyo, N. Rajakaruna, A. M. Sánchez, and S. Claassens. 2023. GYPWORLD Africa: Setting an agenda for gypsum ecosystem research in southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany. 119(9/10), Art. #15308. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2023/15308
- Cera, A., Montserrat-Martí, G., Palacio, S. 2023 Nutritional strategies underlying plant specialization to gypsum soils. AoB Plants. 15(4): plad041. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plad041.
- Rudov A., de la Puente L., Palacio S., Querejeta J.I., Sharifi A., Akhani H., Ferrio JP. 2023. Ecohydrological niche segregation among desert shrubs in a gypsum-calcareous formation, north-western Iran. Plant Ecology & Diversity 16:1-2, 61-75, DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2023.2255985
- Cera A, Verdugo-Escamilla C, Marín JA, Palacio S. 2023. Calcium sulphate biomineralisation: Artefact of sample preparation? Physiologia Plantarum 175 (5): e14017 https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.14017
- Peralta, A.M.L., Escudero, A., de la Cruz Rot, M., Sánchez, A. & Luzuriaga, A.L. 2023. Functional traits explain both seedling and adult plant spatial patterns in gypsum annual species. Functional Ecology, 37, 1170–1180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14304
- Ortiz-Brunel J.P., H. Ochoterena, M. J. Moore, J. Aragón-Parada, J. Flores, G. Munguía-Lino, A. Rodríguez, M. M. Salinas-Rodríguez & H. Flores-Olvera. 2023. Patterns of richness and endemism in the gypsicolous flora of Mexico. Diversity 15 (522). DOI: 10.3390/d15040522.
- Navarro-Perea M, Pueyo Y, Moret D, Valverde A, Igual JM & C L. Alados. 2023. Plant-soil interactions in response to grazing intensity in a semi-arid ecosystem from NE Spain, Arid Land Research and Management, 37:2, 184-196, DOI: 10.1080/15324982.2022.2119901
- Sánchez-Martín, R., Montesinos-Navarro, A., Ochoterena, H., Pisanty, I., Rodríguez-Sánchez, M., Verdú, M., & Flores-Olvera, H. (2023). Homogeneous microenvironmental conditions under nurses promote facilitation. Functional Ecology, 00, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14486
- Mota, J.F.; Martínez-Hernández, F.; Salmerón-Sánchez, E.; Mendoza-Fernández, A.J.; Pérez-García, F.J.; Merlo, M.E. Spontaneous Primary Succession and Vascular Plant Recovery in the Iberian Gypsum Quarries: Insights for Ecological Restoration in an EU Priority Habitat. Plants 2023, 12, 1162. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12051162