Miguel Verdú
Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificacion
-CIDE-
(CSIC/UV/GV)
Carretera Moncada - Náquera, Km. 4,5
46113
phone: (+34) 963424204
fax: (+34) 963424160
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PUBLICATIONS
163.- Hirn, J., Sanz, V., Lorite, J., Martínez-Hernández, F.,
Mendoza-Fernández, A. J., Mota, J. F., Navarro-Cano, J. A., Pérez-García, F.
J., Prieto-Rubio, J., Sánchez-Martín, R., & Verdú, M. 2026. Evaluating the restoration of plant ecological interactions in gypsum mines with species co-occurrences
analyses. Journal of Applied Ecology,
in press.
162.- Miranda-Cebrián, H., Cáliz, J., Olesen,
J. M., González-Megias, A., Albacete, S., Martín, F.,
del Arco, L., Jarne, M., Ortega-Casamayor,
E., Verdú, M. & García, M. B. 2026. Rare plants sustain communities of visitors with
similar diversity but different composition across populations of different size.
Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 71, 125930.
161.- Prieto-Rubio, J., Margalef-Marrasé,
J., Lloret, F., Goberna, M. Rincón, A. & Verdú, M. 2026. Plant canopies buffer soil carbon and nutrient cycling under climatic disequilibrium. Journal of Ecology, in press.
160.- Colin, Y., Navarro-Cano, J.A., Verdú, M. & Goberna, M.
2026. High phylogenetic turnover
magnifies evolutionary relatedness along bacterial primary succession. Ecology, in press.
159.- Fuzessy, L.; Verdú, M. & Pizo, M. 2025. Ecological
function over evolutionary legacy: the limited role of shared evolutionary
history in shaping modern frugivory interactions. Functional Ecology, 39: 3688-3703.
158.- Collins, S., Verdú, M. & Montesinos-Navarro, A. 2025. Tracking rain
events impact on soil and plant leaf water content over time. Plant and Soil, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07813-9.
157.- Molina-Venegas, R., Verdú, M., Montesinos-Navarro, A.,
Alcántara, J.M., Garrido, J.L., Antorán, E., &
Calatayud, J. 2025. Indirect reciprocal facilitation promotes
species coexistence in plant communities worldwide. Nature
Ecology & Evolution, 9: 1373–1381.
156.- Margalef-Marrase, J., Lloret, F., Montesinos-Navarro, A.,
Alcántara, J., Garrido, J.L., & Verdú, M. 2025. Climatic disequilibrium modulates
canopy service across abiotic stress gradients. Journal of Ecology, 113: 2160-2172.
155.- Oliver, J., Bernaola-Galván, P., Carpena,
P., Perfectti, F., Gómez Martín, C., Castiglione, S., Pasquale, R., Verdú, M.
& Moya, A. 2025. Strong evidence for the evolution of decreasing
compositional heterogeneity in SARS-CoV-2 genomes during the pandemic.
Scientific Reports
15:12246.
154.- Montesinos-Navarro,
A., Collins, S., Dumitru, C. & Verdú, M. 2025. Phylogenetic relatedness
predicts plant-plant nitrogen transfer better than the duration of water
scarcity periods. New Phytologist, 246: 1848–1860.
153.- de Bello
F., Fischer F., Puy J., Shipley B., Verdú M., Götzenberger
L., Moretti M., Wright I., Berg M., Carmona C.P., Cornelissen J., Dias A., Gibb
H., Lepš J., Madin J., Májeková M., Pausas J., Segrestin
J., Sobral M., Zanne A., Garnier E. 2025. Raunkiæran shortfalls in trait-based ecology: Challenges
and perspectives. Ecological Monographs, 95,
e70018.
152.- Jimeno-Alda, J., Navarro-Cano, J.A., Goberna, M. &
Verdú, M. 2025. Differences in nutrient content between heterospecific plant neighbours affect respiration rates of rhizosphere
microbiota. Plant & Soil,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07419-1.
151.- Román-Escrivá, P., Bernabeu, M., Paganin, E., Diaz, W., Verdú, M., Oliver, J. L., Arnau, V.,
& Moya, A. 2025. Metrics of genomic complexity in the evolution
of bacterial endosymbiosis. Biology, 14: 338.
150.- Jimeno-Alda, J., Navarro-Cano, J.A., Goberna, M. &
Verdú, M. 2025. Functional distance mediates plant interactions. Journal of Vegetation
Science, e70017.
149.-
Gleiser, G., Alcántara, J.M., Bascompte, J., Garrido, J. L.,
Montesinos-Navarro, A., Paterno, G. B., Valiente-Banuet, A., Verdú, M. 2025. The phylogenetic
architecture of recruitment networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34: e13944.
148.- Alcántara, J. M., Verdú, M., Garrido, J. L.,
Montesinos-Navarro, A., Aizen, M. A., Alifriqui, M., Allen, D., Al-Namazi,
A. A., Armas, C., Bastida, J. M., Bellido, T., Paterno, G. B., Briceño, H.,
Camargo de Oliveira, R. A., Campoy, J. G., Chaieb,
G., Chu, C., Constantinou, E., Delalandre,
L., Duarte, M., Faife-Cabrera, M., Fazlioglu, F., Fernando, E. S., Flores, J., Flores-Olvera,
H., Fodor, E., Ganade, G., Garcia, M. B., García-Fayos,
P., Gavini, S. S., Goberna, M., Gómez-Aparicio, L.,
González-Pendás, E., González-Robles, A., İpekdal, K., Kikvidze, Z.,
Ledo, A., Lendínez, S., Liu, H., Lloret, F., López,
R. P., López-García, Á., Lortie, C. J., Losapio, G., Lutz, J. A., Máliš,
F., Manzaneda, A. J., Marcilio-Silva, V., Michalet, R., Molina-Venegas, R., Navarro-Cano, J. A., Novotny, V., Olesen, J. M.,
Ortiz-Brunel, J. P., Pajares-Murgó,
M., Perea, A. J., Pérez-Hernández, V., Pérez-Navarro, M. Á., Pistón, N.,
Prieto, I., Prieto-Rubio, J., Pugnaire, F. I., Ramírez, N., Retuerto, R., Rey,
P. J., Rodriguez-Ginart, D. A., Sánchez-Martín, R., Tavşanoğlu, Ç., Tedoradze, G., Tercero-Araque, A., Tielbörger,
K., Touzard, B., Tüfekcioğlu,
İ., Turkis, S., Usero,
F. M., Usta-Baykal, N., Valiente-Banuet, A.,
Vargas-Colin, A., Vogiatzakis, I., Zamora, R. R. 2025. Key concepts and a world-wide look at plant
recruitment networks. Biological Reviews, 100:
1127-1151.
147.- Hirn, J., Sanz, V., García, J. E., Goberna, M., Montesinos-Navarro, A., Navarro-Cano, J. A., Sánchez-Martín, R., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Verdú, M. (2024). Transfer learning of species co-occurrence patterns between plant communities. Ecological Informatics, 102826.
146.-
Navarro-Cano, J.A:, Goberna, M., Pérez-Valera, E. & Verdú, M.
2024. Decoupling of
trait and species turnover in fire-prone Mediterranean plant communities. Journal of Ecology,
112:
2043-2056.
145.- Verdú, M., Bochet, E., Espigares, T., Margalef-Marrasé, J, Nicolau, J.M., Yue,
Y., Azorín-Molina, C. & Garcia-Fayos, P. 2024. Climate change
may alter the signal of plant facilitation in Mediterranean drylands. Oikos,
e10217.
144.- Perez-Navarro, M., Lloret, F., Molina-Venegas, R.,
Alcántara, J. & Verdú, M. 2024. Plant canopies promote climatic disequilibrium
in Mediterranean recruit communities. Ecology Letters, 27: e14391.
143.- Sánchez Martín, R., Montesinos-Navarro, A, Ochoterena, H., Pisanty, I., Rodríguez-Sánchez, M., Verdú, M. &
Flores-Olvera, H. 2024. Homogeneous microenvironmental conditions under nurses promote facilitation. Functional Ecology, 38: 350-362.
142.- Montesinos-Navarro, A., López-Climent, M. F., Pérez-Clemente,
R. M., Arenas-Sánchez, C., Sánchez-Martín, R., Gómez-Cadenas, A. & Verdú,
M. 2024. Plant metabolic response to stress in an arid zone is mediated by the
presence of neighbors. Ecology, 27: e14391.
141.- Budde, K.B., Rellstab,
C., Heuertz, M., Gugerli,
F., Hanika, T., Verdú, M., Pausas, J.G. &
González-Martínez, S.C. 2024. Divergent selection in Mediterranean pine
stands on local spatial scales. Journal of Ecology, 112:278-290.
140.- Berlinches de Gea, A., Verdu, M.,
Villar de Pablo, M. & Pérez-Ortega, S. 2024. The combined effects of habitat
fragmentation and life history traits on specialization in lichen symbioses. Journal of Ecology,
112: 200-216.
139.- Verdú, M., Alcántara. J.M., Navarro-Cano, J. A. &
Goberna. M. 2023. Transitivity and intransitivity in soil bacterial networks. The
ISME Journal, 17: 2135–2139.
138.- Gómez, J.M., Gónzalez-Megías, A.
& Verdú, M. 2023. The evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals. Nature
Communications, 14: 5719.
137.- Pérez-Ortega, S., Verdú, M., Garrido-Benavent, I., Rabasa,
S., Green, T.G.A, Sancho, L.G. & de los Ríos, A. 2023. Invariant
properties of mycobiont-photobiont networks in Antarctic lichens. Global
Ecology and Biogeography, 32: 2033-2046.
136.- Sánchez‐Martín, R., Verdú, M., & Montesinos‐Navarro, A. 2023. Interspecific facilitation favors rare species establishment and reduces performance disparities among adults. Journal of Vegetation Science, 34:e13185
135.-
Sánchez‐Martín, R., Verdú, M., & Montesinos‐Navarro,
A. 2023. Phylogenetic
and functional constraints of plant facilitation rewiring. Ecology, e3961.
134.- Verdú, M.,
Garrido, J.L., Alcántara, J.M., Montesinos-Navarro, A., Aguilar, S., Aizen,
M.A., Al-Namazi, A.A., Alifriqui, M., Allen, D.,
Anderson-Teixeira, K.J., Armas, C., Bastida, J.M., Bellido, T., Bonanomi, G., Briceño, H., Camargo, R., Campoy,
J.G., Chaieb, G., Chu, C., Collins, S.E., Condit, R.,
Constantinou, E., Degirmenci, C.Ü., Delalandre, L., Duarte, M., Faife-Cabrera,
M., Fazlioglu, F., Fernando, E.S., Flores, J.,
Flores-Olvera, H., Fodor, E., Ganade, G., Garcia, M.,
García-Fayos, P., Gavini,
S.S., Goberna, M., Gómez-Aparicio, L., González-Pendás,
E., González-Robles, A., Hubbell, S.P., Ipekdal, K.,
Jorquera, M.J., Kikvidze, Z., Kütküt,
P., Ledo, A., Lendínez, S., Li, B., Liu, H., Lloret,
F., López, R.P., López-García, Á., Lortie, C.J., Losapio, G., Lutz, J.A., Luzuriaga,
A.L., Máliš, F., Manrique, E., Manzaneda, A.J., Marcilio-Silva, V., Michalet, R.,
Molina-Venegas, R., Navarro-Cano, J.A., Novotny, V., Olesen, J.M.,
Ortiz-Brunel, J.P., Pajares-Murgó, M., Parissis, N., Parker, G., Paterno, B.G., Perea, A.J., Pérez-Hernández, V., Pérez-Navarro, M., Pistón, N., Pizarro-Carbonell,
E., Prieto, I., Prieto-Rubio, J., Pugnaire, F.I., Ramírez, N., Retuerto, R., Rey, P.J., Rodriguez-Ginart, D.A.,
Rodríguez-Sánchez, M., Sánchez-Martín, R., Schöb, C.,
Tavsanoglu, Ç., Tedoradze,
G., Tercero-Araque, A., Tielbörger,
K., Touzard, B., Tüfekcioglu,
I., Turkis, S., Usero,
F.M., Usta-Baykal, N., Valiente-Banuet, A., Vargas-Colin, A., Vogiatzakis, I., Zamora, R. 2023. RecruitNet:
A global database of plant recruitment networks. Ecology, e3923.
133.- Valencia, E., Galland, T., Carmona C. P., Goberna, M., Götzenberger, L., Lepš, J.,
Verdú, M., Macek, P., de Bello, F. 2022. The functional structure of plant
communities drives soil functioning via changes in soil abiotic properties. Ecology, 103: e3833.
132.- Yang, X., Gómez-Aparicio, L., Lortie,
C.J., Verdú, M., Cavieres, L.A., Huang, Z., Gao, R., Liu, R., Zhao, Y. & Cornelissen, J. H. C. 2022. Net plant interactions are highly
variable and weakly dependent on climate at the global scale. Ecology Letters, 25:1580-1593.
131.- Hirn J, García JE, Montesinos-Navarro A, Sanchez-Martín R,
Sanz V, Verdú M. 2022. A Deep Generative Artificial Intelligence
system to predict species coexistence patterns. Methods in Ecology and
Evolution, 13: 1052-1061.
130.- Goberna, M.
& Verdú, M. 2022. Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in
soil ecology. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 166: 108534.
129.- Fuzessy, L;
Silveira, F.; Culot, L.; Jordano, P & Verdu, M.
2022. Phylogenetic congruence between Neotropical primates and plants is driven
by frugivory. Ecology Letters, 25: 320-329.
128.-
Navarro-Cano, J., Goberna, M. & Verdú, M. 2021. Facilitation enhances
ecosystem function with non-random species gains. Oikos, 130:
2093–2099.
127.- Gómez, J.M., Verdú,
M. & González-Megías, A. 2021. Killing conspecific adults in
mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B.,
288(1955):20211080. doi:
10.1098/rspb.2021.1080
126.- de Bello, F., Lavorel, S., Hallett, L. M., Valencia, E., Garnier, E., Roscher, C., Conti, L., Galland, T., Goberna, M., Májeková, M., Montesinos-Navarro, A., Pausas, J.G., Verdú,
M., Vojtkó, A. E., Götzenberger,
L. & Lepš, J. 2021. Functional trait effects on
ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle. Trends in Ecology &
Evolution, 36: 822-836.
125.- Verdú, M.,
Gómez J.M., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Schöb, C. 2021.
Facilitation and plant phenotypic evolution. Trends in Plant Science, 26: 913-923.
124.-
Sánchez-Martín, R., Querejeta, J.I., Voltas, J., Ferrio, J.P., Prieto, I., Verdú. M. &
Montesinos-Navarro. A. 2021. Plant's gypsum affinity shapes responses to
specific edaphic constraints without limiting responses to other general
constraints. Plant and Soil,
462:
297-309.
123.- Navarro-Cano, J., Goberna, M., Valiente-Banuet, A. &
Verdú, M. 2021. Phenotypic
structure of plant facilitation networks. Ecology Letters, 24: 509–519.
122.- Goberna,
M., Donat, S., Pérez-Valera, E., Hallin,
S. & Verdú, M. 2021. nir
gene-based co-occurrence patterns reveal assembly mechanisms of soil denitrifiers in response to fire. Environmental Microbiology, 23: 239-251.
121.- Duarte, M., Verdú, M., Cavieres, L. & Bustamante, R. O.
2021. Plant-plant
facilitation increases with reduced phylogenetic relatedness along an elevation
gradient. Oikos, 130: 248–259.
120.- Moya, A., Oliver, J.L., Verdú, M., Delaye,
L., Arnau, V., Bernaola-Galván, P., de la Fuente, R., Díaz, W., Gómez-Martín,
C., González, F. M., Latorre, A., Lebrón, R. & Román-Roldán, R. 2020. Driven
progressive evolution of genome sequence complexity in Cyanobacteria.
Scientific Reports, 10: 19073.
119.-
Pérez-Valera, E., Verdú, M., Navarro-Cano, J. A., & Goberna,
M. 2020. Soil microbiome drives the recovery of ecosystem functions after fire.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 107948.
118.- Oreja, B., Goberna, M., Verdú, M., &
Navarro-Cano, J. A. 2020. Constructed pine log piles facilitate plant
establishment in mining drylands. Journal
of Environmental Management, 271: 111015.
117.-
Pérez-Izquierdo, L., Zabal-Aguirre, M., Verdú, M., Buée,
M. & Rincón, A. 2020. Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity decreases in
Mediterranean pine forests adapted to recurrent fires. Molecular Ecology, 29: 2463-2476.
116.- Montesinos-Navarro, A., Pérez-Clemente, R. M., Sánchez-Martín, R., Gómez-Cadenas, A., & Verdú, M. 2020. Phylogenetic analysis of secondary metabolites in a plant community provides evidence for trade-offs between biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. Evolutionary Ecology 34: 439-451.
115.- Verdú, M., Pausas, JG., Postigo-Mijarra, JM., Barrón, E.,
Casas-Gallego, M., Arroyo, J. & Carrión, JS. 2019.
Phylogenetic diversity
in the Iberian
flora through the Cenozoic. Environmental and Experimental
Botany 170: 103888.
114.- Goberna, M., Montesinos-Navarro, A., Valiente-Banuet, A., Colin, Y., Gómez-Fernández, A., Donat, S., Navarro-Cano, J. & Verdú, M. 2019. Incorporating phylogenetic metrics to microbial co-occurrence networks based on amplicon sequences to discern community assembly processes. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19: 1552-1564.
113.- Montesinos-Navarro, A., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Verdú, M.
2019. Plant
facilitation through mycorrhizal symbiosis is stronger between distantly
related plant species. New Phytologist 224: 928-935.
112.- Alcántara, JM., Garrido, J.L., Montesinos-Navarro, A.; Rey,
P. J.Valiente-Banuet, A.
& Verdú, M. 2019. Unifying facilitation and recruitment networks.
Journal of Vegetation Science 30: 1239-1249.
111.-
Navarro-Cano, J., Goberna, M., Verdú, M. 2019. Using plant functional distances
to select species for restoration of mining sites. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:
2353-2362.
110.-Navarro-Cano,
J., Horner, B., Goberna, M., Verdú, M. 2019. Additive effects of nurse and
facilitated plants on ecosystem functions. Journal
of Ecology 107: 2587-2597.
109.- Pérez Izquierdo, L., Zabal-Aguirre, M., González-Martínez,
S., Buée, M., Verdú, M., Rincon,
A. & Goberna, M. 2019. Plant intraspecific variation modulates
nutrient cycling through its belowground rhizospheric
microbiome. Journal of Ecology 107:1594–1605.
108.- Emer, C., Galetti, M., Pizo, M. A., Jordano, P. & Verdú, M. 2019.
Defaunation precipitates the extinction of evolutionarily-distinct interactions
in the Anthropocene. Science Advances 5: eaav6699.
107.- Colin, Y., Goberna, M., Verdú, M. & Navarro-Cano, J.A.
2019. Successional
trajectories of soil bacterial communities in mine
tailings: the role of plant functional traits. Journal of Environmental
Management 241:284-292.
106.-Montesinos-Navarro,
A., Verdú, M., Querejeta, JI, Valiente-Banuet, A.
2019. Nurse shrubs can receive water stored in the parenchyma of their
facilitated columnar cacti. Journal of Arid Environments 165:10-15.
105.- Sortibrán, L., Verdú, M. &
Valiente-Banuet, A. 2019. A nurse plant benefits from facilitative interactions
through mycorrhizae. Plant Biology 21:670-676.
104.-
Pérez-Valera, E, Goberna, M. & Verdú, M. 2019. Fire modulates ecosystem
functioning through the phylogenetic structure of soil bacterial communities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 129: 80-89.
103.- Montesinos-Navarro, A., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Verdú, M.
2018. Mycorrhizal
symbiosis increases the benefits of plant facilitative interactions. Ecography 41:1-9.
102.- Goberna, M.
& Verdú, M. 2018. Phylogenetic-scale disparities in the soil microbial
diversity-ecosystem functioning relationship.
The ISME J. 12:2152-2162.
101.- Montesinos-Navarro, A., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Verdú, M.
2018. Processes
underlying the effect of mycorrhizal symbiosis on plant-plant interactions. Fungal Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2018.05.003
100.- Pérez-Valera, E., Verdú, M., Navarro-Cano, J. A. &
Goberna, M. 2018. Resilience to fire of phylogenetic diversity across biological domains.
Molecular Ecology 27: 2896-2908.
99.- Navarro-Cano, J.A., Verdú, M. & Goberna, M. 2018. Trait-based selection of nurse plants to restore ecosystem functions in mine tailings. Journal of Applied Ecology 55:1195-1206
98.- Prieto, M., Martínez, I., Aragón, G. & Verdú, M. 2017.
Phylogenetic and functional structure of lichen communities under contrasting
environmental conditions. Journal of Vegetation
Science, 28: 871-874.
97.- Montesinos-Navarro, A.,
Verdú, M., Querejeta, J.I. & Valiente-Banuet, A. 2017. Nurse plants
transfer more nitrogen to distantly related species. Ecology, 98: 1300-1310.
96.- Gómez, J.M. & Verdú. M.
2017. Network theory
may explain the vulnerability of medieval human settlements to the Black Death
pandemic. Scientific Reports, 7: 43467.
95.- Budde, K., González-Martínez S. , Navascues M. , Burgarella C. , Mosca
E., Lorenzo Z., Zabal-Aguirre
M., Vendramin G.,
Verdú, M., Pausas J. & Heuertz, M. 2017.
Increased fire frequency promotes stronger spatial genetic structure and
natural selection at regional and local scales in Pinus halepensis Mill. Annals of Botany, 119: 1061-1072.
94.- Pérez-Valera, E., Goberna, M., Faus, K, Raes
J., García, C., Verdú, M. 2017. Fire modifies the phylogenetic structure of
soil bacterial co-occurrence networks. Environmental Microbiology, 19: 317-327.
93.- Sun, S. & Verdú, M. 2016. Evolutionary correlation of heterodichogamy and floral longevity. Evolutionary Ecology, 30: 1023-1030.
92.- Gómez, J.M., Verdú, M.,
González-Megías, A. & Méndez, M. 2016. The phylogenetic roots of human
lethal violence. Nature, 538: 233-239.
91.- Navarro-Cano, J.A., Goberna, M., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Verdú,
M. 2016. Same nurse but different time: temporal divergence in the facilitation
of plant lineages with contrasted functional syndromes. Functional Ecology, 30: 1854-1861.
90.- Navarro-Cano, J.A., Ferrer-Gallego, P.P., Laguna. E., Ferrando, I., Goberna, M.,
Valiente-Banuet, A. & Verdú, M. 2016. Restoring phylogenetic diversity
through facilitation. Restoration Ecology, 24: 449-445.
89.- Goberna, M.,
Navarro-Cano, J.A. & Verdú, M. 2016. Opposing phylogenetic
diversity gradients of plant and soil bacterial communities. Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London, B. 283, doi:
10.1098/rspb.2015.30031825.
88.- Montesinos-Navarro A.,
Segarra-Moragues, J.G., Valiente-Banuet, A & Verdú, M .
2016. Fungal phylogenetic diversity drives plant facilitation. Oecologia, 181: 533-541.
87.- Montesinos-Navarro, A.,
Verdú, M., Querejeta, J.I., Sortibrán, L.,
Valiente-Banuet, A. 2016. Soil fungi promote nitrogen transfer among
plants involved in long-lasting facilitative interactions. Perspectives in
Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 18: 45-51
86.- Aizen, M.,
Gleiser, G., Sabatino, M., Gilarranz, L.,
Bascompte, J. & Verdú, M. 2016. The phylogenetic structure of
plant-pollinator networks increases with habitat size and isolation. Ecology Letters 19:
29-36.
85.- Goberna, M. & Verdú, M. 2016. Predicting microbial traits with
phylogenies. The ISME J., 10: 959–967.
84.-
Perez-Valera, E., Goberna,
M. & Verdú, M. 2015. Phylogenetic structure of soil bacterial
communities predicts ecosystem functioning FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91, fiv031
doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiv031
83.- Navarro-Cano J, A., Verdú M, García C & Goberna M. 2015. What nurse shrubs
can do for barren soils: rapid productivity shifts associated to a 40 year ontogenetic gradient. Plant
and Soil, 388: 197-209
82.- Valiente-Banuet, A., Aizen, M.,
Alcántara, J., Arroyo, J., Cocucci, A., Galetti, M., García, M., García, D., Gómez, J., Jordano, P., Medel, R., Navarro, L., Obeso, J., Oviedo, R.,
Ramírez, N., Rey, P., Traveset, A., Verdú, M.,
Zamora, R. 2015. Beyond species loss: the extinction of ecological interactions in a
changing world. Functional Ecology,
29: 299-307
81.-
Montesinos-Navarro A., Segarra-Moragues, J.G., Valiente-Banuet, A & Verdú,
M. 2015. Evidence for
phylogenetic correlation of plant-AMF assemblages? Annals of Botany, 115:
171-177
80.- Goberna,
M., Navarro-Cano, J.A., Valiente-Banuet, A., García, C. & Verdú, M. 2014. Abiotic stress tolerance and
competition related traits underlie phylogenetic clustering in soil bacterial
communities. Ecology Letters, 17: 1191-1201.
79.- Sortibrán,
L., Verdú, M. & Valiente-Banuet, A. 2014. Nurses experience reciprocal
fitness benefits from their distantly related facilitated plants. Perspectives
in Plant, Ecology and Evolution, 16: 228-235.
78.- Goberna, M., García, C. & Verdú, M. 2014. A role for biotic filtering in driving phylogenetic clustering in soil bacterial communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23: 1346-1355.
77.- Castellanos, M.C, Donat-Caerols, S., González-Martínez S.C & Verdú, M. 2014. Can facilitation influence the spatial genetics of the beneficiary plant population? Journal of Ecology, 102: 1214-1221.
76.-
Hernández-Serrano, A., Verdú, M., Santos del Blanco, L., Climent, J.,
González-Martínez, S.C. & Pausas, J.G. 2014. Heritability and quantitative genetic
divergence of serotiny, a fire persistence plant
trait. Annals of Botany, 114: 571-577.
75.- Pinosio, S., González-Martínez, S., Bagnoli, F., Cattonaro, F., Grivet, D., Marroni, F., Lorenzo, Z., Pausas, J.G., Verdú, M. & Vendramin, G.G. 2014. First insights into the transcriptome and development of new genomic tools of a widespread circum-Mediterranean tree species, Pinus halepensis Mill. Molecular Ecology Resources, 14: 846-856.
74.-
Navarro-Cano, J.A., Goberna, M., Valiente-Banuet, A., Montesinos-Navarro, A.,
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facilitation-driven communities. Oecologia, 174:
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73.- Valiente-Banuet, A. &
Verdú, M. 2013. Plant facilitation and phylogenetics. Annual Review of Ecology,
Evolution and Systematics 44, 347-366.
72.- Oviedo, R., Faife-Cabrera,
M., Noa-Monzón, A., Arroyo, J., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Verdú, M. 2014.
Facilitation allows plant coexistence in Cuban serpentine soils. Plant Biology,
16: 711-716
71.-
Hernández-Serrano, A., Verdú, M., González-Martínez, S. C & Pausas, J. G.
2013. Fire structures pine serotiny at different scales. American Journal of Botany 100: 1-8.
70.- Budde K. B., Heuertz, M.
Hernández-Serrano, A., Pausas, J. G., Vendramin, G.
G., Verdú, M. & González-Martínez, S. C. 2014. In situ genetic association for serotiny, a fire-related trait, in Mediterranean maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton).
New Phytologist 201:
230-241.
69.- Rincón, A., Santamaría, B.P., Ocaña, L. & Verdú M. 2014. Structure and phylogenetic
diversity of post-fire ectomycorrhizal communities of maritime pine.
Mycorrhiza, 24: 131-141
68.- Valiente-Banuet, A. &
Verdú, M. 2013. Human impacts on multiple ecological networks act
synergistically to drive ecosystem collapse. Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment, 11: 408-413.
67.- Gómez, J.M., Nunn, C. L. &
Verdú, M. 2013. Centrality in primate-parasite networks reveals the potential
for the transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans. Proceedings of
the National
66.- Verdú, M. & Pausas, J. G. 2013. Syndrome-driven diversification in a Mediterranean ecosystem. Evolution, 67: 1756-1766.
65.- Montesinos-Navarro A., Segarra-Moragues, J.G., Valiente-Banuet, A & Verdú, M.
2012. Plant
facilitation occurs between species differing in their associated arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 196, 835-844.
64.- Vandelook,
F., Verdú, M. & Honnay, O. 2012. The role of seed
traits in determining the phylogenetic structure of temperate plant
communities. Annals of Botany 110: 629-636.
63.- Beltrán,
E., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Verdú, M. Trait divergence and indirect
interactions allow facilitation of congeneric species. Annals of Botany 110: 1369-1376.
62.- Castellanos M.C. & Verdú, M. 2012. Meta-analysis of
meta-analyses in plant evolutionary biology. Evolutionary Ecology 26: 1187-1196.
61.- Gómez, J.M. & Verdú, M. 2012. Mutualism with plants drives primate diversification. Systematic Biology 61: 567-577.
60.- Montesinos-Navarro A., Segarra-Moragues, J.G., Valiente-Banuet, A & Verdú, M.
2012. The network
structure of plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist, 194: 536-547.
59.- Goberna,
M., García, C., Insam, H., Hernández, M.T. &
Verdú, M. 2012. Burning
fire-prone Mediterranean shrublands: immediate changes in soil microbial
community structure and ecosystem functions. Microbial Ecology 64: 242-255.
58.- Montesinos, D., García-Fayos,
P. & Verdú, M. 2012. Masting
uncoupling: mast seeding does not follow all mast flowering episodes in a
dioecious juniper tree. Oikos 121: 1725-1736.
57.- Verdú, M., Gómez-Aparicio, L.
& Valiente-Banuet, A. 2012. Phylogenetic relatedness as a tool in
restoration ecology: A meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London, B, 279: 1761-1767.
56.- Montesinos, D, Villar-Salvador, P., García-Fayos, P. & Verdú, M. 2012. Genders in Juniperus thurifera
have different functional responses to variations in nutrient availability. New Phytologist, 193: 705-712.
55.- Verdú, M. &
Valiente-Banuet, A. 2011. The relative contribution of abundance and phylogeny
to the structure of plant facilitation networks. Oikos, 120: 1351-1356.
54.- Verdú, M., Jordano, P. &
Valiente-Banuet, A. 2010. The phylogenetic structure of plant facilitation
networks changes with competition. Journal of Ecology, 98:
1454-1461.
53.- Gómez, J.M., Verdú, M. & Perfectti,
F. 2010. Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire
tree of life. Nature, 465: 918-921.
52.- Pausas, J.G. & Verdú, M.
2010. The jungle of methods for evaluating phenotypic and phylogenetic
structure of communities. BioScience, 60: 614-625.
51.- Castillo, J.P. , Verdú, M. & Valiente-Banuet, A. 2010. Neighborhood phylodiversity affects plant performance. Ecology, 91: 3656-3663.
50.-
Jaramillo-Correa, J.P., Verdú, M. & González-Martínez, S. C. 2010. The contribution of recombination to
heterozygosity differs among plant evolutionary lineages and life-forms. BMC
Evolutionary Biology, 10: 22.
49.- Valiente-Banuet, A., Verdú, M.,
Valladares, F. & García-Fayos, P. 2010.
Functional and evolutionary correlations of steep leaf angles in the mexical shrubland. Oecologia, 163: 25-33.
48.- Montesinos, D., García-Fayos, P. & Verdú, M. 2010. Relictual
distribution reaches the top: Elevation constrains fertility and leaf longevity
in Juniperus thurifera.
Acta Oecologica, 36: 120-125.
47.- Ojeda, F., Pausas, J.G., Verdú, M. 2010. Soil shapes community structure through fire. Oecologia, 163: 729-735.
46.- Verdú,
M., Rey, P.J., Alcántara, J.M., Siles, G.& Valiente-Banuet, A. 2009. Phylogenetic signatures of facilitation
and competition in successional communities. Journal of Ecology, 97: 1171-1180.
45.- Verdú, M. &
Valiente-Banuet, A. 2008. The nested assembly of plant facilitation networks prevents species
extinctions. American Naturalist, 172: 751-760.
44.- De Luis, M.; Verdú, M. & Raventós, J. 2008. Early to rise makes a plant healthy, wealthy and wise. Ecology, 89: 3061-3071.
43.- Gleiser,
G., Verdú, M., Segarra-Moragues, J.G., González-Martínez, S.C. & Pannell,
J.R. 2008. Disassortative
mating, sexual specialization and the evolution of gender dimorphism in heterodichogamous Acer
opalus. Evolution, 62:
1676-1688.
42.- Gleiser, G., Segarra-Moragues, J.G., Pannell, J.R. & Verdú M. 2008. Siring
success and paternal effects in heterodichogamous Acer opalus. Annals of Botany, 101:
1017-1026.
41.- Valiente-Banuet, A. &
Verdú, M. 2008. Temporal shifts from facilitation to competition occur between
closely related taxa. Journal of Ecology, 96: 489-494.
40.- Pausas, J. G. & Verdú, M.
2008. Fire reduces morphospace occupation in plant
communities. Ecology, 89: 2181-2186.
39.- Verdú, M. & Pausas, J. G.
2007. Fire drives phylogenetic clustering in
38.- Valiente-Banuet, A. &
Verdú, M. 2007. Facilitation can increase the phylogenetic diversity of plant
communities. Ecology Letters, 10:
1029–1036.
37.- Verdú M., Pausas J.G., Segarra-Moragues J.G., Ojeda F. 2007. Burning phylogenies: fire, molecular
evolutionary rates and diversification. Evolution, 61:
2195-2204.
36.- Verdú, M. & Climent, J. 2007. Evolutionary correlations of polycyclic
shoot growth in Acer (Sapindaceae). American Journal of Botany, 94: 1316-1320.
35.- Montesinos, D., Verdú, M. &
García-Fayos, P. 2007. Moms are better nurses than
dads: sex biased self-facilitation in a dioecious juniper tree. Journal of
Vegetation Science, 18: 271-280.
34.- Verdú, M., Spanos, K, Canova,
I., Slobodnik, B & Paule,
L. 2007. Similar gender dimorphism in the costs of reproduction across the
geographic range of Fraxinus ornus. Annals of Botany, 99: 183-191.
33.- Valiente-Banuet, A., Vital, A.,
Verdú, M. & Callaway, R. 2006. Modern Quaternary plant lineages promote
diversity through facilitation of ancient Tertiary lineages. Proceedings of the
National
32.- Verdú, M., González-Martínez,
S.V., Montilla, A.I., Mateu,
I. and Pannell, J.R. 2006 Ovule discounting in an outcrossing, cryptically
dioecious tree. Evolution, 60:
2056-2063.
31.- Montesinos, D., De Luís, M.,
Verdú, M., Raventós, J. & García-Fayos, P. 2006 When, how and how much: gender-specific
resource use strategies in the dioecious tree Juniperus thurifera. Annals of Botany 98: 885-889.
30.- Pannell, J.R. & Verdú, M.
2006. The evolution of gender specialisation from
dimorphic hermaphroditism: paths from heterodichogamy
to gynodioecy and androdioecy. Evolution 60: 660-673.
29.- Pausas, J., Keeley, J. &
Verdú, M. 2006. Inferring differential evolutionary processes of plant
persistence traits in Northern Hemisphere Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems.
Journal of Ecology 94: 31-39.
28. Verdú, M. & Gleiser, G.
2006. Adaptive evolution of reproductive and vegetative traits driven by
breeding systems. New Phytologist 169: 409-417.
27. Verdú, M. 2006. Tempo, mode and
phylogenetic associations of relative embryo size evolution in angiosperms.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 625-634.
26.- Verdú, M. & Traveset, A. 2005. Early emergence enhances plant fitness:
a phylogenetically controlled meta-analysis. Ecology 86:
1385-1394.
25.- Gleiser, G. & Verdú, M.
2005. Repeated evolution of dioecy from
androdioecy in Acer. New Phytologist 165: 633-640.
24.- Pausas, J. & Verdú, M. 2005. Plant persistence traits in fire-prone
ecosystems of the
23.- Verdú, M. & Traveset, A. 2004.
Bridging meta-analysis and the comparative method: A test of seed size effect
on germination after frugivores’ gut passage. Oecologia
138: 414-418.
22.- Traveset,
A.,
21.- Verdú, M., Villar-Salvador, P.
& García-Fayos, P. 2004. Gender effects on the
post-facilitation performance of two dioecious Juniperus species. Functional Ecology 18: 87-93.
20.- Verdú, M. 2004. Physiological
and reproductive differences between hermaphrodites and males in the androdioecious plant Fraxinus
ornus. Oikos 105: 239-246.
19.- Gleiser, G; Picher, M. C.; Veintimilla, P. Martinez, J.
& Verdú, M. 2004. Seed
dormancy and seed storage behaviour in Acer opalus. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 145: 203-208.
18.- Verdú,
M., García-Fayos, P. & Gleiser, G. 2004. Mites attack males of the sexually polymorphic tree Acer opalus
more harmfully and more often. Functional Ecology 18: 592-597.
17.- Verdú, M., Montilla,
A. I. & Pannell, J. R. 2004.
Paternal effects on functional gender account for cryptic dioecy in a
perennial plant. Proceedings of the Royal Society of
16.- Verdú, M., Dávila,
P., García-Fayos, P., Flores-Hernández, N, &
Valiente-Banuet, A. 2003. “Convergent” traits of Mediterranean woody plants
belong to pre-Mediterranean lineages.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 78: 415-427.
15.- Verdú, M. & García-Fayos, P. 2003. Frugivorous birds mediate sex-biased
facilitation in a dioecious nurse plant. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 35-42.
14.- Verdú, M. 2002. Age at maturity
and diversification in woody angiosperms.
Evolution 56: 1352-1361.
13.- Verdú, M. & García-Fayos, P. 2001. The effect of deceptive fruits on predispersal seed predation by birds in Pistacia lentiscus. Plant Ecology 156: 245-248.
12.- Verdú, M. y García-Fayos, P. 2002. Ecología reproductiva de Pistacia lentiscus L.(Anacardiaceae): un anacronismo evolutivo en el matorral mediterráneo. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 75: 57-65.
11.- Verdú,
M., Valiente-Banuet, A., Flores-Hernández, N. & García-Fayos,
P. 2002. Mexical plant phenology :
is it similar to mediterranean communities?. Botanical Journal of the Linnean
Society 138: 297-303.
10.- Verdú, M. 2000. Ecological and
evolutionary differences between Mediterranean seeders and resprouters.
Journal of Vegetation Science 11: 265-268.
9.- Lloret, F., Verdú, M.,
Flores-Hernández, N. & Valiente-Banuet, A. 1999. Fire and resprouting in
Mediterranean ecosystems: insights from an external biogeographical region, the
Mexical shrubland. American Journal of Botany 86: 1655-1661.
8.- Valiente-Banuet, A., Flores
Hernandez, N., Verdú, M. & Dávila, P. 1998. The Chaparral vegetation in Mexico under
non-mediterranean climate: convergence and Madrean-Tethyan
hypotheses reconsidered. American Journal of Botany 85:
1398-1408.
7.- Verdú, M.
& García-Fayos, P. 1998. Old-field colonization by Daphne gnidium L.: seedling distribution
and spatial dependence at different scales. Journal of Vegetation Science 9: 713-718.
6.- Verdú, M. & García-Fayos, P. 1998. Female biased sex ratios in Pistacia lentiscus L. (Anacardiaceae). Plant Ecology 135: 95-101.
5.- Verdú, M. & García-Fayos, P. 1998. Ecological causes, function and evolution
of abortion and parthenocarpy in Pistacia
lentiscus (Anacardiaceae). Canadian Journal of
Botany 76: 134-141.
4.- García-Fayos,
P. & Verdú, M. 1998. Soil seed bank, factors controlling germination, and
establishment of a Mediterranean shrub: Pistacia
lentiscus L. Acta Oecologica 19: 357-366.
3.- Verdú, M.
& García-Fayos, P. 1996. Nucleation processes in a Mediterranean
bird-dispersed plant. Functional Ecology 10: 275-280.
2.- Verdú, M. & García-Fayos, P. 1996. Postdispersal
seed predation in a Mediterranean patchy landscape. Acta Oecologica
17: 379-391.
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