| Global desertification: building a science for dryland development JF Reynolds, DMS Smith, EF Lambin, BL Turner, M Mortimore, ... science 316 (5826), 847-851, 2007 | 1536 | 2007 |
| Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future RW Brooker, FT Maestre, RM Callaway, CL Lortie, LA Cavieres, ... Journal of ecology 96 (1), 18-34, 2008 | 1335 | 2008 |
| Refining the stress‐gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities FT Maestre, RM Callaway, F Valladares, CJ Lortie Journal of Ecology 97 (2), 199-205, 2009 | 857 | 2009 |
| Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis DJ Eldridge, MA Bowker, FT Maestre, E Roger, JF Reynolds, WG Whitford Ecology letters 14 (7), 709-722, 2011 | 587 | 2011 |
| Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands FT Maestre, JL Quero, NJ Gotelli, A Escudero, V Ochoa, ... Science 335 (6065), 214-218, 2012 | 577 | 2012 |
| Is the change of plant–plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta‐analysis of field results in arid environments FT Maestre, F Valladares, JF Reynolds Journal of Ecology 93 (4), 748-757, 2005 | 488 | 2005 |
| Positive, negative, and net effects in grass–shrub interactions in Mediterranean semiarid grasslands FT Maestre, S Bautista, J Cortina Ecology 84 (12), 3186-3197, 2003 | 386 | 2003 |
| Do positive interactions increase with abiotic stress? A test from a semi-arid steppe FT Maestre, J Cortina Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 373 | 2004 |
| Potential for using facilitation by grasses to establish shrubs on a semiarid degraded steppe FT Maestre, S Bautista, J Cortina, J Bellot Ecological Applications 11 (6), 1641-1655, 2001 | 322 | 2001 |
| Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands M Delgado-Baquerizo, FT Maestre, A Gallardo, MA Bowker, ... Nature 502 (7473), 672, 2013 | 312 | 2013 |
| Are Pinus halepensis plantations useful as a restoration tool in semiarid Mediterranean areas? FT Maestre, J Cortina Forest Ecology and Management 198 (1-3), 303-317, 2004 | 297 | 2004 |
| Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy RR Hernandez, SB Easter, ML Murphy-Mariscal, FT Maestre, M Tavassoli, ... Renewable and sustainable energy reviews 29, 766-779, 2014 | 254 | 2014 |
| Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems M Delgado-Baquerizo, FT Maestre, PB Reich, TC Jeffries, JJ Gaitan, ... Nature communications 7, 10541, 2016 | 248 | 2016 |
| Small-scale spatial variation in soil CO2 efflux in a Mediterranean semiarid steppe FT Maestre, J Cortina Applied Soil Ecology 23 (3), 199-209, 2003 | 239 | 2003 |
| Climate and litter quality differently modulate the effects of soil fauna on litter decomposition across biomes P García‐Palacios, FT Maestre, J Kattge, DH Wall Ecology Letters 16, 1045–1053, 2013 | 230 | 2013 |
| Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi‐arid Mediterranean grasslands FT Maestre, MA Bowker, MD Puche, M Belén Hinojosa, I Martínez, ... Ecology letters 12 (9), 930-941, 2009 | 223 | 2009 |
| Small-scale environmental heterogeneity and spatiotemporal dynamics of seedling establishment in a semiarid degraded ecosystem FT Maestre, J Cortina, S Bautista, J Bellot, R Vallejo Ecosystems 6 (7), 630-643, 2003 | 218 | 2003 |
| A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil M Delgado-Baquerizo, AM Oliverio, TE Brewer, A Benavent-González, ... Science 359 (6373), 320-325, 2018 | 198 | 2018 |
| Spatial patterns of surface soil properties and vegetation in a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe FT Maestre, J Cortina Plant and soil 241 (2), 279-291, 2002 | 188 | 2002 |
| Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands FT Maestre, M Delgado-Baquerizo, TC Jeffries, DJ Eldridge, V Ochoa, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (51), 15684-15689, 2015 | 182 | 2015 |
Jordi CortinaCatedràtic d'Ecologia, Universitat d'AlacantVerified email at ua.es