Adrián Escudero

TL;DR: A global empirical study relating plant species richness and abiotic factors to multifunctionality in drylands, which collectively cover 41% of Earth’s land surface and support over 38% of the human population, suggests that the preservation of plant biodiversity is crucial to buffer negative effects of climate change and desertification in dryland.

TL;DR: Any predicted increase in aridity with climate change will probably reduce the concentrations of N and C in global drylands, but increase that of P, suggesting the provision of key services provided by these ecosystems could be negatively affected.

TL;DR: Fernando T. Maestre,* Jose L. Quero, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Adrian Escudero, Victoria Ochoa, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Miguel Garcia-Gomez, Matthew A. Eldridge, Carlos I. Espinosa, Adriana Florentino, Juan Gaitan, M. Gabriel Gatica, Wahida Ghiloufi, Susana Gomez-Gonzalez, Julio R. Gutierrez, Rosa M. Veiga, Deli Wang, Eli Zaady

TL;DR: A demographic framework is proposed to understand this inertia to change based on the balance between adult mortality induced by the event and enhanced recruitment or adult survival after the event, crucial for the establishment of sound management strategies and actions addressed to improve ecosystem resilience under climate change scenarios.

TL;DR: Evaluating the effects of shrub encroachment on the structure and composition of multiple biotic community components, and on various indicators of ecosystem function in degraded Mediterranean grasslands suggests that shrub establishment may be an important step in the reversal of desertification processes in the Mediterranean region.