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Julio Blones
Researcher at Universidad Simón Rodríguez
Publications - 2
Citations - 1012
Julio Blones is an academic researcher from Universidad Simón Rodríguez. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 769 citations.
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Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands
Fernando T. Maestre,José L. Quero,Nicholas J. Gotelli,Adrián Escudero,Victoria Ochoa,Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo,Miguel García-Gómez,Miguel García-Gómez,Matthew A. Bowker,Santiago Soliveres,Cristina Escolar,Pablo García-Palacios,Miguel Berdugo,Enrique Valencia,Beatriz Gozalo,Antonio Gallardo,Lorgio E. Aguilera,Tulio Arredondo,Julio Blones,Bertrand Boeken,Donaldo Bran,Abel Augusto Conceição,Omar Cabrera,Mohamed Chaieb,Mchich Derak,David J. Eldridge,Carlos I. Espinosa,Adriana Florentino,Juan José Gaitán,M. Gabriel Gatica,Wahida Ghiloufi,Susana Gómez-González,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Rosa M. Hernández,Xuewen Huang,Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald,Mohammad Jankju,Maria N. Miriti,Jorge Monerris,Rebecca L. Mau,Ernesto Morici,Kamal Naseri,Abelardo Ospina,Vicente Polo,Aníbal Prina,Eduardo Pucheta,David A. Ramírez-Collantes,R. L. Romão,Matthew Tighe,Cristian Torres-Díaz,James Val,José P. Veiga,Deli Wang,Eli Zaady +53 more
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.
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Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands
Santiago Soliveres,Fernando T. Maestre,Matthew A. Bowker,Rubén Torices,José L. Quero,José L. Quero,Miguel García-Gómez,Miguel García-Gómez,Omar Cabrera,Alex P. Cea,Daniel Coaguila,David J. Eldridge,Carlos I. Espinosa,Frank A. Hemmings,Jorge Monerris,Matthew Tighe,Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo,Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo,Cristina Escolar,Pablo García-Palacios,Beatriz Gozalo,Victoria Ochoa,Julio Blones,Mchich Derak,Wahida Ghiloufi,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Rosa M. Hernández,Zouhaier Noumi +28 more
TL;DR: In this global-scale study on drylands, plant-plant interactions were more strongly related to functional traits of the species involved than to the environmental variables considered, so moving to a trait-based facilitation/competition approach help to predict that positive plant- plant interactions are more likely to occur for taller facilitated species in drylands.