Publications

Publications

* Underlined first authors are students or postdocs directed or co-directed

  • Yahdjian L., Campana S., Tognetti P., Alberti J., Graff P., Molina C., Borer E., Seabloom E., Prober S., Mac Dougall A., Risch A.C., Power S. ….NutNet CONSORTIUM. 2025. Insights on global rangeland ecosystem services shaped by grazing and fertilization. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment DOI:10.1002/fee.70022 (in press).
  • Bondaruk V*., Oñatibia G., Fernández R. J., Peri P., Quiroga R.E., Agüero W., Blanco L., Peter G., Yahdjian L. 2025. Main drivers of forage sensitivity to droughts of increasing duration in rangelands. Grass and Forage Science (in press).
  • Biancari L., Oñatibia G., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Gross N., Yahdjian L., Aguiar M., ….& Maestre F. 2025. Plant diversity enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure in global drylands. Nature Ecology & Evolution (in press; Member of the core group of authors).
  • Rahmanian S., Eisenhauer N., Huang Y., Hejda M., Pyšek P., Feilhauer H., Delgado-Baquerizo M., Gross N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Saiz H., Berdugo M., Gozalo B., Ochoa V, ,,,,Yahdjian L …..Biodesert CONSORTIUM & Maestre F. 2025. Abiotic and biotic controls of non-native perennial plant success in drylands. Nature Ecology & Evolution (in press).
  • Worthy S.J., Luong J.C., Wainwright B-E., Aguiñaga J., Auge H., Barcu A.C., Batbaatar A.Yahdjian L …..DroughtNet CONSORTIUM &Funk. 2025. Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response. Nature Ecology & Evolution (in press).
  • Ravetta M.*, Bondaruk V., Oñatibia G.R., Loydi A., Pascual J., Peri P., Peter G., Oliva G., Ferrante D., Bruschetti C., Daleo P., Aguero W., Yahdjian L. 2025. Drought and plant invasions along an aridity gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science e70084.https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70084
  • Ohlert T,, Smith M.D., Collins S.L., Knapp A., Dukes J, Munson S, Anderson M., Avolio M., … Yahdjian L., DroughtNet CONSORTIUM, & Zuo X. 2025. Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity. Science 390,284-289(2025).https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads8144 (Member of the core group of authors).
  • Bondaruk V.*, Xu C., Wilfahrt P., Yahdjian L., Yu Q., Alberti J., … NPKD CONSORTIUM, & Hautier Y. 2025. Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition. Nature Ecology & Evolution.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02705-8.
  • Fay P.A#., Gherardi L.A.#, Yahdjian L.#, Adler P., Bakker J.D., Bharath S., Borer E.T., Harpole S.W., Hersch‐Green E., Huxman T.E., MacDougall A.S., Risch A.C., Seabloom E.W., NutNet consortium. 2025. Interactions among nutrients govern the global grassland biomass – precipitation relationship. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (15) e2410748122https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2410748122. #Corresponding authors.
  • Smit I. C., le Roux P. C., Soliveres S., Gross N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Saiz H., … Yahdjian L., BIODESERT CONSORTIUM, & Maestre F. 2025. Plant trait matching occurs in facilitative interactions across global drylands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34 (11)e70158. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70158
  • Carroll O., Borer E., Seabloom E., Yahdjian L, NutNet CONSORTIUM, & MacDougall A.S. 2025. Frequent failure o. f nutrients to increase plant biomass supports the need for precision fertilization in agriculture. Scientific Reports 15:14564.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99071-z.
  • Wang L., Zhao J., Zhu Y., Li Z., Shi Z., Yang X., Yahdjian L. 2025. Plant invasion risk assessment in Argentina´s arid and semi-arid rangelands. Journal of Environmental Management 377, 124648https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124648.
  • Spohn M. Bagchi S, Bakker J, Borer E, Carbutt, Jane A. Catford, Christopher R. Dickman, … Yahdjian L., …, & Seabloom E. 2025. Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. Communications Biology 8, 97.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07518-w
  • Piñeiro-Guerra J.M*, Lewczuk N., Della Chiesa T., Araujo P.I., Acreche M., Alvarez C., Alvarez C.R., Chalco Vera J., Costantini A., De Tellería J., Petrasek M., Piccinetti C., Picone L., Portela S.I., Posse G., Seijo M., Videla C., Yahdjian L., Piñeiro G. 2025. Spatial variability of nitrous oxide emissions from croplands and unmanaged natural ecosystems across a large environmental gradient.Journal of Environmental Quality 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20663.
  • Campana S*., Tognetti P., Alberti J., Graff P., Molina C., Silvoso M. C., Yahdjian L. 2024. The temporal and spatial stability of plant diversity are disconnected from biomass stability in response to human activities in a South American temperate grassland. Science of the Total Environment https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177031.
  • Velasco Ayuso S.*, Oñatibia G. R., Yahdjian L. 2024. Soil multifunctionality increases after grazing abandonment in semiarid rangelands. Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 201, 2024, 105522, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105522.
  • Biancari L., Aguiar M.R., Eldridge D.J., Oñatibia G.R., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Saiz H., Gross N.,…..Biodesert consortium, Yahdjian L., Zaady E., Maestre F. 2024. Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands, Science Advances 10, eadn6007 (2024).https://10.1126/sciadv.adn6007.
  • Diaz-Martinez P., Maestre F. …Biodesert Consortium…, Yahdjian L., Xiaobing Zhou. 2024. Vulnerability of mineral-protected soil organic carbon to climate in global drylands. Nature Climate Change 14(9); 976-982. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02087-y.
  • MacDougall A.S, Esch E,, Chen Q., Carroll O., Bonner C., Ohlert T., Siewart M,, Sulik J., Schweiger A., Borer E.….. Yahdjian L….., NutNet consortium. 2024. Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02500-x.
  • Gross N. Maestre F. …Biodesert Consortium…, Yahdjian L., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. 2024. Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07731-3.
  • Eldridge D., Dorrough J., Delgado-Baquerizo M., Sala O.E., Gross N.,Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Mallen-Cooper M., Saiz H. .,….. Biodesert Consortium, Yahdjian L., Maestre F. 2024, Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nature Plants https://Article doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7.
  • Sarneel J, Hefting M.M., Sandén T., van den Hoogen J., Routh D. … Yahdjian L. …TeaComposition consortium. 2024. Reading tea leaves worldwide: decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization. Ecology Letters 2024;27:e14 415.https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14415.
  • Piazza M.V., Pinto P., Bazzoni B., Berenstecher P., Casas C., López Zieher X., Mallerman J., Méndez M., Omacini M., Piñeiro G., Semmartin M., Vivanco L., Yahdjian L. 2024. From plant litter to soil organic matter: a game to understand carbon dynamics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, e2724, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2724.
  • Smith M.D., Wilkins K., Holdrege M.C., Wilfahrt P., Collins S.L., Knapp A., Sala O.E., Dukes J, Phillips R., Yahdjian L., DroughtNet CONSORTIUM, & Sun W, 2024. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(4), e2309881120.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2309881120 (Member of the core group of authors).
  • Carboni L.J.*, Yahdjian L Oñatibia G. 2023. Effects of livestock grazing intensification on plant communities of Patagonian drylands increase with increasing aridity. Applied Vegetation Science 26:4, e12754. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12754  (This paper is among the top 10 most-cited papers published by the journal in 2023).
  • Ciavattini M.*, Tognetti P.M., Campana S., Yahdjian L. 2023. Livestock grazing promotes legume abundance under increased nutrient loads: Mechanistic evidence from a temperate grassland. Applied Vegetation Science 26:4, e12751. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12751.
  • Spohn M. Bagchi S., Biederman L.A., Borer E.T., Bråthen K.A., NutNet CONSORTIUM..& Yahdjian L. 2023. The positive effect of plant diversity on soil organic carbon depends on climate. Nature Communications 14, 6624 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42340-0.
  • Yahdjian L., Carboni L.J., Velasco Ayuso S., Oñatibia G.R. 2023. Intensification of livestock farming in times of climate change: The challenges of domestic grazing in the drylands of the Argentine Patagonia. Metode Science Studies Journal, 13: 25–31. ISSN 2174-3487. eISSN: 2174-9221. https:// doi.org/10.7203/metode.13.21553. Tambien disponible en español: Intensificación de la ganadería en tiempos de cambio climático: Desafíos del pastoreo doméstico en las zonas áridas de la Patagonia Argentina. Monográfico para “Zonas áridas: oportunidades, retos y amenazas”. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.13.2155.
  • Garbowski M., Boughton E., Ebeling A., Fay P., Hautier Y., Holz H., Jentsch A., Jurburg S., Ladouceur E., Martina J., Ohlert T., Raynaud X., Roscher C., Sonnier G., Tognetti P., Yahdjian L., Wilfart P. Harpole W.S. 2023. Nutrient enrichment alters seasonal beta-diversity in global grasslands. Journal of Ecology. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14182.
  • Toledo S., Bondaruk V.F., Yahdjian L., Oñatibia G.R., Loydi A., Alberti J., Bruschetti M., Pascual J., Peter G., Agüero W.D, Namur P.R., Blanco L., Peri P.L. 2023. Environmental factors regulate soil microbial attributes and their response to drought in rangeland ecosystems. Science of the Total Environment, 892,164406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164406.
  • Maestre F.T., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Delgado-Baquerizo M., Eldridge D.J., Saiz H., Berdugo M., Gozalo B., Ochoa V., Guirado E., ….Yahdjian L., …BIODESERT CONSORTIUM & Gross N. 2022. Livestock grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science 378 (6622): 915-920.  https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq4062.
  • Toledo S., Gargaglione V., Yahdjian L., Peri P. 2023. Differential responses of soil microorganisms to precipitation changes in austral semiarid grasslands.Pedobiologia – Journal of Soil Ecology, 150873. Vol 97-98, 2023, Pages 1-10.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2023.150873.
  • Risch A., Zimmermann S., Schuetz M., Borer E., Broadbent A., Caldeira M. Davies K., Eisenhauer N., Eskelinen A., Fay P., Hagedorn F., Knops J., Lembrechts J., MacDougall A., McCulley B., Melbourne B., Moore J., Power S., Seabloom E., Silveira M., Virtanen R., Yahdjian L., Ochoa Hueso R. 2023.  Drivers of the microbial metabolic quotient across global grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32, 904–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13664.
  • Petrasek M.R.*, Piñeiro G., Bonvecchi V.E., Yahdjian L. 2023. Are service crops an alternative for mitigating N2O emissions in soybean crops in the Argentinian pampas? J Environ Qual 52:258–269. doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20445.
  • Frey B., Moser B., Tytgat B., Zimmermann S., Alberti J., Biederman L., Borer E.T., Brodbent A., Caldeira M.C., Davies Kendi F., Eisenhauer N., Eskelinen A., Fay P., Hagedorn F., Hautier Y., MacDougall A.S., McCulley R.L., Moore J.L., Nepel M., Power S.A., Seabloom E.W., Vasqzez E., Virtanen R., Yahdjian L., Risch A.C. 2023. Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 176, 108887https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108887.
  • Maestre F.T., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Delgado-Baquerizo M., Eldridge D.J., Saiz H., Berdugo M., Gozalo B., Ochoa V., Guirado E., García-Gómez M., Valencia E., Gaitán J.J, Asensio S., Mendoza B.J., Plaza C., Díaz-Martínez P., Rey A., Hu H., He J., Wang J.T., Lehmann A., ….BIODESERT CONSORTIUM…Yahdjian L., Zaady E., Zhang Y., Zhou X., Singh B.K., Gross N. 2022. Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science 378 (6622): 915-920. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq4062.
  • Bondaruk V.F.*, Oñatibia G.R., Fernández R., Agüero W., Blanco L., Bruschetti C.M., Kröpfl A., Loydi A., Pascual J., Peri P., Peter G., Quiroga R. E., Yahdjian L. 2022. Forage provision is more affected by droughts in arid and semi-arid than in mesic rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59 (9) 2404-2418.https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14243.
  • Bondaruk V.F.*, Oñatibia G.R., Wilcox K.R., Yahdjian L. 2022. Standardized indices to estimate sensitivity to drought across ecosystems. Applied Vegetation Science, 25, e12674.  https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12674
  • Price J., Sitters J. Ohlert T., Brown C.S., Tognetti P., Seabloom E.W., Borer E.T., Prober S., MacDougall A.S., Yahdjian L., Bakker E., …& Wardle G.M.. 2022. Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity. Nature, Ecology and Evolution 6(9), 1290-1298.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01809-9. (Member of the core group of authors).
  • Smith M., Koerner S., Avolio M., Komatsu K., Eby S., Forrestel E., Collins S., Wilcox K., Ahumada R., Morgan J., Oliva G., Oñatibia G., Overbeck G., Peter G., Quiroga E., Sankaran M., Wu J., Yahdjian L., Yu Q. 2022. Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents. Oecologia, 199(3), 649-659.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05208-6.
  • Della Chiesa T.*, Piñeiro G., Del Grosso S., Parton W., Araujo P., Yahdjian L. 2022. Higher than expected N2O emissions from soybean crops in Argentina: estimates from DayCent-simulations and field measurements. Science of the Total environment 835 (2022) 155408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155408.
  • Campana M.S.*, Tognetti P., Yahdjian L. 2022. Livestock exclusion reduces the temporal stability of grassland productivity regardless of eutrophication. Science of the Total Environment 817 (2022) 152707, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152707.
  • Della Chiesa T.*, Del Grosso S.J., Hartman M.D., Parton W.J., Echarte L., Yahdjian L., Piñeiro G. 2022. A novel mechanism to simulate inter-cropping and relay-cropping using the DayCent model. Ecological Modelling 465:109869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109869.
  • Yahdjian L, Sala O.E., Piñeiro-Guerra J.M., Knapp A.K., Collins S., Phillips R., Smith M. 2021. Why coordinated distributed experiments should go global. BioScience 71 (9), 918–927. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab033.
  • Campana M.S.*, Yahdjian L. 2021. Plant quality and primary productivity modulate plant biomass responses to the joint effects of grazing and fertilization in a mesic grassland. Applied Vegetation Science. 24(2), e12588 https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12588. (Premio JVS/AVS Editors’ Awards for 2021; https://vegsciblog.org/ 2022/01/06/jvs-avs-editors-awards-for-2021/).
  • Carroll O., Batzer E., Bharath S., Borer E.T., Campana S., Esch E., Hautier Y., Ohlert T., Seabloom E.W., Adler P.B., Bakker J.D., Biederman L., Bugalho M.N., Caldeira M., Chen Q., Davies K., Fay P.A., Knops J.M.H., Komatsu K., Martina J., McCann K.S., Moore J.L., Morgan J.W., Muraina T.O., Osborne B., Risch A.C., Stevens C., Wilfhart P.A., Yahdjian L., and MacDougall A.S. 2021. Nutrient identity modifies the destabilizing effects of eutrophication in grasslands. Ecology Letters 25:754 –765; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13946.
  • Tognetti P., Prober S., Baez S., Chaneton E., Firn J., Risch A., Schuetz M., Simonsen A., Yahdjian L.,  …& Sankaran M. 2021. Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. PNAS 118 (28) e2023718118; (Member of the core group of authors).https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023718118 (Science Editors’ Choice; Science 2021).
  • Kwon T, Shibata H, Kepfer-Rojas S, Schmidt IK, Larsen KS, Beier C, Berg B, Verheyen K, Lamarque JF, Hagedorn F, Eisenhauer N, Djukic I,…Yahdjian L. …TeaComposition CONSORTIUM. 2021. Effects of climate and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on early to mid-term stage litter decomposition across biomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2021:90. doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.678480.
  • López Zieher XM*, Vivanco L, Yahdjian L. 2020. Soil bacterial communities remain altered after 30 years of agriculture abandonment in Pampa grasslands. Oecologia, 193 (4), 959-968. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04736-3.
  • Araujo PI, Piñeiro-Guerra JM*, Yahdjian L, Acreche MM, Alvarez CR, Costantini A, Chalco Vera J, De Tellería J, Della Chiesa T, Lewczuk NA, Petrasek M, Piccinetti C, Picone L, Portela S, Posse G, Seijo M, Vera J, Videla C, Piñeiro G. 2020. Drivers of N2O emissions from natural forests and grasslands differ on space and time. Ecosystems 24.2 (2020): 335-350. doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00522-7.
  • Risch A, Zimmermann S, Moser B, Schuetz M, Hagedorn F, Firn J, Fay P, Adler P, Biederman L, Blair J, Borer E, Broadbent A, Cadotte M, Caldeira M, Davies Ki, di Virgilio A, Eisenhauer N, Eskelinen A, Knops J, MacDougall A, McCulley B, Melbourne B, Moore J, Power S, Prober S, Seabloom E, Siebert J, Silveira M, Speziale K, Stevens C, Tognetti P, Virtanen R, Yahdjian L, Ochoa Hueso R. 2020. Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization depend on local climate and soil properties. Global Change Biology 26 (12), 7173-7185. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15308.
  • Ochoa-Hueso R, Borer E, Seabloom EW, Hobbie SE, Risch AC, Collins SL, Alberti J, Bahamonde HA, Brown CS, Caldeira MC, Daleo P, Dickman CR, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Esch EH, Eskelinen A, Fernández V, Güsewell S, Gutierrez-Larruga B, Hofmockel K, Laungani R, Lind E, López A, McCulley RL, Moore JL, Peri P, Power SA, Price JN, Prober SM, Roscher C, Sarneel JM, Schütz M, Siebert J, Standish RJ, Velasco Ayuso S, Virtanen R, Wardle GM, Wiehl G, Yahdjian L, Zamin T 2020. Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands. Global Change Biology 26(8), 4572-4582. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15146.
  • Bharath S, Borer ET, Biederman LA, Blumenthal DM, Fay PA, Gherardi LA, Knops JMH, Leakey ADB, Yahdjian L, Seabloom EW. 2020. Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts. Ecology 101(5):e02981. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2981.
  • Piñeiro-Guerra J.*, Yahdjian L., Della Chiesa T., Piñeiro G. 2019. Nitrous oxide emissions decrease with plant diversity but increase with grassland primary productivity. Oecologia 190:497-507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04424-. (Research highlight: Findlay A. 2019. Grassland gas. Nature Climate Change 9: 577).
  • Della Chiesa T.*, Piñeiro G., Yahdjian L. 2019. Gross, background, and net anthropogenic soil N2O emissions from soybean, corn, and wheat croplands. Journal of Environmental Quality 48:16-23;https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2018.07.0262.
  • Risch A, Zimmermann S, Ochoa-Hueso R …..Yahdjian L, Moser B. 2019. Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nature Communications 10, 4981 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12948-2. (Top 50 Nature Communications Earth and planetary sciences articles published in 2019).
  • Komatsu KJ, Avolio ML, Lemoine NP, Isbell F, Grman E, Houseman GR, Koerner SE, Johnson DS, Wilcox KR, Alatalo JM, Anderson JP, Aerts R, Baer SG, Baldwin AH, Bates J, Beierkuhnlein C, Belote RT, Blair J, Bloor JMG, Bohlen PJ Bork EW, Boughton EH, Bowman WD, Britton AJ, Cahill Jr JF, Chaneton E, Chiariello NR, Cheng J, Collins SJ, Cornelissen JHC, Du G, Eskelinen A, Firn J, Foster B, Gough L, Gross K, Hallett LM, Han X, Harmens H, Hovenden MJ, Jagerbrand A, Jentsch A, Kern C, Klanderud K, Knapp AK, Kreyling J, Li W, Luo Y, McCulley RL, McLaren JR, Megonigal JP, Morgan JW, Onipchenko V, Pennings SC, Prevéy JS, Price JN, Reich PB, Robinson CH, Russell FL, Sala OE, Seabloom EW, Smith MD, Soudzilovskaia NA, Souza L, Suding K, Suttle KB, Svejcar T, Tilman D, Tognetti P, Turkington, White S, Xu Z, Yahdjian L, Zhang YQP, and Zhang Y. 2019. Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed. PNAS 116 (36) 17867-17873; doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1819027116.
  • Braun K., Collantes M.B., Yahdjian L., Escartin C., Anchorena J. 2019. Interactive effects of the environment on litter decomposition of exotic invasive herb Hieracium pilosella (Asteraceae) in Southern Patagonia, Argentina. Plant Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-019-00922-3.
  • Velasco Ayuso S.*, Oñatibia G.R., Maestre F.T., and Yahdjian L. 2019. Grazing pressure interacts with aridity to determine the development and diversity of biological soil crusts in Patagonian rangelands. Land Degradation and Development 31(4): 488-499. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3465.
  • Vilardo G.*, Tognetti P., Gonzalez-Arzac A., Yahdjian L. 2018. Soil arthropod composition differs between old-fields dominated by exotic plant species and remnant native grasslands. Acta Oecologica 91:57-64; doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2018.06.003.
  • Hautier Y., Isbell F., Borer E., Seabloom E., Harpole W., Lind E., MacDougall A., Stevens C., Adler P., Alberti J., Bakker J., Brudvig L., Buckley Y., Cadotte M., Caldeira M., Chaneton E., Chu C., Daleo P., Dickman C., Dwyer J., Eskelinen A., Fay P., Firn J., Hagenah N., Hillebrand H., Iribarne O., Kirkman K., Knops J., La Pierre K., McCulley R., Morgan J., Pärtel M., Pascual J., Price J., Prober S., Risch A., Sankaran M., Schuetz M., Standish R., Virtanen R., Wardle G., Yahdjian L, and Hector A. 2018. Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature, Ecology and Evolution 2:50-56, doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0395-0.
  • Djukic I., Kepfer-Rojas S., Kappel Schmidt I., Steenberg Larsen K., Beier C., Berg B., Verheyen K., ….Yahdjian L, … TeaComposition. 2018. Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of the Total Environment 628–629: 1369–1394. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.012.
  • Yahdjian L., Tognetti P., ChanetonE. 2017. Plant functional composition affects soil processes in novel successional grasslands. Functional Ecology 31:1813-1823, doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12885.
  • Flombaum Pedro, Yahdjian Laura and Osvaldo E. Sala. 2017. Global-change drivers on ecosystem functioning modulated by natural variability and saturating responses. Global Change Biology 23: 503–511, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13441 
  • Wilcox K.R., Tredennick A.T., Koerner S.E., Grman E., Hallett L.M.,  Avolio M.L., La Pierre K.J., Houseman G.R., Isbell F., Johnson D.S., Alatalo J.M., Baldwin A.H., Bork E., Boughton E.H., Bowman W.D., Britton A., Cahill Jr J.F., Collins S.L., Du G., Eskelinen A., Gough L., Jentsch A., Kern C., Klanderud K., Knapp A.K., Kreyling J., Luo Y., McLaren J.R., Megonigal P., Onipchenko V., Prevéy J., Price J., Robinson C.H., Sala O.E., Smith M.D., Soudzilovskaia A.N., Souza L., Tilman D, White S.R., Xu Z., Yahdjian L., Yu Q., Zhang Y. 2017. Asynchrony among local communities stabilizes ecosystem function of metacommunities. Ecology Letters 20:1534-1545, https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12861.
  • Wilcox K.R., Zheng Shi, Gherardi L, Lemoine N.P., Koerner S.E., Hoover D.L., Bork E., Byrne K.M., Cahill J., Jr., Collins S.L., Evans S., Gilgen A.K., Holub P., Jiang L., Knapp A.K., Lecain D., Liang J., Garcia Palacios P., Peñuelas J., Pockman W.T., Smith M., White S., Sun S., Yahdjian L., Zhu K., Luo Y. 2017. Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: a synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments.Global Change Biology 23:4376-4375, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13706.
  • Knapp A.K., Avolio M., Beier C., Carroll C., Collins S., Dukes J., Fraser L., Griffin-Nolan R., Hoover D., Loik M., Phillips R., Post A., Sala O., Slette I., Yahdjian L., Smith M. 2017. Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Global Change Biology 23:1774–1782, https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13504.
  • Liebig M.A., Franzluebbers A.J., C. Alvarez, T. Della Chiesa, N. Lewczuk, G. Piñeiro, G. Posse, L.Yahdjian, P. Grace, O. Machado Rodrigues Cabral, L. Martin-Neto, R. de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues, B. Amiro, D. Angers, X. Hao, M. Oelbermann, M. Tenuta, L.J. Munkholm, K. Regina, P. Cellier, F. Ehrhardt, G. Richard, R. Dechow, F. Agus, N. Widiarta, J. Spink, A. Berti, C. Grignani, M. Mazzoncini, R. Orsini, P.P. Roggero, G. Seddaiu, F. Tei, D. Ventrella, G. Vitali, A. Kishimoto-Mo, Y. Shirato, S. Sudo, J. Shin, L. Schipper, R. Savé, J. Leifeld, L. Spadavecchia, J. Yeluripati, S. Del Grosso, C. Rice & J. Sawchik. 2016. MAGGnet: An international network to foster mitigation of agricultural greenhouse gases. Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2016.1180586.
  • Flores-Moreno H., Reich P.B., Lind E.M., Sullivan L.L., Seabloom E.W., Yahdjian L., MacDougall A.S., Reichmann L., Alberti J., Báez S., Bakker J.D., Cadotte M.W., Caldeira M.C., Chaneton E.J., D’Antonio C., Fay P.A., Firn J., Hagenah N., Harpole W.S., Iribarne O., Kirkman K.P., Knops J.M. H., La Pierre K.J., Laungani R., Leakey A.D.B., McCulley R.L., Moore J.L., Pascual J., Borer E.T. 2016. Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions B 371:0273.https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0273 
  • Yahdjian L. Sala O.E., Havstad K.M. 2015. Rangeland ecosystem services: shifting focus from supply to reconciling supply and demand. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13(1) 44:51.
  • Yahdjian L., Gherardi L., Sala O.E. 2014. Grasses have larger response than shrubs to increased nitrogen availability: A fertilization experiment in the Patagonian Steppe.Journal of Arid Environments 102, 17-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2013.11.002.
  • Spirito F.*, Yahdjian L., Tognetti P., Chaneton E. 2014. Soil ecosystem function under native and exotic plant assemblages as alternative states in successional grasslands.  Acta Oecologica 54:4-12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2012.10.004.
  • Gherardi L.*, Sala O. E. and Yahdjian Laura. 2013. Preference for different inorganic-nitrogen forms among plant-functional types and species of the Patagonian steppe. Oecologia 173:1075-1081.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-013-2687-7 
  • Araujo P.*, Yahdjian L., Austin A. T. 2012. Do soil organisms affect aboveground litter decomposition in the semiarid Patagonian steppe, Argentina?Oecologia 168: 221-230 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-011-2063-4.
  • Yahdjian L., Gherardi L., Sala O.E. 2011. Nitrogen limitation in arid-subhumid ecosystems: a meta-analysis of fertilization studies.Journal of Arid Environments 75:675-680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.03.003.
  • Yahdjian L., Sala O.E. 2011. El futuro de los pastizales sudamericanos. Interciencia  36(2): 153-159.chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.produccion-animal.com.ar/produccion_y_manejo_pasturas/pasturas%20naturales/146-futuro.pdf 
  • Yahdjian L. and Sala O.E. 2010. Size of precipitation pulses controls nitrogen transformation and losses in an arid Patagonian ecosystem. Ecosystems, 13:575-585.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-010-9341-6 
  • Yahdjian L. and Sala O.E. 2008. Climate change impacts on South American Rangelands. Rangelands, 30(3):34-39.
  • Yahdjian L. and Sala O.E. 2008. Do litter decomposition and nitrogen mineralization show the same trend in the response to dry and wet years in the Patagonian steppe? Journal of Arid Environments, 75:687:695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2007.09.005 
  • Yahdjian L. and Sala O.E. 2006. Vegetation structure constrains primary production response to water availability in the Patagonian Steppe. Ecology, 87(4):952-962. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[952:VSCPPR]2.0.CO;2 
  • Yahdjian L. Sala O.E., Austin A.T. 2006. Differential controls of water input on litter decomposition and nitrogen dynamics in the Patagonian Steppe. Ecosystems 9:128-141.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-004-0118-7 
  • Austin A.T., Yahdjian L., Stark J.M., Belnap J., Porporato A., Norton U., Ravetta D., Schaeffer S.M. 2004. Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems. Oecologia, 141:221-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-004-1519-1 
  • Yahdjian L. and Sala O.E. 2002. A rainout shelter design for intercepting different amounts of rainfall. Oecologia 133:95-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-002-1024-3 

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Facultad de Agronomía UBA

Associate Professor Cátedra de Ecología, Dto. de Recursos naturales y ambiente

EPG FAUBA

Director of the Maestría en Recursos Naturales Renovables Terrestres

Asociación Argentina de Ecología

President

Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura

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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Técnicas

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