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62
Citations
19175
World Ranking
2029
National Ranking
53

Overview

Marc Estiarte is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

Their research primarily focuses on several key topics, which include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems

Marc Estiarte has published papers in a range of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Global Change Biology

Their most cited and recent papers are:

  • "Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought," 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Rainfall manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: Where do we stand?", 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Drought legacies on soil respiration and microbial community in a Mediterranean forest soil under different soil moisture and carbon inputs," 2021, Geoderma
  • "Variability and limits of nitrogen and phosphorus resorption during foliar senescence," 2022, Plant Communications

Marc Estiarte frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, notably including Josep Peñuelas, Anke Jentsch, Enrique Valencia, Francesco de Bello, and Thomas Galland. They have co-published multiple works fostering developments in their common areas of study.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

    Joanna C. Carey;Jianwu Tang;Pamela H. Templer;Kevin D. Kroeger

  • Complex spatiotemporal phenological shifts as a response to rainfall changes

    Josep Peñuelas;Iolanda Filella;Xiaoyang Zhang;Laura Llorens

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Alteration of the phenology of leaf senescence and fall in winter deciduous species by climate change: effects on nutrient proficiency

    Marc Estiarte;Josep Peñuelas

  • Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

    Josep Penuelas;Jordi Sardans;Marc Estiarte;Roma Ogaya

  • Drought‐resistant fungi control soil organic matter decomposition and its response to temperature

    J. C. Yuste;Josep Peñuelas;M. Estiarte;Jordi García-Mas

  • Can elevated CO2 affect secondary metabolism and ecosystem function

    Josep Peñuelas;Marc Estiarte

  • Changes in soil enzymes related to C and N cycle and in soil C and N content under prolonged warming and drought in a Mediterranean shrubland

    Jordi Sardans;Josep Peñuelas;Marc Estiarte

  • Novel Approaches to Study Climate Change Effects on Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Field: Drought and Passive Nighttime Warming

    Claus Beier;Bridget Emmett;Per Gundersen;Albert Tietema

  • The Response of Soil Processes to Climate Change: Results from Manipulation Studies of Shrublands Across an Environmental Gradient

    Bridget A. Emmett;Claus Beier;Marc Estiarte;Albert Tietema

  • Response of plant species richness and primary productivity in shrublands along a north–south gradient in Europe to seven years of experimental warming and drought: reductions in primary productivity in the heat and drought year of 2003

    Josep Peñuelas;Patricia Prieto;Claus Beier;Carla Cesaraccio

  • Nonintrusive Field Experiments Show Different Plant Responses to Warming and Drought Among Sites, Seasons, and Species in a North–South European Gradient

    Josep Peñuelas;Carmen Gordon;Laura Llorens;T. Nielsen

  • Strong relationship between elemental stoichiometry and metabolome in plants

    Albert Rivas-Ubach;Jordi Sardans;Miriam Pérez-Trujillo;Marc Estiarte

  • Experimental evidence of reduced diversity of seedlings due to climate modification in a Mediterranean-type community

    Francisco Lloret;Josep Peñuelas;Marc Estiarte

  • Warming and drought alter C and N concentration, allocation and accumulation in a Mediterranean shrubland

    Jordi Sardans;Josep Peñuuelas;Marc Estiarte;Patricia Prieto

  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale.

    Enrique Valencia;Francesco de Bello;Thomas Galland;Peter B Adler;Peter B Adler

  • Warming and drought alter soil phosphatase activity and soil P availability in a Mediterranean shrubland

    J. Sardans;J. Peñuelas;M. Estiarte

  • Microbial community changes in heathland soil communities along a geographical gradient: interaction with climate change manipulations

    Alwyn Sowerby;Bridget Emmett;Claus Beier;Albert Tietema

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Jordi Sardans
Jordi Sardans Spanish National Research Council
Romà Ogaya
Romà Ogaya Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
Claus Beier
Claus Beier University of Copenhagen
Bridget A. Emmett
Bridget A. Emmett Natural Environment Research Council
Albert Tietema
Albert Tietema University of Amsterdam
Inger Kappel Schmidt
Inger Kappel Schmidt University of Copenhagen
Joan Llusià
Joan Llusià Autonomous University of Barcelona
Francisco Lloret
Francisco Lloret Autonomous University of Barcelona
Klaus Steenberg Larsen
Klaus Steenberg Larsen University of Copenhagen

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