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Maria-Teresa Sebastià

Maria-Teresa Sebastià

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
8498
World Ranking
7014
National Ranking
247

Overview

Maria-Teresa Sebastià is affiliated with the University of Lleida in Spain. Their research activity primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial body of work across related subfields and topics.

The main fields of study in their publications include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields of study covered in their work are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science

The scientist's research topics span:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Maria-Teresa Sebastià has published extensively in several journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Agronomy
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Ecosystems

Their recent papers include:

  • Carbon-nitrogen interactions in European forests and semi-natural vegetation - Part 1: Fluxes and budgets of carbon, nitrogen and greenhouse gases from ecosystem monitoring and modelling (2020, Biogeosciences)
  • LandTrendr smoothed spectral profiles enhance woody encroachment monitoring (2021, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Quality Assessment of Photogrammetric Methods-A Workflow for Reproducible UAS Orthomosaics (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Management and site effects on carbon balances of European mountain meadows and rangelands (2024, DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)))
  • Fairy rings harbor distinct soil fungal communities and high fungal diversity in a montane grassland (2020, Fungal ecology)

Frequent co-authors working with Maria-Teresa Sebastià include:

  • Mercedes Ibáñez
  • Àngela Ribas
  • A. Rodríguez Rodríguez
  • María José Leiva
  • Cristina Chocarro

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity Differences between Managed and Unmanaged Forests: Meta-Analysis of Species Richness in Europe

    Yoan Paillet;Laurent Bergès;Joakim HjÄltén;Péter Ódor

  • Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response

    Kristiina Karhu;Marc D. Auffret;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins

  • 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Wilfried Thuiller;Stefan Dullinger

  • Weed suppression greatly increased by plant diversity in intensively managed grasslands: A continental-scale experiment

    John Connolly;Maria Teresa Sebastià;Laura Kirwan;Laura Kirwan;John Anthony Finn

  • Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3‐year continental‐scale field experiment

    John A. Finn;Laura Kirwan;John Connolly;M. Teresa Sebastià

  • Evenness drives consistent diversity effects in intensive grassland systems across 28 European sites

    L. Kirwan;A. Luscher;M. T. Sebastia;J. A. Finn

  • Variations in species and functional plant diversity along climatic and grazing gradients

    Francesco De Bello;Jan Lepš;Maria-Teresa Sebastià

  • Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence

    Francesco De Bello;Francesco De Bello;Wilfried Thuiller;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš;Philippe Choler

  • Predictive value of plant traits to grazing along a climatic gradient in the Mediterranean

    Francesco De Bello;Jan Lepš;Maria-Teresa Sebastià

  • Diversity–interaction modeling: estimating contributions of species identities and interactions to ecosystem function

    L. Kirwan;L. Kirwan;J. Connolly;J. A. Finn;C. Brophy

  • Nitrogen yield advantage from grass–legume mixtures is robust over a wide range of legume proportions and environmental conditions

    Matthias Suter;John Connolly;John A. Finn;Ralf Loges

  • Role of topography and soils in grassland structuring at the landscape and community scales

    Maria-Teresa Sebastiá

  • Soil organic carbon storage in mountain grasslands of the Pyrenees: effects of climate and topography

    Jordi Garcia-Pausas;Pere Casals;Lluís Camarero;Carme Huguet

  • Semiempirical modeling of abiotic and biotic factors controlling ecosystem respiration across eddy covariance sites

    Mirco Migliavacca;Mirco Migliavacca;Markus Reichstein;Andrew D. Richardson;Roberto Colombo

  • Grazing effects on the species-area relationship: Variation along a climatic gradient in NE Spain

    Francesco de Bello;Jan Lepš;Maria-Teresa Sebastià

  • Modeling moisture content in shrubs to predict fire risk in Catalonia (Spain)

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  • Grazing as a factor structuring grasslands in the Pyrenees

    Maria-Teresa Sebastià;Francesco de Bello;Laura Puig;Marc Taull

  • Which trait dissimilarity for functional diversity: trait means or trait overlap?

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Carlos P. Carmona;Norman W. H. Mason;Maria-Teresa Sebastià

  • Plant guilds drive biomass response to global warming and water availability in subalpine grassland

    Maria-Teresa Sebastià

  • An improved model to predict the effects of changing biodiversity levels on ecosystem function

    John Connolly;Thomas Bell;Thomas Bolger;Caroline Brophy

  • Factors regulating carbon mineralization in the surface and subsurface soils of Pyrenean mountain grasslands

    Jordi Garcia-Pausas;Pere Casals;Lluís Camarero;Carme Huguet

Frequent Co-Authors

John Connolly
John Connolly University College Dublin
Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Jan Lepš
Jan Lepš University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Werner Eugster
Werner Eugster ETH Zurich
Anjo Elgersma
Anjo Elgersma Wageningen University & Research
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Friedhelm Taube
Friedhelm Taube Kiel University
Gilles Bélanger
Gilles Bélanger Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Lluís Camarero
Lluís Camarero Spanish National Research Council

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