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64
Citations
12243
World Ranking
1896
National Ranking
49

Overview

Miguel Verdú is affiliated with the University of Valencia in Spain and focuses research efforts primarily within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science domains. Their work spans several related subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

Research topics explored by Verdú cover multiple areas, such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Among recent publications associated with Verdú, notable works include:

  • "Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle" (2021), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology" (2021), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Soil microbiome drives the recovery of ecosystem functions after fire" (2020), published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Net plant interactions are highly variable and weakly dependent on climate at the global scale" (2022), published in Ecology Letters
  • "The evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals" (2023), published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Verdú include:

  • Alicia Montesinos-Navarro
  • Ricardo Sánchez-Martín
  • José Luis Tejera Oliver
  • Marta Goberna
  • Pedro Bernaola-Galván

Verdú also publishes regularly in selected scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Beyond species loss: The extinction of ecological interactions in a changing world

    Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet;Marcelo A. Aizen;Julio M. Alcántara;Juan Arroyo

  • EARLY EMERGENCE ENHANCES PLANT FITNESS: A PHYLOGENETICALLY CONTROLLED META‐ANALYSIS

    Miguel Verdú;Anna Traveset

  • Facilitation can increase the phylogenetic diversity of plant communities

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Miguel Verdú

  • A meta-analysis of the effect of gut treatment on seed germination.

    A. Traveset;M. Verdú;D. J. Levey;W. R. Silva

  • Modern quaternary plant lineages promote diversity through facilitation of ancient tertiary lineages

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Adolfo Vital Rumebe;Miguel Verdú;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire tree of life

    José M. Gómez;Miguel Verdú;Francisco Perfectti

  • Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle.

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Lavorel;Lauren M. Hallett;Enrique Valencia

  • Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology

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  • Fire drives phylogenetic clustering in Mediterranean Basin woody plant communities

    Miguel Verdú;J. G. Pausas

  • The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence

    José María Gómez;José María Gómez;Miguel Verdú;Adela González-Megías;Marcos Méndez

  • The Jungle of Methods for Evaluating Phenotypic and Phylogenetic Structure of Communities

    Juli G. Pausas;Miguel Verdú

  • Temporal shifts from facilitation to competition occur between closely related taxa

    Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Miguel Verdú

  • The Nested Assembly of Plant Facilitation Networks Prevents Species Extinctions

    Miguel Verdu;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet

  • Plant persistence traits in fire-prone ecosystems of the Mediterranean basin: a phylogenetic approach

    J. G. Pausas;Miguel Verdú

  • The network structure of plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

    Alicia Montesinos-Navarro;José G. Segarra-Moragues;Alfonso Valiente-Banuet;Miguel Verdú

  • Nucleation processes in a mediterranean bird-dispersed plant

    Miguel Verdú;P. García-Fayos

  • Predicting microbial traits with phylogenies.

    Marta Goberna;Miguel Verdú

  • Centrality in primate–parasite networks reveals the potential for the transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans

    José María Gómez;Charles L. Nunn;Miguel Verdú

  • FIRE REDUCES MORPHOSPACE OCCUPATION IN PLANT COMMUNITIES

    Juli G. Pausas;Miguel Verdú

  • Burning Fire-Prone Mediterranean Shrublands: Immediate Changes in Soil Microbial Community Structure and Ecosystem Functions

    Marta Goberna;C. García;Heribert Insam;M. T. Hernández

  • Ecological and evolutionary differences between Mediterranean seeders and resprouters

    Miguel Verdú

  • Metagenome of the Mediterranean deep chlorophyll maximum studied by direct and fosmid library 454 pyrosequencing.

    Rohit Ghai;Ana-Belén Martin-Cuadrado;Aitor Gonzaga Molto;Inmaculada García Heredia

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfonso Valiente-Banuet
Alfonso Valiente-Banuet National Autonomous University of Mexico
Marta Goberna
Marta Goberna Spanish National Research Council
Juli G. Pausas
Juli G. Pausas University of Valencia
Santiago C. González-Martínez
Santiago C. González-Martínez University of Bordeaux
José M. Gómez
José M. Gómez Spanish National Research Council
John R. Pannell
John R. Pannell University of Basel
Pedro Jordano
Pedro Jordano Spanish National Research Council
José Ignacio Querejeta
José Ignacio Querejeta Spanish National Research Council
Pedro J. Rey
Pedro J. Rey University of Jaén
Jeroen Raes
Jeroen Raes KU Leuven

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