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Raúl Ochoa-Hueso

Raúl Ochoa-Hueso

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
34
Citations
5016
World Ranking
7579
National Ranking
274

Overview

Raúl Ochoa-Hueso is affiliated with the University of Cádiz in Spain and conducts research primarily in agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields that include soil science, plant science, ecology, global and planetary change, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics that Raúl Ochoa-Hueso investigates span soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, plant responses to elevated carbon dioxide, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, and biocrusts and microbial ecology.

Recent publications demonstrate the breadth of their research interests and collaborative work. Notable recent papers include:

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment, 2020, Nature
  • Biogeography of global drylands, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Nitrogen loading enhances phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems with implications for soil carbon cycling, 2022, Functional Ecology
  • Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Litter and soil biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem functions, 2023, Global Change Biology

Raúl Ochoa-Hueso frequently collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Sally A. Power, Wim H. van der Putten, Lilia Serrano Grijalva, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, and J. Piñeiro.

Their work is regularly published in several core venues, with a notable presence in:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Plant and Soil
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Applied Soil Ecology

Best Publications

  • Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy

    Rebecca R Hernandez;Rebecca R Hernandez;S. B Easter;Michelle L Murphy-Mariscal;Fernando T Maestre

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Mingkai Jiang;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;John E. Drake;Remko A. Duursma

  • Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents.

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Scott L. Collins;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Kelly Hamonts

  • Biogeography of global drylands

    Fernando T. Maestre;Blas M. Benito;Miguel Berdugo;Laura Concostrina-Zubiri

  • Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern

    Fernando T. Maestre;Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy;Matthew A. Bowker;Raúl Ochoa-Hueso

  • Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

    Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso;David J. Eldridge;Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Santiago Soliveres

  • Nitrogen deposition effects on Mediterranean-type ecosystems : an ecological assessment

    Raul Ochoa-Hueso;Edith B Allen;Cristina Branquinho;Cristina Cruz

  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

    A.C. Risch;S. Zimmermann;R. Ochoa-Hueso;M. Schütz

  • Ecological impacts of atmospheric pollution and interactions with climate change in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mediterranean Basin: Current research and future directions

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Silvana Munzi;Rocio Alonso;Maria Arroniz-Crespo

  • Size-dependent loss of aboveground animals differentially affects grassland ecosystem coupling and functions

    A. C. Risch;R. Ochoa-Hueso;W. H. van der Putten;J. K. Bump;J. K. Bump

  • Spatial distribution and physiology of biological soil crusts from semi-arid central Spain are related to soil chemistry and shrub cover

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Rebecca R. Hernandez;José J. Pueyo;Esteban Manrique

  • Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory.

    E. T. Borer;W. S. Harpole;W. S. Harpole;P. B. Adler;C. A. Arnillas

  • Nitrogen deposition alters nitrogen cycling and reduces soil carbon content in low-productivity semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems.

    Raul Ochoa-Hueso;Fernando T Maestre;Asuncion de los Rios;Sergio Valea

  • Ecosystem type and resource quality are more important than global change drivers in regulating early stages of litter decomposition

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Paul Tuan An King;Merryn Benham

  • Ecosystem coupling: A unifying framework to understand the functioning and recovery of ecosystems

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Anita C. Risch;Maarten Schrama

  • Bryophyte-cyanobacteria associations during primary succession in recently Deglaciated areas of Tierra del Fuego (Chile).

    María Arróniz-Crespo;María Arróniz-Crespo;Sergio Pérez-Ortega;Asunción De los Ríos;T. G. Allan Green;T. G. Allan Green

  • Biocrusts in the Context of Global Change

    Sasha C. Reed;Fernando T. Maestre;Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Cheryl R. Kuske

  • Rhizosphere-driven increase in nitrogen and phosphorus availability under elevated atmospheric CO2 in a mature Eucalyptus woodland

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;John Hughes;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;John E. Drake

  • Afforestation falls short as a biodiversity strategy.

    Susana Gómez-González;Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Juli G. Pausas

  • Nitrogen fertilization and water supply affect germination and plant establishment of the soil seed bank present in a semi-arid Mediterranean scrubland

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Esteban Manrique

  • Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands.

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Sarah E. Hobbie

Frequent Co-Authors

Sally A. Power
Sally A. Power Western Sydney University
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo Spanish National Research Council
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Fernando T. Maestre
Fernando T. Maestre King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Anita C. Risch
Anita C. Risch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Mahesh Sankaran
Mahesh Sankaran University of Leeds
Martin Schütz
Martin Schütz Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Matthew A. Bowker
Matthew A. Bowker Northern Arizona University
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota

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