Representative publications       Examples       Reprints         Reprints      Articles in international journals      Papers on ecology of mediterranean ecosystems      Papers on global changel      Papers on ecophysiology      Papers on evolutionary ecology and phenotypic plasticity      Papers on forest ecology and restoration ecology           2008       RAMÍREZ, D.A., F. VALLADARES, F. DOMINGO & J. BELLOT. 2008 Seasonal water-use efficiency and chlorophyll fluorescence response in Alpha grass (Stipa tenacissima L.) is affected by tussock size. Photosynthetica 46: 222-231.       DE LA BANDERA, M.C., TRAVESET, A., VALLADARES, F. & GULÍAS, J. 2008 Gender, season and habitat: patterns of variation in photosynthetic activity, growth and fecundity in Thymelaea velutina. Acta Oecologica (In press).       SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ, D., ZAVALA, M.A., DAAN VAN SCHALKWIJK, RODRÍGUEZ URBIETA, I. VALLADARES, F. 2008 Rank reversals in tree growth along tree size, competition and climatic gradients for four forest canopy dominant species in Central Spain. Annals of Forest Science 65: 605-613.       VILA, M. VALLADARES, F. TRAVESET, A. SANTAMARIA, L. & CASTRO, P. 2008 Invasiones biológicas. CSIC, Madrid.       ARANDA, I, T. MATTHEW ROBSON, J. RODRÍGUEZ-CALCERRADA & F. VALLADARES. 2008 Limited capacity to cope with excessive light in the open and with increased drought in the shade in Mediterranean Ilex aquifolium populations. Trees Structure and Function 22:375–384.       VILLAR-SALVADOR, P., F. VALLADARES, S. DOMÍNGUEZ-LERENA, M. DE LAS HERAS, M. FERNÁNDEZ-PASCUAL, A. DELGADO & J.L. PEÑUELAS RUBIRA. 2008 Functional traits related to seedling performance in the Mediterranean leguminous shrub Retama sphaerocarpa: Insights from a provenance, fertilization, and rhizobial inoculation study, Environmental and Experimental Botany doi:10.1016/j.envexpbot.2008.04.005.       SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ, D., F. VALLADARES, & M. A. ZAVALA. 2008. Interspecific variation of seedling biomass allocation, morphology and plasticity in response to irradiance and water availability: towards a mechanistic understanding of shade and drought tolerances in Mediterranean plants. Annals of Forest Science 65: 311-321.       MATESANZ, S. ESCUDERO, A. & VALLADARES, F. 2008. Additive effects of an invasive grass and water stress on the performance of gypsum plants under experimental conditions. Applied Vegetation Science 11: 287-296.       PÉREZ-RAMOS, I. M., M. A. ZAVALA, T. MARAÑÓN, M. D. DÍAZ-VILLA, AND F. VALLADARES. 2008. Impact of shrub-clearing of cork oak forests on understory biodiversity: a five-year study. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 3242–3253.       RAMÍREZ, D. A., F. VALLADARES, A. BLASCO & J. BELLOT. 2008. Effects of tussock size and soil water content on whole plant gas exchange in Stipa tenacissima L. Environmental and Experimental Botany 62: 376–388       PULIDO, F, VALLADARES, F., CALLEJA, J.A., MORENO, G. & GONZÁLEZ-BORNAY, G. 2008. Paleotropical relict trees coping with increasingly dry Mediterranean summers: interactive effects of irradiance and moisture on performance of Prunus lusitanica seedlings. Journal of Biogeography 35, 1425–1435       QUILCHANO. C. , MARAÑÓN, T., PEREZ-RAMOS, I.M., NOEJOVICH, L., VALLADARES, F. & ZAVALA, M.A. 2008. Patterns and ecological consequences of abiotic heterogeneity in managed cork-oak forests of Southern Spain. Ecological Research 23: 127–139.       ZARAGOZA-CASTELLS, J., SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ, D., HARTLEY, I.P., MATESANZ, S., VALLADARES, F., LLOYD, J. & ATKIN, O.K. 2008. Climate-dependent variations in leaf respiration in a dry-land, low productivity forest ecosystem: the importance of acclimation in both high-light and shaded habitats. Functional Ecology 22: 172–184.       TRAVESET, A. MORAGUES, E. , & F. VALLADARES. 2008. Good performance in both sun and shade habitats leads to the spreading of invasive Carpobrotus spp. on Mediterranean ecosystems. Applied Vegetation Science 11: 45-54.       VALLADARES, F., TENA, D., MATESANZ, S., BOCHET, E., BALAGUER, L., COSTA-TENORIO, M., TORMO, J., & GARCÍA-FAYOS, P. 2008. Functional traits and phylogeny: inferring the main ecological process that determines species assemblage in roadside herbaceous communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 19: 381-392       ARAGON, C., ESCUDERO, A. & VALLADARES, F. 2008. Stress-induced dynamic adjustments of reproduction differentially affect fitness components of a semi-arid plant. Journal of Ecology 96: 222–229.       VALLADARES, F. 2008. A mechanistic view of the capacity of forest to cope with climate change. En: F. Bravo, V. Le May, R. Jandl, Klaus von Gadow (Eds.), Managing Forest Ecosystems: the challenge of climate change. Springer Verlag, Berlin.           2007       ROYER, D. L., L. SACK, P. WILF, C. H. LUSK, G. J. JORDAN, Ü. NIINEMETS, I. J. WRIGHT, M. WESTOBY, B. CARIGLINO, P. D. COLEY, A. D. CUTTER, K. R. JOHNSON, C. C. LABANDEIRA, A. T. MOLES, M. B. PALMER, AND F. VALLADARES. 2007. Economics of ancient terrestrial ecosystems quantified from fossil leaves. Paleobiology 33: 574–589       VALLADARES, F., GIANOLI, E. & GÓMEZ, J.M. 2007. Ecological limits to plant phenotypic plasticity. Tansley Review. New Phytologist 176: 749-763.       BELINCHÓN, R. MARTÍNEZ, I., ESCUDERO, A. ARAGÓN, G. & VALLADARES, F. 2007. Edge effects on epiphytic communities in a Mediterranean Quercus pyrenaica forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 81-90.       MATESANZ, S. & F. VALLADARES.2007. Improving revegetation of gypsum slopes is not a simple matter of adding autochthonous species: insights from a multispecies experiment. Ecological Engineering  30: 67-77.       SANZ-PEREZ, V., CASTRO-DIEZ, P., & VALLADARES, F. 2007. Growth versus storage: responses of Mediterranean oak seedlings to changes in nutrient and water availabilities. Annals of Forest Science 64 (2): 201-210.       PUERTA-PIÑERO, C., J. M. GÓMEZ, AND F. VALLADARES. 2007. Irradiance and oak seedling survival and growth in a heterogeneous environment. Forest Ecology and Management 242:462–469.       ZARAGOZA-CASTELLS, J., SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ, D., VALLADARES, F., HURRY, V., & ATKIN, O.K. 2007. Does growth irradiance affect temperature-dependence and thermal acclimation of leaf respiration? Insights from a Mediterranean tree with long-lived leaves. Plant Cell and Environment 30: 820-833.       MAESTRE, F. T., J. L. QUERO, F. VALLADARES, AND J. F. REYNOLDS. 2007. Individual vs. population plastic responses to elevated CO2, nutrient availability and heterogeneity: a microcosm experiment with co-occurring species. Plant and Soil 296:53–64.       VALLADARES, F. & GIANOLI, E. 2007. How much ecology do we need to know to restore Mediterranean ecosystems? Restoration Ecology 15: 363-368.       QUILCHANO. C. , MARAÑÓN, T., PEREZ-RAMOS, I.M., NOEJOVICH, L., VALLADARES, F. & ZAVALA, M.A. 2007. Patterns and ecological consequences of abiotic heterogeneity in managed cork-oak forests of Southern Spain. Ecological Research DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0343-6.       NIINEMETS, U., A. PORTSMUTH, D. TENA, M. TOBIAS, S. MATESANZ & F. VALLADARES. 2007. Do we underestimate the importance of leaf size in plant economics? Disproportional scaling of support costs within the spectrum of leaf physiognomy. Annals of Botany 100: 283:303.       MARTÍNEZ-ALONSO, C., F. VALLADARES, LÓPEZ ARIAS, M., SERRANO, M., CAMARERO, J.J. & RODRÍGUEZ, J.A. 2007. Influence of intradecadal climate variability on canopy dynamics, secondary growth and cone production in an old-growth Scots pine forest under Mediterranean conditions. Forest Ecology and Management 253: 19-29.       DUARTE, C. M., S. ALONSO, G. BENITO, J. DACHS, C. MONTES, M. P. BUENDÍA, A. F. RÍOS, R. SIMÓ, AND F. VALLADARES. 2007. Cambio global: impacto de la actividad humana sobre el sistema Tierra. CSIC, Madrid. 167 pp.       PUGNAIRE, F. & F. VALLADARES, (editores). 2007. Functional plant ecology. CRC publishers.       VALLADARES, F. 2007. El hábitat mediterráneo continental: un sistema humanizado, cambiante y vulnerable. En Paracuellos, M. (ed.) Funcionamiento, Biodiversidad y Conservación de los Ambientes Mediterráneos. Colección Medio Ambiente. Instituto de Estudios Almerienses (Diputación de Almería). Almería, pp. 219-239.       ALONSO, B. & VALLADARES, F. 2007. International efforts on global change research. En: Chuvieco, E. (Ed.) Earth Observation of Global Change. Springer Verlag. Berlin.       VALLADARES, F., & Ü. NIINEMETS. 2007. The architecture of plant crowns: from design rules to light capture and performance. En F. Pugnaire & F. Valladares, (editores). Functional plant ecology. CRC publishers.       KAPPEN, L. & VALLADARES, F. 2007. Opportunistic growth and desiccation tolerance, the ecological success of the poiquilohydrous strategy. En: functional plant ecology. Editado por Pugnaire, F. & Valladares, CRC Press, New York.           2006       MAESTRE, F. T., F. VALLADARES, AND J. F. REYNOLDS. 2006. The stress-gradient hypothesis does not fit all relationships between plant–plant interactions and abiotic stress: further insights from arid environments. Journal of Ecology 94: 17-22.       RICHARD J. HOBBS, SALVATORE ARICO, JAMES ARONSON, JILL S. BARON, PETER BRIDGEWATER, VIKI A. CRAMER, PAUL R. EPSTEIN, JOHN J. EWEL, CARLOS A. KLINK, ARIEL E. LUGO, DAVID NORTON, DENNIS OJIMA, DAVID RICHARDSON, ERIC W. SANDERSON, FERNANDO VALLADARES, MONTSERRAT VILÀ, REGINO ZAMORA, MARTIN ZOBEL. 2006. Emerging ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order. Global Ecology and Biodiversity 15:1-7.       SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ, D, VALLADARES, F, & ZAVALA, MA. 2006 Performance of seedlings of Mediterranean woody species under experimental gradients of irradiance and water availability: trade-offs and evidence for niche differentiation. New Phytologist 170: 795-806.       VALLADARES, F., D. SANCHEZ, AND M. A. ZAVALA. 2006. Quantitative estimation of phenotypic plasticity. Journal of Ecology 94: 1103–1116.       MATESANZ, S., F. VALLADARES, DAVID TENA, M. COSTA-TENORIO Y D. BOTE. 2006. Early dynamics of plant communities in revegetated motorway slopes from southern Spain: is hydroseeding always needed? Restoration Ecology 14:297-307.       GÓMEZ-APARICIO, L, VALLADARES, F, ZAMORA, R. 2006. Differential light responses of Mediterranean tree saplings: linking ecophysiology with regeneration niche in four co-occurring species. Tree Physiology 26: 947–958.       VALLADARES, F., & B. GUZMÁN-ASENJO. 2006. Canopy structure and spatial heterogeneity of light in two understory layers of an abandoned Holm oak forest. Annals of Forest Science 63: 749–761.       SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ, D., F. VALLADARES & M. A. ZAVALA. 2006. Functional traits and plasticity underlying shade tolerance in seedlings of four Iberian forest tree species. Tree Physiology 26: 1425–1433.       VALLADARES F, & SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ D. 2006. Ecophysiological traits associated with drought in Mediterranean tree seedlings: individual responses versus interspecific trends in eleven species. Plant Biology 8: 688-697.       SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ, D., M. A. ZAVALA, & F. VALLADARES. 2006. Survival responses to irradiance are differentially influenced by drought in seedlings of forest tree species of the temperate-Mediterranean transition zone. Acta Oecologica 30: 322-332.       RAMÍREZ, D. A., F. VALLADARES, A. BLASCO Y J. BELLOT. 2006. Scaling up transpiration in tussock grass Stipa tenacissima L.: The complex interplay between morphology and physiology. Acta Oecologica 30: 386-398.       NIINEMETS, U., & F. VALLADARES. 2006. Tolerance to shade, drought and waterlogging of temperate, Northern hemisphere trees and shrubs. Ecological Monographs 76: 521–547.       ESTESO-MARTÍNEZ, J., F. VALLADARES, J. J. CAMARERO, & E. GIL-PELEGRÍN. 2006. Crown architecture and leaf habit are associated with intrinsically different light-harvesting efficiencies in Quercus seedlings from contrasting environments. Annals of Forest Science 63:511-518.       VALLADARES, F. 2006. Certezas e incertidumbres sobre el impacto del cambio global en los ecosistemas terrestres. En: Carrión JS, Fernández S, Fuentes N (editores) Paleoambientes y cambio climático. Fundación Séneca - Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia, Murcia, pp 233-246.       VALLADARES, F. 2006. Efectos del cambio climático. En: Heras, F. Valladares, F. & Gonzalez, M. 2006. Lo que usted debe saber sobre: cambio climático. León. Caja España, Rubín S.L.95 páginas.       VALLADARES, F. 2006. Las consecuencias del cambio climático en España. Quercus 243: 22-30.       VALLADARES, F. 2006. La disponibilidad de luz bajo el dosel de los bosques y matorrales ibéricos estimada mediante fotografía hemisférica. Ecología 20: 9-30.           2005       VALLADARES, F., I. DOBARRO, D. SÁNCHEZ-GÓMEZ, & R. W. PEARCY. 2005. Photoinhibition and drought in Mediterranean woody saplings: scaling effects and interactions in sun and shade phenotypes. Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 486-494.