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Zas R, Sampedro L. 2013. Resistencia de los pinos a plagas y enfermedades: nuevas oportunidades de control fitosanitario. Proceedings del 6º Congreso Forestal Español.
​Vazquez-Gonzalez et al. 2020. Comprender cómo se defienden los árboles: primer paso para la prevención de plagas y enfermedades. Revista FORESTA num 78: 125-133.
Carla Vázquez-González, Luis Sampedro y Rafael Zas 2022. Interacciones árbol-insecto: implicaciones para la gestión forestal frente a plagas. Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Entomología Aplicada 6, 2021-22: 10-18.
Vazquez-Gonzalez et al.2021. Chapter 11_Genetic and Ecological Basis of resistance to herbivorous insects in mediterranean Pines. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63625-8_11   Reprint Request
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- Facing against multiple stressors: genetic variation and adaptive potential in Pinus pinaster. Lopez-Goldar et al.
- Inter-population variation in defensive allocation in Pinus sylvestris and associated environmental gradients. Cortegoso-Galman et al.
- Negative genetic correlation between induced and constitutive defences in pine trees. Sampedro et al.
- Perception of herbivory in the neighbourhood in young pine trees. Sampedro et al.
- Oliva, Sampedro et al. Transgenerational induction of defences in a pine tree.
- Suárez-Vidal et al. Effects of drought stress on the resistance of a Mediterranean pine against a bark chewing insect: a multidisciplinary study.

Under review
  • Nunes da Silva et al. Exogenous jasmonate application triggers a resistant phenotype against the pine wilt nematode in a highly susceptible pine species
  • Castaño et al. Dominance of ectomycorrhizal fungi with long exploration types in seedlings of contrasting Pinus pinaster populations surviving drought.
  • Rodriguez-Larrinaga et al. Resource availability and herbivory may alter maritime pine reproductive output and masting pattern


2023
  • Carles Castaño, Estefanía Suarez-Vidal, Rafael Zas, José Antonio Bonet, Jonàs Oliva, Luis Sampedro. 2023. Ectomycorrhizal fungi with hydrophobic mycelia and rhizomorphs dominate in young pine trees surviving experimental drought stress. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (accepted 29 Dec 2022)

2022
  • Raul de la Mata, Rafael Zas, Gloria Bustingorri, Luis Sampedro, Marc Rust, Ana Hernandez-Serrano, Anna Sala. 2022. Drivers of population differentiation in phenotypic plasticity in a temperate conifer: A 27‐year study. Evolutionary Applications 1945-1962. First Published: 31 October 2022.  https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13492

  • Vázquez-González, C., Sampedro, L., López-Goldar, X., Solla, A., Vivas, M., Rozas, V., Josefa Lombardero, M., Zas, R.2022. Inducibility of chemical defences by exogenous application of methyl jasmonate is long-lasting and conserved among populations in mature Pinus pinaster trees. Forest Ecology and Management 518, art. no. 120280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120280
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  • Sierra-De-Grado, R., Pando, V., Voltas, J., Zas, R., Majada, J., Climent, J. 2022. Straightening the crooked: Intraspecific divergence of stem posture control and associated trade-offs in a model conifer. Journal of Experimental Botany 73 (4), pp. 1222-1235. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab535

  • Sobral, M., Sampedro, L. 2022. Phenotypic, epigenetic, and fitness diversity within plant genotypes. Trends in Plant Science 27 (9), pp. 843-846.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2022.06.008

  • Prats, S.A., Sierra-Abraín, P., Moraña-Fontán, A., Zas, R. 2022 Effectiveness of community-based initiatives for mitigation of land degradation after wildfires. Science of the Total Environment 810, 152232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152232
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  • Adrián López-Villamor, Marta Nunes Silva, Marta W Vasconcelos. 2022. Evaluation of plant elicitation with methyl-jasmonate, salicylic acid and benzo (1,2,3)-thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid-S-methyl ester for the sustainable management of the pine wilt disease. Tree Physiology 22 Jul 2022. tpac088. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpac088
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  • Raúl de la Mata, Rafael Zas, Gloria Bustingorri, Luis Sampedro, Marc Rust, Ana Hernández, Anna Sala. 2022. Drivers of population differentiation in phenotypic plasticity in a temperate conifer: a 27-year study. Evolutionary Applications, 15. https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/14756

  • Sterck L., María N, Cañas RA, de Miguel M, Perdiguero P, Raffin A, Budde KB, López-Hinojosa M, Cantón F, Rodrigues AS, Morcillo M, Hurel A, Vélez MD, de la Torre FN, Modesto I, Lorenzo Federico Manjarrez, María Belén Pascual, Ana Alves, Isabel Mendoza-Poudereux, Marta Callejas Díaz, Alberto Pizarro, Jorge El-Azaz, Laura Hernández-Escribano, María Ángeles Guevara, Juan Majada, Jerome Salse, Delphine Grivet, Laurent Bouffier, Rosa Raposo, Amanda de la Torre, Rafael Zas, José Antonio Cabezas, Concepción Ávila, Jean-Francois Trontin, Leopoldo Sánchez, Ricardo Alía, Isabel Arrillaga, Santiago C. González- Martínez, Célia Miguel, Francisco M. Cánovas, Christophe Plomion, Carmen Díaz-Sala, María Teresa Cervera. 2022. Maritime Pine Genomics in Focus. In: De La Torre, A.R. (eds) The Pine Genomes. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93390-6_5


2021
  • Mar Sobral, Luis Sampedro, Isabelle Neylan, David Siemens, Rodolfo Dirzo. 2021. Phenotypic plasticity in plant defense across life stages: Inducibility, transgenerational induction, and transgenerational priming in wild radish. Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA 118(33): e2005865118. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005865118  
  • Vazquez-Gonzalez et al.2021. Chapter 11_Genetic and Ecological Basis of resistance to herbivorous insects in mediterranean Pines. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63625-8_11   Reprint Request
  • Vázquez-González, C., López-Goldar, X., Alía, R., Bustingorri, G., Lario, F.J., Lema, M., de la Mata, R., Sampedro, L., Touza, R., Zas, R. 2021. Genetic variation in resin yield and covariation with tree growth in maritime pine. Forest Ecology and Management, 482, art. no. 118843. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118843
  • Estefanía Suárez-Vidal, Luis Sampedro, Jose Climent, Jordi Voltas, Ester Sin, Eduardo Notivol, Rafael Zas. 2021. Direct and correlated responses to artificial selection for growth and water-use efficiency in a Mediterranean pine. American Journal of Botany 108(1): 1–11, 2021          https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1599
  • Vázquez-González, C., Sampedro, L., Rozas, V., Voltas, J., Zas, R. 2021. Population differentiation in climate sensitivity of resin duct formation during growth resumption in Pinus pinaster. Dendrochronologia, 2021, 67, 125839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125839
  • Adrián López-Villamor, Rafael Zas, Andrea Pérez, Yonatan Cáceres, Marta Nunes, Marta Vasconcelos, Carla Vázquez-González, Luis Sampedro, Alejandro Solla. 2020. Traumatic resin ducts induced by methyl-jasmonate in Pinus spp. Trees Structure and Function 35(2), pp. 557-567. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-020-02057-9
  • Mariano Lastra, Jesús López, Jesús S. Troncoso & Luis Sampedro. 2021. Warming and Wrack Supply Will Accelerate CO2 Emission and Nutrients Release on Antarctic Sedimentary Shores: A Case Study on a Volcanic Island. Ecosystems 24: 855-874. DOI :10.1007/s10021-020-00553-0. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-020-00553-0
  • Touza, R., Lema, M., Zas, R. (2021) Timing of resin-tapping operations in maritime pine forests in northern Spain. Forest Systems, 30 (3), art. no. eSC05, . DOI: 10.5424/fs/2021303-18414
  • Burgess, T.I., López-Villamor, A., Paap, T., Williams, B., Belhaj, R., Crone, M., Dunstan, W., Howard, K., Hardy, G.E.S.J. (2021) Towards a best practice methodology for the detection of Phytophthora species in soils. Plant Pathology, 70 (3), pp. 604-614. DOI: 10.1111/ppa.13312
  • Nunes da Silva, M., Santos, C.S., Cruz, A., López-Villamor, A., Vasconcelos, M.W. (2021) Chitosan increases Pinus pinaster tolerance to the pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) by promoting plant antioxidative metabolism. Scientific Reports, 11 (1), art. no. 3781. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83445-0

2020
  • Xose López-Goldar, Rafael Zas, Luis Sampedro. 2020. Resource availability drives microevolutionary patterns of plant defences. Functional Ecology, 34(8), pp. 1640-1652. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13610
  • Patsiou, T.S., Shestakova, T.A., Klein, T., di Matteo, G., Sbay, H., Chambel, M.R., Zas, R., Voltas, J. 2020. Intraspecific responses to climate reveal nonintuitive warming impacts on a widespread thermophilic conifer. New Phytologist 228, Pages 525-540.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16656.   
                  See also the Commentary on this article by Peterson 228: 403–405. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16838
  • Carla Vázquez-González, Rafael Zas, Nadir Erbilgin, Scott Ferrenberg, Vicente Rozas, Luis Sampedro. 2020. Resin ducts as resistance traits in conifers: Linking dendrochronology and resin-based defences. Arboreal Review in Tree Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaa064
  • Vicente Rozas, Luis Sampedro, Carla Vázquez-González, Alejandro Solla, María Vivas, María J. Lombardero, Rafael Zas. 2020. Site conditions exert more control than genetic differentiation on modulation of secondary growth and climate sensitivity of Pinus pinaster. Dendrochronologia 63,125732 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125732
  • Rafael Zas; Ricardo Quiroga; Roberto Touza; Carla Vázquez-González; Luis Sampedro; Margarita Lema. 2020. Resin tapping potential of Atlantic maritime pine forests depends on tree age and timing of tapping. Industrial Crops and Products 157,112940.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2020.112940
  • Carles Castaño, J. Julio Camarero, Rafael Zas, Luis Sampedro, José Antonio Bonet, Josu G. Alday and Jonàs Oliva. 2020. Insect defoliation is linked to a decrease in soil ectomycorrhizal biomass and shifts in needle endophytic communities. Tree Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaa104
  • Rafael Zas, Roberto Touza, Luis Sampedro, Francisco José Lario, Gloria Bustingorri, Margarita Lema, 2020. Variation in resin flow among Maritime pine populations: Relationship with growth potential and climatic responses. Forest Ecology and Management 474, 118351    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118351
  • Moreira, X., Abdala-Roberts, L., Galmán, A., Bartlow, A.W., Berny-Mier y Teran, J.C., Carrari, E., Covelo, F., de la Fuente, M., Ferrenberg, S., Fyllas, N.M., Hoshika, Y., Lee, S.R., Marquis, R.J., Nakamura, M., Nell, C.S., Pesendorfer, M.B., Steele, M.A., Vázquez-González, C., Zhang, S., Rasmann, S. 2020. Ontogenetic consistency in oak defence syndromes. Journal of Ecology 108: 1822–1834. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13376
  • López-Goldar, X., Lundborg, L., Borg-Karlson, A.K., Zas, R., Sampedro, L. 2020. Resin acids as inducible chemical defences of pine seedlings against chewing insects. PLoS ONE, 15 (5), art. no. e0232692. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232692
  • Zas, R., Sampedro, L., Solla, A., Vivas, M., Lombardero, M.J., Alía, R., Rozas, V. 2020. Dendroecology in common gardens: Population differentiation and plasticity in resistance, recovery and resilience to extreme drought events in Pinus pinaster. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 291, art. no. 108060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108060
  • Vázquez-González, C., Sampedro, L., Rozas, V., Zas, R. 2020. Climate drives intraspecific differentiation in the expression of growth-defence trade-offs in a long-lived pine species. Scientific Reports, 10 (1), art. no. 10584. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67158-4
     
2019
  • Carla Vázquez-González, Xosé López-Goldar, Rafael Zas and Luis Sampedro, 2019. Neutral and Climate-Driven Adaptive Processes Contribute to Explain Population Variation in Resin Duct Traits in a Mediterranean Pine Species. Frontiers in Plant Science, vol 10, article 1613. (13 December 2019) | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01613. FREE OPEN ACCESS 
  • Rafael Zas, María Silvana Poceiro, María Lores, Laura M. Rolke, Luis Sampedro. Phenotyping tree resistance to a bark chewing insect, the pine weevil Hylobius abietis. Annals of Applied Biology 175 (2): 236-245. DOI: 10.1111/aab.12533
  • López-Goldar, X., Villari, C., Bonello, P., Borg-Karlson, A.K., Grivet, D., Sampedro, L., Zas, R. 2019. Genetic variation in the constitutive defensive metabolome and its inducibility are geographically structured and largely determined by demographic processes in maritime pine. Journal of Ecology 107(5): 2464-2477. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13159
  • López-Villamor, A., Carreño, S., López-Goldar, X., Suárez-Vidal, E., Sampedro, L., Nordlander, G., Björklund, N., Zas, R. 2019. Risk of damage by the pine weevil Hylobius abietis in southern Europe: Effects of silvicultural and landscape factors. Forest Ecology and Management 444: 290-298. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.04.027
  • Moreira, X., Castagneyrol, B., de la Mata, R., Fyllas, N.M., Galmán, A., García-Verdugo, C., Larrinaga, A.R., Abdala-Roberts, L. 2019 (in press) Effects of insularity on insect leaf herbivory and chemical defences in a Mediterranean oak species. Journal of Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13589
  • Moreira X, Abdala-Roberts L, Nell CS, Vázquez-González C, Pratt JD, Keefover-Ring K, Mooney KA. 2019. Sexual and genotypic variation in terpene quantitative and qualitative profiles in the dioecious shrub Baccharis salicifolia. Scientific Reports 9 (1), art. no. 14655. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51291-w. FREE OPEN ACCESS
  • Moreira X, Vázquez-González C, Encinas-Valero M, Covelo F, Castagneyrol B, Abdala-Roberts L. 2019. Greater phylogenetic distance from native oaks predicts escape from insect leaf herbivores by non-native oak saplings. American Journal of Botany 106: 1202-1209. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1343
  • Abdala-Roberts L, Quijano-Medina T, Moreira X, Vázquez-González C, Parra-Tabla V, Berny-Mier Y, Terán JC, Grandi L, Glauser G, Turlings TCJ, Benrey B. 2019. Bottom-up control of geographic variation in insect herbivory on wild cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) by plant defenses and climate. American Journal of Botany 106 (8):1059-1067. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1330
  • Suárez-Vidal, E., Sampedro, L., Voltas, J., Serrano, L., Notivol, E., Zas, R. 2019. Drought stress modifies early effective resistance and induced chemical defences of Aleppo pine against a chewing insect herbivore. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 162, pp. 550-559. DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2019.04.002
  • Martín-García, J., Zas, R., Solla, A., Woodward, S., Hantula, J., Vainio, E.J., Mullett, M., Morales-Rodríguez, C., Vannini, A., Martínez-Álvarez, P., Pinto, G., Alves, A., Amaral, J., Wingfield, M.J., Fourie, G., Steenkamp, E.T., Ahumada, R., Šerá, B., Sanz-Ros, A.V., Raposo, R., Elvira-Recuenco, M., Iturritxa, E., Gordon, T.R., Diez, J.J. 2019. Environmentally friendly methods for controlling pine pitch canker. Plant Pathology, 68 (5), pp. 843-860. DOI: 10.1111/ppa.13009
  • Lundborg, L., Sampedro, L., Borg-Karlson, A.-K., Zas, R. 2019. Effects of methyl jasmonate on the concentration of volatile terpenes in tissues of Maritime pine and Monterey pine and its relation to pine weevil feeding. Trees - Structure and Function, 33, pp. 53-62. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-018-1757-1
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2018 2017
  • Rafael Zas, Niklas Björklund, Luis Sampedro, Claes Hellqvist, Bo Karlsson, Stefan Jansson, Göran Nordlander (2017) Genetic variation in resistance of Norway spruce seedlings to damage by the pine weevil Hylobius abietis. Tree Genetics & Genomes 13 (5): 111. DOI 10.1007/s11295-017-1193-1. FREE OPEN ACCESS 
  • Estefanía Suárez-Vidal, Xosé López-Goldar, Luis Sampedro, Rafael Zas (2017) Effect of light availability on the interaction between Maritime pine and the Pine Weevil: light drives insect feeding behavior but also the defensive capabilities of the host. Frontiers in Plant Science 8, 1452. DOI 10.3389/fpls.2017.01452. FREE OPEN ACCESS
  • Zhor Abail, Luis Sampedro and Joann K. Whalen. 2017. Short-term carbon mineralization from endogeic earthworm casts as influenced by properties of the ingested soil material. Applied Soil Ecology 116: 79-86
  • Estefanía Suarez-Vidal, Luis Sampedro, Rafael Zas. 2017. Is the benefit of larger seed provisioning on seedling performance greater under abiotic stress? Environmental and Experimental Botany 134: 45–53

2016
  • Xoaquín Moreira, Luis Abdala-Roberts, Rafael Zas, Esther Merlo, María Josefa Lombardero, Luis Sampedro, Kailen A. Mooney. 2016. Masting behaviour in a Mediterranean pine tree alters seed predator selection on reproductive output. Plant Biology 18(6): 973-980. doi: 10.1111/plb.12491. Epub 2016 Sep 6.
  • Xose López-Goldar, Luis Sampedro, Rafael Zas. 2016. Carbon starvation by light deprivation does not constrain the ability of young pines to produce induced chemical defences in response to a bark-chewing herbivore. Environmental and Experimental Botany 130 (2016) 141–150.  doi:10.1016/j.envexpbot.2016.05.010
          Watch a summary artistic video of the results of this paper in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2oF5W2cJE (English version)
                                                                                                                https://youtu.be/xyG5kdAc-e8 (Spanish version)
2015
  • Zas R, Moreira X, Ramos M, Lima MMR, Nunes da Silva M, Solla A, Vasconcelos MW,  Sampedro L, 2015. Intraspecific variation of anatomical and chemical defensive traits in Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) as factors in susceptibility to the pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus). Trees - Structure and Function 29, 663-673. ABSTRACT
  • Zas, Rafael & Sampedro, Luis. 2015. Heritability of seed weight in Maritime pine, a relevant trait in the transmission of environmental maternal effects. Heredity 114, 116-124. REPRINT REQUEST
  • Moreira X., Zas R., Solla A., Sampedro L., 2015. Differentiation of persistent anatomical defensive structures is costly and determined by nutrient availability and genetic growth-defence constraints. Tree Physiology 35: 112-123. REQUEST A REPRINT TO THE AUTHOR. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpu106. See also the commentary by Ferrenberg et al. (2015)

    2014
  • Sampedro, Luis. Physiological trade-offs in the complexity of pine tree defensive chemistry. Tree Physiology  34, 915-198. REPRINT REQUEST. ABSTRACT
  • Rozas V, 2014. Individual-based approach as a useful tool to disentangle the relative importance of tree age, size and inter-tree competition in dendroclimatic studies. iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry, 637
  • de la Mata, R., Merlo, E., Zas, R. Among-population variation and plasticity to drought of Atlantic, Mediterranean, and interprovenance hybrid populations of maritime pine. Tree Genetics and Genomics, 10: 1191-1203
  • Moreira X, Abdala-Roberts L, Linhart YB, Mooney KA. 2014. Masting promotes individual- and population-level reproduction by increasing pollination efficiency. Ecology in press. find more 
  • Abdala-Roberts L, Moreira X, Cervera JC, Parra-Tabla V. Light availability influences growth-defense trade-offs in big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King). Biotropica 46:591-597 REPRINT REQUEST
  • Linhart YB, Moreira X, Snyder MA, Mooney KA. Variability in seed cone production and functional response of seed predators to seed cone availability: support for the predator satiation hypothesis. Journal of Ecology 102:576-583  REPRINT REQUEST
  • Moreira X, Mooney KA, Rasmann S, Petry WK, Carrillo-Gavilán A, Zas R, Sampedro L. 2014. Trade-offs between constitutive and induced defences drive geographical and climatic clines in pine chemical defences. Ecology Letters 17, 537-546. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12253 REPRINT REQUEST   The journal published one of our pictures in the Cover. 
  • Zas R, Niklas Björklund, Göran Nordlander, César Cendán, Claes Hellqvist, Luis Sampedro. 2014. Exploiting jasmonate-induced responses for field protection of conifer seedlings against a major forest pest, Hylobius abietis. Forest Ecology and Management  313, 212-223
                     More resources about this paper: Audioslides at ScienceDirect // Notes at newspapers (spanish) 
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2013
  • Vivas M, Zas R, Sampedro L and Solla A. 2013. Environmental maternal effects mediate the resistance of Maritime pine to biotic stress. PLOS One 8(7): e70148. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070148
  • Rozas V and Sampedro L. 2013. Soil chemical properties and dieback of Quercus robur in Atlantic wet forests after a weather extreme. Plant and Soil 373:673–685  DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1835-5  REPRINT REQUEST
  • Zas R, Cendán C, Sampedro L 2013. Mediation of seed provisioning in the transmission of environmental maternal effects in Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster). Heredity 111, 248–255.  REPRINT REQUEST
  • Moreira X, Lundborg L, Zas R, Carrillo-Gavilan A, Borg-Karlson A-K, Sampedro L. 2013. Inducibility of chemical defences by two chewing insect herbivores in pine trees is specific to targeted plant tissue, particular herbivore and defensive trait. Phytochemistry 94: 113–122   REPRINT REQUEST
  • Moreira X, Zas R, Sampedro L 2013. Additive genetic variation in resistance traits of an exotic pine species: little evidence for constraints on evolution of resistance against native herbivores. Heredity 110(5): 449 - 456  REPRINT REQUEST
  • Moreira, X, Mooney, K.A.  2013. Influence of plant genetic diversity on interactions between higher trophic levels. Biology Letters 9: 20130133  REPRINT
  • Olano JM, Arzac A, García-Cervigón AI, von Arx G, Rozas V. 2013. New star on the stage: Amount of ray parenchyma in tree rings shows a link to climate. New Phytologist 198:486-495.
  • Rozas V, García-González I, Pérez-De-Lis G, Arévalo JR. 2013. Local and large-scale climatic factors controlling tree-ring growth of Pinus canariensis on an oceanic island. Climate Research, 56: 197-207.
  • Rozas V, Olano JM. 2013. Environmental heterogeneity and neighbourhood interference modulate the individual response of Juniperus thurifera tree-ring growth to climate. Dendrochronologia (in press)
  • Cendán C, Sampedro L, Zas R. 2013. The maternal environment determines the timing of germination in Pinus pinaster. Environmental and Experimental Botany 94: 66– 72. REPRINT REQUEST
2012
  • Moreira X, Mooney KA, Zas R, Sampedro L. 2012. Bottom-up effects of host-plant species diversity and top-down effects of ants interactively increase plant performance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:4464-4472. REPRINT
  • Moreira X, Zas R, Sampedro L. 2012. Differential allocation of constitutive and induced chemical defences in pine tree juveniles: a test of the optimal defence theory. PLoS ONE 7:e34006. REPRINT
  • de la Mata R, Voltas J, Zas R. 2012. Phenotypic plasticity and climatic adaptation in an Atlantic maritime pine breeding. Annals of Forest Science 69: 477-487.  REPRINT
  • Olano JM, Eugenio M, García-Cervigón AI, Folch M, Rozas V. 2012. Quantitative tracheid anatomy reveals a complex environmental control of wood structure in continental Mediterranean climate. International Journal of Plant Sciences 173: 137-149.  REPRINT
  • Vicente Rozas; Ignacio Garcia-Gonzalez 2012. Too wet for oaks? Inter-tree competition and recent persistent wetness predispose oaks to rainfall-induced dieback in Atlantic rainy forest. Global and Planetary Change 64-65:62-71
  • Moreira X, Zas R, Sampedro L. 2012.Genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity of nutrient re-allocation and increased fine root production as putative tolerance mechanisms inducible by methyl jasmonate in pine trees. Journal of Ecology 100: 810-820. Lay Summary   REPRINT
  • Moreira X, Zas R, Sampedro L. 2012. Quantitative comparison of chemical, biological and mechanical induction of secondary compounds in Pinus pinaster seedlings. Trees Structure and Function 26: 677-683. REPRINT
  • Carrillo-Gavilán A, Moreira X, Zas R, Vila M, Sampedro L. 2012. Early resistance of alien and native pines against two native generalist insect herbivores: no support for the Natural Enemy Hypothesis. Functional Ecology 26: 283–293. REPRINT
  • Vivas M, Zas R, Solla A. 2012. First screening of a native European pine (Pinus pinaster) for resistance to Fusarium circinatum. Forestry 85:185-192. REPRINT
  • Blanch JS, Sampedro L, Llusià J, Moreira X, Zas R, Peñuelas J. 2012. Effects of phosphorus availability and genetic variation of leaf terpene contents and emission rates in Pinus pinaster seedlings susceptible and resistant to the pine weevil Hylobius abietis. Plant Biology 14:66-72. REPRINT
  • Codesido V, Zas R, Fernández-López J. 2012. Juvenile-mature genetic correlations in Pinus radiata D. Don under different nutrient x water regimes in Spain. European Journal of Forest Research 131:297–305. REPRINT
  • DeSoto L, Camarero JJ, Olano JM, Rozas V 2012. Geographically structured and temporally unstable growth responses of Juniperus thurifera to recent climate variability in the Iberian Peninsula. European Journal of Forest Research 131:905–917. REPRINT
  • Olano JM, Zavala MA, Rozas V 2012. Disruption of Juniperus thurifera woodland structure in its northwestern geographical range: potential drivers and limiting factors. European Journal of Forest Research 131:563-570. REPRINT
  • Moreira X, Alfaro RI, King J 2012. Constitutive defenses and damage in Sitka spruce progeny obtained from crosses between white pine weevil resistant and susceptible parents. Forestry 85:87-97. REPRINT
  • Rozas V, García-González I. 2012. Non-stationary influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation and winter temperature on oak latewood growth in NW Iberian Peninsula. International Journal of Biometeorology 56:787-800. REPRINT
  • Moreira X, Zas R, Sampedro L. 2012. Methyl jasmonate as chemical elicitor of induced responses and anti-herbivory resistance in young conifer trees. In: Merillon JM, Ramawat KG (eds) Plant defence: Biological control. Progress in Biological Control, Volume 12, Part 4, 345-362. Springer Netherlands. REPRINT
2011 
  • Rozas V, Pérez-De-Lis G, García-González I, Arévalo JR 2011. Contrasting effects of wildfire and climate on radial growth of Pinus canariensis on windward and leeward slopes on Tenerife, Canary Islands. Trees - Structure and Function 25, 895-905. REPRINT
  • Pérez-De-Lis G, García-González I, Rozas V, Arévalo JR 2011. Effects of thinning intensity on radial growth patterns and temperature sensitivity in Pinus canariensis afforestations on Tenerife Island, Spain. Annals of Forest Science 68, 1093-1104. REPRINT
  • Zas R, Moreira X, Sampedro L. 2011. Tolerance and induced resistance in a native and an exotic pine species: relevant traits for invasion ecology. Journal of Ecology 99, 1316–1326. REPRINT
  • Sampedro L, Moreira X, Zas R. 2011. Costs of constitutive and jasmonate-induced pine tree chemical defences emerge only under low nutrient availability. Journal of Ecology, 99: 818-827. REPRINT
  • Rozas V, Zas R, García-González I. 2011. Contrasting effects of water availability on Pinus pinaster radial growth near the transition between the Atlantic and Mediterranean biogeographical regions in NW Spain. European Journal of Forest Research 130, 959-970. REPRINT
  • Solla A, Aguín O, Cubera E, Sampedro L, Mansilla P, Zas R. 2011. Survival time analysis of Pinus pinaster inoculated with Armillaria ostoyae: genetic variation and relevance of seed and root traits. European Journal  Plant Pathology, 130: 477–488. REPRINT
  • Rozas V, Zas R, García-González I. 2011. Climatic control of intra-annual wood density fluctuations of Pinus pinaster in NW Spain. Trees Structure and Function, 25: 443-453. REPRINT
  • Sampedro L, Moreira X,  Zas R. 2011. Resistance and response of Pinus pinaster seedlings to Hylobius abietis after induction with methyl jasmonate. Plant Ecology, 212: 397-401. REPRINT

2010
  • de la Mata R, Zas R 2010a. Performance of maritime pine Spanish Mediterranean provenances in a transitional region between Atlantic and Mediterranean climates in NW Spain. Silvae Genetica 59: 8-17. REPRINT
  • de la Mata R, Zas R 2010b. Transferring Atlantic maritime pine improved material to a region with marked Mediterranean influence in inland NW Spain: a likelihood-based approach on spatially adjusted field data. European Journal of Forest Research 129: 645-658. REPRINT
  • Lazcano C, Sampedro L, Zas R, Domínguez J 2010a. Assessment of plant growth promotion by vermicompost in different progenies of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.). Compost Science and Utilization 18: 111-118. REPRINT
  • Lazcano C, Sampedro L, Zas R, Domínguez J 2010b. Vermicompost enhances germination of the maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.). New Forest 39: 387-400. REPRINT
  • DeSoto L, Olano JM, Rozas V, De la Cruz M 2010. Release of Juniperus thurifera woodlands from herbivore-mediated arrested succession in Spain. Applied Vegetation Science 13: 15-25. REPRINT
  • Sampedro L, Moreira X, Llusia J, Peñuelas J, Zas R 2010a. Genetics, phosphorus availability, and herbivore-derived induction as sources of phenotypic variation of leaf volatile terpenes in a pine species. Journal of Experimental Botany 61: 4437-4447. REPRINT
  • Santos-del-Blanco L, Notivol E, Zas R, Chambel MR, Majada J, Climent J 2010. Variation of early reproductive allocation in multi-site genetic trials of Maritime pine and Aleppo pine. Forest Systems 19: 381-392. REPRINT

2009
  • Martíns P, Sampedro L, Moreira X, Zas R. 2009. Nutritional status and genetic variation in the response to nutrient availability in Pinus pinaster. A multisite field study in Northwest Spain. Forest Ecology and Management 258: 1429-1436. REPRINT
  • Moreira X, Sampedro L, Zas R. 2009. Defensive responses of Pinus pinaster seedlings to exogenous application of methyl jasmonate: Concentration effect and systemic response. Environmental and Experimental Botany 67: 94-100. REPRINT
  • Rozas V, DeSoto L, Olano JM. 2009. Sex-specific, age-dependent sensitivity of tree-ring growth to climate in the dioecious tree Juniperus thurifera. New Phytologist 182: 687-697. REPRINT
  • Rozas, V., Lamas, S., García-González, I. 2009. Differential tree-growth responses to local and large-scale climatic variation in two Pinus and two Quercus species in northwest Spain. Écoscience 16: 299-310. REPRINT
  • Rozas V, Zas R, Solla A. 2009. Spatial structure of five deciduous forest stands with contrasting human influence in northwest Spain. European Journal of Forest Research 128: 273-285. REPRINT
  • Sampedro L, Moreira X, Martíns P, Zas R. 2009. Growth and nutritional response of Pinus pinaster after a large pine weevil (Hylobius abietis) attack. Trees Structure and Function 23: 1189-1197. REPRINT
  • Whalen J.K. and Sampedro L., 2009. Soil Ecology and Management. Modular Text Series, Editorial CABI PUBLISHERS, Oxfordshire, UK. 304 pp. www.cabi.org


2008
  • Zas R, Sampedro L, Moreira X, Martíns P. 2008. Effect of fertilization and genetic variation on susceptibility of Pinus radiata seedlings to Hylobius abietis damage. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 38: 63-72. REPRINT
  • Zas R. 2008. The need of spatial adjustments when selecting genotypes in spatially heterogeneous genetic trials: a case study for Pinus pinaster breeding seedling orchards. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 38: 114-124. REPRINT
  • Moreira X, Sampedro L, Zas R, Solla A. 2008. Alterations of the resin canal system of Pinus pinaster seedlings after fertilisation and Hylobius abietis attack. Trees Structure & Function, 22: 771-777. REPRINT
  • Moreira X, Costas R, Sampedro L, Zas R. 2008. A simple method for trapping Hylobius abietis (L.) alive in northern Spain. Investigación Agraria. Sistemas y Recursos Forestales, 17: 188-192. REPRINT
  • Aira M., Sampedro L., Monroy F., Dominguez J., 2008. Detritivorous earthworms directly modify the structure, thus altering the functioning of a microdecomposer food web. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40, 2511–2516. REPRINT
  • Sampedro L., Domínguez J., 2008. Stable isotope natural abundances (δ13C and δ15N) of the earthworm Eisenia fetida and other soil fauna living in two different vermicomposting environments. Applied Soil Ecology 38, 91-99. REPRINT


2007
  • Zas R, Solla A, Sampedro L. 2007. Variography and kriging allows screening Pinus pinaster resistant to Armillaria ostoyae in field conditions. Forestry 80, 201-209. REPRINT
  • Díaz R, Zas R, Fernández-López J. 2007 Genetic variation of Prunus avium in susceptibility to cherry leaf spot (Blumeriella jaapii) in spatially heterogeneous infected seed orchards. Annals of Forest Science 64, 21-30. REPRINT

2006
  • Zas R. 2006. Iterative kriging for removing spatial autocorrelation in analysis of forest genetic trials. Tree Genetics & Genomics 2, 177-186. REPRINT.
  • Zas R, Pichel F, Martíns P, Fernández-López J. 2006. Fertilization x genotype interaction in Pinus radiata open pollinated seedlings planted in three locations in Galicia (NW Spain). New Forest 32, 253-263. REPRINT
  • Zas R, Sampedro L, Prada E, Lombardero MJ, Fernández-López J. 2006. Fertilization increases Hylobius abietis L. damage in Pinus pinaster Ait. seedlings. Forest Ecology and Management  222, 137-144. REPRINT
  • Sampedro, L., Whalen, J.K., 2006. Changes in the fatty acid profiles through the digestive tract of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris. Applied Soil Ecology 35, 226-236. REPRINT
  • Sampedro, L., Jeannotte, R., Whalen, J.K., 2006. Trophic transfer of fatty acids from gut microbiota to the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38, 2188-2198. REPRINT


2005
  • Zas R, Sampedro L, Prada E, Fernández-López J. 2005. Genetic variation of Pinus pinaster Ait. seedlings in susceptibility to Hylobius abietis L. Annals of Forest Science 62, 681-688. REPRINT