• 2017-2020: Investigador Principal. Assessing the impact of invasive plant species on the functional diversity and ecosystem functioning of native communities along an elevational gradient in the Andes of central Chile. FONDECYT 1171005.
• 2018-2020: Co-Investigador. Gypworld: A Global initiative to understand gypsum ecosystem ecology. European Union Research Council. (I.P. Sara Palacios).
• 2018-2022: Co-Investigador. Impacts of plant invasions on the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional homogenization of mountain ecosystems across a broad latitudinal gradient. FONDECYT 1180205 (I.P. Anibal Pauchard).
• 2018-2021: Co-Investigador. Raíces ecofisiológicas y evolutivas de la tolerancia a estreses múltiples en plantas (EREMITA). PGC2018-093824-B-C41, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Plan Nacional I+D+I, España. (I.P. Jaume Flexas).
• 2019-2021: Collaborator. Connecting the green and the grey world – an experimental approach to separating climate, vegetation and geochemical effects on nutrient cycling along a climate gradient. Program EarhtShape, Phase II, Project 2, Germany. (I.P. Ivone Oelman).
• 2019-2021: Co-Investigador. Is drought survival controlled by a growth-storage tradeoff? an assessment along contrasting climates in Chile. FONDECYT 1190927 (I.P. Frida Piper).
• 2021-2024: Investigador Principal. Using a functional approach to assess winners and losers to climate change in plant species of the Andes of central Chile FONDECYT 1211197.
• 2021-2023: Co-Investigador. Assessing the uniqueness of the Antarctic vascular plants: a comparison among populations, other harsh climate species and closely related temperate species. FONDECYT 1211231. (I.P. Patricia Sáez).

Publicaciones (últimos 5 años)

2020:

López-Angulo, J., D.S, Pescador, A.M. Sánchez, A.L. Luzuriaga, L.A. Cavieres & A. Escudero (2020) Impacts of climate, soil and biotic interactions on the interplay of the different facets of alpine plant diversity. Science of the Total Environment 698: 133960. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133960.

Casagrande Bacchiocchi, S., Scandellari, F., Wellstein, C., Cavieres, L. A., & Zerbe, S. (2020) Assessing the ecophysiological response of a mountain grassland community to ski slope management through isotopic composition. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 56: 36-50.

Clemente‐Moreno, M. J., Omranian, N., Sáez, P., Figueroa, C. M., Del‐Saz, N., Elso, M., … & Bravo, L. (2020) Cytochrome respiration pathway and sulphur metabolism sustain stress tolerance to low temperature in the Antarctic species Colobanthus quitensis. New Phytologist 225: 754-768.

Clemente‐Moreno, M. J., Omranian, N., Sáez, P. L., Figueroa, C. M., Del‐Saz, N., Elso, M., Poblete, L., Orf, I., Cuadros-Inostroza, A., Cavieres, L.A., Bravo, L.A., Fernie, A.R., Ribas-Carbó, M., Flexas, J., Nikoloski, Z. Brotman, Y. & Gago, J. (2020) Low‐temperature tolerance of the Antarctic species Deschampsia antarctica: A complex metabolic response associated with nutrient remobilization. Plant, Cell & Environment 43: 1376-1393.

Fernández‐Marín, B., Gulías, J., Figueroa, C. M., Iñiguez, C., Clemente‐Moreno, M. J., Nunes‐Nesi, A., Fernie, A., Cavieres, L.A., Bravo, L.A., García-Plazaola, J.I. & Gago, J. (2020). How do vascular plants perform photosynthesis in extreme environments? An integrative ecophysiological and biochemical story. The Plant Journal 101: 979-1000.

Hierro, J.L., Eren, Ö., Montesinos, D., Andonian, K., Kethsuriani, L., Özcan, R., A. Diaconu, K. Török, L.A. Cavieres & French, K. (2020) Increments in weed seed size track global range expansion and contribute to colonization in a non-native region. Biological Invasions 22: 969-982.

Barros, A., Aschero, V., Mazzolari, A., Cavieres, L.A., & Pickering, C.M. (2020) Going off trails: How dispersed visitor use affects alpine vegetation. Journal of Environmental Management 267: 110546.

Becerra, P., L.A. Cavieres & R.O. Bustamante (2020) Effect of the invasive exotic herb Centaurea solstitialis on plant communities of a semiarid ecosystem. Plant Ecology and Diversity 13: 267-275 doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2020.1800119.

2021:

Duarte, M., L.A. Cavieres, M. Verdú & R.O. Bustamante (2021) Plant-plant facilitation increases with reduced phylogenetic relatedness along an elevation gradient. Oikos 130: 248-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07680.

Sotes, G., L.A. Cavieres & S. Gómez-González (2021). High competitive ability of Centaurea melitensis L. (Asteraceae) does not increase in the invaded range. Biological Invasions 23: 693-703. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02396-1.)

Fernández‐Pascual, E., Carta, A., Mondoni, A., Cavieres, L.A., Rosbakh, S., Venn, S., Satyanti, A., Guja, L., Briceño, V.F., Vandelook, F., Mattana, E., Saatkamp, A., Bu, H., Sommerville, K., Poschlod, P., Liu, K., Nicotra, A. & Jiménez‐Alfaro, B. (2021) The seed germination spectrum of alpine plants: a global meta‐analysis. New Phytologist 229: 3573-3586. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17086.

Reyes-Bahamonde, C. F. Piper & L.A. Cavieres (2021) Carbon allocation to growth and storage depends on elevation provenance in an herbaceous alpine plant of Mediterranean climate. Oecologia 195: 299-312. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04839-x.

Losapio, G, C. Schöb, P.A. Staniczenko, F. Carrara, G.M. Palamara, C.M. De Moraes, M.C. Mescher, R.W. Brooker, B.J. Butterfield, R.M. Callaway, L.A. Cavieres, Z. Kikvidze, C.J. Lortie, R. Michalet, F.I. Pugnaire & J. Bascompte (2021) Network motifs involving both competition and facilitation predict biodiversity in alpine plant communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 118(6), e2005759118.

Rodríguez-Echeverría, S., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Morillo, J., Gaxiola, A., Manzano, M., Marquet, P., González, L., Cavieres, L.A. Pugnaire, F. & Armas, C. Azorella cushion plants and aridity are important drivers of soil microbial communities in Andean ecosystems. Ecosystems (in press). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00603-1.

Irimia, R. E., Hierro, J. L., Branco, S., Sotes, G., Cavieres, L. A., Eren, Ö., Lortie, C., French, K. Callaway, R.M. & Montesinos, D. (2021). Experimental admixture among geographically disjunct populations of an invasive plant yields a global mosaic of reproductive incompatibility and heterosis. Journal of Ecology 109: 2152-2162. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13628.

Cavieres, L.A. (2021) Facilitation and invasibility of plant communities. Journal of Ecology 109: 2019-2028. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13627.

2022:

Bustamante, R. O., Quiñones, D., Duarte, M., Goncalves, E., & Cavieres, L. A. (2022). Invasive Stages within Alien Species and Hutchinson’s Duality: An Example Using Invasive Plants of the Family Fabaceae in Central Chile. Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 11(8), 1063. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11081063

Haider, S., Lembrechts, J. J., McDougall, K., Pauchard, A., Alexander, J. M., Barros, A., Cavieres, L. A., Rashid, I., Rew, L. J., Aleksanyan, A., Arévalo, J. R., Aschero, V., Chisholm, C., Clark, V. R., Clavel, J., Daehler, C., Dar, P. A., Dietz, H., Dimarco, R. D., … Seipel, T. (2022). Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8590. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8590

Yang, X., Gómez-Aparicio, L., Lortie, C.J., Verdú, M., Cavieres, L.A., Huang, Z., et al. (2022) Net plant interactions are highly variable and weakly dependent on climate at the global scale. Ecology Letters, 25, 1580–1593. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14010

Goncalves, E., Herrera, I., Alexander, J., Duarte, M., Cavieres, L. A., Morales-Salinas, L., & Bustamante, R. O. (2022). The Upper Range Limit of Alien Plants Is Not in Equilibrium with Climate in the Andes of Central Chile. Plants, 11(18), 2345. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11182345

Parada-Pozo, G., Bravo, L. A., Sáez, P. L., Cavieres, L. A., Reyes-Díaz, M., Abades, S., Alfaro, F. D., De la Iglesia, R., & Trefault, N. (2022). Vegetation drives the response of the active fraction of the rhizosphere microbial communities to soil warming in Antarctic vascular plants. FEMS microbiology ecology, 98(11), fiac099. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiac099

Reyes-Bahamonde, C., Piper, F.I. & Cavieres, L.A. Elevational variation of the seasonal dynamic of carbohydrate reserves in an alpine plant of Mediterranean mountains. Alp Botany 132, 315–327 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-022-00277-y

Rivera, B. K., Sáez, P. L., Cavieres, L. A., Capó-Bauçà, S., Iñiguez, C., Sanfuentes von Stowasser, E., Fuentes, F., Ramírez, C. F., Vallejos, V., & Galmés, J. (2022). Anatomical and biochemical evolutionary ancient traits of Araucaria araucana (Molina) K. Koch and their effects on carbon assimilation. Tree physiology, 42(10), 1957–1974. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpac057

2023:

Fuentes-Lillo, E., Lembrechts, J.J., Barros, A. et al. Going up the Andes: patterns and drivers of non-native plant invasions across latitudinal and elevational gradients. Biodivers Conserv 32, 4199–4219 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02697-6

Vento, B., Cuesta, F., & Cavieres, L. (2023). Editorial: Carbon sequestration and climate change in crops, natural vegetation, and wetland dynamics in the high Andes. Frontiers in plant science, 14, 1338577. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1338577

Rodríguez-Arribas, C., Martínez, I., Aragón, G., Zamorano-Elgueta, C., Cavieres, L., & Prieto, M. (2023). Specialization patterns in symbiotic associations: A community perspective over spatial scales. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10296. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10296

Irimia, R. E., Montesinos, D., Chaturvedi, A., Sanders, I., Hierro, J. L., Sotes, G., Cavieres, L. A., Eren, Ö., Lortie, C. J., French, K., & Brennan, A. C. (2023). Trait evolution during a rapid global weed invasion despite little genetic differentiation. Evolutionary Applications, 16, 997–1011. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13548

Van den Brink, L., Canessa, R., Neidhardt, H., Knüver, T., Rios, R S., Saldaña, A., Cavieres, L A., Oelmann, Y., Bader, M Y., & Tielbörger, K. (2023). No home-field advantage in litter decomposition from the desert to temperate forest. Functional Ecology, 37, 1315–1327. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14285

Jorge Gago, Miquel Nadal, María José Clemente-Moreno, Carlos María Figueroa, David Barbosa Medeiros, Neus Cubo-Ribas, Lohengrin Alexis Cavieres, Javier Gulías, Alisdair Robert Fernie, Jaume Flexas, León Aloys Bravo, Nutrient availability regulates Deschampsia antarctica photosynthetic and stress tolerance performance in Antarctica, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 74, Issue 8, 18 April 2023, Pages 2620–2637, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad043

Mandakovic, D., Aguado-Norese, C., García-Jiménez, B. et al. Testing the stress gradient hypothesis in soil bacterial communities associated with vegetation belts in the Andean Atacama Desert. Environmental Microbiome 18, 24 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-023-00486-w

Iseli, E., Chisholm, C., Lenoir, J. et al. Rapid upwards spread of non-native plants in mountains across continents. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 405–413 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01979-6

García, R. A., Fuentes-Lillo, E., Cavieres, L., Cóbar-Carranza, A. J., Davis, K. T., Naour, M., Núñez, M. A., Maxwell, B. D., Lembrechts, J. J., & Pauchard, A. (2023). Pinus contorta Alters Microenvironmental Conditions and Reduces Plant Diversity in Patagonian Ecosystems. Diversity, 15(3), 320. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030320

Ortiz, J., Hernández-Fuentes, C., Sáez, P. L., Fernández Del Saz, N., & Cavieres, L. A. (2023). Correction: Compound and simple leaf woody species of the Chilean matorral are equally affected by extreme drought. Plant Ecology, 224(2), 187-188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-022-01288-9

Ortiz, J., Hernández-Fuentes, C., Sáez, P.L. et al. Compound and simple leaf woody species of the Chilean matorral are equally affected by extreme drought. Plant Ecol 224, 33–45 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-022-01277-y

2024:

Sáez, P. L., Vallejos, V., Sancho-Knapik, D., Cavieres, L. A., Ramírez, C. F., Bravo, L. A., Peguero-Pina, J.J., Gil-Pelegrín, E. & Galmés, J. (2024). Leaf hydraulic properties of Antarctic plants: effects of growth temperature and its coordination with photosynthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75: 2013-2026.

Ramírez, C. F., Cavieres, L. A., Sanhueza, C., Vallejos, V., Gómez-Espinoza, O., Bravo, L. A., & Sáez, P. L. (2024). Ecophysiology of Antarctic Vascular Plants: An Update on the Extreme Environment Resistance Mechanisms and Their Importance in Facing Climate Change. Plants 13(3), 449.

Cavieres, L.A., Sanhueza, C.E., & Hernández‐Fuentes, C. (2024). Warming had contrasting effects on the importance of facilitative interactions with a cushion nurse species on native and non‐native species in the high‐Andes of central Chile. Oikos, e10296.

van den Brink, L., Canessa, R., Liancourt, P., Neidhardt, H., Cavieres, L. A., Oelmann, Y., … & Tielbörger, K. (2024). Increases and decreases in soil moisture in water‐limited plant communities cause asymmetrical responses in biomass but not in diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35(4), e13300.

Viveros, R., Sáez, P. L., Ramírez, C., Fuentes, F., Labra, N., Anic, V., & Cavieres, L. A. (2024). Mesophyll conductance limits photosynthesis and relates to anatomical traits in high-elevation plants in the Andes. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 226, 105916.

Bertness, M. D., Cavieres, L. A., Lortie, C. J., & Callaway, R. M. (2024). Positive interactions and interdependence in communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39(11), 1014-1023.

Michalet, R., Losapio, G., Kikvidze, Z., Brooker, R. W., Butterfield, B. J., Callaway, R. M., Cavieres, L.A., Lortie, C.J., Pugnaire, F.I. & Schöb, C. (2024). Assessing the accuracy of paired and random sampling for quantifying plant–plant interactions in natural communities. Population Ecology 2024: 1-14 DOI:10.1002/1438-390X.12161.