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  1. Beyond Barren Land: Establishing Gypsum Botanical Gardens as a Successful Tool for Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration

    Article • Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, February 2026, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  2. Limonium ×erbenii (Plumbaginaceae), new hybrid taxon for the Southeastern Iberian flora

    Article • Acta Botanica Malacitana, February 2026, Malaga University

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  3. Hybridization, ecological niche, and conservation of the threatened endemic species Limonium estevei: an integrated approach in the genus Limonium

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  4. Soil microbial diversity and network organization respond to land use and agricultural inputs worldwide

    Article • December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francisco Javier Oficialdegui, Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  5. Conserving Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea in the south‐eastern Iberian Peninsula: Integrated management strategies following 50 years of decline

    Article • Ecological Solutions and Evidence, September 2025, Wiley

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  6. The Genetic Diversity and Phylogeography of the Iberian Endemic Steppe Plant Moricandia moricandioides (Boiss.) Heywood, Inferred from ISSR, Plastid DNA, and ITS Sequences

    Article • Diversity, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  7. Elemental Screening and Nutritional Strategies of Gypsophile Flora in Sicily

    Article • Plants, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  8. Shipwrecked on the Rock, or Not Quite: Gypsophytes and Edaphic Islands

    Article • Plants, March 2024, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  9. Spontaneous Primary Succession and Vascular Plant Recovery in the Iberian Gypsum Quarries: Insights for Ecological Restoration in an EU Priority Habitat

    Article • Plants, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  10. Recent and ancient evolutionary events shaped plant elemental composition of edaphic endemics: a phylogeny‐wide analysis of Iberian gypsum plants

    Article • New Phytologist, July 2022, Wiley

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  11. Conservation and Phylogeography of Plants: From the Mediterranean to the Rest of the World

    Article • Diversity, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  12. Elementome of Endemic Dolomitic Flora: Pterocephalus spathulatus (Lag.) Coult

    Article • Land, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  13. Genetic conservation strategies of endemic plants from edaphic habitat islands: The case of Jacobaea auricula (Asteraceae)

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, June 2021, Elsevier

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  14. Plant Conservation Biology: a view from the Mediterranean ecoregions

    Article • Mediterranean Botany, April 2021, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  15. Plant conservation in Mediterranean-type ecosystems

    Article • Mediterranean Botany, February 2021, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  16. Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon

    Article • Biology, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  17. The Relict Ecosystem of Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea in an Agricultural Landscape: Past, Present and Future Scenarios

    Article • Land, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  18. Towards an Eco-Compatible Origin of Construction Materials. Case Study: Gypsum

    Article • September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  19. The relict ecosystem ofGymnosporia senegalensis(Lam.) Loes. in an agricultural plastic sea: past, present and future scenarios

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  20. Threshold ionic contents for defining the nutritional strategies of gypsophile flora

    Article • Ecological Indicators, February 2019, Elsevier

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  21. Red List Index application for vascular flora along an altitudinal gradient

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  22. Plant evolution in alkaline magnesium-rich soils: A phylogenetic study of the Mediterranean genus Hormathophylla (Cruciferae: Alysseae) based on nuclear and plastid sequences

    Article • PLOS One, December 2018, PLOS

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  23. Chewing Gum and pH Level of the Mouth: A Model-based Inquiry Sequence to Promote Scientific Practices

    Article • World Journal of Chemical Education, April 2018, Science and Education Publishing Co., Ltd.

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  24. A complex history of edaphic habitat islands in the Iberian Peninsula: phylogeography of the halo-gypsophyte Jacobaea auricula (Asteraceae)

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  25. Global and Regional IUCN Red List Assessments: 3

    Article • Italian Botanist, June 2017, Pensoft Publishers

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  26. Conceptual baseline for a global checklist of gypsophytes

    Article • Lazaroa, October 2016, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  27. The status of Hormathophylla baetica: a new combination and lectotypification in Hormathophylla cochleata

    Article • Phytotaxa, October 2016, Magnolia Press

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  28. AlyBase: database of names, chromosome numbers, and ploidy levels of Alysseae (Brassicaceae), with a new generic concept of the tribe

    Article • Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez, Professor Karol Marhold

  29. Areas of endemism as a conservation criterion for Iberian gypsophilous flora: a multi-scale test using the NDM/VNDM program

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  30. Areas of endemism and threatened flora in a Mediterranean hotspot: Southern Spain

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, February 2015, Elsevier

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  31. Extreme habitat loss in a Mediterranean habitat:Maytenus senegalensissubsp.europaea

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  32. Genetic analysis based on plastidial and ribosomal sequences of the endemic bi-edaphic taxonJurinea pinnata(Lag.) DC. (Compositae) in the Guadix-Baza Basin

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  33. Variability, genetic structure and phylogeography of the dolomitophilous speciesConvolvulus boissieri(Convolvulaceae) in the Baetic ranges, inferred from AFLPs, plastid DNA and ITS sequences

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  34. Syntaxa-area relationships, lessons from the vegetation of the Betic high mountain ranges (southern Spain)

    Article • Phytocoenologia, October 2014, Schweizerbart

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  35. Ecology, genetic diversity and phylogeography of the Iberian endemic plant Jurinea pinnata (Lag.) DC. (Compositae) on two special edaphic substrates: dolomite and gypsum

    Article • Plant and Soil, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  36. Microsatellite Loci in the Gypsophyte Lepidium subulatum (Brassicaceae), and Transferability to Other Lepidieae

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, September 2012, MDPI AG

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  37. Biogeography of the Baetic ranges (SE Spain): A historical approach using cluster and parsimony analyses of endemic dolomitophytes

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  38. The dolomite shrublands of theConvolvuletalia boissieriorder and their preservation by means of the Habitats Directive

    Article • Acta Botanica Gallica, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez

  39. A first inventory of gypsum flora in the Palearctic and Australia

    Article • Mediterranean Botany, January 1970, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Esteban Salmerón Sánchez