Marta Goberna

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Marta Goberna is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Marta Goberna has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Soil Science, 26 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Marta Goberna's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers). Marta Goberna is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers). Marta Goberna collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Austria and Mexico. Marta Goberna's co-authors include Miguel Verdú, Heribert Insam, Carlos Garcı́a, José A. Navarro‐Cano, José Antonio Pascual, Eduardo Pérez‐Valera, Ingrid H. Franke‐Whittle, Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet, Juan Carlos Sánchez and María Martínez‐Mena and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Marta Goberna

68 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle

2021 167 citations Francesco de Bello, Sandra Lavorel et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Marta Goberna

ECOLO

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Alain Brauman France

Yong Zheng China

Yi‐Huei Jiang United States

José Antonio Pascual Spain

Dirk Reheul Belgium

Christopher B. Blackwood United States

Jaroslav Šnajdr Czechia

Romain L. Barnard France

Randall D. Jackson United States

Alain Brauman France

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282 ×0.5

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marta Goberna

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marta Goberna. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marta Goberna based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marta Goberna. Marta Goberna is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Goberna, Marta, Sara Sánchez‐Moreno, Mansonia Pulido‐Moncada, et al.. (2025). Long‐Term Application of No‐Tillage‐Induced Greater Risk of Poor Topsoil Aeration Along a European Pedoclimatic Gradient. European Journal of Soil Science. 76(2). 1 indexed citations

Goberna, Marta, Heriberto López, Paula Arribas, et al.. (2025). The hidden shift: The role of exotic plantations in modulating soil arthropod communities in an arid island. European Journal of Soil Biology. 125. 103724–103724. 1 indexed citations

Navarro‐Cano, José A., et al.. (2025). Functional Distance Mediates Plant Interactions. Journal of Vegetation Science. 36(1). 1 indexed citations

Hirn, Johannes, Verónica Sanz, J. E. García Navarro, et al.. (2024). Transfer learning of species co-occurrence patterns between plant communities. Ecological Informatics. 83. 102826–102826. 1 indexed citations

Navarro‐Cano, José A., Marta Goberna, Eduardo Pérez‐Valera, & Miguel Verdú. (2024). Decoupling of trait and species turnover in fire‐prone Mediterranean plant communities. Journal of Ecology. 112(9). 2043–2056. 1 indexed citations

Goberna, Marta, Milagros León‐Barrios, Manuel Fernández‐López, et al.. (2023). How harmful are exotic plantations for soils and its microbiome? A case study in an arid island. The Science of The Total Environment. 879. 163030–163030. 4 indexed citations

Verdú, Miguel, Julio M. Alcántara, José A. Navarro‐Cano, & Marta Goberna. (2023). Transitivity and intransitivity in soil bacterial networks. The ISME Journal. 17(12). 2135–2139. 11 indexed citations

Arribas, Paula, Carmelo Andújar, Kristine Bohmann, et al.. (2022). Toward global integration of biodiversity big data: a harmonized metabarcode data generation module for terrestrial arthropods. GigaScience. 11. 19 indexed citations

Bello, Francesco de, Sandra Lavorel, Lauren M. Hallett, et al.. (2021). Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(9). 822–836. 167 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goberna, Marta, et al.. (2020). Constructed pine log piles facilitate plant establishment in mining drylands. Journal of Environmental Management. 271. 111015–111015. 18 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Valera, Eduardo, et al.. (2019). Native soil microorganisms hinder the soil enrichment with antibiotic resistance genes following manure applications. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6760–6760. 45 indexed citations

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Goberna, Marta, Pedro Simón, Teresa Hernández, & Carlos Garcı́a. (2017). Prokaryotic communities and potential pathogens in sewage sludge: Response to wastewaster origin, loading rate and treatment technology. The Science of The Total Environment. 615. 360–368. 28 indexed citations

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Goberna, Marta, José A. Navarro‐Cano, & Miguel Verdú. (2016). Opposing phylogenetic diversity gradients of plant and soil bacterial communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1825). 20153003–20153003. 22 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Valera, Eduardo, Marta Goberna, & Miguel Verdú. (2015). Phylogenetic structure of soil bacterial communities predicts ecosystem functioning. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 91(5). 40 indexed citations

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Fernández-Gómez, Manuel J., Rogelio Nogales, Heribert Insam, Esperanza Romero, & Marta Goberna. (2011). Role of vermicompost chemical composition, microbial functional diversity, and fungal community structure in their microbial respiratory response to three pesticides. Bioresource Technology. 102(20). 9638–9645. 29 indexed citations

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Goberna, Marta, Carlos Garcı́a, Heribert Insam, Teresa Hernández, & Miguel Verdú. (2011). Burning Fire-Prone Mediterranean Shrublands: Immediate Changes in Soil Microbial Community Structure and Ecosystem Functions. Microbial Ecology. 64(1). 242–255. 102 indexed citations

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Fernández-Gómez, Manuel J., Rogelio Nogales, Heribert Insam, Esperanza Romero, & Marta Goberna. (2010). Continuous-feeding vermicomposting as a recycling management method to revalue tomato-fruit wastes from greenhouse crops. Waste Management. 30(12). 2461–2468. 69 indexed citations

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Franke‐Whittle, Ingrid H., et al.. (2009). Design and development of the ANAEROCHIP microarray for investigation of methanogenic communities. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 79(3). 279–288. 32 indexed citations

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Ros, Margarita, Marta Goberna, José Antonio Pascual, Susanne Klammer, & Heribert Insam. (2008). 16S rDNA analysis reveals low microbial diversity in community level physiological profile assays. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 72(3). 221–226. 106 indexed citations

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Goberna, Marta, Heribert Insam, Susanne Klammer, José Antonio Pascual, & Joaquı́n Sánchez-Soriano. (2005). Microbial Community Structure at Different Depths in Disturbed and Undisturbed Semiarid Mediterranean Forest Soils. Microbial Ecology. 50(3). 315–326. 64 indexed citations

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