Iñiguez-Armijos, C., S. Rausche, A. Cueva, A. Sánchez-Rodriguez, CI. Espinosa, and L. Breuer, ‘Shifts in Leaf Litter Breakdown along a Forest-Pasture-Urban Gradient in Andean Streams’, Ecology and Evolution, 2016, 1–17

Espinosa, C. I., M. de la Cruz, a. Jara-Guerrero, E. Gusmán, and a. Escudero, 2015 ‘The Effects of Individual Tree Species on Species Diversity in a Tropical Dry Forest Change throughout Ontogeny’, Ecography.

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Maestre, FT., Gallardo, A., Eldridge, D., Soliveres, S., Bowker, M., Prado-Comesaña, A., Gaitán, J., Quero, J., Ochoa, V., Gozalo, B., García-Gómez, M., García-Palacios, P., Berdugo, M., Valencia, E., Escolar, C., Arredondo, T., Barraza-Zepeda, C., Boeken, B., Bran, D., Cabrera, O., Carreira, J.,  Chaieb, M., Conceição, A., Derak, M., Ernst, R., Espinosa, CI., Florentino, A., Gatica, G., Ghiloufi, W., Gómez-González, S., Gutiérrez, J,. Hernández, R., Huber-Sannwald, E., Jankju, M., Mau, R., Miriti, M., Monerris, J Morici, E., Muchane, M., Naseri, K., Pucheta, E., Ramírez, E., Ramírez-Collantes, D., Romão, R., Tighe, M., Torres, D., Torres-Díaz, C., Val, J., Veiga, J., Wang, D., Yuan, X., Zaady, E. 2015. Human impacts and aridity differentially alter soil N availability in drylands worldwide. - Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.

Tapia-armijos MF, Homeier J, Espinosa CI, Leuschner C, de la Cruz M (2015) Deforestation and Forest Fragmentation in South Ecuador since the 1970s – Losing a Hotspot of Biodiversity. PLoS One

Espinosa, C.I., de la Cruz, M., Jara-Guerrero, A., Gusmán, E. and Escudero, A. The effects of individual tree species on species diversity in a tropical dry forest change throughout ontogeny. Ecography 

Castro, A. y Espinosa C.I. . Seasonal diversity of butterflies and its relationship with woody plant resources availability in Ecuadorian tropical dry forest. Tropical Conservation Science

Jara-Guerrero, A., de la Cruz, M., Espinosa, CI., Mendez, M., Escudero, A. 2015. Does spatial heterogeneity blur the signature of dispersal syndromes on spatial patterns of woody species? A test for tropical dry forests. Oikos. 

W. Ulrich, S. Soliveres, F. T. Maestre, N. J. Gotelli, J. L. Quero, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, M. a. Bowker, D. J. Eldridge, V. Ochoa, B. Gozalo, E. Valencia, M. Berdugo, C. Escolar, M. García-Gómez, A. Escudero, A. Prina, G. Alfonso, T. Arredondo, D. Bran, O. Cabrera, A. P. Cea, M. Chaieb, J. Contreras, M. Derak, , A. Florentino, J. Gaitán, V. G. Muro, W. Ghiloufi, S. Gómez-González, J. R. Gutiérrez, R. M. Hernández, E. Huber-Sannwald, M. Jankju, R. L. Mau, F. M. Hughes, M. Miriti, J. Monerris, M. Muchane, K. Naseri, E. Pucheta, D. a. Ramírez-Collantes, E. Raveh, R. L. Romão, C. Torres-Díaz, J. Val, J. P. Veiga, D. Wang, X. Yuan, and E. Zaady. (2014) “Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands,” J. Biogeogr..

S. Soliveres, F. T. Maestre, M. a. Bowker, R. Torices, J. L. Quero, M. García-Gómez, O. Cabrera, A. Cea, D. Coaguila, D. J. Eldridge, CI. Espinosa , F. Hemmings, J. J. Monerris, M. Tighe, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, C. Escolar, P. García-Palacios, B. Gozalo, V. Ochoa, J. Blones, M. Derak, W. Ghiloufi, J. R. Gutiérrez, R. M. Hernández, and Z. Noumi. (2014) “Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands,” Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst..

Espinosa, C. I., Luzuriaga, A. L., de la Cruz, M., Montero, M., & Escudero, A. (2013). Co-occurring grazing and climate stressors have different effects on the total seed bank when compared to the persistent seed bank. Journal of Vegetation Science, 24, 1098–1107.

Espinosa CI, de la Cruz M, Luzuriaga AL, Escudero. 2013. Climate and grazing control nurse effects in an Ecuadorian dry shrubby community. Journal of tropical ecology

M. Delgado-Baquerizo, F. T. Maestre, A. Gallardo, M. a. Bowker, M. D. Wallenstein, J. L. Quero, V. Ochoa, B. Gozalo, M. García-Gómez, S. Soliveres, P. García-Palacios, M. Berdugo, E. Valencia, C. Escolar, T. Arredondo, C. Barraza-Zepeda, D. Bran, J. A. Carreira, M. Chaieb, A. a. Conceição, M. Derak, D. J. Eldridge, A. Escudero, CI. Espinosa, J. Gaitán, M. G. Gatica, S. Gómez-González, E. Guzman, J. R. Gutiérrez, A. Florentino, E. Hepper, R. M. Hernández, E. Huber-Sannwald, M. Jankju, J. Liu, R. L. Mau, M. Miriti, J. Monerris, K. Naseri, Z. Noumi, V. Polo, A. Prina, E. Pucheta, E. Ramírez, D. a. Ramírez-Collantes, R. Romão, M. Tighe, D. Torres, C. Torres-Díaz, E. D. Ungar, J. Val, W. Wamiti, D. Wang, and E. Zaady. 2013. Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands. Nature, (7473), 672–676.

F. T. Maestre, J. L. Quero, N. J. Gotelli, A. Escudero, V. Ochoa, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, M. García-Gómez, M. A. Bowker, S. Soliveres, C. Escolar, P. García-Palacios, M. Berdugo, E. Valencia, B. Gozalo, A. Gallardo, L. Aguilera, T. Arredondo, J. Blones, B. Boeken, D. Bran, A. A. Conceição, O. Cabrera, M. Chaieb, M. Derak, D. J. Eldridge, CI. Espinosa , A. Florentino, J. Gaitán, M. G. Gatica, W. Ghiloufi, S. Gómez-González, J. R. Gutiérrez, R. M. Hernández, X. Huang, E. Huber-Sannwald, M. Jankju, M. Miriti, J. Monerris, R. L. Mau, E. Morici, K. Naseri, A. Ospina, V. Polo, A. Prina, E. Pucheta, D. A. Ramírez-Collantes, R. Romão, M. Tighe, C. Torres-Díaz, J. Val, J. P. Veiga, D. Wang, and E. Zaady. (2012) Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands. Science 335: 214–218.

Espinosa, C. I., Cabrera, O., Luzuriaga, A., & Escudero, A. (2011). What factors affect diversity and species composition of endangered tumbesian dry forests in southern Ecuador? Biotropica, 43(1), 15–22.

Cueva, A., CI. Espinosa and M. Jordan. (2006) Efficient in Vitro multiplication of Aechmea ’Little harv` and Tillandsia cyanea Linden EX K. KOCH. Propagation of Ornamentl Plants. Vol. 6 N0 4, 165-16