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Michelle A. Louw

ORCID: 0000-0002-2148-9752
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Research Areas
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
  • Taxation and Legal Issues
  • Plant Ecology and Soil Science
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Economic and Fiscal Studies
  • Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Environmental Quality and Pollution
  • South African History and Culture
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Forest, Soil, and Plant Ecology in China

University of Pretoria
 2016-2025

University of Bayreuth
 2024

University of Cape Town
 2014-2021

 Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands
OPENALEX - Publications 
Fernando T. Maestre Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo David J. Eldridge Hugo Saíz and 95 more Miguel Berdugo Beatriz Gozalo Victoria Ochoa Emilio Guirado Miguel García‐Gómez Enrique Valencia Juan Gaitán Sergio Asensio Betty J. Mendoza César Plaza Paloma Díaz‐Martínez Ana Rey Hang‐Wei Hu Ji‐Zheng He Juntao Wang Anika Lehmann Matthias C. Rillig Simone Cesarz Nico Eisenhauer Jaime Martínez‐Valderrama Eduardo Moreno‐Jiménez Osvaldo E. Sala Mehdi Abedi Negar Ahmadian Concepción L. Alados Valeria Aramayo Fateh Amghar Tulio Arredondo Rodrigo J. Ahumada Khadijeh Bahalkeh Farah Ben Salem Niels Blaum Bazartseren Boldgiv Matthew A. Bowker Donaldo Bran Chongfeng Bu Rafaella Canessa Andrea P. Castillo‐Monroy Helena Castro Ignacio Castro Patricio Castro-Quezada Roukaya Chibani Abel Augusto Conceição Courtney M. Currier Anthony Darrouzet‐Nardi Balázs Déak David A. Donoso Andrew J. Dougill Jorge Durán Erdenetsetseg Batdelger Carlos I. Espinosa Alex Fajardo Mohammad Farzam Daniela Ferrante Anke S. K. Frank Lauchlan H. Fraser Laureano Gherardi Aaron C. Greenville Carlos A. Guerra Elizabeth Gusmán‐Montalván Rosa Mary Hernández Norbert Hölzel Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald Frederic Mendes Hughes Oswaldo Jadán Florian Jeltsch Anke Jentsch Kudzai Farai Kaseke Melanie Köbel Jessica E. Koopman Cintia V. Leder Anja Linstädter Peter C. le Roux Xinkai Li Pierre Liancourt Jushan Liu Michelle A. Louw Gillian Maggs‐Kölling Thulani P. Makhalanyane Oumarou Malam Issa Antonio J. Manzaneda Eugène Marais Juan Pablo Mora Gerardo Moreno Seth M. Munson Alice Nunes Gabriel Oliva Gastón R. Oñatibia Guadalupe Peter Marco Otávio Dias Pivari Yolanda Pueyo R. Emiliano Quiroga Soroor Rahmanian Sasha C. Reed Pedro J. Rey

Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil properties, and biodiversity may occur but have never been addressed simultaneously. Using a standardized survey at 98 sites across six continents, we show that soil, are critical to explain delivery fundamental drylands Increasing pressure reduced service in warmer species-poor drylands, whereas positive...

10.1126/science.abq4062 article EN Science 2022-11-24
 Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world
OPENALEX - Publications 
Nicolas Gross Fernando T. Maestre Pierre Liancourt Miguel Berdugo Raphaël Martin and 95 more Beatriz Gozalo Victoria Ochoa Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo Vincent Maire Hugo Saíz Santiago Soliveres Enrique Valencia David J. Eldridge Emilio Guirado Franck Jabot Sergio Asensio Juan Gaitán Miguel García‐Gómez Paloma Martínez Jaime Martínez‐Valderrama Betty J. Mendoza Eduardo Moreno‐Jiménez David S. Pescador César Plaza Ivan Santaolaria Pijuan Mehdi Abedi Rodrigo J. Ahumada Fateh Amghar Antonio I. Arroyo Khadijeh Bahalkeh Lydia Bailey Farah Ben Salem Niels Blaum Bazartseren Boldgiv Matthew A. Bowker Cristina Branquinho Liesbeth van den Brink Chongfeng Bu Rafaella Canessa Andrea del p. Castillo-monroy Helena Castro Patricio Castro-Quezada Roukaya Chibani Abel Augusto Conceição Anthony Darrouzet‐Nardi Yvonne C. Davila Balázs Déak David A. Donoso Jorge Durán Carlos I. Espinosa Alex Fajardo Mohammad Farzam Daniela Ferrante Jorgelina Franzese Lauchlan H. Fraser Sofía González Elizabeth Gusmán‐Montalván Rosa Mary Hernández Norbert Hölzel Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald Oswaldo Jadán Florian Jeltsch Anke Jentsch Mengchen Ju Kudzai Farai Kaseke Liana Kindermann Peter C. le Roux Anja Linstädter Michelle A. Louw Mancha Mabaso Gillian Maggs‐Kölling Thulani P. Makhalanyane Oumarou Malam Issa Antonio J. Manzaneda Eugène Marais Pierre Margerie Frederic Mendes Hughes João Vitor S. Messeder Juan Pablo Mora Gerardo Moreno Seth M. Munson Alice Nunes Gabriel Oliva Gastón R. Oñatibia Guadalupe Peter Yolanda Pueyo R. Emiliano Quiroga Elizabeth Ramírez-Iglesias Sasha C. Reed Pedro J. Rey Víctor Manuel Reyes Gómez Alexandra Rodríguez Víctor Rolo Juan G. Rubalcaba Jan C. Ruppert Osvaldo E. Sala Ayman Salah Phokgedi Julius Sebei Ilan Stavi Colton Stephens

10.1038/s41586-024-07731-3 article EN Nature 2024-08-07
 Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands
OPENALEX - Publications 
David J. Eldridge Jingyi Ding Josh Dorrough Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo Osvaldo E. Sala and 95 more Nicolas Gross Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet Max Mallen‐Cooper Hugo Saíz Sergio Asensio Victoria Ochoa Beatriz Gozalo Emilio Guirado Miguel García‐Gómez Enrique Valencia Jaime Martínez‐Valderrama César Plaza Mehdi Abedi Negar Ahmadian Rodrigo J. Ahumada Julio M. Alcántara Fateh Amghar Luísa Azevedo Farah Ben Salem Miguel Berdugo Niels Blaum Bazartseren Boldgiv Matthew A. Bowker Donaldo Bran Chongfeng Bu Rafaella Canessa Andrea P. Castillo‐Monroy Ignacio Castro Patricio Castro-Quezada Simone Cesarz Roukaya Chibani Abel Augusto Conceição Anthony Darrouzet‐Nardi Yvonne C. Davila Balázs Déak Paloma Díaz‐Martínez David A. Donoso Andrew J. Dougill Jorge Durán Nico Eisenhauer Hamid Ejtehadi Carlos I. Espinosa Alex Fajardo Mohammad Farzam Ana Foronda Jorgelina Franzese Lauchlan H. Fraser Juan Gaitán Katja Geißler Sofía González Elizabeth Gusmán‐Montalván Rosa Mary Hernández Norbert Hölzel Frederic Mendes Hughes Oswaldo Jadán Anke Jentsch Mengchen Ju Kudzai Farai Kaseke Melanie Köbel Anika Lehmann Pierre Liancourt Anja Linstädter Michelle A. Louw Quanhui Ma Mancha Mabaso Gillian Maggs‐Kölling Thulani P. Makhalanyane Oumarou Malam Issa Eugène Marais Mitchel P. McClaran Betty Mendoza Vincent Mokoka Juan Pablo Mora Gerardo Moreno Seth M. Munson Alice Nunes Gabriel Oliva Gastón R. Oñatibia Brooke Osborne Guadalupe Peter Margerie Pierre Yolanda Pueyo R. Emiliano Quiroga Sasha C. Reed Ana Rey Pedro J. Rey Víctor Manuel Reyes Gómez Víctor Rolo Matthias C. Rillig Peter C. le Roux Jan C. Ruppert Ayman Salah Phokgedi Julius Sebei Anarmaa Sharkhuu Ilan Stavi

10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7 article EN Nature Plants 2024-04-12
 Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands
OPENALEX - Publications 
Paloma Díaz‐Martínez Fernando T. Maestre Eduardo Moreno‐Jiménez Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo David J. Eldridge and 95 more Hugo Saíz Nicolas Gross Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet Beatriz Gozalo Victoria Ochoa Emilio Guirado Miguel García‐Gómez Enrique Valencia Sergio Asensio Miguel Berdugo Jaime Martínez‐Valderrama Betty J. Mendoza Juan Carlos García‐Gil Claudio Zaccone Marco Panettieri Pablo García‐Palacios Wei Fan Iria Benavente‐Ferraces Ana Rey Nico Eisenhauer Simone Cesarz Mehdi Abedi Rodrigo J. Ahumada Julio M. Alcántara Fateh Amghar Valeria Aramayo Antonio I. Arroyo Khadijeh Bahalkeh Farah Ben Salem Niels Blaum Bazartseren Boldgiv Matthew A. Bowker Donaldo Bran Cristina Branquinho Chongfeng Bu Yonatan Cáceres Escudero Rafaella Canessa Andrea P. Castillo‐Monroy Ignacio Castro Patricio Castro-Quezada Roukaya Chibani Abel Augusto Conceição Courtney M. Currier Anthony Darrouzet‐Nardi Balázs Déak Chris R. Dickman David A. Donoso Andrew J. Dougill Jorge Durán Hamid Ejtehadi Carlos I. Espinosa Alex Fajardo Mohammad Farzam Daniela Ferrante Lauchlan H. Fraser Juan Gaitán Elizabeth Gusmán Montalván Rosa Mary Hernández Andreas von Heßberg Norbert Hölzel Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald Frederic Mendes Hughes Oswaldo Jadán Katja Geißler Anke Jentsch Mengchen Ju Kudzai Farai Kaseke Liana Kindermann Jessica E. Koopman Peter C. le Roux Pierre Liancourt Anja Linstädter Jushan Liu Michelle A. Louw Gillian Maggs‐Kölling Thulani P. Makhalanyane Oumarou Malam Issa Eugène Marais Pierre Margerie Antonio J. Mazaneda Mitchel P. McClaran João Vitor S. Messeder Juan Pablo Mora Gerardo Moreno Seth M. Munson Alice Nunes Gabriel Oliva Gastón R. Oñatibia Brooke Osborne Guadalupe Peter Yolanda Pueyo R. Emiliano Quiroga Sasha C. Reed Victor M. Reyes Alexandra Rodríguez

10.1038/s41558-024-02087-y article EN Nature Climate Change 2024-07-30
 Soil microbial genomic responses to aridity-driven elemental imbalance across global biomes
OPENALEX - Publications 
Youzhi Feng Chunkai Li Tadeo Sáez‐Sandino Chao Xiong David J. Eldridge and 79 more Nicolas Gross Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet Victoria Ochoa Beatriz Gozalo Emilio Guirado Miguel García‐Gómez Enrique Valencia Miguel Berdugo Sergio Asensio Jaime Martínez‐Valderrama Betty Mendoza Asmeret Asefaw Berhe Nick A. Cutler Sebastián Abades Julio M. Alcántara Fernando D. Alfaro Antonio I. Arroyo Matthew J. Barrett Felipe Bastida Niels Blaum Bazartseren Boldgiv Matthew A. Bowker Cristina Branquinho Stephen C. Hart Balázs Déak Jorge Durán Carlos I. Espinosa Alex Fajardo Lauchlan H. Fraser Antonio Gallardo Laura García‐Velázquez Katja Geißler Tine Grebenc Elizabeth Gusmán Montalván Liana Kindermann Melanie Köbel Lauri Laanisto Peter C. le Roux Pierre Liancourt Jinsong Liang Anja Linstädter Michelle A. Louw Petr Macek Gillian Maggs‐Kölling Thulani P. Makhalanyane Antonio J. Manzaneda Eugène Marais Daniel Montesinos Juan Pablo Mora Gerardo Moreno Miriam Muñoz‐Rojas Amir Mussery Tina Unuk Nahberger Girish R Nair Sigrid Neuhauser César Plaza Yolanda Pueyo Pedro J. Rey Ana Rey Asunción de los Rı́os Alexandra Rodríguez Borja Rodríguez‐Lozano José Raúl Román Jan C. Ruppert Ayman Salah Joana Serôdio José A. Siles Jay Shankar Singh Samantha K. Travers Sainbileg Undrakhbold Orsolya Valkó María Vivas Lixin Wang Mark A. Williams Eli Zaady Guiyao Zhou Fernando T. Maestre Brajesh K. Singh Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo

<title>Abstract</title> Aridification is known to disrupt soil biogeochemical cycles by altering the stoichiometry of key elements, such as carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). However, how microbiome metabolically responds these imbalances, resulting implications for terrestrial ecosystem services, remain virtually unknown. By analyzing samples from 200 ecosystems across globally distributed biomes, our results revealed an overall microbial genomic adjustment elemental imbalances...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-6656511/v1 preprint EN Research Square (Research Square) 2025-05-15
 Mammal burrowing in discrete landscape patches further increases soil and vegetation heterogeneity in an arid environment
OPENALEX - Publications 
Michelle A. Louw Peter C. le Roux Elizabeth Meyer-Milne Natalie S. Haussmann

10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.02.007 article EN Journal of Arid Environments 2017-03-01
 Testing for consistency in the impacts of a burrowing ecosystem engineer on soil and vegetation characteristics across biomes
OPENALEX - Publications 
Michelle A. Louw Natalie S. Haussmann Peter C. le Roux

Abstract The impacts of ecosystem engineers may be expected to vary along environmental gradients. Due some resources being more limited in arid than mesic environments, disturbances created by burrowing mammals are have a greater ameliorating effect with larger differences microhabitat conditions between burrows and undisturbed areas. aim this study was test if the medium-sized mammal, aardvark, on soil properties (soil temperature, moisture compaction) vegetation characteristics (plant...

10.1038/s41598-019-55917-x article EN cc-by Scientific Reports 2019-12-18
 Ecosystem engineering through aardvark (Orycteropus afer) burrowing: Mechanisms and effects
OPENALEX - Publications 
Natalie S. Haussmann Michelle A. Louw Simone Lewis Keegan J.H. Nicol Stephni van der Merwe and 1 more Peter C. le Roux

10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.04.022 article EN Ecological Engineering 2018-04-25
 Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands
OPENALEX - Publications 
Lucio Biancari Martı́n R. Aguiar David J. Eldridge Gastón R. Oñatibia Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet and 95 more Hugo Saíz Nicolas Gross Amy T. Austin Victoria Ochoa Beatriz Gozalo Sergio Asensio Emilio Guirado Enrique Valencia Miguel Berdugo César Plaza Jaime Martínez‐Valderrama Betty J. Mendoza Miguel García‐Gómez Mehdi Abedi Rodrigo J. Ahumada Julio M. Alcántara Fateh Amghar José D. Anadón Valeria Aramayo Tulio Arredondo Maaike Y. Bader Khadijeh Bahalkeh Farah Ben Salem Niels Blaum Bazartseren Boldgiv Matthew A. Bowker Cristina Branquinho Chongfeng Bu Batbold Byambatsogt Dianela Alejandra Calvo Andrea P. Castillo Monroy Helena Castro Patricio Castro-Quezada Roukaya Chibani Abel Augusto Conceição Courtney M. Currier David A. Donoso Andrew J. Dougill Hamid Ejtehadi Carlos I. Espinosa Alex Fajardo Mohammad Farzam Daniela Ferrante Lauchlan H. Fraser Juan Gaitán Laureano Gherardi Elizabeth Gusmán‐Montalván Rosa Mary Hernández Norbert Hölzel Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald Frederic Mendes Hughes Oswaldo Jadán Florian Jeltsch Anke Jentsch Mengchen Ju Kudzai Farai Kaseke Liana Kindermann Melanie Köbel Peter C. le Roux Pierre Liancourt Anja Linstädter Jushan Liu Michelle A. Louw Gillian Maggs‐Kölling Oumarou Malam Issa Eugène Marais Pierre Margerie João Vitor S. Messeder Juan Pablo Mora Gerardo Moreno Seth M. Munson Gabriel Oliva Yolanda Pueyo R. Emiliano Quiroga Sasha C. Reed Pedro J. Rey Alexandra Rodríguez Laura B. Rodríguez Víctor Rolo Jan C. Ruppert Osvaldo E. Sala Ayman Salah Ilan Stavi Colton Stephens Anthony M. Swemmer Alberto L. Teixido Andrew D. Thomas Heather L. Throop Katja Tielbörger Samantha K. Travers Liesbeth van den Brink Viktoria Wagner Wanyoike Wamiti Deli Wang Lixin Wang

Increases in the abundance of woody species have been reported to affect provisioning ecosystem services drylands worldwide. However, it is virtually unknown how multiple biotic and abiotic drivers, such as climate, grazing, fire, interact determine dominance across global drylands. We conducted a standardized field survey 304 plots 25 countries assess climatic features, soil properties, fire dryland rangelands. Precipitation, temperature, grazing were key determinants tree shrub dominance....

10.1126/sciadv.adn6007 article EN cc-by-nc Science Advances 2024-10-11
 Quantifying the Impact of Off-Road Driving on Root-Area Distribution in Soils
OPENALEX - Publications 
Gerhardus Petrus Nortjé W. van Hoven Michiel C. Laker Johanna C. Jordaan Michelle A. Louw

Studies on the effects of off-road driving soils were conducted in Makuleke Contractual Park Kruger National Park. The studies three different with textures and soil compactibilities. Traffic pressure was applied a game drive vehicle loaded 10 sand bags, each weighing 70 kg, plus driver. This gave total mass 3795 simulating fully laden tourists. results study reported here included comparing four tyre pressures root area distribution below pressure. At all sites, density fractions under...

10.3957/056.046.0033 article EN African Journal of Wildlife Research 2016-04-01
 Disentangling the effects of two co-occurring biotic modifiers on vegetation properties in a semi-arid savannah ecosystem
OPENALEX - Publications 
Michelle A. Louw Natalie S. Haussmann Peter C. le Roux

10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104504 article EN Journal of Arid Environments 2021-04-02
 Effects of ecosystem engineers in arid environments on soil and vegetation
OPENALEX - Publications 
Michelle A. Louw Peter C. le Roux Natalie S. Haussmann

10.1016/j.sajb.2016.02.071 article EN cc-by South African Journal of Botany 2016-03-01
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