Scientific articles, reports and public documents on the flora, habitats and natural heritage of AlUla.
Habitat classification framework for AlUla County: six habitat groups and their habitats, with descriptions, characteristic flora and fauna, photographs and harmonised habitat maps built from the AlUla Flora, AlUla Fauna and Baseline Assessment projects. Published by AFALULA.
Illustrated atlas of the lichens recorded in AlUla County and the Khaybar White Volcano area. BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO.
Role of structuring plants and fertility islands in the stocks and quality of soil organic carbon in Sharaan. Journal of Arid Environments, 236, 105673.
Daily and seasonal metabolomics of a desert shrub sampled in Sharaan Nature Reserve. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering.
How soil texture and compaction affect the water status and metabolism of Haloxylon salicornicum after transplantation in Sharaan Nature Reserve. Flora, 153094.
Effect of irrigation systems and abandoned farming on date palm roots and their fungi in AlUla. Symbiosis, 95, pp. 81–98.
Legacy of past farming on today's soil bacterial and fungal communities in AlUla (SoFunLand programme). Environmental Microbiology, 27(10), e70189.
Active restoration combining microtopography, water harvesting and the functional diversity of native plants. Land, 14(12), 2445.
Final report of the lichen inventory of AlUla County and the Khaybar White Volcano area. BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO.
Soil seed banks and seedling emergence after natural or agricultural disturbance, in support of the restoration of Sharaan. Restoration Ecology, 33(2), e14321.
Chemical profile and biological activities of Thymbra nabateorum, a plant endemic to the AlUla region. Molecules, 30(3), 657.
Floristic inventory, biogeography and plant diversity of the ecological transition zones of Sharaan. Diversity, 17(1), 30.
Predicting soil texture, carbonates and chemical properties of AlUla soils from XRF spectra. Frontiers in Soil Science, 5, 1668732.
Rock-Eval method to measure low organic carbon contents in the calcareous soils of AlUla. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 89(3), e70067.
Diversity and spores of mycorrhizal fungi in the hyperarid soils of AlUla, studied with several combined techniques. Mycorrhiza, 34, pp. 251–270.
Compared effects of human and natural disturbances on the stability of the soil microbiome of Sharaan. Science of the Total Environment, 907, 167969.
Ecology, grazing pressure, parasitism and nitrogen fixation of Vachellia trees in AlUla. Planta, 259, 132.
Final report of the AlUla Fauna project: inventory of the vertebrates and invertebrates of the AlUla region and land-cover mapping of AlUla and Khaybar. BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO/BIODESERTS, University of Porto.
Co-occurrence networks of the bacteria and fungi living with six plant species of Sharaan and around AlUla. Environmental Microbiome, 19, 65.
Multi-objective optimisation of soil sampling plans and field travel over a remote 1,069 km² area of AlUla. Geoderma, 445, 116888.
How perennial plant communities come back after farming is abandoned in Sharaan. Land, 13(12), 2033.
Soil bacterial DNA as a tracer of ancient human activity at the archaeological site of Hegra. Environmental Microbiology, 26(1), e16546.
Digital soil mapping from images with self-supervised deep learning, with a SoFunLand case study in AlUla. Geoderma, 450, 117056.
Response of the rhizosphere microbiome and young Haloxylon roots to simulated rainfall in Sharaan. Applied Soil Ecology, 199, 105412.
Physical, chemical and microbial features of fertility islands in the hyperarid environments of the AlUla region. Journal of Arid Environments, 219, 105074.
Final report of the AlUla Flora project: inventory of the vascular flora of AlUla County and description of its vegetation, the source of most species on this site.
58 native plants of the AlUla region selected for landscaping and the regeneration of degraded areas, about 20% of the region's potential flora. Second edition, produced by Valorhiz for AFALULA.