Osvaldo Sala

Osvaldo Sala is an ecologist and educator at Arizona State University, where he is the Julie A. Wrigley, Regents and Foundation Professor and the Founding Director of the Global Drylands Center, as well as founder of the Sala Lab. He is known for his research on how global change affects the functioning of global ecosystems and their biodiversity, with a focus on drylands.

Sala's work has been cited more than 65,000 times in scientific publications, including his article in ''Science'', titled ''Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100'', which has been cited more than 11,000 times. Recently, Sala and University of New South Wales Professor David Eldridge launched a new journal published by Cambridge University Press, entitled ''Drylands'', which serves as a hub for trans-disciplinary studies of drylands. Provided by Wikipedia