Alexandra Rodríguez
A5063432229- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Plant and animal studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Coastal and Marine Management
Misión Biológica de Galicia
2023-2025
University of Coimbra
2017-2024
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2015-2024
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
2023-2024
Texas A&M University
2023
University of South Alabama
2023
University of Gothenburg
2022
Laboratoire d’Ethologie Expérimentale et Comparée
2022
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
2022
Institut Agro Rennes-Angers
2021
This study provides new insights into how the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces differs from surrounding natural ecosystems.
Abstract Soil contamination is one of the main threats to ecosystem health and sustainability. Yet little known about extent which soil contaminants differ between urban greenspaces natural ecosystems. Here we show that adjacent areas (i.e., natural/semi-natural ecosystems) shared similar levels multiple (metal(loid)s, pesticides, microplastics, antibiotic resistance genes) across globe. We reveal human influence explained many forms worldwide. Socio-economic factors were integral explaining...
Little is known about the global distribution and environmental drivers of key microbial functional traits such as antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Soils are one Earth's largest reservoirs ARGs, which integral for soil competition, have potential implications plant human health. Yet, their diversity patterns remain poorly described. Here, we analyzed 285 ARGs in soils from 1012 sites across all continents created first atlas with distributions topsoil ARGs.
Climate change and atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition are two of the most important global drivers. However, interactions these drivers have not been well studied. We aimed to assess how combined effect soil N additions more frequent drying-rewetting events affects carbon (C) cycling, soil:atmosphere greenhouse gas (GHG) exchange, functional microbial diversity. manipulated frequency in soils from ambient N-treated plots a temperate forest calculated Orwin & Wardle Resistance index compare...
Abstract Despite growing recognition of the role that cities have in global biogeochemical cycles, urban systems are among least understood all ecosystems. Urban grasslands expanding rapidly along with urbanization, which is expected to increase at unprecedented rates upcoming decades. The large and increasing area their impact on water air quality justify need for a better understanding cycles. There also great uncertainty about effect climate change, especially changes winter snow cover,...
Abstract Greenspaces are important for sustaining healthy urban environments and their human populations. Yet capacity to support multiple ecosystem services simultaneously (multiservices) compared with nearby natural ecosystems remains virtually unknown. We conducted a global field survey in 56 areas investigate the influence of greenspaces on 23 soil plant attributes them environments. show that, general, similar levels multiservices, only six (available phosphorus, water holding capacity,...
Urban greenspaces, encompassing parks, golf courses, roundabouts, and urban crops, have potential to offset carbon footprints by storing soil organic (SOC). This study analyzed particulate (POC) mineral-associated (MAOC) stocks in topsoil across 27 Iberian cities, comparing greenspaces with natural ecosystems under varying climatic edaphic conditions. Results revealed that store comparable SOC ecosystems, MAOC being more dominant stable land-use types. POC showed variability, particularly...
Abstract Phenolic compounds are key to plant defence, offering protection as antioxidants, UV shields, and antimicrobials. Their production is largely shaped by environmental conditions. It believed that plants at lower elevations increase phenolic content counter herbivory, while those higher rely on phenolics manage abiotic stresses, such climate variability. Microhabitat warming also affects levels, but responses differ, depending broader climatic contexts: in warmer, lower‐elevation...
Abstract The importance of soil phosphorus (P) is likely to increase in coming decades due the growing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition originated by industrial and agricultural activities. We currently lack a proper understanding main drivers P pools coastal dunes, which rank among most valued priority conservation areas worldwide. Here, we evaluated joint effects biotic (i.e. microbial abundance richness, vegetation cryptogams cover) abiotic pH aridity) factors on labile,...