A5032987984- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Diatoms and Algae Research
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Plant and soil sciences
Misión Biológica de Galicia
2025
Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
2013-2022
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
2019-2021
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2017-2018
Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research
2018
University of Córdoba
2015
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2014
Dryland ecosystems account for ca. 27% of global soil organic carbon (C) reserves, yet it is largely unknown how climate change will impact C cycling and storage in these areas. In drylands, concentrates at the surface, making particularly sensitive to activity organisms inhabiting uppermost levels, such as communities dominated by lichens, mosses, bacteria fungi (biocrusts). We conducted a full factorial warming rainfall exclusion experiment two semiarid sites Spain show an average increase...
Despite the important role that biocrust communities play in maintaining ecosystem structure and functioning drylands world-wide, few studies have evaluated how climate change will affect them. Using data from an 8-yr-old manipulative field experiment located central Spain, we warming, rainfall exclusion their combination affected dynamics of areas initially had low (< 20%, LIBC plots) high (> 50%, HIBC cover. Warming reduced richness (35 ± 6%), diversity (25 8%) cover (82 5%) biocrusts...
Soil surface communities dominated by mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria (biocrusts) are common between vegetation patches in drylands worldwide, known to affect soil wetting drying after rainfall events. While ongoing climate change is already warming changing patterns of many regions, little on how these changes may the hydrological behaviour biocrust-covered soils. We used eight years continuous moisture data from a experiment central Spain explore biocrusts modify water gains losses...
Biocrusts, topsoil communities formed by mosses, lichens, liverworts, algae, and cyanobacteria, are a key biotic component of dryland ecosystems worldwide. Experiments carried out with lichen- moss-dominated biocrusts indicate that climate change may dramatically reduce their cover diversity. Therefore, the development reproducible methods to monitor changes in biocrust diversity abundance across multiple spatio-temporal scales is for evaluating how impact myriad ecosystem functions services...
Biocrusts (topsoil communities formed by mosses, lichens, bacteria, fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria) are a key biotic component of dryland ecosystems. Whilst climate patterns control the distribution biocrusts in drylands worldwide, terrain soil attributes can influence biocrust at landscape scale. Multi-source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery was used to map study ecology typical ecosystem central Spain. Red, green blue (RGB) processed using structure-from-motion techniques related...
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...
In the paper by Maestre et al. Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change drylands, 19, 3835–3847, some values reported Fig. 5 (panel d) and Figure S8 f) are incorrect. We have detected a numerical error calculation of fungi : bacteria ratio obtained 46 months after beginning study. This affects aforementioned figures, three sentences our manuscript where these results presented and/or discussed. The sentence '46 later, fungal bacterial increased with warming...
Commercial chambers for in vivo gas exchange are usually designed to measure on vascular plants, but not cryptogams and other organisms forming biological soil crusts (BSCs). We have therefore two versions of a chamber with different volumes determining CO2 portable photosynthesis system, three main purposes: (1) situ soils covered by BSCs minimal physical microenvironmental disturbance; (2) acquire CO2-exchange measurements comparable the most widely employed systems methodologies; (3)...
Biocrusts, communities dominated by mosses, lichens, cyanobacteria, and other microorganisms, largely affect the carbon cycle of drylands. As poikilohydric organisms, their activity time is often limited to short hydration events. The photosynthetic respiratory response biocrusts events not only determined overall amount available water, but also frequency size individual rainfall pulses.We experimentally assessed exchange a biocrust community lichen Diploschistes diacapsis in central Spain....
Abstract Soil surface communities dominated by mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria (biocrusts) cover most of the soil between vegetation patches in drylands worldwide, are known to affect wetting drying after rainfall events. While ongoing climate change is already warming changing patterns many regions, little on how these changes may hydrological behaviour biocrust-covered soils. We used eight years continuous moisture data from a experiment central Spain explore biocrusts modify water gains...
Este trabajo ha sido posible gracias a la concesion de una beca predoctoral en el marco del Programa “Junta Ampliacion Estudios” (JAE) para ser desarrollado Estacion Experimental Zonas Aridas, instituto perteneciente al Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (EEZA-CSIC). El se financiado mayoritariamente por proyecto PREVEA (CGL2007-63258/BOS) concedido Plan Estatal I+D+I Ministerio Economia y Competitividad. Tambien parcialmente los proyectos CARBORAD (CGL2011-27493) Bacarcos...