Dissemination and Impact of Research Results - Laboratorio de Ecología de Zonas Áridas y Cambio Global

In this page you can find links to news and interviews appeared on the web and mass media regarding the results of the research conducted in the lab and other environmental topics. Most of them are in Spanish.

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in the “El Español” digital newspaper (03/05/2021) (In spanish)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in the article “W e´ll meet again: scientists´post-pandemic wish list”, published in Nature (01/03/2021)

Press releases and news about our paper “Functional rarity and evenness are key facets of biodiversity to boost multifunctionality” published in PNAS.

Press releases

News

Laverdad (09/02/2021)
Ruvid (09/02/2021)
Agronewscastillayleon (09/02/2021)
Intercomarcal (10/02/2021)
Novaciencia (11/02/2021)
INRAe (11/02/2021)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre about the Premio Radio Elda (environmental category) 2020, in Radio Elda of Cadena Ser (03/02/2021)

Press releases and news about our paper “Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity.” published in Science.

Press releases

News

El Diario (14/01/2021)
Agencia SINC (14/01/2021)
Verde y azul (diario información) (17/01/2021)
Sciencedaily (14/01/2021)
Phys.org (14/01/2021)
Colorado State University (15/01/2021)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in the program “Próxima parada” of A punt media (min 41) (08/03/2021)

Press releases and news about our paper “Crop cover is more important than rotational diversity for soil miltifunctionality and cereal yields in European cropping systems” published in Nature Food.

Press releases

News

Agencia SINC (13/01/2021)
Europapress (13/01/2021)
Newsbreak (13/01/2021)
Que (13/01/2021)
Dicyt (13/01/2021)
TecnoXplora (La sexta) (13/01/2021)
Verde y azul (diario información) (14/01/2021)
Biotech (14/01/2021)
Agrodigital (14/01/2021)
Agronoma (ABC Sevilla) (14/01/2021)
Ecoticias (14/01/2021)
Madridmasd (14/01/2021)
Mundo Agropecuario (14/01/2021)
Noticiasdelaciencia.com (18/01/2021)

Interview to Pablo García Palacios in the program Onda Agraria of Onda Cero (17/01/2021)

Press releases and news about our paper “Discarded food and resource depletion” published in Nature Food.

Press releases

Universidad de Alicante

News

La Verdad (11/11/2020)
La Vanguardia (11/11/2020)
Diario Información (11/11/2020)
Novaciencia (12/11/2020)
Despilfarroalimentario.org (12/11/2020)
Yonodesperdicio.org (12/11/2020)
AlimentaODS.org (17/11/2020)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in the program Pròxima parada of @apunt_media (09/11/2020) Podcast (starts at min 2.54)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in the program @ElDiaAPunt (04/11/2020) Podcast (starts at min 5:50)

Interview to Jaime Martínez Valderrama in the program El Faro: Desierto (Cadena SER) (03/11/2020) (starts at 1h: 45min: 20sec)

Interview to Jaime Martínez Valderrama in the program Negocios TV (13/01/2021)

News and interviews about the Premio Rei Jaume I 2020 (Environmental Protection category) to Fernando Tomás Maestre Gil.

News

Comunicado oficial Fundación Rei Jaume I (20/10/2020)
Universidad de Alicante (20/10/2020)
EFE Verde (20/10/2020)
El País (20/10/2020)
Alicante Plaza (20/10/2020)
Cadena Ser Valencia (20/10/2020)
La Vanguardia (20/10/2020)
Sax Digital (20/10/2020)
Europa Press (20/10/2020)
A Punt (min. 39), informativo mediodía (20/10/2020)
ElDiario.es (20/10/2020)
20 Minutos (20/10/2020)
Diario Información (21/10/2020)
Mediterráneo Press (21/10/2020)
Levante (21/10/2020)
Nova Ciencia, (26/10/2020)

Interviews

Cadena Ser Valencia (20/10/2020)
Cadena Ser Elda (20/10/2020)
A Punt (min 39.30), informativo noche (20/10/2020)
Las Provincias (21/10/2020)
iAmbiente (28/10/2020)

Video with Fernando T. Maestre´s talk “Como combatir la desertificación en España”, on youtube channel Premios Rei Jaume I (12/03/2021)

Press releases and news about our paper “Biocrusts buffer against the accumulation of soil metallic nutrients induced by warming and rainfall reduction” published in Communications Biology.

Press releases

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

News

Madri+d (29/06/2020)
Agencia SINC (30/06/2020)
La Sexta (30/06/2020)

Press releases and news about our paper “Desertifying deserts” published in Nature Sustainability.

Press releases

Universidad de Alicante

News

Agencia EFE (23/06/2020)
EFE Verde (23/06/2020)
eldiario.es (23/06/2020)
La Vanguardia (23/06/2020)
El Expresso (23/06/2020)

Interview to Martínez-Valderrama, J. in the program Siglo 21 (Radio 3) (15/06/2020). Starts at minute 38.

Fernando Maestre‘s editorial “Pandemia y ciencia: ¿quién salvará a quién?” published in the newspaper El País (04/06/2020).

Press releases and news about our paper “The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale” published in Nature Climate Change.

Press releases

News

Dicyt (11/05/2020)
Cope (11/05/2020)
El Correo de Andalucía (11/05/2020)
Europa Press (11/05/2020)
La Vanguardia (11/05/2020)
Phys.org (12/05/2020)
CatalunyAvanguardista (12/05/2020)
La Sexta (12/05/2020)
UPI.com (12/05/2020)
Breitbart (12/05/2020)
Seed Daily (12/05/2020)
Cosmos (13/05/2020)
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (13/05/2020)
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (13/05/2020)
VBIO (13/05/2020)
SeedQuest (13/05/2020)
La Crónica del Quindío (15/05/2020)
The Land (20/05/2020)
Farm Weekly (20/05/2020)
Queensland Country Life (20/05/2020)
North Queensland Register (20/05/2020)
El País (05/06/2020)
El Espectador (08/06/2020)

Interview to Fernando Maestre in Kosmos, the magazine of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (May 2020).

News about the appointment of Fernando Maestre as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

University of Alicante (09/04/2020)
Ecological Society of America (10/04/2020).

Interview with Fernando Maestre on the radio show “Hoy por hoy Alicante” (Cadena Ser), where he talks about his Fellow appoinment, the Covid-19 crisis and ecology (17/04/2020).

Interview with Fernando Maestre on the radio show “Hoy por hoy Arosa” (Cadena Ser), where he talks about climate change (02/03/2020). Starts in 1h: 05min: 50sec.

Interview with Fernando Maestre in the newspaper Faro de Vigo, in which he talks about climate change and his research career (01/03/2020).

Press releases, news and interviews related to our paper “Global ecosystems tresholds driven by aridity” published in Science.

Press releases

National news

El Mundo (13/02/2020)
ABC (13/02/2020)
eldiario.es (13/02/2020)
EFE (13/02/2020)
El País (14/02/2020)
Diario Información (14/02/2020)
Ecoticias (14/02/2020)
Investigación y ciencia (20/02/2020)
El Comunista (20/02/2020)

International news

Science Daily (14/02/2020)
Science (14/02/2020)
Phys (14/02/2020)
La Prensa (Bolivia) (13/02/2020)
Extra Venezuela (13/02/2020)
Revista de Investigaciones Agropecuarias del INTA (Argentina) (18/03/2020)
Pampero TV (Argentina) (18/03/2020)

Press in national and international institutions

INRAE (13/02/2020)
Universitat d’Alacant (13/02/2020)
Diario de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide (13/02/2020)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (14/02/2020)
Swansea University (14/02/2020)
Freie Universität Berlin (16/02/2020)

Radio and TV news items

RTVE (13/02/2020)
Telediario rtve (14/02/2020)
L’informatiu – Comunitat Valenciana (14/02/2020)
Cadena SER (17/02/2020)
À Punt (17/02/2020)
Ivoox (17/02/2020)
Canal Extremadura (14/03/2020)
Podcastidae (17/03/2020)

Interviews

Telediario 1 TVE (minute 31:47)
Telediario 2 TVE (minute 33:00)
Telediario Comunidad Valenciana TVE (minute 17:47)
Onda Ilicitana
À punt radio (minute 27:15)
Cadena Ser Alicante (17/02/2020)
Iambiente (22/02/2020)

Interview with Fernando Maestre in the newspaper El Diario Vasco, in which he talks about excessive pressure and how to creating healthy research environments in them (06/02/2020).

News about the talk given by Fernando Maestre at the University of Valencia (02/02/2020).

Interview with Fernando Maestre in the newspaper Información, in which he talks about climate change (26/01/2020).

Interview with Fernando Maestre within the series of news item that Agencia Sinc has dedicated to causes (18/01/2020) of the labour crisis and of mental health in science and its possible solutions (01/02/2020).

Interview with Fernando Maestre in Alicante Plaza, in which he talks about climate change (17/12/2019).

Fernando Maestre´s editorial “No destruyamos a nuestros doctorandos, son el futuro de la ciencia” published in the newspaper El País (03/12/2019).

Interview with Fernando Maestre published in the newspaper Información, in which he talks about climate change (3/12/2020).

Press release of UA about the inclusion of Fernando T. Maestre in the list of highly cited researchers (22/11/2019). News derived from it in:

Información (22/11/2019)
La Vanguardia (21/11/2019)
Eldiario.es (22/11/2019)
20 Minutos (22/11/2019)
Alicante Plaza (22/11/2019)

Interview with Fernando Maestre in Onda Aranjuez, in which he talks about climate change and the research he carries out in the experimental zones that the group maintains in the Community of Madrid (05/11/2019).

Interview with Fernando Maestre in the radio shows “Hoy por hoy Madrid Sur” (Cadena Ser), in which he talks about climate change and the research he carries out in the experimental zones that the lab maintains in the Community of Madrid (05/11/2019).

Interview with Fernando Maestre published in the newspaper El País (Madrid section), in which he talks about climate change and the research he carries out in the experimental zones that the group maintains in the Community of Madrid (28/10/2019).

Interview with Fernando Maestre published in the newspaper Información, in which he talks about climate change and its impacts (30/09/2019).

Fernando Maestre´s editorial “No perdamos otra oportunidad: es el momento de reformar la universidad española” published in the newspaper El País (13/08/2019).

Fernando Maestre’s intervention in the news item “Científicos de élite rechazados por la universidad española” published in the newspaper El País (04/08/2019).

News related to the paper published by César Plaza: Direct observation of permafrost degradation and rapid soil carbon loss in tundra. Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/s41561-019-0387-6

Interview to Martínez-Valderrama, J. in Repor TV (25/06/2019).

Fernando Maestre’s intervention in the news item “El suelo, la biodiversidad escondida que mantiene vivo el planeta” published in the newspaper El Mundo (05/06/2019).

Press release of UA about the paper “A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide” published in Nature Communications (30/05/2019). Selection of news about the paper:

Agencia EFE (31/05/2019)
El Confidencial (31/05/2019)
Agencia SINC (03/06/2019)
Madri+d (05/06/2019)
Diario Información (09/06/2019)
La Vanguardia (17/06/2019)

Interviews about the article “Ten simple rules towards healthier research labs” in Muy Interesante (14/05/2019) y Times Higher Education (9/5/2019).

Press release of URJC, UA and CSIC about the paper “Phylogenetic, functional and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality” published in PNAS (04/04/2019).

Press release of URJC, UAM and CSIC about the paper “Aridity and reduced soil micronutrient availability in global drylands” published in Nature Sustainability (01/04/2019)

Press release of URJC about the paper “Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands” published in PNAS (25/03/2019)

Press release of URJC about the paper “Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development” published in PNAS (19/03/2019)

News items regarding the prize “Distinguised Scientists” awarded to Fernando T. Maestre by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (11/03/2019)

Press release of URJC about the paper “Microbial dispersal limitation to isolated soil habitats in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica” published in Nature Microbiology (07/03/2019)

Fernando Maestre´s opinion piece “Replanteando el modelo de publicación y de acceso a la información científica” published in the newspaper eldiario.es (31/01/2019)

Press releases and news related to our paper “Soil microbial respiration adapts to ambient temperature in global drylands” published in Nature Ecology and Evolution

News regarding the granting of the CIDEGENT Program Grant to Fernando T. Maestre

Diario Información (04/12/2018 and 07/12/2018)
Universidad de Alicante

Interview with Fernando T. Maestre published in the newspaper Información (01/12/2018).

Press release of URJC about the inclusion of Fernando T. Maestre in the list of highly cited researchers (27/11/2018).

Selection of news and press releases related to the paper “Climate mediates the biodiversity-ecosystem stability relationship globally” published in PNAS (30/06/2018)

Fernando Maestre takes part in a news item on desertification published in the newspapers El Mundo and Expansión on the occasion of World Environment Day (05/06/2018). PDF.

Fernando Maestre takes part in a news item about Rey Juan Carlos University published in the newspaper El Mundo (02/05/2018).

Fernando Maestre takes part in the news about the paper “Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert” published in the newspaper El País (27/02/2018).

Interview with Manuel Delgado Baquerizo in relation to the paper “A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil” on a programme of Ciencia.es (23/02/2018). Podcast.

Interview with Juan Gaitán in Chacra TV in relation to his book “Estimación de la pérdida de suelo por erosión hídrica en la República Argentina” (21/02/2018)

Interview with Fernando T. Maestre in relation to the paper “A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil” on the radio show Hoy por hoy Madrid Oeste of Cadena Ser (26/01/2018). Podcast.

Interview with Fernando T. Maestre in relation to the paper “A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil” on the radio show “Esto me suena” of the Spanish Public Radio (25/01/2018). Podcast (the interview starts in the minute 11:56 of the podcast).

Interview (in German) with Manuel Delgado Baquerizo in relation to the paper “A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil” on a radio show of SRF, Swiss national radio (20/01/2018). Podcast.

Selection of news and press releases related to the paper “A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil” published in Science (19/01/2018)

Interview with Juan Gaitán in Pampero TV in relation to his book “Estimación de la pérdida de suelo por erosión hídrica en la República Argentina”

News related to the paper “Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils” published in Nature Microbiology (20/11/2017)

News on the Rey Juan Carlos University website about the participation of Fernando T. Maestre in an event at the Severo Ochoa Center for Molecular Biology during the visit of the President of the European Research Council to Madrid (25/10/2017)

News related to the paper “Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality” published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

News related to the paper “Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems” published in Science Advances

News on the Rey Juan Carlos University website about the participation of Fernando T. Maestre in the «Workshop Frontier Research and Climate Change» organised by the European Research Council

News related to the paper “Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands” published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Interview with Fernando T. Maestre on the radio show Kítaro, of Onda Regional (Murcia), 19/11/2016. Podcast

News appeared in the newspaper El Mundo on the occasion of World Desertification Day in which Fernando T. Maestre takes part. 17/06/2016.

Interview with Fernando T. Maestre on Cadena Ser Madrid Suroeste, 04/02/2016. Podcast

News related to the paper “Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands” published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA

News in newspapers, news agencies, blogs and websites

Participation of Fernando T. Maestre in the «Mesa Redonda Pre – Cumbre del Clima (COP21): ¿Qué nos jugamos en París?«, organised by the Blog de Ambientales Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 25/11/2015

Interview with Fernando Tomás Maestre on Cadena Ser Madrid Sur el día 10/11/2015. Podcast

Interview with Fernando Tomás Maestre on Castillo FM in 19/06/2015. Podcast

The BIOCOM project has been highlighted on the occasion of the celebration of project number 5000 financed by the European Research Council, 13/06/2015

News regarding the Humboldt Research Award awarded to Fernando Maestre:

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 25/11/2014 (award) and 15/07/2015 (give)
Embajada de España en Berlín, 12/06/2015
La Vanguardia, 21/06/2015
Diario Qué, 17/06/2015
Diario Información, 12/12/2014 (award) and 19/06/2015 (give)

News related to the “Miguel Catalán” prize awarded to Fernando Maestre:

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 10/03/2015
Madrid+d, 06/03/2015
Diario ABC, 08/03/2015
La Vanguardia, 08/03/2015
Europa Press, 08/03/2015

News regarding the BIODESERT project awarded to Fernando T. Maestre by the European Research Council:

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 12/02/2015
Diario Qué, 23/02/2015
RTVE, 12/03/2015
Madrid+d, 20/03/2015

News related to the paper “Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness” published in Ecology Letters:

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 08/06/2015
Agencia SINC, 09/06/2015
La Información, 08/06/2015
Euronews, 08/06/2015
Entrevista en la Cadena Ser Madrid Oeste, 19/06/2015
Madrid+d, 11/06/2015

News related to the paper “Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality peak at intermediate levels of woody cover in global drylands” published in Global Ecology and Biogeography:

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 14/04/2015
Unidad de difusión científica de la Universidad de Córdoba, 24/03/2014
Madrid+d, 17/04/2015
Agencia SINC, 15/04/2015

News regarding the Humboldt Research Award awarded to Fernando Maestre:

Diario Información (12/12/2014)
Unidad de difusión científica de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 25/11/2014

Interview with Fernando T. Maestre on Cadena Ser Madrid Suroeste in 4/11/2013 in relation to the paper published in Nature. You can listen to the interview here.

News related to our paper in Nature (Delgado-Baquerizo et al. 2013. Nature 502: 672-676)

Press releases

News in newspapers, news agencies and websites

News related to the granting of the Royal Academy of Sciences Award – Pascual Foundation in Life Sciences for young researchers to Fernando T. Maestre by the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain.

Diario Información, 06/06/2013
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Unidad de Cultura Científica y de la Innovación, 05/06/2013

Mention of the research that we are carrying out in the BIOCOM project on the Facebook page of the European Research Council (22/05/2013).

News related to the thematic issue on arid zones and global change published in Philosophical Transactions B, edited by Fernando T. Maestre and Roberto Salguero-Gómez (2012, Volume 367, pages 3061-3190). Servicio de información científica de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madri+d.

News regarding the research carried out with the BIOCOM Project in the research*eu magazine (volume 14, July/August 2012, pages 19-20).

Our BIOCOM research has been highlighted in the webpage of the European Research Council as a “Success Story” (03/27/2012).

News related to our Science article (Maestre et al. 2012. Science 335: 214-218)

Press releases

News from Spanish media (in Spanish)

News from other countries (in English and Spanish)

Article published in the Spanish version of Scientific American, highlighted in El Castillo de Sax web page (23/10/2008)

Mention to my proposal to the Starting Grants call from European Research Council

Información (Alicante, 13/03/2008)
Las Provincias (Alicante, 13/03/2008)
Intercomarcal TV (Alicante, 13/03/2008)
NoticiaSax magacine (April 2008)
Web page of the Sax local council (11/03/2008)
Magazine of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (10/11/2007)

Biographic mention in the magazine “El Castillo de Sax”, number 22, November 2007

Article publised in Science on 11th May 2007

Press release from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (11 May 2007)
Press release from Duke University (10/05/2007)

News appeared in the following newspapers and websites:

Información (Spain, 11 May 2007)
Europa Press website (11 May 2007)
Yahoo! noticias (Spain, 11 May 2007)
Terra Actualidad (Spain, 11 May 2007)
Universal (Mexico, 11 May 2007)
Hoy (Argentina, 11 May 2007)
24 Horas (Chile, 11 May 2007)
Zona Verde (Spain, 11 May 2007)
Uno (Argentina, 11 May 2007)
web Madrid+d (Madrid, 14 May 2007)
La Crónica (Mexico, 11 May 2007)
Correo (Peru, 13 May 2007)
Frontera (Mexico, 11 May 2007)
El Imparcial (Mexico, 11 May 2007)
El Dictámen (Mexico, 11 May 2007)
NotiEmail (11 May 2007)
Diario La Rioja (Spain, 11 May 2007)
El Castillo de Sax (Spain, 17 May 2007)
El Mundo (Spain, 6 June 2007)
Science Daily (USA, 11 May 2007)
Interview in “El Sueño de Arquímedes”, the science magazine of the Spanish National Public Radio (RNE1). The podcast can be downloaded here

Mention in the Duke Forest Log magazine, Summer 2005

News in the newspaper Información regarding my book “Plantas Medicinales y Tóxicas del término municipal de Sax” (23 September 2003)

News in the newspaper Información regarding my paper in Environmental Management (29 July 2001)