Laboratorio de Ecología de Zonas Áridas y Cambio Global

Dryland Ecology & Global Change Lab

Dissemination and Impact of Research Results

In this page you can find links to news item 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.

Press releases and news items about our paper “Grazing and ecosystems service delivery in global drylands” published in NaturePlants (25/07/2022)

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Press release and news items about the inclusion of Fernando T. Maestre in the Highly cited Researcher List 2022 elaborated by Clarivate Analytics (16/11/2022).

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Interview to Fernando T. Maestre at EFEverde about the increased risk of desertification (in Spanish) (15/11/2022)

News item published at Información, about the global impact research at the University of Alicante, (in Spanish) (29/10/2022)

News item published at Información, ¿Cómo combatir la escasez del agua y el cambio climático desde alicante?, about the meeting: “Implantando medidas eficientes para frenar el cambio climático” organized by the Club Información, with the participation of Fernando T. Maestre, (in Spanish) (21/10/2022)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre at the radio program Próxima parada, A punt media, (min. 17:53) (in Spanish) (17/10/2022)

News item published at Información, about different projects related to climate change at the University of Alicante, with the participation of Fernando T. Maestre, (in Spanish) (15/10/2022)

News item published at webpage of the University of Alicante: Elsevier ranks 39 researchers of the University of Alicante among the most cited in the world, (in Spanish) (14/10/2022)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre at the radio program Hora 14 Alicante, Cadena Ser, about the problem with the water as resource in Alicante (in Spanish) (11/10/2022)

News item published at Información, “Alicante se remueve contra otro año de agravios en las ayudas de la AVI”, with the participation of Fernando T. Maestre. In spanish (06/10/2022)

Press releases and news items about the Premio Nacional de Investigación Alejandro Malaspina to Fernando T. Maestre Gil (06/10/2022)

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News items about the inauguration of the Garden dedicated to Fernando T. Maestre for his career as Ecologist, Researcher and Professor (in Spanish)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in Público about the problem with the intensive agriculture and irrigation in Spain (in Spanish) (03/10/2022)

News item published at Información, “Las altas temperaturas causan siete veces más víctimas mortales que los accidentes de tráfico““, with the participation of Fernando T. Maestre. In spanish (11/09/2022)

News item published at Información,“La nueva Ley de Ciencia divide a Investigadores y Universidades”, with the participation of Fernando T. Maestre. In spanish (29/08/2022)

Press releases and news items about our paper “Climate legacies drive the distribution and future restoration potential of dryland forests” published in NaturePlants (25/07/2022)

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News item published at El Diario Información “La Asociación Española de Científicos distingue al biólogo Fernando Maestre Gil” . In spanish (01/06/2022)

News item published at ABC, “España corre un serio riesgo de desertificación”, with the participation of Jaime Martínez Valderrama. In spanish (24/05/2022)

News item published at La Vanguardia about the new paper published in Land Degradation & Development, with Jaime Martínez Valderrama as coauthor. In spanish (16/05/2022)

News item published at El Diario Información about the new issue of Mètode magazine: Drylands, Opportunities, challenges, and threats, with Fernando Maestre´s participation as editor. In spanish (07/04/2022)

News item published at El Diario Información “alerta por el impacto de las plantas solares: destrucción del paisaje y desertificación” with Fernando Maestre´s participation. In spanish (09/02/2022)

News item published at El Diario Información about the Premio Importantes 2021 to Fernando T. Maestre. In spanish (15/01/2022)

Video with Fernando´s participation in the TV program Apuntmedia: “2021, el camí cap a la normalita” In Spanish (28/12/2021)

News item published about Fernando´s participation in the Jornada de los Jóvenes Científicos ante la Agenda 2030, organized by the Academia Joven de España. In Spanish (25/11/2021)

Press release about the Premio Mejor Investigador 2021 to Fernando T. Maestre, adwared by the Consejo Social de la Universidad de Alicante. In spanish (17/11/2021). Video with the Ceremony.

News item published at El Diario Información about the Premio Mejor Investigador 2021 to Fernando T. Maestre, adwared by the Consejo Social de la Universidad de Alicante. In spanish (16/11/2021)

Press release and news items about the inclusion of Fernando T. Maestre in the Highly cited Researcher List 2021 elaborated by the web of science (16/11/2021).

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Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in diario Información about the Climate Change conference 2021 celebrated in Glasgow, UK (in Spanish) (06/11/2021)

Press release about the ceremony of incorporation of Fernando to the Alto Consejo Consultivo en I+D+i of the Presidencia de la Generalitat Valenciana, as scientific member, published in the Generalitat Valenciana website (in Spanish) (22/10/2021)

News item published about Fernando´s participation in the Foro 4 Estaciones de INFORMACION.ES talking about university and science. In Spanish (30/09/2021)

Opinion piece written by Fernando Maestre and Jorge Olcina, Planificación hidrológica en una de las “zonas cero” del cambio climático, published in the newspaper El País. In Spanish (29/09/2021)

News item in the newspaper El Mundo on the importance of environmental disclosure and awareness, with the participation of Fernando Maestre (28/09/2021)

News item published about Fernando´s participation in the Foro 4 Estaciones de INFORMACION.ES talking about university and science. In Spanish (27/09/2021)

News item published at Universidad de Alicante webpage about the Premio Iambiente (environmental category) to Fernando T. Maestre. In spanish (17/09/2021)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in mednight about the results of the proyect BIOCOM and about drylands (19/08/2021)

Interview to Fernando T. Maestre in the news of A punt media (min 15.25) (in Spanish) (13/08/2021)

Interview to Fernando Maestre published in apuntmedia.es about climatic change and desertification, (in Spanish) (13/08/2021)

Interview to Fernando in the newspaper Información about climatic change (in Spanish) (10/08/2021)

Interview to Fernando in the newspaper QUO about climatic change, desertification, water uso in agriculture or food waste (in Spanish) (09/08/2021)

News item in the newspaper Información about the “Decálogo para promover la felicidad en los grupos de investigación” promoved by the University of Alicante (in Spanish) (21/07/2021 online version, 25/07/2021 paper version)

Interview to Fernando in the newspaper Información about the “Decálogo para promover la felicidad en los grupos de investigación” promoved by the University of Alicante (in Spanish) (21/07/2021 online version, 25/07/2021 paper version)

News item published at El español: “La felicidad como vacuna contra el infierno laboral, el pionero método de la Universidad de Alicante”, about the “Decálogo para promover la felicidad en los grupos de investigación”, promoved by the University of Alicante (in Spanish) (20/07/2021)

Interview to Fernando in Hoy por Hoy Alicante, Radio Alicante, about the initiative of the University of Alicante to promove healthy research laboratories (in Spanish) (20/07/2021)

Interview to Jaime Martínez Valderrama in the magazine “Espacio Protegido”, about the consequences of the super intensive cultivation of olive groves at Canal Extremadura (in Spanish) (23/06/2021)

Interview to Fernando Maestre published in Saxdigital.com (20/05/2021)

News item published in the blog Ballenablanca at eldiario.es “No solo son las abejas: un estudio cuantifica el daño masivo de los plaguicidas a la microfauna bajo tierra”, where Fernando participates (13/05/2021)

News items about the Reuters list of the world´s top climate scientists elaborated by “The Reuters Hot List”, where Fernando appear in the 147 position (20/04/2021):

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

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

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

News item about the incorporation of Fernando to the Alto Consejo Consultivo en I+D+i of the Presidencia de la Generalitat Valenciana, as scientific member, published in the newspaper Información (in Spanish) (22/01/2021)

News item about Fernando and the BIODESERT project in the web of the University of Alicante about the importance of the International Project (01/02/2021)

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

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

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

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

Press release and news items about the inclusion of Fernando T. Maestre in the Highly cited Researcher List 2020 elaborated by the web of science (19/11/2020).

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

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Interviews

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

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

Interview to Jaime Martínez Valderrama published in Eldiario.es about desertification (in spanish) (11/07/2020)

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

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

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

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

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

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 items and interviews related to our paper “Global ecosystems tresholds driven by aridity” published in Science.

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Portada del Science con el artículo

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Press in national and international institutions

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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 items 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:

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 items “Científicos de élite rechazados por la universidad española” published in the newspaper El País (04/08/2019).

News items 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 items “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:

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

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

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 items 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 items 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 items about Rey Juan Carlos University published in the newspaper El Mundo (02/05/2018).

Fernando Maestre takes part in the news items 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 items 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 items related to the paper “Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils” published in Nature Microbiology (20/11/2017)

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

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

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

News item related to the paper “Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems” published in Nature Communications.

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

News items 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 items 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 items regarding the Humboldt Research Award awarded to Fernando Maestre:

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

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

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

News items 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:

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

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News items in newspapers, news agencies and websites

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

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News items from Spanish media (in Spanish)

News items 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

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

Article publised in Science on 11th May 2007

News items appeared in the following newspapers and websites:

Mention in the Duke Forest Log magazine, Summer 2005

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

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