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

Press releases

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

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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

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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) and the Ecological Society of America (10/04/2020).

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.

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Portada del Science con el artículo

National news

International news

Press in national and international institutions

Radio and TV news items

Interviews

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:

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

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:

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

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.

News 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 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:

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

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

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

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:

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)

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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

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

Article publised in Science on 11th May 2007

News appeared in the following newspapers and websites:

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)