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List of works by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

A Global Survey of Mycobacterial Diversity in Soil

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide.

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

scientific article published in January 2018

Ant colonies promote the diversity of soil microbial communities

scientific article published on 03 January 2019

Aridity Decouples C:N:P Stoichiometry Across Multiple Trophic Levels in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands

scientific article published in 2024

Aridity modulates N availability in arid and semiarid Mediterranean grasslands

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Australian dryland soils are acidic and nutrient-depleted, and have unique microbial communities compared with other drylands

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Author Correction: Crop microbiome and sustainable agriculture

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 April 2024

Azorella Cushion Plants and Aridity are Important Drivers of Soil Microbial Communities in Andean Ecosystems

scientific article published on 16 March 2021

Bacterial diversity and co‐occurrence patterns differ across a worldwide spatial distribution of habitats in glacier ecosystems

scientific article published in 2023

Biocrust science and global change

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the impact of aridity on soil microbial communities in drylands: observational evidence from three continents

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Biocrust-forming mosses mitigate the negative impacts of increasing aridity on ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands

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Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions

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Biodiversity of key-stone phylotypes determines crop production in a 4-decade fertilization experiment

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Biogeographic bases for a shift in crop C : N : P stoichiometries during domestication

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

Biological soil crusts increase the resistance of soil nitrogen dynamics to changes in temperatures in a semi-arid ecosystem

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Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland

Biological soil crusts promote N accumulation in response to dew events in dryland soils

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Biotic communities cannot mitigate the negative effects of grazing on multiple ecosystem functions and services in an arid shrubland

scientific article published in 2015

Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands

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Changes in biocrust cover drive carbon cycle responses to climate change in drylands

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Changes in ecosystem properties after post‐fire management strategies in wildfire‐affected Mediterranean forests

scientific article published on 19 January 2021

Circular linkages between soil biodiversity, fertility and plant productivity are limited to topsoil at the continental scale

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Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands.

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Climate and soil properties limit the positive effects of land use reversion on carbon storage in Eastern Australia.

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Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward

scientific article published in 2023

Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems

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Climate legacies drive the distribution and future restoration potential of dryland forests

scientific article published on 25 July 2022

Climatic conditions, soil fertility and atmospheric nitrogen deposition largely determine the structure and functioning of microbial communities in biocrust-dominated Mediterranean drylands

article by Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al published 6 October 2015 in Plant and Soil

Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Competition drives the response of soil microbial diversity to increased grazing by vertebrate herbivores.

scientific article published on 29 April 2017

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity

scientific article published in December 2023

Consistent responses of soil microbial taxonomic and functional attributes to mercury pollution across China

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Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands

scientific article published in 2022

Continental‐scale plant invasions reshuffle the soil microbiome of blue carbon ecosystems

scientific article published in 2022

Contrasting effects of N fertilization and mowing on ecosystem multifunctionality in a meadow steppe

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Contrasting effects of two mammalian soil engineers on microbial communities

scientific article published in 2016

Crop microbiome and sustainable agriculture

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands.

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Depolymerization and mineralization rates at 12 Mediterranean sites with varying soil N availability. A test for the Schimel and Bennett model

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Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils.

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Differences in thallus chemistry are related to species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil nutrients and microbial communities

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Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on microbial and biocrust communities alter the resistance of the N cycle in a semiarid grassland

scholarly article by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al published 26 August 2014 in Journal of Ecology

Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Dryland microbiomes reveal community adaptations to desertification and climate change

scientific article published on 29 March 2024

Dung predicts the global distribution of herbivore grazing pressure in drylands

scientific article published on 13 January 2025

Ecological Analyses of Mycobacteria in Showerhead Biofilms and Their Relevance to Human Health

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Ecological drivers of soil microbial diversity and soil biological networks in the Southern Hemisphere.

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Ecosystem aridity and atmospheric CO2-Response

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Ecosystem coupling: A unifying framework to understand the functioning and recovery of ecosystems

scientific article published on 23 July 2021

Ecosystem functions are related to tree diversity in forests but soil biodiversity in open woodlands and shrublands

scientific article published on 09 October 2021

Ecosystem type and resource quality are more important than global change drivers in regulating early stages of litter decomposition

Effects of Spatial Variability and Relic DNA Removal on the Detection of Temporal Dynamics in Soil Microbial Communities

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Effects of climate legacies on above- and belowground community assembly

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

Effects of diet on gut microbiota of soil collembolans

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Effects of elevated CO2 on fine root biomass are reduced by aridity but enhanced by soil nitrogen: A global assessment.

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Environmental filtering controls soil biodiversity in wet tropical ecosystems

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental thresholds in the functional mycobiome of global drylands

Experimental and observational studies find contrasting responses of soil nutrients to climate change

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Experimental impacts of grazing on grassland biodiversity and function are explained by aridity

scientific article published on 19 August 2023

Experimentally testing the species-habitat size relationship on soil bacteria: A proof of concept

scholarly article by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al published August 2018 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022

scientific article published in 2022

Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands.

scientific article published in August 2014

Fungal richness contributes to multifunctionality in boreal forest soil

scientific article published in 2019

Fungi drive soil multifunctionality in the coastal salt marsh ecosystem

scientific article published on 15 November 2021

Generalist Taxa Shape Fungal Community Structure in Cropping Ecosystems

scientific article published on 09 July 2021

Global diversity and ecological drivers of lichenised soil fungi

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Global gaps in soil biodiversity data.

scientific article published in July 2018

Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces

Grazing Regulates the Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Microbial Communities Within Ecological Networks

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

Grazing intensity alters the plant diversity–ecosystem carbon storage relationship in rangelands across topographic and climatic gradients

scientific article published on 26 January 2023

Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties

scientific article published in 2024

Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

scientific article published on 12 April 2024

Human impacts and aridity differentially alter soil N availability in drylands worldwide

scientific article published in 2015

Humidity and low pH boost occurrence of Onygenales fungi in soil at global scale

Identifying environmental drivers of greenhouse gas emissions under warming and reduced rainfall in boreal-temperate forests

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Identity of biocrust species and microbial communities drive the response of soil multifunctionality to simulated global change

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Identity of plant, lichen and moss species connects with microbial abundance and soil functioning in Maritime Antarctica

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Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

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Increasing numbers of global change stressors reduce soil carbon worldwide

scientific article published on 7 June 2024

Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide

scientific article published in 2023

Intransitive competition is common across five major taxonomic groups and is driven by productivity, competitive rank and functional traits

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Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness

scientific article published on June 2015

Intraspecies variation in a widely distributed tree species regulates the responses of soil microbiome to different temperature regimes

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It is elemental: soil nutrient stoichiometry drives bacterial diversity

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Lack of functional redundancy in the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2016

Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands

scientific article published in 2024

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Litter and soil biodiversity jointly drive ecosystem functions

scientific article published in 2023

Livestock activity increases exotic plant richness, but wildlife increases native richness, with stronger effects under low productivity

scientific article published on 12 August 2017

Livestock grazing and aridity reduce the functional diversity of biocrusts

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

Livestock overgrazing disrupts the positive associations between soil biodiversity and nitrogen availability

scientific article published in 2020

Long-term regional evidence of the effects of livestock grazing on soil microbial community structure and functions in surface and deep soil layers

scientific article published on 08 March 2022

Mammalian engineers drive soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions across a disturbance gradient.

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Microbial communities in terrestrial surface soils are not widely limited by carbon

scientific article published in 2023

Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Microbial regulation of the soil carbon cycle: evidence from gene-enzyme relationships

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Microbial resistance promotes plant production in a four-decade nutrient fertilization experiment

scientific article published in 2020

Microbial richness and composition independently drive soil multifunctionality

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Microbial taxonomic and functional attributes consistently predict soil CO2 emissions across contrasting croplands

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes

scientific article published on 22 November 2021

Microsite Differentiation Drives the Abundance of Soil Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria along Aridity Gradients

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Multifunctionality debt in global drylands linked to past biome and climate

scientific article published on 21 April 2019

Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Multiple trade-offs regulate the effects of woody plant removal on biodiversity and ecosystem functions in global rangelands

scientific article published on 06 October 2019

Nitrogen Deposition Effects on Soil Properties, Microbial Abundance, and Litter Decomposition Across Three Shrublands Ecosystems From the Mediterranean Basin

scientific article published in 2021

Obscure soil microbes and where to find them

scientific article published on 29 March 2019

On the importance of shrub encroachment by sprouters, climate, species richness and anthropic factors for ecosystem multifunctionality in semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems

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On the relative importance of resource availability and habitat connectivity as drivers of soil biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published in 2023

Palaeoclimate explains a unique proportion of the global variation in soil bacterial communities

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Pathways regulating decreased soil respiration with warming in a biocrust-dominated dryland

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Phylotype diversity within soil fungal functional groups drives ecosystem stability

scientific article published on 9 May 2022

Plant Microbiomes: Do Different Preservation Approaches and Primer Sets Alter Our Capacity to Assess Microbial Diversity and Community Composition?

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Plant and soil biodiversity is essential for supporting highly multifunctional forests during Mediterranean rewilding

scientific article published in 2022

Plant attributes explain the distribution of soil microbial communities in two contrasting regions of the globe

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality peak at intermediate levels of woody cover in global drylands

scientific article published on December 2014

Plant diversity and soil stoichiometry regulates the changes in multifunctionality during pine temperate forest secondary succession

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands

scientific article published in January 2012

Plant-driven niche differentiation of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in global drylands

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Plants and biological soil crusts modulate the dominance of N forms in a semi-arid grassland

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Prevalence and drivers of abrupt vegetation shifts in global drylands

scientific article published on 17 October 2022

Publisher Correction: Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe

scientific article published on 4 September 2024

Publisher Correction: Successional trajectory of bacterial communities in soil are shaped by plant-driven changes during secondary succession

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Relative importance of soil properties and microbial community for soil functionality: insights from a microbial swap experiment

scientific article published in 2016

Resistance of ecosystem services to global change weakened by increasing number of environmental stressors

scientific article published on 23 August 2024

Response of Soil Properties and Microbial Communities to Agriculture: Implications for Primary Productivity and Soil Health Indicators

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Response to comment on "Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystem".

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Rhizosphere-driven increase in nitrogen and phosphorus availability under elevated atmospheric CO2 in a mature Eucalyptus woodland

Side-effects of plant domestication: ecosystem impacts of changes in litter quality

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

Soil aggregation and associated microbial communities modify the impact of agricultural management on carbon content.

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Soil characteristics determine soil carbon and nitrogen availability during leaf litter decomposition regardless of litter quality

scholarly article by Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al published February 2015 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Soil element coupling is driven by ecological context and atomic mass

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

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Soil microbial communities drive the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to global change in drylands across the globe

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Species identity of biocrust-forming lichens drives the response of soil nitrogen cycle to altered precipitation frequency and nitrogen amendment

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Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world

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Successional trajectory of bacterial communities in soil are shaped by plant-driven changes during secondary succession

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Symbiotic status alters fungal eco‐evolutionary offspring trajectories

scientific article published in 2023

Temperature Increases Soil Respiration Across Ecosystem Types and Soil Development, But Soil Properties Determine the Magnitude of This Effect

Temperature and aridity regulate spatial variability of soil multifunctionality in drylands across the globe

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Temperature thresholds drive the global distribution of soil fungal decomposers

scientific article published on 22 January 2022

The effects of mowing and multi-level N fertilization on soil bacterial and fungal communities in a semiarid grassland are year-dependent

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

The global biogeography and environmental drivers of fairy circles

scientific article published on 25 September 2023

The global biogeography of soil priming effect intensity

scientific article published in 2022

The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services

The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

The influence of climatic legacies on the distribution of dryland biocrust communities

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

The soil microbiome governs the response of microbial respiration to warming across the globe

scientific article published in December 2023

Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity

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Trophic level drives the host microbiome of soil invertebrates at a continental scale

scientific article published on 20 September 2021

Understorey biodiversity supports multiple ecosystem services in mature Mediterranean forests

scientific article published in 2022

Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

scientific article published on 7 August 2024

Unraveling the effects of spatial variability and relic DNA on the temporal dynamics of soil microbial communities

Vascular plants mediate the effects of aridity and soil properties on ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea

scientific article published on April 18, 2013

Vegetation structure determines cyanobacterial communities during soil development across global biomes

Vegetation structure determines the spatial variability of soil biodiversity across biomes

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands

scientific article published on 30 July 2024