4 results on '"Pescador, David S. [0000-0003-0395-9543]"'
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2. Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands
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European Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Generalitat Valenciana, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Australian Research Council, Pescador, David S. [0000-0003-0395-9543], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Singh, Brajesh K. [0000-0003-4413-4185], Maestre, Fernando T. [0000-0002-7434-4856], Pescador, David S., Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Fiore-Donno, Anna M., Singh, Brajesh K., Bonkowski, M., Maestre, Fernando T., European Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Generalitat Valenciana, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Australian Research Council, Pescador, David S. [0000-0003-0395-9543], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Singh, Brajesh K. [0000-0003-4413-4185], Maestre, Fernando T. [0000-0002-7434-4856], Pescador, David S., Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Fiore-Donno, Anna M., Singh, Brajesh K., Bonkowski, M., and Maestre, Fernando T.
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Determining the influence of climate in driving the global distribution of soil microbial communities is fundamental to help predict potential shifts in soil food webs and ecosystem functioning under global change scenarios. Herein, we used a global survey including 80 dryland ecosystems from six continents, and found that the relative abundance of ecological clusters formed by taxa involved in bacteria-fungi and bacteria-cercozoa bipartite networks was highly sensitive to changes in temperature and aridity. Importantly, such a result was maintained when controlling for soil, geographical location and vegetation attributes, being pH and soil organic carbon important determinants of the relative abundance of the ecological clusters. We also identified potential global associations between important soil microbial taxa, which can be useful to support the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems under global change scenarios. Our results suggest that increases in temperature and aridity such as those forecasted for the next decades in drylands could potentially lead to drastic changes in the community composition of functionally important bipartite networks within soil food webs. This could have important but unknown implications for the provision of key ecosystem functions and associated services driven by the organisms forming these networks if other taxa cannot cope with them. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years'
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- 2022
3. Tales from the underground: Soil heterogeneity and not only above-ground plant interactions explain fine-scale species patterns in a Mediterranean dwarf-shrubland
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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Comunidad de Madrid, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Pescador, David S. [0000-0003-0395-9543], de la Cruz, Marcelino [0000-0002-9080-4525], Chacón-Labella, Julia [0000-0002-6787-1295], Escudero, Adrián [0000-0002-1427-5465], Pescador, David S., de la Cruz, Marcelino, Chacón-Labella, Julia, Pavón García, Javier, Escudero, Adrián, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Comunidad de Madrid, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Pescador, David S. [0000-0003-0395-9543], de la Cruz, Marcelino [0000-0002-9080-4525], Chacón-Labella, Julia [0000-0002-6787-1295], Escudero, Adrián [0000-0002-1427-5465], Pescador, David S., de la Cruz, Marcelino, Chacón-Labella, Julia, Pavón García, Javier, and Escudero, Adrián
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Questions: The current paradigm of plant community assembly relies on a set of processes operating at particular spatial scales. It is assumed that as the spatial scale becomes finer, environmental filtering loses its importance in favor of biotic interactions and neutral processes. Thus, at the very fine spatial scale represented by a rectangular plot of 72.25 m2 in a Mediterranean semiarid dwarf-shrubland, we ask: (a) are the spatial distributions of individuals of the different species explained by neutral models; (b) are these distributions dependent on above-ground plant interactions with the dominant species in the community; and/or (c) are they responding to the spatial variation of different soil variables, in a kind of fine-scale environmental filtering?. Location: Central Spain. Methods: To assess the correlates of fine-scale (i.e., from 0.05–2.00 m) spatial patterns of the species in the community, we fully mapped all perennial individuals inside the rectangular plot. For each species, we fitted one complete spatial randomness (CSR) model that does not assume spatial heterogeneity and three weighted-average inhomogeneous Poisson process (IPP) models using six soil covariates, distribution patterns of the four above-ground dominant plants in the community or both types of covariates. All models were evaluated and compared to select the best-fitting weighted-average model. Results: We recorded 7,988 individuals of 22 species. Patterns of all species were appropriately explained by IPP models. For most species the best-fitting weighted-average model included both soil and dominant plants (i.e., 15) or only soil covariates (i.e., 6). The improvement provided by the best-fitting weighted-averaging model in comparison with the CSR model was consistently high (81%). Conclusions: Our approach suggests that species in this dwarf-shrubland are mainly structured by soil heterogeneity and modulated in some cases by the interactions established with the dominant speci
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4. Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands
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David S. Pescador, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Anna Maria Fiore-Donno, Brajesh K. Singh, Michael Bonkowski, Fernando T. Maestre, European Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Generalitat Valenciana, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Australian Research Council, Pescador, David S., Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Singh, Brajesh K., Maestre, Fernando T., Pescador, David S. [0000-0003-0395-9543], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Singh, Brajesh K. [0000-0003-4413-4185], and Maestre, Fernando T. [0000-0002-7434-4856]
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Microbiota ,Fungi ,Modularity ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Carbon ,Soil ,Climate change ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,Ecosystem ,Soil Microbiology ,Semiarid ,Aridity ,Co-occurrence networks ,Soil microorganisms - Abstract
8 páginas.- 2 figuras.- 79 referencias.- Supplemental material https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/suppl/10.1098/rstb.2021.0387, Determining the influence of climate in driving the global distribution of soil microbial communities is fundamental to help predict potential shifts in soil food webs and ecosystem functioning under global change scenarios. Herein, we used a global survey including 80 dryland ecosystems from six continents, and found that the relative abundance of ecological clusters formed by taxa involved in bacteria-fungi and bacteria-cercozoa bipartite networks was highly sensitive to changes in temperature and aridity. Importantly, such a result was maintained when controlling for soil, geographical location and vegetation attributes, being pH and soil organic carbon important determinants of the relative abundance of the ecological clusters. We also identified potential global associations between important soil microbial taxa, which can be useful to support the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems under global change scenarios. Our results suggest that increases in temperature and aridity such as those forecasted for the next decades in drylands could potentially lead to drastic changes in the community composition of functionally important bipartite networks within soil food webs. This could have important but unknown implications for the provision of key ecosystem functions and associated services driven by the organisms forming these networks if other taxa cannot cope with them. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years', This research was supported by the European Research Council (ERC Grant Agreements 242658 [BIOCOM] and 647038[BIODESERT]), by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (BIOMOD project, ref. CGL2013-44661-R) and by Generalitat Valenciana (CIDEGENT/2018/041). D.S.P. is supportedby the Spanish MCI through the project POLAR-ROCKs (ref.PID2019-105469RB-C21). M.D.-B. acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the I+D+iproject PID2020-115813RA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. M.D.-B. is also supported by a project of the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) and the Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rstbPhil. Trans. R. Soc. B377: 202103876 Universidades of the Junta do Andalucía (FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020 Objetivo temático ’01-Refuerzo de la investigación, el desarrollo technológico y la innovación’) associated with the research project P20_00879 (ANDABIOMA). Work on soil microbial diversity inB.K.S.s laboratory is funded by the Australian Research Council (DP170104634)
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- 2022
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