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Fernando Maestre

Fernando Maestre

Professor, Departamento de Biologia y Geologia, Fisica y Quimica Inorganica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

ft.maestre@ua.es

(34) 965909145

Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
C/ Tulipán s/n
Móstoles, Comunidad de Madrid 28933
Spain

Titles

  • Professor, Departamento de Biologia y Geologia, Fisica y Quimica Inorganica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
  • Distinguished Researcher, University of Alicante

Biography

Fernando T. Maestre (Sax, 1976), received his BsC. and PhD. in Biology from the University of Alicante, Spain, in 1998 and 2002, respectively, with the maximum qualification in both cases. He received the Academic Performance Award by Generalitat Valenciana in 1999. After his PhD. he spent two years at Duke University (USA) as a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow. In 2005 he returned to Rey Juan Carlos University, where he is now a Full Professor (on leave). In May 2019 joined University of Alicante as a Distinguished Scientists, where he leads the Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab. In addition to his stay at Duke, Prof. Maestre has conducted research stays in universities and research centers from USA (Universities of Montana and Vermont), China (Lanzhou University, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Australia (Western Sydney University), UK (Rothamsted Research) and Germany (Leipzig, Free University of Berlin). He has led 15 research projects totaling more than 5,000,000 €, including both a Starting Grant (2010-2015, BIOCOM) and a Consolidator Grant (BIODESERT, 2016-2020) from the European Research Council. Prof. Maestre is one of the few scientists working in Spain that have received both a Starting and Consolidator Grant, and the only ecologist to date who has achieved this.

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Journal Articles

2020

Eldridge, D. J., M. Delgado-Baquerizo, J. L. Quero, V. Ochoa, B. Gozalo, P. Garcia-Palacios, C. Escolar, M. Garcia-Gomez, A. Prina, M. A. Bowker, D. Bran, I. Castro, A. Cea, M. Derak, C. I. Espinosa, A. Florentino, J. J. Gaitán, G. Gatica, S. Gomez-Gonzalez, W. Ghiloufi, J. R. Gutierrez, E. Gusman-Montilvan, R. M. Hernández, F. M. Hughes, W. Muino, J. Monerris, A. Ospina, D. A. Ramirez, Y. A. Ribas-Fernandez, R. L. Romao, C. Torres-Diaz, T. B. Koen and F. Maestre. 2020. Surface indicators are correlated with soil multifunctionality in global drylands. Journal of Applied Ecology 57(2):424-435. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13540. (link )

2019

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., R. D. Bardgett, P. M. Vitousek, F. Maestre, M. A. Williams, D. J. Eldridge, H. Lambers, S. Neuhauser, A. Gallardo, L. García-Velázquez, O. E. Sala, S. Abades, F. D. Alfaro, A. A. Berhe, M. A. Bowker, C. M. Currier, N. A. Cutler, S. C. Hart, P. E. Hayes, Z. Hseu, M. Kirchmair, V. M. Pena-Ramirez, C. A. Perez, S. C. Reed, F. Santos, C. Siebe, B. W. Sullivan, L. Weber-Grullon and N. Fierer. 2019. Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116(14):6891-6896. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818400116. (link )

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., G. Doulcier, D. J. Eldridge, D. B. Stouffer, F. Maestre, J. Wang, J. R. Powell, T. C. Jeffries and B. K. Singh. 2019. Increases in aridity lead to drastic shifts in the assembly of dryland complex microbial networks. Land Degtradation & Development 31(3):. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3453. (link )

Velazco-Ayuso, S., G. R. Oñatibia, F. Maestre and L. Yahdjian. 2019. Grazing pressure interacts with aridity to determine the development and diversity of biological soil crusts in Patagonian rangelands. Land Degradation & Development 31(4):488-499. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3465. (link )

2018

Bowker, M. A., S. C. Reed, F. Maestre and D. J. Eldridge. 2018. Biocrusts: The living skin of the earth. Plant and Soil 429(1-2):1-7. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-018-3735-1. (link )

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., D. J. Eldridge, F. Maestre, S. B. Karunaratne, P. Trivedi, P. B. Reich and B. K. Singh. 2018. Response to comment on “Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystem”. Science Advances 4(3):eaat1296. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat1296. (link )

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., D. J. Eldridge, F. Maestre, V. Ochoa, B. Gozalo, P. B. Reich and B. K. Singh. 2018. Aridity decouples C:N:P stoichiometry across multiple trophic levels in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecosystems 21(3):459-468. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-017-0161-9. (link )

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., F. Maestre, D. J. Eldridge, M. A. Bowker, T. C. Jeffries and B. K. Singh. 2018. Biocrust‐forming mosses mitigate the impact of aridity on soil microbial communities in drylands: observational evidence from three continents. New Phytologist 220(3):824-835. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15120. (link )

Eldridge, D. J., F. Maestre, T. B. Koen and M. Delgado-Baquerizo. 2018. Australian dryland soils are acidic and nutrient‐depleted, and have unique microbial communities compared with other drylands. Journal of Biogeography 45(12):2803-2814. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13456. (link )

Ochoa-Hueso, R., D. J. Eldridge, M. Delgado-Baquerizo, S. Soliveres, M. A. Bowker, N. A. Bowker, Y. Le Bagousse-Pinget, J. L. Quero, M. García‐Gómez, E. Valencia, T. Arredondo, L. Beinticinco, D. Bran, A. Cea, D. Coaguila, A. J. Dougill, C. I. Espinosa, J. Gaitán, R. T. Guuroh, E. Guzman, J. R. Gutierrez, R. M. Hernández, E. Huber-Sannwald, T. Jeffries, A. Linstädter, R. L. Mau, J. Monerris, A. Prina, E. Pucheta, I. Stavi, A. D. Thomas, E. Zaady, B. K. Singh and F. Maestre. 2018. Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands. Journal of Ecology 106(1):242-253. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12871. (link )

2017

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., A. Bissett, D. J. Eldridge, F. T. Maestre, J. He, J. Wang, K. Hamonts, Y. Liu, B. K. Singh and N. Fierer. 2017. Palaeoclimate explains a unique proportion of the global variation in soil bacterial communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(Sep):1339-1347. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0259-7. (link )

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., D. J. Eldridge, F. T. Maestre, S. B. Karunaratne, P. Trivedi, P. B. Reich and B. K. Singh. 2017. Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems. Science Advances 3(4):e1602008. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602008. (link )

Delgado-Baquerizo, M., D. J. Eldridge, V. Ochoa, B. Gozalo, B. K. Singh and F. Maestre. 2017. Soil microbial communities drive the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to global change in drylands across the globe. Ecology Letters 20(10):1295-1405. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12826. (link )

2014

Anadon, J. D., O. E. Sala and F. Maestre. 2014. Climate change will increase savannas at the expense of forests and treeless vegetation in tropical and subtropical Americas. Journal of Ecology 102(6):1363-1373. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12325. (link )

Book Chapters

2017

Bowker, M. A., B. Budel, F. Maestre, A. J. Antoninka and D. J. Eldridge. 2017. 5. Bryophyte an lichen diversity on arid soils: Determinants and consequences. Pp. 73-96 In: Steven, B. ed., The Biology of Arid Soils. Degruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110419047-005. ISBN: 9783110419047. (link )