Probing the Active Fraction of Biocrust Microbiomes in the Face of Climate Change

Project Information

MICROBIOCLIM

Grant agreement ID: 101028323

DOI

10.3030/101028323

Project terminated on 1 August 2024

EC signature date 13 April 2021

Start date 1 February 2022

End date 1 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 245 732,16

EU contribution

€ 245 732,16

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE
Spain

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Restoring dryland soils functionality through synergism between biocrust-forming cyanobacteria and paper waste amendment

Author(s): Lisa Maggioli, Sonia Chamizo, Raúl Román, Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero, Beatriz Roncero-Ramos, Yolanda Cantón
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Issue 211, 2026, Page(s) 109997, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.109997

Aridity-related differences in soil elemental ratios reshape microbial functional traits across global biomes

Author(s): Chunkai Li, Youzhi Feng, Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Chao Xiong, David J. Eldridge, Nicolas Gross, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Victoria Ochoa, Beatriz Gozalo, Emilio Guirado, Guiyao Zhou, Miguel García-Gómez, Enrique Valencia, Miguel Berdugo, Sergio Asensio, Jaime Martínez-Valderrama, Betty Josefina Mendoza, Asmeret A. Berhe, Nick A. Cutler, Sebastian Abades, Julio Alcántara, Fernando Alfaro, Antonio
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73215-9

Effect of runoff water supply on vegetation and soil response to increasing aridity in Mediterranean drylands

Author(s): Borja Rodríguez-Lozano, Emilio Rodríguez-Caballero, Raúl Román, Sonia Chamizo, Yolanda Cantón
Published in: CATENA, Issue 249, 2025, Page(s) 108585, ISSN 0341-8162
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2024.108585

Mapping Scytonemin Pigment Content and Biocrust Functional Indicators Using High‐Resolution Multispectral Imagery

Author(s): Raúl Román, Tong Qiu, Fernando T. Maestre, Elizabeth A. La Rue, Sergio Vargas Zesati, Anthony Schaefer, Ryan V. Trexler, Nicole Pietrasiak, Estelle Couradeau
Published in: Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2026, ISSN 2056-3485
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.70082

Dominance and natural suppression of bacterial plant pathogens across global soils

Author(s): Min Gao, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Chao Xiong, Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Juntao Wang, Jinsong Liang, Emilio Guirado, Miriam Muñoz-Rojas, Raul Román, Fernando T. Maestre, Brajesh K. Singh
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70233-5

Positive relationship between substrate-induced respiration rate and translationally active bacterial counts in soil

Author(s): Nina Rose Camillone, Mary Ann Victoria Bruns, Raúl Román, Daniel Wasner, Estelle Couradeau
Published in: mSystems, Issue 11, 2026, ISSN 2379-5077
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01009-25

Rainfall-induced microbial resuscitation reveals functional decoupling across biocrust succession

Author(s): Raúl Román, Fernando T Maestre, Estelle Couradeau
Published in: The ISME Journal, 2026, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrag231

Plant-based stress reduction strategies enhance biocrust recovery and soil properties in semi-arid ecosystems

Author(s): Aitor Alameda-Martín, Sonia Chamizo, Lisa Maggioli, Raúl Román, Yolanda Cantón
Published in: Applied Soil Ecology, Issue 227, 2026, Page(s) 107378, ISSN 0929-1393
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2026.107378