Pablo García-Palacios

Functionally rich crop rotations increase calorie and macronutrient outputs across Europe - Nature Food While the benefits of crop diversity are known, doubts remain as to whether replacing cereals in rotations reduces nutrient production. A comparison of 16 long-term field experiments across Europe sho...

Crop rotations have been around for 1000s of years--great for sustainability and climate adaptation, but can they deliver all the food we need? In short, yes! and even more calories, proteins and fats than cereal monocultures: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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I'll be presenting my group's research on how microbe mediate soil carbon accrual in agricultural soils. Join in!

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Spatially explicit global assessment of cropland greenhouse gas emissions circa 2020 - Nature Climate Change Emissions from croplands are an important source of GHG emissions that can be shaped by management. This study presents maps of emissions globally for different crops, showing that drained peatlands, ...

Very proud that Project Drawdown scientists contributed to this effort to map greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

Important work! This helps us highlight where the biggest problems are, and where we need to focus our solutions work.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Assessing Soil Biodiversity: When to Use Which Method to Measure What? — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative Dr. Julia Köninger (University of Vigo, Spain)

📣🪱 The Global Soil Biodiversity conference is right around the corner! Check out this primer to Dr. Julia Köninger's presentation.

Dr. Köninger discusses the importance of methodological considerations (morphological vs. molecular) in soil research!

www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath...

My good friend Iván Roiz (ivanroiz.com) is a documentalist, and has finished as series of videos about the EU proj SANCHOSTHIRST on soil health in olive groves. The footage is beautiful and the videos really informative for stakeholders and students. Please share!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WHc...

Come work with us! 🧪🌐🧑‍💻🌿🐸❄️

I am hireing a #postdoc in Climate Change Ecology to work on Ecological Synthesis and support the upcoming #IPCC report as a Chapter Scientist (CH14: terrestrial, freshwater and cryopspheric biodiversity, ecosystems, and services. #IPCC #AR7
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Warming enhances soil carbon accumulation in boreal Sphagnum peatlands - Nature Ecology & Evolution Data from long-term experiments in Finnish peatlands shows that warming induces a metabolic response in boreal Sphagnum peatlands that enhances accumulation of soil carbon, in contrast to the carbon l...

Data from long-term experiments in Finnish peatlands shows that warming induces a metabolic response in boreal Sphagnum peatlands that enhances accumulation of soil carbon, in contrast to the carbon losses in response to warming in boreal forests and tundra 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How cool is that! Congrats!

📢 Join our team: Are you interested in the synthesis of ecological data?

We are offering a postdoctoral researcher position on the effects of collaborative agri-environment measures on multiple taxa and ecosystem services.

See #job advert
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

Abiotic and biotic controls of non-native perennial plant success in drylands - Nature Ecology & Evolution It is unclear whether the harsh abiotic conditions of drylands hinder biological invasions. This global analysis shows that drylands are vulnerable to non-native plants and are likely to become more s...

Drylands are globally resistant to invasive species!

Native biodiversity and aridity are key but increasing grazing pressure and eutrophication may change the game 🌐

Our new paper is here @natecoevo.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial growth rate is a stronger predictor of soil organic carbon than carbon use efficiency - Nature Ecology & Evolution Microbial carbon use efficiency is a strong predictor of soil organic carbon stocks. Here the authors reveal that the microbial growth rate is a more reliable and informative predictor, and that model...

Folks interested in soil carbon and microbes, you may want to check these two papers recently published in @natecoevo.nature.com: Xianjin He et al., Microbial growth rate is a stronger predictor of soil organic carbon than carbon use efficiency... (1/4) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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¿Tantas tormentas intensas son normales? No ¿Tiene que ver el cambio climático? Si, pero no es tan sencillo... aquí recopilamos información y resumimos algunas explicaciones

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The global extent of the grassland biome and implications for the terrestrial carbon sink - Nature Ecology & Evolution By combining satellite observations with ground-based data and expert validation, this analysis demonstrates considerable misestimation of grassland extent and thereby carbon stock estimates in previo...

⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱
#Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com

This is an amazing tool to teach and learn about causal inference.

Post doctor (3 years) within mountain plant community and ecosystem processes across a globally distributed experiment

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐
www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Si tienes ganas de aprender a programar y desarrollar paquetes de R en el campo de la Ecología y aún no te has apuntado al curso, estás a tiempo, que aún quedan plazas!!
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Recuerda que la inscripción incluye alojamiento y manutención!
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bsky.app/profile/ecoi...

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett

go.nature.com/4pRniHp

Si los primeros que han ido a socorrer a los accidentados han sido y los vecinos y no los servicios de emergencias es por algo MUY sencillo que a muchos no os entra en la cabeza:
LOS VECINOS ESTÁN MÁS CERCA.
OSTIAS.
Y esto SIEMPRE ocurre así.
En TODA emergencia.
NO porque los SSEE sean inútiles.

100% de acuerdo, sabias y necesarias palabras!

Most journals practice special issues fairly responsibly. But it's the worst offenders that contribute most of the PISS. ~90% of PISS in our data come from just 150/904 journals.

And it's exactly who you think it is. #MDPI #Frontiers

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Less than one month left to apply for this WIFORCE #PhDposition on soil food webs in Swedish forests. We welcome applicants from all walks of life 🌈 and from all corners of the world🌏 Deadline: 10 February 2026!

New talk from @igue-aeet.bsky.social next Thursday 15 January at 16:30 (Madrid time, CET).

Yolanda Melero @ylndmc.bsky.social @creaf.cat will talk about "Butterflies in the city: Ecological patterns of successful species".

Link on the photo QR

Plant diversity enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure in global drylands - Nature Ecology & Evolution Grazing affects plant diversity, but plant diversity in turn may modulate the effect of grazing on the plant community. This global analysis explores the association between plant species richness and...

Grazing is a major land use in drylands with major impact on ecosystems

In a new paper, we found that plant diversity is key to increase ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure. This effect is driven by complementarity in plant traits

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Find more here⬇️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Becomes Conservative and Resilient to Long‐Term Warming in High‐Latitude Carbon‐Limited Soils We investigated how long-term soil warming affects microbial nitrogen use in subarctic ecosystems. After about five years, warming led microbes to shift toward greater reliance on organic nitrogen an...

🌍 Big picture: climate models often assume warming → more N release → more plant growth or losses. But microbes may buffer N cycling by adapting their strategies, especially in cold ecosystems.

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Only 1 more week to apply for the 2nd edition of the Erasmus Mundus master GLOBE. Fantastic scholarships for students all over the world. Study and live in four countries!! All info: globe-master.eu. please RT

Check our new perspective paper exploring how the seed holobiont goes to sleep 😴 and reactivate for germination.
A lot of exciting research to be done to understand dormancy mechanisms in microbes and plants ☘️
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Enhorabuena Rob!