It remains unknown whether a higher soil diversity will affect ecosystem functions such as plant performance or nutrient cycling. It also remains unknown how global change drivers such as temperature or drought, either alone or in combination, affect this relationship. We address these research questions by manipulating soil protist diversity levels and examining the effect of increasing diversity on plant performance and nutrient cycling.
Publications
Protists as determinants of the One Health framework
Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Julia Walochnik, Jens Boenigk, Kenneth Dumack, Fiona Henriquez, Sonja Rückert, Martin Simon, Stefan Geisen
The ISME Journal, vol. 19(1), 2025, pp. wraf179
Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Stefan Geisen, Franka Grootjans, R. Wilschut, Arne Schwelm
European Journal of Protistology, vol. 94, 2024
Increasing soil protist diversity alters tomato plant biomass in a stress-dependent manner
Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Guixin Li, Jingxuan Olivia Chen, Wenjia Wu, Aarzoo Kohra, Semih Karst Aslan, Stefan Geisen
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 186, 2023, p. 109179
Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Yann Hautier, Stefan Geisen
Global Change Biology, vol. 29(2), 2023, pp. 296-307
Microbiome predators in changing soils.
Shunran Hu, Guixin Li, Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Joliese Teunissen, S. Geisen, R. Wilschut, Arne Schwelm, Yuxin Wang
Environmental Microbiology, 2023