The unsung heroes: soil protists diversity as a driver of plant performance under global changes

Alejandro Berlinches de Gea

Soil microbiome predator diversity outperforms nitrogen addition in boosting plant biomass via bacterial community shifts

Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Joshua Both, Nina Haas, R. Wilschut, Florian Wichern, Stefan Geisen

bioRxiv, 2025

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

Green Algal Photobiont Diversity in Lichen Communities Under Forest Fragmentation

M. Blázquez, Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Patricia Moya, S. Chiva, Sergio Pérez-Ortega

Environmental Microbiology, 2025

Protist size-dependent shifts of bacterial communities can reduce litter decomposition

Yuxin Wang, J. Lejoly, Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Sven van den Elsen, Ciska Veen, Stefan Geisen

ISME Communications, 2025

Species-specific predation determines the feeding impacts of six soil protist species on bacterial and eukaryotic prey.

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

The combined effects of habitat fragmentation and life history traits on specialisation in lichen symbioses

Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, Miguel Verdú, Mar Villar-dePablo, Sergio Pérez-Ortega

Journal of Ecology, vol. 112, 2023, pp. 200–216

Interactive effects of global change drivers as determinants of the link between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

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