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Rutger Wilschut @rutgerwilschut.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cool work, led by @alexberlinches.bsky.social, out now in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, showing the importance of microbiome predator diversity (protists & bacterivorous nematodes) as indirect drivers of plant performance, partially overriding the effects of nitrogen addition!

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Alejandro Berlinches de Gea @alexberlinches.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎉 It’s finally published in Global Change Biology! Can soil predators help plants grow while reducing our reliance on fertilizers? 🌱🦠 We show that increasing soil microbiome predator diversity can strongly enhance plant biomass via shifts in soil bacterial communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Soil Microbiome Predator Diversity Outperforms Nitrogen Addition in Boosting Plant Biomass via Bacterial Community Shifts

Soil biodiversity may help reduce dependence on nitrogen fertilization, but experimental evidence remains limited. We tested how microbiome predator diversity (protists and nematodes) and nitrogen ad...

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Lindo Lab @lindolab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Safe travels to everyone heading to Victoria and the Global Soil Biodiversity conference this week! Can’t wait to see everyone ! @gsb2026.bsky.social #GSB2026 @thegsbi.bsky.social

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The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative @thegsbi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

🦠 In need of some weekend reading? Check out the newest GSB4 ECR series blog by Dr. Alejandro Berlinches de Gea! 🎉 He revisits the Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning concept, and highlights the role of soil protists in shaping soil microbiomes. www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath...

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Soil Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning (sBEF): The More, the Better? — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

Dr. Alejandro Berlinches de Gea (Wageningen University, Netherlands)

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Alejandro Berlinches de Gea @alexberlinches.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🚨 I'm in the process of writing a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal! If you have tips, experiences, or (even better!) example proposals you're willing to share—I'd be incredibly grateful. 🙏 DMs open or reply here! 💌

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Roeland Berendsen @rlberendsen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We continue to build the Plant Microbiome Starter Pack. Please let us know if you or others are missing! go.bsky.app/QG4wCyf

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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Yet another reminder that RNA levels are not necessarily predictive of growth rate in mixed microbial communities (from this paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...)

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Alejandro Berlinches de Gea @alexberlinches.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

First post in this social network! 🌐 Just to introduce myself, I am a postdoc at Wageningen University, focusing on microbial ecology (focus on protist) and how microbial diversity affects plant performance 🦠🪴. I will post some updates about my career here, hope to engage with you all 😎

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Alejandro Berlinches de Gea

I am Alejandro Berlinches de Gea, a postdoc at the Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University & Research. My journey in science started far away from ...

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