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Miriam Muñoz-Rojas

@mirimunro.bsky.social
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Principal Investigator at www.irnas.csic.es #BioFunLab. Soil ecology, ecosystem restoration, plantsoil, fire, biodiversity, soil carbon cycling #soildarkdivnet

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Research Division can’t use the words “climate”, “vulnerable”, and “safe drinking water” anymore, as well as the below list 🤯 newrepublic.com/post/193395/...
A screenshot with the text “Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others”
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Miriam Muñoz-Rojas @mirimunro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Very excited to see our paper just published in @nature.com (open access)! Massive collaborative effort led by Meelis Pärtel @macroecologyut.bsky.social and team #darkdiversity – is crucial in the context of #ecologicalrestoration and habitat conservation 🌿 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity - Nature
A comparison of alpha diversity (number of plant species) and dark diversity (species that are currently absent from a site despite being ecologically suitable) demonstrates the negative effects of re...
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Prof Braj Singh @prof-braj-singh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New paper in Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment - Soil Bacterial Biodiversity in Drylands Is Dependent on Groundcover Under Increased Temperature by @mirimunro.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Soil Bacterial Biodiversity in Drylands Is Dependent on Groundcover Under Increased Temperature
Introduction Drylands are a major terrestrial biome, supporting much of the earth's population. Soil microbial communities maintain drylands’ ecosystem functions but are threatened by increasing tem...
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The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative @thegsbi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📣GSBI Speaks is back this December. Join us in the second of the series to learn about the role of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in soil 🎉 Dec. 12, 2024, 7:00 MST, 9:00 EST, 14:00 GMT, 15:00 CET Register 👇 zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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