Publications by authors named "J L Blanco-Pastor"

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  • Plant-soil biodiversity interactions are crucial for terrestrial ecosystems, yet it's unclear which specific topsoil microbial and small invertebrate organisms consistently associate with land plants.
  • A field survey of 150 land plant species across 124 locations revealed that these plants only shared less than 1% of the soil organisms, mostly generalist decomposers and phagotrophs, with their presence linked to important functional genes.
  • Environmental factors like aridity, soil pH, and carbon content can significantly disrupt the relationships between land plants and soil organisms, potentially impacting soil ecosystem processes in the face of climate change.
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Geographic isolation and chromosome evolution are two of the major drivers of diversification in eukaryotes in general, and specifically, in plants. On one hand, range shifts induced by Pleistocene glacial oscillations deeply shaped the evolutionary trajectories of species in the Northern Hemisphere. On the other hand, karyotype variability within species or species complexes may have adaptive potential as different karyotypes may represent different recombination rates and linkage groups that may be associated with locally adapted genes or supergenes.

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Soil contamination is one of the main threats to ecosystem health and sustainability. Yet little is known about the extent to which soil contaminants differ between urban greenspaces and natural ecosystems. Here we show that urban greenspaces and adjacent natural areas (i.

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