Diamonds in the rough: Dryland microorganisms are ecological engineers to restore degraded land and mitigate desertification

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dc.contributor.authorMarasco, Ramona
dc.contributor.authorRamond, Jean-Baptiste
dc.contributor.authorVan Goethem, Marc W.
dc.contributor.authorRossi, Federico
dc.contributor.authorDaffonchio, Daniele
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:18:55Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:18:55Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractOur planet teeters on the brink of massive ecosystem collapses, and arid regions experience manifold environmental and climatic challenges that increase the magnitude of selective pressures on already stressed ecosystems. Ultimately, this leads to their aridification and desertification, that is, to simplified and barren ecosystems (with proportionally less microbial load and diversity) with altered functions and food webs and modification of microbial community network. Thus, preserving and restoring soil health in such a fragile biome could help buffer climate change's effects. We argue that microorganisms and the protection of their functional properties and networks are key to fight desertification. Specifically, we claim that it is rational, possible and certainly practical to rely on native dryland edaphic microorganisms and microbial communities as well as dryland plants and their associated microbiota to conserve and restore soil health and mitigate soil depletion in newly aridified lands. Furthermore, this will meet the objective of protecting/stabilizing (and even enhancing) soil biodiversity globally. Without urgent conservation and restoration actions that take into account microbial diversity, we will ultimately, and simply, not have anything to protect anymore.
dc.description.funderKAUST WDRC CCF
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1751-7915.14216
dc.identifier.issn1751-7915
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14216
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92492
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000919004100001
dc.issue.numero8
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final1610
dc.pagina.inicio1603
dc.revistaMicrobial biotechnology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.ods02 Zero Hunger
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa02 Hambre cero
dc.titleDiamonds in the rough: Dryland microorganisms are ecological engineers to restore degraded land and mitigate desertification
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen16
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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