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Abelardo Ospina
Researcher at Central University of Venezuela
Publications - 4
Citations - 1614
Abelardo Ospina is an academic researcher from Central University of Venezuela. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 1135 citations.
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Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands
Fernando T. Maestre,José L. Quero,Nicholas J. Gotelli,Adrián Escudero,Victoria Ochoa,Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo,Miguel García-Gómez,Miguel García-Gómez,Matthew A. Bowker,Santiago Soliveres,Cristina Escolar,Pablo García-Palacios,Miguel Berdugo,Enrique Valencia,Beatriz Gozalo,Antonio Gallardo,Lorgio E. Aguilera,Tulio Arredondo,Julio Blones,Bertrand Boeken,Donaldo Bran,Abel Augusto Conceição,Omar Cabrera,Mohamed Chaieb,Mchich Derak,David J. Eldridge,Carlos I. Espinosa,Adriana Florentino,Juan José Gaitán,M. Gabriel Gatica,Wahida Ghiloufi,Susana Gómez-González,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Rosa M. Hernández,Xuewen Huang,Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald,Mohammad Jankju,Maria N. Miriti,Jorge Monerris,Rebecca L. Mau,Ernesto Morici,Kamal Naseri,Abelardo Ospina,Vicente Polo,Aníbal Prina,Eduardo Pucheta,David A. Ramírez-Collantes,R. L. Romão,Matthew Tighe,Cristian Torres-Díaz,James Val,José P. Veiga,Deli Wang,Eli Zaady +53 more
TL;DR: A global empirical study relating plant species richness and abiotic factors to multifunctionality in drylands, which collectively cover 41% of Earth’s land surface and support over 38% of the human population, suggests that the preservation of plant biodiversity is crucial to buffer negative effects of climate change and desertification in dryland.
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Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands
Fernando T. Maestre,Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo,Thomas C. Jeffries,David J. Eldridge,Victoria Ochoa,Beatriz Gozalo,José L. Quero,Miguel García-Gómez,Antonio Gallardo,Werner Ulrich,Matthew A. Bowker,Tulio Arredondo,Claudia Barraza-Zepeda,Donaldo Bran,Adriana Florentino,Juan José Gaitán,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald,Mohammad Jankju,Rebecca L. Mau,Maria N. Miriti,Kamal Naseri,Abelardo Ospina,Ilan Stavi,Deli Wang,Natasha N. Woods,Xia Yuan,Eli Zaady,Brajesh K. Singh +29 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that changes in aridity, such as those predicted by climate-change models, may reduce microbial abundance and diversity, a response that will likely impact the provision of key ecosystem services by global drylands.
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Surface indicators are correlated with soil multifunctionality in global drylands
David J. Eldridge,Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo,José L. Quero,Victoria Ochoa,Victoria Ochoa,Beatriz Gozalo,Beatriz Gozalo,Pablo García-Palacios,Cristina Escolar,Miguel García-Gómez,Aníbal Prina,Mathew A. Bowker,Donaldo Bran,Ignacio Castro,Alex P. Cea,Mchich Derak,Carlos I. Espinosa,Adriana Florentino,Juan José Gaitán,Juan José Gaitán,Juan José Gaitán,Gabriel Gatica,Susana Gómez-González,Wahida Ghiloufi,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Julio R. Gutiérrez,Elizabeth Gusmán-Montalván,Rosa M. Hernández,Frederic Mendes Hughes,Walter Alejandro Muiño,Jorge Monerris,Abelardo Ospina,David A. Ramírez,Yanina A. Ribas-Fernández,R. L. Romão,Cristian Torres-Díaz,Terrance B. Koen,Fernando T. Maestre,Fernando T. Maestre +38 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the European Research Council ERC Grant agreement 242658 (BIOCOM) to support the work of D.D.-B.G. and F.R.
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Respuesta de las propiedades físicas del suelo después de 11 años de manejo bajo siembra directa y rotación de cultivos en Turén, estado Portuguesa, Venezuela
TL;DR: Las propiedades fisicas del suelo se observaron cambios favorables en los sistemas bajo siembra directa en comparacion con los suelos sometidos a labranza convencional y al igual que la rotacion maiz-algodon donde tambien se observo una mejora in las mismas propiedade respecto a the rotacion Maiz-frijol.