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Ecology, Ecosystems, Soil

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Bolivia, Chile

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Universidad Mayor: Santiago, Metropolitana, CL

2017-12-01 to present | Associate professor (GEMA Center for Genomics, Ecology & Environment)
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Fernando D. Alfaro

Works (37)

The abundant fraction of soil microbiomes regulates the rhizosphere function in crop wild progenitors

Ecology Letters
2024-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14462
Part of ISSN: 1461-023X
Part of ISSN: 1461-0248
Contributors: Miguel de Celis Rodríguez; María José Fernández‐Alonso; Ignacio Belda; Carlos García; Raúl Ochoa-Hueso; Javier Palomino; Brajesh K. Singh; Yue Yin; Jun‐Tao Wang; Luis Abdala‐Roberts et al.
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Within and Across Species Variation in Plant Traits in Response to Long-Term Experimental Herbivore Exclusion in a Semi-Arid Shrubland

2024-06-27 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.24.600127
Contributors: María del Pilar Fernández-Murillo; Fernando Daniel Alfaro; Douglas A. Kelt; Peter L. Meserve; Julio R. Gutiérrez; Alejandra J. Troncoso; Dylan Craven
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Insights into the Gut Microbiome of the South American Leaf-Toed Gecko (Phylodactylus gerropygus) Inhabiting the Core of the Atacama Desert

Microorganisms
2024-06-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12061194
Contributors: Daniela S. Rivera; Valentina Beltrán; Ignacio Gutiérrez-Cortés; Constanza Vargas; Fernando D. Alfaro
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Unearthing the soil‐borne microbiome of land plants

Global Change Biology
2024-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17295
Contributors: Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso; David J. Eldridge; Miguel Berdugo; Pankaj Trivedi; Blessing Sokoya; Concha Cano‐Díaz; Sebastian Abades; Fernando Alfaro; Adebola R. Bamigboye; Felipe Bastida et al.
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Prevalence of trace gas-oxidizing soil bacteria increases with radial distance from Polloquere hot spring within a high-elevation Andean cold desert

2024-04-10 | Other
DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrae062
Contributors: Zachary K. Garvin; Sebastian R. Abades; Nicole Trefault; Fernando D. Alfaro; Katie Sipes; Karen G. Lloyd; Tullis C. Onstott
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Urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem services

npj Urban Sustainability
2024-03-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00154-z
Part of ISSN: 2661-8001
Contributors: David Eldridge; Haiying Cui; Jingyi Ding; Miguel Berdugo; Tadeo Sáez-Sandino; Jorge Duran; Juan Gaitan; José L. Blanco-Pastor; Alexandra Rodríguez; César Plaza et al.
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Loss of native herbivores triggers diversity decline of ephemeral plant communities

Journal of Vegetation Science
2023-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.13210
Contributors: María del Pilar Fernández‐Murillo; Fernando Daniel Alfaro; Dylan Craven; Julio Roberto Gutiérrez; Douglas A. Kelt; Peter L. Meserve; Alejandra J. Troncoso
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Biogenic factors explain soil carbon in paired urban and natural ecosystems worldwide

Nature Climate Change
2023-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-023-01646-z
Contributors: Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; Pablo García-Palacios; Mark A. Bradford; David J. Eldridge; Miguel Berdugo; Tadeo Sáez-Sandino; Yu-Rong Liu; Fernando Alfaro; Sebastian Abades; Adebola R. Bamigboye et al.
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The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services

Nature Geoscience
2023-05-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01170-x
Part of ISSN: 1752-0894
Part of ISSN: 1752-0908
Contributors: David Eldridge; Emilio Guirado; Peter Reich; Raúl Ochoa-Hueso; Miguel Berdugo; Tadeo Sáez-Sandino; José Luis Blanco-Pastor; Leho Tedersoo; César Plaza; Jingyi Ding et al.
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Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide

Nature Communications
2023-03-27 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37428-6
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Yu-Rong Liu; Marcel van der Heijden; Judith Riedo; Carlos Sanz-Lazaro; David Eldridge; Felipe Bastida; Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez; Xin-Quan Zhou; Hangwei Hu; Ji-Zheng He et al.
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Soil biodiversity supports the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions in urban greenspaces

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2023-01-09 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01935-4
Part of ISSN: 2397-334X
Contributors: Kunkun Fan; Haiyan Chu; David Eldridge; juan gaitan; Yu-Rong Liu; Blessing Sokoya; Jun-Tao Wang; Hangwei Hu; Ji-Zheng He; Wei Sun et al.
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The global distribution and environmental drivers of the soil antibiotic resistome

Microbiome
2022-12-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01405-w
Part of ISSN: 2049-2618
Contributors: Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; Hang-Wei Hu; Fernando T. Maestre; Carlos A. Guerra; Nico Eisenhauer; David J. Eldridge; Yong-Guan Zhu; Qing-Lin Chen; Pankaj Trivedi; Shuai Du et al.
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The grit crust: A poly-extremotolerant microbial community from the Atacama Desert as a model for astrobiology

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
2022-11-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2022.1052278
Part of ISSN: 2296-987X
Contributors: Fernando D. Alfaro; Patrick Jung; Lukas W. Lehnert; Jörg Bendix; Guillaume Lentendu; Martin Grube; Fernando D. Alfaro; Camilo del Rio; José Luis Gutiérrez Alvarado; Liesbeth van den Brink et al.
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Vegetation drives the response of the active fraction of the rhizosphere microbial communities to soil warming in Antarctic vascular plants

FEMS Microbiology Ecology
2022-10-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiac099
Contributors: Génesis Parada-Pozo; León A Bravo; Patricia L Sáez; Lohengrin A Cavieres; Marjorie Reyes-Díaz; Sebastián Abades; Fernando D Alfaro; Rodrigo De la Iglesia; Nicole Trefault
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Global hotspots for soil nature conservation

Nature
2022-10-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05292-x
Part of ISSN: 0028-0836
Part of ISSN: 1476-4687
Contributors: Fernando D. Alfaro
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Climate and coastal low-cloud dynamic in the hyperarid Atacama fog Desert and the geographic distribution of Tillandsia landbeckii (Bromeliaceae) dune ecosystems

Plant Systematics and Evolution
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01775-y
Part of ISSN: 0378-2697
Part of ISSN: 1615-6110
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Soil bacterial community structure of fog‐dependent Tillandsia landbeckii dunes in the Atacama Desert

Plant Systematics and Evolution
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01781-0
Contributors: Fernando D. Alfaro; Marlene Manzano; Cristian Almiray; Juan-Luis García; Pablo Osses; Camilo del Rio; Constanza Vargas; Claudio Latorre; Marcus A. Koch; Alexander Siegmund et al.
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Spatial distribution and interannual variability of coastal fog and low clouds cover in the hyperarid Atacama Desert and implications for past and present Tillandsia landbeckii ecosystems

Plant Systematics and Evolution
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01782-z
Part of ISSN: 0378-2697
Part of ISSN: 1615-6110
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Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces

Science Advances
2021-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg5809
Part of ISSN: 2375-2548
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Fernando D. Alfaro

High‐frequency monitoring of hydrological and biogeochemical fluxes in forested catchments of southern Chile

Hydrological Processes
2021-04-14 | Journal article
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Fernando D. Alfaro

Decoupling of biotic and abiotic patterns in a coastal area affected by chronic metal micronutrients disturbances

Marine Pollution Bulletin
2021-04-07 | Journal article
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Fernando D. Alfaro

The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes

Nature Communications
2020-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18451-3
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
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Fernando D. Alfaro

Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes

Nature Ecology & Evolution
2020-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-1084-y
Part of ISSN: 2397-334X
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Fernando D. Alfaro

Soil microbial abundance and activity across forefield glacier chronosequence in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
2020-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/15230430.2020.1820124
Part of ISSN: 1523-0430
Part of ISSN: 1938-4246
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Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect

Nature Communications
2019-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11472-7
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
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Fernando D. Alfaro

Potential distribution model of Leontochir ovallei using remote sensing data

Revista de Teledetección
2019-12-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4995/raet.2019.12792
Part of ISSN: 1988-8740
Part of ISSN: 1133-0953
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Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes

Molecular Ecology
2019-12-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15299
Part of ISSN: 0962-1083
Part of ISSN: 1365-294X
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Fernando D. Alfaro

Eco-hydrological Functions in Forested Catchments of Southern Chile

Ecosystems
2019-05-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-019-00404-7
Part of ISSN: 1432-9840
Part of ISSN: 1435-0629
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Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019-04-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818400116
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
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Bacterial community structure in a sympagic habitat expanding with global warming: brackish ice brine at 85–90 °N

The ISME Journal
2019-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0268-9
Contributors: Beatriz Fernández-Gómez; Beatriz Díez; Martin F Polz; José Ignacio Arroyo; Fernando D Alfaro; Germán Marchandon; Cynthia Sanhueza; Laura Farías; Nicole Trefault; Pablo A Marquet et al.
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Exclusion of small mammals and lagomorphs invasion interact with human-trampling to drive changes in topsoil microbial community structure and function in semiarid Chile

Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2018-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.05.019
Contributors: Fernando D. Alfaro; Marlene Manzano; Sebastian Abades; Nicole Trefault; Rodrigo de la Iglesia; Aurora Gaxiola; Pablo A. Marquet; Julio R. Gutierrez; Peter L. Meserve; Douglas A. Kelt et al.
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Microbial communities in soil chronosequences with distinct parent material: the effect of soil pH and litter quality

Journal of Ecology
2017-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12766
Contributors: Fernando D. Alfaro; Marlene Manzano; Pablo A. Marquet; Aurora Gaxiola; Rebecca McCulley
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Plant communities on the islands of two Altiplanic salt lakes in the Andean region of Bolivia

Check List
2016-10-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.15560/12.5.1975
Part of ISSN: 1809-127X
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Sociality ofOctodontomys gliroidesand other octodontid rodents reflects the influence of phylogeny

Journal of Mammalogy
2014-10-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1644/14-mamm-a-057
Part of ISSN: 0022-2372
Part of ISSN: 1545-1542
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Molecular phylogenetics of mouse opossums: new findings on the phylogeny ofThylamys(Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae)

Zoologica Scripta
2014-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12051
Part of ISSN: 0300-3256
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Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastida Trypanosomatidae): Ecology of the transmission cycle in the wild environment of the Andean valley of Cochabamba, Bolivia

Experimental Parasitology
2006-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.04.010
Part of ISSN: 0014-4894
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Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide

Nature Communications
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