ECoSYSTEM ECoLoGY & AGRoECoLoGY LAB
Below we provide examples of the outreach activities we are engaged with. The main goals are:
1) To help disseminate our research results.
2) To inform the stakeholders interested in climate change mitigation and adaptation in natural, urban and terrestrial ecosystems
2) To inform the general public that funds and benefits from our research.
3) To contribute gaining the perspective that researchers may lose if they never take a walk outside their ivory towers.
Popular science blogs
2022. Can past climatic conditions influence soil microbes and functioning responses to present extreme climatic events? (Functional Ecologists' blog).
2022. Fungal communities play key roles in securing ecosystem stability (Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community blog).
2022. A missed opportunity for efficient nutrient use (Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community blog).
2022. Emerging relationships among soil microbes, carbon dynamics and climate change (Functional Ecologists' blog).
2021. Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming (1-page summary of a Perspectives published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment).
2018. Ecological intensification of agriculture in drylands (Investigación y Ciencia - Arida Cutis blog, only in spanish)
2018. Plant domestication and agroecology (Ecomandanga blog, only in spanish)
2018. Ecological intensification and crop diversity (Ecomandanga blog, only in spanish)
2018. Crop traits, organic farming and soil C sequestration (The Applied Ecologist's blog)
2013. Behind the scenes of the Maestre lab (Maestre lab blog)
Workshops and seminars
2022. Foro de Empleo de la ESCET (Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos). Discussion panel about career opportunities in science.
2022. High-school 4ºESO students visit at ICA-CSIC La Poveda Experimental Farm. Climate change and biodiversity issues discussed at the Sustainable Agriculture & Climate Change (SACC) trial.
2021. Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovación (Madrid, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias-CSIC)
Online wokshop for the general public
Del contenedor al campo, del plato al tejado: tratamientos y reutilización de residuos orgánicos
2019. Ciencia a la Carta (Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Hands-on wokshop for high-school students
Investigating the effects of climate change on natural and agro-ecosystems
2018. Pint of Science Festival (Madrid, De Raimundo Pub)
Science seminar in a pub (science & beer!)
Feeding 9 billion people without destroying the world
2017. Ciencia a la Carta (Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Hands-on wokshop for high-school students
Anticipating the impacts of climate change
2018. Two-day workshop in an Elementary School (Madrid, Lycée Français Molière)
What is science and how can we do it
2016. XVI Semana de la Ciencia
(Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Ecosystems services of organic agriculture
2018. Ciencia a la Carta (Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Hands-on wokshop for high-school students
Anticipating the impacts of climate change
2016. One-day workshop in an Elementary School
(Madrid, Lycée Français Molière)
Soil diversity is important and fun