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Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

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Ecology and Evolution
Spain
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
97
Citations
41077
World Ranking
322
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. The subfields of study that dominate their work include Ecology, Soil Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics encompass soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, biocrusts and microbial ecology, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Delgado-Baquerizo has contributed to several highly cited papers. Notable recent publications include:

  • Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale, 2020, Nature Climate Change

Additional influential papers, which may include coauthors or collaborators, feature works such as:

  • Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity, 2020, Science
  • Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward, 2023, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Soil microbial diversity-biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes, 2021, The ISME Journal

Throughout their career, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo has frequently collaborated with several researchers including Brajesh K. Singh, Fernando T. Maestre, David J. Eldridge, Juntao Wang, and Guiyao Zhou.

Their work appears regularly in prominent academic journals, with multiple publications appearing in the following venues:

  • Nature Communications (23 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (23 publications)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry (19 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (16 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (14 publications)

Best Publications

  • Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Fernando T. Maestre;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Thomas C. Jeffries

  • A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Angela M. Oliverio;Angela M. Oliverio;Tess E. Brewer;Tess E. Brewer;Alberto Benavent-González

  • Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

    Fernando T. Maestre;José L. Quero;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Adrián Escudero

  • Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes.

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Chanda Trivedi;David J. Eldridge

  • Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

    Fernando T. Maestre;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Thomas C. Jeffries;David J. Eldridge

  • Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

    Miguel Berdugo;Miguel Berdugo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Santiago Soliveres;Rocío Hernández-Clemente

  • Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Fernando T. Maestre;Antonio Gallardo;Matthew A. Bowker

  • A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide

    Eleonora Egidi;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Jonathan M. Plett;Juntao Wang;Juntao Wang

  • Microbial regulation of the soil carbon cycle: evidence from gene-enzyme relationships.

    Pankaj Trivedi;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Chanda Trivedi;Hangwei Hu

  • Soil microbial diversity-biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes.

    Felipe Bastida;David J. Eldridge;Carlos García;G. Kenny Png;G. Kenny Png

  • Structure and functioning of dryland ecosystems in a changing world.

    Fernando T. Maestre;David J. Eldridge;Santiago Soliveres;Sonia Kéfi

  • Rare microbial taxa as the major drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in long-term fertilized soils

    Qing-Lin Chen;Qing-Lin Chen;Jing Ding;Dong Zhu;Hang-Wei Hu

  • The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Carlos A. Guerra;Concha Cano-Díaz;Eleonora Egidi

  • The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

    Angela M. Oliverio;Angela M. Oliverio;Stefan Geisen;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Fernando T. Maestre;Fernando T. Maestre

  • Soil microbial communities drive the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to global change in drylands across the globe.

    Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo;David J. Eldridge;Victoria Ochoa;Beatriz Gozalo

  • Biodiversity of key-stone phylotypes determines crop production in a 4-decade fertilization experiment

    Kunkun Fan;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Xisheng Guo;Daozhong Wang

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research.

    Carlos A. Guerra;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Johannes Sikorski;Antonis Chatzinotas

  • It is elemental: soil nutrient stoichiometry drives bacterial diversity

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Peter B. Reich;Amit N. Khachane;Colin D. Campbell

  • Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents.

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Scott L. Collins;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Kelly Hamonts

  • Response of Soil Properties and Microbial Communities to Agriculture: Implications for Primary Productivity and Soil Health Indicators

    Pankaj Trivedi;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Ian C. Anderson;Brajesh K. Singh

  • Diversifying livestock promotes multidiversity and multifunctionality in managed grasslands

    Ling Wang;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Deli Wang;Forest Isbell

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando T. Maestre
Fernando T. Maestre King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Brajesh K. Singh
Brajesh K. Singh Western Sydney University
David J. Eldridge
David J. Eldridge University of New South Wales
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Antonio Gallardo
Antonio Gallardo Pablo de Olavide University
Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
Pankaj Trivedi
Pankaj Trivedi Colorado State University
José Luis Quero
José Luis Quero University of Córdoba
Santiago Soliveres
Santiago Soliveres University of Alicante
Matthew A. Bowker
Matthew A. Bowker Northern Arizona University

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