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Marta Goberna is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, focusing on the dynamics of ecosystems and soil ecology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these broader fields, their work encompasses subfields such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

The central topics Marta Goberna addresses in their research include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Publications by Marta Goberna feature in several venues, with a particular focus on soil biology and ecology. These frequent publication outlets are:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Ecology
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Molecular Ecology
  • GigaScience

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle," 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology," 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Soil microbiome drives the recovery of ecosystem functions after fire," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Connecting high-throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site-based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis," 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • "Toward global integration of biodiversity big data: a harmonized metabarcode data generation module for terrestrial arthropods," 2022, GigaScience

Collaborative research plays a role in Marta Goberna's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Miguel Verdú
  • José A. Navarro-Cano
  • Alicia Montesinos-Navarro
  • Vojtěch Novotný
  • Alfonso Valiente-Banuet

Best Publications

  • Microbes as engines of ecosystem function: When does community structure enhance predictions of ecosystem processes?

    Emily B. Graham;Emily B. Graham;Joseph E. Knelman;Joseph E. Knelman;Andreas Schindlbacher;Steven Siciliano

  • Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle.

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Lavorel;Lauren M. Hallett;Enrique Valencia

  • Cautionary notes on the use of co-occurrence networks in soil ecology

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  • Predicting microbial traits with phylogenies.

    Marta Goberna;Miguel Verdú

  • Pathogenic bacteria and mineral N in soils following the land spreading of biogas digestates and fresh manure.

    M. Goberna;M. Goberna;S.M. Podmirseg;S. Waldhuber;B.A. Knapp

  • Burning Fire-Prone Mediterranean Shrublands: Immediate Changes in Soil Microbial Community Structure and Ecosystem Functions

    Marta Goberna;C. García;Heribert Insam;M. T. Hernández

  • 16S rDNA analysis reveals low microbial diversity in community level physiological profile assays

    Margarita Ros;Marta Goberna;Jose Antonio Pascual;Susanne Klammer

  • Abiotic stress tolerance and competition‐related traits underlie phylogenetic clustering in soil bacterial communities

    Marta Goberna;Jose A. Navarro‐Cano;Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet;Carlos García

  • Changes in soil aggregation and microbial community structure control carbon sequestration after afforestation of semiarid shrublands

    N. Garcia-Franco;M. Martínez-Mena;M. Goberna;J. Albaladejo

  • Effect of biowaste sludge maturation on the diversity of thermophilic bacteria and archaea in an anaerobic reactor.

    M. Goberna;H. Insam;I. H. Franke-Whittle

  • Molecular and physiological bacterial diversity of a semi-arid soil contaminated with different levels of formulated atrazine

    M. Ros;M. Goberna;J.L. Moreno;T. Hernandez

  • Adaptation of Methanogenic Communities to the Cofermentation of Cattle Excreta and Olive Mill Wastes at 37°C and 55°C

    Marta Goberna;Marta Goberna;Maria Gadermaier;Carlos García;Bernhard Wett

  • Surface and subsurface organic carbon, microbial biomass and activity in a forest soil sequence

    M. Goberna;J. Sánchez;J.A. Pascual;C. García

  • Continuous-feeding vermicomposting as a recycling management method to revalue tomato-fruit wastes from greenhouse crops.

    Manuel J. Fernández-Gómez;Rogelio Nogales;Heribert Insam;Esperanza Romero

  • Sewage sludge addition modifies soil microbial communities and plant performance depending on the sludge stabilization process

    Eva Lloret;Eva Lloret;José A. Pascual;Eoin L. Brodie;Eoin L. Brodie;Nicholas J. Bouskill

  • Do plant clumps constitute microbial hotspots in semiarid Mediterranean patchy landscapes

    M. Goberna;J.A. Pascual;C. García;J. Sánchez

  • Plant intraspecific variation modulates nutrient cycling through its below ground rhizospheric microbiome

    Leticia Pérez‐Izquierdo;Mario Zabal‐Aguirre;Santiago C. González‐Martínez;Marc Buée

  • Microbial Community Structure at Different Depths in Disturbed and Undisturbed Semiarid Mediterranean Forest Soils

    M. Goberna;H. Insam;S. Klammer;J. A. Pascual

  • Microbes at Work

    Heribert Insam;Ingrid Franke-Whittle;Marta Goberna

  • Trait-based selection of nurse plants to restore ecosystem functions in mine tailings

    Jose Antonio Navarro‐Cano;Miguel Verdú;Marta Goberna

  • Population dynamics at digester overload conditions

    Michael A. Schoen;Daniel Sperl;Maria Gadermaier;Marta Goberna

  • A role for biotic filtering in driving phylogenetic clustering in soil bacterial communities

    Marta Goberna;Carlos García;Miguel Verdú

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Verdú
Miguel Verdú University of Valencia
Heribert Insam
Heribert Insam University of Innsbruck
José A. Pascual
José A. Pascual Spanish National Research Council
Bernhard Wett
Bernhard Wett University of Innsbruck
Alfonso Valiente-Banuet
Alfonso Valiente-Banuet National Autonomous University of Mexico
Sara Hallin
Sara Hallin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Diana R. Nemergut
Diana R. Nemergut University of Colorado Boulder
Jeroen Raes
Jeroen Raes KU Leuven
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council

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