NameMuñoz Rojas, Miriam
DepartmentBiología Vegetal y Ecología
Knowledge areaEcología
Professional categoryInvestigadora Contratada (Ramón y Cajal)
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Exploring the potential of topsoil pellets to improve native seedling establishment on degraded agricultural land

Munro, Thomas P.; Erickson, Todd E.; Nimmo, Dale G.; Dadzie, Frederick A.; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Price, Jodi N. (Springer, 2024)
Background and aims Agricultural activities can degrade soils and promote weeds, posing challenges to native species ...
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Inoculating native microorganisms improved soil function and altered the microbial composition of a degraded soil

Dadzie, Frederick A.; Moles, Angela T.; Erickson, Todd E.; Machado de Lima, Nathali; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
Restoration managers inoculate microorganisms to enhance soil function and improve restoration success, but the efficacy ...
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Soil microbial community composition and functions are disrupted by fire and land use in a Mediterranean woodland

Ondik, Mercedes M.; Ooi, Mark K.J.; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam (Elsevier, 2023)
The intersection of fire, land use transformations, and climate change is putting Mediterranean climate-type ecosystems ...
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Seed biopriming at different concentrations to assess the effects of Cyanobacteria on germination and seedling performance of keystone arid species

Machado-de-Lima, Nathali M.; Charlesworth, James; Stewart, Jana; Ooi, Mark K. J.; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
Introduction: Biocrust cyanobacteria have a large potential as biofertilizers for restoring degraded ecosystems because ...
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Unpacking the recruitment potential of seeds in reconstructed soils and varying rainfall patterns

Erickson, Todd E.; Dwyer, John M.; Dalziell, Emma L.; James, Jeremy J.; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Merritt, David J. (CSIRO Publishing, 2023)
Context: Seeding is common practice for ecological restoration, but establishment rates can be low. For seeds to successfully ...
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Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration

Dadzie, Frederick A.; Moles, Angela T.; Erickson, Todd E.; Slavich, Eve; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam (Wiley, 2022)
1. Seed-based ecosystem restoration has huge potential to restore degraded drylands. However, fewer than 10% of directly ...
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Biocrust Amendments to Topsoils Facilitate Biocrust Restoration in a Post-mining Arid Environment

Schultz, Nick L.; Sluiter, Ian R. K.; Allen, Geoffrey G.; Machado de Lima, Nathali M.; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam (Frontiers Media, 2022)
Soil cryptogamic biocrusts provide many ecological functions in arid zone ecosystems, though their natural reestablishment ...
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Global maps of soil temperature

Lembrechts, J. J.; Hoogen, J. van den; Aalto, J.; Ashcroft, M. B.; Frenne, P. de; Kemppinen, J.; Kopecky, M.; Luoto, M.; Maclean, I. M. D.; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam (Wiley, 2022)
Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in ...
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Editorial: Restoration of Degraded Terrestrial Ecosystems

Santini, Nadia S.; Chamizo, Sonia; Lucas Borja, Manuel Esteban; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam (Frontiers Media, 2022)
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Editorial: Eurosoil 2021: Sustainable Management of Soil Functions as a Basis to Avoid, Halt, and Reverse Land Degradation

Luster, Jörg; Crockford, Lucy; Keller, Thomas; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Wollschläger, Ute (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022)
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Global Urban Environmental Change Drives Adaptation in White Clover

Santangelo, James S.; Ness, Rob W.; Cohan, Beata; Fitzpatrick, Connor R.; Innes, Simon G.; Koch, Sophie; Miles, Lindsay S.; Munim, Samreen; Peres-Neto, Pedro R.; Prashad, Cindy; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022)
Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental ...
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Soil biodiversity and organic carbon are essential to reverse desertification

Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Delgado Baquerizo, M.; Lucas Borja, M. E. (Asociacion Espanola de Ecologia Terrestre, 2021)
La biodiversidad y el carbono orgánico del suelo, así como la interacción entre ambos, juegan papeles esenciales en el ...
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Assessment of soil suitability for improvement of soil factors and agricultural management

Abd Elmabod, Sameh Kotb Mohamed; Bakr, Noura; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Pereira, Paulo; Zhang, Zhenhua; Cerdà, Artemi; Jordán López, Antonio; Mansour, Hani; Rosa, Diego De la; Jones, Laurence (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019)
The dramatic growth of the world's population is increasing the pressure on natural resources, particularly on soil systems. ...
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Spatial Gradients of Intensity and Persistence of Soil Water Repellency Under Different Forest Types in Central Mexico

Alanís, Nancy; Hernández Madrigal, Victor M; Cerdá, Artemi; Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Martínez Zavala, Lorena María; Jordán López, Antonio (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017)
Organic residues release hydrophobic compounds to the soil that may induce soil water repellency (WR), which may inhibit ...
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Modelling soil organic carbon stocks in global change scenarios: a CarboSOIL application

Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Jordán López, Antonio; Martínez Zavala, Lorena María; González Peñaloza, Félix Ángel; Rosa Acosta, Diego de La; Pino Mejías, Rafael; Anaya Romero, María (Copernicus, 2013)
Global climate change, as a consequence of the increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 concentration, may significantly affect ...
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Organic carbon stocks in Mediterranean soil types under different land uses (Southern Spain)

Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Jordán López, Antonio; Martínez Zavala, Lorena María; Rosa, Diego De la; Abd Elmabod, Sameh Kotb Mohamed; Anaya Romero, María (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2012)
Soil C sequestration through changes in land use and management is one of the sustainable and long-term strategies to ...
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Modelización de la capacidad de secuestro de Carbono en Suelos Mediterráneos: Modelling carbon sequestration capacity in Mediterranean soils

Muñoz Rojas, Miriam; Anaya Romero, María; Jordán López, Antonio; Martínez Zavala, Lorena María (2010)
Durante las últimas décadas, los cambios de uso del suelo han afectado en gran medida al proceso de calentamiento global ...