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Doctor Tadeo Saez Sandino

Biography

Dr Tadeo Saez Sandino is a Research Fellow in the Institute. His research aims to advance our understanding of biodiversity and the functioning of natural, agricultural, and urban ecosystems within the context of global change.

Dr Tadeo Saez Sandino joined HIE in 2024 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Distinguished Professor Brajesh Singh. He obtained his PhD from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain in 2023, where he created the first global atlas of key factors controlling soil carbon in the context of climate change. His current research focuses on a multidisciplinary approach encompassing the study of environmental microbiomes, soil biodiversity, and ecosystem services across contrasting terrestrial biomes.

Areas of research/teaching expertise

Soil and plant microbiome, soil biodiversity, ecosystem services, soil carbon, mapping approaches

Awards and recognition

Selected as one of the top young researchers in the 'Sevilla también es Ciencia Joven 2023" (Spain).
The 'Ezequiel Martínez' award from the Federation of Ateneos of Andalusia (Spain) (2022).
Diploma for the Undergraduate Thesis in Environmental Sciences in the 3rd Edition of the Award from the 'Colegio Profesional de Licenciados y Graduados en Ciencias Ambientales de Andalucía (COAMBA, Spain).

Grants

Predoctoral Fellowship, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain (2019-2023)
Posdoctoral Fellowship, Western Sidney University, Australia (2024-)

Selected publications

Sáez-Sandino, T., García-Palacios, P., Maestre, T., Plaza, C., Guirado, E., Singh, B., Wang, J., Cano-Díaz, C., Eisenhauer, N., Gallardo, A., Delgado-Baquerizo, M (2023). The soil microbiome governs the response of microbial respiration to warming across the globe. Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01868-1
Sáez-Sandino, T., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Egidi, E., Singh, B. New microbial tools to boost restoration and soil organic matters (2023). Microbial Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14325
Sáez-Sandino, T., Gallardo, A., Eldridge, D., Asefaw, A., Doetterl, S., Delgado-Baquerizo, M (2023). Plant footprint decreases the diversity of molecules in topsoil organic matter after millions of years of ecosystem development. Global Ecology and Biogeography  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.13770
Delgado-Baquerizo, M., García-Palacios, P., Bradford, M. A., Eldridge,D. J., Berdugo, M., Sáez-Sandino, T., Liu, Y. R., Alfaro, F., Abades, S.,Bamigboye, A. R., Bastida, F., Blanco-Pastor, J. L., Duran, J., Gaitan, J.J., Illán, J. G., Grebenc, T., Makhalanyane, T. P., Jaiswal, D. K.,Nahberger, T. U., … Plaza, C. (2023). Biogenic factors explain soil carbon in paired urban and natural ecosystems worldwide. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01646-z
Eldridge, D. J., Guirado, E., Reich, P. B., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Berdugo, M., Sáez-Sandino, T., Blanco-Pastor, J. L., Tedersoo, L., Plaza, C., Ding, J.,Sun, W., Mamet, S., Cui, H., He, J. Z., Hu, H. W., Sokoya, B., Abades, S.,Alfaro, F., Bamigboye, A. R., … Delgado-Baquerizo, M. (2023). The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01170-x
Zhang, J., Feng, Y., Maestre, F. T., Berdugo, M., Wang, J., Coleine, C., Sáez-Sandino, T., García-Velázquez, L., Singh, B. K., & Delgado-Baquerizo, M. (2023). Water availability creates global thresholds inmultidimensional soil biodiversity and functions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02071-3
García-Palacios, P., Bradford, M., Benavente-Ferraces, I.,de Celis, M., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., García-Gil, J.C.,Gaitán, J., Goñi, A., Mueller, C.W., Panettieri, M., Rey, A., Sáez-Sandino, T., Schuur, E., Sokol, N., Tedersoo, L.,Plaza, C. The particulate organic fraction dominates soil carbon in the mineral layer of cold regions. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01354-5
Eldridge, D., Cui, H., Ding, J., Berdugo, M., Sáez-Sandino,T., Duran, J., Gaitan, J., Blanco-Pastor, J., Rodríguez, A.,Plaza, C., Alfaro, F., Teixido, A., Sebastian Abades, S., Bamigboye, A.,Peñaloza-Bojacá, G., Grebenc, T.,Nahberger, T., Illán, J., Yu-Rong, L., Makhalanyane, T.,Rey, A., Siebe, C., Sun, W., Trivedi, P., Verma, J., Wang,L., Wang, J., Yang, T., Zaady, E., Zhou, X., Zhou, Xin-Quan., Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo. Urban greens paces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem services across a global range. Nature Urban Sustainability.
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