Bacterial members of the rhizosphere microbiota of Quercus ilex subsp. ballota

The general objective of thE WP7 is to advance our understanding of the impacts of global change drivers - mainly climate change and exotic pathogens - on the above- and below-ground biodiversity of Mediterranean forests and silvopastoral agrosystems, and to use the resulting information to propose management tools aim to improve the resistance and resilience of these forests in scenarios of increasing abiotic and biotic stress. We will focus our research on forests and dehesas of evergreen Quercus species (Quercus suber and Quercus ilex) in Andalusia, due to their strategic ecological and economic importance and their current vulnerability status as a result of increasing aridity and the invasion of the aggressive exotic pathogen Phytophthora cinammomi.