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Concha Cano-Díaz is an ecologist, working as post-doctoral researcher in the Centre for Research and Development in Agrifood Systems and Sustainability (CISAS) of the Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo. Her PhD was done in the University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) in 2021 on the ecology and distribution of soil cyanobacteria. With a Biology background, she is interested in the diversity, functionality and interactions in soil communities, particularly biological soil crusts and soil microorganisms. She has a post-doctoral scholarship granted by the Portuguese government in the context of the research project SoilRecon, where she is exploring the relationships between soil diversity and functionality, human impacts on soil and future climate change scenarios in the North of Portugal.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
María de la Concepción Cano Díaz

Citation names

  • Cano-Díaz, Concha

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4E14-BCE4-BFC2
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6948-6553

Email addresses

  • diazmaria@ipvc.pt (Professional)
  • conchacanodiaz@gmail.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Soil Science
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021
Concluded
 Programa de Doctorado en Conservacion de Recursos Naturales (Doktor (PhD))
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
"Cianobacterias edáficas: Nuevas perspectivas sobre su ecología, distribución global y respuesta frente al cambio climático " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Sobresaliente Cum Laude. Mención Internacional
2019/05/07 - 2019/05/31
Concluded
 Introduction to spatial statistics (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
2018/05/22 - 2018/05/25
Concluded
 Advanced Experimental Design III: General linear models in experimentation (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
2018/04/05 - 2018/04/26
Concluded
 Public speaking course (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
2018/01/15 - 2018/01/17
Concluded
 Training Activity. Course on Communication Skills and Processes (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
2017/07/03 - 2017/07/07
Concluded
 Introduction to next generation sequencing (Outros)
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
2017/06/12 - 2017/06/17
Concluded
 Optimizing the use of R for analysis in ecology (Outros)
Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre, Spain

Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, Spain
2017/03/13 - 2017/04/06
Concluded
 Introduction to scientific writing (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
2017/02/04
Concluded
 Reproducible science with Rmarkdown (Outros)
Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre, Spain

Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
2017/01/16 - 2017/01/27
Concluded
 A dozen lectures in statistical phylogenetics (Outros)
Real Jardín Botánico, Spain
2016/12/12 - 2016/12/14
Concluded
 Advanced Experimental Design I (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
2015
Concluded
 Master en Ecologia (Master)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2013
Concluded
 Licenciatura en Biología (Bachelor)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/11/02 - Current Postdoc (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Sistemas Agroalimentares e Sustentabilidade, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/11/02 - 2024/11/01 Soil Ecosystems in the XXI Century: pressures, conservation and future scenarios
PTDC/BIA-CBI/2340/2020
Post-doc
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/02 - 2019/05 Research Grants. Short-Term Grants, 2019 (57440917)
57440917
 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

Contract

Designation Funders
2016/01/01 - 2020/01/01 BIODESERT - Biological feedbacks and ecosystem resilience under global change: a new perspective on dryland desertification
ERC Grant agreement n° 647038
PhD Student Fellow
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Departamento de Biología y Geología Física y Química Inorgánica, Spain
 European Research Council
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Mata, F.; Cano-Díaz, Concha; Jesus, Meirielly. "Demographic tendencies of the EU citizens' perception about the greening subsidies given to farmers". Paper presented in Congress Farm to Fork: our food, our health, our future, Castelo Branco, 2023.
    Published
  2. Mata, F.; Jesus, Meirielly; Cano-Díaz, Concha; Dos - Santos, Maria José Palma Lampreia. "European citizens’ self-responsibility in climate change impediment". 2023.
Conference paper
  1. Dos Santos, Maria José Palma Lampreia; Mata, F.; Jesus, Meirielly; Cano-Díaz, Concha. "European citizens’ worries and self-responsibility towards climate change: a gender analysis". 2024.
Conference poster
  1. Rodríguez-Lozano, Pablo; Martín-Vélez, Víctor; Abdallah, Mohamad; Bernal, Susana; Cano-Díaz, Concha; Capdevila, Pol; Catalán, Núria; Lupon, Anna; Figuerola, Blanca. Corresponding author: Rodríguez-Lozano, Pablo. "Diversity and inclusion on scientific societies: the case of the Iberian Society of Ecology". Paper presented in XXII Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL 2024), 2024.
Journal article
  1. Carvalho, Rui P.; Guerra, Carlos; Cano-Díaz, Concha; Mendes, Susana; Costa, Sofia R.. "Distribution of plant-parasitic nematode communities across land-use types in the North of Portugal". Applied Soil Ecology 206 (2025): 105852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105852.
    10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105852
  2. Fernando Mata; Joaquim M. Alonso; Concha Cano-Díaz. "Evaluation of Asian Hornet (Vespa velutina) Trappability in Alto-Minho, Portugal: Commercial vs. Artisanal Equipment, Human Factors, Geography, Climatology, and Vegetation". Applied Sciences (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/app14177571.
    10.3390/app14177571
  3. Fernando Mata; Concha Cano-Díaz; Meirielly Jesus. "The European Citizens’ Stance on the Sustainability Subsidies Given to The Eu Farmers". European Countryside (2024): https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2024-0018.
    10.2478/euco-2024-0018
  4. Fernando Mata; Maria Dos-Santos; Concha Cano-Díaz; Meirielly Jesus; Manuela Vaz-Velho. "The Society of Information and the European Citizens’ Perception of Climate Change: Natural or Anthropological Causes". Environmental Management (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-01961-x.
    10.1007/s00267-024-01961-x
  5. Ochoa-Hueso, Raul; Eldridge, David J.; Berdugo, Miguel; Trivedi, Pankaj; Sokoya, Blessing; Cano-Diaz, Concha; Abades, Sebastian; et al. "Unearthing the soil-borne microbiome of land plants". Global Change Biology (2024): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/71735254/.
    10.1111/GCB.17295
  6. Concha Cano-Díaz; Romy Zeiss; Claudia Carvalho-Santos; Rui P. Carvalho; Sofia R. Costa; A. Carolina Duarte; Paulo Fernandes; Carlos A. Guerra. "Mapping socio-environmental pressures to assess Portuguese soil vulnerability". Applied Geography (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103103.
    10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103103
  7. Tadeo Sáez-Sandino; Pablo García-Palacios; Fernando T. Maestre; César Plaza; Emilio Guirado; Brajesh K. Singh; Juntao Wang; et al. "The soil microbiome governs the response of microbial respiration to warming across the globe". Nature Climate Change (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01868-1.
    10.1038/s41558-023-01868-1
  8. A. Carolina Duarte; Carlos A. Guerra; Concha Cano-Díaz; Romy Zeiss; Cláudia Carvalho-Santos; Rui P. Carvalho; Sofia R. Costa. "Effects of protected areas on soil nematode communities in forests of the North of Portugal". Biodiversity and Conservation (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02732-6.
    10.1007/s10531-023-02732-6
  9. Fernando Mata; Meirielly Santos Jesus; Concha Cano-Díaz; Maria Dos-Santos. "European Citizens’ Worries and Self-Responsibility towards Climate Change". Sustainability (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/su15086862.
    10.3390/su15086862
  10. Antonio RUIZ-NAVARRO; Manuel DELGADO-BAQUERIZO; Concha CANO-D ÍAZ; Carlos GARC ÍA; Felipe BASTIDA. "Abiotic and biotic drivers of struvite solubilization in contrasting soils". Pedosphere (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedsph.2023.03.014.
    10.1016/j.pedsph.2023.03.014
  11. Concha Cano-Díaz; Fernando T. Maestre; Juntao Wang; Jing Li; Brajesh Singh; Victoria Ochoa; Beatriz Gozalo; Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo. "Effects of vegetation on soil cyanobacterial communities through time and space". New Phytologist (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17996.
    10.1111/nph.17996
  12. "Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces". Science Advances 7 28 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg5809.
    10.1126/sciadv.abg5809
  13. "Can Methane-Eating Bacteria in Drylands Help Us Reduce Greenhouse Gases?". Frontiers for Young Minds 9 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frym.2021.556361.
    10.3389/frym.2021.556361
  14. Concha Cano-Díaz; Fernando T. Maestre; David J. Eldridge; Brajesh K. Singh; Richard D. Bardgett; Noah Fierer; Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; Stephanie Kivlin. "Contrasting environmental preferences of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic soil cyanobacteria across the globe". Global Ecology and Biogeography (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13173.
    10.1111/geb.13173
  15. Marina Dacal; Pablo García-Palacios; Sergio Asensio; Concha Cano-Díaz; Beatriz Gozalo; Victoria Ochoa; Fernando T. Maestre. "Contrasting mechanisms underlie short- and longer-term soil respiration responses to experimental warming in a dryland ecosystem". Global Change Biology 26 9 (2020): 5254-5266. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15209.
    10.1111/gcb.15209
  16. Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; Carlos A. Guerra; Concha Cano-Díaz; Eleonora Egidi; Jun-Tao Wang; Nico Eisenhauer; Brajesh K. Singh; Fernando T. Maestre. "The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale". Nature Climate Change 10 6 (2020): 550-554. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0759-3.
    10.1038/s41558-020-0759-3
  17. Concha Cano-Díaz; Pilar Mateo; M. Ángeles Muñoz-Martín; Fernando T. Maestre. "Diversity of biocrust-forming cyanobacteria in a semiarid gypsiferous site from Central Spain". Journal of Arid Environments 151 (2018): 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.11.008.
    10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.11.008
Preprint
  1. Fernando Mata; Maria Dos-Santos; Concha Cano-Díaz; Meirielly Jesus; Manuela Vaz-Velho. "The society of Information and the European citizens’ perception of climate change: natural or anthropological causes". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3232201/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-3232201/v1
  2. "Vegetation structure determines cyanobacterial communities during soil development across global biomes". 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.11.459883.
    10.1101/2021.09.11.459883

Other

Dataset
  1. Concha Cano-Díaz. Data from "Mapping socio-environmental pressures to assess Portuguese soil vulnerability".
    10.6084/m9.figshare.22336795
  2. Concha Cano-Díaz. Table S1 from "Contrasting environmental preferences of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic soil cyanobacteria across the globe". 2022.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.12043017
  3. Concha Cano-Díaz. Data from "Effects of vegetation on soil cyanobacterial comunities through time and space". 2022.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.18857678
Other output
  1. Workshop online Soilrecon T1: Assessment of Socio-Environmental Pressures. 2025. Concha Cano-Díaz. https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Workshop_online_Soilrecon_T1_Assessment_of_Socio-Environmental_Pressures/28675877.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.28675877
  2. Ecological niche differentiation in soil cyanobacterial communities across the globe. 2019. Concha Cano-Díaz; Fernando T. Maestre; David J. Eldridge; Brajesh K. Singh; Richard D. Bardgett; Noah Fierer; Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo. https://doi.org/10.1101/531145.
    10.1101/531145
  3. Diversity of biocrust-forming cyanobacteria in a semiarid gypsiferous site from Central Spain. 2017. Concha Cano-Díaz; Pilar Mateo; M. Ángeles Muñoz; Fernando T. Maestre. https://doi.org/10.1101/136390.
    10.1101/136390
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/15 Mapeamento de pressões sócio-ambientais para a determinação da vulnerabilidade do solo em Portugal Seminário "Ecossistemas do solo para o século XXI"
Instituto Politecnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior Agraria (Refoios do Lima, Portugal)
2023/09/14 Unraveling the influence of exotic vs. native forests on ecosystem functionality through soil co-occurrence networks 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ) Institut für Ökologie, Technische Universität (Leipzig, Germany)
2022/07/05 Linking soil biodiversity, ecosystem function and socio-environmental pressures: a case study for the North of Portugal Ecology: Bettering our sustainable future through scientific knowledge
Iberian Ecological Society (SIBECOL), Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL), Portuguese Ecological Society (SPECO)) (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018/12/17 Ecological preferences of terrestrial cyanobacteria at the global scale British Ecological Society Annual Meeting
British Ecological Society (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2017/06/20 Diversidad de cianobacterias en costras biológicas de Aranjuez XXI Simposio de Botánica Criptogámica
Rey Juan Carlos University (Aranjuez, Spain)
2017/03/29 Diversidad morfológica y genética de Cianobacterias en costras biológicas de Aranjuez (España) Biodiversos Ecological Symposium 2017
Rey Juan Carlos University (Mostoles, Spain)
2016/09/25 Climate change interactions alter the abundance of cyanobacteria in a semiarid grassland BIOCRUST3 - 3rd iInternational Workshop on Biological Soil Crusts
Northern Arizona University (Moab, United States)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022 Organization of Meeting CISAS 2022 Sustainability in Bioecosystems. Webinar on land, soil and water management for a sustainable production (2022 - 2022)
2017/03/27 - 2017/03/29 Biodiversos Ecological Symposium 2017 (2017/03/27 - 2017/03/29)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018/10/15 - Current British Ecological Society
2016/11/16 - Current Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre