José Manjón-Cabeza Córdoba

Post-doctoral researcher

José Manjón-Cabeza Córdoba is a Doctor in Forest and Natural Environment Management by the University of Lleida since February 2025. My thesis focused on intra and inter-ecosystems patterns of soil microbial diversity. Currently studying dynamics and multifunctionality in grasslands from the North-East Pyrenees. After completing the degree of Biology in the University of Granada in 2015 he was involved with the Vegetal Protection Department in the EEZ-CSIC in Granada while doing the Master in Advances in Agricultural Biology and Aquaculture. His main quest was to understand how different actions toward the landscape could affect conservation biological control. José Manjón’s research involves plant-soil interactions, the so called “Fairy Rings”, ecosystem services in grasslands and how diversity affects them and the effect of different managements in grasslands services.

Selected Publications

Chowdhury, S., Manjón-Cabeza, J., Ibáñez, M., Mestre, C., Broncano, M. J., Mosquera-Losada, M. R., Plaixats, J., & Sebastià, M.-T. (2022). Responses in Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Fractionation after Prescribed Burning in the Montseny Biosphere Reserve (NE Iberian Peninsula). Sustainability, 14(7), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074232

Ibáñez, M., Manjón-Cabeza, J., Chowdhury, S., Broncano, M. J., Plaixats, J., Canals, R. M., & Sebastià, M.-T. (2025). Prescribed burning modifies soil fertility and microbial biomass mediated by vegetation in Mediterranean mountain rangelands. Plant and Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07441-3

Manjón-Cabeza, J., Aljazairi, S., Serrano-Ortiz, P., Chocarro, C., Agea-Plaza, D., Fossas, A., Echevarría-Martin, E., Ibáñez, M., Sánchez-Cañete, E. P., Ferrer, A., & Sebastià, M.-T. (2025). IBERALP database: Ecological functioning of the Mountain National Parks of Iberian Peninsula. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15081973

Marí, T., Manjón-Cabeza, J., Rodríguez, A., San Emeterio, L., Ibáñez, M., & Sebastià, M.-T. (2025). Changes in the Soil Bacterial Community Across Fairy Rings in Grasslands Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding. Diversity, 17(5), 322. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17050322

Plata, Á., Manjón-Cabeza, J., & Paredes, D. (2025). Landscape heterogeneity and a competing herbivore reduce olive fruit infestation by the pest Prays oleae. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 379, 109326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.109326