This is the page of Jesús Julio (Chechu) Camarero Martínez team. I am a plant-forest ecologist and dendrochronologist working on growth , regeneration, dieback and mortality processes in woody plants and, particularly, in trees. We are a research group using dendrochronology, i.e. the study of tree rings in woody plants, to solve ecological questions. We are interested in deciphering the causes and consequences of drought-induced forest decline. We apply retrospective approaches for inferring how forests are responding to past and current global changes and to reconstruct past climate (dendroclimatology). We study cambial biology and xylogenesis to understand how trees form wood and how climate may affect the pace and pattern of xylem growth.
I work in the INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA (CSIC) as researcher.
January 1976
Zaragoza, Spain
Universidad de Zaragoza
Universidad de Barcelona
(introductory talk in Spanish).
Dept. Ecology, Univ. Barcelona (in Spanish).
Dept. Ecology, Univ. Barcelona (in Spanish).
A talk on the effects of global change of forests (in Spanish).
Consequences of forest decline for water use in trees.
This is an example on how declining Pyrenean silver fir forests are also decreasing their water use efficient (the water they use for uptaking carbon). Links to the comment (in Spanish) and to the paper.
A summary about our studies on treeline dynamics in the Pyrenees (in Spanish).
My life as dendrochronologist.
Something about the way dendrochronologists live and love science (in Spanish).
I was always interested on urban trees and how they withstand urban life (in Spanish).
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Xavier Serra Maluquer
He evaluated how growth resilience to drought depends on forest site conditions, climate and functional traits (co-supervised with Dr. Antonio Gazol Burgos).
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Cristina Valeriano Peñas
She is using tree rings and growth models to better understand how trees respond to climate (co-supervised with Dr. Raúl Sánchez Salguero).
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Jorge Albuixech
He studied the relationships between growth and masting in Mediterranean oak species (co-supervised with Dr. Gabriel Montserrat-Martí).
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Arben Q. Alla
He compared primary and secondary growth in Mediterranean oak species (co-supervised with Dr. Gabriel Montserrat-Martí).
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Edmond Pasho
He quantified the effects of drought on vegetation activity and radial growth (co-supervised with Dr. Sergio Vicente-Serrano).
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J. Diego Galván
He analyzed how climate change affects growth in Pinus uncinata high-elevation forests and how this affects tree-ring proxies (co-supervised with Dr. Emilia Gutiérrez).
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Hooz Angela Mendivelso
She analyed growth dynamics and demography in a tropical dry forest (co-supervised with Dr. Pieter Zuidema).
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Gabriel Sangüesa Barreda
He studied how biotic stressors (mistletoe, defoliators, beetles) drive tree growth and function (co-supervised with Dr. Juan Carlos Linares).
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Gabriel Sangüesa Barreda
Studies how biotic stressors (mistletoe, defoliators, beetles) drive tree growth and function (co-supervised with Dr. J. Carlos Linares).
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Hooz Angela Mendivelso
Is analyzing growth dynamics and demography in a tropical dry forest (co-supervised with Dr. Pieter Zuidema).
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Xavier Serra Maluquer
Evaluated how growth resilience to drought depends on forest site conditions, climate and functional traits.
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Jorge Albuixech
Studied the relationships between growth and masting in Mediterranean oak species (co-supervised with Dr. Gabriel Montserrat-Martí).
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Arben Q. Alla
Worked on primary and secondary growth in Mediterranean oak species (co-supervised with Dr. Gabriel Montserrat-Martí).
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Edmond Pasho
Quantified the effects of drought on vegetation activity and radial growth (co-supervised with Dr. Sergio Vicente-Serrano).
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J. Diego Galván
Analyzed how climate change affects growth in Pinus uncinata high-elevation forests and how this affects tree-ring proxies (co-supervised with Dr. Emilia Gutiérrez).
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