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Alex Fajardo

Alex Fajardo

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
7355
World Ranking
7086
National Ranking
8

Overview

Alex Fajardo is affiliated with the University of Talca in Chile and works primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

Their work covers a range of main topics, notably Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Management, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology.

Frequent publication venues for Alex Fajardo include Annals of Botany, Functional Ecology, Science, Global Change Biology, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

They have collaborated extensively with a number of coauthors, including J. Julio Camarero, Anja Linstädter, Juan P. Mora, Frida I. Piper, and David J. Eldridge.

Recent publications by Alex Fajardo feature titles such as:

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands (2022, Science)
  • Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates (2022, Science)
  • Xylem vessel-diameter-shoot-length scaling: ecological significance of porosity types and other traits (2020, Ecological Monographs)
  • Global fading of the temperature-growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • The Widened Pipe Model of plant hydraulic evolution (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Best Publications

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • Trait‐based tests of coexistence mechanisms

    Peter B. Adler;Alex Fajardo;Andrew R. Kleinhesselink;Nathan J. B. Kraft

  • Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns

    Eliot J. B. McIntire;Alex Fajardo

  • Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold

    Mark E. Olson;Diana Soriano;Julieta A. Rosell;Tommaso Anfodillo

  • Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

    Eliot J. B. McIntire;Eliot J. B. McIntire;Alex Fajardo

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

    Jordan R. Mayor;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Aimée T. Classen;Aimée T. Classen;Aimée T. Classen;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Isotopic evidence for oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems

    Joseph M. Craine;Andrew J. Elmore;Lixin Wang;Julieta Aranibar

  • Intraspecific trait variation and covariation in a widespread tree species (Nothofagus pumilio) in southern Chile.

    Alex Fajardo;Frida I. Piper

  • Under strong niche overlap conspecifics do not compete but help each other to survive: facilitation at the intraspecific level

    Alex Fajardo;Eliot J. B. McIntire

  • Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

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  • Intraspecific trait variation and the leaf economics spectrum across resource gradients and levels of organization.

    Alex Fajardo;Andrew Siefert

  • Foliar habit, tolerance to defoliation and their link to carbon and nitrogen storage

    Frida Ingrid Piper;Alex Fajardo

  • Spatial patterns of regeneration in managed uneven-aged ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests of Western Montana, USA

    Alex Fajardo;John M. Goodburn;Jonathan Graham

  • Phenological variation of leaf functional traits within species.

    Alex Fajardo;Andrew Siefert

  • Extreme defoliation reduces tree growth but not C and N storage in a winter-deciduous species

    Frida I. Piper;Michael J. Gundale;Alex Fajardo

  • Variation of mobile carbon reserves in trees at the alpine treeline ecotone is under environmental control

    Alex Fajardo;Frida I. Piper;Laura Pfund;Chiristian Körner

  • Winter conditions – not summer temperature – influence establishment of seedlings at white spruce alpine treeline in Eastern Quebec

    Sébastien M. Renard;Eliot J.B. McIntire;Eliot J.B. McIntire;Alex Fajardo

  • Xylem vessel-diameter–shoot-length scaling: ecological significance of porosity types and other traits

    Mark Olson;Julieta A. Rosell;Cecilia Martínez-Pérez;Calixto León-Gómez

  • When Short Stature Is an Asset in Trees.

    Alex Fajardo;Eliot J.B. McIntire;Mark E. Olson

  • Similar variation in carbon storage between deciduous and evergreen treeline species across elevational gradients.

    Alex Fajardo;Frida I. Piper;Günter Hoch

  • Browsing by guanaco (Lama guanicoe) on Nothofagus pumilio forest gaps in Tierra del Fuego, Chile

    Lohengrin A. Cavieres;Alex Fajardo

  • Single-provenance mature conifers show higher non-structural carbohydrate storage and reduced growth in a drier location.

    Frida I. Piper;Alex Fajardo;Günter Hoch

  • Data from: Isotopic evidence for oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems

    Joseph M. Craine;Andrew J. Elmore;Lixin Wang;Julieta Aranibar

Frequent Co-Authors

Lohengrin A. Cavieres
Lohengrin A. Cavieres University of Concepción
Michael J. Gundale
Michael J. Gundale Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Günter Hoch
Günter Hoch University of Basel
Aníbal Pauchard
Aníbal Pauchard University of Concepción
Antonio Gazol
Antonio Gazol Spanish National Research Council
Duane A. Peltzer
Duane A. Peltzer Landcare Research
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda University of Valladolid
Aimée T. Classen
Aimée T. Classen University of Vermont

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