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Antonio Gazol is a researcher affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their scientific contributions primarily focus on environmental and earth sciences, addressing key issues related to climate impacts on forest ecosystems and plant responses to drought and water availability.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable subfield expertise in Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The researcher's work extensively covers topics such as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Forest Ecology and Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Horticultural and Viticultural Research.

Among their frequent co-authors are J. Julio Camarero, Cristina Valeriano, Michele Colangelo, Éster González de Andrés, and Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, indicating active collaboration within their scientific network.

Antonio Gazol's publications often appear in venues such as Forests, Forest Ecology and Management, The Science of The Total Environment, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, and Global Change Biology.

Representative papers authored or co-authored by this researcher include:

  • Compound climate events increase tree drought mortality across European forests (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability (2020), Journal of Ecology

Other significant recent works related to similar research fields but authored by collaborators include:

  • Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems (2023), Nature Climate Change
  • Climate sensitivity and drought seasonality determine post-drought growth recovery of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur in Europe (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species' growth response to drought across biomes (2022), Global Change Biology

This body of work contributes to a deeper understanding of how changing climatic conditions influence forest dynamics, tree mortality, and recovery patterns, emphasizing drought and water stress factors.

Best Publications

  • To die or not to die: early warnings of tree dieback in response to a severe drought

    J. Julio Camarero;J. Julio Camarero;Antonio Gazol;Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda;Jonàs Oliva

  • Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

    Antonio Gazol;Jesus Julio Camarero;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero

  • Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold

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

  • Impacts of droughts on the growth resilience of Northern Hemisphere forests

    A. Gazol;J. J. Camarero;W. R. L. Anderegg;W. R. L. Anderegg;S. M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Compound climate events increase tree drought mortality across European forests.

    Antonio Gazol;J. Julio Camarero

  • Diverse relationships between forest growth and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index at a global scale

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;J. Julio Camarero;José M. Olano;Natalia Martín-Hernández

  • Distinct effects of climate warming on populations of silver fir (Abies alba) across Europe

    Antonio Gazol;J. Julio Camarero;Emilia Gutiérrez;Ionel Popa

  • Assessing forest vulnerability to climate warming using a process-based model of tree growth: bad prospects for rear-edges.

    Raúl Sánchez-Salguero;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero;Jesus Julio Camarero;Emilia Gutiérrez;Fidel González Rouco

  • Forest Growth Responses to Drought at Short- and Long-Term Scales in Spain: Squeezing the Stress Memory from Tree Rings

    J. Julio Camarero;Antonio Gazol;Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda;Alejandro Cantero

  • Functional diversity enhances silver fir growth resilience to an extreme drought

    Antonio Gazol;J. Julio Camarero

  • Wood anatomy and carbon-isotope discrimination support long-term hydraulic deterioration as a major cause of drought-induced dieback.

    Elena Pellizzari;J. Julio Camarero;Antonio Gazol;Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda

  • Climate sensitivity and drought seasonality determine post-drought growth recovery of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur in Europe.

    Arun K. Bose;Daniel Scherrer;J. Julio Camarero;Daniel Ziche

  • Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances

    Zuoqiang Yuan;Shaopeng Wang;Arshad Ali;Antonio Gazol

  • Aleppo pine forests from across Spain show drought-induced growth decline and partial recovery

    Antonio Gazol;Montserrat Ribas;Emilia Gutiérrez;J. Julio Camarero

  • Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species’ growth response to drought across biomes

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  • Resist, recover or both? Growth plasticity in response to drought is geographically structured and linked to intraspecific variability in Pinus pinaster.

    Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero;Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero;J. Julio Camarero;Vicente Rozas;Mar Génova

  • Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability

    Antonio Gazol;Jesús Julio Camarero;Raul Sánchez-Salguero;Raul Sánchez-Salguero;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Soil nutrient content influences the abundance of soil microbes but not plant biomass at the small-scale.

    Kadri Koorem;Antonio Gazol;Maarja Öpik;Mari Moora

  • Disparate effects of global‐change drivers on mountain conifer forests: warming‐induced growth enhancement in young trees vs. CO2 fertilization in old trees from wet sites

    J. Julio Camarero;Antonio Gazol;Juan Diego Galván;Gabriel Sangüesa‐Barreda

  • Attributing forest responses to global-change drivers: Limited evidence of a CO2-fertilization effect in Iberian pine growth

    J. Julio Camarero;Antonio Gazol;Jacques C. Tardif

  • Past logging, drought and pathogens interact and contribute to forest dieback

    Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda;J. Julio Camarero;Jonàs Oliva;Fernando Montes

  • Size Matters a Lot: Drought-Affected Italian Oaks Are Smaller and Show Lower Growth Prior to Tree Death

    Michele Colangelo;Jesús J. Camarero;Marco Borghetti;Antonio Gazol

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda University of Valladolid
Raúl Sánchez-Salguero
Raúl Sánchez-Salguero Pablo de Olavide University
Emilia Gutiérrez
Emilia Gutiérrez University of Barcelona
Juan Carlos Linares
Juan Carlos Linares Pablo de Olavide University
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council
Zhanqing Hao
Zhanqing Hao Northwestern Polytechnical University
Xugao Wang
Xugao Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
José Miguel Olano
José Miguel Olano University of Valladolid
Martin de Luis
Martin de Luis University of Zaragoza

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