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Ecology and Evolution
Spain
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
102
Citations
48590
World Ranking
249
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Fernando Valladares is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their main research subfields include Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

Key topics explored in their work cover Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant and Animal Studies, Tree Root and Stability Studies, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

The scientist has contributed to multiple papers published in notable venues including:

  • The GenTree Dendroecological Collection, tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • Global root traits (GRooT) database (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests (2022, Nature Communications)
  • The exploitative segregation of plant roots (2020, Science)

They have published repeatedly in significant journals such as Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Ecology, Forest Ecology and Management, Annals of Forest Science, and Preprints.org.

Collaboration has been an aspect of their career, with frequent coauthors including Raquel Benavides, Belén Acuña-Míguez, Cristina C. Bastías, Ciro Cabal, and Irene Martín-Forés.

Best Publications

  • Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

    Richard J. Hobbs;Salvatore Arico;James Aronson;Jill S. Baron

  • Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate

    A.B. Nicotra;O.K. Atkin;S.P. Bonser;A.M. Davidson

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

    Fernando Valladares;Ülo Niinemets

  • Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

    Fernando T. Maestre;Ragan M. Callaway;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Christopher J. Lortie

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Tolerance to shade, drought, and waterlogging of temperate northern hemisphere trees and shrubs

    Ülo Niinemets;Fernando Valladares

  • Ecological limits to plant phenotypic plasticity

    Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Ernesto Gianoli;José M. Gómez

  • The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

    Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Silvia Matesanz;Francois Guilhaumon;Francois Guilhaumon;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo

  • Quantitative estimation of phenotypic plasticity : bridging the gap between the evolutionary concept and its ecological applications

    Fernando Valladares;David Sanchez-Gomez;Miguel A. Zavala

  • Biodiversity Differences between Managed and Unmanaged Forests: Meta-Analysis of Species Richness in Europe

    Yoan Paillet;Laurent Bergès;Joakim HjÄltén;Péter Ódor

  • Plastic Phenotypic Response to Light of 16 Congeneric Shrubs From a Panamanian Rainforest

    Fernando Valladares;S. Joseph Wright;Eloisa Lasso;Kaoru Kitajima

  • Heat freezes niche evolution

    Miguel Araujo;Miguel Araujo;Miguel Araujo;Francisco Ferri-Yanez;Francisco Bozinovic;Pablo Marquet;Pablo Marquet

  • Is the change of plant–plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta‐analysis of field results in arid environments

    Fernando T. Maestre;Fernando Valladares;James F. Reynolds

  • Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

    Francisco Lloret;Adrian Escudero;José María Iriondo;Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta

  • Global change and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in plants

    Silvia Matesanz;Silvia Matesanz;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;Ernesto Gianoli;Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares

  • Interactions between water stress, sun-shade acclimation, heat tolerance and photoinhibition in the sclerophyll Heteromeles arbutifolia

    F. Valladares;R. W. Pearcy

  • Handbook of Functional Plant Ecology

    Francisco I. Pugnaire;Fernando Valladares

  • The GenTree Dendroecological Collection: tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe

    Elisabet Martínez-Sancho;Lenka Slámová;Sandro Morganti;Claudio Grefen

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Low leaf-level response to light and nutrients in Mediterranean evergreen oaks: a conservative resource-use strategy?

    Fernando Valladares;Elsa Martinez-Ferri;Luis Balaguer;Esther Perez-Corona

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrián Escudero
Adrián Escudero King Juan Carlos University
Ernesto Gianoli
Ernesto Gianoli Tarleton State University
Teresa E. Gimeno
Teresa E. Gimeno Basque Centre for Climate Change
Ismael Aranda
Ismael Aranda Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Bogdan Jaroszewicz
Bogdan Jaroszewicz University of Warsaw
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Miguel A. Zavala
Miguel A. Zavala University of Alcalá

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