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Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo

Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
34
Citations
4185
World Ranking
7655
National Ranking
280

Overview

Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has an extensive publication record primarily focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research extensively covers themes related to plant water relations, carbon dynamics, and forest ecology, with particular attention to tree-ring climate responses and ecological studies in Mediterranean and Iberian ecosystems.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Sensitivity to water stress drives differential decline and mortality dynamics of three co-occurring conifers with different drought tolerance, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Holm oak death is accelerated but not sudden and expresses drought legacies, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Contrasting species decline but high sensitivity to increasing water stress on a mixed pine-oak ecotone, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Pre- and post-drought conditions drive resilience of Pinus halepensis across its distribution range, 2023, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Frequently collaborating with several researchers, Gea-Izquierdo has coauthored numerous studies with colleagues such as Darío Martin-Benito, Ismael Aranda, Macarena Férriz, Isabel Cañellas, and María Conde. These collaborations support investigations across various ecosystems and plant physiological responses to environmental changes.

Their work has been published repeatedly in several scientific journals, indicating a sustained engagement in specific publication venues, including:

  • Global Change Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • European Journal of Forest Research
  • Ecosystems

The main fields of study encompass environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Within these fields, subfields of particular focus are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Plant Science
  • Ecological Modeling

Gea-Izquierdo's research topics reflect a concentration on:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

    Maxime Cailleret;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Lucía Desoto

  • Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees

    Lucía DeSoto;Lucía DeSoto;Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Frank Sterck;Steven Jansen

  • Early-warning signals of individual tree mortality based on annual radial growth

    Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Vasilis Dakos;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M.R. Robert;Elisabeth M.R. Robert

  • Forty years of silvicultural management in southern Nothofagus pumilio primary forests

    Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo;Guillermo Martínez Pastur;Juan Manuel Cellini;María Vanessa Lencinas

  • Xylem hydraulic adjustment and growth response of Quercus canariensis Willd. to climatic variability

    G. Gea-Izquierdo;P. Fonti;P. Cherubini;D. Martín-Benito;D. Martín-Benito

  • Climate-growth variability in Quercus ilex L. west Iberian open woodlands of different stand density

    Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo;Dario Martín-Benito;Paolo Cherubini;Isabel Cañellas

  • Acorn production in Spanish holm oak woodlands

    G. Gea-Izquierdo;I. Cañellas;G. Montero

  • Water potential control of turgor‐driven tracheid enlargement in Scots pine at its xeric distribution edge

    Antoine Cabon;Laura Fernández‐de‐Uña;Laura Fernández‐de‐Uña;Guillermo Gea‐Izquierdo;Frederick C. Meinzer

  • Tree-rings reflect the impact of climate change on Quercus ilex L. along a temperature gradient in Spain over the last 100 years

    G. Gea-Izquierdo;P. Cherubini;I. Cañellas

  • Changes in limiting resources determine spatio-temporal variability in tree-grass interactions

    G. Gea-Izquierdo;G. Montero;I. Cañellas

  • Drought induced decline could portend widespread pine mortality at the xeric ecotone in managed mediterranean pine-oak woodlands

    Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo;Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo;Bárbara Viguera;Miguel Cabrera;Isabel Cañellas

  • An approach to acorn production in Iberian dehesas

    I. Canellas;S. Roig;M. J. Poblaciones;G. Gea-Izquierdo

  • Disentangling the effect of competition, CO2 and climate on intrinsic water‐use efficiency and tree growth

    Laura Fernández‐de‐Uña;Nate G. McDowell;Isabel Cañellas;Guillermo Gea‐Izquierdo

  • Stand Competition Determines How Different Tree Species Will Cope with a Warming Climate

    Laura Fernández-de-Uña;Isabel Cañellas;Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo

  • Use of tree rings to study the effect of climate change on trembling aspen in Québec

    Marie-Pierre Lapointe-Garant;Jian-Guo Huang;Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo;Frédéric Raulier

  • Geographical adaptation prevails over species‐specific determinism in trees’ vulnerability to climate change at Mediterranean rear‐edge forests

    Isabel Dorado-Liñán;Isabel Dorado-Liñán;Isabel Dorado-Liñán;Gianluca Piovesan;Elisabet Martínez-Sancho;Elisabet Martínez-Sancho;Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo

  • Xylem and Leaf Functional Adjustments to Drought in Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica at Their Elevational Boundary

    Laura Fernández-de-Uña;Sergio Rossi;Sergio Rossi;Ismael Aranda;Patrick Fonti

  • Synergistic abiotic and biotic stressors explain widespread decline of Pinus pinaster in a mixed forest.

    Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo;Macarena Férriz;Sara García-Garrido;Olga Aguín

  • Process models and model-data fusion in dendroecology

    Joël Guiot;Etienne Boucher;Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo

  • The role of climate change in the widespread mortality of holm oak in open woodlands of Southwestern Spain

    Fabio Natalini;Reyes Alejano;Javier Vázquez-Piqué;Isabel Cañellas

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabel Cañellas
Isabel Cañellas Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Frank Berninger
Frank Berninger University of Eastern Finland
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Emilia Gutiérrez
Emilia Gutiérrez University of Barcelona
Paolo Cherubini
Paolo Cherubini Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Thomas Kitzberger
Thomas Kitzberger National University of Comahue
Volodymyr Trotsiuk
Volodymyr Trotsiuk Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Tzvetan Zlatanov
Tzvetan Zlatanov Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Annette Menzel
Annette Menzel Technical University of Munich
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta Autonomous University of Barcelona

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