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Imma Oliveras is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change. Their research spans a range of subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics of their work focus on ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, fire effects on ecosystems, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and management, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, as well as species distribution and climate change.

Oliveras has contributed to several recent papers notable for their topics and publication venues:

  • "Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress" (2022, Nature)
  • "Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds" (2023, Nature)
  • "Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics" (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • "Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective" (2021, Environmental Research Letters)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Yadvinder Malhi
  • Ben Hur Marimon
  • Stephen Adu-Bredu
  • Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
  • Sami W. Rifai

Oliveras has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Journal of Ecology, Biotropica, and Global Change Biology. These outlets suggest an engagement with both pre-publication platforms and prominent journals within ecology and environmental science.

Topics addressed in their work regularly intersect with broad concerns in environmental science, focusing on the dynamics of tropical forests, impacts of climate change, drought effects on ecosystems, and carbon cycling. Their studies cover both empirical observations and modeling approaches to better understand ecosystem functioning, resilience, and responses to environmental stressors.

Best Publications

  • Xylem hydraulic properties of roots and stems of nine Mediterranean woody species

    Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Ester Prat;Imma Oliveras;Josep Piñol

  • Many shades of green: the dynamic tropical forest-savannah transition zones.

    Immaculada Oliveras;Yadvinder Malhi

  • Effect of fires on soil nutrient availability in an open savanna in Central Brazil

    Vânia Regina Pivello;Imma Oliveras;Heloísa Sinátora Miranda;Mundayatan Haridasan

  • Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity.

    Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Yadvinder Malhi;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Sophie Fauset

  • Hydraulic properties of Pinus halepensis, Pinus pinea and Tetraclinis articulata in a dune ecosystem of Eastern Spain

    Imma Oliveras;Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Teresa Jimenez-Ortiz;Maria José Lledó

  • Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought

    Jesus Aguirre-Gutierrez;Jesus Aguirre-Gutierrez;Imma Oliveras;Sami Rifai;Sophie Fauset

  • Extensive 21st-Century Woody Encroachment in South America's Savanna

    Thais M. Rosan;Luiz E.O.C. Aragão;Imma Oliveras;Oliver L. Phillips

  • The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics

    Yadvinder Malhi;Cécile Girardin;Daniel B. Metcalfe;Christopher E. Doughty

  • Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective

    Sandy P Harrison;Iain Colin Prentice;Keith J Bloomfield;Ning Dong

  • Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data

    Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez;Sami Rifai;Alexander Shenkin;Imma Oliveras

  • Factors influencing the pattern of fire severities in a large wildfire under extreme meteorological conditions in the Mediterranean basin

    Imma Oliveras;Marc Gracia;Gerard Moré;Javier Retana

  • On the relationship between fire regime and vegetation structure in the tropics

    Elmar M. Veenendaal;Mireia Torello‐Raventos;Heloisa S. Miranda;Naomi Margarete Sato

  • Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean cloud montane forest: The importance of peat soils and tree resprouting

    R.M. Román-Cuesta;N. Salinas;H. Asbjornsen;I. Oliveras

  • Grass Species Flammability, Not Biomass, Drives Changes in Fire Behavior at Tropical Forest-Savanna Transitions

    Anabelle W Cardoso;Imma Oliveras;Katharine A Abernethy;Kathryn J Jeffery

  • Effects of fire regimes on herbaceous biomass and nutrient dynamics in the Brazilian savanna

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  • ENSO Drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics

    Sami W. Rifai;Cécile A. J. Girardin;Erika Berenguer;Erika Berenguer;Jhon del Aguila-Pasquel

  • Application of remote sensing to understanding fire regimes and biomass burning emissions of the tropical Andes

    Immaculada Oliveras;Immaculada Oliveras;Liana O. Anderson;Liana O. Anderson;Yadvinder Malhi

  • Diversity of functional trade‐offs enhances survival after fire in Neotropical savanna species

    Marina Corrêa Scalon;Fabricius Maia Chaves Bicalho Domingos;Wesley Jonatar Alves da Cruz;Ben Hur Marimon Júnior

  • Forest biomass, productivity and carbon cycling along a rainfall gradient in West Africa

    Sam Moore;Stephen Adu-Bredu;Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi;Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi;Shalom D Addo-Danso;Shalom D Addo-Danso

  • On the importance of root traits in seedlings of tropical tree species

    Coline C.F. Boonman;Coline C.F. Boonman;Frank van Langevelde;Frank van Langevelde;Imma Oliveras;Jeremy Couédon

  • Medium-term sap flux monitoring in a Scots pine stand: analysis of the operability of the heat dissipation method for hydrological purposes.

    Imma Oliveras;Pilar Llorens

  • Winners and losers: tropical forest tree seedling survival across a West African forest-savanna transition.

    Anabelle W. Cardoso;José A. Medina‐Vega;Yadvinder Malhi;Stephen Adu‐Bredu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon
Beatriz Schwantes Marimon Mato Grosso State University
Norma Salinas
Norma Salinas Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Katharine Abernethy
Katharine Abernethy University of Stirling
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Alexander Shenkin
Alexander Shenkin Northern Arizona University
Miles R. Silman
Miles R. Silman Wake Forest University

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