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Overview

Isabel Cañellas is affiliated with the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable work in global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, insect science, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering.

Their research extensively covers topics related to forest ecology and management, forest management and policy, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent coauthors include Icíar Alberdi, Daniel Moreno-Fernández, Patricia Adame, Laura Hernández, and Fernando Montes.

Isabel Cañellas has contributed to several publication venues, with multiple publications particularly in Forest Ecology and Management, Annals of Forest Science, Forests, The Science of The Total Environment, and Ecological Indicators.

Recent papers highlight diverse aspects of forest dynamics and management under environmental stressors. These papers include:

  • Sensitivity to water stress drives differential decline and mortality dynamics of three co-occurring conifers with different drought tolerance (2021, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Poplar Short Rotation Coppice Plantations under Mediterranean Conditions: The Case of Spain (2020, Forests)
  • Contrasting species decline but high sensitivity to increasing water stress on a mixed pine-oak ecotone (2020, Journal of Ecology)
  • Co-production of soluble sugars and lignin from short rotation white poplar and black locust crops (2020, Wood Science and Technology)
  • Influence of climate and thinning on Quercus pyrenaica Willd. coppices growth dynamics (2020, European Journal of Forest Research)

Best Publications

  • Growth response to climate and drought in Pinus nigra Arn. trees of different crown classes

    Darío Martín-Benito;Paolo Cherubini;Miren del Río;Isabel Cañellas

  • Revisión: Índices de diversidad estructural en masas forestales

    M. del Rio;G. Montero;F. Montes;I. Cañellas

  • Response of climate-growth relationships and water use efficiency to thinning in a Pinus nigra afforestation

    Darío Martín-Benito;Miren Del Río;Ingo Heinrich;Gerhard Helle

  • Influence of drought on tree rings and tracheid features of Pinus nigra and Pinus sylvestris in a mesic Mediterranean forest

    Dario Martin-Benito;Hans Beeckman;Isabel Cañellas

  • Growth response to thinning in Quercus pyrenaica Willd. coppice stands in Spanish central mountain

    Isabel Cañellas;Miren Del Río;Sonia Roig;Gregorio Montero

  • Growth and yield models for teak plantations in Costa Rica

    Ivan Bermejo;Isabel Cañellas;Alfonso San Miguel

  • A mixed nonlinear height-diameter model for pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica Willd.)

    Patricia Adame;Miren del Río;Isabel Cañellas

  • Litter fall in Mediterranean Pinus pinaster Ait. stands under different thinning regimes

    Sonia Roig;Miren del Río;Isabel Cañellas;Gregorio Montero

  • Individual-tree diameter growth model for rebollo oak (Quercus pyrenaica Willd.) coppices

    Patricia Adame;Jari Hynynen;Isabel Cañellas;Miren del Río

  • Growth responses of West-Mediterranean Pinus nigra to climate change are modulated by competition and productivity: Past trends and future perspectives

    Dario Martin-Benito;Dario Martin-Benito;Vincent Kint;Miren del Río;Bart Muys

  • 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

  • Thinning intensity and growth response in SW-European Scots pine stands

    Miren del Río;Rafael Calama;Isabel Cañellas;Sonia Roig

  • Black pine (Pinus nigra Arn.) growth divergence along a latitudinal gradient in Western Mediterranean mountains

    Darío Martín-Benito;Miren del Río;Isabel Cañellas

  • 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

  • Using historic management records to characterize the effects of management on the structural diversity of forests

    Fernando Montes;Mariola Sánchez;Miren del Río;Isabel Cañellas

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo
Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo Spanish National Research Council
Miren del Río
Miren del Río University of Valladolid
Gregorio Montero
Gregorio Montero Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Felipe Bravo
Felipe Bravo University of Valladolid
Ismael Aranda
Ismael Aranda Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Margarida Tomé
Margarida Tomé University of Lisbon
Francisco Rego
Francisco Rego University of Lisbon
Patrick Fonti
Patrick Fonti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Luis Gil
Luis Gil Technical University of Madrid
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado Spanish National Research Council

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