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39

Overview

Javier Retana is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and focuses their research on Environmental Science, with particular attention to Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work covers several key topics in environmental and ecological studies, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies

Recent publications by Javier Retana include:

  • Characterizing forest vulnerability and risk to climate-change hazards, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Fire-induced loss of the world's most biodiverse forests in Latin America, 2021, Science Advances
  • Assessing the Risk of Losing Forest Ecosystem Services Due to Wildfires, 2021, Ecosystems
  • Low forest productivity associated with increasing drought-tolerant species is compensated by an increase in drought-tolerance richness, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • The role of environmental vs. biotic filtering in the structure of European ant communities: A matter of trait type and spatial scale, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators include Jordi Vayreda, Dolors Armenteras, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, Judit Lecina-Diaz, and Albert Alvarez. Their collaboration counts range from three to nine joint works reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

The scientist has published in a variety of journals, including:

  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Science Advances
  • Ecosystems
  • Global Change Biology
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Changes in precipitation and temperature extremes in Central America and northern South America, 1961–2003

    E. Aguilar;T. C. Peterson;P. Ramírez Obando;R. Frutos

  • A new look at water transport regulation in plants

    Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Rafael Poyatos;David Aguadé;Javier Retana

  • Post‐fire recovery of ant communities in Submediterranean Pinus nigra forests

    Anselm Rodrigo;Javier Retana

  • Direct regeneration is not the only response of mediterranean forests to large fires

    Anselm Rodrigo;Javier Retana;F. Xavier Picó

  • Critical thermal limits in Mediterranean ant species: trade‐off between mortality risk and foraging performance

    Xim Cerdá;Javier Retana;S. Cros

  • Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness

    Robert R. Dunn;Donat Agosti;Alan N. Andersen;Xavier Arnan;Xavier Arnan

  • Thermal disruption of transitive hierarchies in Mediterranean ant communities

    Xim Cerda;Javier Retana;Sebastia Cros

  • The role of competition by dominants and temperature in the foraging of subordinate species in Mediterranean ant communities.

    Xim Cerdá;Javier Retana;Antonio J. Manzaneda

  • Understanding deforestation in montane and lowland forests of the Colombian Andes

    Dolors Armenteras;Nelly Rodríguez;Javier Retana;Mónica Morales

  • Patterns of diversity and composition of Mediterranean ground ant communities tracking spatial and temporal variability in the thermal environment

    Javier Retana;Xim Cerdá

  • Constraints and trade-offs in Mediterranean plant communities: the case of holm oak-Aleppo pine forests.

    M. A. Zavala;J. M. Espelta;Javier Retana

  • Flowering phenology, floral traits and pollinator composition in a herbaceous Mediterranean plant community

    Jordi Bosch;Javier Retana;Xim Cerdá

  • Deforestation dynamics and drivers in different forest types in Latin America: Three decades of studies (1980–2010)

    Dolors Armenteras;Josep María Espelta;Nelly Rodríguez;Javier Retana

  • National and regional determinants of tropical deforestation in Colombia

    Dolors Armenteras;Edersson Cabrera;Nelly Rodríguez;Nelly Rodríguez;Javier Retana

  • Regeneration patterns of three Mediterranean pines and forest changes after a large wildfire in northeastern Spain

    Javier Retana;Josep Maria Espelta;Abdessamad Habrouk;Jose Luis OrdoÑEz

  • GlobalAnts: a new database on the geography of ant traits (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Catherine L. Parr;Catherine L. Parr;Robert R. Dunn;Nathan J. Sanders;Michael D. Weiser

  • Seed germination and seedling performance of two Mediterranean tree species, holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) and Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.): a multifactor experimental approach

    Maria José Broncano;Miquel Riba;Javier Retana

  • Recent climate changes interact with stand structure and management to determine changes in tree carbon stocks in Spanish forests

    Jordi Vayreda;Jordi Martinez‐Vilalta;Jordi Martinez‐Vilalta;Marc Gracia;Javier Retana

  • MASTING MEDIATED BY SUMMER DROUGHT REDUCES ACORN PREDATION IN MEDITERRANEAN OAK FORESTS

    Josep Maria Espelta;Pilar Cortés;Roberto Molowny-Horas;Belén Sánchez-Humanes

  • Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species

    Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Maurizio Mencuccini;Jordi Vayreda;Javier Retana

  • Reassessing global change research priorities in mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems: how far have we come and where do we go from here?

    E. Doblas-Miranda;J. Martínez-Vilalta;F. Lloret;A. Álvarez

  • Spatial and temporal variations in the activity patterns of Mediterranean ant communities

    Sebastià Cros;Xim Cerdá;Javier Retana

Frequent Co-Authors

Xim Cerdá
Xim Cerdá Spanish National Research Council
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta Autonomous University of Barcelona
Anselm Rodrigo
Anselm Rodrigo Autonomous University of Barcelona
Josep Maria Espelta
Josep Maria Espelta Autonomous University of Barcelona
Dolors Armenteras
Dolors Armenteras National University of Colombia
Jordi Bosch
Jordi Bosch Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
Catherine L. Parr
Catherine L. Parr University of Liverpool
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Nathan J. Sanders
Nathan J. Sanders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Heloise Gibb
Heloise Gibb La Trobe University

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