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Overview

Jofre Carnicer is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research focuses on a range of ecological and environmental topics. Key areas of investigation include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Carnicer has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, notable examples include:

  • Global warming is shifting the relationships between fire weather and realized fire-induced CO2 emissions in Europe, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Forest resilience to global warming is strongly modulated by local-scale topographic, microclimatic and biotic conditions, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations correlate with declining nutritional status of European forests, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Global maps of soil temperature, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography, 2024, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Frequent collaborators in their research include Maria Vives-Ingla, Santiago Sabaté, Adrià Barbeta, Diego G. Miralles, and Leire Mendiola. These coauthors have contributed alongside Carnicer on numerous projects, reflecting a collaborative research environment.

Their research outputs are often published in journals and venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports. The volume of publications in these journals highlights consistent contributions to environmental and ecological sciences.

Jofre Carnicer's work integrates multiple disciplines to address complex environmental challenges, studying how factors like microclimate, topography, and biotic conditions influence forest resilience and ecosystem dynamics under changing climatic conditions.

Best Publications

  • Widespread crown condition decline, food web disruption, and amplified tree mortality with increased climate change-type drought

    Jofre Carnicer;Marta Coll;Miquel Ninyerola;Xavier Pons

  • Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

    Josep Penuelas;Jordi Sardans;Marc Estiarte;Roma Ogaya

  • Shifting from a fertilization-dominated to a warming-dominated period

    Josep Peñuelas;Philippe Ciais;Josep G. Canadell;Ivan A. Janssens

  • Contrasting trait syndromes in angiosperms and conifers are associated with different responses of tree growth to temperature on a large scale.

    Jofre Carnicer;Adrià Barbeta;Dominik Sperlich;Dominik Sperlich;Marta Coll

  • Faster returns on 'leaf economics' and different biogeochemical niche in invasive compared with native plant species.

    Josep Penuelas;Jordi Sardans;Joan Llusià;Susan M. Owen

  • Multi‐generational long‐distance migration of insects: studying the painted lady butterfly in the Western Palaearctic

    Constantí Stefanescu;Ferran Páramo;Susanne Åkesson;Marta Alarcón

  • Impacts of Global Change on Mediterranean Forests and Their Services

    Josep Peñuelas;Jordi Sardans;Iolanda Filella;Marc Estiarte

  • Determinants of species richness in generalist and specialist Mediterranean butterflies: the negative synergistic forces of climate and habitat change

    Constantino Stefanescu;Jofre Carnicer;Josep Peñuelas

  • The temporal dynamics of resource use by frugivorous birds: a network approach

    Jofre Carnicer;Jofre Carnicer;Pedro Jordano;Carlos J. Melián

  • Foliar elemental composition of European forest tree species associated with evolutionary traits and present environmental and competitive conditions

    Jordi Sardans;Ivan A. Janssens;Rocio Alonso;Stavros D. Veresoglou

  • Assessment of the impacts of climate change on Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems based on data from field experiments and long-term monitored field gradients in Catalonia

    Josep Peñuelas;Jordi Sardans;Iolanda Filella;Marc Estiarte

  • Foliar and soil concentrations and stoichiometry of nitrogen and phosphorous across European Pinus sylvestris forests: relationships with climate, N deposition and tree growth

    Jordi Sardans;Rocio Alonso;Ivan A. Janssens;Jofre Carnicer

  • Large-scale recruitment limitation in Mediterranean pines: the role of Quercus ilex and forest successional advance as key regional drivers

    Jofre Carnicer;Jofre Carnicer;Marta Coll;Xavier Pons;Miquel Ninyerola

  • Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations correlate with declining nutritional status of European forests.

    Josep Penuelas;Marcos Fernández-Martínez;Helena Vallicrosa;Joan Maspons

  • Factors influencing the foliar elemental composition and stoichiometry in forest trees in Spain

    J. Sardans;R. Alonso;J. Carnicer;M. Fernández-Martínez

  • The condition of forests in Europe. 2012 executive report

    R. Fischer;P. Waldner;J. Carnicer;M. Coll

  • Global biodiversity, stoichiometry and ecosystem function responses to human-induced C-N-P imbalances.

    Jofre Carnicer;Jofre Carnicer;Jordi Sardans;Constantí Stefanescu;Andreu Ubach

  • Multivariate effect gradients driving forest demographic responses in the Iberian Peninsula

    Marta Coll;Josep Peñuelas;Miquel Ninyerola;Xavier Pons

  • A regionally informed abundance index for supporting integrative analyses across butterfly monitoring schemes

    Reto Schmucki;Guy Pe'er;David B. Roy;Constantí Stefanescu

  • A unified framework for diversity gradients: the adaptive trait continuum

    Jofre Carnicer;Constantino Stefanescu;Roger Vila;Vlad Dincă

  • Mediterranean pines: the role of Quercus ilex and forest successional advance as key regional drivers

    Jofre Carnicer;Marta Coll;Xavier Pons;Miquel Ninyerola

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Jordi Sardans
Jordi Sardans Spanish National Research Council
Marta Coll
Marta Coll Spanish National Research Council
Constantí Stefanescu
Constantí Stefanescu Autonomous University of Barcelona
Joan Llusià
Joan Llusià Autonomous University of Barcelona
Marc Estiarte
Marc Estiarte Spanish National Research Council
Romà Ogaya
Romà Ogaya Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
Lluís Brotons
Lluís Brotons Spanish National Research Council
Xavier Pons
Xavier Pons Autonomous University of Barcelona
Iolanda Filella
Iolanda Filella Autonomous University of Barcelona

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