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Jordi Voltas is affiliated with the University of Lleida in Spain. The scientist's research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with a notable concentration in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Jordi Voltas illustrate the scope of the research interests:

  • Variation in the access to deep soil water pools explains tree-to-tree differences in drought-triggered dieback of Mediterranean oaks, 2020, Tree Physiology
  • Intraspecific responses to climate reveal nonintuitive warming impacts on a widespread thermophilic conifer, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Reconstructing Bronze Age diets and farming strategies at the early Bronze Age sites of La Bastida and Gatas (southeast Iberia) using stable isotope analysis, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Hydraulic and photosynthetic limitations prevail over root non-structural carbohydrate reserves as drivers of resprouting in two Mediterranean oaks, 2020, Plant Cell & Environment
  • Pre- and post-drought conditions drive resilience of Pinus halepensis across its distribution range, 2023, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Frequent co-authors in Jordi Voltas's research include:

  • Víctor Resco de Dios
  • Tatiana A. Shestakova
  • Juan Pedro Ferrio
  • J. Julio Camarero
  • Rafael Zas

The scientist's publications have appeared repeatedly in specific venues, indicating established engagement with these journals:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Plant and Soil
  • Tree Physiology
  • New Phytologist
  • Plant Cell & Environment

Best Publications

  • The combined effects of a long-term experimental drought and an extreme drought on the use of plant-water sources in a Mediterranean forest.

    Adrià Barbeta;Monica Mejía‐Chang;Romà Ogaya;Jordi Voltas

  • Chlorophyll fluorescence as a selection criterion for grain yield in durum wheat under Mediterranean conditions.

    J.L. Araus;T. Amaro;J. Voltas;H. Nakkoul

  • Δ 13 C and tree-ring width reflect different drought responses in Quercus ilex and Pinus halepensis

    J. P. Ferrio;A. Florit;A. Vega;L. Serrano

  • Water management practices and climate in ancient agriculture: inferences from the stable isotope composition of archaeobotanical remains

    Juan P. Ferrio;José Luis Araus;Ramon Buxó;Jordi Voltas

  • Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in wood constituents of Pinus halepensis as indicators of precipitation, temperature and vapour pressure deficit

    J. P. Ferrio;J. Voltas

  • Forests synchronize their growth in contrasting Eurasian regions in response to climate warming

    Tatiana A. Shestakova;Emilia Gutiérrez;Alexander V. Kirdyanov;Alexander V. Kirdyanov;Jesús Julio Camarero

  • Identification of Ancient Irrigation Practices based on the Carbon Isotope Discrimination of Plant Seeds: a Case Study from the South-East Iberian Peninsula

    José Luis Araus;Anna Febrero;Ramon Buxó;Maria Oliva Rodrı́guez-Ariza

  • Isotope-ratio infrared spectroscopy: a reliable tool for the investigation of plant-water sources?

    Paula Martín‐Gómez;Adrià Barbeta;Jordi Voltas;Josep Peñuelas

  • Mixed models including environmental covariables for studying QTL by environment interaction

    M. Malosetti;J. Voltas;I. Romagosa;S.E. Ullrich

  • Intraspecific variation in the use of water sources by the circum‐Mediterranean conifer Pinus halepensis

    Jordi Voltas;Devon Lucabaugh;Maria Regina Chambel;Juan Pedro Ferrio

  • The historical perspective of dryland agriculture: lessons learned from 10,000 years of wheat cultivation.

    JL Araus;JP Ferrio;R Buxó;J Voltas

  • Genotype by environment interaction for grain yield and carbon isotope discrimination of barley in Mediterranean Spain

    J. Voltas;I. Romagosa;A. Lafarga;A. P. Armesto

  • Combined use of δ13C, δ18O and δ15N tracks nitrogen metabolism and genotypic adaptation of durum wheat to salinity and water deficit

    Salima Yousfi;Maria Dolores Serret;Antonio José Márquez;Jordi Voltas

  • A retrospective, dual-isotope approach reveals individual predispositions to winter-drought induced tree dieback in the southernmost distribution limit of Scots pine

    Jordi Voltas;Jesús Julio Camarero;David Carulla;Mònica Aguilera

  • Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes and quality traits of fossil cereal grains provide clues on sustainability at the beginnings of Mediterranean agriculture

    Mònica Aguilera;José Luis Araus;Jordi Voltas;Maria Oliva Rodríguez-Ariza

  • Genetic and environmental variation in malting and feed quality of barley

    J.-L. Molina-Cano;M. Francesch;A.M. Perez-Vendrell;T. Ramo

  • Crop water availability in early agriculture: evidence from carbon isotope discrimination of seeds from a tenth millennium BP site on the Euphrates

    J. L. Araus;A. Febrero;M. Catala;M. Molist

  • Climate-related variability in carbon and oxygen stable isotopes among populations of Aleppo pine grown in common-garden tests

    Jordi Voltas;María Regina Chambel;María Aránzazu Prada;Juan Pedro Ferrio;Juan Pedro Ferrio

  • Effect of salinity and water stress during the reproductive stage on growth, ion concentrations, Δ13C, and δ15N of durum wheat and related amphiploids

    Salima Yousfi;Maria Dolores Serret;Jordi Voltas;José Luis Araus;José Luis Araus

  • From xylogenesis to tree rings: wood traits to investigate tree response to environmental changes

    Veronica De Micco;Marco Carrer;Cyrille B.K. Rathgeber;J. Julio Camarero

  • INTEGRATING STATISTICAL AND ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF GENOTYPE BY ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION FOR GRAIN FILLING OF BARLEY. I. INDIVIDUAL GRAIN WEIGHT

    J. Voltas;F.A. van Eeuwijk;A. Sombrero;A. Lafarga

  • Use of biplot analysis and factorial regression for the investigation of superior genotypes in multi-environment trials

    J. Voltas;H. López-Córcoles;G. Borrás

  • Growth and carbon isotopes of Mediterranean trees reveal contrasting responses to increased carbon dioxide and drought

    Elena Granda;Davi Rodrigo Rossatto;J. Julio Camarero;J. Julio Camarero;Jordi Voltas

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Pedro Ferrio
Juan Pedro Ferrio Spanish National Research Council
José Luis Araus
José Luis Araus University of Barcelona
Ignacio Romagosa
Ignacio Romagosa University of Lleida
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Alexandru Milcu
Alexandru Milcu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Josu G. Alday
Josu G. Alday University of Lleida
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Emilia Gutiérrez
Emilia Gutiérrez University of Barcelona
Jacques Roy
Jacques Roy Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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