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50
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7886
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3906
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118

Overview

Miren del Río is affiliated with the University of Valladolid in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a substantial number of publications in this area. The scientist's main fields of study include environmental science broadly, with concentrated work in nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, insect science, and environmental engineering.

Del Río's contributions center around topics such as forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, forest management and policy, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and tree root and stability studies.

The scientist has authored numerous research articles published in well-regarded venues. Frequent publication outlets include Forest Ecology and Management, European Journal of Forest Research, SSRN Electronic Journal, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, and Forest Ecosystems.

Recent research papers include:

  • The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • What is Climate-Smart Forestry? A definition from a multinational collaborative process focused on mountain regions of Europe (2020, Ecosystem Services)
  • Species mixing reduces drought susceptibility of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) - Site water supply and fertility modify the mixing effect (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Forest growth in Europe shows diverging large regional trends (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • Evidence of elevation-specific growth changes of spruce, fir, and beech in European mixed mountain forests during the last three centuries (2020, Canadian Journal of Forest Research)

Del Río collaborates frequently with a number of fellow researchers. These include:

  • Hans Pretzsch
  • Ricardo Ruíz-Peinado
  • Kamil Bielak
  • Felipe Bravo
  • Enno Uhl

Best Publications

  • Growth and yield of mixed versus pure stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) analysed along a productivity gradient through Europe

    H. Pretzsch;M. del Río;Ch. Ammer;A. Avdagic

  • 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

  • Characterization of the structure, dynamics, and productivity of mixed-species stands: review and perspectives

    Miren del Río;Miren del Río;Hans Pretzsch;Iciar Alberdi;Kamil Bielak

  • 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

  • Effects of crown architecture and stand structure on light absorption in mixed and monospecific Fagus sylvatica and Pinus sylvestris forests along a productivity and climate gradient through Europe

    David Ian Forrester;David Ian Forrester;Christian Ammer;Peter J. Annighöfer;Ignacio Barbeito

  • Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris-Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe

    Miren del Río;Miren del Río;Hans Pretzsch;Ricardo Ruíz-Peinado;Ricardo Ruíz-Peinado;Evy Ampoorter

  • New models for estimating the carbon sink capacity of Spanish softwood species

    Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Miren del Rio;Gregorio Montero

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

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

  • European Mixed Forests: definition and research perspectives

    Andres Bravo-Oviedo;Hans Pretzsch;Christian Ammer;Ernesto Andenmatten

  • Mixing effect on volume growth of Fagus sylvatica and Pinus sylvestris is modulated by stand density

    Sonia Condés;Miren Del Rio;Hubert Sterba

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

    Patricia Adame;Miren del Río;Isabel Cañellas

  • What is Climate-Smart Forestry? A definition from a multinational collaborative process focused on mountain regions of Europe

    Euan Bowditch;Giovanni Santopuoli;Franz Binder;Miren del Río

  • Comparing volume growth in pure and mixed stands of Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica.

    Miren del Río;Hubert Sterba

  • A review of thinning effects on Scots pine stands: From growth and yield to new challenges under global change

    Miren del Río;Andrés Bravo-Oviedo;Hans Pretzsch;Magnus Löf

  • 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

  • Analysis of diameter-density relationships and self-thinning in non-thinned even-aged Scots pine stands

    Miren del Rı́o;Gregorio Montero;Felipe Bravo

  • 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

  • Forest management and carbon sequestration in the Mediterranean region: A review

    Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Andrés Bravo-Oviedo;Eduardo López-Senespleda;Felipe Bravo

  • Competition-induced mortality for Mediterranean Pinus pinaster Ait. and P. sylvestris L.

    Andrés Bravo-Oviedo;Andrés Bravo-Oviedo;Hubert Sterba;Miren del Río;Felipe Bravo

  • Analyzing size-symmetric vs. size-asymmetric and intra- vs. inter-specific competition in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) mixed stands

    Miren del Río;Sonia Condés;Hans Pretzsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrés Bravo-Oviedo
Andrés Bravo-Oviedo Spanish National Research Council
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado Spanish National Research Council
Hans Pretzsch
Hans Pretzsch Technical University of Munich
Gregorio Montero
Gregorio Montero Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Felipe Bravo
Felipe Bravo University of Valladolid
Isabel Cañellas
Isabel Cañellas Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Magnus Löf
Magnus Löf Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Hubert Sterba
Hubert Sterba BOKU University
David I. Forrester
David I. Forrester Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Tzvetan Zlatanov
Tzvetan Zlatanov Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research

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