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Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant concentration on nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and environmental engineering. Additional study areas include atmospheric science and insect science.

Their main topics of work cover several aspects of forest ecology and management, highlighting forest management and policy, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, tree-ring climate responses, and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado has a substantial publication record, with notable frequent publication venues including Forest Ecology and Management, SSRN Electronic Journal, European Journal of Forest Research, The Science of The Total Environment, and Forests.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado 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
  • Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Timing and duration of drought modulate tree growth response in pure and mixed stands of Scots pine and Norway spruce, 2022, Journal of Ecology
  • Tree species identity drives soil organic carbon storage more than species mixing in major two-species mixtures (pine, oak, beech) in Europe, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Mixing effects on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) productivity along a climatic gradient across Europe, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management

Ricardo frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Miren del Río
  • Hans Pretzsch
  • Kamil Bielak
  • Felipe Bravo
  • Maciej Pach

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • How does biomass distribution change with size and differ among species? An analysis for 1200 plant species from five continents

    Hendrik Poorter;Andrzej M. Jagodzinski;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Shem Kuyah

  • Generalized biomass and leaf area allometric equations for European tree species incorporating stand structure, tree age and climate

    David I. Forrester;David I. Forrester;I. H. H. Tachauer;Peter Annighoefer;Ignacio Barbeito

  • The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe

    M. Pardos;M. Pardos;M. del Río;M. del Río;H. Pretzsch;H. Jactel

  • 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

  • Biomass models to estimate carbon stocks for hardwood tree species

    Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;G. Montero;M. del Río

  • Impact of changes in land use, species and elevation on soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in Ethiopian Central Highlands

    Mehari A. Tesfaye;Felipe Bravo;R. Ruiz-Peinado;Valentín Pando

  • Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally.

    Alicia Ledo;Keryn I. Paul;David F. R. P. Burslem;John J. Ewel

  • 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

  • Producción de biomasa y fijación de CO2 por los bosques españoles

    Gregorio Montero;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Marta Muñoz

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

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

  • Terrestrial laser scanning reveals differences in crown structure of Fagus sylvatica in mixed vs. pure European forests

    Ignacio Barbeito;Mathieu Dassot;Dominik Bayer;Catherine Collet

  • Do thinnings influence biomass and soil carbon stocks in Mediterranean maritime pinewoods

    R. Ruiz-Peinado;R. Ruiz-Peinado;A. Bravo-Oviedo;A. Bravo-Oviedo;E. López-Senespleda;E. López-Senespleda;G. Montero;G. Montero

  • Stand growth and structure of mixed-species and monospecific stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Q. robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) analysed along a productivity gradient through Europe

    H. Pretzsch;M. Steckel;M. Heym;P. Biber

  • Thinning enhances the species-specific radial increment response to drought in Mediterranean pine-oak stands

    J. Aldea;F. Bravo;A. Bravo-Oviedo;R. Ruiz-Peinado

  • Tree allometry variation in response to intra- and inter-specific competitions

    Miren del Río;Andrés Bravo-Oviedo;Andrés Bravo-Oviedo;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Sonia Condés

  • Growth and Yield Models for Pinus halepensis Mill

    G. Montero;I. Cañellas;R. Ruíz-Peinado

  • Forest thinning impact on carbon stock and soil condition in Southern European populations of P. sylvestris L.

    Andrés Bravo-Oviedo;Andrés Bravo-Oviedo;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Pilar Modrego;Rafael Alonso

  • Resin-tapped pine forests in Spain: Ecological diversity and economic valuation

    Mario Soliño;Mario Soliño;Mario Soliño;Tianqi Yu;Ricardo Alía;Francisco Auñón

  • Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect

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  • Shrub biomass accumulation and growth rate models to quantify carbon stocks and fluxes for the Mediterranean region

    Maria Pasalodos-Tato;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Miren del Río;Miren del Río;Gregorio Montero;Gregorio Montero

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrés Bravo-Oviedo
Andrés Bravo-Oviedo 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
Hans Pretzsch
Hans Pretzsch Technical University of Munich
Felipe Bravo
Felipe Bravo University of Valladolid
Magnus Löf
Magnus Löf Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Quentin Ponette
Quentin Ponette Université Catholique de Louvain
Lluís Coll
Lluís Coll University of Lleida
Tzvetan Zlatanov
Tzvetan Zlatanov Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
David I. Forrester
David I. Forrester Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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