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Overview

Romà Ogaya is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their scholarly work is situated primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with extensive research contributions spanning these disciplines.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Plant Science
  • Atmospheric Science

Main topics investigated by Romà Ogaya cover areas such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses

They have published frequently in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Global Change Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • New Phytologist
  • Forests

Some recent publications by Romà Ogaya include:

  • "Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale" (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "ForestTemp - Sub-canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests" (2021) in Global Change Biology
  • "Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates" (2022) in Science
  • "Effects of seasonal and decadal warming on soil enzymatic activity in a P-deficient Mediterranean shrubland" (2020) in Global Change Biology
  • "Increasing climatic sensitivity of global grassland vegetation biomass and species diversity correlates with water availability" (2021) in New Phytologist

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Josep Peñuelas
  • Jordi Sardans
  • Joan Llusià
  • Dolores Asensio
  • Guille Peguero

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Estimation of plant water concentration by the reflectance Water Index WI (R900/R970)

    J. Penuelas;J. Pinol;R. Ogaya;I. Filella

  • Increased water‐use efficiency during the 20th century did not translate into enhanced tree growth

    Josep Peñuelas;Josep G Canadell;Romà Ogaya

  • Complex spatiotemporal phenological shifts as a response to rainfall changes

    Josep Peñuelas;Iolanda Filella;Xiaoyang Zhang;Laura Llorens

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

    Josep Penuelas;Jordi Sardans;Marc Estiarte;Roma Ogaya

  • Drought‐resistant fungi control soil organic matter decomposition and its response to temperature

    J. C. Yuste;Josep Peñuelas;M. Estiarte;Jordi García-Mas

  • Migration, invasion and decline: changes in recruitment and forest structure in a warming-linked shift of European beech forest in Catalonia (NE Spain)

    Josep Peñuelas;Romà Ogaya;Martí Boada;Alistair S. Jump

  • 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

  • Twentieth century changes of tree‐ring δ13C at the southern range‐edge of Fagus sylvatica: increasing water‐use efficiency does not avoid the growth decline induced by warming at low altitudes

    Josep Peñuelas;Jenny M. Hunt;Romà Ogaya;Alistair S. Jump

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Comparative field study of Quercus ilex and Phillyrea latifolia: photosynthetic response to experimental drought conditions

    Romà Ogaya;Josep Peñuelas

  • Estimating live fine fuels moisture content using meteorologically-based indices

    D. X. Viegas;J. Piñol;M. T. Viegas;R. Ogaya

  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale.

    Enrique Valencia;Francesco de Bello;Thomas Galland;Peter B Adler;Peter B Adler

  • Effect of drought on diameter increment of Quercus ilex, Phillyrea latifolia, and Arbutus unedo in a holm oak forest of NE Spain

    Romà Ogaya;Josep Peñuelas;Jordi Martı́nez-Vilalta;Marta Mangirón

  • Tree growth, mortality, and above-ground biomass accumulation in a holm oak forest under a five-year experimental field drought

    Romà Ogaya;Josep Peñuelas

  • Impacts of Global Change on Mediterranean Forests and Their Services

    Josep Peñuelas;Jordi Sardans;Iolanda Filella;Marc Estiarte

  • Dampening effects of long‐term experimental drought on growth and mortality rates of a Holm oak forest

    Adrià Barbeta;Romà Ogaya;Josep Peñuelas

  • Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates

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  • Summer season and long-term drought increase the richness of bacteria and fungi in the foliar phyllosphere of Quercus ilex in a mixed Mediterranean forest

    Josep Penuelas;Laura Rico;Roma Ogaya;Alistair Jump;Alistair Jump

  • Increased sensitivity to climate change in disturbed ecosystems

    György Kröel-Dulay;Johannes Ransijn;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Claus Beier

  • Urgent need for a common metric to make precipitation manipulation experiments comparable.

    S. Vicca;S. Vicca;A. K. Gilgen;A. K. Gilgen;M. Camino Serrano;F. E. Dreesen

  • 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

  • Contrasting foliar responses to drought in Quercus ilex and Phillyrea latifolia

    R. Ogaya;J. Penuelas

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Marc Estiarte
Marc Estiarte Spanish National Research Council
Jordi Sardans
Jordi Sardans Spanish National Research Council
Joan Llusià
Joan Llusià Autonomous University of Barcelona
Iolanda Filella
Iolanda Filella Autonomous University of Barcelona
Alistair S. Jump
Alistair S. Jump University of Stirling
Francisco Lloret
Francisco Lloret Autonomous University of Barcelona
Jeffrey S. Dukes
Jeffrey S. Dukes Purdue University West Lafayette
Inger Kappel Schmidt
Inger Kappel Schmidt University of Copenhagen
Albert Tietema
Albert Tietema University of Amsterdam

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