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Vicente Rozas is affiliated with the University of Valladolid in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with a specific emphasis on dendrochronology and forest ecology. Rozas's work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and insect science.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Forest insect ecology and management
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Tree root and stability studies

Rozas has contributed to multiple publication venues, notably:

  • Dendrochronologia
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Some of the recent papers associated with or relevant to the topics Rozas explores include:

  • "Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability," 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • "Resin ducts as resistance traits in conifers: linking dendrochronology and resin-based defences," 2020, Tree Physiology
  • "Warmer springs have increased the frequency and extension of late-frost defoliations in southern European beech forests," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Dendroecology in common gardens: Population differentiation and plasticity in resistance, recovery and resilience to extreme drought events in Pinus pinaster," 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Climate response and drought resilience of Nothofagus obliqua secondary forests across a latitudinal gradient in south-central Chile," 2021, Forest Ecology and Management

Frequent collaborators in Rozas's research include:

  • José Miguel Olano
  • Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda
  • Miguel García-Hidalgo
  • Ana I. García-Cervigón
  • Héctor Hernández-Alonso

Rozas's body of work reflects an ongoing engagement with studies related to environmental changes and their impact on forest ecosystems, with a notable focus on drought, climate variation, and conifer defense mechanisms. Their research integrates dendrochronological methods to understand ecological processes at multiple scales.

Best Publications

  • Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

    Antonio Gazol;Jesus Julio Camarero;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero

  • Sex-specific, age-dependent sensitivity of tree-ring growth to climate in the dioecious tree Juniperus thurifera

    Vicente Rozas;Lucía DeSoto;José Miguel Olano

  • Tree age estimates in Fagus sylvatica and Quercus robur: testing previous and improved methods.

    Vicente Rozas

  • Detecting the impact of climate and disturbances on tree-rings of Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus robur L. in a lowland forest in Cantabria, Northern Spain

    Vicente Rozas

  • Regeneration patterns, dendroecology, and forest-use history in an old-growth beech–oak lowland forest in Northern Spain

    Vicente Rozas

  • Dendrochronology of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) in an old-growth pollarded woodland in northern Spain: Tree-ring growth responses to climate

    Vicente Rozas

  • Quantitative Tracheid Anatomy Reveals a Complex Environmental Control of Wood Structure in Continental Mediterranean Climate

    José M. Olano;Màrcia Eugenio;Ana I. García-Cervigón;Maika Folch

  • Resist, recover or both? Growth plasticity in response to drought is geographically structured and linked to intraspecific variability in Pinus pinaster.

    Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero;Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero;J. Julio Camarero;Vicente Rozas;Mar Génova

  • Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability

    Antonio Gazol;Jesús Julio Camarero;Raul Sánchez-Salguero;Raul Sánchez-Salguero;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Do changes in spring phenology affect earlywood vessels? Perspective from the xylogenesis monitoring of two sympatric ring-porous oaks.

    Gonzalo Pérez‐de‐Lis;Sergio Rossi;Sergio Rossi;Rosa Ana Vázquez‐Ruiz;Vicente Rozas;Vicente Rozas

  • Summer drought and ENSO-related cloudiness distinctly drive Fagus sylvatica growth near the species rear-edge in northern Spain

    Vicente Rozas;J. Julio Camarero;Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda;Manuel Souto

  • New star on the stage: amount of ray parenchyma in tree rings shows a link to climate.

    José Miguel Olano;Alberto Arzac;Ana I. García-Cervigón;Georg von Arx

  • Resin ducts as resistance traits in conifers: linking dendrochronology and resin-based defences

    Carla Vázquez-González;Rafael Zas;Nadir Erbilgin;Scott Ferrenberg

  • Climatic control of intra-annual wood density fluctuations of Pinus pinaster in NW Spain

    Vicente Rozas;Ignacio García-González;Rafael Zas

  • Drought-induced increase in water-use efficiency reduces secondary tree growth and tracheid wall thickness in a Mediterranean conifer

    José Miguel Olano;Juan Carlos Linares;Ana I. García-Cervigón;Alberto Arzac

  • Earlywood vessels of the sub-Mediterranean oak Quercus pyrenaica have greater plasticity and sensitivity than those of the temperate Q. petraea at the Atlantic–Mediterranean boundary

    Borja D. González-González;Vicente Rozas;Ignacio García-González

  • Differential tree-growth responses to local and large-scale climatic variation in two Pinus and two Quercus species in northwest Spain

    Vicente Rozas;Sonia Lamas;Ignacio García-González

  • Climatic Signals from Intra-annual Density Fluctuation Frequency in Mediterranean Pines at a Regional Scale.

    Enrica Zalloni;Martin de Luis;Filipe Campelo;Klemen Novak

  • A dendroecological reconstruction of age structure and past management in an old-growth pollarded parkland in northern Spain

    Vicente Rozas

  • Effects of changes in traditional management on height and radial growth patterns in a Juniperus thurifera L. woodland

    J.M. Olano;V. Rozas;D. Bartolomé;D. Sanz

  • Environmental conditions and vascular cambium regulate carbon allocation to xylem growth in deciduous oaks

    Gonzalo Pérez-de-Lis;Gonzalo Pérez-de-Lis;José Miguel Olano;Vicente Rozas;Sergio Rossi;Sergio Rossi

  • Too wet for oaks? Inter-tree competition and recent persistent wetness predispose oaks to rainfall-induced dieback in Atlantic rainy forest

    Vicente Rozas;Ignacio García-González

Frequent Co-Authors

José Miguel Olano
José Miguel Olano University of Valladolid
Raúl Sánchez-Salguero
Raúl Sánchez-Salguero Pablo de Olavide University
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda University of Valladolid
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Juan Carlos Linares
Juan Carlos Linares Pablo de Olavide University
Martin de Luis
Martin de Luis University of Zaragoza
Antonio Gazol
Antonio Gazol Spanish National Research Council
Emilia Gutiérrez
Emilia Gutiérrez University of Barcelona
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano Spanish National Research Council
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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