Forest dynamics and climate change

11 September 2018

I am generally interested in forest dynamics, particularly in a climate change context. This includes research on plant demography, life histories, interactions with animals (particularly mutualisms) and the environment.

Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez

Researcher

Computational Ecologist & Data Scientist.

Posts

New paper out in Nature Plants

We have a new paper out in Nature Plants: De Frenne P, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, De Schrijver A, Coomes DA, Hermy M, Vangansbeke P & Verheyen K. 2015. Light accelerates plant responses to warming.

25 October 2015 2 min read

First citation to our letter in Nature Climate Change: can we use a simple indicator to assess community responses to climate?

Google Scholar informed me today that our commentary in Nature Climate Change about the complexities involved in assessing community responses to climate change just got its first citation, six months after being published.

21 February 2013 1 min read

Publications

Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

Macroclimate warming is often assumed to occur within forests despite the potential for tree cover to modify microclimates. Here, using …

De Frenne P, Zellweger F, Rodriguez-Sanchez F, Scheffers BR, Hylander K, Luoto M, Vellend M, Verheyen K, Lenoir J

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Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

Light accelerates plant responses to warming

Competition for light has profound effects on plant performance in virtually all terrestrial ecosystems. Nowhere is this more evident …

De Frenne P, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, De Schrijver A, Coomes DA, Hermy M, Vangansbeke P, Verheyen K

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Light accelerates plant responses to warming

Long-term hurricane damage effects on tropical forest tree growth and mortality

Hurricane winds can have large impacts on forest structure and dynamics. To date, most evaluations of hurricane impacts have focused on …

Tanner EVT, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, Healey JR, Holdaway RB, Bellingham PJ

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Long-term hurricane damage effects on tropical forest tree growth and mortality

Thermophilization estimation is robust to the scale of species distribution data

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De Frenne P, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, Bernhardt-Romermann M, Brown CD, Eriksson O, Hermy M, Mitchell FJG, Petřík P, Van Calster H, Vellend M, Verheyen K

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Thermophilization estimation is robust to the scale of species distribution data

Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

Recent global warming is acting across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems to favor species adapted to warmer conditions …

De Frenne P, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, Coomes DA, Baeten L, Verstraeten G, Vellend M, Bernhardt-Romermann M, Brown CD, Brunet J, Cornelis J, Decocq GM, Dierschke H, Eriksson O, Gilliam FS, Hedl R, Heinken T, Hermy M, Hommel P, Jenkins MA, Kelly DL, Kirby KJ, Mitchell FJG, Naaf T, Newman M, Peterken G, Petrik P, Schultz J, Sonnier G, Van Calster H, Waller DM, Walther GR, White PS, Woods KD, Wulf M, Graae BJ, Verheyen K

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Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

Macroclimatic variation along latitudinal gradients provides an excellent natural laboratory to investigate the role of temperature and …

De Frenne P, Graae BJ, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, Kolb A, Chabrerie O, Decocq G, De Kort H, De Schrijver A, Diekmann M, Eriksson O, Gruwez R, Hermy M, Lenoir J, Plue J, Coomes DA & Verheyen K

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