Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda
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Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda
@gabrisanguesa.bsky.social

Forest ecologist #TreeRings & #GlobalChange | #research & #outreach | Professor @uva-es.bsky.social | #MountainLover, cycler, climber & trail runner | Father (x2)

https://www.cambiumresearch.eu/

Soria (Spain)

Environmental science 58%
Geography 19%

Communal deciduous oak dehesas, once vital agrosilvopastoral systems, are biodiversity hotspots for old-growth species. Now largely unprotected and abandoned, they urgently need recognition to meet EU biodiversity goals.
🧪🍁🌱🌏🌐🌿
New paper out:
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
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🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Muchas gracias, @laurahmt.bsky.social! Sí, lo conocía; al menos el año pasado también se registraron tasas poblacionales muy altas. Es algo muy impresionante e inusual en P. uncinata

The peer review system is in serious crisis. Finding reviewers is harder than ever. Many colleagues refuse to "work for free", yet they continue to submit their own research for publication. We either need to properly recognize peer review in evaluations or rethink the entire model 🧪🌍🍁

New insights into the extreme potential age of the genus #Juniperus.
The common juniper (Juniperus communis) can live for over 1,500 years in Northern Europe, making it the oldest known tree species on the continent. 🍁🌱🌿🌍🧪
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent
Click on the article title to read more.
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Trees might profit from the reduced foliage area, allowing them to stabilize their #water relations in a #drying #climate: Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports
Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population
www.nature.com

A day full of motivation with the students of the #BIE, the Bachelor of Research and Excellence at @iespolisoria, and @Ingenierias_SO, in the medication manufacturing workshop at @caixaforum Zaragoza

A truly fascinating and still largely unexplored ecosystem!
We investigated #tree growth in cloud forests across the entire #Macaronesian region and found that local environmental conditions play a greater role in shaping tree growth than species-specific traits.
# LAUREL project 🍁
ENHORABUENA a las #biodiversas A.García-Cervigón y V.Calvo-Donate, coautoras en el artículo e "Cloud Forest Tree Growth Responses to Climateand Drought Vary by Island and Species in the Macaronesian Region". @gabrisanguesa.bsky.social

Link al artículo⏬⏬⏬⏬⏬:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ENHORABUENA a las #biodiversas A.García-Cervigón y V.Calvo-Donate, coautoras en el artículo e "Cloud Forest Tree Growth Responses to Climateand Drought Vary by Island and Species in the Macaronesian Region". @gabrisanguesa.bsky.social

Link al artículo⏬⏬⏬⏬⏬:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Millennial cedars campaign in Teide National Park. Samples are in the lab and ready for analysis. We'll know their ages soon!
@FundacionEndesa
@pnteide
@CabildoTenerife
📢 Calling all tree-ring researchers! 🌳💍

The Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR) annually awards prizes for the best Ph.D. & Master’s theses in tree-ring science!

🗓️ Deadline: Feb 15, 2025
📄 Details: tinyurl.com/ATRaward

Nominate your students! ✨
Thesis awards
To honor exceptional and original contributions by early-stage researchers, the Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR) annually awards prizes for the best Ph.D. and Master’s theses within the fie…
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📧 For more information:

Ana I. García-Cervigón: ana.garciacervigon@urjc.es
Victoria Calvo: victoria.calvo@urjc.es
The job position is located at URJC in Madrid, Spain.

📄 Call details: Reference M2810-6636
🔗 More info: sede.urjc.es/tablon-ofici... (in spanish)

⏳ Application deadline: Very short! January 27–31
📅 Start date: March 7
Tablón electrónico oficial - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Sede Electrónica
sede.urjc.es

🌳 Job Opportunity in Dendrochronology! 🌳

Our colleague @AnaGCervigon is looking for a candidate to join a 5-month position within the project:

"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Forest Restorations: A Large-Scale Spatial and Temporal Analysis" (BioFoRest).👇
The Botany 2025 symposia & colloquia have been announced & workshop submissions are reopened until Feb 1. Check out the latest details: mailchi.mp/botany.org/botany2025.

We look forward to seeing you this summer in Palm Springs, CA, July 26-30, 2025!

#Botany2025 #IamaBotanist #ItIsaDryHeat

Day 5 (and final). #Millennial cedars campaign in Teide National Park. We’ll have the first results in the coming months
@FundacionEndesa
@pnteide

Day 4. #Millennial cedars campaign in Teide National Park. Some of these remarkable specimens might have reached notable ages 🌲👴🧓
📸Gabriel Funes
@FundacionEndesa
@pnteide

Day 3. #Millennial cedars campaign in Teide National Park. We continue adding trees and samples.

Yes, it is! At least for me. Our main goal is to collect samples for C14 analyses to gain a better understanding of the age distribution of cliff junipers

Day 2: #Millennial cedars campaign in Teide National Park. "Alpine" conditions for the approach


In recent field campaigns, we discovered trees over 1,000 years old, but there is still much more to explore.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Vertical cliffs harbor millennia‐old junipers in the Canary Islands
Click on the article title to read more.
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We are kicking off a major project funded by @FundacionEndesa in collaboration with @pnteide. Over the next few days, we will be collecting samples to explore the ages of the #millennial #cedars (Juniperus cedrus) in Teide National Park 👇🍁

The problems with citation-based evaluations and the h-Index

‘Precocious’ early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Precocious’ early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate
Researchers have questions about how so many authors have racked up a large number of citations so quickly, although some of those authors are honest overachievers.
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In Mediterranean cities facing more frequent and severe droughts, urban greening strategies should prioritize better-adapted tree species and efficient water use rather than relying solely on irrigation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#UrbanForestry #ClimateResilience #Ecology #DroughtAdaptation
Irrigation in Mediterranean urban areas: a good strategy to face the ongoing climate change impacts on urban cedar trees? - Urban Ecosystems
Irrigated trees are known to develop large aboveground structures that can be detrimental during dry spells, and therefore irrigated trees are expected to perform worse than non-irrigated ones under c...
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New year and new paper out!
Irrigation may not always be the best solution for urban trees under climate change 🌍👇

AI in general, and Machine Learning specifically, are changing the way we process big data in ecology. Recently, we reconstructed 450 years of management (pollarding) in Mediterranean oaks using tree rings—1,588 pollarding events at the tree level!
doi.org/10.3390/f151...

Mediterranean deciduous oaks can live for hundreds of years and create important microhabitats for biodiversity
#GIANTS project 🌾🪴🍁

It's almost a new year and I'm starting a new account on bsky. I hope to regularly write about #science, #defoliating insects and #trees in the Mediterranean.