Dr. Juan Carlos Linares

My scientific activity is devoted to the understanding of the adaptive capacity of forest ecosystems to climate change. I have focused mainly on field data and climatic analysis, accounting for a wide range of ecological scales, from the landscape to the tree physiology. I currently lead the Dendroecology and Ecophysiology Lab of the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville), where we have steadily increased the scale and complexity of our studies on forest dynamics. Thus, I have led research projects covering the whole range of several tree species, conducting studies in forests from different regions of Spain, Morocco, Chile, Turkey, Iran, Finland and Switzerland. In addition to these international researches, I have conducted several research stays as a Visiting Fellow. The results of these studies are challenging the current paradigm that predicts increasing forests carbon sinks and water use efficiency in response to the global atmospheric CO2 rise. Besides, our long-term researches highlighting the importance of forest management, as a modulating factor of the responses of drought-sensitive tree species to recent climate change. Since I got my PhD in Sciences (2008), my published JCR articles are 75% within the first quartile of its category; 50% of them in 90th percentile Journals, such as PNAS, Global Change Biology, Journal of Ecology, Global Ecology and Biogeography.