TEACHING

Subjects

My teaching is focused on the subjects Ecology and Natural Resources (B. Sc. Biology), Ecological processes and references for ecosystem restoration (M. Sc. Ecosystem Restoration) and Data analysis and linear models in R (M. Sc. Ecosystem Restoration and Doctorate courses)

PhD Students

- Carmen Ureña (ongoing): Plant-plant and plant-soil interactions in Mediteranean pine-oak forests: implications for adaptation and mitigation to climate change.

- Pedro Rebollo (ongoing): Multifunctionality and dynamics of Mediterranean forest ecosystems under global change: implications for the provision of ecosystem services

- Pablo Yeste (ongoing): Colonization and recruitment patterns of oak species in the Iberian Peninsula: implications for effective forest restoration in a global change context

- David Oropesa (ongoing): Consequences of intra- and inter-specific phenological variability on the fitness of Quercus species.

Supervised MsC and BsC students

- Laura Arroyo Llorente. B. Sc. thesis (2023). Assessing the role of forest species composition on soil microbial communities.

- Marina Tallón Elena. B. Sc. thesis (2023). The role of forest composition on the nutritional status of Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaicain the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park

- Rodrigo Valdecantos. M. Sc. thesis (2023). Regeneration of Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica in mixed and monospecific stands in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.

- Roberto Sendino Serra. M. Sc. thesis (2022). Forest productivity and stability in mixed and monospecific stands of Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.

- Iñigo Aldazabal Alfageme. M. Sc. thesis (2022). Vulnerability to climate change of a Pinus pinaster forest in Sierra de Gudar.

- Javier Tomé Sanz. B. Sc. thesis (2022). Forest composition effects on decomposition and soil respiration in forests in Sierra de Guadarrama.

- Pablo Yeste Lizán. M. Sc. thesis (2022). Soil nutrient availability in mixed and monospecific forests of Scots pines and Pyrenean oaks.

- Marcos Estévez Domínguez. M. Sc. thesis (2022). Temporal shifts in intra-specific plant-plant interactions in mixed and monospecific forests of Scots pines and Pyrenean oaks.

- Ana Morán Escaldón. B. Sc. thesis (2021). Temporal shifts in intra-specific plant-plant interactions in Scots pine forest in Mediterranean mountains.

- Pedro Rebollo Orozco. M. Sc. thesis (2021). Successional trajectories of pine and oak forests in the Iberian Peninsula: shifts in species dominance and underlying factors.

- Carlos Alfredo Insua Macías. M. Sc. thesis (2021). Spatial distribution of tree species in a tropical moist forest in Brazil: an approach based on functional traits.

- Sara Monzón López. M. Sc. thesis (2020). Differences in survival and growth between container and bareroot seedlings in forest plantatations.

- Mario Alpaca Calienes. B. Sc. thesis (2020). Climate effects on the abundance of North American tree species.

- Raquel González Gascueña. M. Sc. thesis (2020). Patterns of radial growth associated to drought-induced mortality in a Scots pine Iberian population.

- Francisco Javier Muñoz Gálvez. M. Sc. thesis (2020). Analysis of extreme drought response in Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica mixed and monospecific stands in Guadarrama Mountains.

- Noelia Carro Martínez. M. Sc. thesis (2019). Sensitivity to drought events in exotic and autoctonous tree species in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park.

- Julen Astigarraga Urcelay. M. Sc. thesis (2019). Evaluation of temporal patterns in changes in the structure, dynamics, composition and climate of Spanish Iberian forests

- Natalia Díaz Morey. M. Sc. thesis (2018). Response of nine Holm oak populations to an experimental gradient of water stress.

- Paloma Díaz Martínez. M. Sc. thesis (2018). Pine forests vulnerability to increased temperatures and frequency of drought events: a dendroecological approach with coexisting pine species.

- Liliana Cecilia Ramon. M. Sc. thesis (2017). Intra-specific interactions between adults and juveniles in Maritime pine populations under extreme conditions in the Center of the Iberian peninsula.

- Noelia Carro Martínez. B. Sc. thesis (2017). Functional differences between three pine species in response to drought.

- Julio de la Peña Navarro. B. Sc. thesis (2017). Inter- and intra-specific variability in foliar traits of three coexisting pine species.

- Annabel Contreras Carretero. B. Sc. thesis (2017). Drivers of mortality in Maritime pine juveniles in the Cega river.

- Julia Jimeno Alba. B. Sc. thesis (2017). Biome vulnerability to climate changes: a retrospective analysis.

- Jessica Carolina Cruz Arrioja. M. Sc. thesis (2016). A meta-analysis on the importance of morphological attributes for
seedling out-planting performance in the Mediterranean climate.

- Borja Rivas Sánchez. B. Sc. thesis (2012). Litterfall dynamics in a Holm oak stand in San Bartolomé de la Torre (Huelva).

- María del Pilar Picón Salas. B. Sc. thesis (2012). Litterfall dynamics in a Holm oak stand in Villanueva de los Castillejos (Huelva).