Julia Tavares
Postdoctoral position at Institutionen för ekologi och genetik; Växtekologi och evolution
- E-mail:
- julia.tavares@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA
- CV:
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-3784-5720
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https://juliatavares-research.weebly.com
I am a Brazilian ecologist and National Geography Explorer interested in tropical forest ecology, with emphasis in plant ecophysiology and tropical ecosystems sensitivity/responses to environmental change.
I am currently a postdoc research fellow at Uppsala University, Sweden, where I was awarded the King Carl XVI Gustaf Foundation's prize for outstanding early-career researchers.
Keywords
- climate change
- ecophysiology
- ecosystem ecology
- functional ecology
- remote sensing
- tropical forest ecology
Media
Interview about vulnerability of Amazonian terrestrial forests to drought
On World Environment Day, the Science Bulletin talks about a study published in the journal Nature on the Diversity of Trees in the Amazon and Climate Change, led by Julia Tavares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hVG9mgICZ4&t=883s&ab_channel=CanalSa%C3%BAdeOficial
Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition: In the Flooded Forest
A bit of our project which is investigating Amazonian flooded forests' sensitivity to changes in climate. This project is part of the Rolex and National Geographic Perpetual Planet program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79EsAR9KNEM&t=12s&ab_channel=ROLEX
Publications
Recent publications
- Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests (2023)
- Hydraulic traits of Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. (Bignoniaceae) in the Southwest Amazon (2023)
All publications
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