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I obtained my PhD in 2010 at Wageningen University (the Netherlands). In my dissertation, I addressed the functional ecology of tropical tree species, aiming to understand how species¿ drought and shade tolerance strategies explain species coexistence and distribution along resource gradients. In early 2010, I was awarded a 2-year Rubicon grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), which I used to collaborate with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) to study the role of plant hydraulics in explaining differences in drought performance between liana and tree species. Late in 2011, I moved to Spain where I visited the Ecology and Global Change group at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (MNCN-CSIC) in Madrid for a year. Early in 2013, I started working on the NERC-funded project, entitled `Natural enemies, climate and the maintenance of tropical tree diversity¿, at Community Ecology Research Oxford (CERO), University of Oxford, in collaboration with STRI. In this project, we set out to test the hypothesis that humidity drives variation in tropical plant diversity through its influence on the interactions between plants and their natural enemies. The 2015-2016 El Niño event, and subsequent funding through a RAPID grant by the United States National Science Foundation (US NSF), provided a unique opportunity for a third postdoc to study the immediate effects of an extreme drought event on the physiological performance and regeneration dynamics of tropical plants along a rainfall gradient. This project resulted from a collaboration between Oregon State, Yale School of Forestry, Bayreuth University and STRI. In 2016, I joined the School of Natural Sciences at Bangor University as a Lecturer in Forest Sciences, and a SÊR Cymru MSCA CoFund Research Fellow, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2019. Finally, in 2020 I joined the Area of Biodiversity and Conservation at the Department of Biology and Geography, Physics and Inorganic Chemistry, URJC, as a Distinguished Research Lecturer (Beatriz Galindo Fellow).
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Functional Ecologyno. 2 (2022): 248-260
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGYno. 1 (2020): 119-188
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