PUBLICATIONS

Nature does nothing in vain.

                                                                           Aristotle
 

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2021

• Christmann, T., Rosado, B., Delhaye, G., Drummond J., Roland, H., Moraes, Y.C., Matos, I., Oliveras, I. Functional assembly and diversity of tree islands in the montane Atlantic forest is shaped by stress-tolerance, co-occurrence with bamboo and potential facilitation. Ecology and Evolution. 

• Tebutt, C., Devisscher, T., Obando-Cabrera L., Gutierrez G., Constanza Meza M., Armenteras D., Oliveras I. (2021) Participatory Mapping Reveals Sociocultural Drivers of Forest Fires in Protected Areas of the Post-Conflict Colombian Amazon. People and Nature.

• Huaraca Huasco, W., Riutta, T., Girardin, C.A.J., Hancco Pacha, F.,  Puma Vilca, B.L., Moore, S., Rifai, S.W., Aguila Pasquel, J.,  Araujo Murakami, A., Freitag, R., Morel, A.C.,  Demissie, S.,  Doughty, C.E., Oliveras, I., Galiano Cabrera, D.F., Durand Baca, L., Farfán Amézquita, F., Silva Espejo, J.E., da Costa, A.C.L., Oblitas Mendoza, E., Quesada, C.A., Evouna Ondo,  F., Edzang Ndong, J., Jeffery, K.L., Mihindou, V., White, L.T.J.,  N’ssi Bengone, N., Ibrahim, F., Addo‐Danso, S.D., Duah‐Gyamfi, A., Djaney Djagbletey, G., Owusu‐Afriyie, K., Amissah, L., Mbou, M.Y., Marthews, T.R., Metcalfe, D.B., Aragão, LEOC.,  Marimon‐Junior, B.H., Marimon, B.S. Majalap, N., Adu‐Bredu, S., Abernethy, K.A., Silman, M., Ewers, R.M., Meir, P., Malhi Y. (2021) Fine root dynamics across pantropical rainforest ecosystems. Global Change Biology.

• Malhi Y., Girardin C., Metcalfe D.B., Doughty C., Aragão L.E.O.C., Rifai S.W., Oliveras I., Shenkin A., Aguirre-Gutiérrez J., Dahlsjö C.A.L., Riutta T., Berenguer E., Moore S., Huaraca Huasco W., Salinas N., Lola da Costa A.C., Bentley L.P., Adu-Bredu S., Marthews T.R., Meir P., Phillips O.L. The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics. (2021) Biological Conservation 253, 108889.

• Cardoso A., Oliveras, I., Abernethy, K., Jeffery K., Lehmann D., Edzang Ndong J., White L.T.J., Bond W., Malhi Y. (2020) Defining a distinct fire-tolerant transition vegetation type in forest-savanna mosaics. Journal of Ecology, 109: 1170-1183`.

  • **Article featured in Science: Forest-savanna fire guard (Science  22 Jan 2021: Vol. 371, Issue 6527, pp. 359-360 DOI: 10.1126/science.371.6527.359-c)​

• Brummer, A.B., Lymperopoulos, P., Shen, J., Tekin, E., Bentley, L.P., Buzzard, V., Gray, A., Oliveras, I., Enquist, B.J., Van M Savage. Identifying branching principles in biological networks using imaging, modelling, and machine learning. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18

• Armenteras, D., Constanza Meza, M., Gonz.lez, T.M., Oliveras, I., Balch J.K., Retana, J. Fire alters the diversity and structure of gallery forests of the Orinoco Basin. Ecosphere, 12: e03347.

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2016-2020

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• Aguirre-Gutierrez, J., Rifai, S., Shenkin, A., Oliveras, I., Bentley, L. Sv.tekd, M. Girardin, C.A.J., Riutta, T., Berenguer, E., Kissling, W.D., Bauman, D., Raab, N., Moore, S., Farfan-R.os, W., Figueiredo, A.E.S., Matias Reis, S., Edzang Ndongm, J., Evouna Ondom, F., N'ssi Bengonen, N., Mihindoun, V., Moraes de Seixas, M.M., Adu-Bredu, S., Abernethy, K., Asner, G.P., Barlow, J., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Coomes, D.A., Cernusak. L.A., Dargiey, G.C., Enquist, B.J., Ewers, R.M. Ferreira, J., Jeffery, K.J. Joly, C.A., Lewis, S.L., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Martins, R.E., Morandi, P., Phillips, O.L., Quesada, C.A., Salinas, N., Schwantes Marimon, B., Siman, M., Arn Teh, Y., White, L.J.T., Malhi, Y. (2020) Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data. Remote Sensing and the Environment 252: 112122, .

• Shenkin, A., Patrick Bentley, L., Oliveras I., Salinas, N., S Adu-Bredu, S., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Marimon, B.S., Peprah, T., Lopez Choque, E., Trujillo Rodriguez, L., Clemente Arenas, E.R., Adonteng, C., Seidu, J., Barbosa Passos, F., Matias Reis S., Blonder B., Silman M., Enquist, B.J., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y.M. (2020) The influence of ecosystem and phylogeny on tropical crown tree size and shape. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 3, 501757,

• Aguirre-Gutierrez J., Malhi Y., Abud-Bredu S., Affum-Baffoe K., Baker T.R., Fauset S., Gvozdevaite A., Hubau W., Lewis S.L., Moore S., Prepah T., Ziemińska K., Philips O., Oliveras I. (2020) Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity. Nature Communications 11, 3346.

• Matos I., Eller C.B., Oliveras I., Mantuano D.G., Rosado B.H.P. Three eco-physiological strategies of response to drought maintain the form and function of a tropical montane grassland. Journal of Ecology, early view

• Oliveras I., Bentley L., Fyllas N.M., Gvozdevaite A. , Shenkin A.F. , Prepah T., (2020) The influence of taxonomy and environment on leaf trait variation along tropical abiotic gradient. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3, 12020

• Matos I.S., Oliveras I., Rifai S.W., Rosado B.H.P. (2020) Deciphering the stability of grassland productivity in response to rainfall manipulation experiments. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (3), 558-57212020

•  Christmann T & Oliveras I. (2020) Nature of Alpine Ecosystems in Tropical Mountains of South America Elsevier2020. 

• Corrêa Scalon M.,  Domingos F.M.C.B., Alves da Cruz W.J., Marimon Júnior B.H., Schwantes Marimon B., Oliveras I. (2020) Diversity of functional trade‐offs enhances survival after fire in Neotropical savanna species Journal of Vegetation Science 31 (1), 139-150 2020.

• Armenteras D., González TM, Vargas JM, Elizalde MCM, Oliveras I (2020) Incendios en ecosistemas del norte de Suramérica: avances en la ecología del fuego tropical en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú  Caldasia 42 (1).

• Boonman, C.C.F., van Langevelde, F., Oliveras, I., Couédon, J., Luijken, N., Martini, D. and Veenendaal, E.M. (2020), On the importance of root traits in seedlings of tropical tree species. New Phytologist. doi:10.1111/nph.16370

• Marimon-Junior, B.H., Hay, J.D.V., Oliveras, I. et al. (2019) Soil water-holding capacity and monodominance in Southern Amazon tropical forests. Plant Soil .

• Cardoso, A.W., Malhi Y., Oliveras I., Lehmann D., Ndong J.E., Dimo J., Bush E., Jeffery K. ,  Labriere N., Lewis S.L., White LTJ,  Bond W., Abernethy K. (2019) The Role of Forest Elephants in Shaping Tropical Forest–Savanna Coexistence. Ecosystems, 22, 1-15.

• Rosan, T. M.; Aragão, L.E.O.C.; Oliveras, I.; Phillips, O.; Malhi, Y.; Gloor, E.; Wagner, F. (2019)  Extensive 21st-Century woody encroachment in South America's savanna. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6594–6603. 2019GL082327/

• Aguirre-Gutierrez, J.; Oliveras I.; Rifai S.; Fauset S.; Adu-Bredu S.; Affum-Baffou K.; Baker T.; Feldspausch T.; Gvozdevaite A.; Hubau H.; Kraft N.; Lewis S.; Moore S.; Niiements U.; Prepah T.; Phillips O.; Zieminska K.; Enquist B.; Malhi Y. (2019). Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought. Ecology Letters, doi:10.1111/ele.13243.

• Cardoso A.W. , Oliveras I., Abernethy K; Jeffery K.; Lehmann D.; Edzant Ndong J.; McGregor I.; Belcher C.M.; Bond W.J.; Malhi Y. Quality over quantity: grass species flammability, not biomass, decreases fire intensity at tropical forest-savanna transitions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 1, 6.

• Rifai S.W.; Girardin C.A.J., Berenguer E.; del Aguila Pasquel J.; Dahlsjö C.A.D.; Doughty C.E.; Jeffery K.J.; Moore S.; Oliveras I.; Riutta T.; Rowland L.M., Burton C.; Murakami A.A.; Addo-Danso S.D.; Evouna Ondo F.; Duah-Gyamfi A.; Farfán Amézquita F.; Freitag R.; Hancco Pacha F.; Huaraca Huasco W.; Ibrahim F.; T. Mbou A.; Mihindou Mihindou V.; Peixoto K.S.; Rocha W.; Rossi L.C.; Seixas M., Silva-Espejo J.E.; Adu-Bredu S.; Abernethy K.A.; Barlow J.; da Costa A.C.L.; Ferreira J.; Gardner T.; Marimon, B.S.; Marimon-Junior, B.H.; Meir P.; Metcalfe D.B.;  Phillips O.; White L.T.J.; Malhi Y. (2018) ENSO drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics through atmospheric and soil water droughts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

• Gvozdevaite A.; Oliveras I.; Domingues D.; Prepah T.; Boakey M.; Afriyie L.; Peixoto da Silva K.; de Farias J.; Almeida de Oliveira E.; Almeida Farias C.; dos Santos Prestes N.; Neyret M.; Moore S. Marimon Schwantes B.; Marimon-Junior B. Adu-Bredu S.; Malhi, Y. (2018) Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity dynamics in relation to soil and foliar nutrients along forest-savanna ecotones in Ghana and Brazil. Tree Physiology, 38(12)1912-1925.

• Thomson E., Malhi Y., Bartholomeus,H., Oliveras I., Gvozdevaite A., Peprah T., Suomalainen J., Quansah J., Seidu J., Adonteng C., Abraham A., Herold M., Adu-Bredu S., Doughty C. (2018) Mapping the Leaf Economic Spectrum across West African Tropical Forests Using UAV-Acquired Hyperspectral Imagery. Remote Sensing 10: 1532.

• Visakorpi, K., Gripenberg, S., Malhi, Y., Bolas, C., Oliveras, I., Harris, N., Rifai, S., Riutta, T., Indirect plant responses to insect hervibory cause major suppression of canopy photosynthesis. New Phytologist.

• Da Silva A.P., Mews H.A., Marimon-Junior B.H., Oliveira E., Morandi P.S., Oliveras I., Marimon B.S. Recurrent wildfires drives rapid taxonomic homogenization of seasonally flooded Neotropical forests. Environmental Conservation, 1-9, doi:10.1017/S0376892918000127.

• Janssen T.; Mitchard E.T.A.; Adu-Bredu S.; Veenendaal E.; Ametsisi G.; Oliveras I.; Collins M. (2018) Extending the baseline of tropical dry forest loss in Ghana (1984-2015) reveals drivers of major deforestation inside a protected area. Biological Conservation 218: 163-172.

• Veenendaal, E.M., Torello-Raventos, M., Miranda, H.S., Sato, N.M., Oliveras, I., van Langevelde, F., Asner, G.P., Lloyd J. (2018) On the relationship between fire regime and vegetation structure in the terrestrial tropics: A quantitative analysis of the burning question. New Phytologist 218: 153-166.

• Pastor E., Oliveras I.; Urquiaga-Flores E., Quintano-Loayza J.A.; Manta M.I., Planas E. (2018) A new method for performing smouldering combustion experiments in peatlands and organic-rich soils. International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (12), 1040-105.

• Oliveras, I., Román-Cuesta RM, Urquiaga-Flores E., Quintano-Loyaza A., Kala J., Lizárraga N., Zans G., López E., López D., Torres I., Enquist B.J., Malhi Y.  (2018) Fire effects and ecological recovery pathways of Tropical Montane Cloud forests along a time chronosequence. Global Change Biology 24(2) 758-772. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13951.

• Moore, S., Adu-Bredu, S., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Ibrahim, F., M’Bou, A.T., Gvozdevaite, A., Oliveras, I., Valentini, R., Nicolini, G., Ruiz-Jaen, M.C., Malhi, Y. (2018) Forest biomass, productivity and carbon cycling along a rainfall gradient in West Africa. Global Change Biology, 24(2). DOI: 10.1111/gcb.1390.

• Oliver, V., Oliveras, I., Kala, J., Lever, R. and Teh, Y.A. (2017) The effect of burning and grazing on soil carbon dynamics in managed Peruvian tropical grasslands. Biogeosciences 14: 5633-5646.

• van Puijenbroek, M; Teichmann, C., Meijdam, N., Oliveras, I.; Berendse, F.; Limpens, J. (2017) Does salt stress constrain spatial distribution of dune building grasses Ammophila arenaria and Elytrichia juncea on the beach?" Ecology and Evolution, 7 (18), 7290-7303.

• Oliveras, I., Malhi, Y. (2016). Many shades of green: the dynamic forest-savanna transitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: 371: 20150308.

• Neyret M., Patrick Bentley L., Oliveras I., Marimon B.S., Marimon Júnior B.H., Almeida de Oliveira E., Barbosa Passos F., Castro Ccosco R., Santos J., Matias Reis S., Morandi P.S., Rayme Paucar G., Robles Cáceres A., Valdez Tejera Y., Ylanes Choque Y., Salinas N., Shenkin A., Asner G.P., Diaz S., Enquist B.J., Malhi Y. (2016) Examining variation in the leaf mass per area of dominant species across two contrasting tropical gradients in light of community assembly. Ecology and Evolution, 6(16): 5674 - 5689.

• Cardoso A., Medina-Vega J., Malhi Y., Ametsisi G., Adu-Bredu S., Oliveras, I. (2016) Winners and losers: tropical forest tree seedling survival accros a West African forest-savanna transition. Ecology and Evolution, 6: 3417-3429.

• Devisscher T., Malhi Y., Rojas Landivar V.D., Oliveras I. (2016) Understanding ecological transitions under recurrent wildfire: A case study in the seasonally dry tropical forests of the Chiquitania, Bolivia Forest Ecology and Management, 360: 273-286.

2011-2015

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• Oliveras I., Girardin C., Doughty C., Cahuana N., Estefani-Arenas C., Huarasca W., Malhi Y. Andean grasslands are as productive as tropical montane cloud forests (2014) Environmental Research Letters 9: 115011.

• Román-Cuesta R.M.; Carmona-Moreno C.; Lizcaino G.; New M.; Silman M.; Knoke T; Malhi Y.; Oliveras I.; Asbjornsen, H.; Vuille, M. (2014) Synchronous fire activity in the tropical high Andes: indication of a regional climate forcing. Global Change Biology 20(6): 1929-1942.

• Oliveras I.; Anderson L.; Malhi Y. (2014) Application of remote sensing to understanding fire regimes and biomass burning emissions of the Tropical Andes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 28(4): 480-496.

• Oliveras I.; Van der Eyndeen M.; Malhi Y.; Menor-Salazar C.; Cahuana N.; Zamora F; Torbjorn T (2014) Allometric equation for high altitude grassland in the southern Peruvian Andes. Austral Ecology 39(4): 408-415.

• Oliveras I.; Malhi Y.; Salinas N.; Huaman V.; Urquiaga-Flores E.; Kala-Mamani J.; Quintano-Loaiza J.A.; Cuba-Torres I.; Lizarraga-Morales N.; Roman-Cuesta R.M. (2014) Species and individual traits determine changes in forest structure and composition after fire in tropical montane cloud forests near the Andean treeline. Plant Ecology and Diversity 7: 329-340.

• Oliveras I.; Meirelles S.T.; Hirakuri V.L.; Freitas C.R.; Miranda H.S.; Pivello V.R. (2013) How do fire regimes affect herbaceous nutrient contents in a Brazilian open savanna? International Journal of Wildland Fire 22: 368-380.

• Roman-Cuesta R.M.; Salinas N.; Asbjornsen H.; Oliveras I.; Huaman V.; Gutierrez Y.; Puelles L.; Kala J.; Yabar D.; Rojas M.; Astete R.; Jordan D.; Silman M.; Mosandl R.; Weber M.; Stimm B.; Gunter S.; Knoke T.; Malhi Y. (2011). Implications of fires on carbon budgets in Andean Cloud Montane Forest: the importance of peat-soils and tree resprouting. Forest Ecology and Management 261: 1987-1997.

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2001- 2010

• Pivello V.R.; Oliveras I.; Meirelles; S.T.; Miranda; H.S.; Haridasan M.; Sato M.N. (2010) Effect of periodical burnings on soil nutrient availability in an open savanna. Plant and Soil 337: 111-123.

• Llorens P.; Poyatos R.; Latron J.; Delgado J.; Oliveras I.; Gallart, F. (2010). A multi-year study of rainfall and soil water control son Scots pine transpiration under Mediterranean mountain conditions. Hydrological Processes 24:3053-3064.

• Oliveras I.; Gracia M.; Retana J. (2009) Factors influencing fire severity in a large wildfire under extreme meteorological conditions. International Journal of Wildland Fire 18: 755-764.

• Oliveras I.; Bell T. (2008) Analysis of the Australian literature on prescribed burning. Journal of Forestry 106: 31-37.

• Oliveras I.; Piñol J.; Viegas D.X. (2006) Generalisation of the Fire Line Rotation Model to Curved Fire Lines. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15: 447-456.

• Bell T.; Oliveras I. (2006) Perceived benefits of prescribed burning in a local forest community of Victoria, Australia. Environmental management 38: 867 - 878.

• Viegas D.X.; Oliveras I.; Rossa C.; Piñol P. (2006) Fireline Rotation Model. In: Forest Ecology and Management 234, s1 (283), p15.

• Oliveras I.; Viegas D.X.; Piñol J. (2005) Modelling the long term effect of changes in fire frequency on the total area burnt. Orsis 20: 73 – 81.

• Oliveras I.; Martinez-Vilalta J.; Jimenez-Ortiz T.; Lledó M.J.; Escarré A.; Piñol J. (2003) Hydraulic properties of Pinus pinea and Tetraclinis articulata in a dune ecosystem of Eastern Spain. Plant Ecology, 131-141.

• Llorens, P., Oliveras, I., Poyatos, R. (2003) Temporal variability of water fluxes in a Pinus sylvestris forest patch in a Mediterranean catchment. International Association for the Hydrological Sciences 278: 101-105.

• Martinez-Vilalta J.; Prat E.; Oliveras I.; Piñol J. (2002) Hydraulic properties of roots and stems of nine woody species from an oak forest in NE Spain. Oecologia 133: 19 – 29.

• Oliveras I.; Llorens P. (2001). Medium term sap flux monitoring in a Scots pine stand: analysis of the operability of the heat dissipation method for hydrological purposes. Tree Physiology 21: 473-480.