Dr. Daniela Yaffar de La Fuente

Postdoc

Functional Forest Ecology

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Key aspects of activity

• Root trait tradeoffs and synergies for nutrient acquisition and water uptake in tropical moist forests
• Tree root responses to global changes (e.g. drought, hurricane, increase of CO2)
• Fine-scale ecological interactions between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi
• Root ecology and modelling integration
• Plant physiology
• I am an ecosystem ecologist. My main interest is understanding the effects of climate change on forest functioning. Specifically, how climatic disturbances (warming, elevated CO2, drought) may affect the rhizosphere (soil-roots-microbes interaction). Most of my experience is based on tropical forests; thus, a great part of my current research and future interest is on tropical ecosystems which are underrepresented in global databases and global ecosystem models.