María Trinidad Torres García
My research combines plant ecophysiology and biodiversity conservation. At CREAF, I work on the CapaciTree project, funded by the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships.
I did my PhD at the University of Almería on the functioning of a water-limited ecosystem dominated by the phreatophytic shrub Ziziphus lotus. When I finished my PhD, I moved to Sweden where I worked for the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at the Southern Swedish Forest Research Center located in Alnarp. At SLU, I have developed my research lines in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation in forest ecosystems, with particular attention to tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) and forest resilience to drought. I have also worked as postdoc at the Institute of Ecology of Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) where I was involved in a project on the functional ecology and restoration of grasslands.
At CREAF, I work on the CapaciTree project, funded by the MSCA postdoctoral fellowships. This project combines labelling experiments with isotopically enriched water with new techniques to selectively extract water from different woody tissues, to quantify and characterize hydraulic capacitance in trees,vspecifically the refilling and storage-use dynamics, and its contribution to transpiration.
