讲座简介：

Dendroecology has undergone a clear shift in recent years, moving beyond its traditional role of reconstructing past climate variability from tree rings toward a more process-based and predictive science. This transition is driven by the growing need to understand how forests respond to increasingly frequent and severe droughts, warming, and disturbance regimes. I will focus on how tree-ring research is now being used to quantify forest resilience, identify early-warning signals of decline and mortality, and link wood formation processes to environmental constraints. I will further discuss how recent advances allow dendroecology to bridge scales from cellular wood formation to ecosystem-level dynamics.

主讲人简介：

Jesús Julio Camarero is a Senior Research Scientist at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE-CSIC) in Spain. His research focuses on forest ecology and climate change, with a particular emphasis on forest regeneration, growth dynamics, dieback and mortality, and range expansion processes, aiming to understand how forests respond and adapt to ongoing climate change. He has authored more than 10 books and numerous influential papers published in leading journals including Science, PNAS, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Plants, Nature Geoscience, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Global Change Biology, Ecology, and Journal of Ecology. He is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher with over 40,000 citations and an H-index of 100. He has also served on the editorial boards of major journals such as Global Change Biology and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.