Juli G. Pausas


Plant ecology scientist at Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE, Valencia, Spain) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC; the Spanish National Research Council). My research focuses on ecology and evolution of mediterranean vegetation, and specifically on understanding the role of fire in shaping plant species, populations, communities and landscapes. Brief Curriculum Vitae [cv].

Research interest: fire ecology, regeneration ecology, plant functional traits, evolution of fire traits, post-fire regeneration, Mediterranean vegetation, vegetation dynamics and modelling, diversity patterns.

juli pausas
  • Publications (PDF): [by year | by topic | by journal | selected papers | books]
  • BROT database: plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species [brot]
  • LASS: Landscape Analysis and Simulation Shell (software) [lass]
  • Books: Cork Oak Woodlands and Fire Ecology [books]
  • Research lines & projects: Ecology in fire-prone ecosystems [projects]
  • Notes on Mediterranean trees and large shrubs [MedTrees]
  • Homage to Darwin (200th birthday): Human evolution
  • What the press says .... [read] (in Spanish)
  • Divulgación [leer] (in Spanish)
  • MEDECOS Special session on Fire & Evolution (Sept 2011)

  • Address:

    CIDE-CSIC
    Ctra. Nàquera Km. 4.5 (IVIA)
    46113 Montcada
    Valencia
    SPAIN
    [location map]

    Tel: (+34) 963 424124
    Tel: (+34) 963 424162
    Fax: (+34) 963 424160
    www.uv.es/jgpausas

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    Cork oak book

    Fire book New!
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  • The Baccharis project asks for colaborations
  • Pausas J.G. & Paula S. (in press). Fuel shapes the fire-climate relationship: evidence from Mediterranean ecosystems. Global Ecol. & Biogeogr. [doi | preprint]
  • Pons, J. and Pausas, J.G. (in press). The coexistence of acorns with different maturation patterns explains acorn production variability in Cork oak. Oecologia [doi | preprint]
  • Moreira B., Tormo J, Pausas J.G. (in press). To resprout or not to resprout: factors driving intraspecific variability in resprouting. Oikos [doi | preprint]
  • He et al. 2012. Fire-adapted traits of Pinus arose in the fiery Cretaceous. New Phytologist 194: 751-759. [doi | wiley | pdf (suppl.)]
  • Pausas J.G. & Moreira B. 2012. Flammability as a biological concept. New Phytologist 194: 610-613. [doi | pdf]
  • Pausas, J. G., Schwilk, D. W. 2012. Fire and plant evolution. New Phytologist, 193:301-303. [doi | pdf]
  • Pausas J.G., Alessio G., Moreira B. & Corcobado G. 2012. Fires enhance flammability in Ulex parviflorus. New Phytol. 193: 18-23. [doi | pdf]
  • Moreira B., Tavsanoglu Ç., Pausas J.G. 2012. Local vs regional intraspecific variability in regeneration traits. Oecologia 168: 671-677. [doi | pdf]
  • Pausas J.G. & Fernández-Muñoz S. 2012. Fire regime changes in the Western Mediterranean Basin: from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire regime. Climatic Change 110: 215-226. [doi | springer | pdf]
  • Keeley J.E., Pausas J.G., Rundel P.W., Bond W.J., and Bradstock R.A. 2011. Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits. Trends in Plant Science 16(8): 406-411. [doi | pdf]
  • Kattge et al. 2011. TRY - a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17: 2905-2935. [doi | pdf]
  • Bugalho et al. 2011. Mediterranean Cork oak savannas require human use to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services. Front. Ecol. Envir. 9: 278-286. [doi | pdf] [Podcast ]
  • Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2011. Root traits explain different foraging strategies between resprouting life histories. Oecologia 165:321-331. [doi | pdf]
  • Gómez-González S, et al. 2011. Anthropogenic fires increase alien and native annual species in the Chilean coastal matorral. Diver. Distr. 17: 58-67. [doi] [PDF]
  • and more ...


  • "A world without fires is like a sphere without roundness, i.e., we cannot imagine it" (Pausas & Keeley 2009)

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