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, Fire Ecology and Incendios forestales [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
  • Impact on the media .... [press] (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
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    Tel: (+34) 963 424124
    Tel: (+34) 963 424162
    Fax: (+34) 963 424160
    www.uv.es/jgpausas
    jgpausas.blogs.uv.es

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    Fire book



    Incendios forestales



    Cork oak book
    What's new?   
  • Dantas V. & Pausas J.G. (in press). The lanky and the corky: fire-escape strategies in savanna woody species Journal of Ecology [draft]
  • Dantas V., Batalha, MA & Pausas JG (in press). Fire drives functional thresholds on the savanna-forest transition Ecology [doi | draft]
  • Pausas J.G. 2013. No hay ciencia aplicada sin ciencia básica. El País, 13 Feb. 2013. [elpais | pdf]
  • Verdú M. & Pausas J.G. (in press). Syndrome-driven diversification in a Mediterranean ecosystem. Evolution. [doi | pdf]
  • Pausas J.G. & Ribeiro E. 2013. The global fire-productivity relationship. Global Ecol. & Biogeogr. 22: 728-736. [doi | pdf]
  • Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.2013. New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Austr. J. Bot. 61(3): 167-234. [doi | pdf]
  • Dantas et al. 2013. The role of fire in structuring trait variability in Neotropical savannas. Oecologia 171: 487-494. [doi | pdf]
  • Moreira B. & Pausas J.G. 2012. Tanned or burned: The role of fire in shaping physical seed dormancy. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51523. [doi | pdf]
  • Pausas J.G. 2012. Incendios forestales. Catarata-CSIC. [Libro]
  • The Baccharis project asks for colaborations
  • Pausas J.G. & Paula S. 2012. Fuel shapes the fire-climate relationship: evidence from Mediterranean ecosystems. Global Ecol. & Biogeogr. 21: 1074-1082. [doi | pdf]
  • Moreira B., Tormo J, Pausas J.G. 2012. To resprout or not to resprout: factors driving intraspecific variability in resprouting. Oikos 121: 1577-1584. [doi | pdf]
  • Catry et al. 2012. Cork Oak vulnerability to fire: the role of bark harvesting, tree characteristics and abiotic factors. PLoS ONE 7(6): e39810. [doi | pdf |
  • Pons, J. and Pausas, J.G. 2012. The coexistence of acorns with different maturation patterns explains acorn production variability in Cork oak. Oecologia 169: 723-731. [doi | pdf]
  • 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]
  • 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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