Dr. Rubén D. Manzanedo

Contact mails: rdmanzanedo@fas.harvard.edu / rdmanzanedo@hotmail.com

OrcID: 0000-0001-6592-7235

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Education and Jobs:       

2019 – 2020. Postdoc. University of Washington and Harvard University. Suported by SNSF Post Doc Mobility

2017 – 2019. Postdoc. Harvard University and University of Washington. Supported by SNSF Early Post Doc Mobility

2016 – 2017. Laborant II. University of Bern

2013 – 2017. PhD candidate in Plant Ecology and Evolution. University of Bern. Supervisors: Dr. Markus Fischer & Dr. Eric Allan.

PhD Dissertation    “Drivers of adaptation and intra-specific variability in dominant tree species” PhD Grade: 6/6, summa cum laude

2011 – 2012. Scientific and academic coordinator. IDAF-UCO (Center for Research Applied to Development in Agroforestry, University of Córdoba)

2010 – 2011. MSc in Climate Change, Natural Resources and Sustainability. University of Córdoba

2007 – 2010. BSc diploma in Forest Engineering. University of Córdoba

2005 – 2007. Undergraduate minor in Agricultural Engineering. University of Extremadura

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Participation in research projects

2019 – 2020. The effect of discrete and long.-term processes on forest growth synchrony. Swiss National Science Foundation (grant # P400PB_183840)

2017 – 2019. Synchrony in forest growth: from the global to the local scale. Swiss National Science Foundation (grant # P2BEP3_175293)

2014. Forest diversity and Intra-specific variability (ForInDiv). Trees4Future supported project. EU 7th Framework Program

2013 – 2015. Functional significance of forest biodiversity. FunDivEUROPE. European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013 grant # 265171)

2012 – 2013. Functional diversity and resilience in Mediterranean forests. Economy and Competitivity Ministry. Government of Spain.

2012. Institutional strengthen of Faculty of Agronomical Sciences, implementation of a Selvicultural Degree in Universidad Agostinho Neto (Republic of Angola). Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID). Government of Spain.

2011. Assistance to the study of pine decay. EGMASA, Department of Environment. Government of Andalusia.

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Supervision of junior researchers

           As part of my work in the University of Córdoba and IDAF, I collaborated in the BSc Thesis or MSc Thesis of 9 students (Kathelyn Paredes from Bolivia; Euclides Januário from Angola; Laura Ruiz Tudela, José Antonio Rojo, Julia Bohórquez, and Isaac Parejo, from Spain; Sarita Bassil from Lebanon; and Moustafa Ousmana and Ibrahima Sangare III, from Morocco). In the University of Bern, I assisted Federica N. Schanz in her Practicum research to finish her Biology BSc. In Harvard University, I started collaborating in the PhD thesis of Junzhou Zhang, visiting PhD-candidate in Harvard University from Lanzhou University, China, and Shoudong Zhao, PhD-candidate in Beijing Normal University, China. PhD-candidate from Lanzhou University, Jiajia Su, solicited state support to visit the University of Washington to work with Janneke HilleRisLambers and with me as part of a 1-year short stay in the United States for his PhD. All this were done with the approval and support of their official supervising professors. 

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Teaching activities:

Participation in 4 workshops coordinated by the University of Córdoba and the Autonomous University Gabriel René Moreno:

• Workshop of dendrochronology applied to tropical forest species, 2nd edition (Personal translation from Spanish). University of Córdoba and Autonomous University Gabriel René Moreno. Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Bolivia. Oct. 2012. (Coordination and teaching)

• Workshop of dendrochronology applied to ecological studies and forest management, 2nd Edition. On-line course (Personal translation from Spanish). University of Córdoba. Córdoba. Spain. Sep. 2011. (Coordination and teaching)

• Workshop of dendrochronology applied to ecological studies and forest management (Personal translation from Spanish). University of Córdoba. Córdoba. Spain. May 2011. (Coordination and teaching)

• Workshop of dendrochronology applied to tropical species (Personal translation from Spanish). Autonomous University Gabriel René Moreno. Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Bolivia. Oct. 2011. (Coordination and teaching)

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Memberships in panels, boards, etc. and individual scientific reviewing activities:

•Scientific reviewer for: Journal of Ecology, Climatic Change, Science of the Total Environment, Ecology and Evolution, Forest Ecology and Management, Forests, Tuexenia, Tree-Ring Research, Trees, Folia Geobotanica, and Sustainability.
•Scientific reviewer for project funding for the Swiss National Science Foundation 
•Guest Editorial Board Member for Scientific Data (http://www.nature.com/scientificdata). 

•Member of the Ecological Society of America, British Ecological Society, and the Tree Ring Society.

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Prizes, awards, fellowships:

• Top 10 candidate for the ‘PIs of Tomorrow: The future of Swiss research’ session at the upcoming FEBS3+ Life Sciences Switzerland Annual Meeting 2020 (4 candidates won this contest).

• Program for short stays of professors and scientist of prestige by IISTA, Institute of Earth System Investigations of Andalusia (Spain), to give the inaugural talk in the international lecture series “Challenges and perspectives of silviculture and forest ecology in a climate change context”. Córdoba. 2019. (Personal translations). Universisty of Córdoba. Spain. 2019.

• Young Academics Support to participation in International Meetings. Faculty of Sciences, University of Bern. 2016.

• Young Academics Support to participation in International Meetings. Faculty of Sciences, University of Bern. 2014.

• Ubbo Emmius Talent Scholarship 2013. University of Groningen. 2013. Declined to join the University of Bern.

• Granted Student Assistant. Ministery of Education. Government of Spain. 2009-2010.

• International Cooperation Grant UCO-5B. University of Córdoba. 2010.

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Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals (23)

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• Manzanedo RD, & Manning P. 2020. COVID-19: lessons for the climate emergency. Science of the Total Environment. In Press

• Manzanedo RD. 2020. Review: Dendroecology: principles and practices. Tree Ring Research. In Press.

• Manzanedo RD, Fischer M, Navarro-Cerrillo RM, & Allan E. 2019. A new approach to study local adaptation in long-lived woody species: virtual transplant experiments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10:1761-1772.

• Zhang X, Manzanedo RD, D'Orangeville L, Rademacher TT, Li J, Bai X, Hou M, Chen Z, Zou F, Song F, & Pederson N. 2019 Snowmelt and early-mid growing season water augment tree growth during rapid warming in dry Asian boreal forests. Global Change Biology. In Press.

• Manzanedo RD, & Pederson N. 2019. Towards a more ecological dendroecology. Tree-Ring Research, 75(2): 152-159.

• Zheng W, Gou X, Su J, Liu W, Fan H, Manzanedo RD, & Fonti P. Physiological and growth responses to increasing drought of an endangered tree-species in southwest China. Forests, 10(6): 514.

• Zhang X, Bai X, Hou M, Chen Z, & Manzanedo RD. 2019. Warmer winter temperatures trigger rapid growth of dahurian larch in the permafrost forests of northeast China. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, doi: 10.1029/2018JG004882.

• Penone C, Allan E, Soliveres S, Felipe-Lucía MR, Gossner MM, Seibold S, Simons NK, Schall P, Van der Plas F, Manning P, Manzanedo RD, Prati D, Ammer C, Bauhus J, Buscot F, Ehbrecht M, Goldman K, Jung K, Müller JC, Pena R, Polle A, Renner SC, Ruess L, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Solly E, Tschapka M, Weisser WW, Wubet T & Fischer M. 2019.  Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features. Ecology Letters, 00:1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13182.

• Zhao S, Pederson N, D’Orangeville L, HilleRisLambers J, Boose E, Penone C, Bauer B, Yiang Y & Manzanedo RD. 2018. The International Tree Ring Data Bank (ITRDB) revisited: data availability and global ecological representativity. Journal of Biogeography, 00:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13488

• Manzanedo RD, Schanz F, Fischer M & Allan E. 2018. Plant-soil interactions in Fagus sylvatica saplings: the role of local adaptation and drought. BMC Ecology, 18:42.

• Zhang J, Gou X, Manzanedo RD, Zhang F & Pederson N. 2018. Cambial phenology and xylogenesis of Juniperus przewalskii over a climatic gradient influenced by both temperature and drought. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 260: 165-175 .

• Manzanedo RD, Ballesteros-Cánovas J, Schenk F, Stoffel M, Fischer M & Allan E. 2018. Interactions between drivers can alter species responses to climate change: the case of European lianas. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4388.

• Navarro-Cerrillo RM, Duque-Lazo J, Manzanedo RD, Sánchez-Salguero R & Palacios-Rodríguez G. 2018. Climate change threatens the southernmost Pinus nigra populations: An assembled niche-based approach. iForest – Biogeosciences and Forestry, 11: 396-405.

• Zhao S, Jiang Y, Dong M, Xu H, Manzanedo RD, Pederson N. 2018. Early monsoon failure and mid-summer dryness induces growth cessation of lower range margin Picea crassifolia. Trees 1-13.

• Navarro-Cerrillo RM, Sánchez-Salguero R, Herrera R, Ceacero Ruiz CJ, Moreno-Rojas JM, Manzanedo RD & López-Quintanilla J. 2016. Contrasting growth and water use efficiency after thinning in mixed Abies pinsapo-Pinus pinaster-Pinus sylvestris forests. Journal of Forest Science 62: 53-64.

• Navarro-Cerrillo RM, Sánchez-Salguero R, Manzanedo RD, Camarero JJ & Fernández-Cancio A. 2014. Site and age condition the growth responses to climate and drought of relict Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii populations in southern Spain. Tree-Ring Research 70: 145-155.

• Navarro-Cerrillo RM, Camarero JJ, Manzanedo RD, Sánchez-Cuesta R, López Quintanilla J & Sánchez Salguero R. 2014. Regeneration of Abies pinsapo within gaps created by Heterobasidion annosum-induced tree mortality in southern Spain. iForest – Biogeosciences and Forestry 208: e1-e7.

• Sánchez-Salguero R, Camarero JJ, Dobbertin M, Fernández-Cancio A, Vilá-Cabrera A, Manzanedo RD, Zavala MA & Navarro-Cerrillo RM. 2013. Contrasting vulnerability and resilience to drought-induced decline of densely planted vs. natural rear-edge Pinus nigra forests. Forest Ecology and Management 310: 956-967.

• Camarero JJ, Manzanedo RD, Sánchez-Salguero R & Navarro-Cerrillo RM. 2013. Growth response to climate and drought change along an aridity gradient in the southernmost Pinus nigra relict forests. Annals of Forest Science 70: 769-780.

• Paredes-Villanueva K, Sánchez-Salguero R, Manzanedo RD, Quevedo Sopepi R, Palacios G & Navarro-Cerrillo RM. 2013. Growth rate and climatic response of Machaerium scleroxylon in a dry tropical forest in southeastern Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Tree-Ring Research 69: 63-79.

• Navarro-Cerrillo RM, Manzanedo RD, Bohorque J, Sánchez R, Sánchez J, de Miguel S, Solano D, Qarro M, Griffith D & Palacios G. 2013. Structure and spatio-temporal dynamics of cedar forests along a management gradient in the Middle Atlas, Morocco. Forest Ecology and Management 289: 341-353.

• Plaza I, Manzanedo RD, Palacios G, Benabid A, Cerrillo RMN. 2012. Nuevas aportaciones a la distribución de Pinus nigra Arnold, subsp. mauretanica (Maire & Peyerimh) Heywood en el Rif (Marruecos). Folia Botanica Extremadurensis 6: 19-27. (Non-indexed journal)

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Oral Contributions to international conferences

• Session Organizer and Chair: "Embracing the tempüoral dimension of ecology". British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2019. Belfast, Northern Ireland

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• 2020 Interdisciplinary conference on Humanities, Social Sciences, Medicine, Biology and Mathematics, Natural & Engineering Sciences. 'Evidence of unprecedented rise in growth synchrony from global tree ring records". Organized by SwissNex. On-line. June-July 2020.

• BES Annual Meeting 2019. "Long-term changes in global tree-growth synchrony using tree ring big data". Belfast, Northern Ireland. December. 2019

• WorldDendro18. “ITRDB in ecological research: challenges and opportunities”. Bhutan. June.2018.

• ESA2017. “Biotic and abiotic drivers of local adaptation in European dominant species”. Portland, Oregon, USA. August.2017.

• Ameridendro16. “Local adaptation and dendrochronology: new paths in ecology and tree-ring science”. Mendoza, ARG. Mar. 2016.

• IUFRO Landscape Ecology Conference. “Local adaptation and climate change”. Tartu, EST. Aug. 2015.

• 24th IUFRO World Congress. “Forest biodiversity and local adaptation in dominant European tree species”. Salt Lake City, USA. Oct. 2014.

• ClimTree 2013. “Effects of forest biodiversity on local adaptation to climate”. Zurich, SWI. Sep. 2013.

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Outreach activities (e.g. public engagement in science, technology and knowledge transfer activities, scientific art performances, etc.)

• Participation in the 2018 Summer Research Program of Harvard Forest http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/other-tags/reu, which offers support for undergraduate students from all over United States, particularly from traditionally marginalized groups, to receive mentoring and research experience from international scientists. Participation as day seminar speaker.

• Manuscript revision for the book chapter Pederson N, Stan AB, Ariya U, Martín-Benito D. 2018. “Low Hanging DendroDynamic Fruits in Temperate, Mesic Forests”. Amoroso MM, Daniels LD, Baker PJ, Camarero (editors) “Dendroecology. Tree-Ring Analyses Applied to Ecological Studies”. Vol. 231. Springer (acknowledged as R. Delgado).

• Poster design for Biology17, “the Annual Swiss Conference in Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Conservation”, held in Bern 2-3 February 2017 that joins every year academics related with those fields from all over Switzerland.

• Figure design in the research paper “Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality” by Soliveres et al. 2016 in Nature:  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v536/n7617/full/nature19092.html.

• Speaker in the annual activities organized by Córdoba Public Penitentiaries to promote ecological views and scientific understanding in the Spanish inmates. 2012. 
• Invited speaker in the outreach activity “XIII Technical Speaks on the English Yew and the Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Mountains” to increase the public awareness on the scientific activities to understand how climate change will affect the dry ecosystems in south Spanish mountains.

 

Mentions in mass media:
-    https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060322135 (related to Zhang et al. 2019)
-    https://e360.yale.edu/digest/global-warming-is-fueling-growth-spurts-in-some-of-chinas-oldest-trees (related to Zhang et al. 2019)
-    -http://uco.edu.es/servicios/actualidad/vida-academica/item/133375-analizan-los-efectos-del-cambio-global-en-los-anillos-de-crecimiento-de-los-arboles (related to the IISTA international conference series keynote talk). 
-    https://phys.org/news/2018-12-million-tree-stories-accessible-science.html (related to Zhao et al. 2018)
-    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/hu-nsm121118.php (related to Zhao et al. 2018)
-    https://helvia.uco.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10396/7851/innovacion16.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (related to the creation of the University Forest in Montes de Málaga, associated with the award on education innovation by the University of Córdoba).
 

Invited speaker in: 
• Universidad de Extremadura (Spain, 2020)
• University of Columbia (USA, 2018)
• Lanzhou University (China, 2018)
• Harvard University (USA, 2018)
• University of Bern (Switzerland, 2015 and 2016)
• Universidad de Córdoba (Spain, 2013 and 2019)
• Universidad Gabriel René Moreno (Bolivia, 2012)

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Current institutional responsibilities:     Steward of University of Washington Postdocs, Biology 

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