Julia Tavares
Researcher at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Plant Ecology and Evolution
- E-mail:
- julia.tavares@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-3784-5720
Short presentation
https://juliatavares-research.weebly.com
I am a Brazilian ecologist and National Geography Explorer interested in tropical forest ecology, with emphasis in plant ecophysiology and tropical ecosystems sensitivity/responses to environmental change.
I am currently a postdoc research fellow at Uppsala University, Sweden, where I was awarded the King Carl XVI Gustaf Foundation's prize for outstanding early-career researchers.
Keywords
- climate change
- remote sensing
- ecophysiology
- tropical forest ecology
- functional ecology
- ecosystem ecology
Media
Interview about vulnerability of Amazonian terrestrial forests to drought
On World Environment Day, the Science Bulletin talks about a study published in the journal Nature on the Diversity of Trees in the Amazon and Climate Change, led by Julia Tavares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hVG9mgICZ4&t=883s&ab_channel=CanalSa%C3%BAdeOficial
Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition: In the Flooded Forest
A bit of our project which is investigating Amazonian flooded forests' sensitivity to changes in climate. This project is part of the Rolex and National Geographic Perpetual Planet program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79EsAR9KNEM&t=12s&ab_channel=ROLEX

Publications
Recent publications
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Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance
Part of Nature Communications, 2026
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Wide variation in hydraulic safety margins across and within southern Amazon forests
Part of Journal of Ecology, 2026
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Taller trees exhibit greater hydraulic vulnerability in southern Amazonian forests
Part of Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2024
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Part of Tree Physiology, p. 159-172, 2023
- DOI for Tropical forest lianas have greater non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in the stem xylem than trees
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Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests
Part of Nature, p. 111-117, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance
Part of Nature Communications, 2026
- DOI for Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance
- Download full text (pdf) of Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance
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Wide variation in hydraulic safety margins across and within southern Amazon forests
Part of Journal of Ecology, 2026
- DOI for Wide variation in hydraulic safety margins across and within southern Amazon forests
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Taller trees exhibit greater hydraulic vulnerability in southern Amazonian forests
Part of Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2024
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Part of Tree Physiology, p. 159-172, 2023
- DOI for Tropical forest lianas have greater non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in the stem xylem than trees
- Download full text (pdf) of Tropical forest lianas have greater non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in the stem xylem than trees
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Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests
Part of Nature, p. 111-117, 2023
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Hydraulic traits of Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. (Bignoniaceae) in the Southwest Amazon
Part of Revista Árvore, 2023
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