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
- CV:
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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
Taller trees exhibit greater hydraulic vulnerability in southern Amazonian forests
Part of Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2024
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
- DOI for Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests
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Hydraulic traits of Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. (Bignoniaceae) in the Southwest Amazon
Part of Revista Árvore, 2023
- DOI for Hydraulic traits of Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. (Bignoniaceae) in the Southwest Amazon
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All publications
Articles in journal
Taller trees exhibit greater hydraulic vulnerability in southern Amazonian forests
Part of Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2024
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
Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests
Part of Nature, p. 111-117, 2023
- DOI for Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests
- Download full text (pdf) of Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests
Hydraulic traits of Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. (Bignoniaceae) in the Southwest Amazon
Part of Revista Árvore, 2023
- DOI for Hydraulic traits of Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. (Bignoniaceae) in the Southwest Amazon
- Download full text (pdf) of Hydraulic traits of Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. (Bignoniaceae) in the Southwest Amazon