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Dr Teresa E. Gimeno joined the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment in February 2012 as a postdoctoral fellow. Her fellowship is linked to a projected led by Prof. David Ellsworth aiming at elucidating the hydrological consequences of increased atmospheric CO₂.

Previously, Dr Gimeno was engaged as a joint postdoctoral fellow (2011) between the University Rey Juan Carlos and the National Museum of Natural Sciences (Madrid, Spain). During this period, she was in charge of the technical set up and site characterization for a European project assessing the effects of forest tree diversity on ecosystem services.

Dr Gimeno completed her PhD in February 2011, conducted at the Institute of Natural Resources (Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain), under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Escudero and Prof. Fernando Valladares. During her PhD, she studied the impact of two global change drivers (climate and land use change) on the Mediterranean-continental forest, a poorly understood biome. Teresa completed her PhD training with three internships in different institutions: the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), under the supervision of Prof. O. K. Atkin; l’Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada), supervised by Dr. Christian Messier and finally, l’Institut de la Recherche Agroforesterie de Nancy (France), at Prof. Erwin Dreyer’s lab. Teresa’s PhD was very closely related to her project from her MSc. degree in Science and Environmental Technology (University Rey Juan Carlos 2008, Madrid, Spain), when she had the chance to conduct her first leading experiment in plant ecophysiology. Prior to that, she studied her degree in Biology at the Universidad de Navarra, (2006 Pamplona, Spain). During her undergraduate studies, she did and internship at the department of Microbiology and worked as a junior laboratory assistant in the department of Biotechnology of Miguel Torres S.A. vineyards (Vilafranca del Penedes, Spain). In the last year of her degree, she was awarded with an Erasmus scholarship to study in the Norwegian Universitet i Tromsø. There she participated in her first research project studying the environmental influence of herbivore abundance and distribution in a sub Arctic forest ecosystem.

Areas of research/teaching expertise

• Global change biology: impact of simultaneous global change drivers on ecosystem service provisioning
• Plant ecophysiology: plant-water relationships
• Dendroecology: retrospective analyses of tree rings to assess ecosystem response to environmental variations and disturbances
• Spatial ecology and plant-plant interactions: ecological processes generating non-random distribution patterns and association of organisms in space

Awards and recognition

• January 2007-December 2010. I3P/JAE Postgraduate Fellowship awarded by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
• October 2009 - Awarded with a grant from the Spanish Ecological Association (AEET) to attend to the 9th AEET Meeting, Úbeda, Spain
• September-December 2006 - Introduction to Science Fellowship awarded by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
• August 2005-June 2006. Erasmus Scholarship awarded by the Government of the Autonomous Community of Navarra (Spain)

Selected publications

Granda E, Camarero JJ, Gimeno TE, Martínez-Fernández J, Valladares F, (2013) 'Intensity and timing of warming and drought differentially affect growth patterns of co-occurring Mediterranean tree species', European Journal of Forest Research, vol.132, no.3, pp 469-480

Gimeno TE, Camarero JJ, Granda E, Pías B, Valladares F, (2012) 'Enhanced growth of Juniperus thurifera under a warmer climate is explained by a positive carbon gain under cold and drought', Tree Physiology, vol.32, no.3, pp 326-336  

Gimeno TE, Escudero A, Delgado A, Valladares F, (2012) 'Previous Land Use Alters the Effect of Climate Change and Facilitation on Expanding Woodlands of Spanish Juniper', Ecosystems, vol.15, no.4, pp 564-579

Gimeno TE, Pías B, Martínez-Fernández J, Quiroga DL, Escudero A, Valladares F, (2012) 'The decreased competition in expanding versus mature juniper woodlands is counteracted by adverse climatic effects on growth', European Journal of Forest Research, vol.131, no.4, pp 977-987

Lázaro-Nogal A, Matesanz S, Gimeno TE, Escudero A, Valladares F, (2012) 'Fragmentation modulates the strong impact of habitat quality and plant cover on fertility and microbial activity of semiarid gypsum soils', Plant and Soil, vol.358, no.s 1-2, pp 205-215  

Crous KY, Zaragoza-Castells J, Löw M, Ellsworth DS, Tissue DT, Tjoelker MG, Barton CVM, Gimeno TE, Atkin OK, (2011) 'Seasonal acclimation of leaf respiration in Eucalyptus saligna trees: impacts of elevated atmospheric CO₂ and summer drought', Global Change Biology, vol.17, pp 1560-1576

Matesanz S, Gimeno TE, de la Cruz M, Escudero A, Valladares F, (2011) 'Coexistence with a congener influences the fine-scale spatial genetic structure of a semiarid plant', Journal of Ecology, vol.99, pp 838-848

Gimeno TE, Sommerville KE, Valladares F, Atkin OK, (2010) 'Homeostasis of respiration under drought and its important consequences for carbon balance in a drier climate: insights from two contrasting Acacia species', Functional Plant Biology, vol.37, pp 323-333

Sommerville KE, Gimeno TE, Ball MC, (2010) 'Primary nerve (vein) density influences spatial heterogeneity of photosynthetic response to drought in two Acacia species', Functional Plant Biology, vol.37, pp 840-848

Pías B, Matesanz S, Herrero A, Gimeno TE, Valladares F, Escudero A, (2010) 'Transgenerational effects of three global change drivers on an endemic Mediterranean plant', Oikos, vol.119, pp 1435-1444

Gimeno TE, Pías B, Lemos-filho JP, Valladares F, (2009) 'Plasticity and stress tolerance override local adaptation in the responses of Mediterranean Holm oak seedlings to drought and cold', Tree Physiology, vol.29, pp 87-98

Rincón A, Valladares F, Gimeno TE, Pueyo JJ, (2008) 'Water stress responses of two Mediterranean tree species influenced by native soil microorganisms and inoculation with a plant growth promoting rhizobacterium', Tree Physiology, vol.28, pp 1693-1701