Last week, Martina Sanchez Pinillos successfully defended her Master Thesis, entitled 'Assessing forest response-type diversity to natural disturbances in Peninsular Spain and the Balearic Islands'. Martina has elaborated a thorough response-trait database for most woody species in the Spanish Forest Inventory (IFN) and has calculated several indices to assess forest resilience to the main abiotic disturbances (fire, drought and windstorms). This work will contribute to advance in the understanding of the main traits that promote forest resilience, and to assess how resilience distributes across biomes, regions, and forest types.
Martina's work has been mentored by Lluís Coll, (CTFC - FiDBosc), and Aitor Ameztegui (UQAM), and supervised by Santiago Saura (UPM). The defence took place last Thursday (July, 10th) at the School of Forestry of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and the board was composed by Rafael Escribano, Juan Oliet and Carmen Collada, professors at the UPM. Martina will soon start her PhD at FiDBosc, supervised by Lluís and Aitor.
Congratulations, Martina!
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| Martina, during the defence |
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