Cristina C Bastias

I am a dynamic plant ecologist working on elucidating forest responses to global change and its links to forest functioning and the maintenance of biodiversity. My research lines combine concepts, hypotheses, and theories from different disciplines to understand processes occurring at community level such as recruitment and species assembly to population and species levels like phenotypic variation / coordination and plasticity along bioclimatic gradients. I have been developing these research lines from awarding of a competitive FPU grant to develop my PhD at MNCN-CSIC (Madrid) and later with three more competitive postdoctoral grants working at prestigious and reference centers in the ecology and forestry areas. For instance, I benefited two-years contract funded by Ramón Areces Foundation at CEFE-CNRS (France), where I assessed ecological and molecular aspects of intraspecific phenotypic variation and plasticity to different climate stressors and across biogeographical ranges. I have also been awarded a three-years Junta Andalucía contract at Cordoba University (Cordoba, Spain), where I am currently working on Mediterranean forest functioning along aridity gradient.