Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert PhD

Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor in Global Forest Ecology

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Adriane Esquivel Muelbert investigates how forests respond to different global change forces and what the implications of these responses are on biodiversity and global biogeochemical cycles. Her work demonstrates the importance of drought tolerance in shaping diversity and composition across Neotropical tree communities and provides evidence that Amazonian forests are changing as a result of the increase in water stress and atmospheric CO2. More recently, she has focused on tree mortality and how tree death varies across large geographical scales.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Ecology and Global Change - University of Leeds, UK (2017)
  • MSc (Hons) in Ecology – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2012)
  • BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences - Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (2010)

Other activities

2021 – present. External lecturer at the Ecology and Conservation postgraduate program of the State University of Mato Grosso. 

2020 – present. Member of the organizing committee of the International Tree Mortality Network. A network to understand the causes of tree mortality 

2012 – present. Member of the RAINFOR network

2020 – 2021. Invited member. Working Group 8: Climate change in the Amazon: Tendencies, Impacts and Ecological. Science Panel for the Amazon.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Flores, BM, Montoya, E, Sakschewski, B, Nascimento, N, Staal, A, Betts, RA, Levis, C, Lapola, DM, Esquível-Muelbert, A, Jakovac, C, Nobre, CA, Oliveira, RS, Borma, LS, Nian, D, Boers, N, Hecht, SB, ter Steege, H, Arieira, J, Lucas, IL, Berenguer, E, Marengo, JA, Gatti, LV, Mattos, CRC & Hirota, M 2024, 'Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system', Nature, vol. 626, no. 7999, pp. 555-564. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0

Bergamin, RS, Bastazini, VAG, Esquivel‐Muelbert, A, Bordin, KM, Klipel, J, Debastiani, VJ, Vibrans, AC, Loyola, R & Müller, SC 2024, 'Elevational shifts in tree community composition in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest related to climate change', Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 35, no. 4, e13289. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13289

Prestes, NCCS, Marimon, BS, Morandi, PS, Reis, SMDA, Junior, BHM, Cruz, WJA, Oliveira, EA, Mariano, LH, Elias, F, Santos, DM, Esquivel-Muelbert, A & Phillips, OL 2024, 'Impact of the extreme 2015-16 El Niño climate event on forest and savanna tree species of the Amazonia-Cerrado transition', Flora. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2024.152597

Liu, D, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Acil, N, Astigarraga, J, Cienciala, E, Fridman, J, Kunstler, G, Matthews, TJ, Ruiz-Benito, P, Sadler, JP, Schelhaas, M-J, Suvanto, S, Talarczyk, A, Woodall, CW, Zavala, MA, Zhang, C & Pugh, T 2024, 'Mapping multi-dimensional variability in water stress strategies across temperate forests', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 8909. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53160-1

Astigarraga, J, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Ruiz-Benito, P, Rodríguez-Sánchez, F, Zavala, MA, Vilà-Cabrera, A, Schelhaas, MJ, Kunstler, G, Woodall, CW, Cienciala, E, Dahlgren, J, Govaere, L, König, LA, Lehtonen, A, Talarczyk, A, Liu, D & Pugh, TAM 2024, 'Relative decline in density of Northern Hemisphere tree species in warm and arid regions of their climate niches', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121, no. 28, e2314899121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314899121

Biliac-Murphy et al 2024, 'The pace of life for forest trees', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 386, no. 6717, pp. 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk9616

Handy, G, Carter, I, MacKenzie, AR, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Smith, AG, Yaffar, D, Childs, J & Arnaud, M 2024, 'Variation in forest root image annotation by experts, novices, and AI', Plant Methods, vol. 20, 154. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-024-01279-z

Tavares, JV, Oliveira, RS, Mencuccini, M, Signori-Müller, C, Pereira, L, Diniz, FC, Gilpin, M, Marca Zevallos, MJ, Salas Yupayccana, CA, Acosta, M, Pérez Mullisaca, FM, Barros, FDV, Bittencourt, P, Jancoski, H, Scalon, MC, Marimon, BS, Oliveras Menor, I, Marimon, BH, Fancourt, M, Chambers-Ostler, A, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Rowland, L, Meir, P, Lola da Costa, AC, Nina, A, Sanchez, JMB, Tintaya, JS, Chino, RSC, Baca, J, Fernandes, L, Cumapa, ERM, Santos, JAR, Teixeira, R, Tello, L, Ugarteche, MTM, Cuellar, GA, Martinez, F, Araujo-Murakami, A, Almeida, E, da Cruz, WJA, del Aguila Pasquel, J, Aragāo, L, Baker, TR, de Camargo, PB, Brienen, R, Castro, W, Ribeiro, SC, Coelho de Souza, F, Cosio, EG, Davila Cardozo, N, da Costa Silva, R, Disney, M, Espejo, JS, Feldpausch, TR, Ferreira, L, Giacomin, L, Higuchi, N, Hirota, M, Honorio, E, Huaraca Huasco, W, Lewis, S, Flores Llampazo, G, Malhi, Y, Monteagudo Mendoza, A, Morandi, P, Chama Moscoso, V, Muscarella, R, Penha, D, Rocha, MC, Rodrigues, G, Ruschel, AR, Salinas, N, Schlickmann, M, Silveira, M, Talbot, J, Vásquez, R, Vedovato, L, Vieira, SA, Phillips, OL, Gloor, E & Galbraith, DR 2023, 'Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests', Nature, vol. 617, no. 7959, pp. 111-117. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05971-3

Costa, FRC, Lang, C, Sousa, TR, Emilio, T, Esquivel-Muelbert, A & Schietti, J 2023, 'Fine-grained water availability drives divergent trait selection in Amazonian trees', Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, vol. 6, 1112560. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1112560

de Lima, RB, Görgens, EB, da Silva, DAS, de Oliveira, CP, Batista, APB, Caraciolo Ferreira, RL, Costa, FRC, Ferreira de Lima, RA, da Silva Aparício, P, de Abreu, JC, da Silva, JAA, Guimaraes, AF, Fearnside, PM, Sousa, TR, Perdiz, R, Higuchi, N, Berenguer, E, Resende, AF, Elias, F, de Castilho, CV, de Medeiros, MB, de Matos Filho, JR, Sardinha, MA, Freitas, MAF, da Silva, JJ, da Cunha, AP, Santos, RM, Muelbert, AE, Guedes, MC, Imbrózio, R, de Sousa, CSC, da Silva Aparício, WC, da Silva e Silva, BM, Silva, CA, Marimon, BS, Junior, BHM, Morandi, PS, Storck-Tonon, D, Vieira, ICG, Schietti, J, Coelho, F, Alves de Almeida, DR, Castro, W, Carvalho, SPC, da Silva, RDSA, Silveira, J, Camargo, JL, Melgaço, K, de Freitas, LJM, Vedovato, L, Benchimol, M, de Oliveira de Almeida, G, Prance, G, da Silveira, AB, Simon, MF, Garcia, ML, Silveira, M, Vital, M, Andrade, MBT, Silva, N, de Araújo, RO, Cavalheiro, L, Carpanedo, R, Fernandes, L, Manzatto, AG, de Andrade, RTG, Magnusson, WE, Laurance, B, Nelson, BW, Peres, C, Daly, DC, Rodrigues, D, Zopeletto, AP, de Oliveira, EA, Dugachard, E, Barbosa, FR, Santana, F, do Amaral, IL, Ferreira, LV, Charão, LS, Ferreira, J, Barlow, J, Blanc, L, Aragão, L, Sist, P, de Paiva Salomão, R, da Silva, ASL, Laurance, S, Feldpausch, TR, Gardner, T, Santiago, W, Balee, W, Laurance, WF, Malhi, Y, Phillips, OL, da Silva Zanzini, AC, Rosa, C, Tadeu Oliveira, W, Pereira Zanzini, L, José Silva, R & Mangabeira Albernaz, AL 2023, 'Giants of the Amazon: How does environmental variation drive the diversity patterns of large trees?', Global Change Biology, vol. 29, no. 17, pp. 4861-4879. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16821

Araza, A, Herold, M, de Bruin, S, Ciais, P, Gibbs, DA, Harris, N, Santoro, M, Wigneron, JP, Yang, H, Málaga, N, Nesha, K, Rodriguez-Veiga, P, Brovkina, O, Brown, HCA, Chanev, M, Dimitrov, Z, Filchev, L, Fridman, J, García, M, Gikov, A, Govaere, L, Dimitrov, P, Moradi, F, Muelbert, AE, Novotný, J, Pugh, TAM, Schelhaas, MJ, Schepaschenko, D, Stereńczak, K & Hein, L 2023, 'Past decade above-ground biomass change comparisons from four multi-temporal global maps', International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 118, 103274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103274

Synergize Consortium 2023, 'Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research', Current biology : CB, vol. 33, no. 16, pp. 3495-3504.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.077

Bennett, AC & Esquivel-Muelbert, A 2023, 'Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly', Nature Climate Change, vol. 13, pp. 967-974. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01776-4

Rodrigues, AV, Pastório, FF, Bones, FLV, Esquivel Muelbert, A, Vibrans, AC & de Gasper, AL 2022, 'A test of the fast–slow plant economy hypothesis in a subtropical rain forest', Plant Ecology and Diversity, vol. 14, no. 5-6, pp. 267-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2022.2039313

Letter

Bordin, KM, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Klipel, J, Picolotto, RC, Bergamin, R, Silva, ACD, Higuchi, P, Capellesso, ES, Marques, MCM, Souza, AF & Müller, SC 2023, 'No relationship between biodiversity and forest carbon sink across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest', Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 112-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2023.02.003

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Expertise

air pollution; urban sustainability; green infrastructure; temperate forests and climate; tropical land-use and climate