Martina Sánchez-Pinillos
Postdoctorat
Resilience and post-disturbance dynamics of boreal forests affected by interacting drought and insect outbreaks
Université du Québec à Montréal
Directeur: Daniel Kneeshaw
Codirecteur: Christian Messier
I am a forest researcher with a multidisciplinary background in forestry, forest ecology, natural disturbances, and quantitative ecology. My research is devoted to, first, developing new tools to assess forest responses to natural and anthropogenic disturbances of any type (pulse, press, and compound disturbances), and second, providing empirical evidence of the most vulnerable communities that must be prioritized in conservation or restoration plans. To achieve these objectives, I combine statistical modeling, multivariate analyses, and data science techniques on large data sets. The final goal of my research is to provide forest managers and policy-makers with pragmatic information to better anticipate forest responses to future environmental changes.
EDUCATION AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
- 2021-2023 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow. Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier, CNRS (France)
- 2020-2021 Posdoctoral researcher. University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada)
- 2019 PhD in Forestry and Environmental Management (Cum Laude distinction). University of Lleida (Spain).
- 2014 MSc in Advanced Forest Research (Excellent). Technical University of Madrid (Spain).
- 2013 BSc/MSc in Forest Engineering (Honours). Technical University of Madrid (Spain).
PUBLICATIONS
- International Tree Mortality Network. 2025. Towards a global understanding of tree mortality. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20407
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Dakos, V., Kéfi, S. 2024. Ecological dynamic regimes: A key concept for assessing ecological resilience. Biological Conservation. 289, 110409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110409
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Kéfi, S., De Cáceres, M., Dakos, V. 2023. Ecological Dynamic Regimes: Identification, Characterization, and Comparison. Ecological Monographs. e1589. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1589
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M., D'Orangeville, L., Boulanger, Y., Comeau P., Wang, J., Taylor, A.R., Kneeshaw, D. 2022. Sequential droughts: A silent trigger of boreal forest mortality. Global Change Biology. 28-2, 542-556. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15913
- Moreau, G.; Chagnon, C.; Achim, A.; Caspersen, J.; D'Orangeville, L.; Sánchez-Pinillos, M.; Thiffault, N. 2022. Opportunities and limitations of thinning to increase resistance and resilience of trees and forests to global change. Forestry. cpac010, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpac010.
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M., De Cáceres, M., Casals P., Álvarez, A., Beltrán, M., Pausas, J.G., Vayreda, J., Coll, L. 2021. Spatial and temporal variations of overstory and understory fuels in Mediterranean landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management. 490-119094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119094
- Sturbois, A., De Cáceres, M., Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Gauthier, S., Gauthier, O.J., Le Mao, P., Ponséro, A., Desroy, N.. 2021. Extending community trajectory analysis: New metrics and representation. Ecological Modelling. 440-109400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109400
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Leduc, A., Ameztegui, A., Kneeshaw, D., Lloret, F., Coll, L. 2019. Resistance, resilience or change: post-disturbance dynamics of boreal forests after insect outbreaks. Ecosystems. 22, 1886-1901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00378-6
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M., De Cáceres, M., Ameztegui, A., Coll, L. 2019. Temporal dynamics of forest vulnerability to fire along successional trajectories. Journal of Environmental Management. 248-109301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109301
- Oliet Palá, J.A., Ortiz de Urbina, E., Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Tardío Cerrillo, G. 2019. Matching seedling size to planting conditions: interactive response with soil moisture. iForest -Biogeosciences and Forestry. 12-2, 220-225. https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor2801-012
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Ameztegui, A., Kitzberger, T., Coll, L. 2018. Relative size to resprouters determines post-fire recruitment of non-serotinous pines. Forest Ecology and Management. 429, 300-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.07.009
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M., Coll, L., De Cáceres, M., Ameztegui, A. 2016. Assessing the persistence capacity of communities facing natural disturbances on the basis of species response traits. Ecological Indicators. 66, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.01.024
R PACKAGES
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M. (aut, cre, cph). ecoregime: Analysis of Ecological Dynamic Regimes. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ecoregime
- Sánchez-Pinillos, M. (aut, cre, cph). persistR: Resilience and post-disturbance dynamics of natural communities. https://github.com/MSPinillos/persistR
WEBPAGES
