Milagros Rodriguez-Caton

University of California Davis

Participates in 3 items

Sessions in which Milagros Rodriguez-Caton participates

Monday 27 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

13:30

Workshop. Best practices for using tree-ring stable isotopes of Carbon and Oxygen in paleoclimate and ecophysiology.

3 hours 30 minutes, 13:30 - 17:00

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3260)

Workshop

Soumaya Belmecheri, Laboratory of Tree Ring Reserch (Instructor)

Milagros Rodriguez-Caton, University of California Davis (Instructor)

Alienor Lavergne, University of Reading (UK) (Instructor)

Paul Szejner, Instituto de Geología Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Instructor)

Valérie Daux, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Université de Versailles Saint Quentin (Instructor)

Free, in person and onlineThe stable isotopic composi...

Wednesday 29 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

12:30

Hydroclimate and ENSO Variability Recorded by Oxygen Isotopes From Tree Rings in the South American Altiplano

1 hour 30 minutes, 12:30 - 14:00

Part of: Poster Session

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Poster

Milagros Rodriguez-Caton, University of California Davis (Speaker)

Hydroclimate variability in tropical South America is strongly regulated by the South American Summer Monsoon (SASM). However, past precipitatio...

Thursday 30 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:25

Climate and physiological signals in tree-ring stable isotopes of Polylepis tarapacana from the South American Altiplano

7 minutes, 10:28 - 10:35

Part of: Symposium 8 (PT 1). Dendrochronological progress in tropical Americas

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Milagros Rodriguez-Caton, University of California Davis (Speaker)

Polylepis tarapacana is the longest paleoclimatic tree-ring archive in the South American southern tropics. It grows up to 5200 m a.s.l. in the ...

Sessions in which Milagros Rodriguez-Caton attends

Tuesday 28 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:30

To discard or not to discard: On cross-dating ecological tree-ring collections

15 minutes, 11:30 - 11:45

Part of: General Session (New perspectives and developments)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Neil Pederson, Harvard Forest (Speaker)

Tree-ring research has given generations of scientists a long memory of what is acceptable for a tree to be included for data analysis. The esta...

12:00

800 years of summer European-North Atlantic jet stream variability and its impact on climate extremes and human systems

15 minutes, 12:00 - 12:15

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT2)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona (Speaker)

Climate extremes are driven by a combination of thermodynamical and dynamical factors. In Europe, the primary dynamical driver of summer climate...

Boreal forests tree-ring data provide insights for improving climate sensitivity of terrestrial biosphere models

15 minutes, 12:00 - 12:15

Part of: Symposium 1 (PT 2). Tree rings from national forest inventories: a timely opportunity to assess tree growth across space and through time

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Ariane Mirabel, University of Western Ontario / Centre de Foresterie des Laurentides (CFL) (Speaker)

Our understanding of climate change impacts on boreal forest net primary productivity (NPP) largely rely on terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs)....

Tree-rings as a natural encyclopedia: itinerant and interactive exhibition as an educational tool for students

15 minutes, 12:00 - 12:15

Part of: General Session (New perspectives and developments)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Tomás Muñoz-Salazar, Universidad Austral de Chile (Speaker)

In this work we show the application of dendrochronology as an educational resource for schoolchildren and as a mean to disseminate science to s...

13:30

Temperature is not the main driver of vessel diameter(when standardized by height) across climatic gradients in Viburnum

15 minutes, 13:30 - 13:45

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Ali Segovia-Rivas, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

It is generally assumed that tree-rings, and their vessel diameters, are wider in warmer and wetter years. To maintain constant conductance per ...

General Session (Ecophysiology)

1 day 3 hours 30 minutes, Tue 28, 13:30 - Wed 29, 17:00

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Ali Segovia-Rivas, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Speaker)

Jeanny Thivierge-Lampron, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Speaker)

Katja Rinne-Garmston, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (Speaker)

Paulina Fernanda Puchi Gonzalez, Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali (Speaker)

Charlotte Angove, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Speaker)

Marceau Badaroux, Uqat (Speaker)

Sepideh Namvar, Geotop (Chair)

Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo, INIA-CSIC (Chair)

General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT3)

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 - 15:00

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Daniela Granato, University of Arkansas (Speaker)

María Eugenia Ferrero, IANIGLA-CONICET Argentina (Speaker)

Christine Lucas, Universidad de la Republica - Uruguay (Speaker)

George Rhee, University of Nevada Las Vegas (Speaker)

Ze'ev Gedalof, University of Guelph (Speaker)

Priyadarshini Parsons O'Brien, University of New South Wales (Speaker)

Grant Harley, University of Idaho (Chair)

Matthew Bekker, Brigham Young University (Chair)

Proxy and historical evidence for rainfall extremes in the Amazon and northeastern Brazil, 1790-1900

15 minutes, 13:30 - 13:45

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT3)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Daniela Granato, University of Arkansas (Speaker)

Historical accounts in the Brazilian Digital Library provide independent support for most of the tree-ring reconstructed wet season rainfall ext...

13:45

Two centuries of hydroclimatic variability reconstructed over the Amazonian Andes of Peru

15 minutes, 13:45 - 14:00

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT3)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

María Eugenia Ferrero, IANIGLA-CONICET Argentina (Speaker)

Half of the tributaries of the Amazon River originate in the tropical Andes; however, it is difficult to assess hydroclimatic conditions due to ...

Intra-annual boreal tree growth and water stress responses to environmental changes

15 minutes, 13:45 - 14:00

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Jeanny Thivierge-Lampron, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Speaker)

In the context of climate change, more research is needed to better understand the impact of short-term environmental stressors on forest produc...

14:00

Interpretation of intra-annual tree-ring δ13C profiles of control, droughted and re-watered Scots pines

15 minutes, 14:00 - 14:15

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Katja Rinne-Garmston, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (Speaker)

Intra-annual tree-ring δ13C record has the potential to provide deep insights into past plant performance and environmental conditions. With con...

Cross-continental hydroclimate proxies: Tree-rings in Central Chile reconstruct historical streamflow in Southeastern So

15 minutes, 14:00 - 14:15

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT3)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Christine Lucas, Universidad de la Republica - Uruguay (Speaker)

Regional teleconnections permit cross-continental modeling of hydroclimate throughout the world. Tree-rings are a good hydroclimatic proxy used ...

14:15

Long-term eddy covariance fluxes and xylem anatomy for understanding carbon fixation in white pine woody biomass

15 minutes, 14:15 - 14:30

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Paulina Fernanda Puchi Gonzalez, Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali (Speaker)

Improving our understanding of the carbon cycle is key to addressing the challenges of climate change. In this study, we investigated the relati...

14:30

Ecological implications of leaf water deuterium enrichment

15 minutes, 14:30 - 14:45

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Charlotte Angove, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Speaker)

Leaf water isotopic enrichment (ΔD[LW]) is the original source of climatic information stored in tree-ring δ¹⁸O and δD. Tree-ring δ¹⁸O temporal ...

14:45

Potential growth scenarios for boreal forests with the ecophysiological model MAIDEN

15 minutes, 14:45 - 15:00

Part of: General Session (Ecophysiology)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Marceau Badaroux, Uqat (Speaker)

In the context of climate and environmental change, the boreal forest is subject to potential changes in structure and function. Stand-level phy...

15:15

General Session (Dendrogeochemistry)

2 hours, 15:15 - 17:15

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Adam Csank, University of Nevada, Reno (Speaker)

Daigard Ricardo Ortega Rodriguez, University of Sao Paulo (Speaker)

Oloruntobi Gideon Olugbadieye, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Speaker)

Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza, Geotop (Speaker)

Paul Szejner, Instituto de Geología Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Speaker)

Javier del Hoyo Gibaja, University of Lausanne (Speaker)

Clay Tucker, University of Alabama (Speaker)

Trevor Porter, University of Toronto Mississauga (Chair)

Scott St. George, University of Minnesota (Chair)

15:45

Recent increases in tropical cyclone precipitation extremes over the US east coast

15 minutes, 15:45 - 16:00

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Justin Maxwell, Indiana University (Speaker)

The impacts of inland flooding caused by tropical cyclones (TCs), including loss of life, infrastructure disruption, and alteration of natural l...

16:00

A new snow module improves predictions of isotope-enabled MAIDENiso forest growth model

15 minutes, 16:00 - 16:15

Part of: General Session (Dendrogeochemistry)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza, Geotop (Speaker)

The representation of snow processes in forest growth models is necessary to accurately predict the hydrological cycle in boreal ecosystems and ...

16:15

Long-term drought effects on semi-arid forests influenced tree capacity to respond to abrupt seasonal changes

15 minutes, 16:15 - 16:30

Part of: General Session (Dendrogeochemistry)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Paul Szejner, Instituto de Geología Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Speaker)

The ongoing North American megadrought has persisted since the year 2000, and has been characterized by anomalously low amounts of winter and su...

Can we identify volcanic signals in Southern Hemisphere tree rings?

15 minutes, 16:15 - 16:30

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Philippa Higgins, University of New South Wales (Speaker)

"Little is known about the impact of volcanoes on trees from the Southern Hemisphere. In this study, we investigated whether volcanic signals co...

16:30

Isotope-inferred temperature variations in Northern Patagonia are asynchronous with global records over the last 1000-y

15 minutes, 16:30 - 16:45

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Valérie Daux, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Université de Versailles Saint Quentin (Speaker)

The current climate warming is unique in terms of its ubiquity and synchrony on a global scale. Over the last millennium, pre-industrial periods...

Wednesday 29 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

15:30

500 years of past temperatures derived using Blue Intensity from Araucaria araucana in Northern Patagonia, Argentina (reescheduled)

15 minutes, 15:30 - 15:45

Part of: General Session (Dendroclimatology, PT4) (rescheduled)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Classroom (SH-3420)

Talk

Rob Wilson, University of St Andrews (Speaker)

Ring-width (RW) and Blue Intensity (BI) parameters (earlywood - EWB, inverted latewood – LWBinv, and delta - DB) were measured from samples of A...

16:00

A new snow module improves predictions of isotope-enabled MAIDENiso forest growth model (reescheduled)

15 minutes, 16:00 - 16:15

Part of: General Session (Dendrogeochemistry) (reescheduled)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza, Geotop (Speaker)

The representation of snow processes in forest growth models is necessary to accurately predict the hydrological cycle in boreal ecosystems and ...

16:15

Long-term drought effects on semi-arid forests influenced tree capacity to respond to abrupt seasonal changes (reescheduled)

15 minutes, 16:15 - 16:30

Part of: General Session (Dendrogeochemistry) (reescheduled)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Paul Szejner, Instituto de Geología Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Speaker)

The ongoing North American megadrought has persisted since the year 2000, and has been characterized by anomalously low amounts of winter and su...

16:30

Dendroprovenancing instream wood at the watershed scale (reescheduled)

15 minutes, 16:30 - 16:45

Part of: General Session (Dendrogeochemistry) (reescheduled)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Javier del Hoyo Gibaja, University of Lausanne (Speaker)

Dendroprovenance is a discipline usually linked to dendroacheology or wood commercialization; however, other purposes as inferring the origin of...

Thursday 30 June, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

14:35

The phylogenetic impact on hydrogen isotopes in sugars and cellulose of woody plant species

15 minutes, 14:35 - 14:50

Part of: Symposium 3. Ecophysiological interpretations of stable isotopes in dendroecology

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Marco Lehmann, WSL Birmensdorf (Speaker)

Hydrogen isotope ratios in tree ring cellulose (δ2HC) have been recognized as a potential proxy for plant-climate interactions, plant physiology...

14:50

Effects of simulated increases in nitrogen deposition on a mature temperate forest as revealed by a dendroecological app…

15 minutes, 14:50 - 15:05

Part of: Symposium 3. Ecophysiological interpretations of stable isotopes in dendroecology

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Rossella Guerrieri, University of Bologna (Speaker)

The ability of forests to continue absorbing atmospheric CO2, and hence mitigating climate change, depends on the extent to which their producti...

Contrasting carbon allocation strategies related to wood porosity converge toward similar growth responses to drought

15 minutes, 14:50 - 15:05

Part of: General Session (Xylogenesis and anatomy)

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Salle polyvalente (SH-4800)

Talk

Valentina Buttò, Université du Québec en Outaouais (Speaker)

In mixed forests, diffuse-porous and ring-porous species represent two distinct functional groups undergoing similar environmental variations, b...

15:05

Global trends and drivers of photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination in trees

15 minutes, 15:05 - 15:20

Part of: Symposium 3. Ecophysiological interpretations of stable isotopes in dendroecology

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Soumaya Belmecheri, Laboratory of Tree Ring Reserch (Speaker)

Under elevated CO2, photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination is expected to increase in response to photosynthesis stimulation. While this r...

15:35

Ecophysiological response of white spruce to climate in high-latitude boreal forests in North America

15 minutes, 15:35 - 15:50

Part of: Symposium 3. Ecophysiological interpretations of stable isotopes in dendroecology

Coeur des Sciences, Sherbrooke Building, UQAM - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)

Talk

Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University (Speaker)

The boreal forest located in high northern latitudes stores about a third of the world’s carbon and covers almost a quarter of the Earth’s land ...