Dr. Mylthon Jiménez Castillo

Dr. Mylthon Jiménez Castillo

Académicos

mylthonjimenez@uach.cl

Linea de investigación

Nuestra investigación busca determinar los mecanismos funcionales que explican los patrones ecológicos observados en la naturaleza, a diferentes escalas espaciales y temporales. Actualmente trabajamos en determinar los efectos del cambio climático sobre el desempeño de las especies, la comunidad y los procesos ecosistémicos del bosque templado del sur de Chile. KeyWorks: Functional Ecology, Climate Change, Plant Performance, Plant Hydraulics.

Publicaciones

1- Lusk C.H., Jimenez-Castillo M., Aragón R., Easdale T., Poorter L., Hinojosa L.F. & Mason N.W.H. (2016) Testing for functional convergence of temperate rainforest tree assemblages in Chile and New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2016.1143019

2- Lobos-Catalan P. & Jimenez-Castillo M. (2014) Different patterns of biomass allocation of mature and sapling host-tree in response to liana competition in the southern temperate rainforest. Austral Ecology. 39,677-685.

3- Salgado-Negrete B, Pérez F, Markesteijn L, Jiménez-Castillo M, Armesto JJ. (2013) Diverging drought-tolerance strategies explain tree species distribution along a fog-dependent moisture gradient in a temperate rain forest. Oecologia. 173:625–635

4– Jiménez-Castillo M and C. H. Lusk. (2013) Comparative vascular anatomy and function of woody plants in a temperate rainforest: lianas suffer higher levels of freeze-thaw embolism than associated trees. Functional Ecology. 27 (2): 403-412

5- Gianoli E., Saldaña A., Jiménez-Castillo M. (2012) Ecophysiological traits may explain the abundance of climbing plant species across the light gradient in a temperate rainforest. PloS ONE 7(6): e38831.