Líneas de Investigación
Significancia ecológica del almacenamiento de carbohidratos no estructurales en plantas. Mecanismos de mortalidad por sequía en árboles. Mecanismos de resiliencia de la vegetación frente al cambio climático.
- Hua, X., Lusk, C.H., Dickie, I.A., Adu-Bredu, S., Allen, K.J., Araus, V., Augusto, L., Barsukov, P., Bauman, D., Brédoire, F., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Dalling, J.W., Depauw, L., Dexter, K.G., Drouet, T., Godlee, J.L., Godoy, R., Gutiérrez, R.A., Muledi, J.I., Jacobs, A., Kooyman, R., Latorre, C., Angulo, J.L., Macé, S., Maes, S.L., Gonçalves, F.M.P., Junior, B.H.M., Nicolas, M., Nilus, R., O’Brien, M., Menor, I.O., Piper, F.I., Read, J., Reynolds, G., Saldaña, A., Marimon, B.S., Verheyen, K., Westoby, M., Wigley, B. and Wright, I.J. (2025), Site-Specific Nutrient Data Reveal the Importance of Soils in Driving the Mycorrhizal Make-Up of Woody Vegetation Worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34: e13936. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13936.
- Herbivory Variability Network*†, ML Robinson, PG Hahn, BD Inouye, …et al. (2023) Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory. Science 382 (6671), 679-683
- Piper, FI, Fajardo, A (2023) Local adaptation to aridity in a widely distributed angiosperm tree species is mediated by seasonal increase of sugars and reduced growth, Tree Physiology (in press); https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad078
- Piper, FI & Fajardo A (2023).Carbon stress anticipates the budbreak timing in shade-tolerant species and delays it in shade-intolerant species. American Journal of Botany 110: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16129
- Piper FI, Moreno‐Meynard P, Fajardo A (2022). Non-structural carbohydrates predict survival in saplings of temperate trees under carbon stress. Functional Ecology 36: 2806-2818. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14158
- Jiménez-Castillo M, Fajardo A, Lobos-Catalán P, Torres-Morales P, Piper FI (2022). No carbon shortage in declining trees of the isohydric species Araucaria araucana (Molina) K. Koch under drought. Annals of Forest Science 79, 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-022-01123-1
- Diciembre 2024-Diciembre 2027. Millennium Nucleus of Patagonian Limit of Life (LiLi), NCN2024-040. Directora alterna.
- Diciembre 2021-Diciembre 2026. Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Chile. Proyecto ANID PIA/BASAL FB210006. Investigadora Principal
- Abril 2021-Marzo 2025. Using a functional approach to assess winners and losers to climate change in plant species of the Andes of central Chile. Fondecyt Regular N°1211197. Co-Investigadora
- Abril 2023-Marzo 2026.Assessing the role of carbohydrate storage in plant strategies to drought resistance. Fondecyt Regular N°1231026. Investigadora responsable