Mercedes Uscola

ORCID: 0000-0002-6922-2889
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Research Areas
  • Seedling growth and survival studies
  • Growth and nutrition in plants
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant and soil sciences
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Nuts composition and effects
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Soil Management and Crop Yield

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2023-2025

Universidad de Alcalá
2011-2023

State Street (United States)
2020

Purdue University West Lafayette
2015

Background and Aims The carbon (C) nitrogen (N) needed for plant growth can come either from soil N current photosynthesis or through remobilization of stored resources. contribution to new organ on a whole-plant basis is quite well known in deciduous woody plants evergreen conifers, but this information very limited broadleaf trees. This study compares the remobilized C construction organs spring, assesses importance different as sources 1-year-old potted seedlings four ecologically...

10.1093/aob/mcv019 article EN Annals of Botany 2015-03-29

Abstract Drought is a limiting factor to forest regeneration and restoration, which likely increase in intensity duration under future climates. Nitrogen (N) nutrition related drought-resistance mechanisms trees. However, the influence of chemical N form (inorganic organic N) on physiological traits drought resistance has been sparsely studied conifer seedlings. We investigated effect forms morpho-physiological Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws. seedlings subsequent influences tolerance...

10.1093/treephys/tpaa052 article EN Tree Physiology 2020-04-21

Abstract Background and Aims Polyploidization can improve plant mass yield for bioenergy support, yet few studies have investigated ozone (O3) sensitivity linked to internal regulatory mechanisms at different ploidy levels. Methods Diploid triploid Populus tomentosa plants were exposed ambient plus 60 ppb [O3]. We explored their differences in (leaf morphological, physiological biochemical traits, mass) as well of avoidance (stomatal conductance, xanthophyll cycle, thermal dissipation)...

10.1093/aob/mcad019 article EN Annals of Botany 2023-01-24

Freezing stress is a critical environmental factor affecting survival, distribution, and evolution of plants. Although there evidence that nitrogen (N) affects frost tolerance juvenile conifers, the magnitude direction such effect can diverge among species. The influence N source on has been barely studied. Particularly, how organic sources could affect cold acclimation dynamics seedlings poorly understood. We studied morpho-physiological responses to supply (amino acids) in comparison...

10.1111/ppl.13506 article EN Physiologia Plantarum 2021-07-20

Abstract The ability of plants to acquire soil nitrogen (N) sources is plastic in response abiotic and biotic factors. However, information about how plant preferences among N forms changes internal demand through growth phases, or environmental stress such as ozone (O3), scarce. Diploid triploid Chinese white poplar were used investigate form at two key developmental periods (spring, summer) summer O3 (ambient, 60 ppb above ambient). We stable isotopes quantify NH4+, NO3− glycine N-uptake...

10.1093/jxb/erab317 article EN Journal of Experimental Botany 2021-07-03

Abstract Shoot dieback is an important survival strategy in juvenile Quercus spp. However, it unknown how nursery practices can influence the regulatory mechanisms of shoot after planting. Furthermore, there scarce information about interactive effects between container depth and fertilization on field seedling performance, combination with weed control. Here, variabilis seedlings were cultivated first year two depths (25 cm, D40; 36 D60) nitrogen-loading levels (25, N25; 100 mg seedling−1,...

10.1093/forestry/cpac062 article EN Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research 2022-12-31
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