Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert PhD

Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor in Global Forest Ecology

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Adriane Esquivel Muelbert investigates how forests respond to different global change forces and what the implications of these responses are on biodiversity and global biogeochemical cycles. Her work demonstrates the importance of drought tolerance in shaping diversity and composition across Neotropical tree communities and provides evidence that Amazonian forests are changing as a result of the increase in water stress and atmospheric CO2. More recently, she has focused on tree mortality and how tree death varies across large geographical scales.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Ecology and Global Change - University of Leeds, UK (2017)
  • MSc (Hons) in Ecology – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2012)
  • BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences - Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (2010)

Other activities

2021 – present. External lecturer at the of the State University of Mato Grosso. 

2020 – present. Member of the organizing committee of the . A network to understand the causes of tree mortality 

2012 – present. Member of the

2020 – 2021. Invited member. Working Group 8: Climate change in the Amazon: Tendencies, Impacts and Ecological. Science Panel for the Amazon.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Suvanto, S, Esquivel Muelbert, A, Schelhaas, MJ, Astigarraga, J, Astrup, R, Cienciala, E, Fridman, J, Henttonen, HM, Kunstler, G, Kändler, G, König, LA, Ruiz‐Benito, P, Senf, C, Stadelmann, G, Starcevic, A, Talarczyk, A, Zavala, MA & Pugh, TAM 2025, '', Earth's Future, vol. 13, no. 2, e2024EF005225.

Flores, BM, Montoya, E, Sakschewski, B, Nascimento, N, Staal, A, Betts, RA, Levis, C, Lapola, DM, Esquível-Muelbert, A, Jakovac, C, Nobre, CA, Oliveira, RS, Borma, LS, Nian, D, Boers, N, Hecht, SB, ter Steege, H, Arieira, J, Lucas, IL, Berenguer, E, Marengo, JA, Gatti, LV, Mattos, CRC & Hirota, M 2024, '', Nature, vol. 626, no. 7999, pp. 555-564.

Bergamin, RS, Bastazini, VAG, Esquivel‐Muelbert, A, Bordin, KM, Klipel, J, Debastiani, VJ, Vibrans, AC, Loyola, R & Müller, SC 2024, '', Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 35, no. 4, e13289.

Prestes, NCCS, Marimon, BS, Morandi, PS, Reis, SMDA, Junior, BHM, Cruz, WJA, Oliveira, EA, Mariano, LH, Elias, F, Santos, DM, Esquivel-Muelbert, A & Phillips, OL 2024, '', Flora.

Liu, D, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Acil, N, Astigarraga, J, Cienciala, E, Fridman, J, Kunstler, G, Matthews, TJ, Ruiz-Benito, P, Sadler, JP, Schelhaas, M-J, Suvanto, S, Talarczyk, A, Woodall, CW, Zavala, MA, Zhang, C & Pugh, T 2024, '', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 8909.

Astigarraga, J, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Ruiz-Benito, P, Rodríguez-Sánchez, F, Zavala, MA, Vilà-Cabrera, A, Schelhaas, MJ, Kunstler, G, Woodall, CW, Cienciala, E, Dahlgren, J, Govaere, L, König, LA, Lehtonen, A, Talarczyk, A, Liu, D & Pugh, TAM 2024, '', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121, no. 28, e2314899121.

Biliac-Murphy et al 2024, '', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 386, no. 6717, pp. 92-98.

Handy, G, Carter, I, MacKenzie, AR, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Smith, AG, Yaffar, D, Childs, J & Arnaud, M 2024, '', Plant Methods, vol. 20, 154.

Tavares, JV, Oliveira, RS, Mencuccini, M, Signori-Müller, C, Pereira, L, Diniz, FC, Gilpin, M, Marca Zevallos, MJ, Salas Yupayccana, CA, Acosta, M, Pérez Mullisaca, FM, Barros, FDV, Bittencourt, P, Jancoski, H, Scalon, MC, Marimon, BS, Oliveras Menor, I, Marimon, BH, Fancourt, M, Chambers-Ostler, A, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Rowland, L, Meir, P, Lola da Costa, AC, Nina, A, Sanchez, JMB, Tintaya, JS, Chino, RSC, Baca, J, Fernandes, L, Cumapa, ERM, Santos, JAR, Teixeira, R, Tello, L, Ugarteche, MTM, Cuellar, GA, Martinez, F, Araujo-Murakami, A, Almeida, E, da Cruz, WJA, del Aguila Pasquel, J, Aragāo, L, Baker, TR, de Camargo, PB, Brienen, R, Castro, W, Ribeiro, SC, Coelho de Souza, F, Cosio, EG, Davila Cardozo, N, da Costa Silva, R, Disney, M, Espejo, JS, Feldpausch, TR, Ferreira, L, Giacomin, L, Higuchi, N, Hirota, M, Honorio, E, Huaraca Huasco, W, Lewis, S, Flores Llampazo, G, Malhi, Y, Monteagudo Mendoza, A, Morandi, P, Chama Moscoso, V, Muscarella, R, Penha, D, Rocha, MC, Rodrigues, G, Ruschel, AR, Salinas, N, Schlickmann, M, Silveira, M, Talbot, J, Vásquez, R, Vedovato, L, Vieira, SA, Phillips, OL, Gloor, E & Galbraith, DR 2023, '', Nature, vol. 617, no. 7959, pp. 111-117.

Costa, FRC, Lang, C, Sousa, TR, Emilio, T, Esquivel-Muelbert, A & Schietti, J 2023, '', Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, vol. 6, 1112560.

de Lima, RB, Görgens, EB, da Silva, DAS, de Oliveira, CP, Batista, APB, Caraciolo Ferreira, RL, Costa, FRC, Ferreira de Lima, RA, da Silva Aparício, P, de Abreu, JC, da Silva, JAA, Guimaraes, AF, Fearnside, PM, Sousa, TR, Perdiz, R, Higuchi, N, Berenguer, E, Resende, AF, Elias, F, de Castilho, CV, de Medeiros, MB, de Matos Filho, JR, Sardinha, MA, Freitas, MAF, da Silva, JJ, da Cunha, AP, Santos, RM, Muelbert, AE, Guedes, MC, Imbrózio, R, de Sousa, CSC, da Silva Aparício, WC, da Silva e Silva, BM, Silva, CA, Marimon, BS, Junior, BHM, Morandi, PS, Storck-Tonon, D, Vieira, ICG, Schietti, J, Coelho, F, Alves de Almeida, DR, Castro, W, Carvalho, SPC, da Silva, RDSA, Silveira, J, Camargo, JL, Melgaço, K, de Freitas, LJM, Vedovato, L, Benchimol, M, de Oliveira de Almeida, G, Prance, G, da Silveira, AB, Simon, MF, Garcia, ML, Silveira, M, Vital, M, Andrade, MBT, Silva, N, de Araújo, RO, Cavalheiro, L, Carpanedo, R, Fernandes, L, Manzatto, AG, de Andrade, RTG, Magnusson, WE, Laurance, B, Nelson, BW, Peres, C, Daly, DC, Rodrigues, D, Zopeletto, AP, de Oliveira, EA, Dugachard, E, Barbosa, FR, Santana, F, do Amaral, IL, Ferreira, LV, Charão, LS, Ferreira, J, Barlow, J, Blanc, L, Aragão, L, Sist, P, de Paiva Salomão, R, da Silva, ASL, Laurance, S, Feldpausch, TR, Gardner, T, Santiago, W, Balee, W, Laurance, WF, Malhi, Y, Phillips, OL, da Silva Zanzini, AC, Rosa, C, Tadeu Oliveira, W, Pereira Zanzini, L, José Silva, R & Mangabeira Albernaz, AL 2023, '', Global Change Biology, vol. 29, no. 17, pp. 4861-4879.

Araza, A, Herold, M, de Bruin, S, Ciais, P, Gibbs, DA, Harris, N, Santoro, M, Wigneron, JP, Yang, H, Málaga, N, Nesha, K, Rodriguez-Veiga, P, Brovkina, O, Brown, HCA, Chanev, M, Dimitrov, Z, Filchev, L, Fridman, J, García, M, Gikov, A, Govaere, L, Dimitrov, P, Moradi, F, Muelbert, AE, Novotný, J, Pugh, TAM, Schelhaas, MJ, Schepaschenko, D, Stereńczak, K & Hein, L 2023, '', International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 118, 103274.

Synergize Consortium 2023, '', Current biology : CB, vol. 33, no. 16, pp. 3495-3504.e4.

Bennett, AC & Esquivel-Muelbert, A 2023, '', Nature Climate Change, vol. 13, pp. 967-974.

Letter

Bordin, KM, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Klipel, J, Picolotto, RC, Bergamin, R, Silva, ACD, Higuchi, P, Capellesso, ES, Marques, MCM, Souza, AF & Müller, SC 2023, '', Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 112-120.

Expertise

air pollution; urban sustainability; green infrastructure; temperate forests and climate; tropical land-use and climate