Víctor Resco de Dios

Víctor Resco de Dios

Professor of Tree Biology

SWUST & UdL

I am an Associate Professor on Forest Science and Global Change at the University of Lleida. I obtained my PhD from the University of Wyoming and I was a Ramón y Cajal Fellow (2014-2019). Prior to Lleida, I was a faculty at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University (2011-2014). I have written 1 book about Plant-Fire Interactions, over 100 scientific papers and, according to the Stanford ranking, I am a highly cited scientist in the field of biology.

I am currently coordinating the Joint Research Unit between the Forest Technology Center of Catalonia and Agrotecnio (JRU CTFC-AGROTECNIO).

My two main lines of research are:

  1. Forests and climate change: On the relationship between forests, CO2 and climate change effects.
  2. Fire science and management: On physiological mechanisms that affect fire activity and, at the same time, how fires shape plant species structure and function.

I am a member of the Editorial Boards of New Phytologist, Regional Environmental Change, Trees, Plant Ecology and Diversity, Forests, Forest Systems and Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.

I also collaborate with industry and I’ve written quite a few popular science articles (but mostly in Spanish)

Interests

  • Circadian Ecology
  • Plant-Fire interactions
  • Ecosystem development

Education

  • PhD in Rangeland Ecology & Watershed Management, 2008

    University of Wyoming

  • MEng in Forestry, 2003

    University of Lleida

  • BSc in Forestry, 2000

    University of Lleida

Recent Publications

Marcos Rodrigues, Àngel Cunill Camprubí, Rodrigo Balaguer-Romano, Celso J. Coco Megía, Francisco Castañares, Julien Ruffault, Paulo M. Fernandes, Víctor Resco de Dios (2023). Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe. Science of The Total Environment.

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Sumbal Sajid, Víctor Resco de Dios, Obey Kudakwashe Zveushe, Farhan Nabi, Songrong Shen, Qianlin Kang, Lei Zhou, Lin Ma, Wei Zhang, Yulian Zhao, Ying Han, Faqin Dong (2023). Newly isolated halotolerant Aspergillus sp. showed high diesel degradation efficiency under high salinity environment aided with hematite. Journal of Hazardous Materials.

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Víctor Resco de Dios, Àngel Cunill Camprubí, Yingpeng He, Ying Han, Yinan Yao (2023). North-south antiphase of wildfire activity across the pyroregions of continental China driven by NAO and the Antarctic oscillation. Science of The Total Environment.

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Hamish Clarke, Rachael H. Nolan, Victor Resco De Dios, Ross Bradstock, Anne Griebel, Shiva Khanal, Matthias M. Boer (2022). Forest fire threatens global carbon sinks and population centres under rising atmospheric water demand. Nature Communications.

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Erica Lombardi, Tatiana A Shestakova, Filippo Santini, Víctor Resco de Dios, Jordi Voltas (2022). Harnessing tree-ring phenotypes to disentangle gene by environment interactions and their climate dependencies in a circum-Mediterranean pine. Annals of Botany.

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Outreach

Organization of conferences for scientific outreach:

iGenium'17: Engineering Meeting Point. Conference on Engineering and climate change.

Conama 2016: National Environmental Science Conference. Oranizing session on Carbon sinks.

Press and SciComm

"Fires sweep a sweltering Europe. How is the EU fighting back?"(11/08/2022)
Statements for Christian Science Monitor (USA)

"How do we fight wildfires as the planet heats up?"(06/08/2022)
Statements for DW (Germany)

"Wildfires in Europe burn second-biggest area on record"(04/08/2022)
Statements for Reuters

"Expect more wildfires — in Europe and beyond — as society grapples with warming climate"(23/07/2022)
Statements for CBC News (Canadá)

"Explainer: How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe"(19/07/2022)
Statements for Reuters

2020 US West Coast fires Statements for Science Magazine

I do write lots of SciComm papers for the mainstream press, but mostly in Spanish. They can be accessed here

Articles:

Chowdhury FI, Barua I, Chowdhury AI, Resco de Dios V, Shafiul M. 2020. Agroforestry shows higher potential than reforestation for soil restoration after slash-and-burn: a case study from Bangladesh. Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes DOI: 10.1080/24749508.2020.1743528. [pdf]

Resco de Dios V, Karavani A, Boer MM, Baudena M, Colinas C, Díaz-Sierra R, Pemán J, de Luís M, Enríquez-de-Salamanza A. 2018. Deforestación inducida por el fuego en bosques mediterráneos sometidos a sequía. Foresta 70: 56-64.

Gessler A, Bugmann H, Bigler C, Edwards P, della Guistina C, Kueffer C, Roy J, Resco de Dios V. 2017. Light as a source of information in ecosystems in Changing perspectives on daylight: Science, technology, and culture. Science 358: 680. [pdf]

Rey A, Resco de Dios V. 2015. El papel de los estomas en la regulación del clima. Naturalmente - La revista del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales - 8: 27-31

Paredes E, Cerera T, Resco de Dios V, Larrañaga A. 2015. Planificació territorial per a la prevenció de grans incendis forestals. Aplicació pràctica a la conca de Madrona (Solsonès). Silvicultura 72: 17-20

Resco V. 2010, Fundamentos teóricos para el uso de isótopos estables en ecología terrestre. Ecosistemas 19: 1-5

Vidal Cerdeiros C, Resco V. 2008. La lectora de montes. Profor-ES 1: 86-89.

Resco de Dios, V. 2004. Efectos de la gestión en la dinámica de las masas forestales japonesas. Forestalia 9, 82-87.

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