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BARBETA MARGARIT
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Secondment

Program
Fructicultura
Investigador/A D Ryc
2024-03-01

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I am a plant ecophysiologist and my research focuses on the water fluxes in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and how they are modified by increasing drought, warming, and extreme climatic events. I am particularly interested in stable isotopic applications, woody crops, Mediterranean crop productivity, and long-term responses to climate change. I authored 42 in ISI-indexed journals and 2 book chapters. I have an h-index of 25, 2425 citations, and a median 90th citation percentile (WoS). Since the completion of my PhD in December 2015, I raised 657k EUR as a principal investigator including projects funded by national and international agencies and prestigious fellowships (Ramón y Cajal, Generación de Conocimiento, IdEx Bordeaux, Beatriu de Pinós, and others). Currently, I supervised 5 MSc theses, all with outstanding marks; one of them received the award Cátedra del agua (Univeridad de Murcia) in 2020. I am also co-supervising 1 PhD student. These students came from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds both in France and Spain and had successful career starts after the MSc, either as PhD students (2) or highly qualified professionals (2). Between 2019 and 2022, I taught 63 credits in MSc and BSc courses (Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Universitat de Vic (UVIC)) and participated in teaching innovation activities. I evaluated MSc theses (10) and was part of 3 PhD committees in Spain (2) and Luxembourg (1). Between 2020 and 2024, I was Working Group leader in a COST action. I convened sessions at international conferences such as the European Geoscience Union general assembly. I also organized sessions in meetings of national scientific societies, such as the Spanish Ecological Association of Terrestrial Ecology. I was invited as keynote speaker in a Galileo conference and in the International Workshop on Soil-Hydrology-Ecosystem (Chinese Society of Soil Science, 2025), invited speaker at another Galileo conference, and both to online seminars and in-person seminars at foreign institutions. As a recognized expert in my field, I am reviewer for 25 ISI journals including Nature, and Associate Editor for Functional Ecology. I evaluated R&D projects for international agencies (Czech Science Foundation, Connecticut Institute of Water Resources, Research Grant Council of Hong Kong). I am a Ramon y Cajal fellow at IRTA, and was Beatriu de Pinós fellow (MSCA COFUND) at UB, where I was the principal investigator of 2 R&D projects and led the transfer of knowledge activities with a public Natural Park. In these projects, I conducted research on the responses of Mediterranean plants to climate change at a range of spatiotemporal scales and using approaches such as stable isotopes, remote sensing, dendrochronology, and microclimatic measurements. These research lines began in 2019 when I obtained a competitive fellowship from the Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación program. Previously, I was a IdEx postdoctoral fellow at INRAE Bordeaux (France), where I developed stable isotope applications through my first projects as PI, resulting in 3 ground-breaking 1st-authored publications in isotope-based studies of plant water use. I demonstrated that a long-standing assumption of stable isotope applications was not as universal as previously thought using field and greenhouse experiments. Also, I developed a new water extraction technique that provides an estimation of plant water sources at unprecedented precision and that is already being set up in research labs in Canada, China, and Australia, with whom I am collaborating. This long-term stay in France allowed me to continue building my own international scientific network, but early during my PhD I conducted 3-month stays at the University of California at Berkeley (USA, 2012) and the German Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (Germany, 2014). Since my 1st article (2011), my research contributed to expanding our knowledge on the responses of plants to a changing climate. My PhD (defended in 2015) provided novel insights into how Mediterranean plants adapt their functioning to increasing water stress at a range of temporal and spatial scales. It resulted in 5 extensively cited 1st-authored papers. My PhD research received a total of 618 citations (WoS), with a single study cited 264 times. This publication applied a new quantitative tool using stable isotope data to assess tree water sources, which has become of widespread use thereafter. Another PhD chapter was a quantitative synthesis of isotope-enabled studies on plant water sources that highlighted that deep water sources in saturated soil layers and bedrock are relatively important to sustain transpiration, which has led to their inclusion in new approaches and models of land-atmosphere interactions. My PhD was awarded the Best thesis synthesis (2016) by the journal Ecosistemas.

 

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Number of Documents
N Citations
h-index
Q1
D1
IFNA
IFNB
IFNESI
WoS
June 2025
43
2451
25
33
23
2.33
2.76
2.76
Europe PMC
June 2025
17
437
11
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-
Dialnet
June 2025
3
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-
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Porcentaje en Q1 1/5
Porcentaje en D1 2/10

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