Dr. Nathaly Rokssana Guerrero Ramírez

NathalyGuerreroRamirez


Associated Researcher (Dorothea Schlözer Fellow)

email: nathaly.guerrero-ramirez[at]forst.uni-goettingen.de
Website: https://nathalyguerrero.weebly.com
Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database: https://groot-database.github.io/GRooT/
Tropical Root Trait Initiative (TropiRoot): https://tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTrait/

Research Interests
I am fascinated in understanding relationships between biodiversity's causes and effects, and complex ecological systems through linkages between micro- and macro-ecological patterns and mechanisms. I am interested in implementing integrative approaches that contribute to unravelling the complexity associated with ecological systems and its consequences for human livelihoods. I use a holistic perspective through the explicit incorporation of multitrophic and non-trophic dynamics in spatially- and temporaly-explicit frameworks and belowground biotic and abiotic factors.

Education
2018: Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude) at Universität Leipzig, Germany. Advisor: Nico Eisenahuer
2014: Master of Biology at Université du Quebec à Montréal, Canada. Advisors: Tanya Handa & Christian Messier
2009: Bachelor of Environmental Biology at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia. Advisors: Valeria Pizarro & Ben Turner

Publications
Guerrero-Ramírez, N. Functional forest restoration. Nat Ecol Evol (2021).

Cusack D.F., Addo-Danso S.D., Agee E.A., Andersen K.M., Arnaud M., Batterman S.A., Brearley F.Q., Ciochina M.I., Cordeiro A.L., Dallstream C., Diaz-Toribio M.H., Dietterich L.H., Fisher J.B., Fleischer K., Fortunel C., Fuchslueger L.,Guerrero-Ramírez N., ... Yaffar D. Tradeoffs and synergies in tropical forest root traits and dynamics for nutrient and water acquisition: Field and modeling advances. Frontiers in Forest and Global Change, in press

Weigelt A., Mommer L., Andraczek K., Iversen C.M., Bergmann J., Bruelheide H., Freschet G.T., Guerrero-Ramírez N., ... McCormack M.L. 2021. An integrated framework of plant form and function: The belowground perspective. New Phytologist, 232(1): 42-29

Monge-González M.L., Weigelt P., Guerrero-Ramírez N., Craven D., Castillo-Campos G., Krömer T., Kreft H. 2021. BIOVERA-Tree: tree diversity, community composition, forest structure and functional traits along gradients of forest-use intensity and elevation in Veracruz, Mexico. Biodiversity Data Journal, 9: e69560

Monge-González M.L., Guerrero-Ramírez N., Krömer T., Kreft H., Craven D. 2021. Functional diversity and redundancy of tropical forests shift with elevation and forest-use intensity. Journal of Applied Ecology 58(9): 1827-1837

Laughlin D.C., Mommer L., Sabatini F.M., Bruelheide H., Kuyper T.W, McCormack M.L., Bergmann J., Freschet G.T., Guerrero-Ramírez N., … Weigelt A. 2021. Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. Nature Ecology & Evolution: 1-12

Guerrero-Ramírez N, Mommer L, Freschet GT, Iversen CM, McCormack M.L, Kattge J, Poorter H, van der Plas F, Bergmann J, Kuyper TW, York LM, Bruelheide H, Laughlin DC, Meier IC, Roumet C, Semchenko M, Sweeney CJ, van Ruijven J, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Aubin I, Catford JA, Manning P, Martin A, Milla R, Minden V, Pausas JG, Smith SW, Soudzilovskaia NA, Ammer C, Butterfield B, Craine J, Cornelissen JHC, de Vries FT, Isaac ME, Kramer K, König C, Lamb EG, Onipchenko VG, Peñuelas J, Reich PB, Rillig MC, Sack L, Shipley B, Tedersoo L, Valladares F, van Bodegom P, Weigelt P, Wright JP, Weigelt A. 2021. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(1): 25 - 37

Guerrero-Ramírez N, Pizarro V, Turner B.L. 2020. Soil and microbial nutrient status are heterogeneous within an elevational belt on a neotropical mountain. Pedobiologia, 83: 150689

Guerra C.A, Heintz-Buschart A, Sikorski J, Chatzinotas A, Guerrero-Ramírez N, Cesarz S, Beaumelle L, Rillig M.C, Maestre F.T, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Buscot F, Overmann J, Patoine G, Phillips H.R.P, Winter M, Wubet T, Küsel K, Bardgett R.D, Cameron E.K, Cowan D, Grebenc T, Marín C, Orgiazzi A, Singh B.K, Wall D.H, Eisenhauer N. 2020. Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research. Nature Communications, 1(11): 3870

Bergmann J, Weigelt A, van der Plas F, Laughlin D.C, Kuyper T.W, Guerrero-Ramírez N, Valverde-Barrantes O.J, Bruelheide H, Freschet G.T, Iversen C.M, Kattge J, McCormack M.L, Meier I.C, Rillig M.C, Roumet C, Semchenko M, Sweeney C.J, van Ruijven J, York L.M, Mommer L. 2020. The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants. Science Advances, 6(27): eaba3756

Monge-González M.L, Craven D, Krömer T, Castillo-Campos G, Hernández-Sánchez A, Guzmán-Jacob V, Guerrero-Ramírez N, Kreft H. 2020. Response of tree diversity and community composition to forest-use intensity along a tropical elevational gradient. Applied Vegetation Science, 23(1): 69 - 79

Guerrero-Ramírez N, Reich P, Ciobanu M, Wagg C, Eisenhauer N. Diversity-dependent plant soil feedbacks underlying long-term plant diversity effects on primary productivity. 2019. Ecosphere, 10:4

Siebert J, Suenneman M, Auge H, Berger S, Cesarz S, Ciobanu M, Guerrero-Ramírez N, Eisenhauer N. The effects of drought and nutrient addition on soil organism vary across taxonomic groups, but are constant across seasons. 2019. Scientific Reports, 9: 639

Guerrero-Ramírez N, Craven D, Reich P.B, Ewel J.J, Isbell F, Koricheva J, Parrotta J.A, Auge H, Erickson, H. E, Forrester D.I, Hector A, Joshi J, Montagnini F, Palmborg C, Piotto D, Potvin C, Roscher C, van Ruijven J, Tilman D, Wilsey B, Eisenhauer N. 2017. Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1: 1639 – 1642

Guerrero-Ramírez N, Eisenhauer N. 2017. Trophic and non-trophic interactions influence the mechanisms underlying biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships under different abiotic conditions. Oikos, 126(12): 1748-1759

Guerrero-Ramírez N, Craven D, Messier C, Potvin C, Turner B.L, and Handa I.T. 2016. Root quality, but not tree species richness, drives decomposition in tropical forests. Plant & Soil, 404(1): 125 - 139

Thakur MP, Milcu A, Manning P, Niklaus PA, Roscher C, Power S, Reich PB, Scheu S, Tilman D, Ai F, Guo H, Ji R, Pierce S, Guerrero-Ramírez N, Richter AN, Steinauer K, Strecker T, Vogel A, Eisenhauer N. 2015. Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors. Global Change Biology, 21(11): 4076-4085