Dr. Marc Macias-Fauria

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James Martin Research Fellow

Current Research & Academic Profile

I am a (mostly plant) ecologist with a special focus on cold environments.
 
My research is directed at understanding the interactions between physical and biological systems over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Ecological processes are coupled with physical mechanisms such as atmospheric/ocean dynamics and/or geomorphology, among others (i.e. ecology is largely controlled or constrained by the physical environment).
 
With the aim of understanding ecological and biogeographic processes such as species range shifts through local extinction and migration, I focus on the use and interpretation of long-term ecological records (e.g. fossil pollen, tree-rings, macrofossils) and modelling.
 
I gained a degree in Biology at the University of Barcelona, an M.Sc. at the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Calgary, and a Ph.D. at the Department of Geology (now Department of Geosciences and Geography) of the University of Helsinki, where I studied the coupling of forest wildfires, tree-growth, and insect outbreaks with climate.
 
Contact

marc.maciasfauria@zoo.ox.ac.uk

ResearcherID Profile: A-4591-2009

Google Scholar Profile: Marc Macias-Fauria

 

Publications (in peer-reviewed journals)

Published or accepted

2013

  1. Willis K.J., Bennett K.D., Burrough S.L., Macias-Fauria M., and Tovar C. (2013) Determining the response of African biota to climate change: using the past to model the future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Accepted).
  1. Macias-Fauria M., and Johnson, E.A. (2013) Warming-induced upslope advance of sub-alpine forest is severely limited by geomorphic processes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(20), 7971-7972. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221278110. (Highlighted by PNAS; Commentary on this paper in PNAS). (Cover)
  1. Helama S., Holopainen J., Macias-Fauria M., Timonen M., Mielikäinen K. (2013) A chronology of climatic downturns through the mid and late Holocene - tracing the distant effects of explosive eruptions from palaeoclimatic and historical evidence in Northern Europe. Polar Research 32, 15866. DOI: 10.3402/polar.v32i0.15866.

  2. Macias-Fauria M., and Willis, K.J. (2013) Landscape planning for the future: using fossil records to independently validate Bioclimate Envelope Models for economically valuable tree species in Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography  22, 318-333. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00781.x

2012

  1. Macias-Fauria M., Forbes B.C., Kumpula T., and Zetterberg P. (2012) Eurasian Arctic greening reveals teleconnections and the potential for novel ecosystems. Nature Climate Change 2, 613-618. DOI:10.1038/nclimate1558 (Cover)

  1. Macias-Fauria M. and Grinsted A., Helama S., and Holopainen J. (2012) Persistence matters: estimation of the statistical significance of paleoclimatic reconstruction statistics from autocorrelated time series. Dendrochronologia 30, 179-187. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2011.08.003

2011

  1. Myers-Smith I, Forbes B.C., Wilmking M., Hallinger M., Lantz T., Blok D., Tape K.D., Macias-Fauria M., Sass-Klaassen U., Lévesque E., Boudreau S., Ropars P., Hermanutz L., Trant A., Siegwart Collier L., Weijers S., Rozema J., Rayback S.A., Martin Schmidt N., Schaepman-Strub G., Wipf S., Rixen C., Ménard C., Venn S., Goetz S., Andreu-Hayles L., Elmendorf S., Epstein H.E., Welker J., Grogan P., and Hik D. (2012) Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: Dynamics, impacts and research priorities. Environmental Research Letters 6, 045509. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045509
  1. Nairn-Birch N., Diez D., Eslami E., Macias Fauria M., Johnson E.A. and Schoenberg F.P. (2011) Simulation and Estimation of Probabilities of Phases of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Environmetrics 22, 79-85. DOI 10.1002/env.1030

2010

  1. Macias Fauria M.*, Michaletz S.T.*, and Johnson E.A. (2010) Predicting climate change effects on forest wildfires requires linking processes across scales. WIREs Climate Change 2(1), 99-112. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.92
  1. Helama S., Macias Fauria M., Mielikäinen K., Timonen M., Eronen M. (2010) Sub-Milankovitch Solar Forcing of Past Climates: Mid and Late Holocene Perspectives. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122(11/12), 1981-1988. DOI: 10.1130/B30088.1
  1. Helama S., Läänelaid A., Tietäväinen H., Macias Fauria M., Kukkonen I.T., Holopainen J., Nielsen J.K., Valovirta I. (2010) Late Holocene climatic variability reconstructed from incremental data from pines and pearl mussels – a multi-proxy comparison of air and subsurface temperatures. Boreas 39(4), 734-748. DOI 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00165.x
  1. Forbes B.C.*, Macias Fauria M.*, and Zetterberg P. (2010) Russian Arctic warming and ‘greening’ are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows. Global Change Biology 16, 1542-1554. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02047.x
  1. Macias Fauria M., Grinsted A., Helama S., Moore J., Timonen M., Martma T., Isaksson E. and Eronen M. (2010) Unprecedented low twentieth century winter sea ice extent in the Western Nordic Seas since A.D. 1200. Climate Dynamics 34, 781-795. DOI 10.1007/s00382-009-0610-z

2009

  1. Helama S., Nielsen J.K., Macias Fauria M., and Valovirta I. (2009) A fistful of shells: Amplifying sclerochronological and palaeoclimate signals from molluscan death assemblages. Geological Magazine 146(6), 917-930. DOI:10.1017/S0016756809990033
  1. Macias Fauria M., and Johnson E.A. (2009) Large-scale climatic patterns control area affected by mountain pine beetle in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research 114, G01012. DOI:10.1029/2008JG000760

2008

  1. Macias Fauria M., Helle, T., Niva, A., Posio, H., and Timonen, M. (2008) Removal of lichen mat by reindeer enhances tree-growth in a northern Scots pine forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38(12), 2981-2993. DOI:10.1139/X08-135
  1. Macias Fauria M., and Johnson E.A. (2008) Climate and wildfires in the North American boreal forest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363, 2317-2329. DOI:10.1098/rstb.2007.2202

2007

  1. Andreu L., Gutiérrez E., Macias M., Ribas M., Bosch O., and Camarero J.J. (2007) Climate increases regional tree-growth variability in Iberian pine forests. Global Change Biology 13 (4), 804-815. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01322.x

2006

  1. Macias Fauria M., and Johnson E. A. (2006) Large-scale climatic patterns control large lightning fire occurrence in Canada and Alaska forest regions. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, G04008. DOI: 10.1029/2006JG000181
  1. Macias Fauria M., Andreu L. Bosch O., Camarero J.J., and Gutiérrez E. (2006) Increasing aridity is enhancing Silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) water stress in its south-western distribution limit. Climatic Change 79, 289-313. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9071-0

2004

  1. Macias M., Timonen M., Kirchhefer A.J., Lindholm M., Eronen M., and Gutiérrez E. (2004) Growth Variability of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) along a West-East Gradient across Northern Fennoscandia: A Dendroclimatic Approach. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 36(4), 565-574. DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2004)036[0565:GVOSPP]2.0.CO;2

* Contributed equally to this work

 

Submitted

  1. Myers-Smith I., Hallinger M., Wilmking M., Blok D., Sass-Klaassen U., Rayback S., Weijers S., Trant A., Tape K., Naito A., Wipf S., Rixen C., Dawes M., Wheeler J., Buchwal A., Baittinger C., Macias-Fauria M., Forbes B.C., Lévesque E., Boulanger-Lapointe N., Beil I., and Ravolainen V. Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: Dendrochronology and ecology of the trees of the tundra.
  1. Willis K.J., Seddon A.W.R., Long P.R., Jeffers E.S., Caithness N., Thurston M., Martín J.L., Smit M.G.D., Hagelmann R., Collin-Hansen C., Weissenberger J., and Macias-Fauria M. Remote assessment of locally important ecological features across landscapes: how representative of reality is such an approach?
  1. Seddon A.W.R., Mackay A.W., Baker A.G., Birks H.J.B., Breman E., Buck C.E., Ellis E.C., Froyd C.A., Gill J.L., Gillson L., Johnson E.A., Jones V., Juggins S., Macias-Fauria M., Mills K., Morris J.L., Nogués-Bravo D., Punyasena S.W., Roland T.P., Tanentzap A.J., Willis K.J., and the Palaeo50 working group. Looking forward through the past. Identification of fifty priority research questions in palaeoecology.
 
Publications (books and book chapters)
 
  1. Willis K.J., Macias-Fauria M., Gasparatos A., Long P. (2013). Identifying and mapping biodiversity: Where can we damage? in Helm D., Hepburn C. (Eds.) Nature of Biodiversity: The Economics of Biodiversity, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. XXX-XXX

 

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'Reconstats' calculates the significance of dendroclimatic reconstruction statistics based on simple and multiple linear regressions. 

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