Líneas de investigación:
Ecología Vegetal; Ecología Funcional.
E-mail:
asaldana@udec.cl
Teléfono:
(56) 41-220 3418
Casilla:
160-C
Proyectos:
- MARSDEN 20-UOW-041. Mycorrhizas, alternative stable states, and landscape partitioning in south-temperate forests. Coinvestigador. (2021-2024). University of Waikato, New Zealand – Universidad de Concepción.
- FONDECYT No 1211441. How did cacti colonize the hyperarid Atacama Desert? Unraveling the mechanism of hydrological niche evolution and diversification. Coinvestigador. (2021-2023). Universidad de Concepción.
- FONDECYT N° 1181688. Inferring invasion success, conservation value and ecosystem processes from functional plant traits in peri-urban emerging ecosystems in a Mediterranean-temperate gradient. Coinvestigador. (2018-2021). Universidad de Concepción.
- FONDECYT N° 1160583. Instantaneous speciation in a sympatric cactus mediated by hybridization and the establishment of reproductive barriers in coastal central Chile. Coinvestigador. (2016-2019). Universidad de Concepción.
- DFG-SPP Program 1803: EarthShape: Earth Surface Shaping by Biota (Alemania). Interactive plant-trait and climate effects on soil organic carbon along the Chilean coastal cordillera (2015-2019). Marburg University, Alemania – Universidad de Concepción. Coinvestigador.
- FONDECYT No 1140455. Potential for evolutionary responses to the decrease in the rainfall regime in vascular epiphytes’ functional traits in the temperate forest. Investigador Responsable. (2014-2019). Universidad de Concepción.
Publicaciones:
- Hua, X., Lusk, C. H., Dickie, I. A., Adu‐Bredu, S., Allen, K. J., Araus, V., Saldaña, A… & Wright, I. J. (2025). Site‐Specific Nutrient Data Reveal the Importance of Soils in Driving the Mycorrhizal Make‐Up of Woody Vegetation Worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(1), e13936. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13936
- Fuentes, N., Marticorena, A., Teillier, S., Saldaña, A. & Rodríguez, R. (2024). Chondrilla juncea, nuevo registro para la flora introducida de Chile. Gayana. Botánica, 81(1), 77-81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-66432024000100077
- Stock, S. C., Canessa, R., van den Brink, L., Cavieres, L. A., Kappler, A., Merino Guzman, C., Saldaña, A… & Dippold, M. A. (2024). Environmental versus litter traits as drivers of microbial decomposer functions. bioRxiv, 2024-07. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.26.605152
- Van den Brink, L., Canessa, R., Neidhardt, H., Knüver, T., Rios, R. S., Saldaña, A., … & Tielbörger, K. (2023). No home‐field advantage in litter decomposition from the desert to temperate forest. Functional Ecology, 37(5), 1315-1327. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14285
- Rodriguez-Quintero, W. D., Moreno-Chacón, M., Carrasco-Urra, F., & Saldaña, A. (2022). From dark to darkness, negative phototropism influences the support-tree location of the massive woody climber Hydrangea serratifolia (Hydrangeaceae) in a Chilean temperate rainforest. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 17(1), 2122244. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2022.2122244
- Canessa, R., van den Brink, L., Berdugo, M. B., Hättenschwiler, S., Rios, R. S., Saldaña, A., … & Bader, M. Y. (2022). Trait functional diversity explains mixture effects on litter decomposition at the arid end of a climate gradient. Journal of Ecology, 110(9), 2219-2231. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13946
- Fuentes, N., & Saldaña, A. (2022). Validación de un sistema de evaluación de riesgo de invasión: el sistema Australiano y su potencial uso en especies de plantas introducidas en Chile. Gayana. Botánica, 79(1), 63-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-66432022000100063
- Hietz P., Wagner K., Nunes Ramos F., Cabral J. S., Agudelo C., Benavides A. M., Saldaña A… & G. Zotz. 2022. Putting vascular epiphytes on the traits map. Journal of Ecology 110(2): 340-358.
- Arbicheva A., Pautov A. & A. Saldaña. 2021. Water storage and transport in leaves of vesselless trees in the temperate rainforest of south-central Chile. Gayana Botánica 78(2): 141-155.
- Canessa R., van den Brink L., Saldaña A., Rios R. S., Hättenschwiler S., Mueller C. W., … & Bader M. Y. 2021. Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability. Journal of Ecology 109(1): 447-458.
- Fuentes N., Marticorena A., Saldaña A., Jerez V., Ortiz J. C., Victoriano P., … & Pauchard A. 2020. Multi-taxa inventory of naturalized species in Chile. NeoBiota 60: 25-41.
- Escandón A. B., Paula S., & Saldaña A. 2020. Root suckering promotes recruitment in two temperate rainforest trees with contrasting shade tolerance. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 44: 125531.
- Morales L. V., Alvear C., Sanfuentes C., Saldaña A., & Sierra-Almeida A. 2020. Annual and perennial high-Andes species have a contrasting freezing-resistance mechanism to cope with summer frosts. Alpine Botany 130(2): 169-178.
- Esquivel J., Echeverría C., Saldaña A., & Fuentes R. 2020. High functional diversity of forest ecosystems is linked to high provision of water flow regulation ecosystem service. Ecological Indicators 115: 106433.
- Morales L. V., Alvear C., Sanfuentes C., Saldaña A., & Sierra-Almeida A. 2020. Does the life-history strategy determine the freezing resistance of flowers and leaves of alpine herbaceous species? Alpine Botany 130: 157-168.
- Esquivel J., Pauchard A. & A. Saldaña. 2019. Efecto de la diversidad funcional sobre la tasa de evapotranspiración: un análisis anual de tres bosques templados chilenos. Gayana Botánica 76(2): 156-167.
- Carrasco-Urra F., Molina-Montenegro M. & A. Saldaña. 2019. ¿Pueden los rasgos funcionales hidráulicos ayudar a explicar los límites de distribución actual en dos especies de Nothofagus con hábito foliar contrastante? Gayana Botánica 76(2): 237-246.
- Madriaza K., Saldaña A., Salgado-Luarte C., Escobedo V.M. & E. Gianoli. 2019. Chlorophyll fluorescence may predict tolerance to herbivory. International Journal of Plant Sciences 180 (1): 81-85.
- Moreno-Chacón M. & A. Saldaña. 2019. α, β and γ-diversity of vascular epiphytes along the climatic gradient of continental Chile. New Zealand Journal of Botany 57(1): 18-31.
- Pincheira-Ulbrich J., Hernández C.E. & A. Saldaña. 2018. Consequences of swamp forest fragmentation on assemblages of vascular epiphytes and climbing plants: evaluation of the metacommunity structure. Ecology and Evolution 8(23): 11785-117987
- Carrasco-Urra F., Quezada I.M. & A. Saldaña. 2018. Variation in traits related to water transport in Nothofagus dombeyi helps to explain its latitudinal distribution limit in the Chilean Andes. Plant Ecology & Diversity 11(3): 307-317.
- Quezada I. M., Gianoli E. & A. Saldaña. 2018. Crassulacean acid metabolism and distribution range in Chilean Bromeliaceae: influences of climate and phylogeny. Journal of Biogeography 45: 1541–1549.
- Canessa R., Saldaña A., Ríos R. S. & E. Gianoli. 2018. Functional trait variation predicts distribution of alien plant species across the light gradient in a temperate rainforest. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 32: 49-55.
- Moreno-Chacón M., Mardones D., Viveros N., Madriaza K., Carrasco-Urra F., Marticorena A., Baeza C., Rodríguez R. & A. Saldaña. 2018. Flora vascular de un remanente de bosque esclerófilo mediterráneo costero: Estación de Biología Terrestre de Hualpén, Región del Biobío, Chile. Gayana Botánica 75 (1): 466-481.