Rocío Urrutia

Area de Interés: Impactos del cambio climático en el crecimiento y funcionalidad de los bosques nativos, balance de carbono en bosques nativos,monitoreo de largo plazo en bosques de alerce, dendroclimatología.

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rurrutia@infor.cl

2010 – 2015  DPhil en Geografía y Medioambiente, Universidad de Oxford, Oxford, Reino Unido.

2006 - 2008 MSc. en Geografía, Departamento de Geociencias, Universidad de Massachusetts,
Amherst, USA.

1996 – 2001  Ingeniería Forestal. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

2023

Perez-Quezada, J. F., Barichivich, J., Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Carrasco, E., Aguilera, D., Bacour, C., & Lara, A. (2023). Warming and drought weaken the carbon sink capacity of an endangered paleoendemic temperate rainforest in South America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2022JG007258. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007258

Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Barichivich, J., Szejner, P., Rozas, V., & Lara, A. (2023). Ecophysiological responses of Nothofagus obliqua forests to recent climate drying across the Mediterranean-Temperate biome transition in south-central Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2022JG007293. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007293

2022

González Mauro E., Lara Antonio, Urrutia-Jalabert Rocío, Bustos-Salazar Angela, Ruiz-Gómez Carolina, Aravena Juan C. Carbon stocks across different environments, disturbance regimes, and stand age in Fitzroya cupressoides forests, the longest-lived species of the southern hemisphere. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. VOLUME=5, 2022. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2022.960429     DOI=10.3389/ffgc.2022.960429 

2020

Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Lara, A., Barichivich, J., Vergara, N., Rodriguez, C.G. and Piper, FI. 2020. Low Growth Sensitivity and Fast Replenishment of Non-structural Carbohydrates in a Long-Lived Endangered Conifer After Drought. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:905. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00905

Lara, A., Villalba, R., Urrutia-Jalabert, R., González-Reyes, A., Aravena, J.C., Luckman, B., Cuq, E., Rodríguez, C.G., Wolodarsky-Franke, A. 2020. A 5680-year tree-ring temperature record for southern South America. Quaternary Science Reviews 228-106087.

2018

Urrutia-Jalabert R, Peña MP, Coopman R, Carvajal D, Jiménez-Castillo M, Cosimo D, LobosCatalán P. 2018. Elucidating the hydraulic vulnerability of the longest-lived Southern Hemisphere conifer to aridification. Forest Ecology and Management 430:472-484.

Urrutia-Jalabert, R., González M, González-Reyes A, Lara A, Garreaud R. 2018. Climate variability and forest fires in central and south-central Chile. Ecosphere 9(4):e02171.10.1002/ecs2.2171

2017

Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Malhi, Y. & Lara, A. 2017. Soil respiration and mass balance estimation of fine root production in Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile. Ecosphere 8(4): 1-18.

2016

Muñoz, A., González-Reyes, A., Lara, A., Sauchyn, D., Christie, D., Puchi, P., Urrutia-Jalabert, R., et al. 2016. Streamflow variability in the Chilean Temperate-Mediterranean climate transition (35°S–42°S) during the last 400 years inferred from tree-ring records. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3068-9.

2015

Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Malhi, Y., Barichivich, J., Lara, A., Delgado-Huertas, A., Rodríguez, C.G., Cuq, E. 2015. Increased water use efficiency but contrasting tree growth patterns in Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile during recent decades, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120, 2505–2524.

Urrutia-Jalabert, R, Malhi, Y. & Lara, A. 2015. The Oldest, Slowest Rainforests in the World? Massive Biomass and Slow Carbon Dynamics of Fitzroya cupressoides Temperate Forests in Southern Chile. Plos One 10(9): e0137569. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137569.

Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Rossi, S., Deslauriers, A., Malhi Y., Lara, A. 2015. Environmental correlates of stem radius change in the endangered Fitzroya cupressoides forests of southern Chile. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 200: 209- 221.

2014

Ruiz-Labourdette, D, Genova, M, Schmitz, MF, Urrutia, R, Pineda, FD. 2014. Summer rainfall variability in European Mediterranean mountains from the sixteenth to the twentieth century reconstructed from tree rings. International Journal of Biometeorology 58: 1627-1639

2012

Villalba, R., Lara, A., Masiokas, MH., Urrutia, R., Luckman, BH, Marshall, GJ. Mundo, IA. Christie, DA., Cook, ER., Neukom, R., Allen, K., Fenwickf, P., Boninsegna, JA., Srur, AM., Morales, MS., Araneo, D., Palmer, JG., Cuq, E., Aravena, JC., Holz, A., Le Quesne, C. 2012.  Unusual Southern Hemisphere tree-growth patterns induced by changes in the Southern Annular Mode. Nature Geosciences 5: 793–798..

2011

Urrutia, R., Lara, A., Villalba, R., Christie, D., Le Quesne C., Cuq, A. 2011. Multi-century treering reconstruction of annual streamflow for the Maule River watershed in South-Central Chile. Water Resources Research 47, W06527, doi:10.1029/2010WR009562.

2010

Neukom, R., Luterbacher, J., Villalba, R., Küttel, M., Frank, D., Jones, P.D., Grosjean, M., Wanner, H., Aravena, J.C., Black, D.E., Christie, D.A., D’Arrigo, R., Lara, A., Morales, M., Soliz-Gamboa, C., Srur, A., Urrutia, R., von Gunten, L. 2010. Multiproxy summer and winter surface air temperature field reconstructions for southern South America covering the past centuries. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0793-3.

Buytaert, W., Vuille, M., Dewulf, A., Urrutia, R., Karmalkar, A., Célleri, R. 2010. Uncertainties in climate change projections and regional downscaling: implications for water resources management. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 14: 1247-1258.

2009

Urrutia, R. & M. Vuille. 2009. Climate change projections for the tropical Andes using a Regional Climate Model: Temperature and precipitation simulations for the end of the 21st century. Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres Vol. 114, D02108, doi:10.1029/2008JD011021.

Lara, A., Little, C., Urrutia, R., McPhee, J., Álvarez-Garretón, C., Oyarzún, C., Soto, D., Donoso, P., Nahuelhual, L., Pino, M., Arismendi, I. 2009. Assessment of ecosystem services as an opportunity for the conservation and management of native forests in Chile. Forest Ecology and Management, 258:415-424.

Little, C., Lara, A., McPhee, J., Urrutia, R. 2009. Revealing the impact of forest exotic plantations on water yield in meso-scale watersheds in South-central Chile. Journal of Hydrology, 374:162-170.

2008

Lara, A., Villalba, R. & Urrutia, R. 2008. A 400-year tree-ring record of the Puelo River summer and early fall streamflow in the Valdivian rainforest ecoregion, Chile. Climatic Change 86:331-356.

2005

Lara, A., Urrutia, R., Villalba, R., Luckman, B. H., Soto D., Aravena J.C., McPhee, J., Wolodarsky, A., Pezoa, L., León. J. 2005. The potential use of tree-rings to reconstruct streamflow and estuarine salinity in the Valdivian rainforest ecoregion, Chile. Dendrochronologia 22:155-161.

Urrutia, R., Lara, A. & Villalba, R. 2005. ¿Cómo ha variado la disponibilidad de agua en la Ecoregión de los bosques valdivianos en los últimos siglos? Ambiente y Desarrollo 21(3):48-57. Chile.

Investigadora Proyecto PAI-ANID de Inserción en el Sector Productivo "Evaluación de los efectos de la reducción en las precipitaciones y la “megasequía” sobre el funcionamiento y productividad de los bosques de Nothofagus obliqua a lo largo de su distribución: Resistencia y ajustes fisiológicos frente a la escasez hídrica".

Co-Investigadora Proyecto NERC-NEWTON-ANID “ARBOLES: A trait-based Understanding of LATAM Forest Biodiversity and Resilience”.

Co-Investigadora Proyecto Fondecyt Regular 1171496 “Carbon and water cycling of endangered Fitzroya cupressoides rainforests to understand their vulnerability to climate change”.

2018-2019 : Investigadora Responsable Proyecto de Apoyo a la Formación de Redes Internacionales para Investigadores en Etapa Inicial REDI170117 “Profundizando en el entendimiento de la vulnerabilidad de los bosques de Fitzroya cupressoides al cambio climático”. Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales. Universidad Austral de Chile.

2015-2018: Investigadora Postdoctoral Proyecto Fondecyt 3160258 “Entendiendo la vulnerabilidad de los bosques de Fitzroya Cupressoides al cambio climático”. Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Recursos Naturales. Universidad Austral de Chile.

2012 : Talleres para niños de Escuelas Rurales, Región de Los Ríos y Región de Los Lagos. Rufford
Small Grants for Nature Conservation.

2005 : Asistente Experto Evento Explora-CONICYT “Alerces: Enciclopedia Milenaria de Cambios
ambientales” Osorno y Chiloé, Región de Los Lagos, Chile.