Adriana SÃnchez Andrade
Primary Teacher
School of Medicine and Health Sciences | Faculty of Natural
Universidad del Rosario
Spain
Biography
Undergraduate in Biology, Universidad de los Andes (2004). • Master's Degree in Biology, Universidad de los Andes (2005). • PhD in Biology, Wake Forest University (2011). • Postdoctoral researcher, Wake Forest University (2011-2012). • Assistant Research Professor, Wake Forest University (2012-2014). • Postdoctoral researcher, Universidad del Rosario (2014). • Principal career professor, Universidad del Rosario (2015 to date).
Research Interest
My main interest is the ecophysiology of plants, especially alpine plants. I am currently carrying out a project in the Chingaza moor, trying to understand how two of the most common species adapt to this extreme ecosystem. For this we perform different microclimatic measurements and functional characters. The data from this research will allow us to understand the conditions to which these species are currently subject and to be able to project the possible impacts that climate change will have on the moor.
Publications
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A Sanchez, NM Hughes, WK Smith. 2013. Water-use efficiency declines during autumn leaf senescence in three deciduous tree species, North Carolina piedmont, USA. International Journal of Plant Biology 4.
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A Sanchez, JM Posada, WK Smith. 2014. Dynamic Cloud Regimes, Incident Sunlight, and Leaf Temperatures in Espeletia grandiflora and Chusquea tessellata, two Representative Species of the Andean Páramo, Colombia. Artic, Antartic and Apline Research 46 (2): 79-86
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A Sanchez, NM Hughes, and WK Smith. 2014. Importance of natural cloud regimes to ecophysiology in the alpine species, Caltha leptosepala and Arnica parryi, Snowy Range Mountains, southeast Wyoming, USA. Functional Plant Biology 42 (2): 186-197.
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NM Hughes, KL Carpenter, DK Cook, TS Keidel Jr., CN Miller, JL Neal, A Sanchez, WK Smith. 2015. Effects of cumulus clouds on microclimate and shoot-level photosynthetic gas exchange in Picea engelmannii and Abies lasiocarpa at treeline, Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 201: 26-37.
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A Sanchez, WK Smith. 2015. No evidence for photoinhibition of photosynthesis in alpine Caltha leptosepala DC. Alpine Botany online.
