DR. ADRIANA CORRALES
Mycorrhizal symbiosis in tropical forest
My research focus is the ecology and evolution of ectomycorrhizal communities associated to tropical tree species and how ectomycorrhizal associations influence ecosystem functioning in tropical forests.
MY CV
EXPEDITIONS STRATEGY & PLANNING LEAD
SPUN | Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (June 2022 - Today)
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Univerisdad del Rosario, Faculty of Natural Sciences (May 2018 - April 2024)
EWEL POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
University of Florida (August 2016 - 2018)
PHD. PLANT BIOLOGY
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2016)
M.SC. FORESTS AND EVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellin (2007)
FOREST ENGINEER
Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellin (2004)
MAIN RESEARCH PROJECTS
My research goal is to integrate fungal community dynamics with ecosystem processes at different spatial and temporal scales. I’m interested in questions regarding how shifts in fungal community composition caused by host plant identity, environmental variation, climate change, or nitrogen deposition could differentially affect fungal taxa with particular functional traits, and as a consequence influence soil biogeochemical cycling and forest dynamics.
EVOLUTION OF ECTOMYCORRHIZA IN JUGLANDACEAE AND THE INFLUENCE OF THIS KEYSTONE SYMBIOSIS ON SOIL NITROGEN AVAILABILITY AND CARBON STORAGE IN TROPICAL FORESTS
IN SITU CONSERVATION OF THREATENED TREES OF COLOMBIA SPECIAL FOCUS ON ENDEMIC AND ENDANGERED: TRIGONOBALANUS EXCELSA
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Corrales, A.:, Xu, H.; Garibay-Orijel, R.; Alfonso-Corrado, C.; Williams-Linera, G.; Chu, C.; Truong, C.; Jusino, M.A.; Clark-Tapia, R.; Dalling, J.W.; Liu, Y.; Smith, M.E. 2020. Fungal Ecology 50
Corrales, A.; Wilson, A. W.; Mueller, G.M. and Ovrebo, C.L. 2020. Frontiers in Microbiology 11: 1-10.
Adamcik, S.; Looney, B.; Caboň, M.; Jancovicova, S.; Adamčíková, K.; Avis, P.G.; Barajas, M.; Bhatt, R.P.; Corrales, A.; Das, K.; Hampe, F.; et al. 2019. Fungal Diversity 99: 369-449.
ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI AND SOIL ENZYMES EXHIBIT CONTRASTING PATTERNS ALONG ELEVATION GRADIENTS IN SOUTHERN PATAGONIA
Truong, C; Gabbarini, L A; Corrales, A; Mujic, A B; Escobar, J M; Moretto, A and Smith, M. 2019. New Phytologist 222(4): 1936-1950.
Mao, Z; Corrales, A; Zhu, K; Yuan, Z; Lin, F; Ye, Ji; Hao, Z and Wang, X. 2019. New Phytologist 223(1): 475-486.
Corrales, A.; Henkel, T.; and Smith, M.E. 2018. New Phytologist. 220: 1076–1091.
Corrales, A.; Turner, B.L.; Tedersoo, L.; Anslan, S.; and Dalling, J.W. 2017. Fungal Ecology 27PA: 14–23.
Corrales, A.; Mangan, S.A.; Turner, B.L.; and Dalling, J.W. 2016. Ecology Letters 19: 383–392.
Corrales, A.; Arnold A.E.; Ferrer, A; Turner, BL; and Dalling J.W. 2016. Mycorrhiza 26:1–17.
Steidinger, B.S.; Turner, B.L.; Corrales A.; Dalling J.W. 2014. Functional Ecology 29: 121–130.
Corrales, A.; Duque, A.; Uribe, J. & Londoño, V. 2010. The Bryologist 113 (1): 8-21.
Franco-Molano, A. E.; Corrales, A. & Vasco-Palacios, A.M. 2010. Actualidades Biológicas 32(92): 89-113.
Giraldo-Pamplona, W.; Corrales, A.; Yepes-Quintero, A.; Duque-Montoya, A.J. 2012. Actualidades Biologicas 34 (97): 187-197.
López-González, W.; Duque-Montoya A.J.; Corrales, A.; Callejas-Posada, R.; Idárraga-Piedrahíta A. 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares vol. II.