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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.

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My scientific journey

From sampling in mountain forest of Panama and Colombia until participating in the latest SPUN expedition in the Atacama desert!

MY CV

EXPEDITIONS STRATEGY & PLANNING LEAD

SPUN | Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (June 2022 - present)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Universidad del Rosario, Faculty of Natural Sciences (May 2018 - March 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 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellin (2007)

FOREST ENGINEER

Universidad Nacional de Colombia- 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.

ECTOMYCORRHIZAL ASSOCIATIONS AND TROPICAL MONODOMINANCE

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EVOLUTION OF ECTOMYCORRHIZA IN JUGLANDACEAE AND THE INFLUENCE OF THIS KEYSTONE SYMBIOSIS ON SOIL NITROGEN AVAILABILITY AND CARBON STORAGE IN TROPICAL FORESTS

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DISCOVERY OF NEW MUSHROOM SPECIES

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IN SITU CONSERVATION OF THREATENED TREES OF COLOMBIA SPECIAL FOCUS ON ENDEMIC AND ENDANGERED: TRIGONOBALANUS EXCELSA

2023-11-06 11.31.24.heic

THE MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI THAT SUSTAIN LIFE IN THE DRIEST PLACE ON EARTH: THE ATACAMA DESERT

2023-12-18 20.54.07.heic

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.

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.

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