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 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.
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.