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Tenured Track Professor by CONACyT

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Group Sustainability of Natural Resources and Energy, Cinvestav Unidad Saltillo

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National System of Researchers: Level I (2017-2023)

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Professor in the Sustainability of the Natural Resources and Energy program

Dulce Flores-Renteria received the BS in Biology from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She received the MSc in Biology and ecological restoration from UNAM and the Ph.D in Ecology from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM). She was a postdoctoral fellow at UNAM for eight months. She joined the professorship program of Conacyt, and has been comisionated to the Sustainability of the Natural Resources and Energy group at Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav), Unidad Saltillo, Mexico in 2016.

Her research interests are focused on quantifying greenhouse gases produced by soils, soil degradation, diversity and assemblage of microbial communities, and the modeling of complex phenomena.

EDUCATION

2002 - 2007

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

B.A Biology

2008 - 2010

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

M.S. Biological Sciences

2011 - 2015

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

PhD in Ecology

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Projects

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- Validation of the evapotranspiration of the crop obtained from the water balance in a crop in the municipality of General Cepeda, Coahuila. Fondo Destinado a Promover el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Coahuila State, Mexico (COAH-2021-C15-C009), period: 2021-2022. Principal Investigator.

- Carbon storage capacity in different soil land uses for the identification of sustainable practices. Fondo Destinado a Promover el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Coahuila State, Mexico (COAH-2020-C14-C091), period: 2020-2021; Principal Investigator.

- Analysis of soil carbon exchange as an indicator of its biological degradation. Fondo Sectorial CONACyT-INEGI (289644), period: 2018-2021; Principal Investigator.

- First International Congress of Cacti and Succulents (Outreach event). Fondo Destinado a Promover el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Coahuila State, Mexico (COAH-2019-C13-E02), and Secretaria del Medio Ambiente. period: 2019; Principal Investigator (Main chair).

- Contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to carbon storage in the rainforest. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México (PAPIIT-UNAM IN-116814), period: 2015-2016. Participant.

- Vulnerability of holm oaks to climate change: mechanisms and influence of historical management on ecosystem services; Ministerio de Economía, Spain (CGL2013-42271-P), period: 2013-2015. Participant.

- Research group net to address Ecological Restoration in the Madrid Community REMEDINAL 2 and 3; Madrid, Spain (CGL2010 22180 C03 03 and CM S2013/MAE-2719), period: 2011-2015. Participant.

- Effect of fire and the genotype of the host tree on the diversity and structure of the communities of ectomycorrhizal fungi MyFUNCO; Ministerio de Economía, Spain (CGL2011-29585-C02-02), period: 2012-2015. Participant.

- Vulnerability of Mediterranean woody plant populations to global change: interactive effects of marginality and fragmentation on their regeneration; Ministerio de Economía, Spain, period: 2010-2012. Participant.

Scientific reports

2021 – Author of Summary for Teachers IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land. Advanced version. Office for Climate Education. https://www.oce.global/sites/default/files/2021-10/OCE-RAP_SRCCL-EN-05-WEB.pdf

2019   Olsson, L., H. Barbosa, S. Bhadwal, A. Cowie, K. Delusca, D. Flores-Renteria, K. Hermans, E. Jobbagy, W. Kurz, D. Li, D.J. Sonwa, L. Stringer, 2019: Land Degradation. In: Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems [P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, E. Calvo Buendia, V. Masson-Delmotte, H.-O. Pörtner, D. C. Roberts, P. Zhai, R. Slade, S. Connors, R. van Diemen, M. Ferrat, E. Haughey, S. Luz, S. Neogi, M. Pathak, J. Petzold, J. Portugal Pereira, P. Vyas, E. Huntley, K. Kissick, M. Belkacemi, J. Malley, (eds.)]. In press.

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Journal Publications

  • Flores-Rentería D., Delgado-Balbuena J., Campuzano E. F., Yuste J. C. 2023. Seasonal controlling factors of CO2 exchange in a semiarid shrubland in the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico. Science of the Total Environment, 858: 159918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159918 IF= 10.753; PI, corresponding author.

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  • Guillen-Cruz, G., Torres-Arreola R., Sánchez-Mejía Z., Flores-Rentería D. 2022. The effect of conventional and sustainable agricultural management practices on carbon and water fluxes in a Mexican semi-arid region. PeerJ, 10: e14542. 10.7717/peerj.14542. IF= 3.06; PI, corresponding author.

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  • Buck, R., Ortega‐Del Vecchyo D., Gehring C., Michelson R., Flores‐Rentería D., Klein B., Whipple A. V., Flores‐Rentería L. 2022. Sequential hybridization may have facilitated ecological transitions in the Southwestern pinyon pine syngameon. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18543. IF= 10.323

 

  • Vargas-Terminel, M. L., Flores-Rentería D., Sánchez-Mejía Z. M., Rojas-Robles N. E., Sandoval-Aguilar M., Chávez-Vergara B., Robles-Morua A., Garatuza-Payan J., Yépez E. A. 2022. Soil Respiration Is Influenced by Seasonality, Forest Succession and Contrasting Biophysical Controls in a Tropical Dry Forest in Northwestern Mexico. Soil System., 6(4): 75.  https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems6040075 IF= 3.61

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  • Campuzano E. F., Briones O., Larsen J., Guillen-Cruz G., Fernández-Luqueño F., Flores-Rentería D. 2021. Procedure to Assess Biological Soil Degradation in Arid Zones of Northeast Mexico. Reality, Data and Space International Journal of Statistics and Geography. 13(1): 38-57. e-ISSN 2395−8537. PI, corresponding author. https://rde.inegi.org.mx/index.php/2022/04/03

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  • Campuzano E. F., Delgado-Balbuena J., Flores-Rentería D. 2021. Controlling factors of ecosystem and soil respiration in a xeric shrubland in the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico. Terra Latinoamericana. 39: 1-14, e1251. https://doi.org/10.28940/terra.v39i0.1251 PI, corresponding author.

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  • Guillen-Cruz G., A. L. Rodríguez-Sánchez, Fernández-Luqueño F., Flores-Rentería D. 2021. Influence of vegetation type on the ecosystem services provided by urban green areas in an arid zone of northern Mexico. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 62: 127135. doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127135. IF= 4.537; PI, corresponding author.

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  • Forner A., Morán-López T., Flores-Rentería D., Aranda I., Valladares F. 2020. Fragmentation reduces severe drought impacts on tree functioning in holm oak forests. Environmental and Experimental Botany 173:104001 doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2020.104001. IF= 5.55.

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  • Flores-Rentería D., Sánchez-Gallén I., Morales-Rojas D., Larsen J., Álvarez-Sánchez J. 2020. Changes in the Abundance and Composition of a Microbial Community Associated with Land Use Change in a Mexican Tropical Rain Forest. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition doi:10.1007/s42729-020-00200-6. IF= 2.43.

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  • Curiel Yuste, J., Flores-Rentería, D., García-Angulo, D., Hereş, A.M., Bragă, C., Petritan, A.M., Petritan, I.C., 2019. Cascading effects associated with climate-change-induced conifer mortality in mountain temperate forests result in hot-spots of soil CO2 emissions. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 133: p. 50-59. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.02.017. IF= 6.27

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  • Flores-Rentería D., Rincón A., Morán-López T., Hereş, A.-M. Pérez-Izquierdo, L. Valladares F., Curiel Yuste, J., 2018. Habitat fragmentation is linked to cascading effects on soil functioning and CO2 emissions in Mediterranean holm-oak-forests. PeerJ 6. doi:10.7717/peerj.5857. IF= 2.35; corresponding author.

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  • Flores-Rentería D., Curiel Yuste J., Valladares F. and A. Rincón. 2018. Soil legacies determine the resistance of an experimental plant-soil system to drought. CATENA 166:271-278 doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2018.04.011. IF= 3.85; corresponding author.

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  • Flores-Rentería D., Barradas V.L. and J. Álvarez-Sánchez. 2018. Ectomycorrhizal pre-inoculation of Pinus hartwegii and Abies religiosa is replaced by native fungi in a temperate forest of central Mexico. Symbiosis74:131-144 doi:10.1007/s13199-017-0498-z. IF= 1.78

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  • Pérez-Izquierdo, L., M. Zabal-Aguirre, D. Flores-Rentería, S. C. González-Martínez, M. Buée and A. Rincón. 2017. Functional outcomes of fungal community shifts driven by tree genotype and spatial-temporal factors in Mediterranean pine forests. Environmental Microbiology. 19(4), 1639-1652. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13690. IF= 4.97.

 

  • Morán-López, T., A. Forner, D. Flores-Rentería, M. Díaz and F. Valladares. 2016. Some positive effects of the fragmentation of holm oak forests: Attenuation of water stress and enhancement of acorn production. Forest Ecology and Management 370: 22-30. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.042. IF= 3.06.

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  • Flores-Rentería, D., A. Rincón, F. Valladares and J. Curiel Yuste. 2016. Agricultural matrix affects differently the alpha and beta structural and functional diversity of soil microbial communities in a fragmented Mediterranean holm oak forest. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 92:79-90. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.09.015. IF= 5.37; corresponding author.

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  • Morán-López, T., M. Fernández, C. L. Alonso, D. Flores-Rentería, F. Valladares and M. Díaz. 2015. Effects of forest fragmentation on the oak–rodent mutualism. Oikos. doi: 10.1111/oik.02061. IF= 3.83.

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  • Flores-Rentería, D., J. Curiel Yuste, A. Rincón, F. Brearley, J. García-Gil and F. Valladares. 2015. “Habitat Fragmentation can Modulate Drought Effects on the Plant-soil-microbial System in Mediterranean Holm Oak (Quercus ilex) Forests”. Microbial Ecology: Special Issue: on Forest Microbiome, 69(4): 798-812. doi: 10.1007/s00248-015-0584-9. IF= 3.23; corresponding author.

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  • Gehring, C., D. Flores-Rentería, C. M. Sthultz, T. M. Leonard, L. Flores-Rentería, A. V. Whipple and T. G. Whitham. 2014. "Plant genetics and interspecific competitive interactions determine ectomycorrhizal fungal community responses to climate change." Molecular Ecology: Special Issue: Nature's Microbiome, 23(6): 1379-1391. doi:10.1111/mec.12503. IF= 6.16.

Other academic Publications

Hernández-Alva M. García-Ortega R., Durán Ramírez C. A., Flores-Rentería L., Flores-Rentería D., y W. S. Zavala Rosa.  2021. Bilingual botanical glossary. First edition (digital version). ISBN 978-607-12-0580-3

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358999976_Glosario_XOCHIMANKI_online

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Rodríguez-Sánchez A.L. y D. Flores-Rentería. 2020. “Áreas verdes urbanas en zonas áridas, una propuesta sustentable” (Urban green areas in arid areas, a sustainable proposal). Revista Avance y Perspectiva, Difusión y divulgación científica del Cinvestav. Vol. 6, No 1.

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https://avanceyperspectiva.cinvestav.mx

2018   Javier Álvarez-Sánchez, Juan Carlos Peña-Becerril, Dulce Y. Flores-Rentería, Diego Olivera-Morales, Irene Sandoval-González, Gema Galindo-Flores y Guadalupe Santiago-Martínez. Análisis del efecto de los hongos micorrizógenos en el crecimiento y supervivencia de plántulas de árboles en la cuenca del río Magdalena, Ciudad de México, En: Lucia Almeida-Leñero, Javier Carmona Jimenez y Enrique Cantoral Uriza (coord) Historia Natural y Cultural de la Cuenca del río Magdalena, Ciudad de México, México.

2015   Curiel Yuste J., Lloret Maya F., Mattana S., Flores-Rentería D., Barba J., Fernández-López M., Peñuelas J., Pizano C. El suelo que pisamos, un ecosistema de infinita variedad. Naturalmente. 5:4-10.

About Dr. Dulce Flores

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