Dr. Masha van der Sande
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Dr. Masha van der Sande
Postdoctoral Researcher "Spatial Interaction Ecology"
Department of Community Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ/
German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Deutscher Platz 5e, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: 0341-97 33117
E-mail:
masha.vandersande@idiv.de
Curriculum Vitae
| 2016 - present | Postdoctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Centre (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany |
| 2012 - 2016 | PhD candidate at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. PhD thesis title: “Biodiversity and the functioning of tropical forests” |
| 2011 - 2012 | Research Master in Ecology, Wageningen University, the Netherlands |
| 2010 - 2012 | MSc Biology, Cum laude (distinction), Wageningen University, the Netherlands |
| 2012 | MSc thesis in collaboration with the forestry research institution in Bolivia, on traits that determine the growth of large canopy trees |
| 2011 | MSc thesis in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, on comparing the drought-tolerance and other (hydraulic) traits of liana and tree species |
| 2007 - 2010 | BSc Biology, Cum laude (distinction), University Utrecht, the Netherlands |
Publications
Peer-reviewed publications:
van der Sande, M.T., Arets, E.J.M.M., Peña-Claros, M., Luciana de Avila, A., Roopsind, A., Mazzei, L., Ascarrunz, N., Finegan, B., Alarcón, A., Cáceres-Siani, Y., Licona, J.C., Ruschel, A., Toledo, M. & Poorter, L. (2016) Old-growth Neotropical forests are shifting in species and trait composition. Ecological Monographs, 86, 228–243.
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Poorter, L., van der Sande, M.T., Thompson, J., Arets, E.J.M.M., Alarcón, A., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., Ascarrunz, N., Balvanera, P., Barajas-Guzmán, G., Boit, A., Bongers, F., Carvalho, F.A., Casanoves, F., Cornejo-Tenorio, G., Costa, F.R.C., de Castilho, C. V., Duivenvoorden, J.F., Dutrieux, L.P., Enquist, B.J., Fernández-Méndez, F., Finegan, B., Gormley, L.H.L., Healey, J.R., Hoosbeek, M.R., Ibarra-Manríquez, G., Junquira, A.B., Levis, C., Licona, J.C., Lisboa, L.S., Magnusson, W.E., Martínez-Ramos, M., Martínez-Yrizar, A., Martorano, G., Makell, L.C., Mazzei, L., Meave, J.A., Mora, F., Muñoz, R., Nytch, C., Pansonato, M.P., Parr, T.W., Paz, H., Simoes Penello, M., Pérez-García, E.A., Rentería, L.Y., Rodríguez-Velazquez, J., Rozendaal, D.M.A., Ruschel, A.R., Sakschewski, B., Salgado Negret, B., Schietti, J., Sinclair, F.L., Souza, P.F., Souza, F.C., Stropp, J., ter Steege, H., Swenson, N.G., Thonicke, K., Toledo, M., Uriarte, M., van der Hout, P., Walker, P., Zamora, N. & Peña-Claros, M. (2015) Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, 1314–1328. Link
Prado-Junior, J.A., Schiavini, I., Vale, V.S., Arantes, C.S., van der Sande, M.T., Lohbeck, M. & Poorter, L. (2016) Conservative species drive biomass productivity in tropical dry forests. Journal of Ecology, 104, 817–827. Link
van der Sande, M.T., Zuidema, P.A. & Sterck, F. (2015) Explaining biomass growth of tropical canopy trees: the importance of sapwood. Oecologia, 117, 1145–1155. Link
van der Sande, M.T., Poorter, L., Schnitzer, S.A. & Markesteijn, L. (2013) Are lianas more drought-tolerant than trees? A test for the role of hydraulic architecture and other stem and leaf traits. Oecologia, 172, 961–72. Link
Immers, A.K., van der Sande, M.T., van der Zande, R.M., Geurts, J.J.M., Donk, E. & Bakker, E.S. (2013) Iron addition as a shallow lake restoration measure: impacts on charophyte growth. Hydrobiologia, 710, 241–251.
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Reports:
Verboom, J., Kruijt, B., Perez Soba, M., Baveco, H., van Eupen, M., Pena Claros, M., Staal, A., van der Sande, M.T., Parr, T., Jones, L., Masante, D., Purse, B., Huntingford, C., Blyth, E., Cisowska, I., Thonicke, K., Sakschewski, B. & Boit, A. (2015) Tipping points in Neotropical forests: exploring causes, risks, consequences and prevention of large scale forest dieback. ROBIN project report (http://www.robinproject.info/).
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Peña-Claros, M., Poorter, L., van der Sande, M.T., Arets, E., Ascarrunz, N., Boit, A., Hoosbeek, M., Sakschewski, B., Thonicke, K., Toledo, M. (2014) Quantifying the spatial relationship between biodiversity and climate change mitigation at different scales (site and regional), along environmental gradients (precipitation and soil fertility) in undisturbed forests and across land use intensities. ROBIN project report (http://www.robinproject.info/).