Mar Sobral
Associate Professor Geography Department
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
RESEARCH, TEACH & OUTREACH
MY TOPICS OF EXPERTISE
Natural Selection
Transgenerational Epigenetics
Subindividual Diversity
Non Genetic Trait Variation
Global Change & Biodiversity
Carbon Cycle
ON
Associate Professor
Santiago de Compostela University
(Spain)
2016 - 2018
Postdoc Researcher
Centre of Evolutionary and Functional Ecology, CNRS
(France)
2016 - 2018
2011 - 2015
Postdoc Researcher
Stanford University
(United States)2010
PhD
Santiago de Compostela University
(Spain)
2010
2008
PhD student
Real Botanical Garden, CSIC
(Spain)
2008
PhD student
Costa Rica University & Organization for Tropical Studies
(Costa Rica)
2008
2007
PhD student
Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies, CSIC
(Spain)
2007
PhD student
Sao Paulo University
(Brazil)
2007
2005
Master student
Wilhelmshaven Helgoland Research Institute
(Germany)
2002
Undergrad student
Autonomous University of Barcelona
(Spain)
2002
2001
Undergrad student
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
(Romania)
Selected Contributions
- de Bello et al. (2025). Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait-based ecology. Ecological Monographs
- Losada el al. (2024). Geographic distribution of mammal diets. Web Ecology
- Sobral, M. (2023). Plant subindividual functional diversity and carbon cycling. Trends in Plant Science
- Sobral, M. et al. (2023). Traits shape the carbon cycle. Trends in Ecology and evolution.
- Sobral, M. & Sampedro. (2022). Phenotypic, epigenetic, and fitness diversity within plant genotypes. Trends in Plant Science
- Sobral, M. et al. (2021). Phenotypic plasticity in plant defense across life stages: inducibility, transgenerational induction, and transgenerational priming. PNAS
- Sobral, M. (2021) All traits are functional: an evolutionary viewpoint. Trends in Plant Science
- Sobral, M. et al. (2019). Exploring subindividual variability: role of ontogeny, abiotic environment and seed‐dispersing birds. Plant Biology
- Sobral, M. et al. (2017). Mammal diversity influences the carbon cycle through trophic interactions in the Amazon. Nature Ecology and Evolution
