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Francesc Borràs Sayas

Francesc Borrás Sayas
I am a PhD student at the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology. I study how the soil food web functional capacity and resilience under climate change and climate extremes affect tree regeneration.

Background

MSc Evolutionary Biology – Uppsala University (2025).
Thesis tittle: The potential of soil eDNA to characterize tropical forest plant communities.

BSc Environmental Biology – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & University of Eastern Finland (2021)
Thesis tittle: Assessing the risk, the role of biodiversity on emerging infectious diseases.

Selected publications

Laura Moro, Pascal Milesi, Betsaida Cabrera García, Teodoro Clase, Francesc Borràs Sayas, Eleanor Gibney, Yommi Piña, María Uriarte, Robert Muscarella, A comparative dataset on population genetics, traits, and distributions for nineteen Caribbean tree species, bioRxiv 2026.03.21.713382; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.21.713382

 

F. Borràs Sayas, O. Iacovino, M. Uriarte, J.K. Zimmerman, C.J. Nytch, G. Dunshea, & R. Muscarella, Soil eDNA reflects regionally dominant species rather than local composition of tropical tree communities, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (34) e2505772122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505772122 (2025)

Contact

Doctoral Student at the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology; Division of Forest Microbiology
E-mail: francesc.borras.sayas@slu.se
Postal address:
Skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi , Box 7026
750 07 UPPSALA
Visiting address: Almas Allé 5, Uppsala