Juan A. Ballesteros-Cánovas
Tenured Scientist
climate; forest; geomorphology; natural hazards; paleofloods; tree-rings
I am a senior researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) and the scientific lead of the Hydrology and Climate Change Laboratory. Forestry Engineer (Technical University of Madrid, Spain). Master's in Applied Environmental Geology (University of León, Spain). PhD Forestry Engineer (Technical University of Madrid, Spain, 2011).
My academic career includes more than a decade as an associate professor at the Universities of Bern and Geneva (Switzerland), where I expanded my research on hydrological risks in the context of global environmental change. My work integrates process-based analyses, multi-hazard interactions, and climate–environment dynamics, combining local-scale observations with regional and global perspectives.
I have contributed to over 20 national and international research projects, including major European initiatives such as H2020, LIFE, and POCTEFA, as well as projects supported by institutions in Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. Beyond academia, my research has informed international disaster‑risk‑reduction frameworks, including guidelines developed by the United Nations (2019), and has supported policy development in countries such as Colombia and India.
In addition to my scientific contributions, I have been actively engaged in the broader research community. I served on the scientific committee of the Tree‑Ring Society (2013–2015), have led the Floods Working Group of PAGES (Past Global Changes) since 2017, and currently serve as a member of the executive committee of the Geosciences network within CSIC.
Publications
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Imaizumi F, Trappmann D, Stoffel M. 2026. Linkage between sediment supply and transport in a large alpine catchment: Oi River basin, Japan. Geomorphology 494, 110100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.110100
Boyano-Galiano J, Muñoz-Torrero Manchado A, Robredo Sánchez JC, Fábregas Reigosa S, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2026. Site-specific controls on rockfall activity: A case of study from north and south faces on the Pyrenees. Geomorphology 494, 110088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.110088
Franco-Ramos O, Boyano-Galiano J, Muñoz-Torrero Manchado A, López-Moreno JI, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2026. Climate snow-avalanche linkage revealed by geomorphological, historical and tree-ring records in the central Spanish Pyrenees. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 104819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2026.104819
Gómez-García P, Madrigal-González J, Robredo Sánchez JC, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2026. Linking forest dynamics and tree mechanical resistance: insights from channel-driven geomorphology. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6192149
He W, Di B, Xu R, Zhang B, Chen H, Balikuddembe JK, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2026. Mapping global post-earthquake ecosystem damage boundaries. Geoscience Frontiers, 102288.
Jiménez Donato YA, Restrepo C, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Muñoz-Torrero Manchado A, Ávila Mora MA, Catalán Armas M, Stoffel M. 2026. Hurricane-triggered cascading hazards: Geomorphic responses and flood hazard dynamics in a tropical mountain region. Geomorphology 494, 110090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.110090
Nishii R, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Takeuchi Y, Stoffel M, Katsushima T. 2026. Critical assessment of a tree-ring-based snow avalanche reconstruction: Makunosawa experimental site, Japan. Geomorphology 494, 110087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.110087
2026
2025
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Twose IM, Muñoz-Torrero A, Robredo Sánchez JC, Grodek T, López-Moreno I, Bartolomé M, Benito G. 2025. Rockfall-induced debris flow event in the Pyrenees: The case of Pineta valley of September 2022. Catena 253, 108876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108876
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Madrigal-González J, Albert CG, González C, Stoffel M. 2025. Correction to: XRCT images reveal climate control on wound recovery after intense flood in Mediterranean riparian trees (Trees, (2022), 36, 5, (1529-1538), 10.1007/s00468-022-02310-3). Trees - Structure and Function 39(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-024-02591-w
Bartolomé M, Giménez R, Pérez-Villar G, Luetscher M, Stoll H, Moreno A, Calle M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Benito G. 2025. Records of past flood in caves of the Central Pyrenees. Sedimentary evidence and quantification methods. Metode 15(6), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.15.30175
Benito G, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bartolomé M, Corella JP, Grodek T, Machado MJ, Tejedor E. 2025. Changes in flood hazards: Insights from palaeoflood studies. Estudios Geológicos 81(2), 1135-1135. https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.45727.1135
Figueroa-García JE, Franco-Ramos O, Caballero L, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bodoque JM. 2025. Study of the 2012 lahar on Iztaccíhuatl Volcano (Central Mexico) based on geomorphology, botanical evidence and 2D modeling; [Estudio del lahar de 2012 en el volcán Iztaccíhuatl (México central) a partir de geomorfología, evidencia botánica y modelación 2D]. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 77(3).
Gómez-García P, Arriaga F, Robredo Sánchez JC, Fernández Parkin E, Fábregas Reigosa S, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2025. Full-scale rockfall impact testing on untreated logs from protective mixed forests in the Pyrenees. Engineering Geology 354, 108202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2025.108202
Gorsic S, Corona C, Muñoz-Torrero Manchado AM, Lopez-Saez J, Allen S, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Dussaillant A, Stoffel M. 2025. Coupling tree-ring and geomorphic analyses to reconstruct the 1950s massive Glacier Lake Outburst Flood at Grosse Glacier, Chilean Patagonia. Science of the Total Environment 961, 178368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178368
Sandoval-Rincón KP, Garrote-Revilla J, Vázquez-Tarrío D, Cervel S, Hernández-Manchado J, López-Vinielles J, Mateos RM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Benito G, Díez-Herrero A. 2025. PaleoRiada: a new integrated spatial database of palaeofloods in Spain. Earth System Science Data 17(11), 6199-6216. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-6199-2025
Schulte L, Santisteban JI, Fuller IC, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2025. Editorial preface to special issue: Temporal and spatial patterns in Holocene floods under the influence of past global change, and their implications for forecasting “unprecedented” future events. Global and Planetary Change 254, 105021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.105021
2024
Gómez-García P, Madrigal-González J, Arriaga F, Sánchez JCR, Tejedor E, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2024. Quantifying the resistance of mixed-forests against natural hazards in the Pyrenees. Science of the Total Environment 946, 174359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174359
Qie J, Favillier A, Liébault F, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Lopez-Saez J, Guillet S, Francon L, Zhong Y, Stoffel M, Corona C. 2024. A supply-limited torrent that does not feel the heat of climate change. Nature Communications 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53316-z
Stoffel M, Trappmann DG, Coullie MI, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Corona C. 2024. Rockfall from an increasingly unstable mountain slope driven by climate warming. Nature Geoscience 17(3), 249-254. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01390-9
Zhong Y, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Favillier A, Corona C, Zenhäusern G, Muñoz-Torrero Manchado AM, Guillet S, Giacona F, Eckert N, Qie J, Tscherrig G, Stoffel M. 2024. Historical flood reconstruction in a torrential alpine catchment and its implication for flood hazard assessments. Journal of Hydrology 629, 130547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130547
Zhong Y, Guillet S, Corona C, Favillier A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Huneau F, Qie J, Stoffel M. 2024. Mediterranean cyclones are a substantial cause of damaging floods in Corsica. Communications Earth and Environment 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01836-3
2023
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Kariya Y, Imaizumi F, Muñoz-Torrero Manchado AM, Nishii R, Matsuoka N, Stoffel M. 2023. Debris-flow activity in the Japanese Alps is controlled by extreme precipitation and ENSO – Evidence from multi-centennial tree-ring records. Global and Planetary Change 231, 104296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104296
Benito G, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Díez-Herrero A. 2023. Paleoflood hydrology: reconstructing rare events and extreme flood discharges. Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, 33-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819101-9.00009-1
Benito G, Greenbaum N, Medialdea A, Calle M, Sánchez-Moya Y, Machado M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Corella JP. 2023. Late Pleistocene–Holocene multi-decadal patterns of extreme floods in NW Iberia: The Duero River palaeoflood record. Quaternary Science Reviews 321, 108356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108356
Bodoque JM, Esteban-Muñoz Á, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2023. Overlooking probabilistic mapping renders urban flood risk management inequitable. Communications Earth and Environment 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00940-0
Franco-Ramos O, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Terrazas T, Vázquez-Selem L, Figueroa-García JE, Stoffel M. 2023. Combining exposed tree roots and UAV imagery to quantify land denudation in central Mexico. Science of the Total Environment 880, 163265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163265
Madrigal-González J, Calatayud J, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Escudero A, Cayuela L, Marqués L, Rueda M, Ruiz-Benito P, Herrero A, Aponte C, Sagardia R, Plumptre AJ, Dupire S, Espinosa CI, Tutubalina OV, Myint M, Pataro L, López-Sáez J, Macía MJ, Abegg M, Zavala MA, Quesada-Román A, Vega-Araya M, Golubeva E, Timokhina Y, Bañares de Dios G, Granzow-de la Cerda Í, Stoffel M. 2023. Global patterns of tree density are contingent upon local determinants in the world’s natural forests. Communications Biology 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04419-8
Zheng G, Muhammad S, Sattar A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2023. Editorial: Cryospheric remote sensing. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2023.1204667
Zhong Y, Favillier A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Qie J, Muñoz-Torrero Manchado AM, Guillet S, Huneau F, Corona C, Stoffel M. 2023. 250 years of flood frequency and discharge in an ungauged Corsican mountain catchment: A dendrogeomorphic reconstruction. Science of the Total Environment 879, 163138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163138
2022
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Edvardsson J, Corona C, Mažeika J, Stoffel M. 2022. Estimation of recent peat accumulation with tree saplings. Progress in Physical Geography 46(4), 515-529. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333211073786
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Madrigal-González J, Albert CG, González C, Stoffel M. 2022. XRCT images reveal climate control on wound recovery after intense flood in Mediterranean riparian trees. Trees - Structure and Function 36(5), 1529-1538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-022-02310-3
Donkor FK, Mitoulis S-A, Argyroudis S, Aboelkhair H, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bashir A, Cuaton GP, Diatta S, Habibi M, Hölbling D, Manuel L, Pregnolato M, Ribeiro RRR, Sfetsos A, Shahzad N, Werner C. 2022. SDG Final Decade of Action: Resilient Pathways to Build Back Better from High-Impact Low-Probability (HILP) Events. Sustainability (Switzerland) 14(22). https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215401
Franco-Ramos O, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Terrazas T, Stoffel M, Vázquez-Selem L, Cerano-Paredes J. 2022. Reconstruction of gully erosion based on exposed tree roots in a recent landform of Paricutin Volcano, Mexico. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 47(3), 742-755. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5269
Muñoz-Torrero Manchado A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Allen S, Stoffel M. 2022. Deforestation controls landslides susceptibility in Far-Western Nepal. Catena 219, 106627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106627
Qie J-Z, Zhang Y, Trappmann D, Zhong Y-H, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Favillier A, Stoffel M. 2022. Long-term reconstruction of flash floods in the Qilian Mountains, China, based on dendrogeomorphic methods. Journal of Mountain Science 19(11), 3163-3177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-022-7577-1
Quesada-Román A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Granados-Bolaños S, Birkel C, Stoffel M. 2022. Improving regional flood risk assessment using flood frequency and dendrogeomorphic analyses in mountain catchments impacted by tropical cyclones. Geomorphology 396, 108000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108000
Quesada-Román A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, St George S, Stoffel M. 2022. Tropical and subtropical dendrochronology: Approaches, applications, and prospects. Ecological Indicators 144, 109506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109506
Rodríguez JLG, Muñoz ÁE, García-Robredo F, Sánchez JCR, Reigosa SF, Cerrillo GT, Herrero ME, Martitegui FA, Íñiguez-González G, Roa RH, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2022. Lessons from a Century-Tradition on Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) in Mountains: The Case of the Torrential System Los Arañones (Canfranc, Pyrenees). Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering, 425-437. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5312-4_28
2019
Benito G, Castillo O, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Machado M, Barriendos M. 2021. Enhanced flood hazard assessment beyond decadal climate cycles based on centennial historical data (Duero basin, Spain). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25(12), 6107-6132. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6107-2021
Delapierre A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Marcos JB, Slaveykova VI, Stoffel M. 2021. Trees as sentinels of metallic pollution induced by mining along the odiel river (Southern iberian peninsula); [Árboles como indicadores de la contaminación metálica inducida por la minería a lo largo del río odiel (Sur de la península ibérica)]. Geographical Research Letters 47(2), 371-390. https://doi.org/10.18172/cig.4740
Dimri AP, Allen S, Huggel C, Mal S, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Rohrer M, Shukla A, Tiwari P, Maharana P, Bolch T, Thayyen RJ, Stoffel M, Pandey A. 2021. Climate change, cryosphere and impacts in the Indian Himalayan Region. Current Science 120(5), 774-790. https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v120/i5/774-790
Figueroa-García JE, Franco-Ramos O, Bodoque JM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Vázquez-Selem L. 2021. Long-term lahar reconstruction in Jamapa Gorge, Pico de Orizaba (Mexico) based on botanical evidence and numerical modelling. Landslides 18(10), 3381-3392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-021-01716-3
Marqués L, Camarero JJ, Zavala MA, Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Sancho-García C, Madrigal-González J. 2021. Evaluating tree-to-tree competition during stand development in a relict Scots pine forest: how much does climate matter? Trees - Structure and Function 35(4), 1207-1219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-021-02109-8
Muñoz-Torrero Manchado A, Allen S, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Dhakal A, Dhital MR, Stoffel M. 2021. Three decades of landslide activity in western Nepal: new insights into trends and climate drivers. Landslides 18(6), 2001-2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-021-01632-6
Zheng G, Allen SK, Bao A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Huss M, Zhang G, Li J, Yuan Y, Jiang L, Yu T, Chen W, Stoffel M. 2021. Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation. Nature Climate Change 11(5), 411-417. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01028-3
Zheng G, Bao A, Allen S, Ballesteros-Cánovas J, Yuan Y, Jiapaer G, Stoffel M. 2021. Numerous unreported glacial lake outburst floods in the Third Pole revealed by high-resolution satellite data and geomorphological evidence. Science Bulletin 66(13), 1270-1273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2021.01.014
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bombino G, D'Agostino D, Denisi P, Labate A, Stoffel M, Zema DA, Zimbone SM. 2020. Tree-ring based, regional-scale reconstruction of flash floods in Mediterranean mountain torrents. Catena 189, 104481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2020.104481
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Koul T, Bashir A, del Pozo JMB, Allen S, Guillet S, Rashid I, Alamgir SH, Shah M, Bhat MS, Alam A, Stoffel M. 2020. Recent flood hazards in Kashmir put into context with millennium-long historical and tree-ring records. Science of the Total Environment 722, 137875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137875
Bodoque JM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M. 2020. An application-oriented protocol for flood frequency analysis based on botanical evidence. Journal of Hydrology 590, 125242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125242
Calatayud J, Andivia E, Escudero A, Melián CJ, Bernardo-Madrid R, Stoffel M, Aponte C, Medina NG, Molina-Venegas R, Arnan X, Rosvall M, Neuman M, Noriega JA, Alves-Martins F, Draper I, Luzuriaga A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Morales-Molino C, Ferrandis P, Herrero A, Pataro L, Juen L, Cea A, Madrigal-González J. 2020. Positive associations among rare species and their persistence in ecological assemblages. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4(1), 40-45. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1053-5
Franco-Ramos O, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Figueroa-García JE, Vázquez-Selem L, Stoffel M, Caballero L. 2020. Modelling the 2012 lahar in a sector of Jamapa Gorge (Pico de Orizaba Volcano, Mexico) Using RAMMS and tree-ring evidence. Water (Switzerland) 12(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020333
Imaizumi F, Trappmann D, Matsuoka N, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Yasue K, Stoffel M. 2020. Interpreting rockfall activity on an outcrop–talus slope system in the southern Japanese Alps using an integrated survey approach. Geomorphology 371, 107456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107456
Madrigal-González J, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Zavala MA, Morales-Molino C, Stoffel M. 2020. Forest stocks control long-term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry-edge forests. Ecosphere 11(8). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3201
Madrigal-González J, Calatayud J, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Escudero A, Cayuela L, Rueda M, Ruiz-Benito P, Herrero A, Aponte C, Sagardia R, Plumptre AJ, Dupire S, Espinosa CI, Tutubalina O, Myint M, Pataro L, López-Sáez J, Macía MJ, Abegg M, Zavala MA, Quesada-Román A, Vega-Araya M, Golubeva E, Timokhina Y, Stoffel M. 2020. Climate reverses directionality in the richness–abundance relationship across the World’s main forest biomes. Nature Communications 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19460-y
Quesada-Román A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Granados-Bolaños S, Birkel C, Stoffel M. 2020. Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of floods in a dynamic tropical river. Geomorphology 359, 107133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107133
Quesada-Román A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Guillet S, Madrigal-González J, Stoffel M. 2020. Neotropical Hypericum irazuense shrubs reveal recent ENSO variability in Costa Rican páramo. Dendrochronologia 61, 125704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125704
Rashid I, Majeed U, Aneaus S, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Najar NA, Bhat IA, Lotus S. 2020. Impacts of erratic snowfall on apple orchards in Kashmir valley, India. Sustainability (Switzerland) 12(21), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12219206
Rodríguez-Morata C, Madrigal-González J, Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2020. Climate impacts on tree growth in a neotropical high mountain forest of the peruvian andes. IForest 13(3), 194-201. https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor3124-013
Stoffel M, Slaveykova VI, Corona C, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2020. When scientists become detectives: investigating systematic tree poisoning in a protected cove. Heliyon 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03386
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Benito G, Rohrer M, Barriopedro D, García-Herrera R, Beniston M, Brönnimann S. 2019. On the extraordinary winter flood episode over the North Atlantic Basin in 1936. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1436(1), 206-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13911
Bodoque JM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Rubiales JM, Stoffel M. 2019. Laboratory and field protocol for estimating sheet erosion rates from dendrogeomorphology. Journal of Visualized Experiments 2019(143). https://doi.org/10.3791/57987
Franco-Ramos O, Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2019. Reconstruction of debris-flow activity in a temperate mountain forest catchment of central Mexico. Journal of Mountain Science 16(9), 2096-2109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-019-5496-6
Mundo IA, González CV, Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Villalba R. 2019. Fire damage to cambium affects localized xylem anatomy and hydraulics: the case of Nothofagus pumilio in Patagonia. American Journal of Botany 106(12), 1536-1544. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1395
Quesada-Román A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Zamorano-Orozco JJ. 2019. Glacial geomorphology of the Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica. Journal of Maps 15(2), 538-545. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1625822
Quesada-Román A, Fallas-López B, Hernández-Espinoza K, Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2019. Relationships between earthquakes, hurricanes, and landslides in Costa Rica. Landslides 16(8), 1539-1550. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-019-01209-4
Rodríguez-Morata C, Díaz HF, Ballesteros-Canovas JA, Rohrer M, Stoffel M. 2019. The anomalous 2017 coastal El Niño event in Peru. Climate Dynamics 52(9-10), 5605-5622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4466-y
Rodríguez-Morata C, Villacorta S, Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2019. Assessing strategies to mitigate debris-flow risk in Abancay province, south-central Peruvian Andes. Geomorphology 342, 127-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.06.012
Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Luckman BH, Casteller A, Villalba R. 2019. Tree-ring correlations suggest links between moderate earthquakes and distant rockfalls in the Patagonian Cordillera. Scientific Reports 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48530-5
Tichavský R, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Šilhán K, Tolasz R, Stoffel M. 2019. Dry Spells and Extreme Precipitation are The Main Trigger of Landslides in Central Europe. Scientific Reports 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51148-2
Wilhelm B, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Macdonald N, Toonen WHJ, Baker V, Barriendos M, Benito G, Brauer A, Corella JP, Denniston R, Glaser R, Ionita M, Kahle M, Liu T, Luetscher M, Macklin M, Mudelsee M, Munoz S, Schulte L, St George S, Stoffel M, Wetter O. 2019. Interpreting historical, botanical, and geological evidence to aid preparations for future floods. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/WAT2.1318
Zaginaev V, Petrakov D, Erokhin S, Meleshko A, Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2019. Geomorphic control on regional glacier lake outburst flood and debris flow activity over northern Tien Shan. Global and Planetary Change 176, 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.03.003
Allen SK, Ballesteros-Cánovas J, Randhawa SS, Singha AK, Huggel C, Stoffel M. 2018. Translating the concept of climate risk into an assessment framework to inform adaptation planning: Insights from a pilot study of flood risk in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India. Environmental Science and Policy 87, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.05.013
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Trappmann D, Madrigal-González J, Eckert N, Stoffel M. 2018. Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115(13), 3410-3415. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716913115
de Haas T, Densmore AL, Stoffel M, Suwa H, Imaizumi F, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Wasklewicz T. 2018. Avulsions and the spatio-temporal evolution of debris-flow fans. Earth-Science Reviews 177, 53-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.007
Fischer H, Meissner KJ, Mix AC, Abram NJ, Austermann J, Brovkin V, Capron E, Colombaroli D, Daniau A-L, Dyez KA, Felis T, Finkelstein SA, Jaccard SL, McClymont EL, Rovere A, Sutter J, Wolff EW, Affolter S, Bakker P, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Barbante C, Caley T, Carlson AE, Churakova O, Cortese G, Cumming BF, Davis BAS, De Vernal A, Emile-Geay J, Fritz SC, Gierz P, Gottschalk J, Holloway MD, Joos F, Kucera M, Loutre M-F, Lunt DJ, Marcisz K, Marlon JR, Martinez P, Masson-Delmotte V, Nehrbass-Ahles C, Otto-Bliesner BL, Raible CC, Risebrobakken B, Sánchez Goñi MF, Arrigo JS, Sarnthein M, Sjolte J, Stocker TF, Velasquez Alvárez PA, Tinner W, Valdes PJ, Vogel H, Wanner H, Yan Q, Yu Z, Ziegler M, Zhou L. 2018. Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °c anthropogenic warming and beyond. Nature Geoscience 11(7), 474-485. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0146-0
Fischer H, Meissner KJ, Mix AC, Abram NJ, Austermann J, Brovkin V, Capron E, Colombaroli D, Daniau A-L, Dyez KA, Felis T, Finkelstein SA, Jaccard SL, McClymont EL, Rovere A, Sutter J, Wolff EW, Affolter S, Bakker P, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Barbante C, Caley T, Carlson AE, Churakova (Sidorova) O, Cortese G, Cumming BF, Davis BAS, de Vernal A, Emile-Geay J, Fritz SC, Gierz P, Gottschalk J, Holloway MD, Joos F, Kucera M, Loutre M-F, Lunt DJ, Marcisz K, Marlon JR, Martinez P, Masson-Delmotte V, Nehrbass-Ahles C, Otto-Bliesner BL, Raible CC, Risebrobakken B, Goñi MFS, Arrigo JS, Sarnthein M, Sjolte J, Stocker TF, Alvárez PAV, Tinner W, Valdes PJ, Vogel H, Wanner H, Yan Q, Yu Z, Ziegler M, Zhou L. 2018. Erratum to: Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond (Nature Geoscience, (2018), 11, 7, (474-485), 10.1038/s41561-018-0146-0). Nature Geoscience 11(8). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0196-3
Madrigal-González J, Andivia E, Zavala MA, Stoffel M, Calatayud J, Sánchez-Salguero R, Ballesteros-Cánovas J. 2018. Disentangling the relative role of climate change on tree growth in an extreme Mediterranean environment. Science of the Total Environment 642, 619-628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.064
Manzanedo RD, Ballesteros-Cánovas J, Schenk F, Stoffel M, Fischer M, Allan E. 2018. Increase in CO2 concentration could alter the response of Hedera helix to climate change. Ecology and Evolution 8(16), 8598-8606. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4388
Paul JD, Buytaert W, Allen S, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bhusal J, Cieslik K, Clark J, Dugar S, Hannah DM, Stoffe M, Dewulf A, Dhita MR, Liu W, Nayava JL, Neupane B, Schiller A, Smith PJ, Supper R. 2018. Citizen science for hydrological risk reduction and resilience building. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/WAT2.1262
Rodríguez-Morata C, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Rohrer M, Espinoza JC, Beniston M, Stoffel M. 2018. Linking atmospheric circulation patterns with hydro-geomorphic disasters in Peru. International Journal of Climatology 38(8), 3388-3404. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5507
Wilhelm B, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Corella Aznar JP, Kämpf L, Swierczynski T, Stoffel M, Støren E, Toonen W. 2018. Recent advances in paleoflood hydrology: From new archives to data compilation and analysis. Water Security 3, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2018.07.001
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Martín-Duque JF, Corona C, Lucía A, Bodoque JM, Montgomery DR. 2017. Gully evolution and geomorphic adjustments of badlands to reforestation. Scientific Reports 7. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45027
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Trappmann D, Shekhar M, Bhattacharyya A, Stoffel M. 2017. Regional flood-frequency reconstruction for Kullu district, Western Indian Himalayas. Journal of Hydrology 546, 140-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.12.059
Bhattacharyya A, Stoffel M, Shekhar M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Trappmann D. 2017. Dendrogeomorphic potential of the Himalaya - case studies of process dating of natural hazards in Kullu valley, Himachal Pradesh. Current Science 113(12), 2317-2324. https://doi.org/10.18520/cs/v113/i12/2317-2324
Bodoque JM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Rubiales JM, Perucha MÁ, Nadal-Romero E, Stoffel M. 2017. Quantifying Soil Erosion from Hiking Trail in a Protected Natural Area in the Spanish Pyrenees. Land Degradation and Development 28(7), 2255-2267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2755
Favillier A, Guillet S, Morel P, Corona C, Lopez Saez J, Eckert N, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Peiry J-L, Stoffel M. 2017. Disentangling the impacts of exogenous disturbances on forest stands to assess multi-centennial tree-ring reconstructions of avalanche activity in the upper Goms Valley (Canton of Valais, Switzerland). Quaternary Geochronology 42, 89-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2017.09.001
Kundzewicz ZW, Stoffel M, Wyzga B, Ruiz-Villanueva V, Niedźwiedź T, Kaczka R, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Pińskwar I, Łupikasza E, Zawiejska J, Mikuś P, Choryński A, Hajdukiewicz H, Spyt B, Janecka K. 2017. Changes of flood risk on the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains. Acta Geophysica 65(4), 799-807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-017-0075-0
Madrigal-González J, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Herrero A, Ruiz-Benito P, Stoffel M, Lucas-Borja ME, Andivia E, Sancho-García C, Zavala MA. 2017. Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations. Nature Communications 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02319-0
Ballesteros-Cánovas J, Spyt B, Janecka K, Kaczka RJ, Stoffel M. 2016. Deciphering flood event information from tree-ring data in the Tatra Mountains: Implications for hazard assessment. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 257-277. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41923-7_12
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Spyt B, Janecka K, Kaczka RJ, Lempa M. 2016. Paleoflood discharge reconstruction in Tatra Mountain streams. Geomorphology 272, 92-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.12.004
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Corona C, Schraml K, Gobiet A, Tani S, Sinabell F, Fuchs S, Kaitna R. 2016. Debris-flow risk analysis in a managed torrent based on a stochastic life-cycle performance. Science of the Total Environment 557-558, 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.036
Bodoque JM, Amérigo M, Díez-Herrero A, García JA, Cortés B, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Olcina J. 2016. Improvement of resilience of urban areas by integrating social perception in flash-flood risk management. Journal of Hydrology 541, 665-676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.02.005
Rodríguez-Morata C, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Trappmann D, Beniston M, Stoffel M. 2016. Regional reconstruction of flash flood history in the Guadarrama range (Central System, Spain). Science of the Total Environment 550, 406-417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.074
Stoffel M, Wyżga B, Niedźwiedź T, Ruiz-Villanueva V, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Kundzewicz ZW. 2016. Floods in mountain basins. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41923-7_2
Zaginaev V, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Erokhin S, Matov E, Petrakov D, Stoffel M. 2016. Reconstruction of glacial lake outburst floods in northern Tien Shan: Implications for hazard assessment. Geomorphology 269, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.06.028
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Butler DR, Stoffel M. 2015. R. S. Sigafoos’s 1961 and 1964 papers on botanical evidence of paleofloods. Progress in Physical Geography 39(3), 405-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133315569339
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Corona C, Stoffel M, Lucia-Vela A, Bodoque JM. 2015. Combining terrestrial laser scanning and root exposure to estimate erosion rates. Plant and Soil 394(1-2), 127-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-015-2516-3
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Czajka B, Janecka K, Lempa M, Kaczka RJ, Stoffel M. 2015. Flash floods in the Tatra Mountain streams: Frequency and triggers. Science of the Total Environment 511, 639-648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.12.081
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Márquez-Peñaranda JF, Sánchez-Silva M, Díez-Herrero A, Ruiz-Villanueva V, Bodoque JM, Eguibar MA, Stoffel M. 2015. Can tree tilting be used for paleoflood discharge estimations? Journal of Hydrology 529(P2), 480-489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.10.026
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Rodríguez-Morata C, Garófano-Gómez V, Rubiales JM, Sánchez-Salguero R, Stoffel M. 2015. Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System. Journal of Hydrology 529(P2), 468-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.027
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Guardiola-Albert C. 2015. XRCT images and variograms reveal 3D changes in wood density of riparian trees affected by floods. Trees - Structure and Function 29(4), 1115-1126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-015-1191-6
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, St George S, Hirschboeck K. 2015. A review of flood records from tree rings. Progress in Physical Geography 39(6), 794-816. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133315608758
Bodoque JM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Lucía A, Díez-Herrero A, Martín-Duque JF. 2015. Source of error and uncertainty in sheet erosion rates estimated from dendrogeomorphology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 40(9), 1146-1157. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3701
Bodoque JM, Díez-Herrero A, Eguibar MA, Benito G, Ruiz-Villanueva V, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2015. Challenges in paleoflood hydrology applied to risk analysis in mountainous watersheds - A review. Journal of Hydrology 529(P2), 449-467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.12.004
Ferrio JP, Díez-Herrero A, Tarrés D, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Aguilera M, Bodoque JM. 2015. Using stable isotopes of oxygen from tree-rings to study the origin of past flood events: First results from the Iberian Peninsula. Quaternaire 26(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.7172
Génova M, Máyer P, Ballesteros-Cánovas J, Rubiales JM, Saz MA, Díez-Herrero A. 2015. Multidisciplinary study of flash floods in the Caldera de Taburiente National Park (Canary Islands, Spain). Catena 131, 22-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2015.03.007
Guardiola-Albert C, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Díez-Herrero A. 2015. How to improve dendrogeomorphic sampling: Variogram analyses of wood density using X-Ray computed tomography. Tree-Ring Research 71(1), 25-36. https://doi.org/10.3959/1536-1098-71.1.25
Sánchez-Salguero R, Camarero JJ, Hevia A, Madrigal-González J, Linares JC, Ballesteros-Canovas JA, Sánchez-Miranda A, Alfaro-Sánchez R, Sangüesa-Barreda G, Galván JD, Gutiérrez E, Génova M, Rigling A. 2015. What drives growth of Scots pine in continental Mediterranean climates: Drought, low temperatures or both? Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 206, 151-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.03.004
Sánchez-Salguero R, Linares JC, Camarero JJ, Madrigal-González J, Hevia A, Sánchez-Miranda Á, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Alfaro-Sánchez R, García-Cervigón AI, Bigler C, Rigling A. 2015. Disentangling the effects of competition and climate on individual tree growth: A retrospective and dynamic approach in Scots pine. Forest Ecology and Management 358, 12-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.08.034
Ruiz-Villanueva V, Díez-Herrero A, Ballesteros JA, Bodoque JM. 2014. Potential large woody debris recruitment due to landslides, bank erosion and floods in mountain basins: A quantitative estimation approach. River Research and Applications 30(1), 81-97. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.2614
Kundzewicz ZW, Stoffel M, Kaczka RJ, Wyzga B, Niedźwiedź T, Pińskwar I, Ruiz-Villanueva V, Łupikasza E, Czajka B, Ballesteros-Canovas JA, Małarzewski Ł, Choryński A, Janecka K, Mikuś P. 2014. Floods at the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains - A Polish-Swiss research project. Acta Geophysica 62(3), 620-641. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11600-013-0192-3
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bodoque JM, Lucía A, Martín-Duque JF, Díez-Herrero A, Ruiz-Villanueva V, Rubiales JM, Genova M. 2013. Dendrogeomorphology in badlands: Methods, case studies and prospects. Catena 106, 113-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2012.08.009
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Sánchez-Silva M, Bodoque JM, Díez-Herrero A. 2013. An Integrated Approach to Flood Risk Management: A Case Study of Navaluenga (Central Spain). Water Resources Management 27(8), 3051-3069. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-013-0332-1
Díez-Herrero A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bodoque JM, Ruiz-Villanueva V. 2013. A new methodological protocol for the use of dendrogeomorphological data in flood risk analysis. Hydrology Research 44(2), 234-247. https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2012.154
Díez-Herrero A, Ballesteros JA, Ruiz-Villanueva V, Bodoque JM. 2013. A review of dendrogeomorphological research applied to flood risk analysis in Spain. Geomorphology 196, 211-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.11.028
Ruiz-Villanueva V, Díez-Herrero A, Bodoque JM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M. 2013. Characterisation of flash floods in small ungauged mountain basins of Central Spain using an integrated approach. Catena 110, 32-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2013.06.015
Stoffel M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Corona C. 2013. Dendrochronology: Surficial Processes. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6326-5_69-1
Stoffel M, Corona C, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bodoque JM. 2013. Dating and quantification of erosion processes based on exposed roots. Earth-Science Reviews 123, 18-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.04.002
Touchan R, Meko DM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Sánchez-Salguero R, Camarero JJ, Kerchouche D, Muntan E, Khabcheche M, Blanco JA, Morata CR, Garófano-Gómez V, Martín LA, Alfaro-Sánchez R, Garah K, Hevia A, Madrigal-González J, Sánchez-Miranda A, Shestakova TA, Tabakova M. 2013. Dendrochronology course in Valsaín forest, Segovia, Spain. Tree-Ring Research 69(2), 93-100. https://doi.org/10.3959/1536-1098-69.2.93
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Díez-Herrero A, Bodoque JM. 2012. Searching for useful non-systematic tree-ring data sources for flood hazard analysis using GIS tools. Catena 92, 130-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2011.11.0
Bodoque JM, Lucía A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Martín-Duque JF, Rubiales JM, Génova M. 2011. Measuring medium-term sheet erosion in gullies from trees: A case study using dendrogeomorphological analysis of exposed pine roots in Central Iberia. Geomorphology 134(3-4), 417-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.016
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bodoque JM, Díez-Herrero A, Sánchez-Silva M, Stoffel M. 2011. Calibration of floodplain roughness and estimation of flood discharge based on tree-ring evidence and hydraulic modelling. Journal of Hydrology 403(1-2), 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.03.045
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Eguibar M, Bodoque JM, Díez-Herrero A, Stoffel M, Gutiérrez-Pérez I. 2011. Estimating flash flood discharge in an ungauged mountain catchment with 2D hydraulic models and dendrogeomorphic palaeostage indicators. Hydrological Processes 25(6), 970-979. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7888
Génova M, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Díez-Herrero A, Martínez-Callejo B. 2011. Historical floods and dendrochronological dating of a wooden deck in the old mint of Segovia, Spain. Geoarchaeology 26(5), 786-808. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20369
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Bodoque JM, Bollschweiler M, Hitz O, Díez-Herrero A. 2010. Changes in wood anatomy in tree rings of Pinus pinaster Ait. following wounding by flash floods. Tree-Ring Research 66(2), 93-103. https://doi.org/10.3959/2009-4.1
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Stoffel M, Bollschweiler M, Bodoque JM, Díez-Herrero A. 2010. Flash-flood impacts cause changes in wood anatomy of Alnus glutinosa, Fraxinus angustifolia and Quercus pyrenaica. Tree Physiology 30(6), 773-781. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpq031
Ruiz-Villanueva V, Díez-Herrero A, Stoffel M, Bollschweiler M, Bodoque JM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA. 2010. Dendrogeomorphic analysis of flash floods in a small ungauged mountain catchment (Central Spain). Geomorphology 118(3-4), 383-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.02.006
Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Eguibar M, Bodoque JM, Gutiérrez-Pérez I, Díez-Herrero A, Stoffel M. 2009. Combining dendrogeomorphological and topographical techniques for hydraulic modelling in mountain streams. 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings, 2651-2657.
Díez-Herrero A, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Bodoque JM, Eguíbar MA, Fernández JA, Génova MM, Laín L, Llorente M, Rubiales JM, Stoffel M. 2007. Improving flood frequency and magnitude estimates using dendrogeomorphological techniques; [Mejoras en la estimación de la frecuencia y magnitud de avenidas torrenciales mediante técnicas dendrogeomorfológicas]. Boletín Geológico y Minero 118(4), 789-802.
Rubiales JM, Bodoque JM, Ballesteros-Cánovas JA, Diez-Herrero A. 2008. Response of Pinus sylvestris roots to sheet-erosion exposure: An anatomical approach. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science 8(2), 223-231. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-8-223-2008