• Adult spawning and early larval development of the endangered bivalve Pinna nobilis 

      Trigos, Sergio; Vicente, Nardo; Prado, Patricia; Espinós, Francisco J. (Aquaculture, 2017-10-16) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      The development of aquaculture activities has posed an alternative solution for the preservation of some overexploited shellfish fisheries worldwide. In the same way, endemic Mediterranean bivalves such ...
    • Avoiding quantification bias in metabarcoding: Application of a cell biovolume correction factor in diatom molecular biomonitoring 

      Vasselon, Valentin; Bouchez, Agnès; Rimet, Frédéric; Jacquet, Stéphan; Trobajo, Rosa; Corniquel, Méline; Topolczai, Kálmán; Domaizon, Isabelle (Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2017-12-26) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in developing environmental DNA metabarcoding. However, its ability to quantify species relative abundance remains uncertain, limiting its application ...
    • Bed load transport and incipient motion below a large gravel bed river bend 

      Núñez-González, Francisco; Rovira, Albert; Ibàñez, Carles (Advances in Water Resources, 2017-08-08) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      A new data set of bed load measurements in a cross-section at the exit of a river bend is presented. Data are analyzed to identify processes that contribute to the morphodynamic stability of gravel bed ...
    • Dependence of sediment sorting on bedload transport phase in a river meander 

      Rovira, Albert; Núñez-González, Franc; Ibañez, Carles (Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2018-03-05) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      It is widely recognized nowadays that there are at least two different phases of bedload sediment transport in gravel‐bed rivers. However, the transition between these phases is still poorly or subjectively ...
    • Herbivore control in connected seascapes: habitat determines when population regulation occurs in the life history of a key herbivore 

      Boada, Jordi; Farina, Simone; Arthur, Rohan; Romero, Javier; Prado, Patricia; Alcoverro, Teresa (Oikos, 2018-02-08) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      Herbivore outbreaks often trigger catastrophic overgrazing events in marine macrophyte ecosystems. The sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus, the dominant herbivore of shallow Mediterranean seascapes, is ...
    • Linking fish-based biological indicators with hydrological dynamics in a Mediterranean river: Relevance for environmental flow regimes 

      Belmar, O.; Vila-Martínez, N.; Ibáñez, C.; Caiola, N. (Ecological Indicators, 2018-08-07) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      The relationship between flow dynamics and biological communities becomes especially relevant in Mediterranean rivers. Given their natural variability and growing anthropogenic pressures, their low ...
    • Neglecting the fallow season can significantly underestimate annual methane emissions in Mediterranean rice fields 

      Martínez-Eixarch, Maite; Alcaraz, Carles; Viñas, Marc; Noguerol, Joan; Aranda, Xavier; Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc Xavier; Saldaña-De la Vega, Jesús Antonio; Català, Maria del Mar; Ibáñez, Carles (PLOS ONE, 2018-05-31) Aigües Marines i Continentals; Cultius Extensius Sostenibles; Fructicultura; Sostenibilitat en Biosistemes
      Paddy rice fields are one of the most important sources of anthropogenic methane. Improving the accuracy in the CH4 budget is fundamental to identify strategies to mitigate climate change. Such improvement ...
    • Occurrence of cyclic imines in European commercial seafood and consumers risk assessment 

      Rambla-Alegre, Maria; Miles, Christopher O.; de la Iglesia, Pablo; Fernandez-Tejedor, Margarita; Jacobs, Silke; Sioen, Isabelle; Verbeke, Wim; Samdal, Ingunn A.; Sandvik, Morten; Barbosa, Vera; Tediosi, Alice; Madorran, Eneko; Granby, Kit; Kotterman, Michiel; Calis, Tanja; Diogene, Jorge (Environmental Research, 2017-12-01) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      Cyclic imines constitute a quite recently discovered group of marine biotoxins that act on neural receptors and that bioaccumulate in seafood. They are grouped together due to the imino group functioning ...
    • Rapid screening and multi-toxin profile confirmation of tetrodotoxins and analogues in human body fluids derived from a puffer fish poisoning incident in New Caledonia 

      Rambla-Alegre, Maria; Leonardo, Sandra; Barguil, Yann; Flores, Cintia; Caixach, Josep; Campbell, Katrina; Elliott, Christopher T.; Maillaud, Claude; Boundy, Michael J.; Harwood, D. Tim; Campàs, Mònica; Diogène, Jorge (Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2017-12-30) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      In August 2014, a puffer fish poisoning incidence resulting in one fatality was reported in New Caledonia. Although tetrodotoxin (TTX) intoxication was established from the patients' signs and symptoms, ...
    • Seagrass epiphytic assemblages are strong indicators of agricultural discharge but weak indicators of host features 

      Prado, Patricia (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2018-03-02) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      Wastewater pulses from rice agriculture are persistently discharged into the northern shore of the Alfacs Bay (Ebro Delta, NW Mediterranean) from April to November. The bay also receives water from ...
    • The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems 

      Pawlowski, Jan; Kelly-Quinn, Mary; Altermatt, Florian; Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, Laure; Beja, Pedro; Boggero, Angela; Borja, Angel; Bouchez, Agnès; Cordier, Tristan; Domaizon, Isabelle; Feio, Maria Joao; Filipe, Ana Filipa; Fornaroli, Ricardo; Graf, Wolfram; Herder, Jelger; van der Hoorn, Berry; Jones, J. Iwan; Sagova-Mareckova, Marketa; Moritz, Christian; Barquín, Jose; Piggott, Jeremy J.; Pinna, Maurizio; Rimet, Frederic; Rinkevich, Buki; Sousa-Santos, Carla; Specchia, Valeria; Trobajo, Rosa; Vasselon, Valentin; Vitecek, Simon; Zimmerman, Jonas; Weigand, Alexander; Leese, Florian; Kahlert, Maria (Science of the Total Environment, 2018-05-22) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      The bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems is currently based on various biotic indices that use the occurrence and/or abundance of selected taxonomic groups to define ecological status. These conventional ...
    • The role of forest maturity in extreme hydrological events 

      Belmar, Oscar; Barquín, José; Álvarez‐Martínez, Jose Manuel; Peñas, Francisco J.; Del Jesus, Manuel (Ecohydrology, 2018-02-10) Aigües Marines i Continentals
      This study aims to clarify the influence of forests, as well as other prevalent land cover types, on extreme hydrological events through a land cover gradient design. We selected 10 catchments within a ...