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  • Biological assessment of European lakes: ecological rationale and human impacts
    Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Poikane, Sandra; Lyche-Solheim, Anne; Birk, Sebastian (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
    1. Nearly one hundred biological methods are currently used to assess the ecological status of European lakes. Here, using information from a questionnaire, complemented with findings from the literature, we compared the ...
  • Chloride and sulphate toxicity to Hydropsyche exocellata (Trichoptera, Hydropsychidae): Exploring intraspecific variation and sub-lethal endpoints
    Sala, Miquel; Faria, Melissa; Sarasúa, Ignacio; Barata, Carlos; Bonada, Núria; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Llenas, Laia; Ponsá Salas, Sergio; Prat, Narcís; Soares, Amadeu M.V.M.; Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel (Elsevier, 2016)
    The rivers and streams of theworld are becoming saltier due to human activities. In spite of the potential damage that salt pollution can cause on freshwater ecosystems, this is an issue that is currently poorly managed. ...
  • Climate change impacts on lakes: an integrated ecological perspective based on a multi-faceted approach, with special focus on shallow lakes
    Jeppesen, Erik; Meerhoff, Mariana; Davidson, Thomas A.; Trolle, Dennis; SondergaarD, Martin; Lauridsen, Torben L.; Beklioglu, Meryem; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Volta, Pietro; González-Bergonzoni, Iván; Nielsen, Anders (PagePress, 2014)
    Freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity are presently seriously threatened by global development and population growth, leading to increases in nutrient inputs and intensification of eutrophication-induced problems ...
  • Defining ecologically relevant water quality targets for lakes in Europe
    Poikane, Sandra; Portielje, Rob; Van der Berg, Marcel; Phillips, Geoff; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Carvalho, Laurence; Mischke, Ute; Ott, Ingmar; Soskza, Hanna; Van Wichelen, Jeroen (Wiley, 2014)
    1. The implementation of the Water Framework Directive requires EU member states to establish and harmonize ecological status class boundaries for biological quality elements. In this paper, we describe an approach for ...
  • Ecological impacts of global warming and water abstraction on lakes and reservoirs due to changes in water level and related changes in salinity
    Jeppesen, Erik; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Naselli-Flores, Luigi; Papastergiadou, Eva; Stefanidis, Kostas; Noges, Tiina; Noges, Peeter; Attayde, Jose Luiz; Zohary, Tamar; Coppens, Jan; Bucak, Tuba; Menezes, Rosemberg F.; Sousa Freitas, Francisco Rafael; Kernan, Martin; SondergaarD, Martin; Beklioglu, Meryem (Springer, 2015)
    According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released in September 2014, unprecedented changes in temperature and precipitation patterns have been recorded globally in recent decades and further ...
  • Effects of potash mining on river ecosystems: An experimental study
    Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Carrasco, Sergi; Flor-Arnau, Núria; Ordeix i Rigo, Marc; Ponsá Salas, Sergio; Coring, Eckhard; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra (Elsevier, 2017)
    In spite of being a widespread activity causing the salinization of rivers worldwide, the impact of potash mining on river ecosystems is poorly understood. Here we used a mesocosm approach to test the effects of a salt ...
  • Fish diversity in European lakes: geographical factors dominate over anthropogenic pressures
    Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Pédron, Sthépanie; Mehner, Thomas; Lauridsen, Torben L.; Argillier, Christine; Winfield, Ian J.; Volta, Pietro; Emmrich, Matthias; Hesthagen, Trygve; Holmgren, Kerstin; Benejam Vidal, Lluís; Kelly, Fiona; Krause, Teet; Palm, Anu; Rask, Martti; Jeppesen, Erik (Wiley, 2013)
    1. We aimed to distinguish the relative contributions of natural and anthropogenic local factors on patterns of fish diversity in European lakes at different geographical scales. 2. We compiled data from standardised ...
  • Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world
    Cunillera-Montcusí, David; Beklioglu, Meryem; Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Jeppesen, Erik; Ptacnik, Robert; Amorim, Cihelio A.; Arnott, Shelley; Berger, Stella A.; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Dugan, Hilary A.; Gerhard, Miriam; Horváth, Zsófia; Langenheder, Silke; Nejstgaard, Jens C.; Reinikainen, Marko; Striebel, Maren; Urrutia-Codero, Pablo; Vad, Csaba F.; Zadereev, Egor; Matias, Miguel (Cell Press, 2022)
    The widespread salinisation of freshwater ecosystems poses a major threat to the biodiversity, functioning, and services that they provide. Human activities promote freshwater salinisation through multiple drivers (e.g., ...
  • Geographical patterns in the body-size structure of European lake fish assemblages along abiotic and biotic gradients
    Emmrich, Matthias; Pédron, Sthépanie; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Winfield, Ian J.; Jeppesen, Erik; Volta, Pietro; Argillier, Christine; Lauridsen, Torben L.; Holmgren, Kerstin; Hesthagen, Trygve; Mehner, Thomas (Wiley, 2014)
    Aim Our aim was to document geographical patterns of variation in the body-size structure of European lake fish assemblages along abiotic gradients, and any differences in fish assemblage structure. We hypothesized that ...
  • Predation and competition effects on the size diversity of aquatic communities
    Quintana, Xavier D.; Arim, Matías; Badosa Salvador, Anna; Blanco, José María; Boix, Dani; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Compte, Jordi; Egozcue, Juan J.; Eyto, Elvira de; Gaedke, Ursula; Gascón, Stéphanie; Gil de Solá, Luis; Irvine, Kenneth; Jeppesen, Erik; Lauridsen, Torben L.; López-Flores, Rocío; Mehner, Thomas; Romo, Susana; SondergaarD, Martin (Springer, 2015)
    Body size has been widely recognised as a key factor determining community structure in ecosystems. We analysed size diversity patterns of phytoplankton, zooplankton and fish assemblages in 13 data sets from freshwater ...
  • Role of predation in biological communities in naturally eutrophic sub-Arctic Lake My´vatn, Iceland
    Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Sgarzi, Serena; Arranz Urgell, Ignasi; Quintana, Xavier D.; Ersoy, Zeynep; Landkildehus, Frank; Lauridsen, Torben L.; Jeppesen, Erik; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra (Springer, 2017)
    Effects of fish predation on consumers tend to be particularly strong in oligotrophic Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes. However, it remains unclear whether the fish influence the trophic structure and dynamics of naturally ...
  • Saving freshwater from salts. Ion-specific standards are needed to protect biodiversity
    Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Hawkins, C.P.; Kefford, Ben; Schäfer, R.B.; Dyack, B.J.; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Buchwaleter, D.; Dunlop, J.; Frör, O.; Lazorchak, J.; Coring, Eckhard; Fernandez, H.R.; Goodfellow, W.; González Achem, A.L.; Hatfield-Dodds, S.; Karimov, B.K.; Mensah, P.; Olson, J.R.; Piscart, C.; Prat, Narcís; Ponsá Salas, Sergio; Schulz, C.J.; Timpano, A.J. (AAAS, 2016)
    Many human activities—like agriculture and resource extraction—are increasing the total concentration of dissolved inorganic salts (i.e., salinity) in freshwaters. Increasing salinity can have adverse effects on human ...
  • Size-based diel migration of zooplankton in mediterranean shallow lakes assessed from in situ experiments with artificial plants
    Tavsanoglu, Ülkü Nihan; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Levi, Eti Ester; Bucak, Tuba; Bezirci, Gizem; Özen, Arda; Johansson, Liselotte S.; Jeppesen, Erik; Beklioglu, Meryem (Springer, 2015)
    In warm lakes, fish aggregate within macrophytes, thereby weakening the role of these as a daytime refuge for zooplankton and altering the zooplankton size structure, predation pressure, and water clarity. To elucidate ...
  • Spatial patterns reveal strong abiotic and biotic drivers of zooplankton community composition in Lake My´vatn, Iceland
    Bartrons, Mireia; Einarsson, Arni; Nobre, Regina L.G.; Herren, Cristina M.; Webert, Kyle C.; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Olafsdóttir, Sólveig R.; Ives, Anthony R. (ESA Journals, 2015)
    Spatial patterns in the abundance of species are determined by local abiotic and biotic conditions, and by the movement of individuals among localities. For species distributed among discrete habitat ‘‘islands’’, such ...
  • The future of temporary wetlands in drylands under global change
    Parra, Gema; Guerrero, Francisco; Armengol, Xavier; Brendonck, Luc; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Finlayson, Max C.; Gomes-Barbosa, Luciana; Grillas, Patrick; Jeppesen, Erik; Ortega, Fernando; Vega, Rafael; Zohary, Tamar (Taylor & Francis Online, 2021)
    The Andalusian International University held a workshop entitled Temporary wetlands’ future in drylands under the projected global change scenario in March 2020 in Baeza, Spain, with 26 participants from 10 countries. The ...
  • The importance of environmental variables for submerged macrophyte community assemblage and coverage in shallow lakes: differences between northern and southern Europe
    Lauridsen, Torben L.; Jeppesen, Erik; Declerck, Steven A.J.; De Meester, Luc; Conde-Porcuna, José M.; Rommens, Wouter; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra (Springer, 2015)
    Much information is available on community composition and abundance of submerged macrophytes in North temperate lakes, including their response to variation in environmental variables. Less is known about macrophytes in ...
  • Update: A non-parametric method for the measurement of size diversity, with emphasis on data standardization. The measurement of the size evenness
    Quintana, Xavier D.; Egozcue, Juan J.; Martínez-Abella, Omar; López-Flores, Rocío; Gascón, Stéphanie; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Boix, Dani (Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, 2016)
    A method for the measurement of the size diversity based on the classical Shannon–Wiener expression was proposed as a proxy of the shape of the size distribution. The summatory of probabilities of a discrete variable ...
  • Vertical distribution, feeding and vulnerability to tactile predation in Metridia longa (Copepoda, Calanoida)
    Vestheim, H.; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Kaartvedt, S. (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
    We assessed the vertical distribution and feeding of the calanoid copepod Metridia longa in the Oslofjord, Norway during winter and spring 2006. Adult females of Metridia longa inhabited the whole 200 m deep-water column. ...
  • Zooplankton response to climate warming: a mesocosm experiment at contrasting temperatures and nutrient levels
    Sorf, Michal; Davidson, Thomas A.; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Menezes, Rosemberg F.; SondergaarD, Martin; Lauridsen, Torben L.; Landkildehus, Frank; Liboriussen, Lone; Jeppesen, Erik (Springer, 2015)
    Zooplankton community response to the combined effects of nutrients and fish (hereafter N + F) at contrasting temperatures was studied in a long-term experiment conducted in 24 shallow lake mesocosms with low and high ...

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