Annual Report 2017 by CEAB-CSIC

ANNUAL REPORT 2017

CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES OF BLANES

“We believe that scientific research and collaboration can transform the world toward sustainability” “We promote the sustainable management of water resources and integrated watershed management policies” “We aim to develop a digital infrastructure for Global Change and Marine and Freshwater Biodiversity Observatories” “We provide high performance facilities for Functional and Behavioural Ecology studies”

Contents

The Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes

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Annual Highlights

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Laboratory Services & Facilities

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Our research groups

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Social-Ecological Systems In Coastal And Marine Environments

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Integrative Freshwater Ecology

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Molecular Ecology Of The Marine Bentos

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Benthic Ecosystem Functioning

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Theoretical And Computational Ecology

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Sponge Ecobiology And Biotechnology

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Group Of Aquatic Macrophyte Ecology (Game)

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Communication And Outreach Service

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are a public research center dedicated to marine biology, limnology and ecologyâ&#x20AC;?

Emilio O. Casamayor Director

The Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes of the Spanish Scientific Research Council was launched in 1985 with a multidisciplinary perspective trying to promote advanced studies in basic science and mixing the different views of apparently distant scientific disciplines. Today, the institute is mostly devoted to Biodiversity and Ecology studies in aquatic ecosystems, both marine and freshwater, with a strong focus on the different effects of the human-induced Global Change. This 2017 Annual Report describes the scientific achievements of the seven research groups that shape the CEAB worldwide activities and the analytical, computational and observational facilities available to carry out our research. We also show a strong commitment with citizen science and with outreach activities with frequent media presence. We are very proud with the award achieved by the Mosquito Alert team, and with the very successful public exhibition on the Past, Present and Future of the Blanes beach and Tordera delta. Finally, a big thanks to all the CEAB members for their daily enthusiasm and strong commitment along this 2017.

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Launched as a multidisciplinary research center, the current research focuses on Ecology and Biodiversity, mostly of marine and freshwater ecosystems.

RESEARCH AREAS

Global and Climate Change: Diagnosis and prognosis of global change effects on aquatic systems, species invasions and dispersal patterns, loss of natural habitats, and changes in the distribution and abundance of species.

Conservation and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems: Applied knowledge for the rational management of natural resources and the improvement and conservation of aquatic ecosystems.

Theory and Computation in Ecology and Evolution: Use of mathematical and computational techniques as essential tools to provide conceptual advances and to understand Ecology and Biodiversity.

Functional and Integrative Aquatic Ecology: Understand how organisms relate to each other and understand their functions and interactions in nature, from genes to communities combining fieldwork, empirical studies, and meta-analysis.

Aquatic Biodiversity: Identify the diversity of organisms, taxonomic characteristics and phylogenetic relationships, and describe new biological species with environmental surveys and naturalistic observations worldwide.

The research staff is divided in

seven research groups. EXECUTIVE BOARD Emilio O. Casamayor Director Scientific Researcher

The CEAB aims are: •

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Identification of the biological diversity and understanding their functions and interactions in nature. Application of this knowledge to the rational use and management of natural resources and the prediction of ecosystem responses to environmental changes. Work with a wide range of environmental studies and approaches, from biochemical and genetic composition to dynamics of populations and ecosystems. Development of a creative and technically sound research with solid conceptual backgrounds on marine and freshwater biology and ecology.

Mikel Becerro Deputy Director Tenured Scientist

Frederic Bartumeus Head of Continental Ecology Department ICREA Research Professor

Teresa Alcoverro Head of Marine Ecology Department Tenured Scientist

The CEAB is formed by two research departments

dedicated to marine biology, limnology and ecology:

Department of Continental Ecology Department of Marine Ecology

ORGANIZATION CHART

SEM: Scanning Electronic Microscopy LEOV: Laboratory for Experimentation with Live Organisms URL: Urban River Lab OOCS: Marine Observatory CBLAB: Computational Biology Lab

CEAB Members: 125 Men: 62 (49,6%) Women: 63 (50,4%) ALL MEMBERS BY GENDER Women Men

Age range

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30-39

40-49

50-59

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ALL MEMBERS BY POSITION Researchers and ICREA Research Professors (20) Associate Doctors (2) Administrative and IT Staff (15) Research Technicians - Staff (14) Research Technicians â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Support (31) Post-doctoral Researchers (6) Pre-doctoral Researchers (14) Visiting Students & Scientists (96)

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EXTERNAL FUNDING European projects (13) National projects (17) Regional projects (1) CSIC projects (5) Private contracts and agreements (6) Public contracts and agreements (2)

2017 SCIENTIFIC BUDGET

ACTIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS: TOTAL FUNDING

Active Research Projects 60% Competitive Research Grants 28% Non-Competitive Grants 6 External Collaboration Projects

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION Scientific Articles

Books

Book Chapters

PhD Thesis

Master Thesis

2017

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2016

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2015

2014

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2013

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2012

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EU RESEARCH PROJECTS

PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

Erasmus Interreg

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Marie Curie

Q4 = 3

H2020

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Q3 = 12

Life

CEAB OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Total articles: 112

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APPEARANCES IN MASS MEDIA

Visitors and participants

Students

2017

8265

15%

2016

8815

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2015

2509

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2014

1642

54%

294

2017

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2016

2015

2014

OUR SUPPORT STAFF

TECHNICIANS

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ADMINISTRATION

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ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS

THE CEAB HOST THE COURSE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS’

In February 2017, the Consolidated Research Group of Benthic Ecology organized the course “Philosophy of Biological Systematics” by Dr. Kirk Fitzhugh, curator of the polychaete collection at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles since 1990 and a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. From the perspective of the philosophical foundations of science, Dr. Fitzhugh, offered a critical and unique course where examined the essence of scientific research together with the requirements of systematics to work within the established principles of rational reasoning. It was

addressed to researchers working in biology and related sciences where phylogenetic and/ or systematic techniques are frequently used.

THE FIRST CATALOG OF AIRBORNE MICROORGANISMS IN THE BARCELONA METRO’S AIR The Microbial Communities Ecology and IDAEA partners reported the first catalog of microorganisms and viruses present in the Barcelona Metro’ air, in collaboration with

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Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB). Currently, we spend 90% of our time indoors, where the air could be a potential transmission pathway for some pathogens, so monitoring the air quality of these environments is important. The Metro ecosystem contains confined underground spaces full of people, that compromises air quality. The study found 10,000 bacteria per cubic meter of air, mostly harmless to people. The potential pathogens were less than 2% of total microbes. The biological risk in the Metro was low and travelers were not the main source of airborne microorganisms. The study had a high impact in mass media and social media.

THE SYMPOSIUM SPONGES, CORALS AND THE WORLD: BLUEPHARM TRAIN, ATLAS AND SPONGES From Mars 29 to 31, 2017 we held the international symposium on marine science, blue business and society: Sponges, Corals and the World, a joint initiative of three EU-funded projects: BluePharm Train, Atlas and SponGES. The symposium aims were to bring together scientific, industrial, and societal stakeholders in blue biotechnologies ranging from basic science to sponge metagenomics and metatranscryptomics. Along three days, novel biotechnologies based on marine sponges and their microsymbionts were discussed aiming

to circumvent bottlenecks in the industrial application of natural drugs obtained from marine organisms.

THE BLANES BEACH AND TORDERA DELTA, A SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITION ACTIVITY IN BLANES The Blanes beach and Tordera delta: past, present and future, is an outreach activity organized by the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes, through the Socio-ecological systems in marine and coastal environments group, and the Municipal Archive of Blanes from July 21 to August 12.The exhibition provided a temporal overview on the traditional uses and fate of the beach of Blanes from a socio-ecological and integrated coastal management system

point of view. The activity had a high impact with more than 7,000 visitors.

THE MOSQUITO ALERT RESEARCHERS DESERVED THE “CIUTAT DE BARCELONA 2017” AWARD The CEAB’s researcher Frederic Bartumeus, and his colleagues Aitana Oltra (CREAF) and John R.B. Palmer (UPF), deserved the Ciutat Barcelona 2017 Award in Earth and Environmental Sciences in recognition of their scientific study “Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track diseaseCarrying Mosquitoes”. The study, published in Nature Communications, scientifically used all the validated data submitted by citizens through the Mosquito Alert app launched in 2014. The jury highlighted the innovative approach used for understanding the spread of tiger mosquito, combining traditional methods

with citizen participation. The work showed the reliability, efficiency and utility of citizens in the generation of high quality scientific knowledge.

LABORATORY SERVICES & FACILITIES These services are available to all CSIC researchers, as well as to external researchers from public research centers and private corporations.

EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORMS

LABORATORY FOR EXPERIMENTATION WITH LIVE ORGANISM The LEOV is an aquarium-lab designed for the experimentation with live organisms in an aquatic environment of either fresh or sea water. The seawater circuit can be used in a continuous or a recycling way and it has a heat interchanging system allowing water heating or cooling ranging from 14ºC to 25ºC. The LEOV facilities will also include a video tracking system for automating behavioral observations to study movement behavior in a reliable and consistent way and over long time periods.

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URBAN RIVER LAB The URL is an outdoor laboratory addressed to the study of highly humanmodified streams and rivers aiming to develop innovative tools and strategies for a more efficient and sustainable management of freshwater resources. The URL comprises up to 18 channels and 12 wetlands designed for experimental practices, fed by the effluent of a wastewater treatment plant in Montornés del Vallés.

ANALYTICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL FACILITIES

NUTRIENT ANALYSIS The nutrient analysis service is equipped with a Continuous Flow Autoanalyser to determine the concentration of dissolved inorganic nutrients, total phosphorus and several reactive nitrogen compounds. Applications: • • • •

Control of phytoplankton and production of biomass Analysis of environmental pollution in waters Temporal estimation of trophic levels and fish productivity Analysis of waste water treatment plants effluents

PIGMENT ANALYSIS The UHPLC service is mainly used for the analyses of liposoluble organic pigments present in water samples, biofilms and sediments. Applications: • • •

Studies of seasonal phytoplankton dynamics Taxonomic characterization of phytoplankton and biofilm communities Paleoecology studies

SCANNING ELECTRONIC MICROSCOPY The electronic microscopy service is available for the observation of samples with the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and for energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDS). Applications: • • • • • •

Structure and ultrastructure of animal and plant tissues and organs Forensic studies (search of particles, tissues, threads, semen…) Identification of minerals, synthetic substances, antibiotics, etc. Studies in metal and alloys corrosion Biodeterioration of artworks Rock and mineral texture

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY LAB High Performance Computational Cluster (Cluster CAR) Applications: • Bioinformatics and molecular ecology • Spatial ecology • Theoretical and computational ecology • Data mining and KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) • Data and image banks • Training

MOLECULAR AND GENETIC ECOLOGY LABORATORY The molecular and genetic ecology lab provides support to those projects concerning taxonomy, biodiversity, ecology and evolution of aquatic organisms that require the use of DNA-based molecular techniques. These techniques extend from the amplification and sequencing of DNA for biodiversity and phylogenetic studies, up to cloning, metabarcoding, genomics, metagenomics and proteomics.

GROWTH STRUCTURES ANALYSIS The analysis of growth structures, such as otholits, offers the possibility to estimate the age and growth rates in diverse organisms and organic structures. Applications: • Fish vertebrae, scales and otoliths • Cephalopod statoliths • Bivalve valves • Coral skeletons • Polychaete jaws • Cricket exoskeletons • Turtle shields • Echinoderm skeletons

OBSERVATIONAL PLATFORMS

HIGH MOUNTAINS OBSERVATORY The Long Term Ecological Research site Aigüestortes is an observational facility located in the Central Pyrenees, within the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park. It comprises a field station and several monitored catchments. The research sites are equipped with automatic weather stations, discharge gauge stations and lake and stream water temperature loggers. A network of sampling stations is surveyed to collect chemical and biological samples at different time intervals, from biweekly to seasonal. The sampling network consists of eight streams, fourteen lakes and two atmospheric deposition collectors for water chemistry.

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MARINE COASTAL OBSERVATORIES The Operational Observatory of the Catalan Sea (OOCS) comprises a marine observational station situated in the coast of Blanes that is sampled biweekly for several biological and physico-chemical parameters from surface to deep waters. The Coastal Benthic Observatory carries out an annual evaluation of the Ecological Quality of Catalan coastal waters using Macroalgae Indicators and evaluation of the impacts of invasive species. Temporal surveys are also carried out in the Medes Islands.

ADDITIONAL SERVICES:

NAUTICAL SERVICE

DIVING STATION

The Nautical Service offers several facilities:

The diving facilities integrated in the CEAB building complex, consist of a dressing room, a tank charge facility: an independent room equipped with a 200 bar fixed compressor able to charge 3 tanks simultaneously, two portable compressors, with electrical and fuel engines, respectively, and also diving tanks of different capacities.

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Research boat DOLORES: 10 m length, 3.5 m width, 11 knots of maximum speed. For benthos, plankton and water sampling, and support for environmental data collection system and other research vessels. Hirondelle: semi-rigid inflatable boat mainly used for scuba diving and small-scale sampling in the coastal area of Blanes. Nesea: semi-rigid inflatable boat mainly used for scuba diving and small-scale sampling in the coastal area of the Medes Islands. 10 additional pneumatic small boats from 3 to 4.5 m in length for coastal sampling and scuba diving.

CONFERENCE ROOMS The CEAB houses a conference room for 160 people which is equipped with projection and sound systems as well as recording facilities. It also houses a fullyequipped meeting and video conferences room and additional rooms adapted for small meetings.

Location of CEAB field work sites

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OUR RESEARCH GROU

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UPS

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SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN COASTAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTS

Head of Research Group: Gordoa Ezquerra, Ana

We seek to explore how social-ecological systems work in the coastal and marine environments by developing conceptual and empirical approaches for a better understanding and management and for addressing specific social problems of sustainability We develop scientific research and applications in the frontier between social and natural systems, how they work and interact, how to cope with present and emerging local and global environmental problems and the role, if any, that science and regulations might play on it. The group has a long and successful history in the Coordination of International Cooperation Projects mostly in Namibia. Research topics include social-ecological research, sustainable exploitation of living marine resources, operational oceanography and fisheries (both professional and recreational), and coastal management.

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PROJECTS SEAOFSKILLS. Taming the sea of fisher’s knowledge, skills and competences Principal Investigator: Ana Gordoa Entity: European Union (Erasmus+) Budget: 23.244 € Years: 2014 - 2017

PECES. Pesca recreativa a Espanya: Categorització, avaluació i seguiment Principal Investigator: Ana Gordoa Entity: Proyectos Intramurales Especiales – CSIC Budget: 97.000 € Years: 2015 - 2018

KNOWSEAS+. Sistema estándar de gestión ecosistemática para el medio marino – EBMS Principal Investigator: Rafael Sardá Entity: MINECO Budget: 65.221€ Years: 2015 – 2017

Desarrollo del proyecto de investigación de la dinámica temporal del stock reproductor del Atún rojo en el Mediterráneo Occidental Principal Investigator: Ana Gordoa Entity: Balfegó Tuna, SL Budget: 21.327 € Years: 2016 - 2017

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION PAPERS Boada, Jordi; Sagué, O.; Gordoa, Ana. Spearfishing data reveals the littoral fish communities’ association to coastal configuration. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 199 : 152-160 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/157443. Dauvin, Jean-Claude; Bakalem, Ali; Baffreau, Alexandrine; Delecrin, Claire; Bellan, Gérard; Lardicci, Claudio; Balestri, Elena; Sardá, Rafael; Grimes, Samir. The well sorted fine sand community from the western Mediterranean Sea: A

resistant and resilient marine habitat under diverse human pressures. Environmental Pollution 224 : 336-351 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/146144. Doya, C.; Chatzievangelou, Damianos; Bahamon, Nixon ; Purser, Autun; de Leo, Fabio; Juniper, S. Kim; Thomsen, L.; Aguzzi, Jacopo. Seasonal monitoring of deep-sea megabenthos in Barkley Canyon cold seep by internet operated vehicle (IOV). PLoS ONE 12(5): e0176917 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/150938.

The well sorted fine sand community from the western Mediterranean Sea: A resistant and resilient marine habitat under diverse human pressures Dauvin, Jean-Claude; Bakalem, Ali; Baffreau, Alexandrine; Delecrin, Claire; Bellan, Gérard; Lardicci, Claudio; Balestri, Elena; Sardá, Rafael; Grimes, Samir Environmental Pollution https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/146144 Abstract The Biocoenosis of Well Sorted Fine Sands (WSFS) (SFBC, Sables Fins Bien Calibr es in French) is a Mediterranean community very well delimited by bathymetry (2e25 m) and sedimentology (>90% of fine sand) occurring in zones with relatively strong hydrodynamics. In this study focused on sites located along the Algerian, French, Italian and Spanish coasts of the Western Basin of the Mediterranean Sea (WBMS) we aim to compare the structure, ecological status and diversity of the macrofauna of the WSFS and examine the effects of recent human pressures on the state of this shallow macrobenthic community. We assess the ecological status and functioning of these WSFS

using three categories of benthic indices: a) five indices based on classification of species into ecological groups, AMBI, BO2A, BPOFA, IQ and IP, b) the ITI index based on classification of species in trophic groups, and c) the Shannon H’ index, and the Biological Traits Analysis (BTA), which is an alternative method to relative taxon composition analysis and integrative indices. Cluster analyses show that each zone show a particular taxonomic richness and dominant species. The seven benthic indices reveal that the macrobenthos of the WSFS of the four coastal zones show good or high Quality Status, except for one location on the Algerian coast (the Djendjen site) in 1997. BTA highlights the presence of three groups of species: 1) typical characteristic species; 2) indicator species of enrichment of fine particles and organic matter, and 3) coarse sand species which are accessorily found on fine sand. Finally, the WSFS which are naturally subject to regular natural physical perturbations show a high resilience after human pressures but are very sensitive to changes in the input of organic matter.the territory, better planning, the use of management tools, and an improvement in some educational aspects of tourism may help protect Antarctica.

Gordoa, Ana; Carreras, Gustavo; Sanz, N.; Viñas, Jordi. Tuna Species Substitution in the Spanish Commercial Chain: A Knock-On Effect. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0170809 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/143237. Gorelli, Giulia; Company, Joan B.; Bahamon, Nixon ; Sardà, Francisco. Improving codend selectivity in the fishery of the deep-sea red shrimp Aristeus antennatus in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina 81(3) : 381-386 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/154761. Pita, Pablo; Artetxe, Iñaqui; Diogo, Hugo; Gomes, Pedro; Gordoa, Ana; Hyder,

Kieran; Pereira, Joao; Pita, Cristina; Mafalda, Rangel; Garcia-Rodrigues, Joao; Sagué, O.; Veiga, Pedro; Vingada, José; Villasante, S. Research and management priorities for Atlantic marine recreational fisheries in Southern Europe. Marine Policy 86 : 1-8 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/155196. Valls, Josep Francesc; Rucabado, Josep; Sardá, Rafael ; Parera,Antoni. The beach as a strategic element of governance for Spanish coastal towns. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 25(9) : 1338-1352 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/151742.

CONGRESSES & CONFERENCES Carretón, Marta; Company, Joan B.; Boné, Alexandra; Rotllant, Guiomar; Bahamon, Nixon; dos Santos, Antonia. Decapad crustacean larval community of the submarine canyon off Blanes (NW Mediterranean). The Crustacean Society MidYear Meeting. 22/06/2017. Spain. ORAL Carretón, Marta; Company, Joan B.; Boné, Alexandra; Rotllant, Guiomar; Guerao, Guillermo; Bahamon, Nixon; dos Santos, Antonina. Decapod larval community of the submarine canyon off Blanes (NW Mediterranean). The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. ORAL

Influence of the Aristeus antennatus larval ecology on simulated dispersal patterns in Nord-Western Mediterranean Sea. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting 2107. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Clavel-Henry, Morane; Solé, Jordi; Ahumada-Sempoal, Miguel Ángel; Bahamon, Nixon; Briton, Florence; Rotllant, Guiomar; Company, Joan Baptista. Contribution of hydrodynamics on passive drifts of Aristeus antennatus particleslike in the North-western Mediterranean Sea. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 22/06/2017. Spain. ORAL

Clavel-Henry, M.; Sole, J.; Bahamon, N.; Garcia, J.A.; Rotllant, G.; Company, J.B.

BOOK’S CHAPTER Sardá, Rafael ; Requena, Susana; Dominguez-Carrió, Carlos; Gili, Josep Maria. Ecosystem-Based Management for Marine Protected Areas: A Systematic

Approach. Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective, First Edition. John Wiley & Sons Ltd pp:145-162 (2017) .

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Head of Research Group: Casamayor, Emilio O.

Freshwater ecosystems provide goods and services of critical importance to human societies. However, they are among the most heavily altered ecosystems with an over proportional biodiversity loss. Biogeochemistry of freshwater ecosystems is closely linked to terrestrial, atmospheric, and climatic perturbations, and responds specially to the effects of global change. We address the interactions between abiotic and biotic factors on different levels of organization qualitatively and quantitatively, looking for a more holistic understanding of biodiversity functioning and ecological processes in freshwaters. Our expertise covers from microbes to macrophytes and fish, and freshwater biogeochemical cycling. We use cutting edge analytical interdisciplinary methodologies and carry out observational and experimental research over both long temporal and broad spatial scales.

Missing in the picture: Eugènia Martí (Staff Scientist). Adriana Peña (Hired Technician). Roberto Sanchez (Hired Technician). Berta Fueyo (Hired Technician). Danilo Buñay (PhD Student). Elliot Bastias (PhD Student). Timothy Nicolass Vaessen (PhD Student). Sheelajini Paramjothy (External Collaborator). Gisela Mayora (External Collaborator). Ester Carreras (External Collaborator). José Luis Jiménez (External Collaborator). Guillermo de Mendoza (External Collaborator).

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PROJECTS NICUS. Lights and shadows of nitrogen cycling in urban streams Principal Investigator: Susana Bernal Entity: MINECO Budget: 192.390 € Years: 2015-2018

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TRANSFER-C. Claus per a entendre la transferència de les fluctuacions atmosfèriques a la dinàmica del plàncton lacustre: processos a la conca Principal Investigator: Lluis Camarero Entity: MINECO Budget: 177.870 € Years: 2016-2019

NITRISED. Avaluació de la capacitat de nitrificació dels sediments en rius receptors d’efluents de depuradora d’aigües residuals urbanes

INTERFACES. Ecohydrological interfaces as critical hotspots for transformations of ecosystem exchange fluxes and biogochemical cycling

Principal Investigator: Eugènia Martí. Entity: Proyectos Intramurales Especiales-CSIC Budget: 81.772 € Years: 2015-2017

Principal Investigator: Eugènia Martí Entity: European Union (Marie Curie) Budget: 231.082 € Years: 2014-2018

e-LTER. European Long-Term Ecosystem and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure

MEDSOUL. Assessment of in-stream self-purifying capacity in urban streams

Principal Investigator: Esperança Gacia Entity: Entity: European Union (H2020) Budget: 71.954 € Years: 2015-2018

Principal Investigator: Eugènia Martí Entity: MINECO Budget: 96.800 € Years: 2015-2018

HI-REQ. Smart high-frequency environmental sensor networks for quantifying nonlinear hydrological process dynamics across spatial scales

DISPERSAL. Seguiment de comunitats microbianes en llacs d’alta muntanya i de la dispersió per aerosols atmosfèrics en el context del canvi global

Principal Investigator: Eugènia Martí Entity: Entity: European Union (H2020) Budget: 180.000 € Years: 2016-2020

Principal Investigator: Emilio O. Casamayor Entity: OAPN Budget: 57.500 € Years: 2013-2017

DYNBIO. Dinàmica de la biodiversitat en muntanya. Xarxa de seguiments d’espècies i hàbitats, per avaluar els efectes del canvi global Principal Investigator: Emilio O. Casamayor Entity: OAPN Budget: 6.500 € Years: 2016-2019 Recolección, análisis de muestras y de datos biológicos y geoquímicos y comunicación científica a través de los Servicios científicotécnicos del CEAB Principal Investigator: Emilio O. Casamayor Entity: Proyectos Intramurales Especiales – CSIC Budget: 167.586 € Years: 2017-2020 Seguimiento biológico de la Riera de Rimentol, mediante el índice biológico de la calidad BMWPC y IBMWP (según criterios del ACA) que recibe el afluente de la planta de tratamiento de aguas de su empresa en Gurb. Principal Investigator: Mariàngels Puig Entity: Grupo Leche Pascual, SAU Budget: 1.573 € Years: 2016-2017 Optimización de protocolo de QPCR para detección de ADN ambiental de especies invasoras y de especies en peligro de extinción en los lagos pirenaicos Principal Investigator: Marc Ventura Entity: Proyectos Intramurales Especiales – CSIC Budget: 5.000 € Years: 2017-2018

BRIDGES. Bridging the gap between empirical microbial ecology and theories of biodiversity organization in space and time Principal Investigators: Emilio Casamayor / David Alonso Entity: MINECO Budget: 176.660 € Years: 2016-2018

Index Biològic BMWPC 2016. Principal Investigator: Mariàngels Puig Entity: Nestlé Waters España, S. A. Budget: 1.391 € Years: 2016-2017

LIMNOPIRINEUS. Restoration of lentic habitats and aquatic species of Community interest in high mountains of Pyrenees. Principal Investigator: Marc Ventura Entity: European Union (Life+) Budget: 1.443.880 € Years: 2014-2019

REPLIM. Red de observatorios de ecosistemas sensibles (lagos, turberas) al cambio climático en el Pirineo Principal Investigator: Lluís Camarero Entity: European Union (Interreg) Budget: 47.594 € Years: 2016-2019

RESTAURIOS. Projecte pilot de restauració per pal·liar els efectes d’abocament de les EDAR (Depuradores d’Aigües Residuals) en rius intermitents Principal Investigator: Eugènia Martí Entity: Fundación BBVA Years: 2015-2018 COLLABORATION PROJECT

Deciphering the role of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) in stream nutrient cycling. Principal Investigator: Eugènia Martí Entity: USA National Science Foundation Years: 2016-2018 COLLABORATION PROJECT

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION PAPERS Alahuhta, Janne; Kosten, Sarian; Akasaka, Munemitsu; Auderset, Dominique; Azzella, Mattia; Bolpagni, Rossano; Bove, Claudia P.; Chambers, Patricia A.; Chappuis, Eglantine; Ilg, Christiane; Clayton, John; de Winston, Mary; Ecke, Frauke; Gacia, Esperança; Gecheva, Gana; Grillas, Patrick; Hauxwell, Jennifer; Hellsten, Seppo; Hjort, Jan; Hoyer, Mark V.; Kolada, Agnieszka; Kuoppala, Minna; Lauridsen, Torben; Li, En Hua; Lukács, Balázs A.; Mjelde, Marit; Mikulyuk, Alison; Mormul, Roger P.; Nishihiro, Jun; Oertli, Beat; Rhazi, Laila; Rhazi, Mouhssine; Sass, Laura; Schranz, Christine; Søndergaard, Martin; Yamanouchi, Takashi; Yu, Qing; Wang, Haijun; Willby, Nigel; Zhang, Xiao Ke; Heino, Jani. Global variation in the beta diversity of lake macrophytes is driven by environmental heterogeneity rather than latitude. Journal of Biogeography 44(8): 1758-1769 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/143496.

Auguet, Olga; Pijuan, Maite; Borrego, Carles M.; Rodríguez-Mozaz, Sara; Triadó-Margarit, Xavier ; Varela Della Giustina, Saulo; Gutierrez, Oriol. Sewers as potential reservoirs of antibiotic resistance. Science of the Total Environment 605606 : 1047-1054 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/153630. Baranov, Viktor; Milošević, Djuradj; Kurz, Marie J.; Zarnetske, Jay P.; Sabater, Francesc; Martí, Eugènia; Robertson, Anne; Brandt, Tanja; Sorolla, Albert; Lewandowski, Jörg; Krause, Stefan. Helophyte impacts on the response of hyporheic invertebrate communities to inundation events in intermittent streams. Ecohydrology 10(6) : e1857 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/147498. Bernal, Susana; Merbt, S.; Ribot, Miquel; Casamayor, Emilio O.; Martí, Eugènia. Day-night ammonium oxidation in an urban stream: the influence of irradiance on ammonia oxidisers. Freshwater Science

36 : 272-283 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/147504. Camarero, Lluís; Bacardit, Montserrat; de Diego, Alberto; Arana, Gorka. Decadal trends in atmospheric deposition in a high elevation station: Effects of climate and pollution on the long-range flux of metals and trace elements over SW Europe. Atmospheric Environment 167 : 542-552 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/159002. Chappuis, Eglantine; Seriñá, Vanesa; Martí, Eugènia; Ballesteros, Enric; Gacia, Esperança. Decrypting stableisotope (d13C and d15N) variability in aquatic plants. Freshwater Biology 62(11): 1807-1818 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/155179. de Mendoza, Guillermo; Traunspurger, Walter; Palomo, Alejandro; Catalán, Jordi. Nematode distributions as spatial null models for macroinvertebrate species richness across environmental gradients: A case from mountain lakes. Ecology and Evolution 7(9): 3016-328 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/147436. Drummond, Jennifer D.; Larsen, Laurel G.; González-Pinzón, Ricardo; Packman, A.; Harvey, Judson W. Fine particle retention within stream storage areas at base flow and in response to a storm event. Water Resources Research 53 : 5690-5705 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/157904. Kelly, James F.; Bolster, Diogo; Meerschaert, Mark M.; Drummond, Jennifer D.; Packman, A. FracFit: A Robust Parameter Estimation Tool for Fractional Calculus Models.Water Resources Research 53(3) : 2559-2567 (2017). https://digital.csic. es/handle/10261/148729. Knapp, Julia L. A.; González-Pinzón, Ricardo; Drummond, Jennifer D.; Larsen, Laurel G.; Cirpka, Olaf A.; Harvey, Judson W. Tracer-based characterization of hyporheic exchange and benthic biolayers

in streams. Water Resources Research 53(2) : 1575-1594 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/146153. Krause, Stefan; Lewandowski, Jörg; Grimm, N. B.; Hannah, David M.; Pinay, Gilles; McDonald, Karlie; Martí, Eugènia; Argerich, A.; Pfister, L.; Klaus, Julian; Battin, Tom; Larned, Scott T.; Schelker, Jacob; Flekenstein, Jan H.; Schmidt, Christian; Rivett, Michael O.; Watts, Glenn; Sabater, Francesc; Sorolla, Albert; Turk, Valentina. Ecohydrological interfaces as hot spots of ecosystem processes. Water Resources Research 53(8) : 6359-6376 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/159969. Kurz, Marie J.; Drummond, Jennifer D.; Martí, Eugènia; Zarnetske, Jay P.; LeeCullin, Joseph; Klaar, Megan J.; Folegot, Silvia; Keller, Toralf; Ward, Adam S.; Fleckenstein, Jan H.; Datry, Thibault; Hannah, David M.; Krause, Stefan. Impacts of water level on metabolism and transient storage in vegetated lowland rivers insights from a mesocosm study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122(3) : 628-644 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/146312. Llorens-Marès, Tomàs; Liu, Zhenfeng; Allen, Lisa Zeigler; Rusch, Douglas B.; Craig, Matthew T.; Dupont, Chris L.; Bryant, Donald A.; Casamayor, Emilio O. Speciation and ecological success in dimly lit waters: horizontal gene transfer in a green sulfur bacteria bloom unveiled by metagenomic assembly. The ISME Journal 11 : 201-211 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/135325. Lupon, Anna; Sabater, Francesc; Bernal, Susana. The influence of Mediterranean riparian forests on stream nitrogen dynamics: a review from a catchment perspective. Limnetica 36(2) : 507-523 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/156975. Merbt, S.; Bernal, Susana; Proia, Lorenzo;

Speciation and ecological success in dimly lit waters: horizontal gene transfer in a green sulfur bacteria bloom unveiled by metagenomic assembly Llorens-MarĂ¨s, TomĂ s; Liu, Zhenfeng; Allen, Lisa Zeigler; Rusch, Douglas B.; Craig, Matthew T.; Dupont, Chris L.; Bryant, Donald A.; Casamayor, Emilio O. The ISME Journal https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/135325 Abstract A natural planktonic bloom of a brownpigmented photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria (GSB) from the disphotic zone of karstic Lake Banyoles (NE Spain) was studied as a natural enrichment culture from which a nearly complete genome was obtained after metagenomic assembly. We showed in situ a case where horizontal gene transfer (HGT) explained the ecological success of a natural population unveiling ecosystem-specific adaptations. The uncultured brown-pigmented GSB was 99.7% identical in the 16S rRNA gene

sequence to its green-pigmented cultured counterpart Chlorobium luteolum DSM 273T. Several differences were detected for ferrous iron acquisition potential, ATP synthesis and gas vesicle formation, although the most striking trait was related to pigment biosynthesis strategy. Chl. luteolum DSM 273T synthesizes bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c, whereas Chl. luteolum CIII incorporated by HGT a 18kbp cluster with the genes needed for BChl e and specific carotenoids biosynthesis that provided ecophysiological advantages to successfully colonize the dimly lit waters. We also genomically characterized what we believe to be the first described GSB phage, which based on the metagenomic coverage was likely in an active state of lytic infection. Overall, we observed spread HGT and we unveiled clear evidence for virus-mediated HGT in a natural population of photosynthetic GSB.between donor and recipient organisms may facilitate understanding of the multiple effects of global change and aid in the development of future research questions.

Martí, Eugènia; Casamayor, Emilio O. Photoinhibition on natural ammonia oxidizers biofilm populations and implications for nitrogen uptake in stream biofilms . Limnology & Oceanography 62(1) : 364-375 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/141509.

Eugènia Enhancement of carbon and nitrogen removal by helophytes along subsurface water flowpaths receiving treated wastewater. Science of the Total Environment 599600 : 1667-1676 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/150091.

Miró, Alexandre; O’Brien, David; Hall, Jeanette; Jehle, Robert. Habitat requirements and conservation needs of peripheral populations: the case of the great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) in the Scottish Highlands. Hydrobiologia 792(1): 169-181 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/141279.

Ribot, Miquel; Von Schiller, Daniel; Martí, Eugènia. Understanding pathways of dissimilatory and assimilatory dissolved inorganic nitrogen uptake in streams. Limnology and Oceanography 63(3): 1166-1183 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/143021.

Norman, B. C.; Whiles, M. R.; Collins, S. M.; Flecker,A. S.; Hamilton, S. K.; Johnson, S. L.; Rosi-Marshall, E. J.; Ashkenas, L. R.; Bowden, W. B.; Crenshaw, C. L.; Crowl,T.; Dodds, W. K.; Hall, R. O.; El-Sabaawi, R.; Griffiths, N.A.; Martí, Eugènia; McDowell, W. H.; Peterson, S. D.; Rantala, H. M.; Riis, T.; Simon, K. S.; Tank, J. L.; Thomas, S. A.; Von Schiller, D.; Webster, J. R. Drivers of nitrogen transfer in stream food webs across continents. Ecology 98(12): 3044-3055 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/155178. O’Brien, David; Hall, Jeanette; Miró, Alexandre; Wilkinson, John. Testing the validity of a commonly-used habitat suitability index at the edge of a species’ range: great crested newt Triturus cristatus in Scotland. Amphibia-Reptilia 83(3) : 265-273 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/154216. Pérez-Haase, A.; Ninot, Josep M. Hydrological heterogeneity rather than water chemistry explains the high plant diversity and uniqueness of a Pyrenean mixed mire. Folia Geobotanica 52 : 143-160 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/157880. Ribot, Miquel; Bernal, Susana; Nikolakopoulou, Myrto; Vaessen, Timothy N.; Cochero, Joaquín; Gacia, Esperança; Sorolla, Albert; Argerich, A.; Sabater, Francesc; Isnard, Manel; Martí,

Riera, Joan L.; Ballesteros, Enric; Pulido, Cristina; Chappuis, Eglantine; Gacia, Esperança. Recovery of submersed vegetation in a high mountain oligotrophic soft-water lake over two decades after impoundment. Hydrobiologia 794:139-151 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/143000. Roche, K. R.; Drummond, Jennifer D.; Boano, F.; Packman, A.; Battin, T. J.; Hunter, W. R. Benthic biofilm controls on fine particle dynamics in streams. Water Resources Research 53(1) : 222-236 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/146656 Rubio-Gracia, Francesc; Almeida, David; Bonet, Berta; Casals, Frederic; Espinosa, Carmen; Flecker, A. S.; García-Berthou, Emili; Martí, Eugènia; Tuulaikhuu, BaigalAmar; Vila-Gispert, Anna; Zamora, Luis; Guasch, Helena. Combined effects of hydrologic alteration and cyprinid fish in mediating biogeochemical processes in a Mediterranean stream. Science of the Total Environment 601-602 : 1217-1225 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/151707 Rull, Valentí; Trapote, M.C.; Safont, Elisabet; Cañellas-Boltà, Núria; PérezZanón, N.; Sigrò, Javier; Buchaca, Teresa; Vegas-Vilarrúbia, Teresa. Seasonal patterns of pollen sedimentation in Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees) and potential applications to high-resolution paleoecology: a 2-year

pilot study. Journal of Paleolimnology 57(1) : 95-108 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/141066. Subirats, Jèssica;Triadó-Margarit, Xavier; Mandaric, Ladislav; Acuña, Vicenç; Balcázar, José Luis; Sabater, Sergi; Borrego, Carles M. Wastewater pollution differently affects the antibiotic resistance gene pool and biofilm bacterial communities across streambed compartments. Molecular Ecology 26(20) : 5567-5581 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/154839. Triadó-Margarit, Xavier; Veillette, M.; Duchaine, C.; Talbot, M.; Amato, Fulvio; Minguillón, María Cruz; Martins, V.; de Miguel, E.; Casamayor, Emilio O.; Moreno, Teresa. Bioaerosols in the Barcelona subway system. Indoor Air 27(3) : 564-575 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/139784. Vila-Costa, Maria ; Gioia, Rosalinda; Aceña, Jaume; Pérez, Sandra; Casamayor, Emilio O. ; Dachs, Jordi.

Degradation of sulfonamides as a microbial resistance mechanism. Water Research 115 : 309-317 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/147449 Wang, Jianjun; Meyer, Sandra; Soininen, Janne; Casamayor, Emilio O.; Pan, Feiyan; Tang, Xiangming;Yang, Xiangdong;Yunlin, Zhang; Wu, Qinglong; Zhou, Jizhong; Shen, Ji. Regional and global elevational patterns of microbial species richness and evenness. Ecography 40(3) : 393-402 (2017) . https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/131603 Yao, Jingmei; Colas, Fanny; Solimini, A. G.; Battin,T. J.; Gafny, S.; Morais, M.; Puig, Mariàngels ; Martí, Eugènia; Push, M.; Voreadou, C.; Sabater, Francesc ; Julien, Frédéric; Sánchez-Pérez, José Miguel; Sauvage, Sabine; Vervier, P.; Gerino, M. Macroinvertebrate community traits and nitrate removal in stream sediments. Freshwater Biology 62(5) : 929-944 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/147465.

CONGRESSES & CONFERENCES Bernal, Nayeli; Buchaca, Teresa; Ventura, Marc; Sabás, Ibor; Ballesteros, Enric; Gacia, Esperança. Are fish invasions threatening isoetids in shallow alpine Pyrenean lakes? International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. POSTER

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Bernal, Susana; Drummond, Jen; Ribot, Miquel; Gacia, Esperança; Lupon, Anna; Castelar, Sara; Martí, Eugènia. Humaninduced diel cycles in stream functioning in Mediterranean WWTP-influenced streams. HydroEco 2017. Ecohydrology on the Edge: ecology-hydrology-human interactions in a changing world. 6th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology. 18/06/2017. Great Britain. POSTER

Bernal, Susana. Being used to it: impacts of seasonal extreme climate events on C and N cycling in Mediterranean catchments. AGU Chapman Conference on Extreme Climate Event Impcats on Aquatic Biogeochemical

Bernal, Susana; Lupon, Anna; Martí, Eugènia; Sabater, Francesc. Riparian and in-stream controls on hydrological N export in Mediterranean headwater streams. 9th International Symposium of Ecosystem

Behaviour. Biogeomon. 24/08/2017. Czech Republic. ORAL Borrego, C.; Auguet, O.; Pijuan, M.; Triadó-Margarit, X.; Varela Della Giustina, S.; Rodríguez-Mozaz, S.; Gutiérrez, O. Tales from the underground: Spatial variations in the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes and putative pathogens in sewer biofilms. FEMS 2017. 09/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Buchaca, T.; Gacia, E.; Sabás, I.; Ballesteros, E.; Miró, A.; Pou-Rovira, Q.; Ventura, M. Impact of non-native fish on plankton, epilithon and epiphyton algal biomass and composition in high mountain lakes. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. ORAL Buchaca,Teresa; Gacia, Esperança; Sabás, Ibor; Ballesteros, Enric; Miró, Alexandre; Pou-Rovira, Quim; Ventura, Marc. Impact of non-native fish on plankton, epilithon and epiphyton algal biomass and composition in high mountain lakes. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. ORAL Caliz, J.; Triadó-Margarit, X.; JiménezOntiveros, V.; Alonso, David; Àvila, A.; Casamayor, E. O. Dispersal or selection, the case of atmospheric microbial communities. FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 10/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Casamayor, E. O.; Alonso, David; Capitan, J. A.; Triadó-Margarit. Xavier; Caliz, J.; Ortiz-Alvarez, R.; Jimenez-Ontiveros, V. Bridging the gap between empirical microbial ecology and theories of biodiversity organization in space and time. FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 09/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Casamayor, E. O.; Triadó-Margarit, X.; Caliz, J.; Ortiz-Alvarez, R. Climate control of remote microbial dispersal through atmospheric aerosols: A long-term study in the Central Pyrenees (LTER-Aiguestortes). FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European

Microbiologists. 09/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Casamayor, Emilio O. The microbial ecology of alpine lakes. International Symposium of Aquatic Microbial Ecology-EMBO conference SAME-15. 03/09/2017. Croatia. INVITED TALK De los Ríos, A.; García-Angulo, D.; Curiel, J.; Durán, J.; Ortiz-Alvárez, R.; TorralbaBurrial, A.; Heiðmarsson, S.; PérezOrtega, S. Microbial sucession dynamics in the forefield of Breiðamerkurjokull glacier (Iceland). FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 10/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Delacour, S.; Collantes, F.; Bengoa, M.; Ventura, M.; Carter, J.; Bartumeus, F.; Lucientes, J. Distribution and genetic studies of Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894) in Spain. 7th SOVE International Congress. 05/10/2017. Spain. ORAL Funosas, G.; Castro, F.; Villafuerte, R.; Casamayor, E. O.; Triadó-Margarit, X. Ecoinformatic decoding of the rabbit microbiome. FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 09/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Gacia, E.; Bernal, S.; Carreras, E.; Nikolakopoulou, M.; Calvo, R.; Ribot, M.; Isnard, M.; Martí, E.; Sabater, F.; Sorolla, A. Estimates of c/n stoichiometry and n retention of four mediterranean wetland species subjected to water inputs from an effluent of a wastewater treatment plant. 10 Symposium of European Freshwater Sciences, SEFS. 07/07/2017. Czech Republic. ORAL Gacia, E.; Buchaca, T.; Marimon, M.; Bernal, N.; Sabas, I.; Ballesteros, E.; Ventura, M. Impact of non-native fish mediated eutrophication on the macrophyte isoetes lacustris l. populations in Pyrenean high mountain lakes. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain ORAL Lucati, F.; Miró, A.; Caner, J.; O¿Brien, D.; Tomàs, J.; Buchaca, T.; Font, B.; Cruset,

E.; Pou-Rovira, Q.; Ventura, M. Recovery of Pyrenean brook newt (calotriton asper) lake populations in the Southern Pyrenees following invasive fish removal. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. ORAL Lucati, Federica; Miró, Alexandre; Caner, Jenny; O’Brien, David; Tomàs, Jan; Buchaca, Teresa; Font, Blanca; Cruset, Eloi; Pou-Rovira, Quim; Ventura, Marc. Genetic diversity and population structure of Pyrenean brook newt (Calotriton asper) lake populations in the Pyrenean range. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. POSTER Lupon, Anna; Bernal, Susana; Poblador, Sílvia; Martí, Eugènia; Sabater, Francesc. Riparian evapotranspiration regulates stream hydrology but not nitrogen dynamics in a Mediterranean headwater catchment. HydroEco 2017. Ecohydrology on the Edge: ecology-hydrology-human interactions in a changing world. 6th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology. 18/06/2017. Great Britain. POSTER Marzadri, Alessandra; Tonina, Daniele; Bellin, Alberto; Dee, Martha; Tank, Jennifer; Bernal, Susana. Climate change impact on riverine nitrous oxide emissions across biomes. HydroEco 2017. Ecohydrology on the Edge: ecology-hydrology-human interactions in a changing world. 6th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology. 18/06/2017. Great Britain. ORAL Mendoza-Lera, Clara; Ribot, Miquel; Pastor, Ada; Foulquier, Arnaud; Martí, Eugènia; Pesce, Stéphane; Datry, Thibault. Exploring the relationship of hydraulic conductivity and nitrogen uptake in the hyporheic zone: from microhabitat to reach-scale. SEFS 2017. 02/07/2017. Czech

Republic. ORAL Menendez Serra, M.; Triadó-Margarit, X.; Castañeda, C.; Herrero-Isern, J.; Casamayor, E. O. Spatio-temporal dynamics of the microbial communities in gypsum-rich extreme environments (Monegros desert, Spain). FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 11/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Miró, A.; Sabás, I.; Ventura, M. Effect of non-native trout and minnows on amphibian distribution in Pyrenean high mountain lakes. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. ORAL Miró, Alexandre; Pou-Rovira, Quim; Buchaca, Teresa; Cruset, Eloi; Cases, Meritxell; Jurado, Ismael; Bacardit, Montserrat; Buñay, Danilo; Sabás, Ibor; Ventura, Marc. Restoration of Lissotriton helveticus population in a high mountain lake after removal of invasive minnow. EEI 2017 5º CONGRESO NACIONAL SOBRE ESPECIES EXÓTICAS INVASORAS. 16/10/2017. Spain. POSTER Miró, Alexandre; Pou-Rovira, Quim; Buchaca, Teresa; Cruset, Eloi; Cases, Meritxell; Jurado, Ismael; Bacardit, Montserrat; Buñay, Danilo; Sabás, Ibor; Ventura, Marc. Restoration of Lissotriton helveticus population in a high mountain lake after removal of invasive minnow. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. POSTER Miró, Alexandre; Sabás, Ibor; Ventura, Marc. Effect of non-native trout and minnows on amphibian distribution in Pyrenean high mountain lakes. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. ORAL Moreno, T.; Triadó-Margarit, X.; Veillette, M.; Duchaine, C.; Talbot, M.; Minguillón, M. C.; Martins, V.; Amato, F.; de Miguel, E.; Casamayor, E. O. Commuters exposure to airborne microorganisms in the Barcelona

subway System. European Aerosol Conference 2017 (EAC). 27/08/2017. Switzerland. ORAL O’Brien, D.; Hall, J. E.; Miró, A.; O¿Brien, C. T.; McKinnell, J.; Seymour, T.; Jehle, R. Coming together to conserve a species at the edge of its range: Triturus cristatus in the Scottish Highlands. SEH 2017 - 19th European Congress of Herpetology. 18/09/2017. Austria. ORAL O’Brien, David; Miró, Alexandre; Hall, Jeanette; Rae, Marcia; Falaschi, Mattia; Shand, Alison; Jehle, Robert. Amphibians and people share the benefits of sustainable urban drainage (SuDS) ponds in a fastdeveloping city. SEH 2017 - 19th European Congress of Herpetology. 18/09/2017. Austria. POSTER Ortiz-Álvarez, R.; Catalán, J.; Camarero, L.; Triadó-Margarit, X.; Casamayor, E. O. Environmental and geographic patterns shaping microbial communities in high mountain lakes (Pyrenees, Spain). FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 12/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Ortiz-Álvarez, R.; Fierer, N.; de los Ríos, A.; Casamayor, E. O.; Barberán,A. Primary succession patterns in microbial communities across a wide range of environments. FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 12/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Osorio, V.; Puig, Mariàngels; Buchaca, T.; Pérez, B.; Miró, A.; Pou-Rovira, Q.; Sabás, I.; Ventura, M. Effects of introduced fish on the littoral macroinvertebrate community of Pyrenean high mountain lakes. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. ORAL Osorio, Víctor; Puig, Mariàngels; Buchaca, Teresa; Pérez, Berta; Miró, Alexandre; Pou-Rovira, Joaquim; Sabás, Ibor; Ventura, Marc. Effects of introduced fish on littoral macroinvertebrate community of Pyrenean high mountain lakes. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. ORAL

Pou-Rovira, Q.; Cruset, E.; Font, B.; Jurado, I.; Márquez, M.; Andrés, E.; Sabás, I.; Miró, A.; Buchaca, T.; Ventura, M. Crecimiento y demografía del piscardo (Phoxinus sp) en lagos de alta montaña de los pirineos: resultados iniciales del proyecto LIFE LimnoPirineus. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. POSTER Pou-Rovira, Q.; Cruset, E.; Font, B.; Jurado, I.; Márquez, M.; Berché, R.; Dalmau, B.; Calderón, J.; Sabás, I.; Miró, A.; Buchaca, T.;Ventura, M. Crecimiento y demografía del salvelino (Salvelinus fontinalis) en dos lagos de alta montaña de los pirineos: resultados iniciales del proyecto LIFE LimnoPirineus. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. POSTER Pou-Rovira, Quim; Cruset, Eloi; Jurado, Ismael; Márquez, Meritxell; Andrés, Elisabet; Sabás, Ibor; Miró, Alexandre; Buchaca, Teresa; Ventura, Marc. Growth and demography of Minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) in high mountain lakes of the Pyrenees: initial results of the project LIFE LimnoPirineus. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. ORAL Pou-Rovira, Quim; Cruset, Eloi; Jurado, Ismael; Márquez, Meritxell; Porcar, Andreu; Sabás, Ibor; Miró, Alexandre; Buchaca, Teresa; Ventura, Marc. Growth and demography of Brown trout (Salmo trutta) in high mountain lakes of the Pyrenees: initial results of the project LIFE LimnoPirineus. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. POSTER Puig, Mariàngels; Asencio, A. D.; UberoPascal, N.; Aboal, M. El riesgo oculto de las microcistinas en ríos en un escenario de cambio climático. 5º Congreso Ibérico de Cianotoxinas y 1er Congreso Iberoamericano de Cianotoxinas. 19/07/2017. Spain. POSTER Sabas, I.; Buñay, D.; Miró, A.; Buchaca, T.; Ventura, M. Change in zooplankton

abundance and composition in Pyrenean lakes due to fish introductions. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. ORAL Sabás, Ibor; Buñay, Danilo; Miró, Alexandre; Buchaca, Teresa; Ventura, Marc. Change in zooplankton abundance and composition in Pyrenean lakes due to fish introductions. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. ORAL Subirats, J.; Triadó-Margarit, Xavier; Balcázar, J. L.; Sabater, S.; Borrego, C. M. Prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes and potential pathogens in streambed biofilms. Does the pollution source matter? FEMS 2017. 12/07/2017. Spain. ORAL Triadó-Margarit, X.; Caliz, J.; Camarero, L.; Casamayor, E. O. Inter-annual predictability of atmospheric microorganisms dynamics and occurrence of airborne potential pathogens. FEMS 2017. 7th Congress of European Microbiologists. 12/07/2017. Spain POSTER Tr i a d o - M a r g a r i t , X av i e r. A i r b o r n e microorganisms in the subway system: Characterization of bacterial communities and abundance in space and time of bioaerosols Ricta’17. 5th Iberian Meeting on Aerosol Science. 03/07/2017. Spain. ORAL Ventura, M.; Buchaca, T.; Miró, A.; Gacia, E.; Puig, Mariàngels; Ballesteros, E.; PouRovira, Q.; Pérez-Haase, A.; Carrillo, E.; Ninot, J. M.; Aniz, M.; Garriga, M. Conservation of aquatic habitats and species in the high mountains of the Pyrenees. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. ORAL Ventura, M.; Pou-Rovira, Q.; Buchaca, T.; Sabás, I.; Cruset, E.; Osorio, V.; Puig, Mariàngels; Miró, A. First signs of recovery following removal of introduced fish in a high mountain lake of the Pyrenees. EEI 2017. 5º Congreso Nacional sobre especies exóticas

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invasoras. 16/10/2017. Spain. POSTER Ventura, Marc. Distribució de les espècies de crustacis als Pirineus i Especies invasores en estanys d’alta muntanya. Conferencia en Máster de Biodiversidad. 06/03/2017. Spain. ORAL Ventura, Marc; Alonso, Miguel. Genetic analysis of mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase I support genus differentiation between Chirocephalus and Galaziella. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 22/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Ventura, Marc; Buchaca, Teresa; Miró, Alexandre; Gacia, Esperança; Puig, Mariàngels; Ballesteros, Enric; PouRovira, Quim; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Carrillo, Empar; Ninot, Josep Maria;Aniz, Mercedes; Garriga, Marc. Conservation of aquatic habitats and species in the high mountains of the Pyrenees. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. POSTER Ventura, Marc; Buchaca, Teresa; Miró, Alexandre; Sabás, Ibor; Gacia, Esperança; Puig, Mariàngels; Lucati, Federica; Osorio, Víctor; Ballesteros, Enric; Pou-Rovira, Joaquim; Cruset, Eloi; Pérez-Aase, Aaron; Carrillo, Empar; Ninot, Josep Maria; Aniz, Mercè; Tartera, Jesús; Garriga, Marc. LIMNOPIRINEUS: Conservation of aquatic habitats and species in high mountains of the Pyrenees. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. INVITED TALK Ventura, Marc; Pou-Rovira, Quim; Buchaca,Teresa; Sabás, Ibor; Cruset, Eloi; Osorio, Víctor; Puig, Mariàngels; Miró, Alexandre. First signs of recovery following removal of introduced fish in a high mountain lake of the Pyrenees. International Meeting on the Conservation of High Mountain Lakes. 06/07/2017. Italy. POSTER

BOOK’S CHAPTER Camarero, Lluís. Atmospheric Chemical Loadings in the High Mountain: Current Forcing and Legacy Pollution, in: High mountain conservation in a changing world. Springer pp: 325-342 (2017) Casamayor, Emilio O. Towards a Microbial Conservation Perspective in High Mountain Lakes, in: High mountain conservation in a changing world. Springer pp:157-180 (2017) García-Rubies, Antoni; Cebrian, Emma; Schembri, Patrick J.; Evans, Julian; Macpherson, Enrique. Ecological Effects and Benefits of Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas: Management Implications. Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective. John Wiley and Sons pp: 21-47 (2017).

Ventura, Marc; Tiberti, Rocco; Buchaca, Teresa; Buñay, Danilo; Sabás, Ibor; Miró, Alexandre. Why Should We Preserve Fishless High Mountain Lakes?, in: High mountain conservation in a changing world. Springer pp:181-206 (2017) Von Schiller, D.; Bernal, Susana; Dahm, Clifford N.; Martí, Eugènia. Nutrient and organic matter dynamics in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams. Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams, Burlington: Academic Press pp:135-160 (2017).

DEGREE’S FINAL PROJECT Trabajo Fin de Grado. Universitat de Girona (UdG). Ecologia tròfica del barb roig (Phoxinus sp.) als estanys d’alta muntanya del Pirineu. 24/05/2017. Student: Francesc Rivero Rocabert. Final Project Advisors: Mariàngels Puig Garcia y Marc Ventura Oller

Trabajo Fin de Grado. Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Variacions en el contingut de carbohidrats en poblacions d’Isoetes lacustris L. de 5 estanys del Pirineu en presència de dues espècies de peixos invasors. 01/06/2017. Student: Marc Marimon Tarter. Final Project Advisor: Esperança Gacia Pasola

MASTER THESIS Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Análisis estequiométrico carbono vs. nitrógeno (c:n) en los tejidos de cinco especies de plantas helófitas y su potencial en la captación del nitrógeno residual de las aguas tratadas por estaciones depuradoras. Máster ecología gestión y restauración del medio natural. 03/07/2017. Student: Francisco José gameros Escoto. Master Thesis Advisor: Esperança

Gacia Pasola Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). The European Gut Rabbit Microbiome: Insights into the intestinal Health. 04/07/2017. Student: Gerard Funosas Planas. Master Thesis Advisor: Xavier Triadó Margarit.

DOCTORAL THESIS Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Interacciones tróficas y distribución de los crustáceos planctónicos de los Pirineos.

18/07/2017. Student: Danilo Buñay Chicaiza. PhD Advisor: Marc Ventura Oller.

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY OF THE MARINE BENTOS

Head of Research Group: Uriz Lespe, MarĂa JesĂşs

We seek to assess evolutionary and ecological processes in benthic systems by combining field observation, experimentation, and molecular tools. We aim to understand the diversity, functioning, and responses of the marine benthos to environmental changes, both natural and human-induced, to predict future scenarios of marine ecosystems. Current topics cover the taxonomy and molecular phylogeny and ecology of benthic assemblages (metagenomics) and species (sponges, polychaetes, crustaceans, ascidians, and fishes), with particular emphasis on symbiotic interactions. Life cycles, population genetics, demography, and phylogeography studies help us to detect and understand the colonization pathways and the fate of exotic (introduced) marine species in native ecosystems. Moreover, the production of secondary metabolites by marine benthic organisms is studied under the dual perspective of their ecological functions and biotechnological applications.

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Missing in the picture: Paula Carolina RodrĂguez (Hired Technician)

PROJECTS ACIESTEM. Scientific approach to the data obtained in environmental management studies: taxonomy, ecology and predictive models Principal Investigator: Daniel Martin Entity: CREOCEAN Budget: 15.701€ Years: 2016-2017

Principal Investigator: Daniel Martin Entity: CREOCEAN Budget: 47.500 € Years: 2016-2017

DEEPFALL. Macrobenthic communities associated with deep wood falls lying in submarine canyons.

CHALLENGEN. Genetic tools: introduced species, characterization of biodiversity and adaptation to global warming

Principal Investigator: Daniel Martin Entity: European Union (Marie Curie) Budget: 341.387 € Years: 2015-2018

Principal Investigator: Xavier Turon Entity: MINECO Budget: 211.750 € Years: 2014-2017

MARSYMBIOMICS. Implicacions evolutives, papers ecològics i vulnerabilitat davant de canvis oceànics de simbiosis marines Principal Investigator: María Jesús Uriz Entity: MINECO Budget: 175.450 € Years: 2014-2017

AMARE. Actions for Marine Protected Areas Principal Investigator: Enrique Macpherson Entity: European Union (Interreg) Budget: 206.629 € Years: 2016-2020

CREOCEAN. Systematics and trophicfunctional ecology of marine macrobenthos: An aplication to environmental studies

BLUEPHARMTRAIN Principal Investigator: María Jesús Uriz Entity: European Union (Marie Curie) Budget: 200.684 € Years: 2013-2017

CONECTIVIDAD. Conectividad, biodiversidad y evolución en organismos marinos Principal Investigator: Enrique Macpherson Entity: Proyectos Intramurales Especiales – CSIC Budget: 206.282€ Years: 2017-2020 €

SCOOBA. Symbiotic Cooperation and Boring Activity of Cliona sponges under a climate change context Principal Investigator: Xavier Turon Entity: European Union (Marie Curie) Budget: 239.191 € Years: 2017-2020

GENCAT GRUPS RECERCA. Suport a Grups de Recerca de Catalunya 2014-2016 Principal Investigator: María Jesús Uriz Entity: AGAUR – Generalitat de Catalunya Budget: 45.000 € Years: 2014-2017

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION PAPERS Ahyong, S.T.; Tan, Swee Hee; Low, Martyn E. Y.; Macpherson, Enrique. Cancer strigosus Linnaeus, 1760: neotype selection, its identification with Cancer cancharus Linnaeus, 1758, and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae). Zootaxa 4323(3) : 440-444 (2017). http://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/155499. Almeida, Mariana; Frutos, I.; Company, Joan B.; Martin, Daniel; Romano, Chiara; Cunha, Marina R. Biodiversity of suprabenthic peracarid assemblages from the Blanes Canyon region (NW Mediterranean Sea) in relation to natural disturbance and trawling pressure. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 137: 390-403 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/135447. Baba, Keiji; Macpherson, Enrique. Uroptychus tuerkayi sp.nov.,a new squat lobster (Crustacea: Anomura: Chirostylidae) from the great meteor bank, in the eastern Atlantic. Crustaceana 90(7-10) : 807-817 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/154557. Bertolino, Marco; Costa, Gabriele; Carella, Mirco; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Cerrano,Carlo;Pansini,Maurizio;Quarta, Gianluca; Calcagnile, Lucio; Bavestrello, G. The dynamics of a Mediterranean

coralligenous sponge assemblage at decennial and millennial temporal scales. PLoS ONE 12(5) : e0177945 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/151400. Britayev, Temir A.; Mekhova, Elena; Deart, Yury; Martin, Daniel. Do syntopic host species harbour similar symbiotic communities? The case of Chaetopterus spp. (Annelida: Chaetopteridae). PeerJ 5 : e2930 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/143337 Carreras, Carlos ; Ordóñez,Víctor; Zane, Lorenzo; Kruschel, Claudia; Nastro, Ina; Macpherson, Enrique; Pascual, Marta. Population genomics of an endemic Mediterranean fish: differentiation by fine scale dispersal and adaptation. Scientific Reports 7 : 43417 (2017). https://digital.csic. es/handle/10261/146258 Cepeda, Diego; Martin, Daniel ; Britayev, Temir A. ; Al-Aidaroos, Ali M.; Lattig, Patricia. Haplosyllis (Annelida: Syllidae) from Saudi Arabian Red Sea, with the description of a new endosymbiotic species and a dichotomous key for the Indo-Pacific species. Marine Biodiversity 47(4) : 1123-1129 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/146258 Fernández-Leborans, Gregorio; Román, Sara; Martin, Daniel. A New Deep-Sea

Suctorian-Nematode Epibiosis (LoricophryaTricoma) from the Blanes Submarine Canyon (NW Mediterranean). Microbial Ecology 74 : 15–21 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/142561 Garate, Leire; Blanquer, Andrea ; Uriz, María Jesús. Contrasting biological features in morphologically cryptic Mediterranean sponges. PeerJ 5 : e3490 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153615 Garate, Leire; Sureda, Jan;Agell, Gemma; Uriz, María Jesús. Endosymbiotic calcifying bacteria across sponge species and oceans. Scientific Reports 7 : 43674 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/146254 García-Cisneros, Álex; Pérez-Portela, R.; Wangensteen, Owen S.; CamposCanet, Marta; Palacín, Cruz. Hope springs eternal in the starfish gonad: preserved potential for sexual reproduction in a singleclone population of a fissiparous starfish. Hydrobiologia 787(1) : 291-305 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/138041 Genis-Armero, Rebeca; Guerao, Guillermo; Abelló, Pere; GonzálezGordillo, J. Ignacio; Cuesta, José A. ; Corbari, L.; Clark, Paul F.; CapaccioniAzzati, R.; Palero, Ferran. Possible amphi-Atlantic dispersal of Scyllarus lobsters (Crustacea: Scyllaridae): molecular and larval evidence. Zootaxa 4306 (3): 325-338 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/154651. Gil, João; Nishi, Eijiroh. Nomenclatural checklist for Acromegalomma species (Annelida, Sabellidae), a nomen novum replacement for the junior homonym Megalomma Johansson, 1926. ZooKeys 677 : 131-150 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/150613. Larousse, Marie; Rancurel, Corinne; Syska, Camille; Palero, Ferran; Etienne, Catherine; Industri, Benoît; Nesme, X.; Bardin, Marc; Galiana, Eric. Tomato root microbiota and Phytophthora parasitica-

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associated disease. Microbiome 5 : 56 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/150374. Lattig, Patricia; Muñoz, Isabel; Martin, Daniel; Abelló, Pere; Machordom, Annie. Comparative phylogeography of two symbiotic dorvilleid polychaetes (Iphitime cuenoti and Ophryotrocha mediterranea) with contrasting host and bathymetric patterns. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179 : 1-22 (2017). https://digital.csic. es/handle/10261/135312. Macpherson, Enrique; Beuck, Lydia; Roder, C.; Voolstra, Christian R. A new species of squat lobster of the genus Munida (Galatheoidea, Munididae) from the Red Sea. Crustaceana 90 (7-10) : 1005-1014 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/154549. Macpherson, Enrique; Rodríguez-Flores, Paula C.; Machordom, Annie. New sibling species and new occurrences of squat lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the western Indian Ocean. European Journal of Taxonomy 343: 1-61 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/154097. Martin, Daniel; Nygrean, A.; CruzRivera, E. Proceraea exoryxae sp. nov. (Annelida, Syllidae, Autolytinae), the first known polychaete miner tunneling into the tunic of an ascidian. PeerJ 5 : e3374 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/150772 Martin, Daniel; Meca, Miguel A.; Gil, João; Drake, Pilar; Nygren, Arne. Another brick in the wall: population dynamics of a symbiotic species of Oxydromus (Annelida, Hesionidae), described as new based on morphometry. Contributions to Zoology 86(2) : 181-211 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/156572. Nishi, Eijiroh; Gil, João; Tanaka, Katsuhiko; Kupriyanova, Elena K. Notaulax yamasui sp. n. (Annelida, Sabellidae) from Okinawa and Ogasawara, Japan, with notes on its ecology. ZooKeys 660: 1-16 (2017). https://digital.csic. es/handle/10261/146315.

Canyon effect and seasonal variability of deep-sea organisms in the NW Mediterranean: synchronous, yearlong captures of “swimmers” from nearbottom sediment traps in a submarine canyon and its adjacent open slope Romano, Chiara; Flexas, María del Mar; Segura, Marta; Román, Sara; Bahamon, Nixon; Gili, Josep Maria; Sánchez-Vidal, Anna; Martin, Daniel Deep-sea Research I: Oceanographic Research Papers https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/156552 Abstract Numerous organisms, including both passive sinkers and active migrators, are captured in sediment traps together with sediments. By capturing these “swimmers”, the traps become an extraordinarily tool to obtain relevant information on the biodiversity and dynamics of deep-sea organisms. Here we analyze near-bottom swimmers larger than 500 mm and their fluxes collected from eight near-bottom sediment traps installed on instrumented moorings deployed nearby Blanes Canyon (BC). Our data, obtained from November 2008 to October 2009 with a sampling rate of 15 days, constitutes the first yearlong, continuous time series of the whole swimmers’ community collected at different traps and bottom depths (from 300 m to 1800 m) inside a submarine canyon and on its adjacent open slope (OS). The traps captured 2155 specimens belonging to 70 taxa, with Crustacea (mainly Copepoda) and Annelida Polychaeta accounting for more than 90% of the total abundance. Almost half of the identified taxa (33) were only present in BC traps, where mean annual swimmer fluxes per trap were

almost one order of magnitude higher than in the OS ones. Temporal variability in swimmer fluxes was more evident in BC than in OS. Fluxes dropped in winter (in coincidence with the stormy period in the region) and remained low until the following spring. In spring, there was a switch in taxa composition, including an increase of planktonic organisms. Additionally, we report drastic effects of extreme events, such as major storms, on deep-sea fauna. The impact of such extreme events along submarine canyon systems calls to rethink the influence of climate-driven phenomena on deep-sea ecosystems and, consequently, on their living resources.of nucleotide metabolism in ovary. We particularly screened for a collection of target genes in each tissue because of their relevance for further studies on evolution and adaptation of echinoids.

Pacheco da Silva, Vitor C.; Kaydan, Mehmet Bora; Malausa, Thibaut; Germain, Jean-François; Palero, Ferran; Botton, Marcos. Integrative taxonomy methods reveal high mealybug (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) diversity in southern Brazilian fruit crops. Scientific Reports 7 : 15741 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/161215. Palero, Ferran; Robainas-Barcia, A.; Corbari, L.; Macpherson, Enrique. Phylogeny and evolution of shallow-water squat lobsters (Decapoda, Galatheoidea) from the Indo-Pacific. Zoologica Scripta 46(5): 584-595 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/142380. Pascual, Marta; Rives, Borja; Schunter, C.; Macpherson, Enrique. Impact of life history traits on gene flow: A multispecies systematic review across oceanographic barriers in the Mediterranean Sea. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0176419 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/149603. Pérez-Portela, R.; Rius, Marc; Villamor, Adriana. Lineage splitting, secondary contacts and genetic admixture of a widely distributed marine invertebrate. Journal of Biogeography 44(2) : 446-460 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/141940. Rico, Ciro ; Cuesta, José A. ; Drake, Pilar; Macpherson, Enrique ; Bernatchez, Louis; Marie, Amandine D. Null alleles are ubiquitous at microsatellite loci in the Wedge Clam (Donax trunculus). PeerJ 5:e3188 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/148478. Rodríguez-Flores, Paula C.; Machordom, Annie ; Macpherson, Enrique. Three new species of squat lobsters of the genus Fennerogalathea Baba, 1988 (Decapoda: Galatheidae) from the Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 4276(1) : 46-60 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/151127. Rogers, Christopher; Ahyong, S.T.; Boyko, Christopher B.; D’Udekem D’Acoz,

Cédric; Noreña, Carolina; Macpherson, Enrique. Images are not and should not ever be type specimens: a rebuttal to Garraffoni & Freitas. Zootaxa 4269(4) : 455-459 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/150397. Romano, Chiara; Flexas, María del Mar; Segura, M.; Román, Sara; Bahamon, Nixon ; Gili, Josep María; Sánchez-Vidal, Anna; Martin, Daniel. Canyon effect and seasonal variability of deep-sea organisms in the NW Mediterranean: synchronous, year-long captures of “swimmers” from nearbottom sediment traps in a submarine canyon and its adjacent open slope. Deepsea Research I: Oceanographic Research Papers 129 : 99-115 (2017). https://digital.csic. es/handle/10261/156552 Uriz, María Jesús ; Garate, Leire; Agell, Gemma. Redescription and establishment of a holotype and three paratypes for the species Hemimycale mediterranea sp. Nov. PeerJ 5 : e3426 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/151708 Uriz, María Jesús; Garate, Leire; Agell, Gemma. Molecular phylogenies confirm the presence of two cryptic Hemimycale species in the Mediterranean and reveal the polyphyly of the genera Crella and Hemimycale (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida). PeerJ 5 : e2958 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/146274. Zenetos, A.; Çinar, M. E.; Crocetta, Fabio; Golani, D.; Rosso, Antonietta; Servello, Gianna; Shenkar, Noa; Turon, Xavier ; Verlaque, M. Uncertainties and validation of alien species catalogues: The Mediterranean as an example. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 191 : 171-187 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/148923.

CONGRESSES & CONFERENCES Candelas-Pérez, Francisco Miguel; Corbari, Laure; Clark, Paul; Palero, Ferran. Scyllarinae lobster distribution in Coral Sea waters (Crustacea: Scyllaridae). The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Centelles, J.; Abelló, P.; Palero, F. On the value of museum collections: Establishing a neolectotype for Plesionika antigai Zariquiey Alvarez 1955. The Crustacean Society MidYear Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Centelles, J.; Yang, C.-H.; Chan, T. Y.; Abelló, P.; Palero, F. Discovery of cryptic species in Plesionika (Crustacea: Pandalidae): shared taxa between Taiwanese and Mediterranean waters.The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain.POSTER Counts, Bailey; Turon, Xavier; LópezLegentil, Susanna. The lesser known Caribbean ascidians: morphological and molecular identification of main Bahamian species. 46th Benthic Ecology Meeting. 12/04/2017. United States. POSTER Dorothée Huchon, Dorothée; Hadass Sasson, Michal; Dray, Liran; Douzery, Emmanuel J. P.; Turon, Xavier; Ekins, Merrick; Paulay, Gustav; Gissi, Carmela; Shenkar, Noa. Insights from complete mitochondrial sequences on the phylogenetic relationships of Aplousobranchia. 9th International Tunicate Meeting. 17/07/2017. United States. ORAL Easson, Cole G.; Thacker, Robert W.; Turon, Xavier; Erwin, Patrick; LópezLegentil, Susanna. Temporal dynamics of sponge microbial communities. 10th World Sponge Conference NUI Galway. 26/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL Flemming, James; Giacomelli, Mattia; Lozano-Fernandez, Jesús; Olesen, Jørgen; Palero, Ferran; Pisani, Davide; Tanner, Alastair R.; Thomsen, Philip F.;

Vinther, Jakob. Pancrustacean phylogeny and the colonization of land by hexapods. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Garate, Leire; Ortiz-Álvarez, Rüdiger; Uriz, M. J. Searching for bacterial genes involved in the symbiosis between sponges and calcifying endosymbiotic bacteria. 10th World Sponge Conference NUI Galway. 27/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL García Raso, J.E.; Cuesta, J.A.; Abelló, P.; Macpherson, E. Checklist of marine Crustacea Decapoda (excluded Brachyura) from Iberian Peninsula.The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Genís Armero, R.; Guerao, G.; Abelló, P.; González-Gordillo, J.I.; Cuesta, J.A.; Corbari, L.; Clark, P.F.; Capacione-Azzati, R.; Palero, F. Amphi-Atlantic dispersal of scyllarid lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda): molecular and larval evidence. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Marco-Herrero, E.; Abelló, P; Drake, P; García-Raso, J.E.; González-Gordillo, J.I.; Guerao, G; Palero, F.; Cuesta, J.A. Illustrated key for the identification of brachyuran megalopae of the Iberian Peninsula (SW Europe). The Crustacean Society MidYear Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Martin, Daniel; Britayev, Temir. An overview of the biodiversity and adaptations of symbiotic scale-worms (Annelida, Polynoidae). 4th lnternational Congress on lnvertebrate Morphology. 23/08/2017. Russian Federation. INVITED TALK Palero, Ferran; Bracken-Grissom, Heather; Crandall, Keith A. First genome draft of Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804): insights for molecular evolution studies. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain POSTER

Palero, Ferran; Genis Armero, Rebeca; Hall, Michael R.; Clark, Paul F. DNA barcoding the phyllosoma of Scyllarides squammosus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) (Decapada: Achelata: Scyllaridae). The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Palero, Ferran; Meland, Kenneth; Clark, Paul; Olesen, Jørgen. Moving towards the Malacostraca phylogenomic tree: addition of new mitogenomes and rDNA data. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. ORAL Pascual, M.; Palero, F.; García-Merchán, V.H.; Macpherson, E.; Robainas-Barcia; Mestres, F.; Roda, T.; Abelló, P. Temporal and spatial genetic differentiation in the crab Liocarcinus depurator across the AtlanticMediterranean transition The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Pascual, Marta; Rives, Borja; Schunter, Celia; Torrado, Héctor; Macpherson, Enrique. Gene flow across oceanographic barriers in the Mediterranean Sea. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 22/06/2017. Spain. ORAL Paula C.Rodríguez-Flores; David Buckley; Enrique Macpherson; Annie Machordom Morphological stasis in Leiogalathea laevirostris complex (Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae): evolutionary history and species delimitation. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. ORAL Pérez Portela, Rocio; Riesgo, Ana; Wangensteen, Owen S.; Palacín, Cruz; Turon, Xavier. Transcriptomic responses to temperature shifts in a mediterranean keystone sea urchin. Environmental Omics Integration & Modeling. 18/10/2017. Spain. ORAL Rius, Marc; Gittenberger,Arjan; Lambert, Gretchen; Monniot, Françoise; Rocha,

Rosana; Shenkar, Noa; Swalla, Billie J.; Turon, Xavier. First Ascidiacea World Database editor workshop. 9th International Tunicate Meeting. 17/07/2017. United States. ORAL Rodríguez-Flores, P. C.; Machordom, A.; Macpherson, E. Revision of the coral reef genus Coralliogalathea Baba and Javed, 1974 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific oceans. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. POSTER Romano, C.; Rouse, G.; Tunniclife, V.; Martin, D. Phylogeny and biogeography of deep-sea wood boring Xylophagainae (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Evolution 2017. 23/06/2017. United States. POSTER Santín, Andreu; Grinyó, Jordi; Ambroso, Stefano; Uriz, M. J.; Gori, Andrea; Gili, J. M. Sponge Assemblages on the recently declared Menorca Channel Marine Protected Area (Western Mediterranean Sea). Xth World Sponge Conference NUI Galway. 26/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL Turon, Marta; Garate, Leire; TriadóMargarit, Xavier; Cáliz, Joan; Uriz, María Jesús. Do symbiotic bacteria help sponges to cope with eutrophication? 10th World Sponge Conference NUI Galway. 27/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL Turon, Xavier. Métodos de Inferencia Filogenética. Seminario dentro del programa de la asignatura Métodos de Inferencia Filogenética, asignatura de 2,5 créditos obligatoria en la especialidad de Genética y Genómica Evolutiva del Master de Genética y Genómica de la Universitat de Barcelona. 13/12/2017. Spain. ORAL Turon, Xavier. Re-examining what we think we know about reproductive strategies of benthic invertebrates: Lessons learnt from genetics. The second joint meeting of french and italian zoological societies. 18/09/2017.

Italy. INVITED TALK Turon, Xavier; Wangensteen, Owen S.; Cebrian, Emma; Palacín, C. Under the canopy: community-wide effects of invasive algae in marine protected areas revealed by Metabarcoding. Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems in Europe. 07/03/2017. Germany. POSTER

Vicioso, M.; Cuesta, J.A.; Díaz, D.; CorsiniFoka, M.; Rodríguez, P.C.; Juskanicova, L.; Ruiz, P.; Broglio, E.; Abelló, P. Sea Watchers: A citizen science tool to increase our knowledge on crustaceans and marine biodiversity. The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting. 19/06/2017. Spain. ORAL

BOOK’S CHAPTER Wangensteen, O. S.; Turon, X. Metabarcoding Techniques for Assessing Biodiversity of Marine Animal Forests, in:Marine Animal Forests. The Ecology of Benthic Biodiversity Hotspots. Springer International Publishing pp:1-29 (2017)

Wangensteen, Owen S.; Turon, Xavier; Palacín, Cruz. Reproductive Strategies in Marine Invertebrates and the Structuring of Marine Animal Forests, in: Marine Animal Forests. The Ecology of Benthic Biodiversity Hotspots. Springer International Publishing pp: 1-24 (2017)

DEGREE’S FINAL PROJECT Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Estudio morfológico de muestras de substrato duro de comunidades esciáfilas de los Parques Nacionales de Cabrera e Islas Atlánticas. Comparación con técnicas moleculares. 12/09/2017. Student: Adrià Antich. Final Project Advisors: Xavier Turon Barrera y Creu Palacín Cabañas Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Estudio morfológico de muestras de substrato duro de los fondos marinos fotófilos del Parque Nacional de Cabrera. Comparación con

técnicas moleculares. 12/09/2017. Student: Erik García. Final Project Advisors: Xavier Turon Barrera y Creu Palacín Cabañas Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Monitorización del asentamiento y crecimiento de ascidias en cultivos de ostras del Delta del Ebro. 13/09/2017. Student: Marina Navarro. Final Project Advisors: Xavier Turon Barrera y Creu Palacín Cabañas

DOCTORAL THESIS Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Growth and dynamics of Hemimycale columella (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) and the relationship with its microbial symbionts. 01/09/2017. Student: Leyre Garate Amenabarro. PhD Advisors: María Jesús Uriz Lespe y Andrea Blanquer Pérez

Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Ecology and biodiversity of the deep-sea meiobenthos from the Blanes Canyon and its adjacent slope (NW Mediterranean). 22/09/2017. Student: sara Roman Moreno. PhD Advisor: Daniel Martin Sintes

BENTHIC ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING

Head of Research Group: Ballesteros Sagarra, Enric

We aim to understand patterns and processes underlying the structure and functioning of the marine benthos at multiple temporal and spatial scales and at different environmental situations. We combine descriptive field ecology and natural history with experimental and modelling approaches to understand functional drivers of species, communities and ecosystems. We are interested on how benthic ecosystems may be influenced by human alterations at local, regional and global scales. Most of the ecosystems studied are shallow rocky bottoms and seagrass meadows in a wide range of geographical areas: Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and Gulf of California and Caribbean Sea.

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PROJECTS RECCAM. Resiliència de les praderies d’angiospermes marines davant l’escalfament global: una anàlisi basada en respostes ecofisiològiques, poblacionals i ecosistèmiques

CSI_CORAL. Canvi climàtic i invasió d’espècies: efectes dels factors principals, comprensió dels mecanismes i previsió de l’augment de població d’un corall mediterrani

Principal Investigator: Teresa Alcoverro Entity: MINECO Budget: 55.660 € Years: 2014-2017

Principal Investigator: Rafel Coma Entity: MINECO Budget: 157.300 € Years: 2014-2017

CAULERPA. Seguiment de l’indicador macroalgues de la DMA a les aigües costaneres de Catalunya per a l’obtenció d’índex de qualitat biològica CARLIT, i control d’espècies invasores bentòniques al litoral català

MERCES. Marine ecosystem restoration in changing european seas.

Principal Investigator: Enric Ballesteros Entity: ACA – Generalitat de Catalunya Budget: 224.697 € Years: 2016-2018 PRISTINE SEAS Principal Investigator: Enric Ballesteros Entity: National Geographic Years: 2014-2018 COLLABORATION PROJECT

Principal Investigator: Enric Ballesteros Entity: European Union (H2020) Budget: 22.212 € Years: 2016-2020

Securing atoll islands. Developing community-based biosecurity measures and exploring livelihood alternatives in the Lakshadweep Principal Investigator: Teresa Alcoverro Entity: Nature Conservation Foundation Years: 2016-2018 COLLABORATION PROJECT

La recuperació de Dugong dugon de les illes Andaman i Nicobar Principal Investigator: Teresa Alcoverro Entity: Nature Conservation Foundation Years: 2012-2018 COLLABORATION PROJECT

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION PAPERS Boada, Jordi; Arthur, Rohan; Alonso, David; Pagès, Jordi F.; Pessarrodona, Albert; Oliva, Silvia; Ceccherelli, Giulia; Piazzi, Luigi; Romero, Javier; Alcoverro, Teresa. Immanent conditions determine imminent collapses: nutrient regimes define the resilience of macroalgal communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284 : 20162814 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/147183 Crisci, Carolina; Ledoux, J. B.; MokhtarJamaï, Kenza; Bally, M.; Bensoussan, Nathaniel; Aurelle, D.; Cebrian, Emma; Coma, Rafael ; Féral, J.P.; La Rivière, M.; Linares, Cristina; López-Sendino, P. ; Marschal, C.; Ribes, Marta; Teixidó, Nuria; Zuberer, F.; Garrabou, J. Regional and local environmental conditions do not shape the response to warming of a marine habitat-forming species. Scientific Reports 7: 5069 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153715. Friedlander, Alan M.; Ballesteros, Enric; Clemente, S.; Gonçalves, Emanuel; Estep, Andrew; Rose, Paul; Sala, Enric. Contrasts in the marine ecosystem of two Macaronesian islands: A comparison between the remote Selvagens Reserve and Madeira Island. PLoS ONE 12(11) : e0187935 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/157436. Friedlander, Alan M.; Golbuu, Yimnang; Ballesteros, Enric; Caselle, Jennifer E.; Gouezo, Marine; Olsudong, Dawnette; Sala, Enric. Size, age, and habitat determine effectiveness of Palau’s Marine Protected Areas. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0174787 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/147725. Garrabou, Joaquim; Sala, Enric; Linares, Cristina; Ledoux, J. B.; Montero-Serra, Ignasi; Dominici, J. M.; Kipson, Silvija;

Teixidó, Nuria; Cebrian, Emma; Kersting, D. K.; Harmelin, J. G. Re-shifting the ecological baseline for the overexploited Mediterranean red coral. Scientific Reports 7: 42404 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/145819. Grupstra, Carsten G. B.; Coma, Rafael ; Ribes, Marta; Leydet, Karine Posbic; Parkinson, John Everett; McDonald, Kelly; Catllà, Marc; Voolstra, Christian R.; Hellberg, Michael E.; Coffroth, Mary Alice. Evidence for coral range expansion accompanied by reduced diversity of Symbiodinium genotypes. Coral Reefs 36 (3) : 981-985 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/150517. Karkarey, Rucha; Alcoverro, Teresa ; Kumar, Sanjeev; Arthur, Rohan. Coping with catastrophe: foraging plasticity enables a benthic predator to survive in rapidly degrading coral reefs . Animal Behaviour 131 : 13-22 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/153706. Karkarey, Rucha; Zambre, Amod; Isvaran, Kavita; Arthur, Rohan. Alternative reproductive tactics and inverse size‑assortment in a high‑density fish spawning aggregation. BMC Ecology 17 : 10 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/146565. Kersting, D. K.; Cebrian, Emma ;Verdura, J.; Ballesteros, Enric. A new Cladocora caespitosa population with unique ecological traits. Mediterranean Marine Science 18(1) : 38-42 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/148085. Kersting, D. K.; Cebrian, Emma; Verdura, J.; Ballesteros, Enric. Rolling corals in the Mediterranean Sea. Coral Reefs

Immanent conditions determine imminent collapses: nutrient regimes define the resilience of macroalgal communities Boada, Jordi; Arthur, Rohan; Alonso, David; Pagès, Jordi F.; Pessarrodona, Albert; Oliva, Silvia; Ceccherelli, Giulia; Piazzi, Luigi; Romero, Javier; Alcoverro, Teresa Proceedings of the Royal Society B https://digital.csic.eshandle/10261/147183 Predicting where state-changing thresholds lie can be inherently complex in ecosystems characterized by nonlinear dynamics. Unpacking the mechanisms underlying these transitions can help considerably reduce this unpredictability. We used empirical observations, field and laboratory experiments, and mathematical models to examine how differences in nutrient regimes mediate

36(1): 245-245 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/137218. Mariani, Simone; Pinedo, Susana; Terradas, Marc; Cefalì, Maria Elena; Chappuis, Eglantine; Ballesteros, Enric. Habitat structure and zonation patterns of northwestern Mediterranean shoreline strands. Scientia Marina 81(2) : 269-282 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153627.

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the capacity of macrophyte communities to sustain sea urchin grazing. In relatively nutrient-rich conditions, macrophyte systems were more resilient to grazing, shifting to barrens beyond 1 800 g m22 (urchin biomass), more than twice the threshold of nutrient-poor conditions. The mechanisms driving these differences are linked to how nutrients mediate urchin foraging and algal growth: controlled experiments showed that low-nutrient regimes trigger compensatory feeding and reduce plant growth, mechanisms supported by our consumer–resource model. These mechanisms act together to halve macrophyte community resilience. Our study demonstrates that by mediating the underlying drivers, inherent conditions can strongly influence the buffer capacity of nonlinear systems.

Morganti, T.; Coma, Rafael; Yahel, G.; Ribes, Marta. Trophic niche separation that facilitates co-existence of high and low microbial abundance sponges is revealed by in situ study of carbon and nitrogen fluxes. Limnology and Oceanography 62(5): 1963-1983 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/150448. Roca, Guillem; Romero, Javier; Farina, S.; Martínez-Crego, Begoña; Alcoverro,

//ANNUAL REPORT 2016// Teresa. Using seagrasses to identify local and large-scale trends of metals in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 123(1-2) : 83-91 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/155184. Sant, N.; Chappuis, Eglantine ; RodríguezPrieto, C.; Real, M.; Ballesteros, Enric. Cost-benefit of three different methods for studying Mediterranean rocky benthic assemblages. Scientia Marina 81(1): 129-138 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/147740. Sartoretto, Stéphane; Schohn,T.; Bianchi, C. N.; Morri, C.; Garrabou, Joaquim; Ballesteros, Enric ; Ruitton, Sandrine; Verlaque, M.; Daniel, B.; Charbonnel, Eric; Blouet, Sylvain; Romain, D.; Féral, J.P.; Gatti, Giulia. An integrated method to evaluate and monitor the conservation state of coralligenous habitats: The INDEX-COR approach. Marine Pollution Bulletin 120(12) : 222-231 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/150897

Serrano, Eduard; Ribes, Marta; Coma, Rafael. Recurrent partial mortality events in winter shape the dynamics of the zooxanthellate coral Oculina patagonica at high latitude in the Mediterranean. Coral Reefs 36:27-38 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/139854. Thibaut, Thierry; Blanfuné, Aurélie; Boudouresque, Charles F.; Personnic, Sébastien; Ruitton, Sandrine; Ballesteros, Enric; Bellan-Santini, Denise; Bianchi, C. N.; Bussotti, Simona; Cebrian, Emma; Cheminée, A.; Culioli, Jean-Michel; Derrien-Courtel, Sandrine; Guidetti, P.; Harmelin-Vivien, M.; Hereu, Bernat; Morri, C.; Poggiale, Jean-Christophe; Verlaque, M. An ecosystem-based approach to assess the status of Mediterranean algaedominated shallow rocky reefs. Marine Pollution Bulletin 117(1-2) : 311-329 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/145807.

CONGRESSES & CONFERENCES Astruch, P.; Boudouresque, C. F.; Pergent, G.; Alcoverro, T.; Bianchi, C. N.; Calvo, S.; Courp, T.; Lo Iacono, C.; Montefalcone, M.; Morri, C.; Noël, C.; Perez, M.; PergentMertini, C. Trajectories of change in Posidonia oceanica meadows and related carbon sink: the ECOSINK Project “Interdisciplinary Symposium,Track: Global Change Track: Global Change”. 05/07/2017. France. ORAL Ballesteros, Enric. Marine ecology of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago. IVth Pan-arctic Symposium. Towards a unifying pan-Arctic perspective of the contemporary and future Arctic Ocean. 20/10/2017. Croatia. ORAL Ballesteros, Enric. Monitoring techniques for reefs. Life Bahar for N2K Conference: Marine Protected Areas in the Mediterranean. Sharing expertise for marine conservation. 13/09/2017. Malta. ORAL

Morganti, T.; Coma, R.; Yahel, G.; Ribes, M. A trophic niche separation may explain the tight coexistence of high (HMA) and low (LMA) microbial-abundance sponges. Sponge World Conference. 25/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL Ribes, M.; Coma, R.; Leys, S.P.; Morganti, T.; Yahel, G.; Ribes, M.; Coma, R.; Leys, S.P.; Morganti, T.; Yahel, G. Metabolic plasticity of HMA sponges allows them to completely oxidize all reduzed sources in the water: an energetic view. Sponge World Conference. 25/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL Rix. L.; Naumann, M.S.; de Goeij, J.M.; van Oevelen, D.; Ribes, M.; Coma, R.; Struck, U.; Al-Horani, F.; Wild, C.; Hentschel, U. Dissolved organic matter cycling by the sponge holobiont. Sponge World Conference. 25/06/2017. Ireland . ORAL

THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGY

Head of Research Group: Bartumeus FerrĂŠ, Frederic

We seek to provide conceptual advance in ecological theory using mathematical and computational techniques. We are particularly interested in building a bridge between theory and data. We are a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary research group that develops specific research lines and provides general theoretical foundations of observational and empirical research in ecology mostly in the context of Community Ecology & Biodiversity, Population Ecology, Movement & Behavioural Ecology, Invasion Biology, and Epidemics. We aim to evaluate ecological theory trough the analysis of empirical data, the development of mechanistic and integrative (across scales) modeling approaches, and the study of the role of environmental and biological stochasticity in ecological phenomena, from foraging behavior to biodiversity patterns.

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Missing in the picture: Aitana Oltra (Hired Technician) JosĂŠ Santiago Ortega (External Collaborator). JosĂŠ Antonio Sanabria (Hired Technician). John R.B. Palmer (External Collaborator) Javier Hernando (External Collaborator).

PROJECTS DIPSALUT. Citizen science to improve the research and management of the tiger mosquito in the Province of Girona

SUSE. Social uses of search ecology: stochastic foundations and experimental research

Principal Investigator: Frederic Bartumeus Entity: Organisme de Salut Pública de la Diputació de Girona Budget: 60.500 Years: 2016-2018

Principal Investigator: Frederic Bartumeus Entity: MINECO Budget: 134.310 Years: 2016-2019

TIGRE. Tiger mosquito invasion in Spain: public health and global change Principal Investigator: Frederic Bartumeus Entity: MINECO Budget: 205.700 Years: 2014-2017

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION PAPERS Aspillaga, Eneko; Bartumeus, Frederic; Starr, Richard M.; López-Sanz, Àngel; Linares, Cristina; Díaz, David; Garrabou, Joaquim; Zabala, Mikel; Hereu, Bernat. Thermal stratification drives movement of a coastal apex predator. Scientific Reports 7: 526 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/147931. Cai, En; Marchuk, Kyle; Beemiller, Peter; Beppler, Casey; Rubashkin, Matthew G.; Weaver, Valerie M.; Gérard, Audrey; Liu, Tsung-Li; Chen, Bi-Chang; Betzig,

Eric; Bartumeus, Frederic; Krummel, Matthew F. Visualizing dynamic microvillar search and stabilization during ligand detection by T cells. Science 356 : eaal3118 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/150523. Campos, Daniel; Bartumeus, Frederic; Méndez, Vicenç. Nonstationary dynamics of encounters: Mean valuable territory covered by a random searcher. Physical ReviewE 96 : 032111 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/157899.

Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes Palmer, John R. B.; Oltra, Aitana; Collantes, Francisco; Delgado, Juan Antonio; Lucientes, Javier; Delacour-Estrella, Sarah; Bengoa, Mikel; Eritja, Roger; Bartumeus, Frederic Nature Communications https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/156676 Abstract Recent outbreaks of Zika, chikungunya and dengue highlight the importance of better understanding the spread of diseasecarrying mosquitoes across multiple spatiotemporal scales. Traditional surveillance tools are limited by jurisdictional boundaries and cost constraints. Here we show how a scalable citizen science system can solve this problem by combining

citizen scientistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; observations with expert validation and correcting for sampling effort. Our system provides accurate early warning information about the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) invasion in Spain, well beyond that available from traditional methods, and vital for public health services. It also provides estimates of tiger mosquito risk comparable to those from traditional methods but more directly related to the humanâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;mosquito encounters that are relevant for epidemiological modelling and scalable enough to cover the entire country. These results illustrate how powerful public participation in science can be and suggest citizen science is positioned to revolutionize mosquito-borne disease surveillance worldwide.the context of activation versus effector function and lymph nodes versus peripheral tissues.

Capitán, José A.; Cuenda, Sara; Alonso, David. Stochastic competitive exclusion leads to a cascade of species extinctions. Journal of Theoretical Biology 419 : 137-151 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/145899. de Grissac, Sophie; Bartumeus, Frederic; Cox, Sam L.; Weimerskirch, Henri. Early-life foraging: Behavioral responses of newly fledged albatrosses to environmental conditions. Ecology and Evolution 7(17): 6766–6778 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/153753. Eritja, Roger; Palmer, John R. B.; Roiz, David; Sanpera-Calbet, Isis; Bartumeus, Frederic. Direct Evidence of Adult Aedes albopictus Dispersal by Car. Scientific Reports 7: 14399 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/157260. Genovart, Meritxell ; Doak, D. F.; Igual, José Manuel ; Sponza, Stefano; Kralj, Jelena; Oro, Daniel. Varying demographic impacts of different fisheries on three Mediterranean seabird species. Global Change Biology 23(8) : 3012-3029 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/147756. Matovic, Nikola; Cadiou, Bernard; Oro, Daniel ; Sanz-Aguilar, Ana. Disentangling the effects of predation and oceanographic fluctuations in the mortality of two allopatric seabird populations. Population Ecology 59(3) : 225-238 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/157907. Millet, Joan Pau; Montalvo, Tomás; Bueno-Marí, Ruben; Romero-Tamarit, Arancha; Prats-Uribe,Albert; Fernández, Lidia; Camprubí, Esteve; del Baño, Lucía; Peracho,Víctor; Figuerola, Jordi ; Sulleiro, Elena; Martínez, Miguel J.; Caylà, Joan A.; Álamo-Junquera, D.; de Andrés, A.; Avellanés, I.; González, R.; Gorrindo, P.; Sentís,A.; Simón, P.; Bartumeus, Frederic ; Busquets, Núria; Alejo, I.; Gascón, Joaquim; Muñoz, J.; Oliveira, I.; Pinazo,

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María Jesús; Rodríguez, N.; Bocanegra, C.; Espasa, M.; Molina, I.; Pou, D.; Salvador, F.; Sánchez-Moltalvà, A.; Pumarola, T.; Rando, A.; Serre, N.; Soriano-Arandes, A.; Treviño, B. Imported zika virus in a European city: How to prevent local transmission? Frontiers in Microbiology 8: 1319 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153739. Oro, Daniel; Guilford, Tim. EU can help Spain’s endangered seabird. Science 358 (6368) : 1262 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/158043. Palmer, John R. B.; Oltra, Aitana; Collantes, Francisco; Delgado, Juan Antonio; Lucientes, Javier; DelacourEstrella, Sarah; Bengoa, Mikel; Eritja, Roger; Bartumeus, Frederic. Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes. Nature Communications 8: 916 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/156676. Payo-Payo, Ana; Genovart, Meritxell ; Sanz-Aguilar, Ana ; Greño, J. L.; GarcíaTarrasón, M.; Bertolero, Albert; Piccardo, Julia; Oro, Daniel. Colonisation in social species: the importance of breeding experience for dispersal in overcoming information barriers. Scientific Reports 7 : 42866 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/145862. Rodríguez, Adriana; Clemente, S.; Hernández, José Carlos; Brito, Alberto; García, Irma; Becerro, Mikel. Nutritional, structural and chemical defenses of common algae species against juvenile sea urchins. Marine Biology 164 : 127 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/154659. Sala, Jordi; Gascón, Stephanie; CunilleraMontcusí, David; Alonso, Miguel; Amat, Francisco; Cancela da Fonseca, Luís; Cristo,Margarida; Florencio, Margarita; García-de-Lomas, Juan; Machado, Margarida; Miracle, Maria Rosa; Miró, Alexandre; Pérez-Bote, José Luis;

Pretus, Joan Lluís; Prunier, Florent; Ripoll, Javier; Rueda, Juan; Sahuquillo, María; Serrano, Laura; Ventura, Marc; VerdiellCubedo, David; Boix, Daniel. Defining the importance of landscape metrics for large

branchiopod biodiversity and conservation: the case of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. Hydrobiologia 801(1) : 81-98 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153719.

CONGRESSES & CONFERENCES Acebo, Xavier; Bartumeus, Frederic. Gestión y Ciencia Colaborativa para el desarrollo de una plataforma integral de control del mosquito tigre. XIV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Sanidad Ambiental (SESA). 21/06/2017. Spain. ORAL Aspillaga, E.; Safi, K.; Hereu, B.; Bartumeus, F. Fish 3D space use computation from passive acoustic telemetry data . 4th International Conference on Fish Telemetry (ICFT). 22/06/2017. Australia. ORAL Bartumeus, F.; Oltra, A.; Palmer, J. R. B. The role of geospatial technologies in disease vector surveillance aided by citizen science. 11as Jornadas de SIG Libre. 01/06/2017. Spain. ORAL Bartumeus, Frederic. Behavioural ecology and Lévy research: should we stay or should we go? Current status and future directions of Lévy walk research.Wiston House, Sussex, UK. (Organizers: Stefano Focardi, Andy Reynolds. Supported by The Company of Biologists). 10/09/2017. Great Britain. ORAL Bartumeus, Frederic. Harnessing Citizen Science to Tackle Mosquito-Borne Diseases: Towards a locally based, yet Global Platform. Workshop: Harnessing Citizen Science to Tackle Mosquito-Borne Diseases: Towards a locally based, yet Global Platform. 03/04/2017. Switzerland. INVITED TALK Bartumeus, Frederic. Mosquito Alert: lessons and results from three years of Tiger Mosquito monitoring with participatory science. First Italian Citizen Science Conference. 23/11/2017. Italy. ORAL

Bartumeus, Frederic. Searching behavior in cognitive systems: linking theory to empirical data. 17th National Congress of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience. Alicante, Spain. Symposium 12: Shared principles of animal behavior across species. 29/09/2017. Spain. ORAL Díaz, D.; Hereu, B.; Aspillaga, E.; Muñoz, A.; Bartumeus, F. Hibernation of the slipper lobster Scyllarides latus in the Western Mediterranean. 11th International Conference and Workshop on Lobster Biology and management. 05/06/2017. United States. ORAL Eritja, Roger; Palmer, John R. B.; Roiz, David; Sanpera-Calbet, Isis; Bartumeus, Frederic. Hitchhiking disease vectors: evaluating the role of cars in tiger mosquito dispersal. Population Association of America (PAA). 2017 Annual Meeting. 29/04/2017. United States. ORAL Garriga, J.; Piera, J.; Bartumeus, F. A Bayesian Framework for Reputation in Citizen Science. ECML PKDD 2017. 18/09/2017. Spain. POSTER Gómez-Navarro, L.; Sánchez-Román, A.; Pascual, A.; Fablet, R.; HernándezCarrasco, I.; Mason, E.; Arcos, J.M.; Oro, D. Seabird drift as a proxy to estimate surface currents in the western Mediterranean? General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union. 27/04/2017. Austria. POSTER Oro, D. And my father asked: another year to the same place to do the same thing? How to respond to this devastating question. XIX

Convegno Italiano di Ornitologia. 01/10/2017. Italy. ORAL Oro, Daniel. Population effects of transient individuals detected by mark-recapture studies. British Ecological Society Meeting (BES). 11/12/2017. Belgium. INVITED TALK Palmer, John; Oltra, Aitana; Piera, Jaume; Bartumeus, Frederic. Bringing people’s (sensitive) data back to the people: navigating privacy, ownership, accessibility, and fitnessfor-use when making volunteered geographic information public in the context of public health emergency. Citizen Science Association (CSA). 16/05/2017. United States. ORAL Sánchez-Román, A.; Mason, E.; GómezNavarro, L.; Pascual, A.; Fablet, R.; Arcos, J.M.; Oro, D.; Ruiz, S. Rafting behavior of Scopolis shearwaters: a proxy to describe surface currents in the western Mediterranean Sea. Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting (OSTST) 2017. 23/10/2017. United States. POSTER

Torres, M.; Eritja, R.; Oltra, A.; Palmer, J. R. B.; Piera, J.; Bartumeus, F. Mosquito Alert: Closing the loop between citizen scientists and mosquito control. VIIIth EMCA Conference: Mosquito Control in a Changing Environment. 16/03/2017. Montenegro. ORAL Torres, Marina; Bartumeus, Frederic. Gestión y ciencia colaborativa para el desarrollo de una plataforma integral de control del mosquito tigre. XVI Congreso SESPAS Ciencia para la acción. 07/09/2017. Spain. ORAL Zajková, Z.; Reyes-González, J. M.; González-Solís, J.; Bartumeus, F. Going beyond wet or dry: behavioural classification from temporal correlation of high-resolution geolocation-immersion data. Movement: New Sensors, New Data, New Challenges. 21/08/2017. Netherlands. POSTER

MASTER THESIS Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Analysis of heterogeneous random walks in T-cells. 05/09/2017. Stdent: Javier Hernando Sánchez. Master Thesis Advisor: Frederic Bartumeus Ferré

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Analysis of the movement patterns of a social species, the Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota). 18/09/2017. Student: Jordana Sainz-Rozas Velilla. Master Thesis Advisor: Frederic Bartumeus Ferré

DOCTORAL THESIS Universitat de les Illes Balears(UIB). Effects of environmental stochasticity on life history parameters of marine top predators. 15/09/2017. Student: Noelia Hernández. PhD Advisor: Daniel Oro de Rivas Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Effects of environmental variability and perturbations on seabird’s popilation dynamics. Efectos de las perturbaciones y la variabilidad ambiental en la dinámica de poblaciones de aves marinas.

28/04/2017. Student: Ana Payo Payo. Master Thesis Advisor: Daniel Oro de Rivas Universitat de Barcelona. Movement ecology of coastal fishes in a marine protected area: implications for management and conservation. 26/07/2017. Student: Eneko Aspillaga Cuevas. Master Thesis Advisor: Frederic Bartumeus Ferré

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SPONGE ECOBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Head of Research Group: Maldonado Barahona, Manuel

We combine objectives concerning fundamental research with others of potential practical application.The work is structured around marine invertebrates, mainly sponges (Porifera) which play a relevant ecological role and show a high biotechnological potential. We use sponges to address the evolutionary links between protozoan and metazoan for a better understanding of the evolutionary emergence of the Animal Kingdom. We explore the eco-biology of Porifera silicification aiming to unveil biotechnological applications.

PROJECTS SPONGES. Deep-sea Spponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic: an integrated approach towards their preservation and sustainable explotation Principal Investigator: Manuel Maldonado Entity: European Union (H2020) Budget: 491.923 € Years: 2016-2020

CELMED. Conservation of the gorgonian Ellisella paraplexauroides in the Mediterranean Principal Investigator: Manuel Maldonado Entity: Fundación BBVA Budget: 100.000 € Years: 2015-2018

LEOV. Equipament del Laboratori d’Experimentació amb Organismes Vius (LEOV).

PBS. Exploring the biological production of silica and its applications in science and technology

Principal Investigator: Manuel Maldonado Entity: MINECO Budget: 122.000 € Years: 2016-2017

Principal Investigator: Manuel Maldonado Entity: MINECO Budget: 145.000 € Years: 2016-2018

FATE. Fate of cold-water coral reefs: identifying drivers of ecosystem change Principal Investigator: Tina Kutti Entity: Norwegian Research Council Years: 2015-2018 COLLABORATION PROJECT

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION CONGRESSES & CONFERENCES Leynaert, Aude; Maldonado, Manuel; López Acosta, María; García Puig, Marta; Sitjà, Cèlia; Grall, Jacques; Tréguer, Paul. First determination of silica production by

sponges using 32Si. The IBIS-2017 Conference “Silicon, Silica and their Isotopes: Biology, Biogeochemistry and Biotechnology”. 13/06/2017. España. ORAL

López Acosta, María; Leynaert, Aude; Maldonado, Manuel. Silicon consumption kinetics in demosponges. 10th World Sponge Conference NUI Galway. 30/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL López Acosta, María; Leynaert, Aude; Maldonado, Manuel. Sponge silicon consumption kinetics and their ecological implications. The IBIS-2017 Conference “Silicon, Silica and their Isotopes: Biology, Biogeochemistry and Biotechnology”. 13/06/2017. Spain. ORAL Maldonado, M.; López-Acosta, M.; GarcíaPuig, Marta; Sitjà, C.; Ercilla, Gemma. The marine silicon cycle in the light of sponge silica: a global review. X World Sponge Conference. 30/06/2017. Spain. INVITED TALK Maldonado, Manuel; García Puig, Marta; López Acosta, María; Sitjà, Cèlia; Muñoz, Sandra. Changes in the silica skeleton of a sponge in response to silicic acid availability. The IBIS-2017 Conference “Silicon, Silica and their Isotopes: Biology, Biogeochemistry and Biotechnology”. 13/06/2017. Spain. POSTER

Maldonado, Manuel; López Acosta, María; García Puig, Marta; Sitjà, Cèlia; Ercilla, Gemma; Tréguer, Paul. The silicon cycle of sponges. The IBIS-2017 Conference “Silicon, Silica and their Isotopes: Biology, Biogeochemistry and Biotechnology”. 13/06/2017. Spain. ORAL Sitjà, C.; Maldonado, Manuel; Rueda, J. L.; Farias, Carlos. Sponge communities from the mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz. 10th World Sponge Conference. 26/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL Sitjà, Cèlia. Sponge communities from the mud volcanos of the Gulf of Cadiz. 10th World Sponge Conference NUI Galway. 27/06/2017. Ireland. ORAL Sitjà, Cèlia; Maldonado, Manuel; Mateo, Miguel Ángel. A 4,000 year record of sponge silica burial in continental shelf sediment. The IBIS-2017 Conference “Silicon, Silica and their Isotopes: Biology, Biogeochemistry and Biotechnology”. 13/06/2017. Spain. ORAL

BOOK’S CHAPTER Maldonado M.; Aguilar R.; Bannister R. J.; Bell J. J.; Conway K.W.; Dayton P. K.; Díaz C., Gutt J.; Kelly M.; Kenchington E.L.R.; Leys S. P.; Pomponi S.A.; Rapp H.T.; Rützler K.; Tendal O.S.; Vacelet J.; Young C.M. Sponge grounds as key marine

habitats: a synthetic review of types, structure, functional roles, and conservation concerns, in: Marine Animal Forests. The Ecology of Benthic Biodiversity Hotspots. Springer International Publishing pp:1-39 (2017)

BOOKS Otero, Maria del Mar; Numa, Catherine; Bo, M.; Orejas, Covadonga; Garrabou, Joaquim; Cerrano, Carlo; Kružic, P.; Antoniadou, Chryssanthi; Aguilar, Ricardo; Kipson, Silvija; Linares, Cristina; Terrón-Sigler, Alejandro; Brossard, Justine; Kersting, D. K.; Casado-Amezúa, P. ; Gar-

cía, Silvia; Goffredo, Stefano; Ocaña, O.; Caroselli, Erik; Maldonado, Manuel ; Bavestrello, B.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Özalp, Baris. Overview of the conservation status of Mediterranean anthozoa. IUCN. Málaga, Spain. 73 pp. (2017)

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GROUP OF AQUATIC MACROPHYTE ECOLOGY (GAME)

Head of Research Group: Mateo MĂnguez, Miguel Ă ngel

We have pioneered the study of the carbon cycle associated to coastal ecosystems dominated by seagrasses and saltmarshes, mainly the refractory accumulation of organic carbon during centuries or millennia in their sediments. We aim to study long-term changes in the ecosystems (patterns and trends) based in the analysis of the environmental archive constituted by the sediments of some seagrasses, most particularly those of the Posidonia genus, and saltmarshes. Our integrative, inclusive and collaborative vocation leads us to make incursions in a wide variety of scientific disciplines such as biogeochemistry, molecular biology, edaphology, geophysics, palaeoecology, palynology, microbiology, genetics, or archaeology.

Missing in the picture: Roser Ventosa (Staff Technician) Maria Carnice (External Collaborator).

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PROJECTS PALEOPARK. Millenary changes in the insular Spanish National Parks: perturbations, resilience and trends after the seagrass archives

SUMILEN. Advances in sampling techniques, biogeochemical characterization, and quantification of the millenary deposits of seagrasses

Principal Investigator: Miguel Ángel Mateo Entity: OAPN Budget: 111.035 Years: 2014-2017

Principal Investigator: Miguel Ángel Mateo Entity: MINECO Budget: 193.600 Years: 2014-2017

BLUE NATURA. Andalusian blue carbon for climate change mitigation: quantification and valorization mechanisms Principal Investigator: Miguel Ángel Mateo Entity: European Union (Life) Budget: 859.431 Years: 2016-2019

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION PAPERS Atwood, Trisha; Connolly, Rod M.; Almahasheer, Hanan; Carnell, Paul E.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Lewis, Carolyn J. Ewers; Irigoien, Xabier; Kelleway, Jeffrey J.; Lavery, Paul S.; Macreadie, Peter I.; Serrano, Oscar; Sanders, Christian J.; Santos, Isaac; Steven, Andy D. L.; Lovelock, Catherine E. Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses.

Nature Climate Change 7 : 523-528 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153643 López-Merino, Lourdes; Colás-Ruiz, Nieves R.; Adame, María Fernanda; Serrano, Oscar; Martínez Cortizas, Antonio; Mateo, Miguel Ángel. A six thousand year record of climate and land-use change from Mediterranean seagrass mats.

Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses Atwood, Trisha; Connolly, Rod M.; Almahasheer, Hanan; Carnell, Paul E.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Lewis, Carolyn J. Ewers; Irigoien, Xabier; Kelleway, Jeffrey J.; Lavery, Paul S.; Macreadie, Peter I.; Serrano, Oscar; Sanders, Christian J.; Santos, Isaac; Steven, Andy D. L.; Lovelock, Catherine E. Nature Climate Change https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/153643 Abstract Mangrove soils represent a large sink for otherwise rapidly recycled carbon (C). However, widespread deforestation threatens the preservation of this important C stock. It is therefore imperative that global patterns in mangrove soil C stocks and their susceptibility to remineralization are understood. Here, we present patterns in mangrove soil C stocks across hemispheres, latitudes, countries and mangrove community compositions, and estimate potential annual CO2 emissions for countries where mangroves occur. Global potential CO2 emissions from soils as a result of mangrove loss were estimated to be 7.0 Tg CO2e yr1. Countries with the highest potential CO2 emissions from soils are Indonesia (3,410 Gg CO2e yr1) and Malaysia (1,288 Gg CO2e yr1). The patterns described serve

Journal of Ecology 105(5) : 1267-1278 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/142912 Lovelock, Catherine E.; Atwood, Trisha; Baldock, Jeff; Duarte, Carlos M. ; Hickey, Sharyn; Lavery, Paul S.; MasquĂŠ, Pere; Macreadie, Peter I.; Ricart, Aurora

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as a baseline by which countries can assess their mangrove soil C stocks and potential emissions from mangrove deforestation. ecosystems.

M.; Serrano, Oscar; Steven, Andy D. L. Assessing the risk of carbon dioxide emissions from blue carbon ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15(5): 257-265 (2017). https://digital.csic.es/ handle/10261/150533

Macreadie, Peter I.; Ollivier, Q. R.; Kelleway, Jeffrey J.; Serrano, Oscar; Carnell, Paul E.; Lewis, Carolyn J. Ewers; Atwood, Trisha; Sanderman, J.; Baldock, Jeff; Connolly, Rod M.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Lavery, Paul S.; Steven, Andy D. L.; Lovelock, Catherine E. Carbon sequestration by Australian tidal marshes. Scientific Reports 7 : 44071 (2017). https:// digital.csic.es/handle/10261/159967 Mcmahon, Kathryn M.; Evans, Richard D.; van Dijk, Kor-jent; Hernawan, Udhi; Kendrick, Gary A.; Lavery, Paul S.; Lowe, Ryan; Puotinen, Marji; Waycott, Michelle. Disturbance Is an Important Driver of Clonal Richness in Tropical Seagrasses. Frontiers in Plant Science 8 : 2026 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/161214

Strydom, Simone; McMahon, Kathryn M.; Kendrick, Gary A.; Statton, John; Lavery, Paul S. Seagrass Halophila ovalis is affected by light quality across different life history stages. Marine Ecology Progress Series 572 : 103-116 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/159973 Strydom, Simone; McMahon, Kathryn M.; Lavery, Paul S. Response of the seagrass Halophila ovalis to altered light quality in a simulated dredge plume. Marine Pollution Bulletin 121 : 323-330 (2017). https://digital. csic.es/handle/10261/159971

CONGRESSES & CONFERENCES Lafratta, A.; O. Serrano; P. Masqué; Miguel-Angel Mateo; Milena Fernandes; Sam Gaylard; P.S. Lavery. Importance of habitat selection to successfully develop Blue Carbon projects. Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Annual Conference 2017. 02/07/2017. Australia. ORAL

Mateo, M. A.; Serrano, O.; Lavery, P. S.; Belshe, F.; Piñeiro, N.; Leiva, C.; MartínezCortizas, A. Concepts and reflections on seagrass blue carbon: The posidonia oceanica paradigm. Aquatic Sciences Meeting. ASLO 2017 Mountains to the Sea. 02/03/2017. United States. ORAL

Lafratta, A.; Lavery, P. S.; Masqué, P.; Mateo, M. A.; Fernandes, M.; Gaylard, S.; Serrano, O. A long term perspective of lead pollution in Port Pirie (South Australia) revealed by seagrass sedimentary archives. Aquatic Sciences Meeting. ASLO 2017 Mountains to the Sea. 27/02/2017. United States. ORAL

Mateo, M.A.; Diaz Almela, E.; Vivas, M.S.; Mendoza, R.; Otero, M.M.; Peñalver, P.; León, D.; Alhama, M.V.; Gómez, A.; Moreno, D.; Barrajón, A.; de la Rosa, J.; Remón, J.M. The project LifeBlueNatura: Andalusian blue carbon for climate change mitigation, quantification and valorisation mechanisms. Interdisciplinary Symposium, Track: Global Change. 05/07/2017. France. INVITED TALK

Leiva, C.; Mateo, M. A.; Serrano, O.; Martinez, A. Biological proxies in the posidonia oceanica (l. delile) sedimentary record provide information on ecosystem paleoproductivity. Aquatic Sciences Meeting. ASLO 2017 Mountains to the Sea. 03/03/2017. United States. ORAL

Piñeiro-Juncal, N.; Mateo, M.A.; MartínezCortizas, A. A semi-quantitative method to study microbial functional activity distribution along posidonia soil profiles. Aquatic Sciences Meeting. ASLO 2017 Mountains to the Sea. 28/02/2017. United States. ORAL

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We also wanted to try a new channel to get to society. Therefore, we made an agreement with Radio Blanes to broadcast a series of interviews in which our researchers talked about relevant topics, such as plastics pollution, the pharmacy of the sea, the role of submarine canyons and the importance of microorganisms. We would like to stress our participation in different science fairs and dissemination events, as well as in conferences and training courses for teachers and conferences for students (national and international) and

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