Functional Ecology

Group staff.

Person in charge.

Presentación Carrillo Lechuga

Members:

• Manuel Villar Argaiz
• Juan Manuel Medina Sánchez
• Carmen Rojo García Morato
• María Antonia Rodrigo Alacreu
• Irene Dorado García
• Walter Eduardo Helbling
• Virginia Estela Villafañe
• Marco Jabalera Cabrerizo
• Juan Manuel González Olalla
• María Vila Duplá

Research lines.

The main research line is:

Effects of global change stressors on biogeochemical cycles (C, N and O) and ecosystem diversity in high mountain lakes (Sierra Nevada, Spain) and in marine aquatic systems. These stressors are related with temperature increase, CO2 levels, UV radiation and P atmospheric deposition.

Research Projects.

• Title: Eficiencia de la desnitrificación en la eliminación de especies reactivas de nitrógeno en ecosistemas acuáticos de montaña. Código: A-RNM-237-UGR18
  • Financing entity: Programa Operativo FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020
  • Researcher in charge: Juan Manuel Medina Sánchez (UGR)
  • Duration: 01/01/2020-31/12/2021
  • Funding: 14.900 €
• Title: 74 Oasis glaciares de alta montaña en Sierra Nevada: una campaña de ciencia ciudadana por todo lo alto. Código: FCT-18-13095
  • Financing entity: Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT)
  • Researcher in charge: Manuel Villar Argaiz
  • Duration: 01/04/2019-30/06/2020
  • Funding: 10.000 €
• Title: Impactos del cambio global sobre el metabolismo MIXOtrófico de fitoplancton de ambientes COSTeros (MIXOCOST) Código: CEIJ-008
  • Financing entity: Ayudas a proyectos de investigación “Jóvenes investigadores CEI-MAR 2018”
  • Researcher in charge: Marco Jabalera Cabrerizo
  • Researchers: Presentación Carrillo y Juan Manuel Medina Sánchez
  • Duration: 01/01/2019-31/03/2020
  • Funding: 3.750 €
• Title: Metabolismo de los ecosistemas acuáticos del Sur de la Península Ibérica: Nuevos equilibrios frente al cambio global.
  • Financing entity: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad y FEDER (CGL2015-67682-R).
  • Researcher in charge : Presentación Carrillo and Juan Manuel Medina Sánchez.
  • Duration: 2016-2018.
  • Funding: 142.000 €
• Title: Estudio integrado de sistemas acuáticos como sensores de procesos de cambio en la cuenca hidrológica
  • Financing entity: Junta de Andalucía. Convocatoria proyectos de Excelencia (RNM-327)
  • Researcher in charge : M Villar-Argaiz
  • Duration: 2014-2018.
  • Funding: 108.556,73 €.

Ph.D. dissertations of the group.

• PhD student: Juan Manuel González Olalla
  • Title: Phytoplankton facing global change: ecological and physiological perspectives
  • Promotors: Presentación Carrillo Lechuga, Juan Manuel Medina Sánchez
  • Defence date : 26/11/2019
• PhD student: Marco Jabalera Cabrerizo
  • Title: Non-additive effects of multiple global-change drivers on aquatic ecosystems of both Hemispheres
  • Promotors: Presentación Carrillo Lechuga and Walter Helbling
  • Defence date : 24/03/2017

Publications.

• 2023
  • Castellano-Hinojosa, A., Bedmar, E.J. & Medina-Sánchez, J.M. 2023. Efficiency of reactive nitrogen removal in a model Mediterranean high-mountain lake and its downwater river ecosystem: Biotic and abiotic controls. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 858, Part 2, 159901 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159901. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722070012
  • Ian Stone, Tony Weinke, Kaylynne Dennis, Nate Dugener, Clarisse Odebrecht, Juanma Medina-Sánchez and Bopi Biddanda (2023). Saving Biodiversity to Save Our Life-Sustaining Biosphere. A review of the report “Living Planet 2022: Building a Nature-Positive Society”, World Wildlife Fund, 2022. The Inter Change Newsletter. https://www.gvsu.edu/rmsc/interchange/2023-april-stem-classroom-1726.htm
• 2022:
  • Lozano, I., González-Olalla, J.M. & Medina-Sánchez, J.M. 2022. New Insights for the Renewed Phytoplankton-Bacteria Coupling Concept: the Role of the Trophic Web. Microbial  Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-022-02159-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-022-02159-6
  • González-Olalla, J.M., Medina-Sánchez, J.M. & Carrillo, P. 2022. Fluctuation at High Temperature Combined with Nutrients Alters the Thermal Dependence of Phytoplankton. Microbial Ecololgy 83, 555–567 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01787-8  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-021-01787-8
  • Cabrerizo M.J., Medina-Sánchez, J.M., González-Olalla, J.M., Sánchez-Gómez, D. & Carrillo, P. 2022. Microbial plankton responses to multiple environmental drivers in marine ecosystems with different phosphorus limitation degrees. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 816, 151491 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151491 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721065694
  • Godoy, V., Calero, M., González-Olalla, J.M., Martín-Lara M.A., Olea, N., Ruiz-Gutierrez, A. & Villar-Argaiz, M. 2022. The human connection: First evidence of microplastics in remote high mountain lakes of Sierra Nevada, Spain. Environmental Pollution, Volume 311, 119922 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119922
  • Manuel Villar-Argaiz, Juan Manuel Medina-Sánchez, Bopaiah A Biddanda (2022) National parks in Spain are failing to protect wetlands. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
  • Biddanda, B. A., M. Villar-Argaiz, and J. M. Medina-Sánchez (2022), Protecting the mountain water towers of Spain’s Sierra Nevada, Eos, 103.
• 2021:
  • González-Olalla JM, Medina-Sánchez JM, Norici A, Carrillo P. Regulation of Phagotrophy by Prey, Low Nutrients, and Low Light in the Mixotrophic Haptophyte Isochrysis galbana. Microbial Ecology. 2021 Mar. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-021-01723-w.
  • Biddanda B.A., Dila D. K., Weinke, A. D., Mancuso J. L., Villar-Argaiz, M., Medina-Sánchez, J. M., González-Olalla, J. M.& Carrillo, P. 2021. Housekeeping in the hydrosphere: Microbial cooking, cleaning and control under stress. Life 11(2), 152; doi:10.3390/life11020152
• 2020:
  • Piwosz, K., Vrdoljak, A., Frenken, T., González-Olalla, J.M., Šantic´, D., R. Michael McKay, R.M., Spilling, K., Guttman,L., Znachor, P., Mujakic´, I., Fecskeová, L.K. Zoccarato, L., Hanusová, M., A. Pessina, A. Tom Reich, T., Grossart, l H-P. Koblížek, M.2020. Light and primary production shape bacterial activity and community composition of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in a microcosm experiment. mSphere ·DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00354-20
  • Villar-Argaiz, M., López-Rodríguez, M.J. & Tierno de Figueroa, J.M. Body P content increases over ontogeny in hemimetabolous macroinvertebrates in a Mediterranean high mountain stream. Aquat Ecol 54, 1185–1200 (2020).
  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Helbling, E.W., Villafañe, V.E. et al. Multiple interacting environmental drivers reduce the impact of solar UVR on primary productivity in Mediterranean lakes. Sci Rep 10, 19812 (2020).
  • Castellano-Hinojosa, A., Charteris, A.F., Müller, C., Jansen-Willems, A., González-López, Jesús., Bedmar, E.J., Carrillo, Presentació., Cárdenas, L.M., Occurrence and15N-quantification of simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in N-fertilised soils incubated under oxygen-limiting conditions, Soil Biology and Biochemistry (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107757
  • Durán-Romero, C., Medina-Sánchez, J.M. & Carrillo, P. Uncoupled phytoplankton-bacterioplankton relationship by multiple drivers interacting at different temporal scales in a high-mountain Mediterranean lake. Sci Rep 10, 350 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57269-y
  • M. J. Cabrerizo, M. I. Álvarez-Manzaneda, E. León-Palmero, G. Guerrero-Jiménez, L. N. de Senerpont Domis, S. Teurlincx, L. M. González-Olalla. 2020. Warming and CO2 effects under oligotrophication on temperate phytoplankton communities. Water Research, 173: 115579.
• 2019:
  • Tierno de Figueroa J.M., M.J. López-Rodríguez, & M. Villar-Argaiz. 2019. Spatial and seasonal variability in the trophic role of aquatic insects: An assessment of dunctional feeding group applicability. Freshwater Biology 64: 954-966.
  • Juan Manuel González-Olalla, Juan Manuel Medina-Sánchez and Presentación Carrillo (2019) Mixotrophic trade‐off under warming and UVR in a marine and a freshwater alga. J. Phycol. 55, 1028–1040. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12865
  • R. Morales-Baquero, C. Pérez-Martínez, E. Ramos-Rodríguez, P. Sánchez-Castillo, M. Villar-Argaiz, J.M. Conde-Porcuna. 2019. Zooplankton advective losses may affect chlorophyll-a concentrations in fishless high-mountain lakes. Limnetica, 38(1): 55-65 (2019). DOI: 10.23818/limn.38.12
  • M. J. Cabrerizo, J. M. Medina-Sánchez, M. Villar-Argaiz, P. Carrillo. 2019. Interplay between resistance and resilience governs the stability of a freshwater microbial food web under multiple stressors. Science of the Total Environment, 691: 908-918
  • Villar-Argaiz, M. (2019), Will the desert darken your door?, Eos, 100.
  • Bopi Biddanda, Jasmine Mancuso, Rachel Ratliff, Katie Knapp, Tony Weinke and Manuel Villar-Argaiz (2019) Anthropocene: The Uncertain Age of Humans. A book review of “Anthropocene: A very short introduction” by Erle C. Ellis (2018) InterChange newsletter
  • M. J. Cabrerizo, J. M. González-Olalla, V. J. Hinojosa-López, F. J. Peralta-Cornejo, P. Carrillo. 2019. A shifting balance: Responses of marine mixotrophic algae to cooling and warming under UVR. New Phytologist, 221: 1317-1327
• 2018:
  • M. S. Valiñas, V. E. Villafañe, M. J. Cabrerizo, C. Durán-Romero, E. W. Helbling. 2018. Global change effects on plankton community structure and trophic interactions in a Patagonian freshwater eutrophic system. Hydrobiologia, 816: 61-77
  • Juan Manuel González-Olalla, Juan Manuel Medina-Sánchez, Ismael L. Lozano, Manuel Villar-Argaiz & Presentación Carrillo (2018) Climate-driven shifts in algal-bacterial interaction of high-mountain lakes in two years spanning a decade. Scientific Reports 8: 10278 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28543-2
  • M. Villar-Argaiz, E. G. Balseiro, B. E. Modenutti, M. S. Souza, F. J. Bullejos, J. M. Medina-Sánchez, P. Carrillo (2018) Resource versus consumer regulation of phytoplankton: testing the role of UVR in a Southern and Northern hemisphere lake. Hydrobiologia 816:107–120
  • Manuel Villar-Argaiz a, Marco J. Cabrerizo b, Juan Manuel González-Olalla, Macarena S. Valiñas, Sanja Raji, Presentación Carrillo (2018) Growth impacts of Saharan dust, mineral nutrients, and CO2 on a planktonic herbivore in southern Mediterranean lakes. Science of the Total Environment 639 (2018) 118–128
  • Cabrerizo Marco J., P. Carrillo, V.E. Villafañe, J.M. Medina-Sánchez, E. W. Helbling (2018) Increased nutrients from aeolian-dust and riverine origin decrease the CO2-sink capacity of coastal South Atlantic waters under UVR exposure. Limnol & Oceanogr., 63:1191-1203
  • Villar-Argaiz, M., Medina-Sánchez1 J.M., Biddanda B.A. and P. Carrillo (2018) Predominant non-additive effects of multiple stressors on autotroph C:N:P ratios propagate in freshwater and marine food webs. Frontier in Microbiology 9: 69 DOI /10.3389/fmicb.2018.00069
  • P. Bermejo, E. W. Helbling, C. Durán-Romero, M. J. Cabrerizo, V. E. Villafañe. 2018. Abiotic control of phytoplankton blooms in temperate coastal marine ecosystems: A case study in the South Atlantic Ocean. Science of the Total Environment, 612: 894-902
• 2017:
  • Castellano-Hinojosa A, Correa-Galeote D, Carrillo P, Bedmar EJ and Medina-Sánchez JM (2017) Denitrification and Biodiversity of Denitrifiers in a High-Mountain Mediterranean Lake. Front. Microbiol. 8:1911. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01911
  • Carmen Rojo, Guillermo Herrera, Juan Manuel Medina-Sánchez, Manuel Villar-Argaiz, Cristina Durán, Presentación Carrillo (2017) Are the small-sized plankton communities of oligotrophic ecosystems resilient to UVR and P pulses?. Freshwater Science. 2017. 36(4):000–000. DOI: 10.1086/694737
  • M. Villar-Argaiz, E. G. Balseiro. B. E. Modenutti, M. S. Souza, F. J. Bullejos, J. M. Medina-Sánchez, P. Carrillo (2017) Resource versus consumer regulation of phytoplankton: testing the role of UVR in a Southern and Northern hemisphere lake. Hydrobiologia. DOI 10.1007/s10750-017-3251-y
  • P. Carrillo, J. M. Medina-Sánchez, M. Villar-Argaiz, F. J. Bullejos, C. Durán, M. Bastidas-Navarro, M. S. Souza, E. G. Balseiro & B. E. Modenutti (2017) Vulnerability of mixotrophic algae to nutrient pulses and UVR in an oligotrophic Southern and Northern Hemisphere lake. Scientific Reports | 7: 6333 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-06279-9
  • González-Olalla, J. M., J. M. Medina-Sánchez, M. J. Cabrerizo, M. Villar-Argáiz, P. M. Sánchez-Castillo, and P. Carrillo (2017), Contrasting effect of Saharan dust and UVR on autotrophic picoplankton in nearshore versus offshore waters of Mediterranean Sea, J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci., 122, doi:10.1002/2017JG003834.
  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Carrillo P., Villafañe V. E. & Helbling W. E. 2017. Differential impacts of global change variables on coastal South Atlantic phytoplankton: Role of seasonal variations. Marine Environmental Research DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2017.01.005.
  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Medina-Sánchez, I. Dorado, Villar-Argaiz, M & P. Carrillo. 2017. Rising frequency of resource pulses under solar UVR strengthen microbial interactions. Scientific reports 7, 43615; doi: 10.1038/srep43615.
  • Medina-Sánchez J.M., Herrera, G., Durán, C., Villar-Argaiz, M. & Carrillo, P. 2017. Optode use to evaluate microbial planktonic respiration in oligotrophic ecosystems as an indicator of environmental stress. Aquatic Science DOI: 10.1007/s00027-016-0515-y.
  • Velasco-Ayuso S, J.M. Medina-Sánchez, R. Guénon & P. Carrillo. 2017. Ectoenzyme activities and global change stressors in a remote, high-mountain lake (Sierra Nevada National Park, SE Spain). Biogeochemitry, 132(1), 71-85 DOI 10.1007/s10533-016-0288-3.
  • V. E. Villafañe, M. J. Cabrerizo, G. S. Erzinger, P. Bermejo, S. M. Strauch, M. S. Valiñas, E. W. Helbling. (2017). Photosynthesis and growth of temperate and sub-tropical estuarine phytoplankton in a scenario of nutrient enrichment under solar ultraviolet radiation exposure. Estuaries and Coasts, 40: 842-855
• 2016:
  • Villar-Argaiz, M, J.M. Medina-Sánchez, P. Carrillo. 2016. Microbial carbon production and transfer across trophic levels is affected by solar UVA and phosphorus. Hydrobiologia: DOI 10.1007/s10750-016-2755-1
  • Villar-Argaiz, M., J.M. Medina-Sánchez, B.A. Biddanda & P. Carrillo. Predominant non-additive effects of multiple stressors on autotroph C:N:P ratios propagate in freshwater and marine food webs. Frontiers in Aquatic Microbiology. Invited Review in Research Topic: Progress in Ecological Stoichiometry.
  • Medina-Sánchez JM, Delgado-Molina JA, Carrillo P. 2016. Sentinels of global change (I): mixotrophic algae in La Caldera Lake. Libro: Zamora R, Pérez-Luque AJ, Bonet-García FJ, Barea-Azcón JM, Aspizua-Cantón R. (eds.) Observatorio Cambio Global Sierra Nevada. Global change impacts in Sierra Nevada: challenges for conservation. Páginas: 83-85. Department of the Environment and Urban Planning. Junta de Andalucía. ISBN: 978-84-338-5960-0.
  • Duran, C., Medina-Sánchez, J.M., Herrera, G. & P. Carrillo. 2016 Changes in the phytoplankton-bacteria coupling triggered by joint action of UVR, nutrients, and warming in Mediterranean high-mountain lakes. Limnol & Oceanogr. 61: 413-429, DOI: 10.1002/lno.10204.
  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Medina-Sánchez, J.M., Villar-Argaiz, M., González Olalla, J.M. & Carrillo, P. 2016. Saharan dust inputs and high UVR levels jointly alter the metabolic balance of marine oligotrophic ecosystems. Scientific reports | 6:35892 | DOI: 10.1038/srep35892
  • Villar-Argaiz, M., FJ. Bullejos. 2016. Sentinels of global change (II): herbivorous consumers in La Caldera Lake. Pp: 86-93.In: Zamora, R., Pérez-Luque, A.J., Bonet, F.J., Barea-Azcón, J.M. and Aspizua, R. (editors). 2016. Global Change Impacts in Sierra Nevada: Challenges for Conservation. Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación del Territorio. Junta de Andalucía.