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.
  • 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) 
  • 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: María Vila Duplá
  • Title: Impact of dust aerosols and rising temperature on plankton communities: identifying ecological tipping points in high mountain lakes
  • Promotors: Presentación Carrillo Lechuga, Manuel Villar Argáiz
  • Defence date: 10/04/2025.
• 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, Walter Helbling
  • Defence date : 24/03/2017

Publications.

• 2026

  • Jessica R. Corman, Halvor M. Halvorson, Casey Brucker, Molly S. Costanza-Robinson, J. Harrison Edwards, Eric K. Moody, Chad Petersen, Baker J. Angstman, Qiting Cai, Sarah M. Collins, Elise Ehlers, W. Reilly Farrell, Julia Keon, Amy C. Krist, Alexander L. Lewanski, Shuyi Lin, Amina Mohamed, Natalie Montano, Briante L. Najev, Emma D. Neill, Carly R. Olson, Elizabeth G. Peebles, Kayley Porter, Linnea A. Rock, Ella Roelofs, Sophie Schuele, Andrew D. Suchomel, Steve Thomas, Liza Toll, Benjamin B. Tumolo, Catherine E. Wagner, Binbin Wang, Eli N. Wess, Gültekin Yilmaz, Carla L. Atkinson, Brent J. Bellinger, John S. Brazner, Marco J. Cabrerizo, Andrew Camilleri, Fabien Cremona, Jean-Pierre Descy, Anton Drobotov, Bruce D. Dudley, Claudia Feijoó, Kelley A. Fritz, Darren P. Giling, Justin R. Hanisch, Katie Hossler, Tjaša Kanduč, Zin'ichi Karube, Giri R. Kattel, Lesley B. Knoll, Tyler J. Kohler, John S. Kominoski, Erik Kristensen, Danny C. P. Lau, Matthew J. Lundquist, Stephen E. MacAvoy, Nicolas Martyniuk, Rosana Mazzoni, Rahmat Naddafi, Vinicius Neres-Lima, Rebecca North, Priscila Oliveira-Cunha, Kelly Ortega-Cisneros, Ada Pastor, Cynthia Paszkowski, Richard Piola, Tamar Rachamim, Takashi Sakamaki, Orlando Sarnelle, Ursula M. Scharler, Garry Scrimgeour, Jonathan B. Shurin, Christopher F. Steiner, Kevin M. Theissen, Ross Thompson, Alexander Tolomeev, Inés G. Viana, Verónica D. Villanueva, Anne Watson, Egor Zadereev, Eugenia Zandonà. (2026). Limno-STOICH: A comprehensive database linking the elemental stoichiometry of organisms with inland aquatic hábitats. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 11: e70105. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.70105

• 2025

  • Marco J. Cabrerizo, Juan Manuel González-Olalla, Juan Manuel Medina-Sánchez, María Vila-Duplá, Presentación Carrillo. (2025). Warming Fluctuations Strengthen the Photo-Phagotrophic Coupling in Mixoplanktonic Protists. Microbial Ecology, 88: 138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-025-02658-2
  • Villar-Argaiz, M., E. Bautista Herruzo, J. Larios Martín, A. Cordero, Marco J. Cabrerizo. 2025. A practical toolkit for wetland management and conservation: Lessons from reclassifying urban land into a protected area. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 6: e70119. – https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70119
  • Tascón-Peña, O. Cabrerizo, M. J., Pérez-Lorenzo, M., Marañón, E. 2025. Impact of thermal fluctuations on phytoplankton: an experimental multi-trait analysis across species. Journal of Plankton Research, 47: fbaf021. 10.1093/plankt/fbaf021.
  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Villafañe, V.E., Helbling, E.W., Blum, R., Vizzo, J. I., Gadda, A., Valiñas, M.S. 2025. Multi-interacting global-change drivers reduce photosynthetic and resource use efficiencies and prompt a microzooplankton-phytoplankton uncoupling in estuarine communities. Marine Environmental Research, 204: 106952. 10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.106952. 
  • Nava, V., Dar, J. Y., De Santis, V., Fehlinger, L., Pasqualini, J., Adekolurejo, O. A., Burri, B., Cabrerizo, M. J., Chonova, T., Cour, M., Dory, F., Drost, A. M., Figler, A., Gionchetta, G., Halabowski, D., Harvey, D. R., Manzanares-Vázquez, V., Misteli, B., Mori-Bazzano, L., Moser, V., Rotta, F., Schmid-Paech, B., Touchet, C. M., Gostynska, J. 2025. Zooming in the plastisphere: the ecological interface for phytoplankton–plastic interactions in aquatic ecosystems. Biological Reviews, 100: 834-854 . 10.1111/brv.13164.

• 2024

  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Happe, A., Ahme, A., John, U., Olsson, M., Striebel, M. 2024. Moderate and extreme warming under a varied resource supply alter the microzooplankton–phytoplankton coupling in North Sea coastal communities. Limnology and Oceanography, 9: 2991–3002. 10.1002/lno.12718.
  • González-Olalla, J.M., Vila-Duplá, M., Cabrerizo, M.J., González-Egea, Parra, G., Medina-Sánchez, J.M., Carrillo, P. 2025. How does increasing temperature affect the toxicity of bisphenol A on Cryptomonas ovata and its consumer Daphnia magna?. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 285: 117090. 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.117090.
  • Happe, A., Ahme, A., Cabrerizo, M.J., Gerhard, M., John, U., Striebel, M. 2024. The experimental implications of the rate of temperature change and timing of nutrient availability on growth and stoichiometry of a natural marine phytoplankton community. Limnology and Oceanography, 69: 1769-1781. 10.1002/lno.12613
  • Carrillo, P., González-Olalla, J.M., J. Cabrerizo, M., Villar-Argaiz, M., Medina-Sánchez, J.M. 2024. Uneven response of phytoplankton-bacteria coupling under Saharan dust pulse and ultraviolet radiation in the south-western Mediterranean Sea. Science of the Total Environment, 927: 172220. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172220.
  • Ahme, A., Happe, A., Striebel, M., Cabrerizo, M. J., Olsson, M., Giesler, J., Schulte-Hillen, R., Sentimenti, A., Kühne, N., John, U. 2024. Warming increases the compositional and functional variability of a temperate protist community. Science of the Total Environment, 926: 171971. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171971.
  • Helbling, E.W., Villafañe, V.E., Narvarte, M.A., Burgueño, G., Saad, J. F., González, R.A., Cabrerizo, M.J. 2024. The impact of extreme weather events exceeds those due to global-change drivers on coastal phytoplankton assemblages. Science of the Total Environment, 918: 170644. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170644.

• 2023

  • Helbling, E.W., Banaszak, A.T., Valiñas, M.S., Vizzo, J. I., Villafañe, V.E., Cabrerizo, M.J. 2023. Browning, nutrient inputs, and fast vertical mixing from simulated extreme rainfall and wind stress alter estuarine phytoplankton productivity. New Phytologist, 238: 1876-1888. 10.1111/nph.18874.
  • 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

  • Cabrerizo, M. J., Marañón, E. 2022. Net effect of environmental fluctuations in multiple global-change drivers across the tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119: e2205495119. 10.1073/pnas.2205495119.
  • 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, 816: 151491. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151491.
  • 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

  • Vizzo, J.I., Cabrerizo, M.J., Villafañe, V.E., Helbling, E.W. 2021. Input of terrestrial material into coastal patagonian waters and its effects on phytoplankton communities from the chubut river estuary (Argentina). Anthropogenic pollution of aquatic ecosystems, 131-155. 10.1007/978-3-030-75602-4_7.
  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Marañón, E. 2021. Geographical and seasonal thermal sensitivity of grazing pressure by microzooplankton in contrasting marine ecosystems. Frontiers in Microbiology, 12: 679863. 10.3389/fmicb.2021.679863.
  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Marañón, E., Fernández-González, C., Alonso-Núñez, A., Larsson, H., Aranguren-Gassis, M. 2021. Temperature fluctuation attenuates the effects of warming in estuarine microbial plankton communities. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8: 656282. 10.3389/fmars.2021.656282.
  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Marañón, E. 2021. Grazing pressure is independent of prey size in a generalist herbivorous protist: Insights from experimental temperature gradients. Microbial Ecology, 81: 553-562. 10.1007/s00248-020-01578-7.
  • Vizzo, J.I., Cabrerizo, M.J., Helbling, E.W., Villafañe, V.E. 2021. Extreme and gradual rainfall effects on winter and summer estuarine phytoplankton communities from Patagonia (Argentina). Marine Environmental Research, 163: 105235. 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105235.
  • 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

  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Álvarez-Manzaneda, M.I., León-Palmero, E., Guerrero-Jiménez, G., de Senerpont Domis, L., Teurlincx, S., González-Olalla, J.M. 2020. Warming and CO2 effects under oligotrophication on temperate phytoplankton communities. Water Research, 173: 115579. 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115579.
  • 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

  • Cabrerizo, M.J., Medina-Sánchez, J.M., Villar-Argaiz, M., Carrillo, P. 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. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.173.
  • 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.
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