BackBrowsing Artículos by Author "Elosegi, Arturo"
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A meta-analysis of drought effects on litter decomposition in streams
; ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo
(Springer, 2023-05)
Droughts, or severe reductions of water flow, are expected to become more frequent and intense in rivers in many regions under the ongoing climate change scenario. It is therefore important to understand stream ecosystem ... -
ABC model for estimating sea lamprey local population size using a simple nest count during the spawning season
; ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo (EDP Sciences, 2023-02)
Population estimation implies considering the biology of the species, but also the constraints of logistic aspects such as cost. While common methods based on individual counts can provide precise estimates, they require ... -
Determining diet from faeces: Selection of metabarcoding primers for the insectivore Pyrenean desman ( Galemys pyrenaicus )
Esnaola Illarreta, Amaiur; ; ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo ; Aiartza Azurtza, José Ramón (Public Library Science, 2018-12-14)
Molecular techniques allow non-invasive dietary studies from faeces, providing an invaluable tool to unveil ecological requirements of endangered or elusive species. They contribute to progress on important issues such as ... -
Effects Of Human-Driven Water Stress on River Ecosystems: a Meta-Analysis
Sabater, Sergi; Bregoli, Francesco; Acuña Salazar, Vicenç; Barceló, Damià; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo; Ginebreda, Antoni; Marcé, Rafael; Muñoz, Isabel; Sabater Liesa, Laia; Ferreira, Verónica (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07-30)
Human appropriation of water resources may induce water stress in freshwater ecosystems when ecosystem needs are not met. Intensive abstraction and regulation cause river ecosystems to shift towards non-natural flow regimes, ... -
Food-web energy fluxes, energy transfer efficiency, and diversity respond distinctively to pollution and water diversion in rivers
De Guzmán Martínez, Miren Ioar; ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo ; Pérez Calpe, Ana Victoria ; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar ; ; (Wiley, 2024-03)
Water diversion and pollution are two pervasive stressors for river ecosystems that often co-occur. The individual effects of both stressors on river communities and energy transfer across the food webs are well described; ... -
Global CO2 emissions from dry inland waters share common drivers across ecosystems
Keller, P.S.; Catalán, N.; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar; Grossart, Hans Peter; Koschorreck, M.; Obrador, B.; Frassl, M. A.; Karakaya, N.; Barros, N.; Howitt, J. A.; Mendoza Lera, B.; Pastor, Ada; Flaim, G.; Aben, R.; Riis, T.; Arce, M. I.; Onandia, G.; Paranaíba, J. R.; Linkhorst, A.; Del Campo, Rubén; Amado, A. M.; Cauvy Fraunié, S.; Brothers, S.; Condon, J.; Mendonça, R. F.; Reverey, F.; Rõõm, E. I.; Datry, T.; Roland, F.; Laas, A.; Obertegger, U.; Park, J. H.; Wang, H.; Kosten, S.; Gómez, R.; Feijoó, Claudia; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo ; Sánchez Montoya, María Mar; Finlayson, C. M.; Melita, M.; Oliveira Junior, E. S.; Muniz, C. C..; Gómez Gener, L.; Leigh, C.; Zhang, Q.; Marcé, R. (Springer Nature, 2020-05-01)
[EN] Many inland waters exhibit complete or partial desiccation, or have vanished due to global change, exposing sediments to the atmosphere. Yet, data on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from these sediments are too scarce ... -
Global pressures, specific responses: effects of nutrient enrichment in streams from different biomes
Artigas, Joan; García-Berthou, Emili; Bauer, Delia E.; Castro, María I.; Cochero, Joaquín; Colautti, Darío C.; Cortelezzi, Agustina; Donato, John C.; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo; Feijoó, Claudia; Giorgi, Adonis; Gómez, Nora; Leggieri, Leonardo; Muñoz, Isabel; Rodrigues-Capítulo, Alberto; Romaní, Anna M.; Sabater, Sergi (IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2013-01-09)
We assessed the effects of nutrient enrichment on three stream ecosystems running through distinct biomes (Mediterranean, Pampean and Andean). We increased the concentrations of N and P in the stream water 1.6–4-fold ... -
Habitat Complexity in Aquatic Microcosms Affects Processes Driven by Detritivores
; ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo; ; (Public Library Science, 2016-11-01)
Habitat complexity can influence predation rates (e.g. by providing refuge) but other ecosystem processes and species interactions might also be modulated by the properties of habitat structure. Here, we focussed on how ... -
Immediate and Legacy Effects of Urban Pollution on River Ecosystem Functioning: a Mesocosm Experiment
Pereda Iriondo, Olatz; Acuña Salazar, Vicenç; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar; Sabater, Sergi; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo (Elsevier, 2019-03)
Effluents from urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) consist of complex mixtures of substances that can affect processes in the receiving ecosystems. Some of these substances (toxic contaminants) stress biological ... -
Interactive effects of discharge reduction and fine sediments on stream biofilm metabolism
Pérez Calpe, Ana Victoria; ; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo (James N. McNair, 2021)
Discharge reduction, as caused by water diversion for hydropower, and fine sediments deposition, are prevalent stressors that may affect multiple ecosystem functions in streams. Periphytic biofilms play a key role in stream ... -
Latitude Dictates Plant Diversity Effects on Instream Decomposition
Boyero González, María Luz; Pérez, Javier; López Rojo, Naiara; Tonin, Alan M.; Correa Araneda, Francisco; Pearson, Richard G.; Bosch, Jaime; Albariño, Ricardo J.; Anbalagan, Sankarappan; Barmuta, Leon A.; Beesley, Leah; Burdon, Francis J.; Caliman, Adriano; Callisto, Marcos; Campbell, Ian C.; Cardinale, Bradley J.; Casas Jiménez, José Jesús; Chara Serna, Ana M.; Ciapala, Szymon; Chauvet, Eric; Colón-Gaud, Checo; Cornejo, Aydeé; Davis, Aaron M.; Degebrodt, Monika; Dias, Emerson S.; Díaz, María E.; Douglas, Michael M.; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo ; Encalada, Andrea C.; De Eyto, Elvira; Figueroa, Ricardo; Flecker, Alexander S.; Fleituch, Tadeusz; Frainer, André; Franca, Juliana S.; García, Erica A.; García, Gabriela; García, Pavel; Gessner, Mark O.; Giller, Paul S.; Gómez, Jesús E.; Gómez, Sergio; Gonçalves Jr., José F.; Graça, Manuel A. S.; Hall Jr., Robert O.; Hamada, Neusa; Hepp, Luiz U.; Hui, Cang; Imazawa, Daichi; Iwata, Tomoya; Edson Jr., S. A.; Kariuki, Samuel; Landeira-Dabarca, Andrea; Leal, María; Lehosmaa, Kaisa; M'Erimba, Charles; Marchant, Richard; Martins, Renato T.; Masese, Frank O.; Camden, Megan; McKie, Brendan G.; Medeiros, Adriana O.; Middleton, Jen A.; Muotka, Timo; Negishi, Junjiro N.; Pozo Martínez, Jesús ; Ramírez, Alonso; Rezende, Renan S.; Richardson, John S.; Rincón, José; Rubio Ríos, Juan; Serrano, Claudia; Shaffer, Angela R.; Sheldon, Fran; Swan, Christopher M.; Tenkiano, Nathalie S. D.; Tiegs, Scott D.; Tolod, Janine R.; Vernasky, Michael; Watson, Anne; Yegon, Mourine J.; Yule, Catherine M. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021-03)
Running waters contribute substantially to global carbon fluxes through decomposition of terrestrial plant litter by aquatic microorganisms and detritivores. Diversity of this litter may influence instream decomposition ... -
Organic Matter Decomposition and Ecosystem Metabolism as Tools to Assess the Functional Integrity of Streams and Rivers–A Systematic Review
Ferreira, Verónica; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo; Tiegs, Scott D.; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar ; Young, Roger (MDPI, 2020-12-15)
Streams and rivers provide important services to humans, and therefore, their ecological integrity should be a societal goal. Although ecological integrity encompasses structural and functional integrity, stream bioassessment ... -
Organic Matter Processing on Dry Riverbeds is More Reactive to Water Diversion and Pollution Than on Wet Channels
Pérez Calpe, Ana Victoria; De Guzmán Martínez, Miren Ioar ; ; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo (Frontiers Media, 2022)
[EN] Rivers are severely affected by human activities and many are simultaneously impacted by multiple stressors. Water diversion for hydropower generation affects ecosystem functioning of the bypassed reaches, which can ... -
Priming of leaf litter decomposition by algae seems of minor importance in natural streams during autumn
Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo; Nicolás, Angie; Richardson, John S. (Public Library Science, 2018-09-07)
Allochthonous detritus of terrestrial origin is one of the main energy sources in forested headwater streams, but its poor nutritional quality makes it difficult to use by heterotrophs. It has been suggested that algae ... -
River doctors: Learning from medicine to improve ecosystem management
Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo; ; (Elsevier, 2017-10-01)
Effective ecosystem management requires a robust methodology to analyse, remedy and avoid ecosystem damage. Here we propose that the overall conceptual framework and approaches developed over millennia in medical science ... -
Sea lamprey nests promote the diversity of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages
; ; ; ; ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo (Public Library Science, 2022-12)
The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis states that increased habitat heterogeneity promotes species diversity through increased availability of ecological niches. We aimed at describing the local-scale (i.e. nest and ... -
Short-term effects of a large dam decommissioning on biofilm structure and functioning
; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar; ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo (Wiley, 2023-01)
Aging dams and the rising efforts to restore stream ecosystems are increasing the number of dam decommissioning programs. Although dam decommissioning aims at improving in-stream habitat, biodiversity, and ecosystem ... -
Tertiary wastewater treatment combined with high dilution rates fails to eliminate impacts on receiving stream invertebrate assemblages
; De Guzmán Martínez, Miren Ioar; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo ; (Elsevier, 2023-02)
he amount of wastewater processed in treatment plants is increasing following more strict environmental regulations. Treatment facilities are implementing upgrades to abate the concentrations of nutrients and contaminants ... -
Testing Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent Effects on Microbial and Detritivore Performance: a Combined Field and Laboratory Experiment
Solagaistua Zabala, Libe; De Guzmán Martínez, Miren Ioar; Barrado, Miren; Mijangos Treviño, Leire; ; García-Baquero Moneo, Gonzalo ; ; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo (Elsevier, 2018-10)
The amount of pollutants and nutrients entering rivers via point sources is increasing along with human population and activity. Although wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) greatly reduce pollutant loads into the environment, ... -
The drawdown phase of dam decommissioning is a hot moment of gaseous carbon emissions from a temperate reservoir
; Von Schiller Calle, Daniel Gaspar; ; ; Elosegi Irurtia, Arturo ; ; García-Baquero Moneo, Gonzalo ; (Taylor & Francis, 2022)
Dam decommissioning (DD) is a viable management option for thousands of ageing dams. Reservoirs are large carbon sinks, and reservoir drawdown results in important carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions. We studied ...