• Assessment of the ecological impact of metal and salts mining effluents on freshwater bodies 

      Vendrell Puigmitjà, Lidia (2021-07-30)
      Les activitats mineres han estat crucials per al desenvolupament econòmic i social d’Europa al llarg dels segles. No obstant, avui en dia a Europa hi ha més mines abandonades que operatives que causen ...
    • Diesel biodegradation capacities and biosurfactant production in saline-alkaline conditions by Delftia sp NL1 isolated from an Algerian oilfield 

      Lenchi, Nesrine; Kebbouche-Gana, Salima; Servais, Pierre; Gana, Mohamed Lamine; Llirós Dupré, Marc (2020)
      In this study, a diesel oil-degrading bacterium was isolated from an oilfield water injection (water-bearing formations, 1,205 m depth) in Algeria. The bacterial strain, designated NL1, was cultivated ...
    • Effects of potash mining on river ecosystems: An experimental study 

      Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Carrasco, Sergi; Flor-Arnau, Núria; Ordeix i Rigo, Marc; Ponsá Salas, Sergio; Coring, Eckhard; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra (2017)
      In spite of being a widespread activity causing the salinization of rivers worldwide, the impact of potash mining on river ecosystems is poorly understood. Here we used a mesocosm approach to test the ...
    • Environmental filtering determines metacommunity structure in wetland microcrustaceans. 

      Gascón, Stéphanie; Arranz Urgell, Ignasi; Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Nebra, Alfonso; Ruhí, Albert; Rieradevall, Maria; Caiola, Nuno; Sala, Jordi; Ibàñez, Carles; Quintana, Xavier D.; Boix, Dani (2016)
      Metacommunity approaches are becoming popular when analyzing factors driving species distribution at the regional scale. However, until the popularization of the variation partitioning technique it was ...
    • Saving freshwater from salts. Ion-specific standards are needed to protect biodiversity 

      Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Hawkins, Charles; Kefford, Ben; Schäfer, R.B.; Dyack, B.J.; Brucet Balmaña, Sandra; Buchwaleter, D.; Dunlop, J.; Frör, O.; Lazorchak, J.; Coring, Eckhard; Fernandez, H.R.; Goodfellow, W.; González Achem, A.L.; Hatfield-Dodds, S.; Karimov, B.K.; Mensah, P.; Olson, J.R.; Piscart, C.; Prat, Narcís; Ponsá Salas, Sergio; Schulz, C.J.; Timpano, A.J. (2016)
      Many human activities—like agriculture and resource extraction—are increasing the total concentration of dissolved inorganic salts (i.e., salinity) in freshwaters. Increasing salinity can have adverse ...