Zooplankton ecologist with special interest in zooplankton production. Her research topics include ecophysiology of planktonic organisms, biological oceanography, active carbon fluxes, optimization and application of new techniques in marine biology, and population dynamics in relation to climate change. Stands out her development of a new enzymatic index (AARS method) of zooplankton production that facilitates the study of plankton ecology at oceanographic scale. She currently investigates the effect of eutrophication on coastal plankton production and energy transfers within the pelagic trophic web (from primary producers to fish larvae). Phone: +34952460205
ABSTRACT A time series of chlorophyll a daily images provided by MODIS-Aqua from 2002 to 2010 was... more ABSTRACT A time series of chlorophyll a daily images provided by MODIS-Aqua from 2002 to 2010 was analysed by means of k-means clustering analysis in order to identify the main spatial variability patterns of nutrients and chlorophyll a in the northern Alboran Sea. Based on the output of this analysis, six areas were identified whose chlorophyll a annual cycle presented distinguishing features. Baselines of nutrients and in situ chlorophyll were calculated for each area and afterwards used to define the good ecological state (GES) and to evaluate their actual state.
ABSTRACT Shifts in the taxonomical composition of the microplankton size fraction along the coast... more ABSTRACT Shifts in the taxonomical composition of the microplankton size fraction along the coast-offshore gradient modulated the usage of light and nutrients by phytoplankton communities of the Alboran sea. These changes could not be predicted from differences in community size structure.
... E-mail: santiago.hernandez-leon@biologia.ulpgc.es 2Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro ... more ... E-mail: santiago.hernandez-leon@biologia.ulpgc.es 2Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Costero de Baleares, PO Box 291, Palma de Mallorca. Islas Baleares. 3Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de La Laguna, Av. ...
Copepod nauplii are under-studied components of plankton communities, even though they are the mo... more Copepod nauplii are under-studied components of plankton communities, even though they are the most abundant metazoans on the planet (Björnberg 1986, Fryer 1986) and the main prey for many fish larvae of commercially important species (Last 1980). The lack of ...
Little is known about the origin and maintenance of pelagic (open ocean) biodiversity. Understand... more Little is known about the origin and maintenance of pelagic (open ocean) biodiversity. Understanding evolu-tionary processes in the pelagic realm is particularly difficult because barriers to gene flow are often obscure and pelagic taxa typically lack fossil records (Angel
... Mar. Biol., 28, 99113. CrossRef. ↵ Rodríguez, JM, Hernández-León, S. and Barton, ED (1999) M... more ... Mar. Biol., 28, 99113. CrossRef. ↵ Rodríguez, JM, Hernández-León, S. and Barton, ED (1999) Mesoscale distribution of fish larvae in relation to an upwelling filament off Northwest Africa. Deep-Sea Res. I, 46, 19691984. ↵ Roger ...
ABSTRACT A time series of chlorophyll a daily images provided by MODIS-Aqua from 2002 to 2010 was... more ABSTRACT A time series of chlorophyll a daily images provided by MODIS-Aqua from 2002 to 2010 was analysed by means of k-means clustering analysis in order to identify the main spatial variability patterns of nutrients and chlorophyll a in the northern Alboran Sea. Based on the output of this analysis, six areas were identified whose chlorophyll a annual cycle presented distinguishing features. Baselines of nutrients and in situ chlorophyll were calculated for each area and afterwards used to define the good ecological state (GES) and to evaluate their actual state.
ABSTRACT Shifts in the taxonomical composition of the microplankton size fraction along the coast... more ABSTRACT Shifts in the taxonomical composition of the microplankton size fraction along the coast-offshore gradient modulated the usage of light and nutrients by phytoplankton communities of the Alboran sea. These changes could not be predicted from differences in community size structure.
... E-mail: santiago.hernandez-leon@biologia.ulpgc.es 2Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro ... more ... E-mail: santiago.hernandez-leon@biologia.ulpgc.es 2Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Costero de Baleares, PO Box 291, Palma de Mallorca. Islas Baleares. 3Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de La Laguna, Av. ...
Copepod nauplii are under-studied components of plankton communities, even though they are the mo... more Copepod nauplii are under-studied components of plankton communities, even though they are the most abundant metazoans on the planet (Björnberg 1986, Fryer 1986) and the main prey for many fish larvae of commercially important species (Last 1980). The lack of ...
Little is known about the origin and maintenance of pelagic (open ocean) biodiversity. Understand... more Little is known about the origin and maintenance of pelagic (open ocean) biodiversity. Understanding evolu-tionary processes in the pelagic realm is particularly difficult because barriers to gene flow are often obscure and pelagic taxa typically lack fossil records (Angel
... Mar. Biol., 28, 99113. CrossRef. ↵ Rodríguez, JM, Hernández-León, S. and Barton, ED (1999) M... more ... Mar. Biol., 28, 99113. CrossRef. ↵ Rodríguez, JM, Hernández-León, S. and Barton, ED (1999) Mesoscale distribution of fish larvae in relation to an upwelling filament off Northwest Africa. Deep-Sea Res. I, 46, 19691984. ↵ Roger ...
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