Rubén del Campo
A5055639636- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Ecology and Conservation Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Environmental Conservation and Management
Universität Innsbruck
2020-2025
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
2019-2025
Universidad de Murcia
2015-2021
Abstract Many inland waters exhibit complete or partial desiccation, have vanished due to global change, exposing sediments the atmosphere. Yet, data on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from these are too scarce upscale for estimates understand their fundamental drivers. Here, we present results of a survey covering 196 dry across diverse ecosystem types and climate zones. We show that CO share drivers constitute substantial fraction cycled by waters. were consistent zones, with local...
Abstract Climate change and human pressures are changing the global distribution extent of intermittent rivers ephemeral streams (IRES), which comprise half river network area. IRES characterized by periods flow cessation, during channel substrates accumulate undergo physico‐chemical changes (preconditioning), resumption, when these rewetted release pulses dissolved nutrients organic matter (OM). However, there no estimates amounts quality leached substances, nor is information on underlying...
Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) encompass fluvial ecosystems that eventually stop flowing run dry at some point in space time. During the phase, channels of IRES consist mainly riverbeds (DRBs), prevalent yet widely unexplored ecotones between wet phases can strongly influence biogeochemistry networks. DRBs are often overlooked because they do not strictly belong to either domain soil or freshwater science. Due this dual character DRBs, we suggest concepts knowledge from...
Abstract Rivers significantly contribute to global biogeochemical cycles; however, we have a limited understanding of how drying may influence these cycles. Drying fragments river networks, thereby influencing important ecosystem functions such as the processing carbon and nitrogen, associated fluxes greenhouse gases (GHGs) both locally, at network scale. Our objective was assess, using network‐scale approach, lateral, longitudinal, temporal dynamics GHG in naturally fragmented by drying. We...
Abstract Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) may represent over half the global stream network, but their contribution to respiration carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions is largely undetermined. In particular, little known about variability drivers of in IRES sediments upon rewetting, which could result large pulses CO . We present a study examining from 200 dry reaches spanning multiple biomes. Results standardized assays show that mean increased 32‐fold 66‐fold sediment...
Abstract Streams and rivers act as landscape-scale bioreactors processing large quantities of terrestrial particulate organic matter (POM). This function is linked to their flow regime, which governs residence times, shapes reactivity controls the amount carbon (C) exported atmosphere coastal oceans. Climate change impacts regimes by increasing both flash floods droughts. Here, we used a modelling approach explore consequences lateral hydrological contraction, that is, reduction wet portion...
Abstract River networks contribute disproportionately to the global carbon cycle. However, estimates of emissions from inland waters are based on perennial rivers, even though more than half world's river length is prone drying. We quantified CO 2 and CH 4 flowing water dry riverbeds across six European drying (DRNs, 120 reaches) three seasons identified drivers using local regional variables. Drivers differed between non‐perennial reaches, both were controlled partly by annual severity,...
Abstract Biodiversity underpins the functional integrity of ecosystems. At present, our understanding relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) is essentially based on manipulative experiments. Compelling data at large spatial scales are scarce, especially for river networks. BEF patterns across landscapes complex because they unfold in context environmental gradients compositional turnover natural communities. Leaf litter decomposition, a pivotal process streams, no...
Abstract Large variability in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) uptake rates has been reported for headwater streams, but the causes of this are still not well understood. Here we assessed acetate across 11 European streams comprising different ecoregions by using whole‐reach pulse additions. We evaluated main climatic and biogeochemical drivers during two seasonal periods. Our results show a minor influence sampling periods strong effect climate matter (DOM) composition on uptake. In...
More than half of the world's rivers dry up periodically, but our understanding biological communities in riverbeds remains limited. Specifically, roles dispersal, environmental filtering and biotic interactions driving biodiversity are poorly understood. Here, we conduct a large-scale coordinated survey patterns drivers riverbeds. We focus on eight major taxa, including microorganisms, invertebrates plants: Algae, Archaea, Bacteria, Fungi, Protozoa, Arthropods, Nematodes Streptophyta. use...
Abstract During the dry phase of intermittent rivers, diverse particulate organic materials, such as leaf litter or macrophytes, remain on riverbeds. Together with riverbed sediments, these substrates are exposed to various environmental conditions that can alter their chemical composition, potential implications for later use by heterotroph consumers when flow is re‐established. Here, we investigate how different during quantity, and biodegradability dissolved matter (DOM) leached from To...
In the present study, we examined effects of different drying conditions on composition, structure and function benthic invertebrate assemblages. We approached this objective by comparing assemblages in perennial intermittent sites along two Mediterranean streams with contrasting predictability, duration, spatial patterns drying: Fuirosos (high short downstream pattern) Rogativa (low long patchy pattern). Specifically, quantified contribution individual taxa to those differences, degree...
Abstract The dry phase of intermittent rivers promotes the accumulation leaf litter on various terrestrial and aquatic habitats. This environmental heterogeneity causes a chemical diversification by range physical biological degradation processes acting across After flow resumption, chemically diversified leaves are mixed subject to continued decomposition downstream. We hypothesized that during would affect under re‐established lotic conditions. Our laboratory treatments mimicking dry‐phase...
Abstract Leaf litter can be retained in floodplains for several months before it enters rivers as lateral inputs. During this period, the environmental conditions on floodplain alter leaf chemistry and, consequently, affect its subsequent processing river. We analysed effect of contrasting chemical composition and leachates, how affected their biodegradability rivers. To do so, we placed reed ( Phragmites australis ) open- closed-canopy habitats three sites with climates (semiarid...
Streams play a key role in the global biogeochemical cycles, processing material from adjacent terrestrial systems and transporting it downstream.However, drivers of stream metabolism, especially those acting at broad spatial scales, are still not well understood.Moreover, metabolism can be affected by hydrological changes associated with seasonality, thus, assessing temporality metabolic rates is question to understand function.This study aims analyse geographical temporal patterns identify...
Coordinated distributed experiments (CDEs) enable the study of large-scale ecological patterns in geographically dispersed areas, while simultaneously providing broad academic and personal benefits for participants. However, effective involvement early-career researchers (ECRs) presents major challenges. Here, we analyze challenges first CDE exclusively led conducted by ECRs (i.e. ECR-CDE), which sets a baseline similar CDEs, provide recommendations successful execution. ECR-CDEs achieve...
Abstract Meta-ecosystem theory predicts that cross-ecosystem flows of energy, nutrients, and organisms have important implications for local community assembly ecosystem functioning. Developments in the also potential to enhance our under-standing biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. is particularly well-suited study rivers, because water flow forces strong spatial interrelationships among connected ecosystems. However, models address both resources explicitly link are lacking....
Ecosystem functions are the backbone of ecosystem services that rivers provide to human societies. functioning emerges from interaction between biological communities and their environment. As environmental conditions in change along longitudinal continuum, so does functioning. Sometimes, these changes do not follow smooth gradients but rather great discontinuities. This can be case calcareous, karstic due sudden massive inputs groundwater landscape, a typical phenomenon for Balkan rivers....