Dr. Marc Ventura Oller
		Categoría: Doctor vinculado (Investigador Ramon y Cajal, Institut de Recerca de l'Aigua,UB)
		Departamento: Ecología Continental Unidad de Investigación de Limnología
		Telf: +34-972-336101. Ext.: 259
		Fax: +34-972-337806
		Despacho: B2-10
		E- mail: ventura (at ceab.csic.es)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

I am interested in the study of trophic ecology and the diversity of crustacean zooplankton. The studies combine the use of classical taxonomy, genetics, ecological stoichiometry and stable isotopes as indicators of changes in the ecology and physiology of organisms. My current projects include studying the relative importance of founder effects, local adaptation and ecological thresholds on the distribution of alpine lake crustacean zooplankton. The use of stable isotopes to describe trophic relationships and as indicators of nutritional and physiological processes. And finally, the reconstruction of fish introductions in the Pyrenees and their effects on amphibian distributions.

 

 

PUBLICACIONS :

• Kernan,M., J.Catalan, and M.Ventura 2009. A biological survey of high mountain and high latitude lakes across Europe: aims, sampling strategy, methods and main achievements. Fundamental and Applied Limnology - Advances in Limnology, 62, In press.
• Bartumeus,F., M.Ventura, and J.Catalan 2009. Factors shaping diversity patterns in pelagic rotifer assemblages of high mountain lakes (Pyrenees). Fundamental and Applied Limnology - Advances in Limnology, 62, In press.
• Casals-Carrasco, P., Ventura, M., Gond, V., Madhavan, B., Pretus, J. & Catalan, J. (2009) A spectral approach to satellite land cover classification of European remote mountain lake districts. Fundamental and Applied Limnology - Advances in Limnology, 62, In press.
• Kernan,M., A.Brancelj, G.Clarke, A.Lami, G.Raddum, V.Straskrabová, E.Stuchlik, G.Velle, and M.Ventura 2009. Environmental and biological characteristics of high altitude lochs in Scotland. Fundamental and Applied Limnology - Advances in Limnology, 62, In press.
• Lund, S.S., Landkildehus, F., Sondergaard, M., Lauridsen, T.L., Egemose, S., Jensen, H.S., Andersen, F.O., Johansson, L.S., Ventura, M. & Jeppesen, E. (2009) Rapid changes in fish community structure and habitat distribution following the precipitation of lake phosphorus with aluminium. Freshwater Biology, Online first DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02300.x
• Thompson,R., M.Ventura, and L.Camarero 2009. On the climate and weather of mountain and sub-arctic lakes in Europe and their susceptibility to future climate change. Freshwater Biology. Online first. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02284.x
• Kernan,M., J.Catalan, M.Ventura, A.Brancelj, G.Clarke, G.Raddum, and E.Stuchlík 2009. Environmental gradients and species distribution in remote European mountain lake ecosystems: bases for regionalisation and the evaluation of their ecological status. Freshwater Biology. Online first. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02284.x
• Catalan,J., M.G.Barbieri, F.Bartumeus, P.Bitusek, I.Botev, A.Brancelj, D.Cogalniceanu, J.Garcia, M.Manca, A.Marchetto, N.Ognjanova-Rumenova, S.Pla, M.Rieradevall, S.Sorvari, E.Stefkova, E.Stuchlik, M.Ventura 2009. Species distribution and environment variability in European alpine lakes: clines, mosaics and ecological thresholds. Freshwater Biology. Online first. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02286.x
• Ventura, M. & Jeppesen, E. (2009) Effects of fixation on freshwater invertebrate carbon and nitrogen isotope composition and its arithmetic correction. Hydrobiologia 632, 297.
• Larsen, T., Ventura, M., Damgaard, C., Hobbie, E. & Henning, P. (2009) Nutrient allocations and metabolism in two Collembola with contrasting reproduction and growth strategies. Functional Ecology 23, 745-755.
• Bramm, M.E., Lassen, M.K., Liboriussen, L., Richardson, K., Ventura, M. & Jeppesen, E. (2009) The role of light for fish-zooplankton-phytoplankton interactions during winter in shallow lakes - a climate change perspective. Freshwater Biology 54, 1093-1109.
• Hessen,D.O., M.Ventura, and J.J.Elser 2008. Do phosphorus requirements for RNA limit genome size in crustacean zooplankton? Genome 51: 1-7.
• Ventura,M. and J.Catalan 2008. Incorporating life histories and diet quality in stable isotope interpretations of crustacean zooplankton. Freshwater Biology 53: 1453-1469.
• Ventura,M., L.Liboriussen, T.Lauridsen, M.Søndergaard, M.Søndergaard, and E.Jeppesen 2008. Effects of increased temperature and nutrient enrichment on the stoichiometry of primary producers and consumers in temperate shallow lakes. Freshwater Biology 53: 1434-1452.
• Larsen,T., A.Gorissen, P.Krogh, M.Ventura, and J.Magid 2007. Assimilation dynamics of soil carbon and nitrogen by wheat roots and Collembola. Plant Soil 295: 253-264.
• Ventura,M. 2006. Linking biochemical and elemental composition of freshwater and marine crustacean zooplankton. Mar.Ecol.-Prog.Ser 327: 233-246.
• Catalan,J., L.Camarero, M.Felip, S.Pla, M.Ventura, T.Buchaca, F.Bartumeus, G.de Mendoza, A.Miró, E.O.Casamayor, J.M.Medina-Sánchez, M.Bacardit, M.Altuna, M.Bartrons, and D.Díaz de Quijano 2006. High mountain lakes: extreme habitats and witnesses of environmental changes. Limnetica 25: 551-584.
• Ventura,M. and J.Catalan 2005. Reproduction as one of the main causes of temporal variability in the elemental composition of zooplankton. Limnol.Oceanogr. 50: 2043-2056..
• Vives,I., Grimalt,J.O., Ventura,M., Catalan,J. (2005) Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the food web of a high mountain lake, Pyrenees, Catalonia, Spain. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 24, 1344-1352.
• Vives,I., Grimalt,J.O., Ventura,M., Catalan,J., Rosseland,B.O. (2005) Age dependence of the accumulation of organochlorine pollutants in brown trout (Salmo trutta) from a remote high mountain lake (Redo, Pyrenees). Environmental Pollution, 133, 343-350.
• Curtis,C.J., Posch,M., Benedictow,A., Casals-Carrasco,P., Catalan,J., Hughes,M., Kernan,M., Ventura,M. (2005) The significance of high mountain lakes in European policy formulation for the abatement of acid emissions: an assessment using critical loads models at the EMEP scale. Aquatic Sciences. 67, 252-262.
• Camarero,L., Wright,R.T., Catalan,J., Ventura,M. (2004) Application of MAGIC to Lake Redó (Central Pyrenees): an assessment of the effects of possible climate driven changes in atmospheric precipitation, base cations deposition, and weathering rates on the lake water chemistry. Journal of Limnology. 63, 123-132.
• Catalan,J., Ventura,M., Vives,I., Grimalt,J.O. (2004) The roles of food and water in the bioaccumulation of organochlorine compounds in high mountain lake fish. Environmental Science and Technology, 38, 4269-4275.
• Fernández, P., G. Carrera, J.O. Grimalt, M. Ventura, Ll. Camarero, J. Catalan, U. Nickus, H. Thies and R. Psenner 2003 Factors governing the atmospheric deposition of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to remote areas. Environmental Science and Technology. 37, 3261-3267.
• Guisande,C., Bartumeus,F., Ventura,M., Catalan,J. (2003) Role of food partitioning in structuring the zooplankton community in mountain lakes. Oecologia, 136, 627-634.
• Catalan, J., M. Ventura, A. Brancelj, I. Granados, H. Thies, U. Nickus, A. Korhola, A. F. Lotter, A. Barbieri, E. Stuchlík, L. Lien, P. Bitušík, T. Buchaca, L. Camarero, G.H. Goudsmit, J. Kopácek, G. Lemcke, D.M. Livingstone, B. Müller, M. Rautio, M. Šiško, S. Sorvari, F. Šporka, O. Strunecký & M. Toro 2002. Seasonal variability in remote mountain lakes: implications for climatic signals in their sediment record. Journal of Paleolimnology 28: 25-46.
• Curtis, C.J., A. Barbieri, L. Camarero, M. Gabathuler, J. Galas, K. Hanselman, J. Kopácek, R. Mosello, E. Stuchlík, H. Thies, U. Nickus, M. Ventura, and R. Wright 2002. Application of static critical load models for acidity to high mountain lakes. Water, Air and Soil Pollution Focus 2. 115-126
• Mossello, R., A. Lami, A. Marchetto, M. Rogora, B. Wathne, L. Lien, J. Catalan, L. Camarero, M. Ventura, R. Psenner, K. Koining, H. Thies, and S. Sommaruga-Wögrath 2002. Trends in the chemical composition of high altitude lakes selected for the MOLAR project. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. Focus 2: 75-89.
• Catalan, J., S. Pla, M. Rieradevall, M. Felip, M. Ventura, T. Buchaca, Ll. Camarero, A. Brancelj, P.G. Appleby, A. Lami, A. Agustí Panareda, and R. Thompson 2002. Lake Redó ecosystem response to an increasing warming in the Pyrenees during the twentieth century. Journal of Paleolimnology 28: 129-145.
• Carrera, G., P. Fernández, J.O. Grimalt, M. Ventura, L. Camarero, and J. Catalan 2002. Atmospheric deposition of organochlorine compounds to remote high mountain lakes of Europe. Environmental Science and Technology 36: 2581-2588.
• Appleby, P. G., Kulikov, A. O., Camarero,Ll. and M. Ventura 2002. The input and transmission of fallout radionuclides through Redó, a high mountain lake in the spanish Pyrenees. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. Focus 2: 19-31.
• Rose, N.L., E. Shilland, H. Yang, T. Berg, L. Camerero, R. Harriman, K. Koinig, L. Lien, U. Nickus, E. Stuchlik, H. Thies, and M. Ventura 2001. Deposition and storage of spheroidal carbonaceous fly-ash particles in European mountain lake sediments and catchment soils. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 130: 1703-1708.
• Laurion, I., M. Ventura , J. Catalan, R. Psenner, and R. Summaruga 2000. Attenuation of ultraviolet radiation in mountain lakes: Factors controlling the among- and within- lake variability. Limnology and Oceanography 45: 1274-1288.
• Ventura, M., L. Camarero, T. Buchaca, F. Bartumeus, D.M. Livingstone, and J. Catalan 2000. The main features of seasonal variability in the external forcing and dynamics of a deep mountain lake (Redó, Pyrenees). Journal of Limnology 59 (Suppl.1), 97-108.
• MOLAR water chemistry group (1999) The MOLAR project: atmospheric deposition and lake water chemistry. Journal of Limnology 58(2) 88-106
• Camarero, L., M. Felip, M. Ventura, F. Bartumeus, and J. Catalan 1999. The relative importance of the planktonic food web in the carbon cycle of an oligotrophic mountain lake in a poorly vegetated catchment (Redó, Pyrenees). Journal of Limnology 58: 203-212.
• Ventura, M. and D. Harper 1996. The impacts of acid precipitation mediated by geology and forestry upon upland stream invertebrates. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 138: 162-173.