Carla OlmoUniversitat de Girona | UDG · Institute of Aquatic Ecology
Carla Olmo
PhD Biodiversity
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Introduction
Postdoctoral position María Zambrano at Institut d'Ecologia Aquàtica (Universitat de Girona 23-24) and Proyecto Iniciación FONDECYT at GEMA Center-Genomics, Ecology and Environment (Universidad Mayor-Chile 20-23)
Former: Postdoc APOST2017 GVA at Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (Universidad de Valencia -España 17-19) and FONDECYT Postdoc at GEMA Center-Genomics, Ecology and Environment (Universidad Mayor-Chile 20-23).
carla.olmo@mayor.cl / carla.olmo@udg.edu
Additional affiliations
May 2018 - present
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Part of my Postdoctoral project (field and lab work)
Education
September 2009 - May 2016
Publications
Publications (30)
The toxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis on zooplanktonic microcrustaceans was evaluated using individuals collected in coastal wetlands where this larvicide has been used for mosquito control over the last decades. We tested five zooplankton species that coexist with mosquito larvae: two copepods (both nauplii and adults of Tropocyc...
Restoration is an ecological tool that aims to recover the prior conditions and functioning of a degraded habitat. Three restoration projects targeted a dune slack system in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula and created a mosaic of ponds restored over three different periods: 1998, 2003 and 2007, the latter coinciding with the start of our study. Resto...
Zooplankton community assembly after flooding in temporary ponds depends mostly on abundance and diversity of the dormant propagule bank. However, our understanding of the hatching patterns of zooplankton is imperfect. We performed an ex situ experiment to study the species composition and temporal sequence of zooplankton emergence from sediments i...
Metacommunities are dynamic systems, but the influence of time independently of environmental change in their configuration has been rarely considered. In temporary ponds, strong temporal effects are expected to influence their metacommunity structure, even in relatively constant environments such as tropical habitats. We therefore expect that time...
Understanding the influence of environmental and spatial factors on the structure of aquatic communities remains a major challenge in community ecology. This study aims to identify main drivers of rotifer abundance and diversity in ponds embedded in an intensive agricultural landscape in Northeast Germany. We studied 42 ponds of glacial origin (ket...
• Many aquatic invertebrates that inhabit temporary ponds produce resting forms to overcome the dry period, building up the egg bank. When the wet phase returns, the resting forms hatch and the community is restored, and then pioneer species may have a major influence on how the pond community will assemble. We aimed to evaluate the diversity of an...
The metacommunity concept provides a theoretical framework that aims at explaining organism distributions by a combination of environmental filtering, dispersal and drift. However, few works attempt a multi‐taxon approach and even fewer compare two distant biogeographical regions using the same methodology. We tested the expectation that temperate...
Temporary ponds are distributed worldwide, providing significant ecological services. Their limnological features are influenced by a set of regional (mainly climate) and local (natural or anthropogenic) factors. To evaluate the differences in their ecological functioning in distant geographic regions, we analysed the main features of 90 temporary...
The metacommunity concept provides a theoretical framework that aims at explaining organism distributions by a combination of environmental filtering, dispersal and drift. With the development of statistical tools to quantify and partially isolate the role of each of these processes, empirical metacommunity studies have multiplied worldwide. Howeve...
Mediterranean temporary ponds, mostly distributed in dry and sub-arid areas, are known to undergo cyclic periods of flooding and intense droughts. These ponds also show a wide variability depending on their geology, geomorphology, depth and origins of the water. Under the current projections of climate change in the Mediterranean region with shifts...
Unlike in deep stratified lakes, the assessment of eutrophication in shallow aquatic systems (i.e., wetlands,marshes, ponds) should be based on the interaction between water and sediment. The availability of P to primary producers is naturally higher in shallow systems, because the sediment plays an active part via adsorption, precipitation and rel...
Two constructed wetlands located in the Albufera de Valencia Natural Park (Eastern Spain), designed to increase water quality of the nearby hypereutrophic environments, were studied seasonally in order to determine the changes in biodiversity of plankton, both phytoplankton and zooplankton, as well as in the macroinvertebrate assemblages, through t...
In the area of La Devesa there are over 40 water bodies (Rueda-Sevilla et al. 2006; Rueda 2015). The main malladas, following the traditional toponymy and from north to south, are: mallada del Quarter, del Saler, de La Rambla, Redona, del Garrofer, Llarga, de la Mata del Fang, de l’Hospitalet, de la Torre, Malladeta, and del Canyar. There is also a...
Nutrients and carbon were studied in the temporary and permanent dune ponds of one of the few restored Mediterranean dune systems. The results indicate that small, low nutrient dune ponds can have a relevant role for carbon storage and processing, especially in the limestone areas. Despite the low percentage of organic matter in the sediment and wa...
The province of Cadiz (South of Spain) hosts the only known locality
in the world of Linderiella baetica Alonso & García-de-Lomas 2009
(Anostraca). In this paper, the geographical distribution of the species
based on published sampling data focused on large branchiopods and
temporary pools in Andalusia and the entire Iberian Peninsula is assessed....
Restored ponds are uniquely suitable for the study of successional processes on aquatic communities. In a set of dune slacks
of different restoration ages, we monitored monthly the environmental and community shifts of one newly restored pond over
4 years and compared it with older ponds. Questions were (i) how does the community change with time i...
El impacto antrópico ha provocado la degradación e incluso la desaparición de muchos humedales en todo el mundo y más intensamente en las últimas décadas. La restauración de masas de agua es cada vez más frecuente para tratar de recuperar ecosistemas acuáticos degradados. El objetivo de nuestro trabajo es el seguimiento de los cambios en la comunid...
Malladas de El Saler is a mosaic of dune slacks
scattered along a coastal sand bar in the Mediterranean
region. Active populations of the fairy shrimp T. stagnalis
are exclusively present in one of these ponds. We
combined field observations and laboratory experiments
to find the ecological requirements of T. stagnalis that
determine this habitat e...
We have tracked changes in the zooplankton assemblages of three temporary duneslacks (locally known as “malladas”) in Albufera Natural Park, during four consecutive years (from 2007 until 2011). These ponds were restored in different periods; 1998 (Old), 2003 (Intermediate) and 2007 (Recent). They were monthly sampled during the flooded periods (us...
The cladoceran Ilyocryptus cuneatus Štifter 1988 has been found in the Valencia administrative region. Eight specimens were collected in ricefields of the Pego-Oliva Natural Park (Alicante-Valencia, Spain)
Restoration projects in wetlands are becoming increasingly frequent to recover or to create new aquatic ecosystems, after the significant impact and high degradation they have undergone. In the present study, we focused on the changes in the zooplankton community in a permanent peridunal pond where a restoration was carried out in order to increase...
In temporary ponds, reestablishment of zooplankton communities depends on recruitment from the egg
bank, the arrival of dispersers from within the region, and on successful establishment of newly arrived
species following interaction with local abiotic and biotic factors. When the ponds dry up, zooplankton
species may survive as dormant eggs, and s...
New habitats are an interesting tool to
monitor colonization processes in the light of changes
in genetic structure and evolutionary potential of
populations. Cladocerans are cyclical parthenogens
that offer the possibility to track genetic changes
during the colonization process due to the alternation
of sexual and asexual phases. The locally call...
En el Parque Natural de l’Albufera (Valencia), la mayoría de las charcas situadas en la barra arenosa que separa el lago de la Albufera del mar Mediterráneo fueron aterradas en los años 60 para proceder a la urbanización de la zona. Este proceso se paralizó en los 70, y desde finales de los 80 hasta la actualidad se han llevado a cabo proyectos de...
Projects
Projects (4)
Our aim is to disentangle the role of space, environment and time in structuring metacommunities of a variety of aquatic organisms (prokaryotes, algae, macrophytes, invertebrates and vertebrates), explored using standardized methods at the same spatial extent, by comparing a set of temporary ponds in a dry-tropical climate (Guanacaste, C. Rica) with another set in a Mediterranean landscape (Valencia, Spain).
At this moment, I am working with samples from Nicaragua and samples of the Natural Park of the Albufera of Valencia.
