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Overview

Anna Avila is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions across several subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work centers on topics including Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Water Quality and Pollution Assessment, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology.

Recent publications by Anna Avila include:

  • Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes, 2021, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Atmospheric deposition and precipitation are important predictors of inorganic nitrogen export to streams from forest and grassland watersheds: a large-scale data synthesis, 2022, Biogeochemistry
  • Long-term hydrological and biogeochemical datasets from a Mediterranean forest site (Montseny, NE Spain), 2023, Hydrological Processes
  • Persistent Desert Microbiota in the Southern European Sky, 2025, Environmental Microbiology
  • Reports on Work-Related Injury and Diseases in Brazilian Aquaculture from Industry Participants, 2025, Journal of Agromedicine

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hideaki Shibata
  • Inger Kappel Schmidt
  • Klaus Steenberg Larsen
  • Henning Meesenburg
  • Sebastián Vicuña

Anna Avila has published multiple works in various scientific venues. The venues where they have frequently published include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Mineralogical composition of African dust delivered by red rains over northeastern Spain

    Anna Avila;Ignasi Queralt-Mitjans;Marta Alarcón

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Wet and dry African dust episodes over eastern Spain

    M. Escudero;S. Castillo;X. Querol;A. Avila

  • Characterisation of TSP and PM2.5 at Izaña and Sta. Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) during a Saharan Dust Episode (July 2002)

    Andrés Alastuey;Xavier Querol;Sonia Castillo;Miguel Escudero;Miguel Escudero

  • Relationship between precipitation chemistry and meteorological situations at a rural site in NE Spain

    Anna Avila;Marta Alarcón

  • Multi‐generational long‐distance migration of insects: studying the painted lady butterfly in the Western Palaearctic

    Constantí Stefanescu;Ferran Páramo;Susanne Åkesson;Marta Alarcón

  • The chemical composition of dust transported in red rains—its contribution to the biogeochemical cycle of a holm oak forest in Catalonia (Spain)

    A. Avila;M. Alarcón;I. Queralt

  • Determination of the contribution of northern Africa dust source areas to PM10 concentrations over the central Iberian Peninsula using the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model (HYSPLIT) model

    M. Escudero;A. Stein;R. R. Draxler;X. Querol

  • Origin of the exceedances of the European daily PM limit value in regional background areas of Spain

    Miguel Escudero;Miguel Escudero;Xavier Querol;Anna Ávila;Emilio Cuevas

  • Reassessing global change research priorities in mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems: how far have we come and where do we go from here?

    E. Doblas-Miranda;J. Martínez-Vilalta;F. Lloret;A. Álvarez

  • Are soil-water functions affected by biochar application?

    Gerardo Ojeda;Gerardo Ojeda;Stefania Mattana;Anna Àvila;Josep Maria Alcañiz

  • Time trends in the precipitation chemistry at a mountain site in Northeastern Spain for the period 1983–1994

    Anna Avila

  • Trace metal fluxes in bulk deposition, throughfall and stemflow at two evergreen oak stands in NE Spain subject to different exposure to the industrial environment

    Anna Avila;Anselm Rodrigo

  • Ecological impacts of atmospheric pollution and interactions with climate change in terrestrial ecosystems of the Mediterranean Basin: Current research and future directions

    Raúl Ochoa-Hueso;Silvana Munzi;Rocio Alonso;Maria Arroniz-Crespo

  • The role of African dust in the formation of Quaternary soils on Mallorca, Spain and implications for the genesis of Red Mediterranean soils

    Daniel R. Muhs;James Budahn;Anna Avila;Gary Skipp

  • SAHARAN DUST AND THE ATMOSPHERIC INPUTS OF ELEMENTS AND ALKALINITY TO MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEMS

    F. Rodá;J. Bellot;A. Avila;A. Escarré

  • The chemistry of precipitation, throughfall and stemflow in two holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) forests under a contrasted pollution environment in NE Spain.

    A. Rodrigo;A. Àvila;F. Rodà

  • Influence of sampling size in the estimation of mean throughfall in two Mediterranean holm oak forests

    A Rodrigo;A Àvila

  • Migration of the painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, to north‐eastern Spain is aided by African wind currents

    Constantí Stefanescu;Marta Alarcón;Anna Àvila

  • Nitrogen deposition in Mediterranean forests.

    F Rodà;A Avila;A Rodrigo

  • Wet and dry African dust episodes over eastern Spain : Quantifying the radiative and biogeochemical impacts of mineral dust

    M. Escudero;S. Castillo;X. Querol;A. Avila

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Querol
Xavier Querol Spanish National Research Council
Andrés Alastuey
Andrés Alastuey Spanish National Research Council
Anselm Rodrigo
Anselm Rodrigo Autonomous University of Barcelona
Josep Piñol
Josep Piñol Autonomous University of Barcelona
Emilio Cuevas
Emilio Cuevas International Agency For Research On Cancer
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Constantí Stefanescu
Constantí Stefanescu Autonomous University of Barcelona
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson University of South Carolina
Colin Neal
Colin Neal Ford Motor Company (United States)
Juan Bellot
Juan Bellot University of Alicante

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