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Beatriz Modenutti is affiliated with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. Their research primarily engages with Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a total of 53 and 18 publications respectively in these fields. They specialize further in subfields such as Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers several key research topics, which include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Beatriz Modenutti has jointly published with multiple co-authors, with frequent collaborators including Esteban Balseiro, Marcela Bastidas Navarro, Nicolás Martyniuk, Cecilia Laspoumaderes, and Luca Schenone.

Some of their recent research papers are:

  • A common temperature dependence of nutritional demands in ectotherms, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • Global data set of long-term summertime vertical temperature profiles in 153 lakes, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Predicting Dissolved Organic Matter Lability and Carbon Accumulation in Temperate Freshwater Ecosystems, 2021, Ecosystems
  • Status of the zooplankton ecology in freshwater ecosystems from Argentina, 2022, Limnologica
  • A georeferenced rRNA amplicon database of aquatic microbiomes from South America, 2022, Scientific Data

The venues where their work most frequently appears include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Limnologica, Hydrobiologia, Ecología Austral, and Scientific Data.

Best Publications

  • The attenuation of solar UV radiation in lakes and the role of dissolved organic carbon

    Donald P. Morris;Horatio Zagarese;Craig E. Williamson;Esteban G. Balseiro

  • Structure and dynamics of food webs in Andean lakes

    Beatriz E. Modenutti;Esteban G. Balseiro;Claudia P. Queimaliños;Diego A. Añón Suárez

  • Impact of fish introduction on planktonic food webs in lakes of the Patagonian Plateau

    Mariana Reissig;Carolina Trochine;Claudia Queimaliños;Esteban Balseiro

  • Production and biomass of picophytoplankton and larger autotrophs in Andean ultraoligotrophic lakes: differences in light harvesting efficiency in deep layers

    Cristiana Callieri;Beatriz Modenutti;Claudia Queimaliños;Roberto Bertoni

  • Phylogenetic diversity of nonmarine picocyanobacteria.

    Cristiana Callieri;Manuela Coci;Gianluca Corno;Miroslav Macek

  • Impact of exotic rainbow trout on the benthic macroinvertebrate community from Andean-Patagonian headwater streams

    Leonardo Buria;Ricardo Albariño;Veró nica Díaz Villanueva;Beatriz Modenutti

  • Symbiotic association of the ciliate Ophrydium naumanni with Chlorella causing a deep chlorophyll a maximum in an oligotrophic South Andes lake

    C. P. Queimalinos;B. E. Modenutti;E. G. Balseiro

  • Feeding of Boeckella gracilipes (Copepoda, Calanoida) on ciliates and phytoflagellates in an ultraoligotrophic Andean lake

    Esteban G. Balseiro;Beatriz E. Modenutti;Claudia P. Queimaliños

  • Light climate and plankton in the deep chlorophyll maxima in North Patagonian Andean lakes

    Gonzalo L. Pérez;Claudia P. Queimaliños;Beatriz E. Modenutti

  • Climate-induced input of turbid glacial meltwater affects vertical distribution and community composition of phyto- and zooplankton

    Samuel Hylander;Therese Jephson;Karen Lebret;Jessica Von Einem

  • Impact of different zooplankton structures on the microbial food web of a South Andean oligotrophic lake

    Beatriz Modenutti;Claudia Queimaliños;Esteban Balseiro;Mariana Reissig

  • Mixotrophic ciliates in an Andean lake: dependence on light and prey of an Ophrydium naumanni population

    Beatriz E. Modenutti;Esteban G. Balseiro

  • Daphnia distribution in Andean Patagonian lakes: effect of low food quality and fish predation

    Esteban Balseiro;Beatriz Modenutti;Claudia Queimaliños;Mariana Reissig

  • Living in transparent lakes: Low food P:C ratio decreases antioxidant response to ultraviolet radiation in Daphnia

    Esteban Balseiro;María Sol Souza;Beatriz Modenutti;Mariana Reissig

  • Nutrient recycling and shifts in N:P ratio by different zooplankton structures in a South Andes lake

    Esteban G. Balseiro;Beatriz E. Modenutti;Claudia P. Queimalffiños

  • Effect of volcanic eruption on nutrients, light, and phytoplankton in oligotrophic lakes

    Beatriz Estela Modenutti;Esteban Gabriel Balseiro;James J. Elser;Marcela Alejandra Bastidas Navarro

  • Ciliate community structure in two South Andean lakes: the effect of lake water on Ophrydium naumanni distribution

    Beatriz E. Modenutti;Esteban G. Balseiro;Claudia P. Queimaliños

  • Effect of UV-B and different PAR intensities on the primary production of the mixotrophic planktonic ciliate Stentor araucanus

    Beatriz E. Modenutti;Esteban G. Balseiro;Cristiana Callieri;Roberto Bertoni

  • Glacier melting and stoichiometric implications for lake community structure: zooplankton species distributions across a natural light gradient.

    Cecilia Laspoumaderes;Beatriz Modenutti;María Sol Souza;Marcela Bastidas Navarro

  • Antioxidant Defences in Planktonic Crustaceans Exposed to Different Underwater Light Irradiances in Andean Lakes

    María Sol Souza;Beatriz Estela Modenutti;Esteban Gabriel Balseiro

  • Herbivory versus omnivory: linking homeostasis and elemental imbalance in copepod development

    Cecilia Laspoumaderes;Beatriz Modenutti;Esteban Balseiro

  • Community Structure and Biogeochemical Impacts of Microbial Life on Floating Pumice

    James Elser;M. Bastidas Navarro;J. R. Corman;H. Emick

  • Environmental changes affecting light climate in oligotrophic mountain lakes: the deep chlorophyll maxima as a sensitive variable

    Beatriz Modenutti;Esteban Balseiro;Marcela Bastidas Navarro;Cecilia Laspoumaderes

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban Balseiro
Esteban Balseiro National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Cristiana Callieri
Cristiana Callieri Water Research Institute
Lars-Anders Hansson
Lars-Anders Hansson Lund University
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Craig E. Williamson
Craig E. Williamson Miami University
Virginia E. Villafañe
Virginia E. Villafañe National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Donald C. Pierson
Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University
E. Walter Helbling
E. Walter Helbling National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University

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