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Overview

Carles Pelejero is affiliated with the Institute of Marine Sciences in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The primary focus areas of Pelejero's work include Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Abiotic plastic leaching contributes to ocean acidification, 2022, published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Early deglacial CO2 release from the Sub-Antarctic Atlantic and Pacific oceans, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Effects of low pH and feeding on calcification rates of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus, 2020, PeerJ
  • Viral-Mediated Microbe Mortality Modulated by Ocean Acidification and Eutrophication: Consequences for the Carbon Fluxes Through the Microbial Food Web, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Controls on Primary Productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, East of the Galapagos Islands, During the Penultimate Deglaciation, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Pelejero often publishes in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment and Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, with additional contributions to PeerJ, Aquaculture, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Frequent collaborators include Eva Calvo, Arturo Lucas, Josep M. Gasol, Cèlia Marrasé, and Ariadna Martínez-Dios. The collaboration counts reflect ongoing research partnerships, with Eva Calvo being the most frequent co-author.

Best Publications

  • The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification

    Bärbel Hönisch;Andy Ridgwell;Daniela N. Schmidt;Ellen Thomas;Ellen Thomas

  • East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: high-resolution sediment records from the south China Sea

    L. Wang;M. Sarnthein;H. Erlenkeuser;JO Grimalt

  • Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event imprints in Alboran Sea paleotemperatures

    Isabel Cacho;Joan O Grimalt;Carles Pelejero;Miquel Canals

  • Preindustrial to Modern Interdecadal Variability in Coral Reef pH

    Carles Pelejero;Carles Pelejero;Eva Calvo;Eva Calvo;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Malcolm T. McCulloch;John F. Marshall;John F. Marshall

  • High-resolution UK 37 temperature reconstructions in the South China Sea over the past 220 kyr

    Carles Pelejero;Joan O. Grimalt;Stephanie Heilig;Markus Kienast

  • Paleo-perspectives on ocean acidification

    Carles Pelejero;Eva María Calvo;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

  • Identification and removal of Mn-Mg-rich contaminant phases on foraminiferal tests: Implications for Mg/Ca past temperature reconstructions

    L Pena;Eva Calvo;Eva Calvo;I Cacho;I Cacho;Stephen Eggins

  • Effects of climate change on Mediterranean marine ecosystems: the case of the Catalan Sea

    Eva María Calvo;Rafel Simó;Rafael Coma;Marta Ribes

  • Long-term sea surface temperature and climate change in the Australian–New Zealand region

    Timothy T. Barrows;Steve Juggins;Patrick de Deckker;Eva María Calvo

  • The correlation between the 37k index and sea surface temperatures in the warm boundary: The South China Sea

    Carles Pelejero;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Holocene variations in Asian monsoon moisture: A bidecadal sediment record from the South China Sea

    Luejiang Wang;Michael Sarnthein;Helmut Erlenkeuser;Pieter M. Grootes

  • Antarctic deglacial pattern in a 30 kyr record of sea surface temperature offshore South Australia

    Eva María Calvo;Carles Pelejero;Patrick de Deckker;Graham A. Logan

  • The flooding of Sundaland during the last deglaciation: imprints in hemipelagic sediments from the southern South China Sea

    Carles Pelejero;Markus Kienast;Markus Kienast;Luejiang Wang;Luejiang Wang;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Clean-up procedures for the unbiased estimation of C37 alkenone sea surface temperatures and terrigenous n-alkane inputs in paleoceanography

    Joan Villanueva;Carles Pelejero;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Detrimental effects of ocean acidification on the economically important Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum)

    L. Bramanti;L. Bramanti;J. Movilla;M. Guron;E. Calvo

  • Characterization of contaminant phases in foraminifera carbonates by electron microprobe mapping

    Leopoldo Pena;Isabel Cacho;Eva María Calvo;Carles Pelejero

  • Contrasting effects of ocean acidification on the microbial food web under different trophic conditions

    M. M. Sala;F. L. Aparicio;V. Balague;J. A. Boras

  • Dust-induced changes in phytoplankton composition in the Tasman Sea during the last four glacial cycles

    Eva María Calvo;Carles Pelejero;Graham A. Logan;Patrick de Deckker

  • Response of marine bacterioplankton pH homeostasis gene expression to elevated CO2

    Carina Bunse;Daniel Lundin;Christofer M. G. Karlsson;Neelam Akram;Neelam Akram

  • Synchroneity of meltwater pulse 1a and the Bolling warming:New evidence from the South China Sea

    M Kienast;T J J Hanebuth;Carles Pelejero;S Steinke

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Markus Kienast
Markus Kienast Dalhousie University
Pieter Meiert Grootes
Pieter Meiert Grootes Kiel University
Michael Sarnthein
Michael Sarnthein Kiel University
Helmut Erlenkeuser
Helmut Erlenkeuser Kiel University
Uwe Pflaumann
Uwe Pflaumann Kiel University
Isabel Cacho
Isabel Cacho University of Barcelona
Cèlia Marrasé
Cèlia Marrasé Spanish National Research Council
Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Patrizia Ziveri
Patrizia Ziveri Autonomous University of Barcelona

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