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Overview

Doris Soto is affiliated with Austral University of Chile in Chile and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work covers several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Sports Performance and Training, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Notable recent publications by Doris Soto and collaborators include:

  • Perspectives on aquaculture's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals for improved human and planetary health, 2023, Journal of the World Aquaculture Society
  • Scientific warnings could help to reduce farmed salmon mortality due to harmful algal blooms, 2021, Marine Policy
  • Breaking down barriers: The identification of actions to promote gender equality in interdisciplinary marine research institutions, 2022, One Earth
  • Environmental risk assessment of non-native salmonid escapes from net pens in the Chilean Patagonia, 2022, Reviews in Aquaculture
  • Vertical distribution patterns of larval supply and spatfall of three species of Mytilidae in a Chilean fjord used for mussel farming: Insights for mussel spatfall efficiency, 2021, Aquaculture

Doris Soto frequently collaborates with a range of co-authors, including Jorge León-Muñoz, Carlos Molinet, Iván Arismendi, Thamara Matamala, and Rodrigo Aguayo.

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Marine Policy, Reviews in Aquaculture, Aquaculture, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges

    David Dudgeon;Angela H. Arthington;Mark O. Gessner;Zen-Ichiro Kawabata

  • Global aquaculture and its role in sustainable development.

    Rohana Subasinghe;Doris Soto;Jiansan Jia

  • The impact of accelerating land-use change on the N-Cycle of tropical aquatic ecosystems: Current conditions and projected changes

    J. A. Downing;M. McClain;R. Twilley;J. M. Melack

  • Assessment of ecosystem services as an opportunity for the conservation and management of native forests in Chile

    A. Lara;C. Little;R. Urrutia;J. McPhee

  • Environmental issues in Chilean salmon farming: a review

    Renato A. Quiñones;Marcelo Fuentes;Rodrigo M. Montes;Doris Soto

  • ESCAPED SALMON IN THE INNER SEAS, SOUTHERN CHILE: FACING ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CONFLICTS

    Doris Soto;Fernando Jara;Carlos Moreno

  • Evaluation of salmon farming effects on marine systems in the inner seas of southern Chile: a large-scale mensurative experiment

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  • Incidence and impacts of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in nature

    Eva B. Thorstad;Ian A. Fleming;Philip McGinnity;Doris Soto

  • Applying an ecosystem-based approach to aquaculture : principles, scales and some management measures

    D. Soto;J. Aguilar-Manjarrez;J. Bermudez;C. Brugere

  • Southern Chile, trout and salmon country: invasion patterns and threats for native species

    Doris Soto;Iván Arismendi;Jorge A. Gonzalez;José Sanzana

  • Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture

    Keith Brander;Kevern Cochrane;Manuel Barange;Doris Soto

  • Aquaculture, non‐native salmonid invasions and associated declines of native fishes in Northern Patagonian lakes

    Iván Arismendi;Doris Soto;Brooke Penaluna;Carlos Jara

  • Freshwater fishes of Patagonia in the 21st Century after a hundred years of human settlement, species introductions, and environmental change

    Miguel A. Pascual;Víctor Cussac;Brian Dyer;Doris Soto

  • Filter feeding by the freshwater mussel, Diplodon chilensis, as a biocontrol of salmon farming eutrophication

    Doris Soto;Guillermo Mena

  • Perspectives on aquaculture's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals for improved human and planetary health

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  • The ecosystem approach to aquaculture 10 years on – a critical review and consideration of its future role in blue growth

    Cecile Brugère;José Aguilar-Manjarrez;Malcolm C. M. Beveridge;Doris Soto

  • Aquaculture’s struggle for space: the need for coastal spatial planning and the potential benefits of Allocated Zones for Aquaculture (AZAs) to avoid conflict and promote sustainability

    Pablo Sanchez-Jerez;Ioannis Karakassis;Fabio Massa;Davide Fezzardi

  • Establishment of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Pacific basins of southern South America and its potential ecosystem implications.

    Doris Soto;Doris Soto;Iván Arismendi;Cecilia Yanina Di Prinzio;Fernando Jara

  • Zooplankton assemblages of chilean temperate lakes: a comparison with north american counterparts

    D Soto;L Zuniga

  • Oligotrophic patterns in southern Chilean lakes: the relevance of nutrients and mixing depth

    Doris Soto

  • Differential invasion success of salmonids in southern Chile: patterns and hypotheses

    Ivan Arismendi;Brooke E. Penaluna;Jason B. Dunham;Carlos García de Leaniz

  • UV radiation as a potential driving force for zooplankton community structure in patagonian lakes

    María Cristina Marinone;Silvina Menu Marque;Diego Añón Suárez;María del Carmen Diéguez

  • Southward expansion of the Chilean salmon industry in the Patagonian Fjords: main environmental challenges

    Edwin J. Niklitschek;Doris Soto;Alejandra Lafon;Alejandra Lafon;Carlos Molinet

  • Escaped farmed salmon and trout in Chile: incidence, impacts, and the need for an ecosystem view

    Maritza Sepúlveda;Ivan Arismendi;Doris Soto;Fernando Jara

  • Building an ecosystem approach to aquaculture : FAO/Universitat de les Illes Balears Expert Workshop, 7-11 May, 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Doris Soto;José Aguilar-Manjarrez

  • Evidence of Interactive Segregation between Introduced Trout and Native Fishes in Northern Patagonian Rivers, Chile

    Brooke E. Penaluna;Ivan Arismendi;Doris Soto

  • Influences of thermal environment on fish growth

    Sebastián Boltaña;Nataly Sanhueza;Andrea Aguilar;Cristian Gallardo-Escarate

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Lara
Antonio Lara Austral University of Chile
Tim Dempster
Tim Dempster University of Melbourne
Ian A. Fleming
Ian A. Fleming Memorial University of Newfoundland
René D. Garreaud
René D. Garreaud University of Chile
Mario Pino
Mario Pino Austral University of Chile
Eva B. Thorstad
Eva B. Thorstad Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
José Iriarte
José Iriarte University of Exeter
Sena S. De Silva
Sena S. De Silva Deakin University
Robert J. Naiman
Robert J. Naiman University of Washington
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson University of Florida

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