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Emilio Marañón

Emilio Marañón

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
54
Citations
10696
World Ranking
3150
National Ranking
88

Overview

Emilio Marañón is affiliated with the Universidade de Vigo in Spain and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work has a strong focus on Oceanography and Ecology, with contributions spanning Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research covers several main topics including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Marine and fisheries research

Emilio Marañón has published regularly in venues such as:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Remote Sensing

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Marañón include:

  • Deep maxima of phytoplankton biomass, primary production and bacterial production in the Mediterranean Sea (2021, Biogeosciences)
  • Primary Production, an Index of Climate Change in the Ocean: Satellite-Based Estimates over Two Decades (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Phytoplankton responses to changing temperature and nutrient availability are consistent across the tropical and subtropical Atlantic (2022, Communications Biology)
  • Reconciling models of primary production and photoacclimation [Invited] (2020, Applied Optics)
  • Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation (2023, Earth system science data)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Emilio Marañón include:

  • Marco J. Cabrerizo
  • Cristina Fernández-González
  • France Van Wambeke
  • Julie Dinasquet
  • Anja Engel

Best Publications

  • Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation

    C. M. Moore;M. M. Mills;K. R. Arrigo;I. Berman-Frank

  • Cell Size as a Key Determinant of Phytoplankton Metabolism and Community Structure

    Emilio Marañón

  • Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Y. W. Luo;S. C. Doney;L. A. Anderson;Mar Benavides

  • Unimodal size scaling of phytoplankton growth and the size dependence of nutrient uptake and use

    Emilio Marañón;Pedro Cermeño;Daffne C. López-Sandoval;Tamara Rodríguez-Ramos

  • Patterns of phytoplankton size structure and productivity in contrasting open-ocean environments

    Emilio Marañón;Patrick M. Holligan;Rosa Barciela;Natalia González

  • Temperature, resources, and phytoplankton size structure in the ocean

    Emilio Marañón;Pedro Cermeño;Mikel Latasa;Rémy D. Tadonléké

  • Basin-scale variability of phytoplankton biomass, production and growth in the Atlantic Ocean

    Emilio Marañón;Patrick M. Holligan;Manuel Varela;Beatriz Mouriño

  • Photoacclimation and nutrient-based model of light-saturated photosynthesis for quantifying oceanic primary production

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Emilio Marañón;David A. Siegel;Stanford B. Hooker

  • Phytoplankton size structure and primary production in a highly dynamic coastal ecosystem (Ria de Vigo, NW-Spain): Seasonal and short-time scale variability

    Pedro Cermeño;Emilio Marañón;Emilio Marañón;Valesca Pérez;Pablo Serret

  • Large-scale latitudinal distribution of Trichodesmium spp. in the Atlantic Ocean

    Toby Tyrrell;Emilio Marañón;Alex J. Poulton;Andrew R. Bowie;Andrew R. Bowie

  • High variability of primary production in oligotrophic waters of the Atlantic Ocean: uncoupling from phytoplankton biomass and size structure

    Emilio Marañón;Michael J. Behrenfeld;Natalia González;Beatriz Mouriño

  • Nutrient limitation suppresses the temperature dependence of phytoplankton metabolic rates

    Emilio Marañón;María P Lorenzo;Pedro Cermeño;Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido

  • Significance and mechanisms of photosynthetic production of dissolved organic carbon in a coastal eutrophic ecosystem

    Emilio Marañón;Pedro Cermeño;Emilio Fernández;Jaime Rodríguez

  • Primary production, an index of climate change in the Ocean: satellite-based estimates over two decades

    Gemma Kulk;Trevor Platt;James Dingle;Thomas Jackson

  • Large-sized phytoplankton sustain higher carbon-specific photosynthesis than smaller cells in a coastal eutrophic ecosystem

    Pedro Cermeño;Emilio Marañón;Jaime Rodríguez;Emilio Fernández

  • Resource Supply Overrides Temperature as a Controlling Factor of Marine Phytoplankton Growth

    Emilio Marañón;Pedro Cermeño;María Huete-Ortega;Daffne C. López-Sandoval

  • Vertical distribution of phytoplankton biomass, production and growth in the Atlantic subtropical gyres

    Valesca Pérez;Emilio Fernández;Emilio Marañón;Xosé Anxelu G. Morán

  • The significance of the episodic nature of atmospheric deposition to Low Nutrient Low Chlorophyll regions

    C. Guieu;O. Aumont;A. Paytan;L. Bopp

  • Isometric size-scaling of metabolic rate and the size abundance distribution of phytoplankton

    María Huete-Ortega;Pedro Cermeño;Alejandra Calvo-Díaz;Emilio Marañón

  • Photosynthetic parameters of phytoplankton from 50°N to 50°S in the Atlantic Ocean

    Emilio Marañón;Patrick M. Holligan

  • Dissolved and particulate primary production along a longitudinal gradient in the Mediterranean Sea

    D. C. López-Sandoval;A. Fernández;E. Marañón

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Bode
Antonio Bode Spanish Institute of Oceanography
Xosé Anxelu G. Morán
Xosé Anxelu G. Morán Spanish Institute of Oceanography
Mikel Latasa
Mikel Latasa Spanish National Research Council
Emilio Fernández
Emilio Fernández Universidade de Vigo
Manuel F. Varela
Manuel F. Varela Eastern New Mexico University
Francisco G. Figueiras
Francisco G. Figueiras Spanish National Research Council
Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Eva Teira
Eva Teira Universidade de Vigo
Alex J. Poulton
Alex J. Poulton Heriot-Watt University
Toby Tyrrell
Toby Tyrrell University of Southampton

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