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Overview

Enric Saiz is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on marine ecosystems, with significant contributions to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work is specialized in Oceanography and Ecology, exploring subtopics such as Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

Their research covers a range of topics including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and fisheries research

Enric Saiz has published extensively across several recognized scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Marine Environmental Research
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • ICE Revista de Economía

Notable recent papers by Enric Saiz and collaborators include:

  • "Mixotrophy upgrades food quality for marine calanoid copepods" (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Effects of prey trophic mode on the gross-growth efficiency of marine copepods: the case of mixoplankton" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Reduction in thermal stress of marine copepods after physiological acclimation" (2022, Journal of Plankton Research)
  • "The effect of short-term temperature exposure on vital physiological processes of mixoplankton and protozooplankton" (2022, Marine Environmental Research)
  • "Thermal Acclimation and Adaptation in Marine Protozooplankton and Mixoplankton" (2022, Frontiers in Microbiology)

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Albert Calbet
  • Manuel Sanlés Olivares
  • Kaiene Griffell
  • Carlos de Juan
  • Claudia Traboni

Enric Saiz's work often addresses physiological and ecological responses of marine organisms to environmental stressors, including thermal acclimation and adaptations in plankton. Their contributions provide data and insights relevant to understanding marine food webs and ecosystem dynamics, especially under changing environmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • The ciliate-copepod link in marine ecosystems

    Albert Calbet;Enric Saiz

  • Annual zooplankton succession in coastal NW Mediterranean waters: the importance of the smaller size fractions

    Albert Calbet;Susana Garrido;Enric Saiz;Miquel Alcaraz

  • Planktivorous feeding in calm and turbulent environments, with emphasis on copepods

    Thomas Kiørboe;Enric Saiz

  • Prey switching behaviour in the planktonic copepod Acartia tonsa

    Thomas Kiørboe;Enric Saiz;Markku Viitasalo

  • Predatory and suspension feeding of the copepod Acartia tonsa in turbulent environments

    Enric Saiz;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Hydrodynamic signal perception in the copepod Acartia tonsa

    Thomas Kiørboe;Enric Saiz;André Visser

  • Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now?

    Kevin J. Flynn;Aditee Mitra;Konstantinos Anestis;Anna A. Anschütz

  • Effect of heterotrophic versus autotrophic food on feeding and reproduction of the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa : relationship with prey fatty acid composition

    Elisabetta Broglio;Sigrún H. Jónasdóttir;Albert Calbet;Hans Henrik Jakobsen

  • Accumulation and cycling of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in zooplankton.

    Naiara Berrojalbiz;Silvia Lacorte;Albert Calbet;Enric Saiz

  • Predicting single and mixture toxicity of petrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to the copepod Oithona davisae

    Carlos Barata;Albert Calbet;Enric Saiz;Laura Ortiz

  • Copepod feeding in the ocean: scaling patterns, composition of their diet and the bias of estimates due to microzooplankton grazing during incubations

    Enric Saiz;Albert Calbet

  • Effects of small-scale turbulence on copepods: The case of Oithona davisae

    Enric Saiz;Albert Calbet;Elisabetta Broglio

  • Effects of small-scale turbulence on feeding rate and gross-growth efficiency of three Acartia species (Copepoda: Calanoida)

    Enric Saiz;Miguel Alcaraz;Gustav-Adolf Paffenhöfer

  • Estimating zooplankton biomass through image analysis

    Miquel Alcaraz;Enric Saiz;Albert Calbet;Isabel Trepat

  • Trophic impact and prey selection by crustacean zooplankton on the microbial communities of an oligotrophic coastal area (NW Mediterranean Sea)

    Elisabetta Broglio;Enric Saiz;Albert Calbet;Isabel Trepat

  • Role of diatoms in copepod production:good, harmless or toxic?

    SH Jónasdóttir;T. Kiørboe;KW Tang;M. StJohn

  • Intra- and interspecific variability in prey size and niche breadth of myctophiform fish larvae

    Ana Sabatés;Enric Saiz

  • Born small, die young: Intrinsic, size-selective mortality in marine larval fish

    Susana Garrido;R. Ben-Hamadou;A.M.P. Santos;A.M.P. Santos;S. Ferreira

  • Phylogenetic position of the copepod-infesting parasite Syndinium turbo (Dinoflagellata, Syndinea).

    Alf Skovgaard;Ramon Massana;Vanessa Balagué;Enric Saiz

  • Scaling of feeding in marine calanoid copepods

    Enric Saiz;Albert Calbet

  • Free-swimming behaviour of Acartia clausi (Copepoda: Calanoida) under turbulent water movement

    Enric Saiz;Miquel Alcaraz

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Calbet
Albert Calbet Spanish National Research Council
Miquel Alcaraz
Miquel Alcaraz Spanish National Research Council
Thomas Kiørboe
Thomas Kiørboe Technical University of Denmark
Carles Pelejero
Carles Pelejero Institute of Marine Sciences
Torkel Gissel Nielsen
Torkel Gissel Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Colin A. Stedmon
Colin A. Stedmon Technical University of Denmark
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Elisa Berdalet
Elisa Berdalet Spanish National Research Council
Peter Tiselius
Peter Tiselius University of Gothenburg

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