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Esteban Balseiro is affiliated with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to the fields of ecology, oceanography, environmental chemistry, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

Their work covers various topics within these areas, including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Polar research and ecology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Balseiro has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Beatriz Modenutti, Marcela Bastidas Navarro, Luca Schenone, Nicolás Martyniuk, and Cecilia Laspoumaderes.

They have published in a range of scientific journals, with multiple publications in venues such as Microbial Ecology, Hydrobiologia, Inland Waters, Ecología Austral, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Esteban Balseiro include:

  • Status of the zooplankton ecology in freshwater ecosystems from Argentina, 2022, Limnologica
  • 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
  • Effect of chronic UVR exposure on zooplankton molting and growth, 2020, Environmental Pollution

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

  • Macrophytes as refuge or risky area for zooplankton: a balance set by littoral predacious macroinvertebrates

    González Sagrario;María De LosÁNGELES;María De LosÁNGELES;Esteban Balseiro;Esteban Balseiro;Romina Ituarte;Romina Ituarte

  • Leaf litter breakdown in Patagonian streams: native versus exotic trees and the effect of invertebrate size

    R. J. Albariño;E. G. 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

  • The role of macroinvertebrates and fish in regulating the provision by macrophytes of refugia for zooplankton in a warm temperate shallow lake

    María de los Ángeles González Sagrario;María de los Ángeles González Sagrario;Esteban Balseiro;Esteban Balseiro

  • Low concentrations, potential ecological consequences: Synthetic estrogens alter life-history and demographic structures of aquatic invertebrates.

    María Sol Souza;Per Hallgren;Esteban Gabriel Balseiro;Lars Anders Hansson

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Beatriz Modenutti
Beatriz Modenutti 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
E. Walter Helbling
E. Walter Helbling National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Elena Gorokhova
Elena Gorokhova Stockholm University

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