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Overview

Florentina Moatar is affiliated with François Rabelais University in France. Their research predominantly covers Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography.

Their work has contributed to several main topics, including:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Florentina Moatar has published research in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Recent notable papers include:

  • Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: Perspectives for critical zone science and research on socio-ecosystems (2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water)
  • Thermal signatures identify the influence of dams and ponds on stream temperature at the regional scale (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Recent trends in the chemistry of major northern rivers signal widespread Arctic change (2023, Nature Geoscience)
  • Predicting Nutrient Incontinence in the Anthropocene at Watershed Scales (2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science)
  • Metabolic regime shifts and ecosystem state changes are decoupled in a large river (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Jacob S. Diamond, Gilles Pinay, Hanieh Seyedhashemi, Camille Minaudo, and Jean-Philippe Vidal.

Florentina Moatar is also an author of books, with publications by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. One such book is L'infrarouge thermique aéroporté, un outil de connaissance des rivières face au changement climatique, published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Eutrophication: A new wine in an old bottle?

    Morgane Le Moal;Chantal Gascuel-Odoux;Alain Ménesguen;Yves Souchon

  • Elemental properties, hydrology, and biology interact to shape concentration-discharge curves for carbon, nutrients, sediment, and major ions

    Florentina Moatar;Benjamin W. Abbott;Benjamin W. Abbott;Camille Minaudo;Florence Curie

  • Assessing the impact of agricultural pressures on N and P loads and eutrophication risk

    Rémi Dupas;Rémi Dupas;Magalie Delmas;Jean-Marcel Dorioz;Josette Garnier

  • Particulate organic carbon in the estuarine turbidity maxima of the Gironde, Loire and Seine estuaries: origin and lability

    Henri Etcheber;Aurélien Taillez;Gwenaël Abril;Josette Garnier

  • Compared performances of different algorithms for estimating annual nutrient loads discharged by the eutrophic River Loire

    Florentina Moatar;Michel Meybeck

  • Unexpected spatial stability of water chemistry in headwater stream networks.

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Benjamin W. Abbott;Benjamin W. Abbott;Gérard Gruau;Jay P. Zarnetske;Florentina Moatar

  • Eutrophication mitigation in rivers: 30 years of trends in spatial and seasonal patterns of biogeochemistry of the Loire River (1980–2012)

    C. Minaudo;M. Meybeck;F. Moatar;N. Gassama

  • Water temperature behaviour in the River Loire since 1976 and 1881

    Florentina Moatar;Joël Gailhard

  • The influence of contrasting suspended particulate matter transport regimes on the bias and precision of flux estimates.

    Florentina Moatar;Gwenaelle Person;Michel Meybeck;Alexandra Coynel

  • Trends and seasonality of river nutrients in agricultural catchments: 18 years of weekly citizen science in France

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Benjamin W. Abbott;Florentina Moatar;Olivier Gauthier;Ophélie Fovet

  • Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Jens Hartmann;Dag O. Hessen;Jiří Kopáček

  • Daily variability of river concentrations and fluxes: indicators based on the segmentation of the rating curve

    Michel Meybeck;Florentina Moatar

  • Seasonal and event-based concentration-discharge relationships to identify catchment controls on nutrient export regimes

    Camille Minaudo;Rémi Dupas;Chantal Gascuel-Odoux;Vincent Roubeix

  • Uncertainties in assessing annual nitrate loads and concentration indicators: Part 1. Impact of sampling frequency and load estimation algorithms.

    François Birgand;Claire Faucheux;Gérard Gruau;Bénédicte Augeard

  • Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: Perspectives for critical zone science and research on socio-ecosystems

    Ophelie Fovet;Axel Belemtougri;Laurie Boithias;Isabelle Braud

  • Severe and contrasted polymetallic contamination patterns (1900-2009) in the Loire River sediments (France).

    Cécile Grosbois;M. Meybeck;L. Lestel;I. Lefèvre

  • pH modelling by neural networks. Application of control and validation data series in the Middle Loire river

    Florentina Moatar;Françoise Fessant;Alain Poirel

  • River flux uncertainties predicted by hydrological variability and riverine material behaviour

    Florentina Moatar;Michel Meybeck;Sébastien Raymond;François Birgand

  • Flow and sediment dynamics in the vegetated secondary channels of an anabranching river: The Loire River (France)

    Stéphane Rodrigues;Jean-Gabriel Bréhéret;Jean-Jacques Macaire;Florentina Moatar

  • Assessing channel response of a long river influenced by human disturbance

    A. Latapie;B. Camenen;S. Rodrigues;A. Paquier

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilles Pinay
Gilles Pinay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Benjamin W. Abbott
Benjamin W. Abbott Brigham Young University
Gérard Gruau
Gérard Gruau University of Rennes
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux University of Rennes
Agnès Ducharne
Agnès Ducharne Sorbonne University
Henri Etcheber
Henri Etcheber University of Bordeaux
Josette Garnier
Josette Garnier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Matthew J. Cohen
Matthew J. Cohen University of Florida
Arthur J. Gold
Arthur J. Gold University of Rhode Island
Gilles Billen
Gilles Billen Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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