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Francesc Sabater

Francesc Sabater

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
8803
World Ranking
6033
National Ranking
164

Overview

Francesc Sabater is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain, where their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including environmental chemistry, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and water science and technology.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics with particular emphasis on soil and water nutrient dynamics, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, bryophyte studies and records, lichen and fungal ecology, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, microplastics and plastic pollution, and urban stormwater management solutions.

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • Hydrologic controls on the accumulation of different sized microplastics in the streambed sediments downstream of a wastewater treatment plant (Catalonia, Spain), 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Bryophyte C:N:P stoichiometry, biogeochemical niches and elementome plasticity driven by environment and coexistence, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Microplastic distribution and their abundance along rivers are determined by land uses and sediment granulometry, 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Modelling the seasonal impacts of a wastewater treatment plant on water quality in a Mediterranean stream using microbial indicators, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Effect of Three Emergent Macrophyte Species on Nutrient Retention in Aquatic Environments under Excess Nutrient Loading, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Francesc Sabater include Eugènia Martí, Miquel Ribot, Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Catherine Preece, and Jordi Corbera.

Their publications often appear in journals such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Freshwater Science
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Biophysical controls on organic carbon fluxes in fluvial networks

    Tom J. Battin;Louis A. Kaplan;Stuart Findlay;Charles S. Hopkinson

  • Drought and postdrought recovery cycles in an intermittent Mediterranean stream: structural and functional aspects

    Vicenç Acuña;Isabel Muñoz;Adonis Giorgi;Meritxell Omella

  • Nitrogen Removal by Riparian Buffers along a European Climatic Gradient: Patterns and Factors of Variation

    Sergi Sabater;Andrea Butturini;Jean-Christophe Clement;Tim Burt

  • Nutrient retention efficiency in streams receiving inputs from wastewater treatment plants.

    Eugènia Marti;Jordi Aumatell;Lluís Godé;Manel Poch

  • High Variability in Temporal and Spatial Nutrient Retention in Mediterranean Streams

    Eugenia Marti;Francesc Sabater

  • Ecohydrological interfaces as hot spots of ecosystem processes

    Stefan Krause;Jörg Lewandowski;Nancy B. Grimm;David M. Hannah

  • Effects of riparian vegetation removal on nutrient retention in a Mediterranean stream

    Francesc Sabater;Andrea Butturini;Eugènia MartÍ;Isabel Muñoz

  • Effects of nutrients and light on periphyton biomass and nitrogen uptake in Mediterranean streams with contrasting land uses

    Daniel Von Schiller;Eugènia Martí;Joan Lluís Riera;Francesc Sabater

  • River ecosystem processes: A synthesis of approaches, criteria of use and sensitivity to environmental stressors

    Daniel von Schiller;Vicenç Acuña;Ibon Aristi;Maite Arroita

  • Seasonal variations of dissolved nitrogen and DOC:DON ratios in an intermittent Mediterranean stream

    Susana Bernal;Andrea Butturini;Francesc Sabater

  • Hydrological extremes modulate nutrient dynamics in mediterranean climate streams across different spatial scales

    Susana Bernal;Daniel von Schiller;Francesc Sabater;Eugènia Martí

  • Influences of the stream groundwater hydrology on nitrate concentration in unsaturated riparian area bounded by an intermittent Mediterranean stream

    A. Butturini;A. Butturini;S. Bernal;C. Hellin;E. Nin

  • Diversity and temporal sequences of forms of DOC and NO3-discharge responses in an intermittent stream : Predictable or random succession?

    Andrea Butturini;Marta Alvarez;Susana Bernal;Eusebi Vazquez

  • Meteorological and riparian influences on organic matter dynamics in a forested Mediterranean stream

    Vicenç Acuña;Adonis Giorgi;Isabel Muñoz;Francesc Sabater

  • Net changes in nutrient concentrations below a point source input in two streams draining catchments with contrasting land uses.

    Gora C. Merseburger;Eugènia Martí;Francesc Sabater

  • Ammonium and phosphate retention in a Mediterranean stream: hydrological versus temperature control

    Andrea Butturini;Francesc Sabater

  • Influence of Land Use on Stream Ecosystem Function in a Mediterranean Catchment

    D. Von Schiller;E. Martí;J. L. Riera;M. Ribot

  • Erratum: Biophysical controls on organic carbon fluxes in fluvial networks

    Tom J. Battin;Louis A. Kaplan;Stuart Findlay;Charles S. Hopkinson

  • Variability of DOC and nitrate responses to storms in a small Mediterranean forested catchment

    Susana Bernal;Andrea Butturini;Francesc Sabater

  • Inter-annual, Annual, and Seasonal Variation of P and N Retention in a Perennial and an Intermittent Stream

    Daniel von Schiller;Eugènia Martí;Joan Lluis Riera;Miquel Ribot

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugènia Martí
Eugènia Martí Spanish National Research Council
Andrea Butturini
Andrea Butturini University of Barcelona
Sergi Sabater
Sergi Sabater University of Girona
Daniel von Schiller
Daniel von Schiller University of Barcelona
Tom J. Battin
Tom J. Battin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Esperança Gacia
Esperança Gacia Spanish National Research Council
Isabel Muñoz
Isabel Muñoz University of Barcelona
Santiago Sabaté
Santiago Sabaté University of Barcelona
Anna M. Romaní
Anna M. Romaní University of Girona
Joaquim Comas
Joaquim Comas University of Girona

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