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36
Citations
8416
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7016
National Ranking
127

Overview

Hugo Sarmento is affiliated with the Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research focuses broadly on ecological systems with specific subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's main research topics include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Frequent collaborations have been established with several coauthors, notably Pedro C. Junger, Paula Huber, Ramiro Logares, Fernando Unrein, and Inessa Lacativa Bagatini.

Hugo Sarmento's work has been published in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication sources are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Science Advances
  • Hydrobiologia

Among recent papers, the following stand out:

  • Environmental heterogeneity determines the ecological processes that govern bacterial metacommunity assembly in a floodplain river system, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome, 2021, Science Advances
  • From ecological functions to ecosystem services: linking coastal lagoons biodiversity with human well-being, 2023, Hydrobiologia
  • Uncovering the genomic potential of the Amazon River microbiome to degrade rainforest organic matter, 2020, Microbiome
  • Photosynthetic, morphological and biochemical biomarkers as tools to investigate copper oxide nanoparticle toxicity to a freshwater chlorophyceae, 2020, Environmental Pollution

Best Publications

  • Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Luis Pedro Coelho;Samuel Chaffron;Jens Roat Kultima

  • Metagenomic 16S rDNA Illumina tags are a powerful alternative to amplicon sequencing to explore diversity and structure of microbial communities

    Ramiro Logares;Shinichi Sunagawa;Guillem Salazar;Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo

  • Production of chromophoric dissolved organic matter by marine phytoplankton

    Cristina Romera-Castillo;Hugo Sarmento;Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Josep M. Gasol

  • Net Production and Consumption of Fluorescent Colored Dissolved Organic Matter by Natural Bacterial Assemblages Growing on Marine Phytoplankton Exudates

    Cristina Romera-Castillo;Hugo Sarmento;Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Josep M. Gasol

  • Warming effects on marine microbial food web processes: how far can we go when it comes to predictions?

    Hugo Sarmento;José M. Montoya;Evaristo Vázquez-Domínguez;Dolors Vaqué

  • Exploring nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses in Tara Oceans microbial metagenomes

    Pascal Hingamp;Nigel Grimsley;Silvia G Acinas;Camille Clerissi

  • Use of phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic carbon by different types of bacterioplankton.

    Hugo Sarmento;Josep M. Gasol

  • Environmental heterogeneity determines the ecological processes that govern bacterial metacommunity assembly in a floodplain river system.

    Paula Huber;Sebastian Metz;Fernando Unrein;Gisela Mayora

  • Phytoplankton ecology of Lake Kivu (eastern Africa)

    Hugo Sarmento;Mwapu Isumbisho;Jean-Pierre Descy

  • From ecological functions to ecosystem services: linking coastal lagoons biodiversity with human well-being

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  • Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome

    Samuel Chaffron;Erwan Delage;Marko Budinich;Damien Vintache

  • Abundance and distribution of picoplankton in tropical, oligotrophic Lake Kivu, eastern Africa

    Hugo Sarmento;Hugo Sarmento;Fernando Unrein;Fernando Unrein;Mwapu Isumbisho;Stephane Stenuite

  • New paradigms in tropical limnology: the importance of the microbial food web

    Hugo Sarmento

  • Contrasting effects of ocean acidification on the microbial food web under different trophic conditions

    M. M. Sala;F. L. Aparicio;V. Balague;J. A. Boras

  • Phytoplankton species‐specific release of dissolved free amino acids and their selective consumption by bacteria

    Hugo Sarmento;Hugo Sarmento;Cristina Romera-Castillo;Markus V. Lindh;Jarone Pinhassi

  • Zooplankton of Lake Kivu, East Africa, half a century after the Tanganyika sardine introduction

    Mwapu Isumbisho;Mwapu Isumbisho;Hugo Sarmento;Boniface Kaningini;Jean-Claude Micha

  • Bacterioplankton niche partitioning in the use of phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic carbon: quantity is more important than quality.

    Hugo Sarmento;Cédric Morana;Josep M Gasol

  • Use of marker pigments and functional groups for assessing the status of phytoplankton assemblages in lakes

    Hugo Sarmento;Jean-Pierre Descy

  • Production of dissolved organic matter by phytoplankton and its uptake by heterotrophic prokaryotes in large tropical lakes

    Cedric Morana;Hugo Sarmento;Hugo Sarmento;Jean-Pierre Descy;Josep M. Gasol

  • Tropical freshwater ecosystems have lower bacterial growth efficiency than temperate ones

    André Megali Amado;Frederico Meirelles-Pereira;Luciana De Oliveira Vidal Vidal;Hugo Sarmento Sarmento

  • Primary production in a tropical large lake: the role of phytoplankton composition.

    François Darchambeau;Hugo Sarmento;Jean-Pierre Descy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pierre Descy
Jean-Pierre Descy University of Liège
Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
François Darchambeau
François Darchambeau University of Liège
Bao-Lian Su
Bao-Lian Su University of Namur
Alberto Borges
Alberto Borges University of Liège
Ramiro Logares
Ramiro Logares Spanish National Research Council
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Olivier Jaillon
Olivier Jaillon University of Paris-Saclay
Bruce R. Forsberg
Bruce R. Forsberg National Institute of Amazonian Research
Cèlia Marrasé
Cèlia Marrasé Spanish National Research Council

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