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Javier Arístegui is affiliated with the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular concentration in Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers a variety of topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, microbial community ecology and physiology, ocean acidification effects and responses, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

They have contributed multiple papers published in notable scientific venues, including Frontiers in Marine Science, Biogeosciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Limnology and Oceanography, and Progress In Oceanography.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Stability of alkalinity in ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) approaches - consequences for durability of CO 2 storage, 2023, Biogeosciences
  • Phytoplankton responses to changing temperature and nutrient availability are consistent across the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, 2022, Communications Biology
  • What Is Refractory Organic Matter in the Ocean?, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Factors controlling plankton community production, export flux, and particulate matter stoichiometry in the coastal upwelling system off Peru, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Effect of Intensity and Mode of Artificial Upwelling on Particle Flux and Carbon Export, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Ulf Riebesell, Nauzet Hernández-Hernández, Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado, Marta Sebastián, and María F. Montero.

Best Publications

  • The transition zone of the Canary Current upwelling region

    E.D. Barton;J. Arı́stegui;P. Tett;M. Cantón

  • Microbial oceanography of the dark ocean's pelagic realm

    Javier Arístegui;Josep M. Gasol;Carlos M. Duarte;Gerhard J. Herndl

  • Sub-regional ecosystem variability in the Canary Current upwelling

    Javier Arístegui;Eric D. Barton;Xosé A. Álvarez-Salgado;A. Miguel P. Santos

  • Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff;William W.L. Cheung;James G. Kairo;Javier Arístegui

  • The influence of island-generated eddies on chlorophyll distribution : a study of mesoscale variation around Gran Canaria

    J. Arístegui;P. Tett;A. Hernández-Guerra;G. Basterretxea

  • Mesopelagic zone ecology and biogeochemistry - a synthesis

    Carol Robinson;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson;Javier Arístegui

  • Island-induced eddies in the Canary islands

    J. Arístegui;P. Sangrá;S. Hernández-León;M. Cantón

  • Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @#! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets?

    Adrian B. Burd;Dennis A. Hansell;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson

  • A global diatom database – abundance, biovolume and biomass in the world ocean

    K. Leblanc;J. Arístegui;L. Armand;P. Assmy

  • Coupling between the open ocean and the coastal upwelling region off northwest Africa: water recirculation and offshore pumping of organic matter

    J.L. Pelegrí;J. Arístegui;L. Cana;M. González-Dávila

  • The Canary Eddy Corridor: A major pathway for long-lived eddies in the subtropical North Atlantic

    Pablo Sangrà;Ananda Pascual;Ángel Rodríguez-Santana;Francisco Machín

  • Prokaryotic respiration and production in the meso- and bathypelagic realm of the eastern and western North Atlantic basin

    Thomas Reinthaler;Hendrik van Aken;Cornelis Veth;Javier Arístegui

  • Physical Processes and Seamount Productivity

    Martin White;Igor Bashmachnikov;Javier Arístegui;Ana Martins

  • Emerging concepts on microbial processes in the bathypelagic ocean-ecology, biogeochemistry, and genomics

    Toshi Nagata;Christian Tamburini;Javier Arístegui;Federico Baltar

  • Oceanography and fisheries of the Canary current/iberian region of theeastern north atlantic(18a,E)

    Javier Arístegui;Xosé A. Álvarez-Salgado;Eric D. Barton;Francisco G. Figueiras

  • Stability of alkalinity in ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) approaches – consequences for durability of CO2 storage

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  • Evidence of prokaryotic metabolism on suspended particulate organic matter in the dark waters of the subtropical North Atlantic

    Federico Baltar;Javier Arístegui;Josep M. Gasol;Eva Sintes

  • Dissolved organic carbon support of respiration in the dark ocean.

    Javier Arı́stegui;Carlos M. Duarte;Susana Agustı́;Marylo Doval

  • Variability in the Canary Islands area of filament-eddy exchanges

    Eric D. Barton;Javier Arístegui;Paul Tett;Eleuteria Navarro-Pérez

  • Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems: Integrative and comparative approaches

    Pierre Fréon;Manuel Barange;Javier Arístegui

  • A global diatom database ¿ abundance, biovolume and biomass in the world ocean.

    K. Leblanc;J. Arístegui;L. Armand;P. Assmy

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Santiago Hernández-León
Santiago Hernández-León University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Eric D. Barton
Eric D. Barton Spanish National Research Council
Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado
Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado Spanish National Research Council
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Gerhard J. Herndl
Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna
Alonso Hernández-Guerra
Alonso Hernández-Guerra University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Eric P. Achterberg
Eric P. Achterberg GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Susana Agustí
Susana Agustí King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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