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Jordi Catalan is a researcher affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their work is primarily situated within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular attention to subfields such as Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research contributions encompass several main topics, including:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Jordi Catalan has published multiple papers in notable scientific journals. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "Scientists' warning of threats to mountains" (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Denitrification rates in lake sediments of mountains affected by high atmospheric nitrogen deposition" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Water chemistry variation in tropical high-mountain lakes on old volcanic bedrocks" (2022), published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Impacts of Use and Abuse of Nature in Catalonia with Proposals for Sustainable Management" (2021), published in Land
  • "Páramo Lakes of Colombia: An Overview of Their Geographical Distribution and Physicochemical Characteristics" (2021), published in Water

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Scientific Reports
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Journal of Ecology
  • PLoS ONE

Jordi Catalan collaborates regularly with several co-authors. Some of the most frequent collaborators include:

  • Lluís Camarero
  • Marisol Felip
  • Sergi Pla-Rabès
  • Aitziber Zufiaurre
  • Pablo V. Mosquera

Their body of work reflects a multidisciplinary approach that integrates aspects of chemistry, ecology, and environmental monitoring to address challenges related to aquatic and mountainous ecosystems. Jordi Catalan's research outputs contribute to understanding complex environmental processes and potential impacts of human and atmospheric influences in mountain and aquatic environments.

Best Publications

  • ANIMAL SEARCH STRATEGIES: A QUANTITATIVE RANDOM-WALK ANALYSIS

    Frederic Bartumeus;Frederic Bartumeus;M. G. E. da Luz;G. M. Viswanathan;Jordi Catalán

  • Ecology under lake ice

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Aaron W.E. Galloway;Stephen M. Powers;Ted Ozersky

  • Optimizing the Encounter Rate in Biological Interactions: Lévy versus Brownian Strategies

    Frederic Bartumeus;Frederic Bartumeus;Jordi Catalán;U. L. Fulco;M. L. Lyra

  • Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene.

    Zofia E Taranu;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Peter R Leavitt;Lynda Bunting

  • Helical Lévy walks: Adjusting searching statistics to resource availability in microzooplankton

    Frederic Bartumeus;Francesc Peters;Salvador Pueyo;Cèlia Marrasé

  • Attenuation of ultraviolet radiation in mountain lakes: Factors controlling the among‐ and within‐lake variability

    Isabelle Laurion;Marc Ventura;Jordi Catalan;Roland Psenner

  • The relationship between phytoplankton biovolume and chlorophyll in a deep oligotrophic lake: decoupling in their spatial and temporal maxima

    Marisol Felip;Jordi Catalan

  • Selective trapping of organochlorine compounds in mountain lakes of temperate areas.

    Joan O. Grimalt;Pilar Fernandez;Lourdes Berdie;Rosa M. Vilanova

  • High mountain lakes : extreme habitats and witnesses of environmental changes

    Jordi Catalán;Lluís Camarero;Marisol Felip;Sergi Pla

  • Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes : a review

    Jordi Catalan;Sergi Pla-Rabés;Alexander P. Wolfe;John P. Smol

  • Comparing palaeolimnological and instrumental evidence of climate change for remote mountain lakes over the last 200 years

    Richard W. Battarbee;John-Arvid Grytnes;Roy Thompson;Peter G. Appleby

  • MUTUAL INTERFERENCE BETWEEN PREDATORS CAN GIVE RISE TO TURING SPATIAL PATTERNS

    David Alonso;Frederic Bartumeus;Jordi Catalan

  • Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans

    P. R. Leavitt;S. C. Fritz;N. J. Anderson;P. A. Baker

  • Optimal search behavior and classic foraging theory

    Frederic Bartumeus;Jordi Catalán

  • Chrysophyte cysts from lake sediments reveal the submillennial winter/spring climate variability in the northwestern Mediterranean region throughout the Holocene

    Sergi Pla;Jordi Catalan

  • Atmospheric deposition of organochlorine compounds to remote high mountain lakes of Europe

    Guillem Carrera;Pilar Fernandez;Joan O. Grimalt;Marc Ventura

  • Seasonal ecosystem variability in remote mountain lakes: implications for detecting climatic signals in sediment records

    J. Catalan;J. Catalan;M. Ventura;A. Brancelj;I. Granados

  • Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes

    L. Carvalho;S. Poikane;A. Lyche Solheim;G. Phillips

  • Surface-sediment and epilithic diatom pH calibration sets for remote European mountain lakes (AL:PE Project) and their comparison with the Surface Waters Acidification Programme (SWAP) calibration set

    N. G. Cameron;H. J. B. Birks;H. J. B. Birks;V. J. Jones;F. Berges

  • Atmospheric phosphorus deposition may cause lakes to revert from phosphorus limitation back to nitrogen limitation.

    Lluís Camarero;Jordi Catalán

  • Climate variability and ecosystem dynamics of remote alpine and arctic lakes: the MOLAR project

    Richard W. Battarbee;Roy Thompson;Jordi Catalan;John-Arvid Grytnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Lluís Camarero
Lluís Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Roland Psenner
Roland Psenner University of Innsbruck
Pilar Fernández
Pilar Fernández Spanish National Research Council
Emilio O. Casamayor
Emilio O. Casamayor Spanish National Research Council
Richard W. Battarbee
Richard W. Battarbee University College London
Roy Thompson
Roy Thompson University of Pittsburgh
Esperança Gacia
Esperança Gacia Spanish National Research Council
Andrea Lami
Andrea Lami National Research Council (CNR)
Atte Korhola
Atte Korhola University of Helsinki

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