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Ruben Escribano is affiliated with the University of Concepción in Chile and has an extensive body of research primarily focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work notably spans oceanography, ecology, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research interests include several specific topics such as marine biology and ecology research, marine and coastal ecosystems, isotope analysis in ecology, marine and fisheries research, parasite biology and host interactions, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Among Ruben Escribano's recent papers are:

  • Zooplankton diel vertical migration and downward C flux into the oxygen minimum zone in the highly productive upwelling region off northern Chile, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Diel vertical migration into anoxic and high-pCO2 waters: acoustic and net-based krill observations in the Humboldt Current, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Eurythenes atacamensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) exhibits ontogenetic vertical stratification across abyssal and hadal depths in the Atacama Trench, eastern South Pacific Ocean, 2021, Marine Biodiversity
  • Plankton respiration in the Atacama Trench region: Implications for particulate organic carbon flux into the hadal realm, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Genetic diversity and novel lineages in the cosmopolitan copepod Pleuromamma abdominalis in the Southeast Pacific, 2020, Scientific Reports

Ruben Escribano frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable coauthors including Carolina E. González, Marcelo E. Oliva, Reinaldo Rivera, Osvaldo Ulloa, and Pamela Hidalgo.

The scientist's publications have appeared predominantly in several key venues, such as Scientific Reports, Diversity, Frontiers in Marine Science, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Best Publications

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • The humboldt current system of northern and central chile : Oceanographic processes, ecological interactions and socioeconomic feedback

    Martin Thiel;Erasmo C. Macaya;Enzo Acuna;Wolf E. Arntz

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the oxygen-deficient waters off northern Chile

    Bo Thamdrup;Tage Dalsgaard;Marlene Mark Jensen;Osvaldo Ulloa

  • The paradox of diatom-copepod interactions

    S. Ban;C. Burns;J. Castel;Y. Chaudron

  • Biological and chemical consequences of the 1997-1998 El nino in the Chilean coastal upwelling system: a synthesis

    Rubén Escribano;Giovani Daneri;Giovani Daneri;Laura Farías;Víctor A. Gallardo;Víctor A. Gallardo

  • Evolution and biological effects of the 1997–98 El Niño in the upwelling ecosystem off northern Chile

    Osvaldo Ulloa;Ruben Escribano;Samuel Hormazabal;Renato A. Quiñones

  • The relative importance of microbial and classical food webs in a highly productive coastal upwelling area

    Cristian A. Vargas;Rodrigo A. Martínez;L. Antonio Cuevas;Marcelo A. Pavez

  • Phytoplankton food quality determines time windows for successful zooplankton reproductive pulses.

    Cristian A. Vargas;Rubén Escribano;Serge Poulet

  • Zooplankton associated with the oxygen minimum zone system in the northern upwelling region of Chile during March 2000

    Ruben Escribano;Pamela Hidalgo;Cristina Krautz

  • Spatial distribution of copepods in the north of the Humboldt Current region off Chile during coastal upwelling

    Ruben Escribano;Pamela Hidalgo

  • Selective incorporation of bacteria by Argopecten purpuratus larvae: implications for the use of probiotics in culturing systems of the Chilean scallop

    Carlos Riquelme;Ruben Araya;Ruben Escribano

  • Population dynamics of Calanus chilensis in the Chilean Eastern Boundary Humboldt Current

    Ruben Escribano

  • Nearshore circulation in a coastal upwelling site off the Northern Humboldt current system

    Victor H. Marı́n;Ruben Escribano;Luisa E. Delgado;Gonzalo Olivares

  • Upwelling shadows at Mejillones Bay (northern Chilean coast): a remote sensing in situ analysis

    Víctor H. Marín;Luisa E. Delgado;Rubén Escribano

  • Physical-Chemical processes and Patterns of Diversity of the chilean eastern boundary pelagic and benthic marine ecosystems: An overview

    Rubén Escribano;Miriam Fernández;Antonio Aranís

  • Seasonal and inter-annual variation of mesozooplankton in the coastal upwelling zone off central-southern Chile

    Ruben Escribano;Pamela Hidalgo;Humberto González;Ricardo Giesecke

  • Water-column cooling and sea surface salinity increase in the upwelling region off central-south Chile driven by a poleward displacement of the South Pacific High

    Wolfgang Schneider;David Donoso;José Garcés-Vargas;Rubén Escribano

  • Production of Calanus chilensis in the upwelling area of Antofagasta, northern Chile

    Ruben Escribano;Ian McLaren

  • The contribution of nano- and micro-planktonic assemblages in the surface layer (0-30 m) under different hydrographic conditions in the upwelling area off Concepcion, central Chile

    V. Anabalón;C.E. Morales;R. Escribano;M. Angélica Varas

  • The structure and functioning of the coastal upwelling system off central/southern Chile

    Ruben Escribano;Wolfgang Schneider

  • Understanding upwelling circulation off Antofagasta (northern Chile): A three-dimensional numerical-modeling approach

    Ruben Escribano;Sergio A. Rosales;José Luis Blanco

  • Recording of ocean-climate changes during the last 2,000 years in a hypoxic marine environment off northern Chile (23°S)

    Luc Ortlieb;Ruben Escribano;Renzo Follegati;Oscar Zuñiga

Frequent Co-Authors

Humberto E. González
Humberto E. González Austral University of Chile
Cristian A. Vargas
Cristian A. Vargas University of Concepción
Osvaldo Ulloa
Osvaldo Ulloa University of Concepción
Miriam Fernández
Miriam Fernández Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Carina B. Lange
Carina B. Lange University of Concepción
Jeffrey A. Runge
Jeffrey A. Runge University of Maine
Shin-ichi Uye
Shin-ichi Uye Hiroshima University
Dimitri Gutiérrez
Dimitri Gutiérrez Cayetano Heredia University
Anthony J. Richardson
Anthony J. Richardson University of Queensland

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