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Overview

Sandra Brucet is affiliated with the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Aquatic Science.

Their main topics of work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, and Marine and fisheries research.

Recent publications authored by or involving Sandra Brucet include:

  • Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world, 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-based Solutions, 2023, Hydrobiologia
  • The future of temporary wetlands in drylands under global change, 2021, Inland Waters
  • Salinity shapes food webs of lakes in semiarid climate zones: a stable isotope approach, 2021, Inland Waters
  • Fish size spectra are affected by nutrient concentration and relative abundance of non-native species across streams of the NE Iberian Peninsula, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sandra Brucet include:

  • Thomas Mehner
  • Mireia Bartrons
  • Erik Jeppesen
  • Meryem Beklioğlu
  • Beat Oertli

Publication venues where Sandra Brucet has frequently published are:

  • Inland Waters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Hydrobiologia
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Three hundred ways to assess Europe's surface waters: An almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive

    Sebastian Birk;Wendy Bonne;Angel Borja;Sandra Brucet

  • Ecological impacts of global warming and water abstraction on lakes and reservoirs due to changes in water level and related changes in salinity

    Erik Jeppesen;Sandra Brucet;Sandra Brucet;Luigi Naselli-Flores;Eva Papastergiadou

  • Saving freshwater from salts

    M. Cañedo-Argüelles;M. Cañedo-Argüelles;C. P. Hawkins;B. J. Kefford;R. B. Schäfer

  • Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world.

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  • Factors influencing zooplankton size structure at contrasting temperatures in coastal shallow lakes: Implications for effects of climate change

    Sandra Brucet;Sandra Brucet;Dani Boix;Xavier D. Quintana;Elisabeth Jensen

  • Environmental Warming in Shallow Lakes: A Review of Potential Changes in Community Structure as Evidenced from Space-for-Time Substitution Approaches

    Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Franco Teixeira-de Mello;Carla Kruk;Cecilia Alonso

  • A comparative review of recovery processes in rivers, lakes, estuarine and coastal waters

    P. F. M. Verdonschot;B. M. Spears;C. K. Feld;S. Brucet

  • Fish diversity in European lakes: geographical factors dominate over anthropogenic pressures

    Sandra Brucet;Stephanie Pédron;Thomas Mehner;Torben L. Lauridsen

  • Development of a fish-based index to assess the eutrophication status of European lakes

    C. Argillier;S. Caussé;M. Gevrey;S. Pédron

  • Patterns of composition and species richness of crustaceans and aquatic insects along environmental gradients in Mediterranean water bodies

    D. Boix;S. Gascón;J. Sala;A. Badosa

  • Climate change and the future of freshwater biodiversity in Europe: a primer for policy-makers

    Brian Moss;Daniel Hering;Andy J. Green;Ahmed Aidoud

  • Species richness of crustacean zooplankton and trophic structure of brackish lagoons in contrasting climate zones: north temperate Denmark and Mediterranean Catalonia (Spain)

    Sandra Brucet;Dani Boix;Stéphanie Gascón;Jordi Sala

  • Effects of temperature, salinity and fish in structuring the macroinvertebrate community in shallow lakes: implications for effects of climate change.

    Sandra Brucet;Dani Boix;Louise W. Nathansen;Xavier D. Quintana

  • Status, trends, and future dynamics of freshwater ecosystems in Europe and Central Asia

    R. E. Gozlan;B. K. Karimov;E. Zadereev;D. Kuznetsova

  • Zooplankton structure and dynamics in permanent and temporary Mediterranean salt marshes: taxon-based and size-based approaches

    Sandra Brucet;Dani Boix;Rocio Lopez-Flores;Anna Badosa

  • Size spectra of lake fish assemblages: responses along gradients of general environmental factors and intensity of lake‐use

    Matthias Emmrich;Sandra Brucet;David Ritterbusch;Thomas Mehner

  • A nonparametric method for the measurement of size diversity with emphasis on data standardization

    Xavier D. Quintana;Sandra Brucet;Dani Boix;Rocío López-Flores

  • Nutrients and zooplankton composition and dynamics in relation to the hydrological pattern in a confined Mediterranean salt marsh (NE Iberian Peninsula)

    Anna Badosa;Dani Boix;Sandra Brucet;Rocío López-Flores

  • Strong correspondence between gillnet catch per unit effort and hydroacoustically derived fish biomass in stratified lakes

    Matthias Emmrich;Ian J. Winfield;Jean Guillard;Atle Rustadbakken

  • Geographical patterns in the body-size structure of European lake fish assemblages along abiotic and biotic gradients

    Matthias Emmrich;Stéphanie Pédron;Sandra Brucet;Sandra Brucet;Ian J. Winfield

  • Size and species diversity of zooplankton communities in fluctuating Mediterranean salt marshes

    Sandra Brucet;Dani Boix;Rocío López-Flores;Anna Badosa

  • Defining ecologically relevant water quality targets for lakes in Europe

    Sandra Poikane;Rob Portielje;Marcel van den Berg;Geoff Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Xavier D. Quintana
Xavier D. Quintana University of Girona
Dani Boix
Dani Boix University of Girona
Thomas Mehner
Thomas Mehner Leibniz Association
Torben L. Lauridsen
Torben L. Lauridsen Aarhus University
Mariana Meerhoff
Mariana Meerhoff University of the Republic
Ian J. Winfield
Ian J. Winfield Lancaster University
Meryem Beklioglu
Meryem Beklioglu Middle East Technical University
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles
Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles University of Barcelona
Martin Søndergaard
Martin Søndergaard Aarhus University

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