Grants and awards
Limnology Research Award- Best PhD dissertation
Dear colleagues,
I hope you are well.
In this link you will find the resolution of the XV Limnology Research Award. This has been the fourth call of our award with its new annual periodicity, in which the best doctoral thesis defended in 2023 has been selected. We would first like to thank the jury for their hard work in the evaluation process, without which this award would not be possible.
The award has gone to Ana Paula SENRA PORTELA for her thesis Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and ecological stability for river ecosystem sustainability defended at the Universidade do Porto e Universidade de Lisboa under the direction of João Honrado, Professor Associado, FCUP, Co-supervisors: Cristiana Vieira, Senior Technician, MHNC-UP and Isabelle Durance, Director, Cardiff Water Research Institute.
Congratulations to Ana Paula and her directors!
The jury wanted to highlight the very high level of all the theses submitted, for which we would like to congratulate all the candidates for maintaining the quality of predoctoral research at such high standards.
The jury has also decided to award two runners-up prizes to the theses of Juan RUBIO RÍOS (University of Almería) and Andrés PEREDO ARCE (University of Lisbon).
Congratulations to both of you and to your directors!
Best regards,
Romina Álvarez Troncoso
Secretaria de la Asociación Ibérica de Limnología
2020
Jorge García Girón
Universidad de León
Geographical variation of aquatic macrophyte biodiversity: Towards an integration of scale and ecological organization.
2018-2019
Nicolás Valiente
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, España
A multidisciplinary approach for assessing natural attenuation of pollutants in a highly saline lake-aquifer system: the case of Pétrola Lake, Spain.
2016-2017
Àlex Miró
CEAB-CSIC, España
Fish as local stressors of Pyrenean high mountain lakes: arrival process and impact on amphibians and other organisms
2014-2015
Anna Lupon González
Universitat de Barcelona
The influence of Mediterranean riparian zones on stream nitrogen dynamics: A catchment approach.
2012-2013
Paula Arribas Blázquez
Universidad de Murcia, España
Evolutionary ecology, biogeography and conservation of water beetles in Mediterranean saline ecosystems.
2010-2011
David Soto Arrojo
Universitat de Barcelona
Combining trace metal bioaccumulation and stable isotopes to reveal food web structure in freshwater ecosystems.
2008-2009
Mireia Bartrons Vilamala
Universitat de Barcelona
Food web bioaccumulation of halogenated compounds in high mountain lake food webs.
2006-2007
Rafa Marcé Romero
Universitat de Barcelona
The river influence on Sau reservoir limnology. Empirical and watershed-scale monitoring.
2004-2005
Arturo Sousa Martín
Universidad de Sevilla.
Evolución de la vegetación higrofítica y de los humedales continentales asociados al litoral Onubense Oriental.
2002-2003
María Luz Boyero González
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Estructura y dinámica de las comunidades de macroinvertebrados fluviales. Escalas espaciales y heterogeneidad.
2000-2001
Daniel Boix Masafret
Universitat de Girona
Estructura y dinámica de la comunidad animal acuática de la laguna temporal Estanyol d’Espolla.
1998-1999
Sergi Pla Rabés
Universitat de Barcelona
Los estomatocistos de crisofíceas de los Pirineos y su aplicabilidad como indicadores paleoambientales.
AIL theses selected and submitted to the EFFS awards previously
2017-2018
Susana Pallarés (Universidad de Murcia): Ecological and evolutionary physioloy of aquatic beetles: coping with multiple natural stressors in inland saline waters.
Daniela Batista (Universidade do Minho): Impacts of silver nanoparticles in freshwater detrital food-webs in a warming scenario.
Sara Calero (Universitat de València): The phenology of submerged macrophytes from Mediterranean wetlands as a sentinel of climate change.
Ana Patrícia Cuco (Universidade de Aveiro): Host-parasite interaction in environmental stress scenarios.
2015-2016
Anna Lupon (Universitat de Barcelona): The influence of Mediterranean riparian zones on stream nitrogen dynamics: A catchment approach.
Ana Sofia Alves (Universidade de Coimbra): Use of benthic meiofauna in evaluating marine ecosystems’ health: how useful can free-living marine nematodes be for ecological quality status (EQS) assessment in transitional waters?
Àlex Miró Pastó (CEAB-CSIC): Fish as local stressors of Pyrenean high mountain lakes: arrival process and impact on amphibians and other organisms.
Bruno Carreira (Universidade de Lisboa): Warm vegetarians? Heat wave effects on aquatic omnivorous ectotherms.
2013-2014
Paula Arribas (Universidad de Murcia): Evolutionary ecology, biogeography and conservation of water beetles in Mediterranean saline ecosystems (ACCÉSIT).
Arunava Pradhan (Universidade du Minho): Impacts of nanoparticles to microbes and invertebrates: from community responses to cellular targets (ACCÉSIT).
Xisca Timoner (ICRA-Universidad de Girona): Stream biofilm responses to flow intermitency.
Carlos Alexandre (Universidad de Évora): Ecological impact of streamflow variability in the bio-ecology of freshwater fishes from permanent and temporary Mediterranean river systems.
2011-2012
David Soto Arrojo (Universitat de Barcelona): Combining trace metal bioaccumulation and stable isotopes to reveal food web structure in freshwater ecosystems (ACCÉSIT).
Carlos Rochera Cordellat (Universitat de València): Functional ecology of microbial freshwater communities from Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica).
Helena Novais (Universidade de Évora): Benthic diatoms in Portuguese watercourses.
Rute Pinto (Universidade de Coimbra): Mondego basin and estuary management: the role of ecosystem services (e)valuation for human wellbeing endeavour.