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Pablo Urrutia Cordero,
PhD-student
In my previous work, I focused on investigating effects of harmful cyanobacteria on protozoan grazers, specifically on human pathogenic freshwater free-living amoebae. My current research interests mainly deal with interactive effects of multiple environmental drivers on freshwater food webs in a future climatic scenario –how cyanobacterial populations and their associated toxic production will be affected and what consequences can this have for ecosystem services? To answer these questions, I use mesocosm experiments in combination with routine monitoring and historical data of different lakes. Specifically, I work in a eutrophic lake that is being subjected to biomanipulation attempts aiming at controlling the incidence of toxic cyanobacterial blooms. Finally, I also investigate mechanisms behind alternative stable states in lakes that shift from clear waters, generally dominated by macrophytes, to turbid states caused by massive algal proliferations.
Selected publications
Urrutia-Cordero, P., Agha, R., Cirés, S., Lezcano, M.A., Sánchez-Contreras, M., Waara, K-O, Utkilen, H., Quesada, A., 2013. Effects of harmful cyanobacteria on the freshwater pathogenic free-living amoeba Acanthamoeba castellanii. Aquatic Toxicology 130–131, 9–17.
Main advisor: Lars-Anders Hansson
Assistant advisor:
Karin Rengefors
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Publisher: Department of Biology
Last modified 7 Mar 2013
Pablo Urrutia Cordero
Doctoral student
Aquatic ecology
Phone:
+46462228366
E-mail:
Pablo.Urrutia_Cordero
@biol.lu.se