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Sergi Pla Rabés

Sergi Pla-Rabés (PhD in Biology, University of Barcelona) is a researcher at GECA Environmental Change Ecology Group (CREAF, Spain), adjunct professor at the UAB (University Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain) and Senior Research Associated at Science in the University of Johannesburg (South Africa).
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Temporal Ecology and Biogeography Lab

Sergi Pla-Rabés (PhD in Biology, University of Barcelona) is a researcher at GECA Environmental Change Ecology Group (CREAF, Spain), adjunct professor at the UAB (University Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain) and Senior Research Associated at Science in the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). He is also a current member of IASC (International Arctic Science Committee for the Terrestrial Working Group). He was postdoc fellowships at: ECRC (UCL, UK, Marie Curie fellowship); PEARL (Queens University, Canada), Geography department (Loughborough University, UK) and the CEAB (I3P-CSIC, Spain).

He has worked on more than 45 national and international projects studying the effects of Global Change in ecosystems, mainly related to climate variability, atmospheric pollution and human impacts. He has worked mainly in the mountains (Alps, Pyrenees, Central System, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, UK), Polar regions (Arctic & Antarctic), and oceanic islands (Easter Island & Azores archipelago). However, he also works to understand current environmental problems in Ontario, Nova Scotia & Manitoba.

Currently, his research is on the response of aquatic ecosystems (biodiversity and biogeochemistry) to Earth systemic changes. His area of ​​interest is understanding the effects of Global Change on ecosystems using lakes and wetlands as sentinels of change. He uses the time series derived from lake sediment records to study the response of ecosystems to the different components of global change and their interactions at different time scales (e.g., climate-land use changes; climate-atmospheric pollution). His main goal is to increase our understanding of the main factors that change ecosystems to develop conservation, restoration, and mitigation policies.

COORDINATING AGORA WORKSHOP, A collaborative Arctic research community assessment of interactions between global change drivers, societies and subsystems through space and time (March 2022) 

AWARDS & MENTIONS

  1. International reward to assist to DIALOG symposia (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography) per la ASLO 2001-Bermuda
  2. National award to the best PhD in Limnology per la AEL 1997-1999. 2001, Valencia, Spain.

 

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

Increase the current scale of observation to understand long-term ecosystem changes to include the legacies of the past in the equation.

 

Has participated in:

Geca 2
Research group
Active

GECA

Environmental Change Ecology Group

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Project / Initiative
National projects
Active

WATERSCAPE

The waterscape as a framework for species coexistence: diatoms as model

Estany de la ratera, aiguestortes i estany de sant maurici
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Others
Inactive

BIOGEOMONT

The acceleration of biogeochemical cycles in the high mountains during the Anthropocene

Últimes publicacions:

2023 | Journal Article

(en) - Control of diatom and chrysophyte cyst dynamics by a meteorologically driven mixing regime in eutrophic Lake Żabińskie, northern Poland,Control of diatom and chrysophyte cyst dynamics by a meteorologically driven mixing regime in eutrophic Lake Żabińskie, northern Poland

Szczerba, Agnieszka; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; Tylmann, Wojciech

(en) - Control of diatom and chrysophyte cyst dynamics by a meteorologically driven mixing regime in eutrophic Lake Żabińskie, northern Poland,Control of diatom and chrysophyte cyst dynamics by a meteorologically driven mixing regime in eutrophic Lake Żabińskie, northern Poland. 1503-1517

2023 | Journal Article

Unprecedented recent regional increase in organic carbon and lithogenic fluxes in high altitude Pyrenean lakes,(en) - Unprecedented recent regional increase in organic carbon and lithogenic fluxes in high altitude Pyrenean lakes

Vicente de Vera García, Alejandra; Mata-Campo, María Pilar; Pla, Sergi; Vicente, Eduardo; Prego, Ricardo; Frugone-Álvarez, Matías; Polanco-Martínez, Josué; Galofré, Marcel; Valero-Garcés, Blas Lorenzo

Unprecedented recent regional increase in organic carbon and lithogenic fluxes in high altitude Pyrenean lakes,(en) - Unprecedented recent regional increase in organic carbon and lithogenic fluxes in high altitude Pyrenean lakes. -

2023 | Journal Article

(en) - Self-filling enclosures to experimentally assess plankton response to pulse nutrient enrichments,Self-filling enclosures to experimentally assess plankton response to pulse nutrient enrichments

Gimenez-Grau, Pau; Camarero, Lluís; Palacín-Lizarbe, Carlos; Sala-Faig, Marc; Zufiaurre, Aitziber; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; Felip, Marisol; Catalan, Jordi

(en) - Self-filling enclosures to experimentally assess plankton response to pulse nutrient enrichments,Self-filling enclosures to experimentally assess plankton response to pulse nutrient enrichments. 266-277

2023 | Journal Article

(en) - Socio-ecological impact of monogenetic volcanism in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Iberia),Socio-ecological impact of monogenetic volcanism in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Iberia),(ca) - Socio-ecological impact of monogenetic volcanism in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Field NE Iberia

Revelles, Jordi; Martí Molist, Joan; Burjachs, Francesc; Finsinger, Walter; Iriarte, Eneko; Mesquita-Joanes, Francesc; Pla-Rabés, Sergi; Planagumà, Llorenç; Rodrigo, Maria A.; Alcalde, Gabriel; Saña, Maria

(en) - Socio-ecological impact of monogenetic volcanism in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Iberia),Socio-ecological impact of monogenetic volcanism in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Iberia),(ca) - Socio-ecological impact of monogenetic volcanism in the La Garrotxa Volcanic Field NE Iberia. -