María del Carmen Pérez Martínez

Part B. CV SUMMARY (max. 3500 characters, including spaces)
During my PhD my research focused on the analysis of the effects of fertilization and herbivore pressure on the phytoplankton community through experimental techniques in situ. Later I trained culture of algal species and microinvertebrates and laboratory experimentation during my postdoctoral stay. These techniques were applied to return to Spain by setting up the culture laboratories that still exist today and have allowed me to tackle different research works focused on the purification of wastewater and life cycles of cladoceran species. This last aspect has occupied an important part of my research in recent years and led me, through the study of forms of resistance, to the investigation of lake sediment.
In addition, during the last 15 years I have worked in several projects focused on the diversity of organisms in different aquatic ecosystems.
I have recently started a new line of research dedicated to Paleolimnology and focused on studies in alpine lakes during the Anthropocene, for which I made a stay at PEARL (Canada).
Part C. RELEVANT MERITS
C.1. Selected Publications
1. Llodrà-Llabrés, J., Jiménez-Moreno, G., García-Alix, A., Anderson, R. S., Jiménez-Espejo, F. J., López-Blanco, R., Rodrigo-Gámiz, M. & Pérez-Martínez, C. (2024) Holocene paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic variability in a high mountain lake in Sierra Nevada (Spain): Insights from diatom analysis. Quaternary Science Review 344:108984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108984
2. Fernández-Moreno, D., Delgado, C, González-Paz, L., Blanco, S., Sánchez-Castillo P.M. and C. Pérez-Mart¿¿nez (2024) Exploring epipelic diatom species composition across wetland conductivity gradients in Southern Spain. Hydrobiologia 851: 4091¿4105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05566-7.
3. Sigró, J., Cisneros, M., Pérez¿Luque, A. J., Pérez-Mart¿¿nez, C., & Vegas¿Vilarrubia, T. (2024). Trends in temperature and precipitation at high and low elevations in the main mountain ranges of the Iberian Peninsula (1894¿2020): The Sierra Nevada and the Pyrenees. International Journal of Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8487
4. Llodrà-Llabrés, J., Martínez-López, J., Postma, T., Pérez-Martínez, C. & Alcaraz-Segura, D. (2023) Retrieving water chlorophyll-a concentration in inland waters from Sentinel-2 imagery: Review of operability, performance and ways forward. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 125 103605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2023.103605.
5. Jiménez-Moreno, G., Heiri, O., García-Alix, A., Anderson, R.S., Jiménez-Espejo. F.J., López-Blanco, R., Jiménez, L., Pérez-Martínez, C., Rodrigo-Gámiz, M., López-Avilés, A. & J. Camuera (2023) Holocene summer temperature reconstruction based on a chironomid record from Sierra Nevada, southern Spain. Quaternary Science Review 319:108343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108343
6. Peñas, F.J.,¿ Pérez-Martínez, C., ¿ & Barquín, J. (2023) An evaluation of freshwater monitoring programs in ILTER nodes and mountain national parks: identifying key variables to monitor global change effects. Biodivers Conserv 32, 65¿94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-022-02466-x
7. Pérez-Martínez, C., Conde-Porcuna, J.M., Ramos Rodríguez,E., Moreno, E., Rühland, K.M., Jeziorski, A. Smol, J.P., García-Alix, A., Heiri, O.H., Corral Arredondo, E. & Jiménez, L. (2022). Paleolimnological indicators of global change. In: The landscape of Sierra Nevada: A unique laboratory of global processes, Zamora, R. & Oliva, M. (eds.). Springer, Cham. (pp. 279-291). ISBN 978-3-030-94218-2.
8. Conde-Porcuna, J. M., Veiga, J., Moreno, E., Jiménez, L., Ramos-Rodríguez, E. & Pérez-Martínez, C. (2021) Phylogeny and spatiotemporal genetic patterns in the Daphnia pulex complex from Sierra Nevada lakes (Spain): first record of North American D. pulex in a European high mountain lake. Journal of Plankton Research https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbab024
9. Del Arco, A., Álvarez-Manzaneda, I., Funes, A., Pérez-Martínez, C. & de Vicente, I. (2021) Assessing the toxic effects of magnetic particles used for lake restoration on phytoplankton: a community-based approach. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 207, 111288 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111288López-Rodríguez, M. J., Paz-Moreno, I., Peralta-Maraver, I., Pérez-Martínez, C. & Tierno de Figueroa, J. M. (2020) Experimental evaluation of biodiversity response to dispersal barriers and patch productivity in Mediterranean streams. Aquatic Sciences
10. Del Arco, A., Álvarez-Manzaneda, I., Funes, A., Pérez-Martínez, C.& de Vicente, I. (2020) Assessing the toxic effects of magnetic particles used for lake restoration on phytoplankton: a community-based approach. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (aceptado)
11. Pérez-Martínez, C., Rühland, K. M., Smol, J. P., Jones, V. J., & Conde-Porcuna, J. M. (2020). Long-term ecological changes in Mediterranean mountain lakes linked to recent climate change and Saharan dust deposition revealed by diatom analyses. Science of The Total Environment, 138519.
12. García-Alix, A., Toney, J. L., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Pérez-Martínez, C., Jiménez, L., Rodrigo-Gámiz, M., Anderson, R. S., Camuera, J., Jiménez-Espejo, F. J., Peña-Angulo, D. & Ramos-Román, M. J. (2020) Extreme warming rates affecting alpine areas in SW Europe deduced from algal lipids, Climate of the Past 16, 245¿263. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-98
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13. Pérez-Martínez, C., Conde-Porcuna, J. M., Moreno, E., Ramos-Rodríguez, E. & Jiménez, L. (2020) Cladoceran assemblage distribution in shallow alpine lakes of Sierra Nevada (Spain) and its relationship with environmental variables. Aquatic Sciences 82:4. doi: 10.1007/s00027-019-0677-
14. Burillo, J. P., Jiménez, L. & Pérez-Martínez, C. (2019) Identifying invasive Daphnia species by morphological analysis of postabdominal claws in Sierra Nevada alpine lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 62: 121-135. doi:10.1007/s10933-019-00078-0
15. Moreno, E., Pérez-Martínez, C., & Conde-Porcuna, J. M. (2019). Dispersal of rotifers and cladocerans by waterbirds: seasonal changes and hatching success. Hydrobiologia 834(1): 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-3919-6
16. Jiménez, L., Conde-Porcuna, J. M., Heiri, O., Anderson, R. S., Toney, J. L., García-Alix, A. & Pérez-Martínez, C. (2019) Ecosystem responses to climate-related changes in a Mediterranean alpine environment over the last ~180 years. Ecosystems 22: 563-577. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0286-5
17. Conde-Porcuna, J.M., Pérez-Martínez, C. & Moreno, E. (2018) Variations in the hatching response of rotifers to salinity and waterbird ingestion. Journal of Plankton Research 40: 326¿341. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fby010
18. Sánchez-España, J. M. Pilar Mata , Juana Vegas , Mario Morellón , Juan Antonio Rodríguez,Ángel Salazar a, I.Yusta, A. Chaos, Carmen Pérez-Martínez , Ana Navaset al (2017) Anthropogenic and climatic factors enhancing hypolimnetic anoxia in a temperate mountain lake. Journal of Hydrology 555:832-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.10.049
19. Jiménez L., Rühland, K.M., Jeziorski, A., Smol, J. P. & Pérez-Martínez, C. (2018) Climate change and Saharan dust drive recent cladoceran and primary production changes in remote alpine lakes of Sierra Nevada, Spain. Global Change Biology 24:e139¿e158. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13878
20. Morales-Baquero, R. and Pérez-Martínez, C. (2016).Saharan versus local influence on atmospheric aerosol deposition in the Southern Iberian Peninsula: significance for N and P inputs. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 30, doi:10.1002/2015GB005254.
C.2. Research projects
Patrones temporales en la biogeoquímica y biota de las lagunas de Sierra Nevada: aproximación desde la Paleolimnología (BIOPAL) 2012-2015
MICINN CGL2011-23483
Univ. Granada y Queen¿s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canadá)
IP: Carmen Pérez Martínez
Evaluación y seguimiento del cambio global en tres lagos de alta montaña de Parques Nacionales (Enol, Marboré y La Caldera): indicadores biológicos (CLAM 1) 2012-2015
OAPN Organismo Autónomo Red Parques Nacionales Ref623S/2012
Univ. Barcelona, Univ. Granada, CSIC (Instituto Pirenaico Ecología)
IP: María Rieradevall Sants (Universidad Barcelona)
El cambio climático en el sur de la península ibérica: reconstrucción basada en sedimentos lacustres del Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada
Junta de Andalucía 30BB230301
Univ. Granada, CSIC (Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra)
IP: Gonzalo Jiménez Moreno (Universidad Granada)
H2020 ECOPOTENTIAL: Improving future ecosystem benefits through earth observations 2017-19
Referencia: 641762.vEuropeanComission
IP: Antonello Provenzale (CNR-Italia), Regino Zamora (UGR).
Lagos centinelas de cambio global en los Parques Nacionales: análisis multidisciplinar de los últimos 6000 años. 2020-2022
OAPN Ref: 2403-S/2017
IP: Dra. Carmen Pérez Martínez (Subproyecto Limnología)