Andrea Butturini

Andrea Butturini

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0002-7712-6328
Researcher ID: K-4991-2014
Knowledge area: Ecologia

Research group:

  • Grup de Recerca en Ecologia Aquàtica Continental (GREAC)
  • FORESTREAM. Research Group on Forest and Stream Ecological Links: Waterhed Management and Restoration

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Diagonal 643
934021508
abutturini(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Ciencias Naturales . Universidad La Sapienza, Roma-Italia . 15/07/1992 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Biologia . Universidad de Barcelona-Dpto. de Ecolog . 11/06/1999 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Biogeochemistry; flufia ecology; Carbon and nitrogen cycles; catchments; hypersaline-endorheic systems; saline-sodic ecosystems

Projects

Exploring the interplay between carbon cycling and microbial community functioning in Mediterranean intermittent streams during flow and no-flow periods. CSIC-CNR ref 2006IT0010 . 2007 - 2009 . Ref.2006IT0010 . Not specified . PI: Andrea Butturini
Impacto de los cambios hidrológicos abruptos (crecidas) y estaciónales (sequías) en el transporte y transformación de la materia orgánica disuelta en un sistema fluvial de régimen mediterráneo. CGL2007-60144/HID . 2008 - 2010 . International Commission of Science and Technology. National Plan I+D . PI: A. Butturini
Hot-spots biogeoquímicos y microbianos en ríos Mediterráneos. Influencia de los eventos hidrológicos y la presión antropogénica . 2012 - 2014 . Ref.CGL2011-30151-C02-02 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Andrea Butturini
FORESTREAM. Research Group on Forest and Stream Ecological Links: Waterhed Management and Restoration . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR976 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Francesc de Paula Sabater Comas
Impacto de la sequía en sistemas acuáticos salinos extremos . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.RTI2018-097950-B-C21 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Andrea Butturini; Anna Romani Cornet

Journal Publications

Butturini, A.; Alvarez, M.; Bernal, B.; Vazquez, E.; Sabater, F. (2008). Diversity and temporal sequences of forms of DOC and NO3-discharge responses in an intermittent stream: Predictable or random succession?. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113( 1), pp. doi:10.1029/200 - doi:10.1029/20 . ISSN: 0148-0227
Butturini, A.; Ejarque, E. (2013). Technical Note: Dissolved organic matter fluorescence ¿ a finite mixture approach to deconvolve excitation-emission matrices. Biogeosciences, 10 , pp. 5875 - 5887 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1726-4170
Butturini, A.; Guarch A.;Romaní, A.M.;Freixa, A.;Amalfitano S.; Fazi, S.; Ejarque, E. (2016). Hydrological conditions control in situ DOM retention and release along a Mediterranean river. Water Research, 99, pp. 33 - 45 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2016.04.036 . ISSN: 0043-1354
Guarch-Ribot, Alba; Butturini, Andrea (2016). Hydrological conditions regulate dissolved organic matter quality in an intermittent headwater stream. From drought to storm analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 571, pp. 1358 - 1369 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.060 . ISSN: 0048-9697
Ejarque, E.; Freixa, A.; Vazquez, E.; Guarch, A.; Amalfitano, S.; Fazi, S.; Romaní, A.; Butturini, A. (2017). Quality and reactivity of dissolved organic matter in a Mediterranean river across hydrological and spatial gradients. Science of the Total Environment, 599-600 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.113 . ISSN: 0048-9697
Fazi S.; Butturini A.; Tassi F.; Amalfitano S.; Venturi S.; Vazquez E.; Clokie M.; Wanjala S.W.; Pacini N.; Harper D.M. (2017). Biogeochemistry and biodiversity in a network of saline-alkaline lakes: Implications of ecohydrological connectivity in the Kenyan Rift Valley. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, 18, pp. 96 - 106 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecohyd.2017.09.003 . ISSN: 1642-3593
Amalfitano, S.; Fazi, S.; Ejarque, E.; Freixa, A.; Romaní, A. M.; Butturini, A (2017). Deconvolution model to resolve cytometric microbial community patterns in flowing waters. Cytometry Part A . https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.23304 . ISSN: 1552-4922
Guarch-Ribot, Alba; Butturini, Andrea (2016). Hydrological conditions regulate dissolved organic matter quality in an intermittent headwater stream. From drought to storm analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 571, pp. 1358 - 1369 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.060 . ISSN: 0048-9697
Granados, V.; Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C.; Arias-Real, R.; Obrador, B.; Harjung, A.; & Butturini, A.; (2020). The interruption of longitudinal hydrological connectivity causes delayed responses in dissolved organic matter. Science of the Total Environment, 713 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136619 . ISSN: 0048-9697
Butturini, A.; Herzsprung, P.; Lechtenfeld, O.J. Venturi, S.; Amalfitano, A.; Vazquez, E.; Pacini, N.; Harper, D.M.; Tassi, F.; Fazi, S.; (2020). Dissolved organic matter in a tropical saline-alkaline lake of the East African Rift Valley. Water Research . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.115532 . ISSN: 0043-1354

Others Publications

Butturini A; García-Castellanos D; Jordi C; Ribas I; Urmeneta J. (2020). (In)Habitabilidad planetaria. Fundamentos de astrogeobiologia . (pp. 1 - 314) . Marcombo . ISBN: 9788426728340 .

Relevant Activities

Editor associat de la revista Hydrology Earth System Sciences (2008-2015)
Revisor extern de diferent Peer-review revistes e els camps de Hidrologia, biogeoquímica i ecologia microbiana
Revisor extern de projectes de la ERC (EU), German research fundation, CONICET (Argentina)
Professor invitat a la Universitat de Lujan (Buenos aires, Argentina). Cursos de 'manejo de cuencas'