Xon Borrell i Thió

Xon Borrell i Thió

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0002-6714-0724
Scopus Author ID: 7004925435
Researcher ID: B-8257-2009
Knowledge area: Zoologia

Grup de recerca en ecologia tròfica i del moviment dels vertebrats (ECOVERT)

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
C/ Diagonal 645 1era planta
934039809
xonborrell(a)ub.edu

Teaching

Ecotoxicologia. Ciències del mar
Toxicologia Ambiental. Ciències Ambientals
Efectes de la Contaminació sobre la Biodiversitat. Màster de Biodiversitat

Academic Training

Ciències Químiques . Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona . 25/06/1981 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Ciències Biològiques . Universitat de Barcelona . 12/03/1993 . (Ph.D.)

Research interests

Dinàmica intra e interpoblacional d'agents tòxics en mamífers marins
Ecotoxicologia
Ecologia tròfica en vertebrats

Projects

Identidad y rango de distribución del rorcual común del Atlántico nororiental y del Mediterráneo establecido mediante trazadores químicos . 2016 - 2018 . Ref.CGL2015-70468-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Alejandro Aguilar Vila; Maria Asuncion Borrell Thio
Top predators in a changing ecosystem: occurrence and implications of specialisation in killer whales . 2016 - 2017 . Ref.163060-051 . Rannís. The Icelandic Research Fund . PI: Filipa Isabel Pereira Samarra
Developing Mediterranean-specific protocols to protect biodiversity from litter impact at basin and local MPAs scales (MEDSEALITTER) . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.1MED15_3.2_M12_334 . Unió Europea . PI: Maria Asuncion Borrell Thio; Alejandro Aguilar Vila
Atorgament d'un ajut de la convocatòria del Programa d’Intensificació de l’Activitat Investigadora Internacional (2019) . 2019 - 2020 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Maria Asuncion Borrell Thio
Efecte del canvi climàtic en el nínxol tròfic de cetacis i condrictis de la Mediterrània . 2019 - 2019 . Ref.310521 . Fundació Barcelona Zoo . PI: Maria Asuncion Borrell Thio

Journal Publications

Borrell, A.; Clusa, M.; Aguilar, A.; Drago, M. (2015). Use of epidermis for the monitoring of tissular trace elements in Mediterranean striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba). Chemosphere, 122, pp. 288 - 294 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.10.080 . ISSN: 0045-6535
Jepson, P.D.; Deaville, R.; Barber, J.L.; Aguilar, A.; Borrell, A.; Murphy, S.; Barry, J.; Brownlow, A.; Barnett, J.; Berrow, S.; Cunningham, A.A.; Davison, N.; Doeschate, Mariel ten Esteban, R.; Ferreira, M.; Foote, A.D.; Genov, T.; Giménez, J.; Loveridge, J.; Llavona, Á.; Martin, V.; Maxwell, D.L.; Papachlimitzou, A.; Penrose, R.; Perkins, M.W.; Smith, B.; de Stephanis, R.; Tregenz,a N.; Verborgh, P.; Fernandez, A. ; Law, R.J. (2016). PCB pollution continues to impact populations of orcas and other dolphins in european waters. Scientific Reports(6), pp. 18573 - 18573 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322
Borrell, A., Gómez-Campos, E; Aguilar, A. (2016). Influence of reproduction on stable isotope ratios: nitrogen and carbon isotope discrimination between mothers, foetuses, and milk in the fin whale, a capital breeder. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 89(1), pp. 41 - 50 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1522-2152
Borrell, Asuncion; Tornero, Victoria; Bhattacharjee, Dola; Aguilar, Alex (2016). Trace element accumulation and trophic relationships in aquatic organisms of the Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem (Bangladesh). Science of the Total Environment, 545, pp. 414 - 423 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0048-9697
Borrell, A.; Saiz, L.; Vikingsson, G. A.; Gaufier, P.; Lopez Fernandez, A.; Aguilar, A. (2018). Fin whales as bioindicators of multi-decadal change in carbon and oxygen stable isotope shifts in the North Atlantic. Marine Environmental Research, 138, pp. 129 - 134 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0141-1136
Vighi, M.; Borrell, A.; Víkingsson, G.; Gunnlaugsson, Th.; Aguilar, A. (2019). Strontium in fin whale baleen: A potential tracer of mysticete movements across the oceans?. Science of the Total Environment, 650, pp. 1224 - 1230 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0048-9697
Borrell, A.; Tornero, V.; Bhattacharjee, D.; Aguilar (2019). Organochlorine concentrations in aquatic organisms from different trophic levels of the Sundarban mangrove ecosystem and their implications for human consumption. Environmental Pollution, 251, pp. 681 - 688 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0269-7491
Silva, M.A.; Borrell, A.; Gauffier, P.; Prieto, R. ; Bérubé, M.; Palsbøl, P.J.; Colaço, A. (2019). Stable isotopes reveal winter feeding in different habitats in blue, fin and sei whales migrating through the Azores. Royal Society Open Science, 6(8) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2054-5703
Garcia-Garin, O.; Vighi, M.; Aguilar, A.; Tsangaris, C.; Digka, N.; Kaberi, E.; Borrell, A. (2019). Boops boops as a bioindicator of microplastic pollution along the Spanish Catalan coast. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 149, p. 110648 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0025-326X
Gauffier P., Borrell A., Silva M., Víkingsson G., López Fernández A., Giménez J., Colaço A., Halldorsson S., Vighi M., de Stephanis, R., Prieto R., Aguilar A. (2020). Wait your turn, North Atlantic fin whales share a common feeding ground sequentially. Marine Environmental Research, 155, p. 104884 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104884 . ISSN: 0141-1136

Others Publications

Reijnders, P. J. H.; Aguilar, A.; Borrell, A. (2009). Pollution and Marine Mammals. En: “. W. F. Perrin, B. Würsig & J. G. M. Thewissen (eds) . In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals” . (pp. 1 - 1352) . Academic Press, Elsevier . ISBN: 978-0-12-373553 .
Castrillón, J.; Gomez-Campos, E.; Aguilar, A.; and Borrell, A.. (2013). Assessing the relationship between morbillivirus epizootic virulence and organochlorine levels in Mediterranean striped dolphins . In ECS-ASCOBANS-ACCOBAMS; Pollutants Workshop Proceedings ECS SPECIAL PUBLICATION SERIES NO. 5 . Volume. 5 . (pp. 51 - 58) .
Aguilar, A.; Vighi, M.; Sánchez, S. & Borrell, A. (2015). Os grandes cetáceos como recurso da pesca baleeira moderna en Galicia . In Eubalaena . Volume. 14 . (pp. 59 - 72) . Museo Massó, Xunta de Galicia . ISBN: 978-84-453-5201-4 .

Relevant Activities

¿ Acreditació d'haver satisfet els requisits que impliquen una trajectòria investigadora destacada a l'efecte de el programa I3
¿ Membre de l'Institut de Biodiversitat. IRBio Universitat de Barcelona