Biel Obrador

Biel Obrador

Senior lecturer

Scopus Author ID: 16203343100
Researcher ID: A-1856-2009
Knowledge area: Ecologia

Research group: FORESTREAM. Research Group on Forest and Stream Ecological Links: Watershed Management and Restoration

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Av Diagonal, 643
934021510
obrador(a)ub.edu

Projects

Contribución de los estanques urbanos naturalizados a la sostenibilidad ambiental de las ciudades . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.TED2021-130330B-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Daniel Gaspar Von Schiller Calle
Impacto de la contaminación urbana sobre la biodiversidad fluvial durante eventos climáticos extremos II. ecological and ecotoxicological invertebrate responses . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.TED2021-129966B-C33 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Maria Isabel Muñoz Gracia
Quantifying restoration success across biomes by linking biodiversity, multifunctionality and hydromorphological heterogeneity (RESTOLINK) . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.PCI2022-132930 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Daniel Gaspar Von Schiller Calle
Alteración de los sumideros y fuentes de carbono en aguas continentales que se contraen: emisiones y procesos inorgánicos . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-114024GB-C31 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Biel Obrador Sala; Daniel Gaspar Von Schiller Calle
Inventive forecasting tools for adapting water quality management to a new climate (inventWater) . 2021 - 2025 . Ref.956623 . Unió Europea . PI: Biel Obrador Sala
Dinámica del carbono en lagos y embalses frente a una hidrología cambiante: implicaciones para el metabolismo del ecosistema, flujos de gases y sumideros sedimentarios . 2018 - 2020 . Ref.CGL2017-86788-C3-3-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Biel Obrador Sala

Journal Publications (last 10 years)

Granados V., Arias-Real R., Gutiérrez-Cánovas G. , Obrador B., Butturini A. Multiple drying aspects shape dissolved organic matter composition in intermittent streams. In Science of the Total Environment. Volume 852. Number 158376. 2022 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158376
Mabano Amani; Daniel von Schiller; Isabel Suárez; Miren Atristain; Arturo Elosegi; Rafael Marcé; Gonzalo García-Baquero; Biel Obrador. The drawdown phase of dam decommissioning is a hot moment of gaseous carbon emissions from a temperate reservoir. In Inland Waters. Volume 12. Number 4. 2022 . Institutional Repository
Keller, P.S.; Marcé, R.; Obrador, B.; Koschorreck, M. Global carbon budget of reservoirs is overturned by the quantification of drawdown areas. In Nature Geoscience. Volume 14. 2021 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00734-z
Khan, H.; Laas, A.; Marcé, R.; Sepp, M.; Obrador, B. Eutrophication and geochemistry drive pelagic calcite precipitation in lakes. In Water. Volume 13. 2021 . Institutional Repository
Casas-Ruiz, Joan P.; Spencer, Robert G. M.; Guillemette, Francois; von Schiller, Daniel; Obrador, Biel; Podgorski, David C.; Kellerman, Anne M.; Hartmann, Jens; Gomez-Gener, Lluis; Sabater, Sergi; Marce, Rafael. Delineating the Continuum of Dissolved Organic Matter in Temperate River Networks. In Global Biogeochemical Cycles. Volume 34. Number 8. 2020 . https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GB006495
Keller, P.S.; Catalán, N.; von Schiller, D.; Grossart, H.P.; Koschorreck, M.; Obrador, B.; Frassl, M.A.; Karakaya, N.; Barros, N.; Howitt, J.A.; Mendoza-Lera, C.; Pastor, A.; Flaim, G.; Aben, R.; Riis, T.; Arce, M.I.; Onandia, G.; Paranaíba, J.R.; Linkhorst, A.; del Campo, R.; Amado, A.M.; Cauvy-Fraunié, S.; Brothers, S.; Condon, J.; Mendonça, R.F.; Reverey, F.; Rõõm, E.I.; Datry, T.; Roland, F.; Laas, A.; Obertegger, U.; Park, J.H.; Wang, H.; Kosten, S.; Gómez, R.; Feijoó, C.; Elosegi, A.; Sánchez-Montoya, M.M.; Finlayson, C.M.; Melita, M.; Oliveira Junior, E.S.; Muniz, C.C.; Gómez-Gener, L.; Leigh, C.; Zhang, Q.; Marcé, R. Global CO2 emissions from dry inland waters share common drivers across ecosystems. In Nature Communications. Volume 11. 2020 . Institutional Repository
Marcé, R.; Obrador, B.; Gómez-Gener, L.; Catalán, N.; Koschorreck, M.; Arce, M.I.; Singer, G.; von Schiller, D. Emissions from dry inland waters are a blind spot in the global carbon cycle. In Earth-Science Reviews. Volume 188. 2019 . Institutional Repository
Obrador, Biel; von Schiller, Daniel; Marce, Rafael; Gomez-Gener, Lluis; Koschorreck, Matthias; Borrego, Carles; Catalan, Nuria. Dry habitats sustain high CO2 emissions from temporary ponds across seasons. In Scientific Reports. Volume 8. 2018 . Institutional Repository
Giling, D.; Staehr, P.; Grossart, H.; René Andersen, M.; Boehrer, B.; Escot, C.; Evrendilek, F.; Gómez-Gener, LO.; Honti, M.; Jones, I.; Karakaya, N.; Laas, A.; Moreno-Ostos, E.; Rinke, K.; Scharfenberger, U.; Schmidt, S.; Weber, M.; Woolway, R.; Zwart, J.; Obrador, B. Delving deeper: Metabolic processes in the metalimnion of stratified lakes. In Limnology and Oceanography. Volume 62. 2017 . https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10504
Gómez-Gener, L.; von Schiller, D.; Marcé, R.; Aroitia, M.; Casas-Ruiz, J.P.; Staehr, P.A.; Acuña, V.; Sabater, S.; Obrador, B. Low contribution of internal metabolism to carbon dioxide emissions along lotic and lentic environments of a Mediterranean fluvial network. In Journal of Geophysical Research. Volume 121. 2016 . https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JG003549
Gómez-Gener, Ll.; Obrador, B.; von Schiller, D.; Marcé, R.; Casas-Ruiz, J.P.; Proia, L.; Acuña, V.; Catalán, N.; Muñoz, I.; Koschorreck, M. Hot spots for carbon emissions from Mediterranean fluvial networks during summer drought. In Biogeochemistry. Volume 125. 2015 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-015-0139-7
Marcé, R.; Obrador, B.; Morguí, J.A.; Riera, J.L.; López, P.; Armengol, J. Carbonate weathering as a driver of carbon dioxide supersaturation in lakes. In Nature Geoscience. Volume 8. 2015 . https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2341
Obrador, B.; Staehr, P.A.; Christensen, J. Vertical patterns of metabolism in three contrasting stratified lakes. In Limnology and Oceanography. Volume 59. 2014 . https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2014.59.4.1228

Other

Moreno-Ostos, E.; Obrador, B.; Marcé, R. (2018). Primer C-Hydrochange workshop sobre métodos y técnicas de medida de flujos de CO2 y CH4 en lagos y embalses. Ecosistemas, 27(2), p. 143-143 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1697-2473
Obrador, B.; Catalan, N.; Marcé, R., von Schiller, D.; Koschorreck, M.; Gómez-Gener, L (2015). Fluxos de carboni a les basses temporals de l'illa de Menorca. Revista de Menorca, 94, pp. 209 - 224 . ISSN: 0211-4550
Obrador, B. (2020). Vídeo de divulgació. Quin model de desenvolupament construirem després d'aquesta crisi? . In Col·lecció ReflexionsUB. Universitat de Barcelona . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAYQ-WdCldE
Obrador, B.; Christensen, J.; Staehr, P.A. (2016). Determination of whole-column metabolism from profiling data . In Obrador, B., Jones, I.D. and Jennings, E. (Eds.) NETLAKE toolbox for the analysis of high-frequency data from lakes . (pp. 47 - 51) . NETLAKE COST Action ES1201 . http://eprints.dkit.ie/id/eprint/540
Obrador, B.; Jones, I.D.; Jennings, E. (Eds) (2016). NETLAKE toolbox for the analysis of high-frequency data from lakes . (pp. 1 - 60) . NETLAKE COST Action ES1201 . http://eprints.dkit.ie/id/eprint/530

PhD student supervision

Granados Pérez, Verónica . (2022) . Effects of flow intermittence on dissolved organic matter quality (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/674466
Janatian Ghadikolaei, Nasime . (2021) . Hydrometeorological and climàtic control over lake phytoplankton: the importance of time scales (Ph.D. Thesis) . Estonian University of Life Sciences - Universitat de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673821
Khan, H . (2021) . Pelagic calcite precipitation in lakes: from a global to a local perspective on its drivers and implications (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona - Estonian University of Life Sciences. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673825
Gómez Gener, Lluís . (2017) . Effects of flow discontinuities on carbon gas fluxes in a Mediterranean fluvial network (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona. http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/402823
Núria Catalan . (2013) . Sources, transformations and controls of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in a Mediterranean catchment (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/2445/48351

Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Plant Physiology