Dr. Covadonga Orejas Saco del Valle 

Earth
Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CSIC), SPAIN
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Fellow

Covadonga Orejas Saco del Valle

Projects & Publications

Cooperation partner
Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln, Universität Bremen
Dr. Horst Bornemann, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Bremerhaven
Prof. Dr. André Freiwald, Senckenberg am Meer
Prof. Dr. Claudio Richter, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Bremerhaven
Dr. Jürgen Laudien, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Bremerhaven
Dr. Claudia Wienberg, Universität Bremen
Dr. Jürgen Titschack, Universität Bremen
Publications
J. Murray Roberts, Colin W. Devey, Arne Biastoch, Marina Carreiro-Silva, Tina Dohna, Boris Dorschel, Vikki Gunn, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, David Johnson, Didier Jollivet, Ellen Kenchington, Kate Larkin, Marjolaine Matabos, Telmo Morato, Malik S. Naumann, Covadonga Orejas, J. Angel A. Perez, Stefán Á. Ragnarsson, Albertus J. Smit, Andrew Sweetman, Sebastian Unger, Benjamin Boteler & Lea-Anne Henry (2023). A blueprint for integrating scientific approaches and international communities to assess basin-wide ocean ecosystem status.. Communications Earth & Environment, 4:12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00645-w
Vinha, B., S. Rossi, A. Pennetta, A. Gori, F. Mienis, V. Huvenne, D. Hebbeln, C. Wienberg, A. Freiwald, S. Piraino, and O. Orejas (2023). Trophic ecology of Angolan cold-water coral reefs (SE Atlantic) based on stable isotope analyses. Scientific Reports, 13, 9933. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37035-x
Bridges, A.E.H., K.L. Howell, T. Amaro, L. Atkinson, D.K.A. Barnes, N. Bax, J.B. Bell, A.F. Bernardino, L. Beuck, A. Braga-Henriques, A. Brandt, M.E. Bravo, S. Brix, S. Butt, A. Carranza, B.L. Doti, I.O. Elegbede, P. Esquete, A. Freiwald, S.M. Gaudron, M. Guilhon, D. Hebbeln, T. Horton, P. Kainge, S. Kaiser, D. Lauretta, P. Limongi, K.A. McQuaid, R.J. Milligan, P. Miloslavich, B.E. Narayanaswamy, C. Orejas, S. Paulus, T.R.R. Pearman, J.A.Perez, R.E. Ross, H. Saeedi, M. Shimabukuro, K. Sink, A. Stevenson, M. Taylor, J. Titschack, R.P. Vieira, B. Vinha, and C. Wienberg (2023). Review of the Central and South Atlantic Deep-Sea Benthos: Science, Policy and Management. In: Hawkins, S.J., B.D. Russell, and P.A. Todd (Eds.), Oceanography and Marine Biology: An annual review, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 61.
Cordier, T., I. A. Barrenechea, N. Henry, F. Lejzerowicz, C. Berney, R. Morard, A. Brandt, M.A. Cambon-Bonavita, L. Guidi, F. Lombard, P. Martinez Arbizu, R. Massana, C. Orejas, J. Poulain, C. R. Smith, P. Wincker, S. Arnaud-Haond, A. J. Gooday, C. de Vargas, and J. Pawlowski (2022). Patterns of eukaryotic diversity from the surface to the deep-ocean sediment. Science Advances, 8: 5. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj9309
Gori, A., C. Orejas, F. Mienis, Ch. Ferrier-Pagès, M. Bilan, S. Flöter, S. Reynaud, A.K. Sweetman, M. Roberts, C. Wienberg, and D. Hebbeln (2023). Natural hypoxic conditions do not affect the respiration rates of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum (Lophelia pertusa) living in the Angola margin (Southeastern Atlantic Ocean). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 197, 104052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2023.104052
Corbera, G., C. Lo Iacono, G. Simarro, J., Grinyó, S. Ambroso, V.A.I. Huvenne, F. Mienis, M. Carreiro-Silva, I. Martins, B. Mano, C. Orejas, A. Larsson, S. Hennige, and A. Gori (2022). Local-scale feedbacks influencing cold-water coral growth and subsequent reef formation. Scientific Reports, 12, 20389. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24711-7
Standaert, W., P. Puerta, F. Mastrototaro, D. Palomino, R. Aguilar, B. Ramiro, J.T. Vázquez, O. Sánchez, O. Guillamón, P. Marin, J. Blanco, and C. Orejas (2023). Habitat Suitability Models of a Critically Endangered Cold-water Coral, Isidella Elongata, in the Mallorca Channel. Thalassas. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-023-00531-y
Fähse, M., Orejas, C., Titschack, J., Försterra, G., Richter, C., Laudien, J. (2023). Ecophysiological and behavioural response of juveniles of the Chilean cold-water coral Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) huinayensis to increasing sediment loads. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 1, 13, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47116-6
Carlos Dominguez-Carrió, Joan Lluís Riera, Katleen Robert, Mikel Zabala, Susana Requena, Andrea Gori, Covadonga Orejas, Claudio Lo Iacono, Claude Estournel, Guillem Corbera, Stefano Ambroso, Maria Jesús Uriz, Pablo J. López-González, Rafael Sardá, Josep-Maria Gili (2022). Diversity, structure and spatial distribution of megabenthic communities in Cap de Creus continental shelf and submarine canyon (NW Mediterranean). Progress in Oceanography, 208, 102877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102877
Puerta, P., A. Mosque-Giménez, O. Reñones, C. Domínguez-Carrió, J.L. Rueda, J. Urra, M. Carreiro-Silva, J. Blasco-Ferre, Y. Santana-Bernaldo, C. Gutiérrez-Zárate, P. Vélez-Belchí, J. Rivera, T. Morato, and C. Orejas (2022). Variability of deep-sea megabenthic assemblages along the western pathway of the Mediterranean Outflow Water. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 185, 103791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103791