ELVIRA RAMOS MANZANOS
Technologist

elvira.ramos@unican.es

+34 942 20 16 16 Ext. 56117

Biography
Elvira Ramos has a degree in Environmental Sciences and an Official Master’s Degree in Environmental Management of Water Systems. She is a PhD from the Universidad de Cantabria since 2015. As part of this thesis, she has made a classification of coastal waters along the NE Atlantic, that has been used as a basis for the exercise of intercalibration within the Water Framework Directive (WFD, 2000/60/EC). Within the mobility program associated with the Predoctoral Scholarship of the Universidad de Cantabria, in 2011 she made a research stay at the Instituto do Mar – IMAR in Coimbra (Portugal), where she focused into the analysis of coastal communities.
Her lines of research are focused on the study of marine biological communities, especially macroalgae, highlighting the analysis of their distribution (monitoring and mapping) in relation to meteo-oceanographic characteristics. She has also developed different tasks in the field of the management of natural areas, ecosystem services and climate change risk.
RESEARCH LINES
Intertidal and subtidal costal ecosystems
Monitoring and mapping of marine biological communities
Climate change in coastal areas
Environmental management
PUBLICATIONS

Ramos E., Guinda X., Puente A., de la Hoz, C.F., Juanes J.A. (2020). Changes in the distribution of intertidal macroalgae along a longitudinal gradient in the northern coast of Spain. Marine Environmental Research, 157, 104930.

de la Hoz, C.F., Ramos, E., Puente, A., Juanes, J.A. (2019). Temporal transferability of marine distribution models: The role of algorithm selection. Ecological Indicators, 106, 105499.

de la Hoz, C.F., Ramos, E., Puente, A., Juanes, J.A. (2019). Climate change induced range shifts in seaweeds distributions in Europe. Marine Environmental Research, 148, 1-11.

de la Hoz, C.F., Ramos, E., Acevedo, A., Puente, A., Losada, I.L., Juanes, J.A. (2018). OCLE: A European open access database on climate change effects on littoral and oceanic ecosystems. Progress in Oceanography, 168, 222-231.

de la Hoz, C.F., Ramos, E., Puente, A., Méndez, F., Menéndez, M., Juanes, J.A., Losada, I.L. (2018). Ecological typologies of large areas. An application in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Environmental Management, 205, 59-72.

Puente, A., Guinda, X., Juanes, J.A., Hummel, H., Van Avesaath, P. (2017). The role of physical variables in biodiversity patterns of intertidal macroalgae along European coasts. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 97(3), 549–560.

Ramos E., Puente A., Guinda X., Juanes J.A. (2017). A hierarchical classification system along the NE Atlantic coast: focusing on the local scale (Cantabria, N Spain). European Journal of Phycology, 52 (1), 75-89.

Juanes J.A., Puente A., Ramos E. (2017). A global approach to hierarchical classification of coastal waters at different spatial scales: The NEA case. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 97(3), 465-476.

Ramos, E., Puente, A., Juanes, J.A. (2016). An ecological classification of rocky shores at a regional scale: a predictive tool for management of conservation values. Marine Ecology, 37, 311–328.

Ramos E., Díaz de Terán J.R., Puente A., Juanes J. (2016). The role of geomorphology in the distribution of intertidal rocky macroalgae in the NE Atlantic region. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 179, 90-98.

Hummel, H., Frost, M., Juanes, J.A., Diamant, A., De Matos, V.K.F. (2015). A comparison of the degree of implementation of marine biodiversity indicators by European countries in relation to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 95(8), pp. 1519–1531.

Ramos, E., Puente, A., Juanes, J.A., Neto, J.M., Melo, R., Pedersen, A., Scanlan, C., Wilkes, R., van den Bergh, E., Heiberg, W., Buchet, R. (2014). Biological validation of physical coastal waters classification along the NE Atlantic region based on rocky macroalgae distribution. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 147, 103–112.

Ramos, E., Juanes, J.A., Galván, C., Neto, J.M., Melo, R., Pedersen, A., Scanlan, C., Wilkes, R., van den Bergh, E., Blomqvist, M., Karup, H.P., Heiber, W., Reitsma, J.M., Ximenes, M.C., Silió, A., Méndez, F., González, B. (2012). Coastal waters classification based on physical attributes along the NE Atlantic region. An approach for rocky macroalgae potential distribution. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 112, 105–114.