MARÍA RECIO ESPINOSA
Technologist

maria.recio@unican.es

+34 942 20 16 16 Ext. 56113

           
Biography
María Recio has a degree in Biology from the University of Oviedo and a PhD from the University of Cantabria. She completed her PhD studies at the Laboratorio de Modelación Ecológica of the University of Chile, within the International Mobility Programme “Pablo Neruda”.
She is a researcher at the IHCantabria, specialized in environmental management of littoral ecosystems. She obtained her doctoral degree with a methodological approach for the assessment of the littoral habitat conservation status (estuarine and dune protected habitats) in the context of the Natura 2000 Network. This work has been implemented in the Management Plans of the Sites of Community Interest in Cantabria, according to the Habitat Directive.
She has been involved in the design and development of sampling campaigns in littoral areas, especially for the collection of vegetal communities’ data (cartography of invasive alien species and/or protected communities).
She has experience in the application of different statistical approaches for the modeling of vegetal species distribution to estimate the current spatial extent of habitats types across broad territories and their projections to future. She is familiar with the use of remote sensing to define habitats mapping.
She has participated in several national and international (ONUD, EC) projects and published different papers in SCI journals and conference proceedings.

Specialization topics

Natural spaces management.
Ecology of estuaries.
Conservation status of coastal vegetation.
Water Framework Directive.
PUBLICATIONS

Maxwell, et al., Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshes. Scientific Data, 2023, 10 (1), 797.

Mazarrasa, I., Neto, J.M., Bouma, T., Grandjean, T., García-Orellana, J., Masqué, P., Recio, M., Serrano, O., Puente, A., Juanes, J.A. Drivers of variability in Blue Carbon stocks and burial rates across European estuarine habitats, Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 883.

Ondiviela, B., Galván, C., Recio, M., Jiménez, M., Juanes, J.A., Puente, A., Losada, I.J. Vulnerability of Zostera noltei to Sea Level Rise: the Use of Clustering Techniques in Climate Change Studies. Estuaries and Coasts, 2020, 43(8), pp. 2063–2075

Calleja, F., Ondiviela, B., Galván, C., Recio, M., Juanes, J.A. 2019. Mapping Estuarine Vegetation Using Satellite Imagery: The case of the invasive species Baccharis halimifolia at a Natura 2000 site. Continental Shelf Research. DOI 10.1016/j.csr.2019.01.002

Soissons, L.M., Haanstra, E.P., Van Katwijk, M.M, Asmus, R., Auby, I., Barillé, L., Brun, F.G., Cardoso, P.G., Desroy, N., Fournier, J., Ganthy, F., Garmendia, J.M., Godet., L., Grilo, T.F., Petra, K., Ondiviela, B., Peralta, G., Puente, A., Recio, M., Rigouin, L., Valle, M. Herman, P.M.J., Bouma, T.J. 2018. Latitudinal patterns in european seagrass carbon reserves: Influence of seasonal fluctuations versus short-term stress and disturbance events. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9.

Alvarez-Martínez, J.M., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Barquín, J., Ondiviela, B., Recio, M., Silió-Calzada. , Juanes, J.A. 2017. Modelling the area of occupancy of habitat types with remote sensing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. DOI 10.1111/2041-210X.12925.

Soissons, L.M., Van Katwijk, M.M, Peralta, G., Brun, F.J., Cardoso, P.G., Grillo, T.F., Ondiviela, O., Recio, M., Valle, M., Garmendia, J.M., Ganthy, F., Auby, I., Rigouin, L., Godet, L., Fournier, J., Desroy, N., Barillé, L., Kadel, P., Asmus, R., Herman, P.M.J., Bouma, T.J. 2017. Seasonal and latitudinal variation in seagrass mechanical traits across Europe: the influence of local nutrient status and morphometric plasticity. Limnology and Oceanography. DOI 10.1002/lno.10611.

Hanley ME, Hoggart SPG, Simmonds DJ, Bichot A, Colangelo MA, Bozzeda F, Heurtefeux H, Ondiviela B, Ostrowski R, Recio M., Trude R, Zawadzka-Kahlau E, Thompson RC. 2014. Shifting sands? Coastal protection by sand banks, beaches and dunes. Coastal Engineering, 87. 136-146

Recio, M., Ondiviela, B., Puente, A., Galván, C., G.Gómez, A., Juanes, J.A. 2011. The Influence of Hydromorphological Stressors on Estuarine Vegetation Indicators. Estuaries and Coasts, 36. 997-1005.