Publications

2025

Gomis, E., Strydom, S., Foster, N. R., Montemayor, D., Mateo, M. A., Serrano, E., … & Serrano, O. (2025)Global estimates of seagrass blue carbon stocks in biomass and net primary production. Nature Communications, 16(1), 9530. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64667-6

Foster, N. R., Gomis, E., Montemayor, D. I., Strydom, S., Mateo, M. A., Serrano, E., … & Serrano, O. (2025)Global patterns and drivers of seagrass biomass, net primary production and meadow structure. Journal of Biogeography, e70041. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70041 

Dahl, M., Schneider, L., Biester, H., Bindler, R., Cortizas, A. M., Lavery, P. S., … & Serrano, O. (2026)Lack of increase in mercury contamination in coastal Western Australia since European settlement. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 222, 118600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.118600

2024

Lewis Walden, Oscar Serrano, Zefang Shen, Mingxi Zhang, Paul Lavery, Zhongkui Luo, Lei Gao, Raphael A Viscarra Rossel (2024). La espectroscopía en el infrarrojo medio determina la procedencia de los suelos marinos costeros y su contenido de carbono orgánico e inorgánico. Science of The Total Environment, Vol 949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174871

Uxue Moreda, Inés Mazarrasa, Emma Cebrian, Joeri Kaal, Aurora M Ricart, Eduard Serrano, Oscar Serrano (2024). Role of macroalgal forests within Mediterranean shallow bays in blue carbon storage. Science of The Total Environment, Vol 934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173219

Catalina A García‐Escudero, Victoria Litsi‐Mizan, Pavlos T Efthymiadis, Vasilis Gerakaris, Oscar Serrano, Eugenia T Apostolaki (2024). Fuertes olas de calor marinas provocan la floración en las praderas de pastos marinos. Limnology and Oceanography. Vol 69. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12589

Chongran Zhou, Dongyan Liu, John Keesing, Ning Zhao, Oscar Serrano, Pere Masqué, Zineng Yuan, Yonghao Jia, Yujue Wang (2024). Microalgal assemblages response to water quality remediation in coastal waters of Perth, Australia. Environmental Pollution,
Vol 351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124017

Gomis E, Ballesteros E, Bernabeu I, Inostroza K, Mateo MA and Serrano O (2024). Escarpments within Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica meadows increase habitat heterogeneity and structural complexity, enhancing fish diversity and biomass. Front. Mar. Vol 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1373074

Lina Mtwana Nordlund, Richard KF Unsworth, Sieglind Wallner‐Hahn, Lavenia Ratnarajah, Pedro Beca‐Carretero, Elmira Boikova, James C Bull, Rosa M Chefaoui, Carmen B de los Santos, Karine Gagnon, Joxe Mikel Garmendia, Francesca Gizzi, Laura L Govers, Camilla Gustafsson, Elitsa Hineva, Eduardo Infantes, João Canning‐Clode, Marlene Jahnke, Periklis Kleitou, Hilary Kennedy, Stefania Klayn, Tiia Moller, João Monteiro, Nerea Piñeiro‐Juncal, Emanuele Ponis, Vasillis Papathanasiou, Dimitris Poursanidis, Riccardo Pieraccini, Oscar Serrano, Ana I Sousa, Susanne Schäfer, Francesca Rossi, D Sebastian Storey, Marieke M van Katwijk, Dave Wall, Emma A Ward, Robert Wilkes (2024). One hundred priority questions for advancing seagrass conservation in Europe. Plants People Planet, Vol 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10486

Nicole R Foster, Alice R Jones, Oscar Serrano, Anna Lafratta, Paul S Lavery, Kor-jent van Dijk, Ed Biffin, Bronwyn M Gillanders, Jennifer Young, Pere Masque, Patricia S Gadd, Geraldine E Jacobsen, Atun Zawadzki, Andria Greene, Michelle Waycott (2024). Environmental DNA identifies coastal plant community shift 1,000 years ago on Torrens Island, South Australia. Communications Earth & Environment 5, 115. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01277-y

Martin Dahl, Martin Gullström, Irene Bernabeu, Oscar Serrano, Carmen Leiva-Dueñas, Hans W. Linderholm, Maria E. Asplund, Mats Björk, Tinghai Ou, J. Robin Svensson, Elinor Andrén, Thomas Andrén, Sanne Bergman, Sara Braun, Anneli Eklöf, Zilvinas Ežerinskis, Andrius Garbaras, Petter Hällberg, Elin Löfgren, Malin E. Kylander, Pere Masqué, Justina Šapolaitė, Rienk Smittenberg, Miguel A. Mateo (2024)A 2,000-year record of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) colonisation shows substantial gains in blue carbon storage and nutrient retention. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol 38. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB008039.

2023

Yohanna Villalobos, Josep G Canadell, Elizabeth D Keller, Peter R Briggs, Beata Bukosa, Donna L Giltrap, Ian Harman, Timothy W Hilton, Miko UF Kirschbaum, Ronny Lauerwald, Liyin L Liang, Taylor Maavara, Sara E Mikaloff‐Fletcher, Peter J Rayner, Laure Resplandy, Judith Rosentreter, Eva‐Marie Metz, Oscar Serrano, Benjamin Smith (2023). A comprehensive assessment of anthropogenic and natural sources and sinks of Australasia’s carbon budget. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol 37. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007845

Anna Lafratta, Oscar Serrano, Pere Masque, M Fernandes, S Gaylard, PS Lavery (2023). Seagrass soils sequester up to half the metal emissions of one of the world’s largest smelters. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Vol 197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115684

Oscar Serrano, Ines Mazarrasa, James W Fourqurean, Eduard Serrano, Jeffrey Baldock, Jonathan Sanderman (2023). Deficiencies in the methodologies for organic carbon analysis in seagrass blue carbon soils. Limnology and Oceanography, Vol 21. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10583

Finnley WR Ross, Philip W Boyd, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Kenta Watanabe, Alejandra Ortega, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Catherine Lovelock, Calvyn FA Sondak, Lennart T Bach, Carlos M Duarte, Oscar Serrano, John Beardall, Patrick Tarbuck, Peter I Macreadie (2023). Potential role of seaweeds in climate change mitigation. Science of the Total Environment, Vol 885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163699

Oscar Serrano, Karina Inostroza, Glenn A Hyndes, Alan M Friedlander, Eduard Serrano, Caitlin Rae, Enric Ballesteros (2023). Seagrass Posidonia Escarpments support high diversity and biomass of rocky reef fishes. Ecosphere, Vol 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4599

Lewis Walden, Oscar Serrano, Mingxi Zhang, Zefang Shen, James Z Sippo, Lauren T Bennett, Damien T Maher, Catherine E Lovelock, Peter I Macreadie, Connor Gorham, Anna Lafratta, Paul S Lavery, Luke Mosley, Gloria MS Reithmaier, Jeffrey J Kelleway, Sabine Dittmann, Fernanda Adame, Carlos M Duarte, John Barry Gallagher, Pawel Waryszak, Paul Carnell, Sabine Kasel, Nina Hinko-Najera, Rakib Hassan, Madeline Goddard, Alice R Jones, Raphael A Viscarra Rossel (2023). Multi-scale mapping of Australia’s terrestrial and blue carbon stocks and their continental and bioregional drivers. Commun Earth Environ4, Vol 189. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00838-x

Claudia Majtényi-Hill, Gloria Reithmaier, Yvonne YY Yau, Oscar Serrano, Nerea Piñeiro-Juncal, Isaac R Santos (2023). Inorganic carbon outwelling from a Mediterranean seagrass meadow using radium isotopes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Vol 283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108248

Martino E Malerba, Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa, Daniel A Friess, Lukas Schuster, Mary A Young, David Lagomasino, Oscar Serrano, Sharyn M Hickey, Paul H York, Michael Rasheed, Jonathan S Lefcheck, Ben Radford, Trisha B Atwood, Daniel Ierodiaconou, Peter Macreadie (2024). Teledetection for cost-effective blue carbon accounting. Earth-Science Reviews, Vol 238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104337

Kyaw Thura, Oscar Serrano, Jiali Gu, Yunying Fang, Hein Zar Htwe, Yaojia Zhu, Runqiu Huang, Susana Agusti, Carlos M Duarte, Hailong Wang, Jiaping Wu (2023). La restauración de manglares incrementó las reservas de carbono orgánico del suelo durante seis décadas: un estudio de cronosecuencia. Journal of Soils and Sediments, Vol 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-022-03418-2

Sebastià Capó-Bauçà, Spencer Whitney, Concepción Iñiguez, Oscar Serrano, Timothy Rhodes, Jeroni Galmés (2023). The trajectory in catalytic evolution of Rubisco in Posidonia seagrass species differs from that of terrestrial plants. Plant Physiology, Vol 191.  https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac492

Ines Mazarrasa Elosegui, Joao M Neto, Tjeerd J Bouma, Tim Grandjean, Jordi Garcia-Orellana, Pere Masqué, María Recio Espinosa, Oscar Serrano, María Araceli Puente Trueba, José A Juanes de la Peña (2023). Drivers of variability in Blue Carbon stocks and burial rates across European estuarine habitats. Science of the Total Environment, Vol 886.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163957

E.T. Litsi‐Mizan, V., Efthymiadis, P.T., Gerakaris, V., Serrano, O., Tsapakis, M. and Apostolaki (2023). Decline of seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) production over two decades in the face of warming of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. New Phytologist, Vol 239.  https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19084

Javier F Urchueguía, Borja Badenes, Hossein Javadi, Miguel Ángel Mateo, Bruno Armengot (2023). Métodos adaptados compuestos de fuente lineal de dos regiones para la evaluación de intercambiadores de calor de sondeo con materiales avanzados. Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol 231.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.120910

Yvonne Y. Y. Yau, Gloria Reithmaier, Claudia Majtényi-Hill, Oscar Serrano, Nerea Piñeiro-Juncal, Martin Dahl, Mateo MA, Stefano Bonaglia, Isaac R. Santos (2022)). Emisiones de metano en praderas de pastos marinos como una pequeña compensación a la captura de carbono. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 128. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007295.

2022

Hyndes, G. A., Berdan, E. L., Duarte, C., Dugan, J. E., Emery, K. A., Hambäck, P. A., Henderson, C. J., Hubbard, D. M., Lastra, M., Mateo, M. A., Olds, A., & Schlacher, T. A. (2022). El papel de los aportes de algas marinas y carroña en los ecosistemas de playas arenosas: un estudio global review. Biological Reviews, 97, 2127–2161. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12886

Piñeiro-Juncal, N., Serrano, O., Mateo, M. Á., Diaz-Almela, E., Leiva-Dueñas, C., & Martinez-Cortizas, A. (2022).Review of the physical and chemical properties of seagrass soils. Geoderma, October 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116219

Monnier, B., Pergent, G., Mateo, M. Á., Clabaut, P., & Pergent-Martini, C. (2022). Cuantificación de las reservas de carbono azul asociadas con Posidonia oceanica Seagrass meadows in Corsica (NW Mediterranean). Science of The Total Environment, 838, 155864. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2022.155864

2021

Monnier B, Léa Lehmann, Stéphane Sartoretto, Christine Pergent-Martini, Miguel Ángel Mateo, Gérard Pergent (2021)) Long-term dynamics of a Cladocora caespitosa bank as recorded by a Posidonia oceanica millenary archive. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 256: 107378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107378

Monnier B, Gérard Pergent, Miguel Ángel Mateo, Ramon Carbonell, Philippe Clabaut, Christine Pergent-Martini (2021)) Dimensioning the associated carbon sink Posidonia oceanica Seagrass meadows using very high-resolution seismic reflection imaging. Marine Environmental Research, 170: 105415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105415

Dahl, M., Bergman, S., Björk, M., Díaz-Almela, E., Granberg, M., Gullström, M., Leiva-Dueñas, C., Magnusson, K., Marco-Méndez, C., Piñeiro-Juncal, N. & Mateo, M. A. (2021). A temporal record of microplastic pollution in Mediterranean seagrass soils. Contaminación Ambiental273, 116451.  doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116451.Featured in Science for Environment Policy, European Commission. ARTICLE

Piñeiro-Juncal N, Joeri Kaal, J Cezar Fornazier Moreira, A Martinez Cortizas, M Rodrigues Lambais, Xosé Luis Otero, Miguel A Mateo (2021)) Cover loss in a seagrass meadow Posidonia oceanica Meadow accelerates soil organic matter turnover and alters soil prokaryotic communities. Organic Geochemistry, 151: 104140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104140

Leiva-Dueñas, C., Martínez Cortizas, A., Piñeiro-Juncal, N., Díaz-Almela, E., Garcia-Orellana, J. & Mateo, M. A. (2021)). Long-term dynamics of production in western Mediterranean seagrass meadows: trade-offs and legacies of past disturbances. Science of The Total Environment, 754(2021), 142117. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142117

Piñeiro-Juncal, N., Díaz-Almela, E., Leiva-Dueñas, C., Deulofeu, O., Frigola, J., Soler, M., Martínez-Cortizas, A., Giralt, S., Garcia-Orellana, J. & Mateo, M. A. (2021). Processes driving seagrass soil composition along the western Mediterranean: The case of the southeast Iberian Peninsula. Science of The Total Environment, 768: 144352. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144352

2020

Monnier B, G Pergent, A Valette-Sansevin, CF Boudouresque, MA Mateo, C Pergent-Martini (2020)) The Posidonia oceanica Matte: a unique coastal carbon sink for climate change mitigation and implications for management. Life and Environment, 70. https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03342407

Lafratta, A., Serrano, O., Masqué, P., Mateo, M.A., Fernandes, M., Gaylard, S. & Lavery, P.S. (2020)) Challenges in selecting suitable habitats and demonstrating ‘additionality’ in Blue Carbon projects: a seagrass case study. Ocean and Coastal Management, 197: 105295. doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105295

Kaal, J., Martinez-Cortizas, A., Mateo, M.A., Serrano, Ó. (2020)). Deciphering organic matter sources and ecological shifts in blue carbon ecosystems based on molecular fingerprinting. Science of the Total Environment, 742: 140554. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140554

Monnier, B., Pergent, G., Mateo, M. A., Clabaut, P., Pergent-Martini, C. (2020)) Seismic interval velocity in the matte of Posidonia oceanica Meadows: towards a non-destructive approach for large-scale assessment of blue carbon stock. Marine Environmental Research, 161: 105085. doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105085

Piñeiro-Juncal, N., Leiva-Dueñas, C., Serrano, O., Mateo, M. Á., & Martínez-Cortizas, A. (2020). Pedogenic Processes in a Posidonia oceanica Math. Sistemas de Suelo, 4(18), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems4020018

Leiva-Dueñas, C., Leavitt, P. R., Buchaca, T., Cortizas, A. M., López-Merino, L., Serrano, O., … Mateo, M. A. (2020). Factors regulating primary producers’ assemblages in Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile ecosystems over the past 1800 years. Science of the Total Environment, 718, 137163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137163