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Silvia Echeverría Sáenz
Country of origin: Costa Rica Currently in: Costa Rica, San José General field of specialization: Biological Systems and Organisms- Academic Background
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Degrees
2024 Doctorate Biological Systems and Organisms2006 Undergraduate Biological Systems and Organisms - Research and Profession
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Current Research Activities
Biological Systems and Organisms
I am currently working to determine tolerance / sensitivity of tropical macroinvertebrates to pesticides. I am also interested in stress ecology, behaviour, watershed conectivity and toxicant habitat fragmentation.
Publications resulting from Research:
• Mena, F., Araújo, C.V.M., Echeverría-Sáenz, S., Brenes-Bravo, G., Moreira-Santos, M. 2024. Assessing habitat selection in the prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii using the model toxicant copper and colonization as a test endpoint: Does prior exposure determine biochemical and behavioral responses? Aquatic Toxicology, 275, 107073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2024.107073.
• Quesada-Alvarado, F., Gutiérrez-Fonseca, P.E., Solano-Ulate, D., Bermúdez-Monge, J., Jiménez-Fretes, A., Echeverría-Sáenz, S. 2023. Influence of river channel typology on aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in tropical streams. Hydrobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05419-9
• Brühl, C.A., Arias Andres, M., Echeverría-Sáenz, S., Bundschuh, M., Knäbel, A., Mena, F., Petschick, L.L., Ruepert, C., Stehle, S. 2023. Pesticide use in banana plantations in Costa Rica – A review of environmental and human exposure, effects and potential risks. Environment International, 174, 107877, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.107877.
• Frederik T. Weiss, Clemens Ruepert, Silvia Echeverría-Sáenz, Rik I.L. Eggen, Christian Stamm. 2022. Agricultural pesticides pose a continuous ecotoxicological risk to aquatic organisms in a tropical horticulture catchment, Environmental Advances, 11, 100339, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100339
• Echeverría-Sáenz, S.; Ugalde-Salazar, R.; Guevara-Mora, M.; Quesada-Alvarado, F.; Ruepert, C. 2022. Ecological Integrity Impairment and Habitat Fragmentation for Neotropical Macroinvertebrate Communities in an Agricultural Stream. Toxics, 10, 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics10070346
• Wilkinson, JL, Boxall, ABA, Kolpin, DW…..Teta, C. 2022. Pharmaceutical pollution of the world´s rivers. PNAS. In press. AC: JL Wilkinson; (S. Echeverría-Sáenz nº 48 / nº 127).
• Echeverría-Sáenz, S.; Spínola-Parallada, M.; Soto, A.C. 2021. Pesticides Burden in Neotropical Rivers: Costa Rica as a Case Study. Molecules, 26, 7235. https:// doi.org/10.3390/molecules26237235
• Bravo, F, Romero, D, Gutiérrez-Fonseca, PE & Echeverría-Sáenz, S. 2019. The description of Anacroneuria suerre sp. nov. from Costa Rica (Plecoptera: Perlidae) and using nymphs in ecotoxicological studies. Zootaxa 4608 (2): 357–364.
• Echeverría-Sáenz S, Mena F, Arias-Andrés M, Vargas S, Ruepert C, Van den Brink PJ, Castillo LE, Gunnarsson JS. 2018. In situ toxicity and ecological risk assessment of agro-pesticide runoff in the Madre de Dios River in Costa Rica. Environ Sci Pollut Res. Doi:10.1007/s11356-016-7817-4.
• María-Luisa Fournier, Silvia Echeverría-Sáenz, Freylan Mena, María Arias-Andrés, Elba de la Cruz & Clemens Ruepert. 2017. Risk assessment of agriculture impact on the Frío River watershed and Caño Negro Ramsar wetland, Costa Rica. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. DOI 10.1007/s11356-016-8353-y.
Current profession
Current professional activities type:ResearchTeaching
