Juan Rubio-Ríos

I am a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral researcher at King Juan Carlos University (URJC) focused on the assessment of the potential effects of the current and forecasted increasing aridity on food webs of low-order streams through changes in the quality of leaf litter inputs and/or in riparian communities composition. Now assessing interactive effects of multiple stressors on stream ecosystems.

PI of the INVASORIAN project 🍃.

Collaborator of the GLoBE network 🌍 and the Iberian River observatory 💧.

Member of the Andalusian Centre for the Global Change - Hermelindo Castro (ENGLOBA) 🌡️.

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Publications

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2026
Leakage from Traditional Irrigation Systems and Groundwater Upwelling Buffer the Impact of Heavy Streamflow Diversion on Benthic Biodiversity
Casas JJ, Fenoy E, Rubio-Ríos J, Villegas J, Salinas-Bonillo MJ, Zakaluz T, Martos-Rosillo S, Cabello J
Water Resources Management, 2026
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The Albuferas de Adra in crisis: a comprehensive review demanding urgent conservation action
Moreno-Ostos E, Carrillo P, Castro AJ, ..., Rubio-Ríos J, ..., Warren-Jiménez P, Casas JJ
Ecosistemas, 2026
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2025
Nutrients on the move: Investigating large scale fatty acid exports from European ponds via emerging insects
Fehlinger L, Chaguaceda F, Tirozzi P, ..., Rubio-Ríos J, ..., Balibrea A, Rimcheska B
Limnology and Oceanography, 2025
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Black alder may enhance riparian buffer mitigation of pine-plantation effects on macroinvertebrate food webs in headwater streams
Rubio-Ríos J, Hayden B, Nakamoto BJ, Casas JJ
Ecological Indicators, 2025
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Positive feedback on climate warming by stream microbial decomposers indicated by a global space-for-time substitution study
Pérez J, Boyero L, Pearson R, Gessner M, Alan T, López-Rojo N, Rubio-Ríos J, …, Watson A, Yule CM
Global Change Biology, 2025
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2024
Litter quality modulates the effects of environmental drivers on microbial decomposition and home-field advantage in headwater streams
Fenoy E, Moya-Laraño J, Rubio-Ríos J, Moyano-López FJ, Casas JJ
Freshwater Biology, 2024
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Impacts of diffuse urban stressors on stream benthic communities and ecosystem functioning
Colls M, Viza A, Zufiarre A, ..., Rubio-Ríos J, ..., Martín-Vélez V, Romero F
Limnetica, 2024
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2023
Alder stands promote N-cycling but not leaf litter mass loss in Mediterranean streams flowing through pine plantations
Rubio-Ríos J, Pérez J, Salinas-Bonillo MJ, Fenoy E, Boyero L, Casas JJ
Forest Ecology and Management, 2023
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Connecting distinct realms along multiple dimensions: A metaecosystem resilience perspective
Angeler DG, Heino J, Rubio-Ríos J, Casas JJ
Science of the Total Environment, 2023
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DOCTORAL THESIS
Effects of changes in leaf quality and diversity of the riparian vegetation on headwater streams ecosystem functioning
Juan Rubio-Ríos, Supervised by J. Jesús Casas & M. Jacoba Salinas-Bonillo
February 2023

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Cross‑species coprophagy in small stream detritivores counteracts low‑quality litter: native versus invasive plant litter
Rubio-Ríos J, Pérez J, Salinas-Bonillo MJ, Fenoy E, Casas JJ
Aquatic Sciences, 2023
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2022
Climate-induced plasticity in leaf traits of riparian plants
Rubio-Ríos J, Pérez J, Salinas MJ, Fenoy E, Boyero L, Casas JJ Diversity and Distributions, 2022
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Elevated temperature may reduce functional but not taxonomic diversity of fungal assemblages on decomposing leaf litter in streams
Fenoy E, Pradhan A, Pascoal C, Rubio-Ríos J, Batista D, Moyano-López FJ, Cássio F, Casas JJ
Global Change Biology, 2022
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2021
Key plant species and detritivores drive diversity effects on instream leaf litter decomposition more than functional diversity: A microcosm study
Rubio-Ríos J, Pérez J, Salinas MJ, Fenoy E, López-Rojo N, Boyero L, Casas JJ
Science of the Total Environment, 2021
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Strategies of shredders when feeding on low-quality leaf-litter: Local population adaptations or fixed species traits?
Fenoy E, Rubio-Ríos J, González JM, Salinas MJ, Moyano-López FJ, Casas JJ
Limnology and Oceanography, 2021
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Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition
Boyero L, Pérez J, López-Rojo N, ..., Rubio-Ríos J, ..., Yegon MJ, Yule CM
Sciences Advances, 2021
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Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics
Boyero L, López-Rojo N, Tonin AM, ..., Rubio-Ríos J, ..., Watson A, Yule CM
Nature Communications, 2021
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2020
Effects of two measures of riparian plant biodiversity on litter decomposition and associated processes in stream microcosms
López-Rojo N, Pérez J, Basaguren A, Pozo J, Rubio-Ríos J, Casas JJ, Boyero L
Scientific Reports, 2020
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2018
Climate-driven changes of riparian plant functional types in permanent headwater streams. Implications for stream food webs
Salinas MJ, Casas JJ, Rubio-Ríos J, López-Carrique E, Ramos-Miras JJ, Gil C
Plos One, 2018
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2017
Modelling hydrolysis of leaf litter by digestive enzymes of the snail Melanopsis praemorsa: combination of response surface methodology and in vitro assays
Rubio-Ríos J, Fenoy E, Casas JJ, Moyano-López FJ
Marine and Freshwater Behaviour adn Physiology, 2017
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2016
Temperature and substrate chemistry as major drivers of interregional variability of leaf microbial decomposition and cellulolytic activity in headwater streams
Fenoy E, Casas JJ, Díaz-López M, Rubio-Ríos J, Guil-Guerrero JL, Moyano-López FJ
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2016
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Teaching material

Teaching material is only available in spanish.
Ecology course - Lab session (Degree in Environmental Sciences 2023/24)
Análisis de la fertilidad del suelo (Soon available)
Limnology course (Degree in Environmental Sciences 2023/24)
Definición, objeto de estudio y diversidad de ecosistemas acuáticos
El medio físico
Sustancias en suspensión y disueltas
Estructura y funcionamiento de las comunidades
Research Network

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website.