Currículum

Biólogo Marino, Doctor en Ecología, Profesor titular de la Facultad de Ciencias y Director del Centro de Investigación e Innovación para el Cambio Climático (CiiCC) de la Universidad Santo Tomás (Santiago, Chile). El Dr. Lagos desarrolla investigación en ecología de  ecosistemas bentónicos, siendo investigador principal y encargado de líneas de acción en proyectos que evalúan las respuestas biológicas de los invertebrados marinos a la acidificación del océano en los ecosistemas del Pacifico sur-oriental (Fondecyt 1090624 y ANILLO ACT 132). En el presente, dirige estudios de campo observacionales y experimentales para evaluar la variabilidad en la producción de carbono y sus implicaciones sobre la estructura y función de los ecosistemas bentónicos a lo largo de la costa de Chile (Fondecyt 1140938, 1140092 y Núcleo Milenio MUSELS, Minecon NC 120086). Es miembro de grupo de trabajo SOLAS-IMBER en acidificación del océano y del consejo científico del Centro de Coordinación Internacional en Acidificación del Océano (OA-ICC), y codirector de la Red Latinoamericana de Acidificación del Océano (Red LAOCA).

 

Proyectos

 

2022-2026. Partitioning patch-scale structural and functional heterogeneity in the thermal environment of eco-engineered carbonate-based modules for ecological restoration of intertidal habitats along coastal-urban gradients; Fondecyt Regular 1221322, ANID; Investigador Principal.

 

2022-2026. Upwelling-induced geographic variability in performance of host-parasite systems: patterns and mechanisms of species-interactions in a changing ocean, Fondecyt Regular 1220866, ANID; Co-investigador.

 

2020-2025. Instituto Milenio en Socio-ecología Costera (SECOS); ICN2019_015. ANID, Investigador Adjunto.

 

2022 – actualidad. Distinguiendo forzantes ambientales y antropogénicos en ecosistemas marinos de la Patagonia Chilena: dieta del lobo fino austral como proxy del cambio climático o explotación pesquera. Concurso Interno de Proyectos de Investigación UST. Co-Investigador.

 

2018-2021. Integrating structure and function of ecological, mechanical and mineralogical properties of marine calcifiers: shell carbonates as source of bio-inspiration (Carbo-Nat-Lab), Programa de Investigation Asociativa, ANILLOS ACT 172037; Director. Más información aquí.

 

2018-2019. “CarboNat Lab network” (Carbonate biomineralization along a Natural Laboratory)”; Programa Cooperaciòn Internacional, REDES  170106, ANID; Director. Más información aquí.

 

2017-2019. Host-parasite systems as a model for understanding the impacts of ocean acidification and temperature on species interactions: exploring patterns and mechanisms along the natural environmental gradient of the Chilean coast. Postdoctorado Fondecyt 3170522; Investigador Patrocinante.

 

2016-2019. Global Change Impacts in the Western Antarctic Peninsula: Role of Environmental Variability and Food Availability on Laternula elliptica to ocean acidification, warming and micro-plastics”.  Sistema de Proyectos Instituto Antártico Chileno. INACH RT_ 08-16; Co-Investigador.

 

2014-2018. Determinants of marine biogeographic breaks: the underestimated relevance of pH variation. Fondecyt Regular 1140092, ANID; Co-Investigador.

 

2014-2017. Carbonate budget, secondary production and CO2 fluxes in intertidal barnacles experiencing natural variability in Temperature and Ocean Acidification along the Southeastern PAcific Coastal Ecosystem (TOA-SPACE II). Fondecyt Regular 1140938; Investigador principal. Más información aquí.

 

Publicaciones

• 2022. Parasitism by metacercariae modulates the morphological, organic and mechanical responses of the shell of an intertidal bivalve to environmental drivers. Varas O., Pulgar J., García-Herrera C., Abarca-Ortega A., Grenier C., Rodríguez-Navarro A.B., Zapata J., Lagos N.A., García-Huidobro M.R., Aldana M.

  Sci Total Environ. 830:154747.

• 2022. Upper environmental pCO2 determines sensitivity to ocean acidification in marine invertebrates – a global study. Vargas C.A., Cuevas L.A., Broitman B.R., San Martín V.A., Lagos N.A., Gaitán-Espitia J.D., Dupont S.

  Nature Climate Change 12: 200–207.

• 2022. Scallops biomechanics under climate stressors. Abarca-Ortega A., Muñoz-Moya E., Pacheco M., Gargía-Huidobro C.M., Celentano D.J., Lagos N.A., Lardies M.A.

  Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. 9:813537. 

• 2022. Evaluation of remodelling and geometry on the biomechanical properties of nacreous bivalves shells. Muñoz-Moya E., García-Herrera C.M., Lagos N.A., Abarca-Ortega A.F., Checa A.G., Harper E.M.

  Scientific Reports 12:710.

• 2021. Morphological, physiological and behavioral responses of an intertidal snail, Acanthina monodon (Pallas), to projected ocean acidification and cooling water conditions in upwelling ecosystems. Duarte C., Jahnsen-Guzmán N., Quijón P.A., Manríquez P.H., Lardies M.A., Fernández C., Reyes M., Zapata J., García-Huidobro M.R., Lagos N.A.

  Environmental Pollution 293: 118481.

• 2021. Plasticity in organic composition maintains biomechanical performance in shells of juvenile scallops exposed to altered temperature and pH conditions. Lagos N.A., Benítez S., Grenier C., Rodríguez-Navarro A., García-Herrera C., Abarca-Ortega A., Vivanco J.F., Benjumeda I., Vargas C.A., Duarte C., Lardies M.A.

  Scientific Reports 11, 24201.

• 2022. Ocean acidification alters anti-predator responses in a competitive dominant intertidal mussel. Jhansen-Guzmán, Lagos N.A., Guijón P.A., Manríquez P.H., Lardies M.A., Fernández C., Reyes M., Zapata J., García-huidobro M.R. Labra F., Duarte C.

  Chemosphere 288: 132410.

• 2021. Evolutionary drivers of the hump-shaped latitudinal gradient of benthic polychaete species richness along the Southeastern Pacific coast. Moreno R.A., Labra F., Cotoras D.D., Camus P.A., Gutiérrez D., Aguirre L., Rozbaczylo N., Poulin E., Lagos N.A., Zamorano D., Rivadeneira M.M.

  PeerJ 9:e12010.

• 2021. An intrapopulational study of organic compounds and biomechanical properties of the shell of the Antarctic bivalve Laternula elliptica (P. P. King, 1832) at King George Island. García-Huidobro M.R., Poupin M.J., Urrutia C., Rodríguez-Navarro A., Grenier C., Vivanco J.F., Ramajo L., Benjumeda I., Lagos N.A., Lardies M.A.

  Polar Biol 44, 1343–1352 (2021). 

• 2021. A Review on Coastal Urban Ecology: Research Gaps, Challenges, and Needs. Graells G., Nakamura N., Celis-Diez J.L., Lagos N.A., Marquet P.A., Pliscoff P., Gelcich S.

  Front. Mar. Sci. 8: 617897.

• 2021. Phenotypic plasticity is not a cline: Thermal physiology of an intertidal barnacle over 20° of latitude. Broitman B.R., Lagos N.A., Figueroa D., Maldonado K., Ricote N., Lardies M.A.

  J Anim Ecol. 90: 1961– 1972. 

• 2020. Role of the organic matter in the structural organization of giant barnacle Austromegabalanus psittacus shell from the micro to nano-scale. Rodríguez-Navarro A, Grenier C, Checa A, Jiménez-López C, Sanchez P, Berton D, LAgos NA.

  Crystal Growth & Design (accepted).

• 2020. Estuarine conditions more than pH modulate the physiological flexibility of mussel Perumytilus purpuratus populations. Ramajo L, Osores S, Lagos NA, Broitman B, Navarro J, Vargas C, Manríquez PH, Lardies MA.

  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Sciences.

• 2020. Origin of the biphase nature and surface roughness of biogenic calcite secreted by the giant barnacle Austromegabalanus psittacus. Checa A, Navarro A, Macías E, Lagos NA.

  Scientific Report 10: 16784.

• 2020. Environmental refuges increase performance of juvenile mussels Mytilus chilensis: Implications for mussel seedling and farming strategies. Janhsen-Guzmán N, Lagos NA, Lardies MA, Vargas CA, Fernández C, San Martín VA, Saavedra L, Cuevas LA, Quijón PA, Duarte C.

  STOTEN.

• 2020. Geographical variability and parasitism on body size, reproduction and shell characteristics of the keyhole limpet Fissurella crassa (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda). García-Huidobro MR, Aldana M, Varas O, Pulgar J, García-Herrera C, Abarca-Ortega A, Grenier C, Rodríguez-Navarro B, Lagos NA.

  Marine Environmental Research.

• 2020. Microstructure and crystallography of the wall plates of the giant barnacle Austromegabalanus psittacus: a material organized by crystal growth. Checa AG, González-Segura A, Rodríguez-Navarro AB, LAgos NA.

  Journal of Royal Society: Interface 17: 20190743.

• 2020. Context-Dependence in parasite effects on keyhole limpets. Aldana M, Pulgar J, Hernández B, George-Nascimiento M, Lagos NA, García-Huidobro MR.

  Marine Environmental Research 157, article 104923.

• 2019. Role of temperature and carbonate system variability on a host-parasite system: Implications for the gigantism hypothesis. García-Huidobro M.R., Varas O., George-Nascimento M., Pulgar J., Aldana M., Lardies M.A., Lagos N.A.

  International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 9: 7-15. 

• 2019. Articulation and growth of skeletal elements in balanid barnacles (Balanidae, Balanomorpha, Cirripedia). Checa A.G., Salas C., Rodríguez-Navarro A.B., Grenier C. Lagos N.A.

  Royal Society open sciences 6: 190458.

• 2019. Ecosystem processes, management and human dimension of tectonically-influenced wetlands along the coast of central and southern Chile. Lagos N.A., Labra F., Jaramillo E., Marín A., Fariña J.M., Camaño A.

  Gayana 83: 57-62.

• 2019. Seagrass Posidonia oceanica diel pH fluctuations reduce the mortality rate of epiphytic forams under experimental ocean acidification. Ramajo l., Lagos N.A., Duarte C.M.

  Marine Pollution Bulletin 146: 247-254.

• 2019. Linking social preference and ocean acidification impacts in mussel aquaculture. San Martín VA, Gelcich S, Vásquez Lavín F, Ponce Oliva RD, Hernández JI, Lagos NA, Birchenough SNR, Vargas CA.

  Sci Rep. 2019; 9: 4719.

• 2019. Greenhouse gases, nutrients and the carbonate system in the Reloncaví Fjord (Northern Chilean Patagonia): Implications on aquaculture of the mussel, Mytilus chilensis, during an episodic volcanic eruption. Yevenes MA, Lagos NA, Farías L, Vargas CA.

  Sci Total Environ. 2019 Jun 15;669:49-61.

• 2018. Thermal physiological traits and plasticity of metabolism are sensitive to biogeographic breaks in a rock-pool marine shrimp. Barria AM, Bacigalupe LD, Lagos NA, Lardies MA.

  J Exp Biol. 2018 Oct 1;221(Pt 19).

• 2018. Phenotypic plasticity at the edge: Contrasting population‐level responses at the overlap of the leading and rear edges of the geographical distribution of two Scurria limpets. Broitman BR, Aguilera MA, Lagos NA, Lardies MA.

  Journal of Biogeography. 2018 Oct; 45(10):2314-2325.

• 2018. Resilience of an aquatic macrophyte to an anthropogenically induced environmental stressor in a Ramsar wetland of southern Chile. Jaramillo E., Duarte C., Labra F., Lagos N.A., Peruzzo B., Silva R., Velázquez C., Manzano M., Melnick D.

  AMBIO.

• 2018. The energetic physiology of juvenile mussels, Mytilus chilensis (Hupe): The prevalent role of salinity under current and predicted pCO2 scenarios. Duarte C, Navarro JM, Quijón PA, Loncon D, Torres R, Manríquez PH, Lardies MA, Vargas CA, Lagos NA.
  Environ Pollut. 2018 Nov;242(Pt A):156-163.
• 2018. Reply to ‘Increased food supply mitigates ocean acidification effects on calcification but exacerbates effects on growth’. Ramajo L, Hendriks IE, Lagos NA, Krause-Jensen D, Marbà N, Sejr MK, Duarte CM.
  Sci Rep. 2018; 8: 9799.
• 2018. High pCO2 levels affect metabolic rate, but not feeding behavior and fitness, of farmed giant mussel Choromytilus chorus. Benítez S, Lagos NA, Osores S, Opitz T, Duarte C, Navarro JM, Lardies MA.

  AEI. 10:267-278.

• 2018. Recovery of black-necked swans, macrophytes and water quality in a Ramsar wetland of southern Chile: Assessing resilience following sudden anthropogenic disturbances. Jaramillo E, Lagos NA, Labra FA, Paredes E, Acuña E, Melnick D, Manzano M, Velásquez C, Duarte C.

  Sci Total Environ. 2018 Jul 1;628-629:291-301.

• 2017. Physiological and histopathological impacts of increased carbon dioxide and temperature on the scallops Argopecten purpuratus cultured under upwelling influences in northern Chile. Lardies MA, Benítez S, Osores S, Vargas CA, Duarte C, Lohrmann KB, Lagos NA.

  Aquaculture. 2017 Oct; 479:455-466.

• 2017. Calibrating coseismic coastal land-level changes during the 2014 Iquique (Mw=8.2) earthquake (northern Chile) with leveling, GPS and intertidal biota. Jaramillo E, Melnick D, Baez JC, Montecino H, Lagos NA, Acuña E, Manzano M, Camus P.
  PLoS One. 2017; 12(3): e0174348.
• 2017. Species-specific responses to ocean acidification should account for local adaptation and adaptive plasticity. Vargas CA, Lagos NA, Lardies MA, Duarte C, Manríquez PH, Aguilera VM, Broitman B, Widdicombe S, Dupont S.

  Nat Ecol Evol. 2017 Mar 13;1(4):84.

• 2017. Intertidal pool fish Girella laevifrons (Kyphosidae) shown strong physiological homeostasis but shy personality: The cost of living in hypercapnic habitats. Benítez S, Duarte C, Opitz T, Lagos NA, Pulgar JM, Vargas CA, Lardies MA.

  Mar Pollut Bull. 2017 May 15;118(1-2):57-63.

• 2017. Plasticity and inter-population variability in physiological and life-history traits of the mussel Mytilus chilensis: A reciprocal transplant experiment. Osores S, Lagos NA, San Martín V, Manríquez PH, Vargas CA, Torres R, Navarro JM, Poupin J, Saldías G, Lardies MA.

  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 2017 May; 490:1-12.

• 2017. Exploring physiological plasticity and local thermal adaptation in an intertidal crab along a latitudinal cline. Gaitán-Espitia JD, Bacigalupe LD, Opitz T, Lagos NA, Osores S, Lardies MA.

  J Therm Biol. 2017 Aug;68(Pt A):14-20.

• 2017. Local Habitat Influences on Feeding and Respiration of the Intertidal Mussels Perumytilus purpuratus Exposed to Increased pCO2 Levels. Saavedra LM, Parra D, San Martín V, Lagos NA, Vargas CA.

  Estuaries and Coasts. 41(4): 1118–1129.

• 2016. Plasticity and trade-offs in physiological traits of intertidal mussels subjected to freshwater-induced environmental variation. Ramajo L, Prado L, Rodriguez-Navarro AB, Lardies MA, Duarte CM, Lagos NA.

  MEPS. 553:93-109.

• 2016. Effects of temperature and ocean acidification on shell characteristics of Argopecten purpuratus: implications for scallop aquaculture in an upwelling-influenced area. Lagos NA, Benítez S, Duarte C, Lardies MA, Broitman BR, Tapia C, Tapia P, Widdicombe S, Vargas CA.

  AEI. 8:357-370.

• 2016. Riverine discharges impact physiological traits and carbon sources for shell carbonate in the marine intertidal mussel Perumytilus purpuratus. Pérez CA, Lagos NA, Saldías GS, Waldbusser G, Vargas CA.

  Limnology and Oceanography. 61(3):969-983.

• 2015. Biomineralization changes with food supply confer juvenile scallops (Argopecten purpuratus) resistance to ocean acidification. Ramajo L, Marbà N, Prado L, Peron S, Lardies MA, Rodriguez-Navarro AB, Vargas CA, Lagos NA, Duarte CM.
  Glob Chang Biol. 22(6):2025-37.
• 2015. Food supply confers calcifiers resistance to ocean acidification. Ramajo L, Pérez-León E, Hendriks IE, Marbà N, Krause-Jensen D, Sejr MK, Blicher ME, Lagos NA, Olsen YS, Duarte CM.
  Sci Rep. 6:19374.
• 2015. Ocean warming and elevated carbon dioxide: multiple stressor impacts on juvenile mussels from southern Chile . Navarro JM, Duarte C, Manríquez PH, Lardies MA, Torres R, Acuña K, CA Vargas, Lagos NA.
  ICES Journal of Marine Science. 73(3):764–771.
• 2015. Shifts in shell mineralogy and metabolism of Concholepas concholepas juveniles along the Chilean coast. Ramajo L, Rodríguez-Navarro A, Duarte C, Lardies MA, Lagos NA.

  Marine and Freshwater Research. 66(12):1147-1157.

• 2015. Influence of climate and land use in carbon biogeochemistry in lower reaches of rivers in central southern Chile: Implications for the carbonate system in river‐influenced rocky shore environments. Pérez C, DeGrandpre M, Lagos NA, Saldías G, Cascales EK, Vargas C.

  Biogeosciences. 120(4):673-692.

• 2014. Intraspecific Variability in the Response of the Edible Mussel Mytilus chilensis (Hupe) to Ocean Acidification. Duarte C, Navarro J, Acuña K, Torres R, Manríquez P, Lardies MA, Vargas C, Lagos NA, Aguilera V.

  Estuaries and Coasts. 38(2):590-598.
• 2014. Effects of ocean acidification on larval development and early post-hatching traits in Concholepas concholepas (loco). Manríquez P, Jara ML, Torres R, Mardones ML, Lagos NA, Lardies MA, Vargas C, Duarte C, Navarro J.

  MEPS. 514:87-103.

• 2014. Differential response to ocean acidification in physiological traits of Concholepas concholepaspopulations. Lardies MA, Arias MB, Poupin MJ, Manríquez P, Torres R, Vargas C, Navarro J, Lagos NA.

  Journal of Sea Research. 90:127-134.

• 2014. Ocean acidification affects predator avoidance behaviour but not prey detection in the early ontogeny of a keystone species. Manríquez P, Jara ME, Mardones ML, Torres R, Navarro JM, Lardies MA, Vargas C, Duarte C, Lagos NA.

  MEPS. 502:157-167.

• 2014. Latitudinal diversity patterns of Chilean coastal fishes: searching for causal processes. Navarrete AH, Lagos NA, Ojeda P.

  Rev. chil. hist. nat. 87.

• 2013. Evaluation of a semi-automatic system for long-term seawater carbonate chemistry manipulation. Torres R, Manríquez P, Duarte C, Navarro J, Lagos NA, Vargas C, Lardies MA.

  Rev. chil. hist. nat. 86(4).

• 2013. Combined effects of temperature and ocean acidification on the juvenile individuals of the mussel Mytilus chilensis. Duarte C, Navarro JM, Acuña K, Torres R, Manríquez PH, Lardies MA, Vargas CA, Lagos NA, Aguilera V.

  Journal of Sea Research. 85: 308-314.

• 2013. Geographical variation in shell morphology of juvenile snails (Concholepas concholepas) along the physical–chemical gradient of the Chilean coast. Ramajo L, Baltanás A, Torres R, Manríquez PH, Rodriguez-Navarro A, Lagos NA.

  Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 93(8):2167-2176.

• 2013. CO2-driven ocean acidification reduces larval feeding efficiency and changes food selectivity in the mollusk Concholepas concholepas. Vargas CA, de la Hoz M, Aguilera V, San Martín V, Manríquez PH, Navarro JM, Torres R, Lardies MA, Lagos NA.

  Journal of Plankton Research. 35(5):1059-1068.

• 2013. Ocean Acidification Disrupts Prey Responses to Predator Cues but Not Net Prey Shell Growth in Concholepas concholepas (loco). Manríquez PH, Jara ME, Mardones ML, Navarro JM, Torres R, Lardies MA, Vargas CA, Duarte C, Widdicombe S, Salisbury J, Lagos NA.

  PLoS One. 8(7):10.1371.

• 2013. Effects of predation risk on survival, behaviour and morphological traits of small juveniles of Concholepas concholepas (loco). Manríquez PH, Jara ME, Opitz T, Castilla JC, Lagos NA.

  MEPS. 472:169-183.

• 2012. Impact of medium-term exposure to elevated pCO(2) levels on the physiological energetics of the mussel Mytilus chilensis. Navarro JM, Torres R, Acuña K, Duarte C, Manriquez PH, Lardies M, Lagos NA, Vargas C, Aguilera V.

  Chemosphere. 90(3):1242-1248.

• 2012. Geographic variation in trace-element signatures in the statoliths of near-hatch larvae and recruits of Concholepas concholepas (loco). Manríquez PH, Galaz S, Opitz T, Hamilton S, Paradis G, Warner R, Castilla JC, Labra F, Lagos NA.

  MEPS. 448:105-118.