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  1. A cyanobacterial bloom on a subtropical beach covered 40 km of shoreline

    Article • Limnologica, May 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  2. Phytoplankton forms and their pigments in tropical lakes: why this matters?

    Article • Inland Waters, March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  3. Cyanobacterial Pigments as Natural Photosensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Article • Photochem, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  4. Monitoring cyanobacterial blooms: a strategy combining predictive modeling and remote sensing approaches

    Article • Environmental Earth Sciences, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  5. Satellite monitoring of chlorophyll-a threshold levels during an exceptional cyanobacterial bloom (2018-2019) in the Río de la Plata

    Article • Ribagua, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  6. Pigment assemblages in subtropical bloom-forming cyanobacteria strains

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, August 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  7. Cyanobacterial bloom monitoring and assessment in Latin America

    Article • Harmful Algae, June 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  8. La importancia de usar el biovolumen en estudios de fitoplancton y monitoreo ambiental de cianobacterias

    Article • Ecología Austral, June 2023, Asociacion Argentina de Ecologia

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  9. Challenges for chlorophyll-a remote sensing in a highly variable turbidity estuary, an implementation with sentinel-2

    Article • Geocarto International, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  10. Nutrients and not temperature are the key drivers for cyanobacterial biomass in the Americas

    Article • Harmful Algae, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  11. A reply to “Relevant factors in the eutrophication of the Uruguay River and the Río Negro”

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, April 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  12. Las floraciones de cianobacterias tóxicas comprometen el uso del agua del Río Negro, Uruguay

    Article • INNOTEC, December 2021, INNOTEC

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  13. Metagenomic analysis of Raphidiopsis raciborskii microbiome: beyond the individual

    Article • Biodiversity Data Journal, October 2021, Pensoft Publishers

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  14. Nuisance phytoplankton transport is enhanced by high flow in the main river for drinking water in Uruguay

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  15. Microcystin ELISA in water and animal serum for an integrated environmental monitoring strategy

    Article • International Journal of Environmental & Analytical Chemistry, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  16. Biogeography of the cyanobacterium Raphidiopsis (Cylindrospermopsis) raciborskii: Integrating genomics, phylogenetic and toxicity data

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, July 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  17. Predicting cyanobacterial biovolume from water temperature and conductivity using a Bayesian compound Poisson-Gamma model

    Article • Water Research, June 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  18. A new method for monitoring freshwater cyanobacteria using low cost handheld fluorometers

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography Methods, November 2018, Wiley

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  19. Effect of nutrient availability on cylindrospermopsin gene expression and toxin production in Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

    Article • Aquatic Microbial Ecology, September 2018, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  20. Nitrogen and phosphorus are key factors to explain cyanobacterial blooms persistence in freshwaters.

    Article • Freshwater Biology, January 2018, Wiley

    Luis Aubriot, Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  21. Evolución de la eutrofización en el Río Santa Lucía: influencia de la intensificación productiva y perspectivas

    Article • INNOTEC, January 2018, INNOTEC

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  22. Harmful cyanobacteria in subtropical freshwaters

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  23. Freshwater bloom-forming cyanobacteria

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography e-Lectures, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  24. Synergistic effects of nutrients and light favor Nostocales over non-heterocystous cyanobacteria

    Article • Hydrobiologia, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  25. South American PSP toxin-producing Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Cyanobacteria) decreases clearance rates of cladocerans more than copepods

    Article • Hydrobiologia, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  26. Influence of nitrogen availability on the expression of genes involved in the biosynthesis of saxitoxin and analogs in Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

    Article • Harmful Algae, June 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  27. Combining immunolabeling and catalyzed reporter deposition to detect intracellular saxitoxin in a cyanobacterium

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  28. Influence of UV-B radiation on the fitness and toxin expression of the cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

    Article • Hydrobiologia, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  29. Application of ancient DNA to the reconstruction of past microbial assemblages and for the detection of toxic cyanobacteria in subtropical freshwater ecosystems

    Article • Molecular Ecology, November 2014, Wiley

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  30. Growth optimization of the invasive cyanobacteriumCylindrospermopsis raciborskiiin response to phosphate fluctuations

    Article • European Journal of Phycology, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  31. Revealing Toxin Signatures in Cyanobacteria: Report of Genes Involved in Cylindrospermopsin Synthesis from Saxitoxin-Producing <i>Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii</i>

    Article • Advances in Microbiology, January 2013, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  32. Rapid regulation of phosphate uptake in freshwater cyanobacterial blooms

    Article • Aquatic Microbial Ecology, November 2012, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  33. What drives the distribution of the bloom-forming cyanobacteria Planktothrix agardhii and Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii?

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  34. Genetic and eco-physiological differences of South American Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii isolates support the hypothesis of multiple ecotypes

    Article • Harmful Algae, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  35. Shallow freshwater ecosystems of the circumpolar Arctic

    Article • Ecoscience, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  36. Adaptive phosphate uptake behaviour of phytoplankton to environmental phosphate fluctuations

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  37. Cultural eutrophication, anoxia, and ecosystem recovery in Meretta Lake, High Arctic Canada

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  38. Emergent neutrality drives phytoplankton species coexistence

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Hugo Fort, Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  39. A morphological classification capturing functional variation in phytoplankton

    Article • Freshwater Biology, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  40. Pigment strategies: implications for algal survival in the changing Arctic

    Article • Polar Biology, April 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  41. Biomass of autotrophic picoplankton in subtropical coastal lagoons: Is it relevant?

    Article • Limnetica, December 2007, Asociacion Iberica de Limnologia

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  42. DISTRIBUTION, PHYLOGENY, AND GROWTH OF COLD-ADAPTED PICOPRASINOPHYTES IN ARCTIC SEAS

    Article • Journal of Phycology, February 2007, Wiley

    Professor Connie Lovejoy, Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  43. BENTHIC AND PLANKTONIC ALGAL COMMUNITIES IN A HIGH ARCTIC LAKE: PIGMENT STRUCTURE AND CONTRASTING RESPONSES TO NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT1

    Article • Journal of Phycology, December 2005, Wiley

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  44. Influence of hydrology on phytoplankton species composition and life strategies in a subtropical coastal lagoon periodically connected with the Atlantic Ocean

    Article • Estuaries, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  45. Extremotrophs, extremophiles and broadband pigmentation strategies in a high arctic ice shelf ecosystem

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, June 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  46. Phosphate uptake behavior of natural phytoplankton during exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation in a shallow coastal lagoon

    Article • Marine Biology, April 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  47. Ecosystems on ice: the microbial ecology of Markham Ice Shelf in the high Arctic

    Article • Cryobiology, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  48. Marine intrusions in a coastal lagoon enhance the negative effect of solar UV radiation on phytoplankton photosynthetic rates

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2002, Inter-Research Science Center

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  49. Limnological changes in a sub‐tropical shallow hypertrophic lake during its restoration: two years of a whole‐lake experiment

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  50. Phytoplankton community of a polymictic reservoir, La Plata River basin, Uruguay

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Biologia, November 1999, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  51. A bloom of Nodularia baltica-spumigena group (Cyanobacteria) in a shallow coastal lagoon of Uruguay, South America

    Article • Algological Studies/Archiv für Hydrobiologie Supplement Volumes, June 1999, Schweizerbart

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla

  52. Article • Ecotoxicology, January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sylvia Bonilla