Blanca Rios-Touma

About Blanca Rios-Touma

Blanca Rios-Touma, With an exceptional h-index of 24 and a recent h-index of 22 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universidad de Las Américas, specializes in the field of Aquatic Ecology, Diversity, Conservation, Entomology, River Restoration.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

An experimental approach to test the effect of temperature increase and nutrient enrichment on Andean aquatic insects

Abiotic and biotic factors influencing heavy metals pollution in fisheries of the Western Amazon

Response of macroinvertebrate and epilithic diatom communities to pollution gradients in Ecuadorian Andean rivers

Environmental and aquatic macroinvertebrates metrics respond to the Eucalyptus afforestation gradient in subtropical lowland streams

The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

Biodiversity responses to land-use change in the equatorial Andes

Evolution of Opsin Genes in Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera)

Behavioral and biochemical patterns in the Andean highland macroinvertebrate Nectopsyche sp. after chronic mercury exposure

Blanca Rios-Touma Information

University

Position

Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad Medio Ambiente y Salud BIOMAS

Citations(all)

2938

Citations(since 2020)

2161

Cited By

1428

hIndex(all)

24

hIndex(since 2020)

22

i10Index(all)

38

i10Index(since 2020)

34

Email

University Profile Page

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Blanca Rios-Touma Skills & Research Interests

Aquatic Ecology

Diversity

Conservation

Entomology

River Restoration

Top articles of Blanca Rios-Touma

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

An experimental approach to test the effect of temperature increase and nutrient enrichment on Andean aquatic insects

Aquatic Sciences

Silvana Gallegos-Sánchez

Andrea C Encalada

Blanca Ríos-Touma

Eduardo Dominguez

2024/4

Abiotic and biotic factors influencing heavy metals pollution in fisheries of the Western Amazon

Science of The Total Environment

Gabriela Echevarría

Nathan K Lujan

José Montoya

María Genoveva Granda-Albuja

Jonathan Valdiviezo-Rivera

...

2024/1/15

Response of macroinvertebrate and epilithic diatom communities to pollution gradients in Ecuadorian Andean rivers

Hydrobiologia

Pablo Castillejo

Sofia Ortiz

Gabriela Jijón

Eduardo A Lobo

Carla Heinrich

...

2024/1

Environmental and aquatic macroinvertebrates metrics respond to the Eucalyptus afforestation gradient in subtropical lowland streams

Hydrobiologia

Margenny Barrios

Giancarlo Tesitore

Maite Burwood

Bárbara Suárez

Mariana Meerhoff

...

2024/1

The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

Global ecology and biogeography

Afroditi Grigoropoulou

Suhaila Ab Hamid

Raúl Acosta

Emmanuel Olusegun Akindele

Salman A Al‐Shami

...

2023/5

Biodiversity responses to land-use change in the equatorial Andes

Ecological Indicators

Blanca Ríos-Touma

Paulina Rosero

Andrés Morabowen

Juan M Guayasamin

Chelsea Carson

...

2023/12/1

Evolution of Opsin Genes in Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera)

bioRxiv

Ashlyn Powell

Jacqueline Heckenhauer

Steffen U Pauls

Blanca Rios-Touma

Ryoichi B Kuranishi

...

2023

Behavioral and biochemical patterns in the Andean highland macroinvertebrate Nectopsyche sp. after chronic mercury exposure

Chemosphere

Agnes Lohs

Christian Villamarín

Mishell Donoso

Blanca Ríos-Touma

2023/11/1

Characterization of the primary structure of the major silk gene, h-fibroin, across caddisfly (Trichoptera) suborders

Iscience

Jacqueline Heckenhauer

Russell J Stewart

Blanca Ríos-Touma

Ashlyn Powell

Tshering Dorji

...

2023/8/18

Stream restoration milestones: monitoring scales determine successes and failures

Sujay S Kaushal

Megan L Fork

Robert J Hawley

Kristina G Hopkins

Blanca Ríos-Touma

...

2023/8

Allelic resolution of insect and spider silk genes reveals hidden genetic diversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Paul B Frandsen

Scott Hotaling

Ashlyn Powell

Jacqueline Heckenhauer

Akito Y Kawahara

...

2023/5/2

Effects of Pesticides on the Survival of Shredder Nectopsyche sp. (Trichoptera) and Leaf Decomposition Rates in Tropical Andes: A Microcosm Approach

Toxics

Christian Villamarín

Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles

Constanza Carvajal-Rebolledo

Blanca Ríos-Touma

2022/11/24

 A new genus and new species of Ecuadorian Philopotamidae (Trichoptera)

ZooKeys

Ralph W Holzenthal

Roger J Blahnik

Blanca Ríos-Touma

2022

Elevational biodiversity gradients in the Neotropics: Perspectives from freshwater caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera)

PloS one

Blanca Ríos-Touma

Francisco Cuesta

Ernesto Rázuri-Gonzales

Ralph Holzenthal

Andrea Tapia

...

2022/8/5

Evaluating the influence of environmental variables on fish assemblages along Tropical Andes: considerations from ecology to conservation

Hydrobiologia

Rafael Miranda

Blanca Rios-Touma

Ana Falconí-López

Andrea Pino-del-Carpio

Sergio Gaspar

...

2022/11/1

 Life history and secondary production of Anomalocosmoecusilliesi Marlier, 1962 (Trichoptera, Limnephilidae) in a small stream in the northern Ecuadorian Paramo

ZooKeys

Blanca Ríos-Touma

Andrea C Encalada

Narcís Prat

2022

Waterborne diseases as an indicator of health disparities: A nationwide study of WaSH related morbidity and mortality in Ecuador from 2011-2020

Esteban Ortiz-Prado

Katherine Simbaña-Rivera

Gabriel Cevallos-Sierra

Domenica Cevallos

Alex Lister

...

2022/8/3

Riparian cover buffers the effects of abiotic and biotic predictors of leaf decomposition in subtropical streams

Aquatic Sciences

Margenny Barrios

Maite Burwood

Alejandra Krӧger

Clementina Calvo

Blanca Ríos-Touma

...

2022/10

Waterborne diseases and ethnic-related disparities: a 10 years nationwide mortality and burden of disease analysis from Ecuador

Frontiers in Public Health

Esteban Ortiz-Prado

Katherine Simbaña-Rivera

Gabriel Cevallos

Lenin Gómez-Barreno

Domenica Cevallos

...

2022/12/21

De Novo Genome Assembly and Annotation of an Andean Caddisfly, Atopsyche davidsoni Sykora, 1991, a Model for Genome Research of High-Elevation …

Genome biology and evolution

Blanca Ríos-Touma

Ralph W Holzenthal

Ernesto Rázuri-Gonzales

Jacqueline Heckenhauer

Steffen U Pauls

...

2022/1/1

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