Research papers published, accepted or in press (*Benavides corresponding, †Own Student or PostDoc paper)

68. von Friesen, L.W., Farnelid, H., von Appen, W.J., Benavides, M., Grosso, O., Laber, C.P., Schüttler, J., Sundbom, M., Torres-Valdés, S., Bertilsson, S., Peeken, I., Snoejis-Leijonmalm, P., Riemann, L. Nitrogen fixation under different stages of declining Arctic sea ice has the potential to stimulate primary production. Accepted Communications Earth & Environment.

67. Hernández-Hernández, N., Santana-Falcón, Y., Montero, M.F., Benavides, M., Delgado-Huertas, A., Álvarez-Salgado, X.A., Land, P., Arístegui, J. Comparing in situ and satellite-derived primary production estimates in the Canary Current upwelling region. Accepted Journal of Marine Systems.

*†66. Coët, A., Carpaneto Bastos, C., Lechelon, M., Hawley, R., Flanagan, O., Lohan, M.C., Ronceray, P., Hopkins, J.E., Mahaffey, C., Benavides, M. Dynamics of diazotroph particle colonization in the Arctic Ocean. Accepted ISME J.

65. Fulweiler, R.W., Rinehart, S., Taylor, J., Kelly, M.C., Berberich, M.E., Ray, N.E., Oczkowski, A., Balint, A., Geisser, A., Benavides, M., Church, M.J., Loeks, B., Newell, S., Olofsson, M., Clifford Oppong, J., Roley, S.S., Vizza, C., Wilson, S.T., Groffman, P., Scott, J.T., Marcarelli, A.M. Inland and coastal water nitrogen fixation is globally important. Accepted Science.

*†64. Filella, A., Cebron, A., Paix, B., Vallet, M., Martinot, P., Guayomarch, L., Guigue, C., Tedetti, M., Grosso, O., Turk-Kubo, K., Riemann, L., Benavides, M. Organic metabolite uptake by diazotrophs in the North Pacific Ocean. Accepted ISME Comms.

63. Fulweiler, R.W., Berberich, M., Rinehart, S., Taylor, J., Kelly, M.C., Ray, N.E., Oczkowski, A., Balint, S., Geisser, A., Benavides, M., Church, M.J., Loeks, B., Newell, S., Olofsson, M., Oppong, J., Roley, S.S., Vizza, C., Wilson, S.T., Grofmman, P., Scott, J.T., Marcarelli, A. A global database of nitrogen fixation rates across inland and coastal waters. Accepted Limnology & Oceanography Letters.

*†62. Furbo Reeder, C., Filella, A., Voyznyuk, A., Coët, A., James, R.C., Rohrer, T., White, A.E., Berline, L., Grosso, O., van Dijken, G., Arrigo, K.R., Mills, M.M., Turk-Kubo, K.A., Benavides, M. Unveiling the contribution of particle-associated non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs to N2 fixation in the upper mesopelagic North Pacific Gyre. Accepted Communications Biology.

61. Wu, Siqi, Xianhui S. Wan, Moge Du, Xirong Chen, Corday R. Selden, Mar Benavides, Sophie Bonnet, et al. 2024. “Heterogeneity of Nitrogen Fixation in the Mesopelagic Zone of the South China Sea.” Frontiers in Marine Science 11: 1495649.

*†60. Hoerstmann, Cora, Borja Aguiar-González, Stéphanie Barrillon, Cécile Carpaneto Bastos, Olivier Grosso, M. D. Pérez-Hernández, Andrea M. Doglioli, Anne A. Petrenko, Lidia I. Carracedo, and Mar Benavides. 2024. Nitrogen Fixation in the North Atlantic Supported by Gulf Stream Eddy-Borne Diazotrophs. Nature Geoscience, October, 1–7. Selected as issue cover https://www.nature.com/ngeo/volumes/17/issues/11

*†59. Cerdán-García, E., Álvarez-Salgado, X.A., Arístegui, J., A. Martínez-Marrero, Benavides, M. Eddy-driven diazotroph distribution: horizontal variability prevails over particle sinking speed. Accepted Communications Biology.

*†58. Umbricht, J., Filella, A., Klett, A., Vogts, A., Voss, M., Benavides, M. Uptake of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and N2 fixation by Crocosphaera watsonii under climate change scenarios. Accepted Frontiers in Marine Science.

*†57. Chowdhury, S., Berthelot, H., Santana-González, D., Furbo-Reeder, C., L’Helguen, S., Maguer, J.F., Löscher, C. R., Singh, A., Blain, S., Cassar, N. Bonnet S., Planquette, H., Benavides, M. Fronts divide diazotroph communities in the Southern Indian Ocean. Accepted FEMS Microbiology Ecology. Highlighted as Editor’s Choice https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/100/8/fiae095/7712481

56. Saxena, H., Sahoo, D., Nazirahmed, S., Chaudhari, D., Rahi, P., Kumar, S., Benavides, M., Vijaya Krishna, A., Sudheer, A.K., Singh, A. The Bay of Bengal: an enigmatic diazotrophic niche. Accepted JGR: Biogeosciences.

*†55. Filella, A.; Umbricht, J.; Klett, A.; Vogts, A.; Vannier, T.; Grosso, O.; Voss, M.; Riemann, L.; Benavides, M. Dissolved Organic Matter Offsets the Detrimental Effects of Climate Change in the Nitrogen‐fixing Cyanobacterium Crocosphaera. Limnol. Oceanogr. Lett. 2024 DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10380.

54. Shao, Z.; Xu, Y.; Wang, H.; Luo, W.; Wang, L.; Huang, Y.; Agawin, N. S. R.; Ahmed, A.; Benavides, M.; Bentzon-Tilia, M.; Berman-Frank, I.; Berthelot, H.; Biegala, I. C.; Bif, M. B.; Bode, A.; Bonnet, S.; Bronk, D. A.; Brown, M. V.; Campbell, L.; Capone, D. G.; Carpenter, E. J.; Cassar, N.; Chang, B. X.; Chappell, D.; Chen, Y.-L. L.; Church, M. J.; Cornejo-Castillo, F. M.; Detoni, A. M. S.; Doney, S. C.; Dupouy, C.; Estrada, M.; Fernandez, C.; Fernández-Castro, B.; Fonseca-Batista, D.; Foster, R. A.; Furuya, K.; Garcia, N.; Goto, K.; Gago, J.; Gradoville, M. R.; Hamersley, M. R.; Henke, B. A.; Hörstmann, C.; Jayakumar, A.; Jiang, Z.; Kao, S.-J.; Karl, D. M.; Kittu, L. R.; Knapp, A. N.; Kumar, S.; LaRoche, J.; Liu, H.; Liu, J.; Lory, C.; Löscher, C. R.; Marañón, E.; Messer, L. F.; Mills, M. M.; Mohr, W.; Moisander, P. H.; Mahaffey, C.; Moore, R.; Mouriño-Carballido, B.; Mulholland, M. R.; Nakaoka, S.-I.; Needoba, J. A.; Raes, E. J.; Rahav, E.; Ramírez-Cárdenas, T.; Reeder, C. F.; Riemann, L.; Riou, V.; Robidart, J. C.; Sarma, V. V. S. S.; Sato, T.; Saxena, H.; Selden, C.; Seymour, J. R.; Shi, D.; Shiozaki, T.; Singh, A.; Sipler, R. E.; Sun, J.; Suzuki, K.; Takahashi, K.; Tan, Y.; Tang, W.; Tremblay, J.-É.; Turk-Kubo, K.; Wen, Z.; White, A. E.; Wilson, S. T.; Yoshida, T.; Zehr, J. P.; Zhang, R.; Zhang, Y.; Luo, Y.-W. Global Oceanic Diazotroph Database Version 2 and Elevated Estimate of Global Oceanic N2 Fixation. Earth System Science Data 2023, 15 (8), 3673–3709.

*†53. Chowdhury, S., Raes, E., Hörstmann, C., Ahmed, A., Ridame, C., Metzl, N., Bhavya, P.S., Sato, T., Shiozaki, T., Bonnet, S., Löscher, C.R., Singh, A., Benavides. M. Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: current understanding and future perspectives. Accepted Limnol & Oceanogr Lett.

52. Tilliette, C., Gazeau, F., Portlock, G., Benavides, M., Bonnet, S., Camps M., Guigue, C., Leblond, N., Lory, C., Marie, D., Montanes, M., Pulido-Villena, E., Sarthou, G., Tedetti, M., Vorrath, M-E., Whitby, H., Guieu, C. Influence of shallow hydrothermal fluids release on the functioning of phytoplankton communities. Accepted Frontiers Marine Science – Marine Biogeochemistry.

†51. Baños, Isabel, Javier Arístegui, Mar Benavides, Markel Gómez-Letona, María F. Montero, Joaquín Ortiz, Kai G. Schulz, Andrea Ludwig, and Ulf Riebesell. 2022. “Response of Plankton Community Respiration under Variable Simulated Upwelling Events.” Frontiers in Marine Science 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1006010.

50. Bonnet, Sophie, Mar Benavides, Frédéric A. C. Le Moigne, Mercedes Camps, Antoine Torremocha, Olivier Grosso, Céline Dimier, et al. 2023. “Diazotrophs Are Overlooked Contributors to Carbon and Nitrogen Export to the Deep Ocean.” The ISME Journal 17 (1): 47–58.

*†49. Filella, Alba, Lasse Riemann, France Van Wambeke, Elvira Pulido-Villena, Angela Vogts, Sophie Bonnet, Olivier Grosso, Julia M. Diaz, Solange Duhamel, and Mar Benavides. 2022. “Contrasting Roles of DOP as a Source of Phosphorus and Energy for Marine Diazotrophs.” Frontiers in Marine Science 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.923765.

*48. Benavides, Mar, Sophie Bonnet, Frédéric A. C. Le Moigne, Gabrielle Armin, Keisuke Inomura, Søren Hallstrøm, Lasse Riemann, et al. 2022. “Sinking Trichodesmium Fixes Nitrogen in the Dark Ocean.” The ISME Journal 16 (10): 2398–2405.

*47. Benavides, Mar, Mathieu Caffin, Solange Duhamel, Rachel Ann Foster, Olivier Grosso, Cécile Guieu, France Van Wambeke, and Sophie Bonnet. 2022. “Anomalously High Abundance of Crocosphaera in the South Pacific Gyre.” FEMS Microbiology Letters 369 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnac039.

46. Hallstrøm, Søren, Mar Benavides, Ellen R. Salamon, Javier Arístegui, and Lasse Riemann. 2022. “Activity and Distribution of Diazotrophic Communities across the Cape Verde Frontal Zone in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean.” Biogeochemistry 160 (1): 49–67.

45. Meunier, Valentine, Sophie Bonnet, Mercedes Camps, Mar Benavides, Jeff Dubosc, Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa, and Fanny Houlbrèque. 2022. “Ingestion of Diazotrophs Makes Corals More Resistant to Heat Stress.” Biomolecules 12 (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12040537.

*44. Riemann, Lasse, Eyal Rahav, Uta Passow, Hans-Peter Grossart, Dirk de Beer, Isabell Klawonn, Meri Eichner, Mar Benavides, and Edo Bar-Zeev. 2022. “Planktonic Aggregates as Hotspots for Heterotrophic Diazotrophy: The Plot Thickens.” Frontiers in Microbiology 13 (April): 875050.

*43. Hallstrøm, Søren, Mar Benavides, Ellen R. Salamon, Clayton W. Evans, Lindsey J. Potts, Julie Granger, Craig R. Tobias, Pia H. Moisander, and Lasse Riemann. 2022. “Pelagic N 2 Fixation Dominated by Sediment Diazotrophic Communities in a Shallow Temperate Estuary.” Limnology and Oceanography 67 (2): 364–78.

42. Meunier, Valentine, Sophie Bonnet, Mar Benavides, Andreas Ravache, Olivier Grosso, Christophe Lambert, and Fanny Houlbrèque. 2021. “Diazotroph-Derived Nitrogen Assimilation Strategies Differ by Scleractinian Coral Species.” Frontiers in Marine Science 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.692248.

*†41. Benavides, M., Conradt, L., Bonnet, S., Berman-Frank, I., Barrillon, S., Petrenko, A. and Doglioli, A. M. (2021) “Fine scale sampling unveils diazotroph patchiness in the South Pacific Ocean,” ISME Communications, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1038/s43705-021-00006-2.

40. Benavides, M. and Arístegui, J. (2020) “Untreated sewage outfalls do not promote Trichodesmium blooms in the coasts of the Canary Islands,” Scientific reports. Nature Publishing Group UK, (0123456789), pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75447-1.

*39. Benavides, M., Duhamel, S., Van Wambeke, F., Shoemaker, K. M., Moisander, P. H., Salamon, E., Riemann, L. and Bonnet, S. (2020) “Dissolved organic matter stimulates N2 fixation and nifH gene expression in Trichodesmium,” FEMS microbiology letters. Oxford University Press, 367(4), pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnaa034.

*38. Benavides, M. and Robidart, J. (2020) “Bridging the Spatiotemporal Gap in Diazotroph Activity and Diversity With High-Resolution Measurements,” Frontiers in Marine Science, 7. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.568876.

37. Palter, J. B., Ames, E., Benavides, M., Gonçalves, A., Granger, J., Moisander, P. H., Watkins-Brandt, K. S. and White, A. E. (2020) “High N2 fixation in and near the Gulf Stream consistent with a circulation control on diazotrophy,” Geophysical research letters, 47, p. e2020GL089103.

†36. Baños, I., Montero, M. F., Benavides, M. and Arístegui, J. (2020) “INT Toxicity over Natural Bacterial Assemblages from Surface Oligotrophic Waters: Implications for the Assessment of Respiratory Activity,” Microbial ecology. Microbial Ecology, pp. 10–15. doi: 10.1007/s00248-019-01479-4.

35. Saulia, E., Benavides, M., Henke, B., Turk-Kubo, K., Cooperguard, H., Grosso, O., Desnues, A., Rodier, M., Dupouy, C., Riemann, L. and Bonnet, S. (2020) “Seasonal Shifts in Diazotrophs Players: Patterns Observed Over a Two-Year Time Series in the New Caledonian Lagoon (Western Tropical South Pacific Ocean),” Frontiers in Marine Science, 7(November), pp. 1–11. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.581755.

34. White, A. E., Granger, J., Selden, C., Gradoville, M. R., Potts, L., Bourbonnais, A., Fulweiler, R. W., Knapp, A. N., Mohr, W., Moisander, P. H., Tobias, C. R., Caffin, M., Wilson, S. T., Benavides, M., Bonnet, S., Mulholland, M. R. and Chang, B. X. (2020) “A critical review of the 15N2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems,” Limnology and oceanography, methods / ASLO, 18(4), pp. 129–147. doi: 10.1002/lom3.10353.

*33. Benavides, M., Van Thuoc, C. and Mari, X. (2019) “Amino acids promote black carbon aggregation and microbial colonization in coastal waters off Vietnam,” The Science of the total environment. Elsevier B.V., 685, pp. 527–532. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.141.

32. Meunier, V., Bonnet, S., Pernice, M., Benavides, M., Lorrain, A., Grosso, O., Lambert, C. and Houlbrèque, F. (2019) “Bleaching forces coral’s heterotrophy on diazotrophs and Synechococcus,” The ISME journal, 13(11). doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0456-2.

*31. Benavides, M., Martias, C., Elifantz, H., Berman-Frank, I., Dupouy, C. and Bonnet, S. (2018) “Dissolved Organic Matter Influences N2 Fixation in the New Caledonian Lagoon (Western Tropical South Pacific),” Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, p. 89. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00089.

*30. Benavides, M., Bonnet, S., Berman-Frank, I. and Riemann, L. (2018) “Deep Into Oceanic N2 Fixation,” 5, p. 108. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00108.

29. Duhamel, S., Van Wambeke, F., Lefevre, D., Benavides, M. and Bonnet, S. (2018) “Mixotrophic metabolism by natural communities of unicellular cyanobacteria in the western tropical South Pacific Ocean,” Environmental microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14111.

*28. Benavides, M., Shoemaker, K. M., Moisander, P. H., Niggemann, J., Dittmar, T., Duhamel, S., Grosso, O., Pujo-Pay, M., Hélias-Nunige, S., Fumenia, A. and Bonnet, S. (2018) “Aphotic N2 fixation along an oligotrophic to ultraoligotrophic transect in the western tropical South Pacific Ocean,” Biogeosciences , 15(10), pp. 3107–3119. doi: 10.5194/bg-15-3107-2018.

27. Bonnet, S., Caffin, M., Berthelot, H., Grosso, O., Benavides, M., Helias-Nunige, S., Guieu, C., Stenegren, M. and Foster, R. A. (2018) “In-depth characterization of diazotroph activity across the western tropical South Pacific hotspot of N2 fixation (OUTPACE cruise),” Biogeosciences , 15(13), pp. 4215–4232. doi: 10.5194/bg-15-4215-2018.

26. Wannicke, N., Benavides, M., Dalsgaard, T., Dippner, J. W., Montoya, J. P. and Voss, M. (2018) “New perspectives on nitrogen fixation measurements using 15N2 gas,” Frontiers in Marine Science, 5. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00120.

25. Panagiotopoulos, C., Pujo-Pay, M., Benavides, M., Van Wambeke, F. and Sempéré, R. (2019) “The composition and distribution of semi-labile dissolved organic matter across the southwest Pacific,” Biogeosciences , 16(1). doi: 10.5194/bg-16-105-2019.

24. Moisander, P. H., Benavides, M., Bonnet, S., Berman-Frank, I., White, A. E. and Riemann, L. (2017) “Chasing after non-cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in marine pelagic environments,” Frontiers in microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01736.

23. Berthelot, H., Benavides, M., Moisander, P. H., Grosso, O. and Bonnet, S. (2017) “High-nitrogen fixation rates in the particulate and dissolved pools in the Western Tropical Pacific (Solomon and Bismarck Seas),” Geophysical research letters, 44(16), pp. 8414–8423. doi: 10.1002/2017GL073856.

*22. Benavides, M., Bednarz, V. N. and Ferrier-Pagès, C. (2017) “Diazotrophs: Overlooked key players within the coral symbiosis and tropical reef ecosystems?,” Frontiers in Marine Science, 4(JAN). doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00010.

*21. Benavides, M., Berthelot, H., Duhamel, S., Raimbault, P. and Bonnet, S. (2017) “Dissolved organic matter uptake by Trichodesmium in the Southwest Pacific,” Scientific reports. Nature Publishing Group, 7, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1038/srep41315.

20. Ganachaud, A., Cravatte, S., Sprintall, J., Germineaud, C., Alberty, M., Jeandel, C., Eldin, G., Metzl, N., Bonnet, S., Benavides, M., Heimburger, L.-E., Lefèvre, J., Michael, S., Resing, J., Quéroué, F., Sarthou, G., Rodier, M., Berthelot, H., Baurand, F., Grelet, J., Hasegawa, T., Kessler, W., Kilepak, M., Lacan, F., Privat, E., Send, U., Van Beek, P., Souhaut, M. and Sonke, J. E. (2017) “The Solomon Sea: its circulation, chemistry, geochemistry and biology explored during two oceanographic cruises,” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 5(0), p. 33. doi: 10.1525/elementa.221.f14.

19. Camps, M., Benavides, M., Lema, K. A., Bourne, D. G., Grosso, O. and Bonnet, S. (2016) “Released coral mucus does not enhance planktonic N2 fixation rates,” Aquatic microbial ecology: international journal. doi: 10.3354/ame01787.

*18. Benavides, M., Bonnet, S., Hernández, N., Martínez-Pérez, A. M., Nieto-Cid, M., Álvarez-Salgado, X. A., Baños, I., Montero, M. F., Mazuecos, I. P., Gasol, J. M., Osterholz, H., Dittmar, T., Berman-Frank, I. and Arístegui, J. (2016) “Basin-wide N2 fixation in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea,” Global biogeochemical cycles. doi: 10.1002/2015GB005326.

*17. Benavides, M., Houlbrèque, F., Camps, M., Lorrain, A., Grosso, O. and Bonnet, S. (2016) “Diazotrophs: a non-negligible source of nitrogen for the tropical coral Stylophora pistillata,” The Journal of experimental biology, (July), p. jeb.139451. doi: 10.1242/jeb.139451.

*16. Benavides, M., Moisander, P. H., Daley, M. C., Bode, A. and Arístegui, J. (2016) “Longitudinal variability of diazotroph abundances in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean,” Journal of plankton research, 38(3). doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbv121.

15. Bonnet, S., Berthelot, H., Turk-Kubo, K., Cornet-Barthaux, V., Fawcett, S., Berman-Frank, I., Barani, A., Grégori, G., Dekaezemacker, J., Benavides, M. and Capone, D. G. (2016) “Diazotroph derived nitrogen supports diatom growth in the South West Pacific: A quantitative study using nanoSIMS,” Limnology and oceanography. doi: 10.1002/lno.10300.

14. Santana-Falcón, Y., Benavides, M., Sangrà, P., Mason, E., Barton, E. D., Orbi, A. and Arístegui, J. (2016) “Coastal-offshore exchange of organic matter across the Cape Ghir filament (NW Africa) during moderate upwelling,” Journal of Marine Systems. Elsevier B.V., 154, pp. 233–242. doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2015.10.008.

*13. Benavides, M. and Voss, M. (2015) “Five decades of N2 fixation research in the North Atlantic Ocean,” Frontiers in Marine Science. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00040.

*12. Benavides, M., Moisander, P. H., Berthelot, H., Dittmar, T., Grosso, O. and Bonnet, S. (2015) “Mesopelagic N2 fixation related to organic matter composition in the Solomon and Bismarck Seas (Southwest Pacific),” PloS one, 10(12), pp. 1–19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143775.

11. Agawin, N. S. R., Benavides, M., Busquets, A., Ferriol, P., Stal, L. J. and Arístegui, J. (2014) “Dominance of unicellular cyanobacteria in the diazotrophic community in the Atlantic Ocean,” Limnology and oceanography. doi: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.2.0623.

10. Anabalón, V., Arístegui, J., Morales, C. E., Andrade, I., Benavides, M., Correa-Ramírez, M. A., Espino, M., Ettahiri, O., Hormazabal, S., Makaoui, A., Montero, M. F. and Orbi, A. (2014) “The structure of planktonic communities under variable coastal upwelling conditions off Cape Ghir (31°N) in the Canary Current System (NW Africa),” Progress in oceanography. doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.10.015.

9. Arcos-Pulido, M., Rodríguez-Santana, A., Emelianov, M., Paka, V., Arístegui, J., Benavides, M., Sangrà, P., Machín, F., García-Weil, L. and Estrada-Allis, S. (2014) “Diapycnal nutrient fluxes on the northern boundary of Cape Ghir upwelling region,” Deep-sea research. Part I, Oceanographic research papers. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2013.10.010.

*8. Benavides, M., Santana-Falcón, Y., Wasmund, N. and Arístegui, J. (2014) “Microbial uptake and regeneration of inorganic nitrogen off the coastal Namibian upwelling system,” Journal of Marine Systems, 140(PB). doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.05.002.

*7. Benavides, M., Agawin, N. S. R., Arístegui, J., Peene, J. and Stal, L. J. (2013) “Dissolved organic nitrogen and carbon release by a marine unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacterium,” Aquatic microbial ecology: international journal. doi: 10.3354/ame01621.

*6. Benavides, M., Arístegui, J., Agawin, N. S. R., Álvarez-Salgado, X. A., Álvarez, M. and Troupin, C. (2013) “Low contribution of N2 fixation to new production and excess nitrogen in the subtropical northeast Atlantic margin,” Deep-sea research. Part I, Oceanographic research papers. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2013.07.004.

*5. Benavides, M., Arístegui, J., Agawin, N. S. R., Cancio, J. L. and Hernández-León, S. (2013) “Enhancement of nitrogen fixation rates by unicellular diazotrophs vs. Trichodesmium after a dust deposition event in the Canary Islands,” Limnology and oceanography. doi: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.1.0267.

*4. Benavides, M., Bronk, Deborah A., Agawin, N. S. R., Pérez-Hernández, M. D., Hernández-Guerra, A. and Arístegui, J. (2013) “Longitudinal variability of size-fractionated N2 fixation and DON release rates along 24.5°N in the subtropical North Atlantic,” Journal of Geophysical Research, C: Oceans, 118(7), pp. 3406–3415. doi: 10.1002/jgrc.20253.

3. Luo, Y.-W., Doney, S. C., Anderson, L. A., Benavides, M., Berman-Frank, I., Bode, A., Bonnet, S., Boström, K. H., Böttjer, D., Capone, D. G., Carpenter, E. J., Chen, Y. L., Church, M. J., Dore, J. E., Falcón, L. I., Fernández, A., Foster, R. A., Furuya, K., Gómez, F., Gundersen, K., Hynes, A. M., Karl, D. M., Kitajima, S., Langlois, R. J., LaRoche, J., Letelier, R. M., Marañón, E., McGillicuddy, D. J., Moisander, P. H., Moore, C. M., Mouriño-Carballido, B., Mulholland, M. R., Needoba, J. A., Orcutt, K. M., Poulton, A. J., Rahav, E., Raimbault, P., Rees, A. P., Riemann, L., Shiozaki, T., Subramaniam, A., Tyrrell, T., Turk-Kubo, K. A., Varela, M., Villareal, T. A., Webb, E. A., White, A. E., Wu, J. and Zehr, J. P. (2012) “Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates,” Earth System Science Data, 4(1), pp. 47–73. doi: 10.5194/essd-4-47-2012.

*2. Benavides, M., Agawin, N. S. R., Arístegui, J., Ferriol, P. and Stal, L. J. (2011) “Nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium and small diazotrophs in the subtropical northeast Atlantic,” Aquatic microbial ecology: international journal. doi: 10.3354/ame01534.

*1. Benavides, M., Echevarría, F., Sánchez-García, R., Garzón, N. and González-Gordillo, J. I. (2010) “Mesozooplankton community structure during summer months in the bay of Cádiz,” Thalassas, 26(2), pp. 103–118.

Book chapters

1. Meunier, V., Bonnet, S., Lorrain, A., Benavides, M., Camps, M., Grosso, O., Houlbrèque, F., 2018. Les récifs en quête de diazotrophes. In: Payri CE (ed) Nouvelle-Calédonie, archipel de corail. IRD Editions/Solaris, Marseille/Nouméa, p 288.

2. Cravatte, S., Germineaud, C., Jeandel, C., Menkes, C., Bonnet, S., Benavides, M. Oceanography: physics, geochemistry, biogeochemistry. In: Payri CE (ed) The Marine Fauna and Flora of the Bismarck Sea and adjacent waters. IRD Editions.

Research papers submitted or in review

1. Fulweiler, R.W., Rinehart, S., Taylor, J., Kelly, M.C., Berberich, M.E., Ray, N.E., Oczkowski, A., Balint, A., Geisser, A., Benavides, M., Church, M.J., Loeks, B., Newell, S., Olofsson, M., Clifford Oppong, J., Roley, S.S., Vizza, C., Wilson, S.T., Groffman, P., Scott, J.T., Marcarelly, A.M. Inland and coastal water nitrogen fixation is globally important. Submitted to Science.

2. Von Friesen, L.W., Farnelid, H., von Appen, W.J., Benavides, M., Grosso, O., Laber, C.P., Schüttler, J., Sundbom, M., Torres-Valdés, S., Bertilsson, S., Peeken, I., Snoejis-Leijonmalm, P., Riemann, L. Nitrogen fixation under different stages of declining Arctic sea ice has the potential to stimulate primary production. Submitted to Global Change Biology.

*†3. Filella, A., Cebron, A., Paix, B., Vallet, M., Martinot, P., Guayomarch, L., Guigue, C., Tedetti, M., Grosso, O., Turk-Kubo, K., Riemann, L., Benavides, M. Organic metabolite uptake by diazotrophs in the North Pacific Ocean. Submitted to ISME Comms.

4. Turk-Kubo, K.A., Benavides, M., Mills, M.M., Smith, S.R. Floating Rhizosolenia mats host N2-fixing microbes. Submitted to ISME J.

*†5. Coët, A., Carpaneto Bastos, C., Lechelon, M., Hawley, R., Flanagan, O., Lohan, M.C., Ronceray, P., Hopkins, J.E., Mahaffey, C., Benavides, M. Dynamics of diazotroph particle colonization in the Arctic Ocean. Submitted to ISME J.

6. Hernández-Hernández, N., Santana-Falcón, Y., Montero, M.F., Benavides, M., Delgado-Huertas, A., Álvarez-Salgado, X.A., Land, P., Arístegui, J. Comparing in situ and satellite-derived primary production estimates in the Canary Current upwelling region. Submitted to Journal of Marine Systems.

Research papers or book chapters in preparation

*†1. Hörstmann, C., Chowdhury, S., Carpaneto Bastos, C., Grosso, O., Álvarez-Salgado, X.A., Arístegui, J., Benavides, M. Microbial interactions driving N2 fixation in aging eddies.

*†2. Chowdhury, S., Sudre, F., Nazirahmed, S., Wu, C., Sun, J., Bonnet, S., Singh, A., Rossi, V., Benavides, M. Physical forcing shapes the diazotrophy in the Northern Indian Ocean.

*†3. Cerdán-García, E., Filella, A., Smith, S.R., Furbo Reeder, C., Coët, A., Mills, M.M., Turk-Kubo, K.A., Benavides, M. Successional colonisation of particles by non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs.

*4. Benavides, M., Coët, A., Sebastián, M., Vogts, A., Hawley, R., Flanagan, O., Lohan, M.C., Hopkins, J.E., Mahaffey, C. Particle-associated diazotrophs fix N2 in the Arctic Ocean.