Actividades docentes

Pregrado: Acuicultura de Animales Marinos, Bioestadistica, Introducción a las Ciencias Ambientales, Parasitología, Seminarios de Investigación y Bibliográficos, Tesis de Titulación.

Postgrado: Limnología Práctica, Ecología Fluvial, Seminarios de Investigación y Bibliográficos, Tesis.

Intereses de investigación

Ecological functioning of large rivers

Recruitment and life histories of fish

Responses of riverine communities and ecosystem processes to environmental stressors

Impacts of non-native organisms on freshwater ecosystems

Proyectos de investigación (últimos 10 años)

• FONDECYT 1190647. Chilean river ecosystems: Human pressures and resilience. Co-investigador. (2019-2022).

• FONDECYT 3190455. Where humans exist, contamination exists: Early detection of anthropic effects in sentinel marine species of the Antarctic Peninsula. Investigador patrocinante. (2019-2021).

• FONDECYT 11180545. Migratory life histories and trophic niche of riverine puye Galaxias maculatus in Chilean rivers: effects of parasites. Investigador principal. (2018-2021).

• FONDECYT 3180375. Mechanisms of the responses of a resilient fish to multiple human-induced stressors within a watershed: integration of the use of biomarkers and ecological approaches, Investigador patrocinante. (2018-2020). 

• FONDECYT 1150154. Within-basin barriers and among-basin leaks: changing connectivity of rivers in central Chile and its impact on native fish. Co-investigador. (2015-2019). 

• REDES 140187. Understanding the effects of hydraulic connectivity on biodiversity and ecological functioning of riverine ecosystems for informed river management. Investigador responsable. (2014-2015).

• FONDECYT 3130690. To sea or not to sea: what drives fish in the Southern Hemisphere to recruit in the Ocean. Investigador principal. (2012-2015).

Publicaciones (últimos 10 años):

• Díaz G, Górski K, Heino J, Arriagada P, Link O, & Habit E (2021). The Longest Fragment Drives Fish Beta Diversity In Fragmented River Networks: Implications For River Management And Conservation. Science of The Total Environment, 144323.
• Elgueta A, Górski K, Thoms M, Fierro P, Toledo B, Manosalva A, & Habit E (2021). Interplay of geomorphology and hydrology drives macroinvertebrate assemblage responses to hydropeaking. Science of The Total Environment, 144262.
• Wolter C, Borcherding J, Ferreira T, Freyhof J, Gessner J, Górski K., Nastase A, Schomaker C, Erős, T (2021). Characterization of European lampreys and fishes by their longitudinal and lateral distribution traits. Ecological Indicators, 123, 107350.
• Nuñez-Vallecillo M, Rivera A, Górski K, Brante A, Benítez HA (2021). Ecomorphological analyses reveal impact of land-based stressors on stock structure of two commercially important fish species (Lutjanus synagris and Haemulon plumierii) in the Caribbean. Fisheries Research, 234, 105812.
• Vivancos A, Górski K, Manosalva A, Toledo B, Reid M, Habit E (2020). Hydrological connectivity drives longitudinal movement of endangered endemic Chilean darter Percilia irwini (Eigenmann, 1927). Journal of Fish Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14554
• Cussac VE, Barrantes ME, Boy CC, Górski K, Habit E, Lattuca ME & Rojo JH (2020). New insights into the distribution, physiology and life histories of South American galaxiid fishes, and potential threats to this unique fauna. Diversity, 12(5), 178.
• García K, Sanpera, C, Jover L, Palazón S, Gosálbez J, Górski K, & Melero Y (2020). High Trophic Niche Overlap between a Native and Invasive Mink Does Not Drive Trophic Displacement of the Native Mink during an Invasion Process. Animals, 10(8), 1387.
• Sánchez-Péreza A, Oliva-Paterna FJ, Torralvaa M, Colin N, & Górski K (2020). Functional response of fish assemblage to multiple stressors in a highly regulated Mediterranean river system. Science of the Total Environment, 138989.
• Muñoz-Ramírez CP, Briones R, Colin N, Fierro P, Górski K, Jara A. & Manosalva A (2020). A Century after! Rediscovery of the ancient catfish Diplomystes Bleeker 1858 (Siluriformes: Diplomystidae) in coastal river basins of Chile and its implications for conservation. Neotropical Ichthyology, 18(1).
• George-Nascimento M, López-Rodríguez R & Górski K (2020). Geographic variation in composition of metazoan parasite infracommunities in Galaxias maculatus Jenyns 1842 (Osmeriformes: Galaxiidae) in southern Chile (38-47° S). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 93(1), 1-6.
• Delgado ML, Górski K, Habit E & Ruzzante DE (2019). The effects of diadromy and its loss on genomic divergence: The case of amphidromous Galaxias maculatus populations. Molecular ecology, 28(24), 5217-5231.
• Elgueta A, Thoms MC, Górski K, Díaz G & Habit EM (2019). Functional process zones and their fish communities in temperate Andean river networks. River Research and Applications, 35(10), 1702-1711.
• Cuevas MJ, Górski K, Castro LR, Vivancos A & Reid M (2019). Otolith elemental composition reveals separate spawning areas of anchoveta, Engraulis ringens, off central Chile and northern Patagonia. Scientia Marina, 83(4), 317-326.
• Díaz G, Arriagada P, Górski K, Link O, Karelovic B, Gonzalez J Habit E (2019). Fragmentation of Chilean Andean rivers: expected effects of hydropower development. Revista chilena de historia natural, 92(1), 1.
• Poblete AA, Górski K & Moscoso J (2019). Estimation of the diet of chungungo Lontra felina (Molina, 1782) in two locations of the coast of the Biobio Region, Chile. GAYANA, 83(1), 1-9.
• Collier KJ, Baker C, David B, Górski, K, Pingram MA (2018). Linking ecological science with management outcomes on New Zealand’s longest river. River Research and Applications, DOI: 10.1002/rra.3181.
• Schletterer M, Shaporenko SI, Kuzovlev VV, Minin AE, van Geest, GJ, Middelkoop, H and Górski K (2018). The Volga:  management issues in the largest river basin in Europe. River Research and Applications, DOI: 10.1002/rra.3268.
• Górski K, Habit EM, Pingram MA, Manosalva AJ (2018). Variation of the use of marine resources by Galaxias maculatus in large Chilean rivers. Hydrobiologia, 814: 61-73 DOI: 10.1007/s10750-015-2542-4.
• Schletterer M, Kuzovlev VV, Zhenikov YN, Tuhtan JA, Haidvogl G, Friedrich T, Górski K, Füreder L (2018). Fish fauna and fisheries of large European rivers: examples from the Volga and the Danube. Hydrobiologia, 814: 45-60  DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3370-5.
• Górski K, González JF, Vivancos A, Habit EM, Ruzzante DE (2017). Young-of-the-year coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch recruit in rivers of remote Patagonian fjords in southern Chile (51°S). Biological Invasions, 19:1127–1136, DOI: 10.1007/s10530-016-1341-9.
• Ortiz-Sandovala JJ, Górski K, Sobenes C, González JF, Manosalva AJ, Elgueta A, Habit EM (2017). Invasive trout affects trophic ecology of Galaxias platei in Patagonian lakes. Hydrobiologia, 790: 201–212, DOI: 10.1007/s10750-016-3030-1.
• Rabuffetti AP, Górski K, Espínola LA, Abrial E, Amsler ML, Paira AL (2017). Long-term Hydrologic Variability in a Large Subtropical Floodplain River: Effects on Commercial Fisheries. River Research and Applications 33: 353–363, DOI: 10.1002/rra.3100.
• De Los Rios Escalante P, González JF, Górski K, Habit EM, Ruzzante DE (2016). Crustacean zooplankton assemblages in inland waters of southern Patagonia (Alacalufes National Reserve), Chile (49-51°S). Crustaceana, 89: 1639-1647.
• Górski K, de Leeuw JJ, Winter HV, Khoruzhaya VV, Boldyrev VS, Vekhov DA, Nagelkerke LAJ (2016). The importance of flooded terrestrial habitats for larval fish in a semi-natural large floodplain (Volga, Russian Federation). Inland Waters, 6: 105-110, DOI: 10.5268/IW-6.1.914.
• Górski K, de Gruijter C, Tana R (2015). Variation in habitat use along the freshwater–marine continuum by grey mullet Mugil cephalus at the southern limits of its distribution. Journal of Fish Biology, 87(4): 1059-71, DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12777.
• Ortiz-Sandovala JJ, Górski K, González-Díaz A, Habit EM (2015). Trophic scaling of Percichthys trucha (Percichthyidae) in monospecific and multispecific lakes in western Patagonia. Limnologica, 53: 50–59.
• De Los Rios Escalante P, Górski K, Habit EM, Manosalva AJ (2015). First observations of crustacean zooplankton abundances in northern Patagonian rivers. Crustaceana, 88: 617-623.
• Górski K, Collier KJ, Hamilton DP, Hicks BJ (2014). Effects of flow on lateral interactions of fish and shrimps with off-channel habitats in a large river-floodplain system. Hydrobiologia 729: 161-174 DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1352-1.
• Górski K, Collier KJ, Duggan IC, Taylor CM, Hamilton DP (2013) Connectivity and complexity of floodplain habitats govern zooplankton dynamics in a large temperate river system. Freshwater Biology 58, 1458-1470.
• Wu N, Górski K, Daniel AJ (2013) Abundance of larval native and nonnative fishes in floodplain habitats of the lower Waikato River, New Zealand. Inland Waters 3: 359-368.
• Górski K, Buijse AD, Winter HV, De Leeuw JJ, Compton TJ, Vekhov DA, Zolotarev DV, Verreth JAJ, Nagelkerke LAJ (2013). Geomorphology and flooding shape fish distribution in a large-scale temperate floodplain. River Research and Applications 29: 1226–1236.
• Górski K, Van den Bosch LV, Van de Wolfshaar KE, Middelkoop H, Nagelkerke L AJ, Filippov OV, Zolotarev DV, Yakovlev SV, Minin AE, Winter HV, De Leeuw JJ, Buijse AD & Verreth JAJ (2012). Post-damming flow regime development in a large lowland river (Volga, Russian Federation): implications for floodplain inundation and fisheries. River Research and Applications 28: 1121–1134.
• Górski K, de Leeuw JJ, Winter HV, Vekhov DA, Minin AE, Buijse AD, Nagelkerke LAJ (2011). Fish recruitment in a large, temperate floodplain: the importance of annual flooding, temperature and habitat complexity. Freshwater Biology  56: 2210–2225.
• Górski K, Winter HV, de Leeuw JJ, Minin AE, Nagelkerke LAJ (2010). Fish spawning in a large temperate floodplain: The role of flooding and temperature. Freshwater Biology 55: 1509-1519.

• Participación en Programa "Abramos Nuestros Laboratorios" 
• Participación en Congreso Nacional Escolar CyT Explora CONICYT (Evaluador)

Equipo de trabajo 

• Mgr. Ecol. Mar. Ruby López. Asistente de Investigación

Tesistas pregrado y postgrado

• Eduardo Segura (Magister en Ecología Marina)
• Mayra Nuñez (co-tutor; Magister en Ecología Marina)