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Bo G. Gustafsson

Bo G. Gustafsson

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Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
9155
World Ranking
3068
National Ranking
27

Overview

Bo G. Gustafsson is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and is active in research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research contributions focus on marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology, marine and fisheries research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, isotope analysis in ecology, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Recent scientific publications include:

  • Impacts of changing society and climate on nutrient loading to the Baltic Sea, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biogeochemical functioning of the Baltic Sea, 2022, Earth System Dynamics
  • Reference state, structure, regime shifts, and regulatory drivers in a coastal sea over the last century: The Central Baltic Sea case, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • The meagre future of benthic fauna in a coastal sea-Benthic responses to recovery from eutrophication in a changing climate, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Understanding Environmental Changes in Temperate Coastal Seas: Linking Models of Benthic Fauna to Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gustafsson include Christoph Humborg, Alf Norkko, Erik Gustafsson, Eva Ehrnsten, and Jacob Carstensen.

Their work is published regularly in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Frontiers in Marine Science, Scientific Reports, ICES Journal of Marine Science, and Earth System Dynamics.

Gustafsson has also contributed to academic literature in book form, with publications through the TemaNord publisher, including the 2021 work titled "Science in brief: OMAI - Assessing acidification in the Baltic Sea."

Best Publications

  • Deoxygenation of the Baltic Sea during the last century

    Jacob Carstensen;Jesper H. Andersen;Bo G. Gustafsson;Daniel J. Conley

  • Hypoxia-Related Processes in the Baltic Sea

    Daniel J. Conley;Svante Björck;Erik Bonsdorff;Jacob Carstensen

  • Internal Ecosystem Feedbacks Enhance Nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria Blooms and Complicate Management in the Baltic Sea

    Emil Vahtera;Daniel J. Conley;Bo G. Gustafsson;Harri Kuosa

  • Reconstructing the Development of Baltic Sea Eutrophication 1850–2006

    Bo G. Gustafsson;Frederik Schenk;Thorsten Blenckner;Kari Eilola

  • Long-term temporal and spatial trends in eutrophication status of the Baltic Sea.

    Jesper H. Andersen;Jesper H. Andersen;Jacob Carstensen;Daniel J. Conley;Karsten Dromph;Karsten Dromph

  • Phosphorus recycling and burial in Baltic Sea sediments with contrasting redox conditions

    Haydon P. Mort;Caroline P. Slomp;Bo G. Gustafsson;Thorbjørn J. Andersen

  • Hypoxia in the Baltic Sea: Biogeochemical Cycles, Benthic Fauna, and Management

    Jacob Carstensen;Daniel J. Conley;Erik Bonsdorff;Bo G. Gustafsson

  • Modeling the combined impact of changing climate and changing nutrient loads on the Baltic Sea environment in an ensemble of transient simulations for 1961–2099

    H. E. M. Meier;R. Hordoir;H. C. Andersson;C. Dieterich

  • Hypoxia in future climates : a model ensemble study for the Baltic Sea

    H. E. M. Meier;H. C. Andersson;K. Eilola;B. G. Gustafsson

  • Evaluation of biogeochemical cycles in an ensemble of three state-of-the-art numerical models of the Baltic Sea

    K. Eilola;Bo G. Gustafsson;I. Kuznetsov;H. E. M. Meier

  • Coupled dynamics of iron and phosphorus in sediments of an oligotrophic coastal basin and the impact of anaerobic oxidation of methane.

    Caroline P. Slomp;Haydon P. Mort;Haydon P. Mort;Tom Jilbert;Daniel C. Reed

  • Sedimentary phosphorus dynamics and the evolution of bottom-water hypoxia: A coupled benthic-pelagic model of a coastal system

    Daniel C. Reed;Caroline P. Slomp;Bo G. Gustafsson

  • Impact of climate change on ecological quality indicators and biogeochemical fluxes in the Baltic sea: a multi-model ensemble study.

    H. E. Markus Meier;Bärbel Müller-Karulis;Helén C. Andersson;Christian Dieterich

  • Comparing reconstructed past variations and future projections of the Baltic Sea ecosystem—first results from multi-model ensemble simulations

    H E Markus Meier;Helén C Andersson;Berit Arheimer;Thorsten Blenckner

  • Reducing agricultural nutrient surpluses in a large catchment – Links to livestock density

    Annika Svanbäck;Michelle L. McCrackin;Dennis P. Swaney;Helena Linefur

  • Beyond the Fe-P-redox connection: preferential regeneration of phosphorus from organic matter as a key control on Baltic Sea nutrient cycles

    T. Jilbert;C. P. Slomp;Bo G. Gustafsson;W. Boer

  • On the causes for salinity variations in the Baltic Sea during the last 8500 years

    Bo G. Gustafsson;Per Westman

  • Response of the Baltic Sea to climate change—theory and observations

    Anders Stigebrandt;Bo G Gustafsson

  • Past, Present and Future Eutrophication Status of the Baltic Sea

    Ciarán J. Murray;Bärbel Muller-Karulis;Jacob Carstensen;Jacob Carstensen;Daniel Joseph Conley

  • Tackling Hypoxia in the Baltic Sea: Is Engineering a Solution?

    Daniel J. Conley;Erik Bonsdorff;Jacob Carstensen;Georgia Destouni

  • Reconstructing the Development of Baltic Sea Eutrophication

    Bo G. Gustafsson;Frederik Schenk;Thorsten Blenckner;Kari Eilola

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Humborg
Christoph Humborg Stockholm University
Caroline P. Slomp
Caroline P. Slomp Radboud University
Alf Norkko
Alf Norkko University of Helsinki
Oleg P. Savchuk
Oleg P. Savchuk Stockholm University
Jacob Carstensen
Jacob Carstensen Aarhus University
Bärbel Müller-Karulis
Bärbel Müller-Karulis Stockholm University
Daniel J. Conley
Daniel J. Conley Lund University
Kari Eilola
Kari Eilola Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Carl-Magnus Mörth
Carl-Magnus Mörth Stockholm University
H. E. Markus Meier
H. E. Markus Meier Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

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