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D-Index
55
Citations
10549
World Ranking
2569
National Ranking
149

Overview

Damien T. Maher is affiliated with Southern Cross University in Australia and specializes in environmental and earth sciences, focusing on the dynamics of coastal and marine ecosystems. Their research spans multiple subfields, including ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and atmospheric science.

The core topics of Damien T. Maher's research involve coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, methane hydrates and related phenomena, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, coastal and marine dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and groundwater and isotope geochemistry.

Among recent scholarly contributions, Damien T. Maher has co-authored papers such as "An Australian blue carbon method to estimate climate change mitigation benefits of coastal wetland restoration" (2022, Restoration Ecology), "Bark-dwelling methanotrophic bacteria decrease methane emissions from trees" (2021, Nature Communications), "Operationalizing marketable blue carbon" (2022, One Earth), "Carbonate chemistry and carbon sequestration driven by inorganic carbon outwelling from mangroves and saltmarshes" (2023, Nature Communications), and "Hot spot of CH4 production and diffusive flux in rivers with high urbanization" (2021, Water Research).

Frequent co-authors of Damien T. Maher include Luke C. Jeffrey with 35 collaborations, Douglas R. Tait with 35, Isaac R. Santos with 26, Scott G. Johnston with 21, and James Z. Sippo with 19 joint publications.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as Limnology and Oceanography (8 publications), Zenodo, the CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research (7 publications), Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (6 publications), Biogeosciences (4 publications), and The Science of The Total Environment (4 publications).

Best Publications

  • Australian vegetated coastal ecosystems as global hotspots for climate change mitigation

    Oscar Serrano;Catherine E. Lovelock;Trisha B. Atwood;Trisha B. Atwood;Peter I. Macreadie

  • Groundwater‐derived dissolved inorganic and organic carbon exports from a mangrove tidal creek: The missing mangrove carbon sink?

    Damien T Maher;Isaac R Santos;L Golsby-Smith;Justin Gleeson

  • Mangrove mortality in a changing climate: An overview

    James Z. Sippo;Catherine E. Lovelock;Isaac R. Santos;Christian J. Sanders

  • Methane emissions partially offset “blue carbon” burial in mangroves

    Judith A. Rosentreter;Damien T. Maher;Dirk V. Erler;Rachel H. Murray

  • Are global mangrove carbon stocks driven by rainfall

    Christian J. Sanders;Damien T. Maher;Douglas R. Tait;Darren Williams

  • Spatial and temporal variability of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes over semi-diurnal and spring–neap–spring timescales in a mangrove creek

    M. Call;D.T. Maher;I.R. Santos;S. Ruiz-Halpern

  • Are mangroves drivers or buffers of coastal acidification? Insights from alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon export estimates across a latitudinal transect

    James Z Sippo;Damien T Maher;Douglas R Tait;Ceylena J Holloway

  • Carbon outwelling and outgassing vs. burial in an estuarine tidal creek surrounded by mangrove and saltmarsh wetlands.

    Isaac R. Santos;Damien T. Maher;Reece Larkin;Jackie R. Webb;Jackie R. Webb

  • Addressing calcium carbonate cycling in blue carbon accounting

    Peter I. Macreadie;Oscar Serrano;Damien T. Maher;Carlos M. Duarte

  • Role of carbonate burial in Blue Carbon budgets

    Vincent Saderne;Nathan R. Geraldi;Peter I. Macreadie;D. T. Maher

  • Groundwater–surface water exchange in a mangrove tidal creek: Evidence from natural geochemical tracers and implications for nutrient budgets

    Justin Gleeson;Isaac R. Santos;Damien T. Maher;Lindsay Golsby-Smith

  • Coupling automated radon and carbon dioxide measurements in coastal waters.

    Isaac R. Santos;Damien T. Maher;Bradley D. Eyre

  • Carbon budgets for three autotrophic Australian estuaries: Implications for global estimates of the coastal air‐water CO2 flux

    Damien T Maher;Bradley D Eyre

  • Methane and carbon dioxide dynamics in a subtropical estuary over a diel cycle: insights from automated in situ radioactive and stable isotope measurements

    Damien T. Maher;Kirsten Cowley;Isaac R. Santos;Paul Macklin

  • Beyond burial: lateral exchange is a significant atmospheric carbon sink in mangrove forests

    Damien T. Maher;Mitchell Call;Isaac R. Santos;Christian J. Sanders

  • Groundwater discharge into an estuary using spatially distributed radon time series and radium isotopes

    Mahmood Sadat-Noori;Isaac R. Santos;Christian J. Sanders;Luciana M. Sanders

  • Groundwater Discharge as a Source of Dissolved Carbon and Greenhouse Gases in a Subtropical Estuary

    Mahmood Sadat-Noori;Damien T. Maher;Isaac R. Santos

  • Denitrification, N-fixation and nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes in different benthic habitats and their contribution to the nitrogen and phosphorus budgets of a shallow oligotrophic sub-tropical coastal system (southern Moreton Bay, Australia)

    Bradley D Eyre;Angus Jp Ferguson;Arthur Webb;Arthur Webb;Damien Troy Maher

  • Carbon dioxide dynamics driven by groundwater discharge in a coastal floodplain creek

    Marnie L. Atkins;Isaac R. Santos;Sergio Ruiz-Halpern;Damien T. Maher

  • Diel coral reef acidification driven by porewater advection in permeable carbonate sands, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef

    Isaac R Santos;Ronnie N Glud;Ronnie N Glud;Damien Troy Maher;Dirk V Erler

Frequent Co-Authors

Isaac R. Santos
Isaac R. Santos University of Gothenburg
Bradley D. Eyre
Bradley D. Eyre Southern Cross University
Christian J. Sanders
Christian J. Sanders Southern Cross University
Peter I. Macreadie
Peter I. Macreadie Deakin University
Kai G. Schulz
Kai G. Schulz Southern Cross University
Christian Birkel
Christian Birkel University of Costa Rica
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Oscar Serrano
Oscar Serrano Edith Cowan University
David T. Ho
David T. Ho University of Hawaii System
Matthew R. Hipsey
Matthew R. Hipsey University of Western Australia

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