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Daniel J. Mayor is a researcher affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with 59 and 57 publications respectively in these main fields of study.

The researcher has concentrated extensively on subfields such as oceanography, ecology, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and pollution. Their research topics cover a range of marine-related areas including marine and coastal ecosystems, marine and fisheries research, marine biology and ecology research, isotope analysis in ecology, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Daniel J. Mayor has published articles in several prominent venues, frequently contributing to Frontiers in Marine Science, Biogeochemistry, Harmful Algae, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, and Journal of Hydrology. They have also authored a book titled The Physiology, Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Marine Zooplankton in a Changing Arctic Ocean, published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

  • "Carbon on the Northwest European Shelf: Contemporary Budget and Future Influences" (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Landscape controls on riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from Great Britain" (2021, Biogeochemistry)
  • "Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs" (2021, AMBIO)
  • "Microplastics in commercial marine fish species in the UK - A case study in the River Thames and the River Stour (East Anglia) estuaries" (2024, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Contrasting Estuarine Processing of Dissolved Organic Matter Derived From Natural and Human-Impacted Landscapes" (2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)

Frequent coauthors include Kathryn Cook, Geraint A. Tarling, Stacey L. Felgate, Richard Sanders, and Chris Evans, indicating ongoing collaborative research relationships relevant to their field.

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Pollution

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Harmful Algae
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Hadal trenches: the ecology of the deepest places on Earth

    Alan John Jamieson;Toyonobu Fujii;Daniel Justin Mayor;Martin Solan

  • Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean’s twilight zone

    Sarah L. C. Giering;Sarah L. C. Giering;Sarah L. C. Giering;Richard Sanders;Richard S. Lampitt;Thomas R. Anderson

  • Toward the integrated marine debris observing system

    Nikolai Maximenko;Paolo Corradi;Kara Lavender Law;Erik Van Sebille

  • Diatom carbon export enhanced by silicate upwelling in the northeast Atlantic

    John T. Allen;Louise Brown;Louise Brown;Richard Sanders;C. Mark Moore

  • CO2-induced acidification affects hatching success in Calanus finmarchicus

    Daniel Justin Mayor;Ceri Matthews;Kathryn Cook;Alain F Zuur

  • Carbon on the Northwest European Shelf: Contemporary Budget and Future Influences

    Oliver Legge;Martin Johnson;Martin Johnson;Natalie Hicks;Tim Jickells

  • Terrestrial dissolved organic matter distribution in the North Sea

    Stuart C. Painter;Dan J. Lapworth;E. Malcolm S. Woodward;Silke Kroeger

  • Microbial gardening in the ocean's twilight zone: Detritivorous metazoans benefit from fragmenting, rather than ingesting, sinking detritus

    Daniel J. Mayor;Richard Sanders;Sarah L. C. Giering;Thomas R. Anderson

  • Feeding of Calanus finmarchicus and Oithona similis on the microplankton assemblage in the Irminger Sea, North Atlantic

    Claudia Castellani;Claudia Castellani;Xabier Irigoien;Daniel Justin Mayor;Daniel Justin Mayor;Roger P. Harris

  • Microbial Community Diversity Within Sediments from Two Geographically Separated Hadal Trenches.

    Logan M. Peoples;Eleanna Grammatopoulou;Michelle Pombrol;Xiaoxiong Xu

  • Quantifying carbon fluxes from primary production to mesopelagic fish using a simple food web model

    Thomas R Anderson;Adrian P Martin;Richard S Lampitt;Clive N Trueman

  • End of century ocean warming and acidification effects on reproductive success in a temperate marine copepod

    Daniel J. Mayor;Neil R. Everett;Kathryn B. Cook

  • Absorption efficiencies and basal turnover of C, N and fatty acids in a marine Calanoid copepod

    Daniel J. Mayor;Kathryn Cook;Barry Thornton;Pamela Walsham

  • Community structure and diversity of scavenging amphipods from bathyal to hadal depths in three South Pacific Trenches

    Nichola C. Lacey;Ashley A. Rowden;Malcolm R. Clark;Niamh M. Kilgallen

  • The impact of demersal trawling on NE Atlantic deepwater coral habitats: the case of the Darwin Mounds, United Kingdom

    A J Wheeler;B J Bett;D S M Billett;D G Masson

  • Spatial demography of Calanus finmarchicus in the Irminger Sea

    M. R. Heath;J. Rasmussen;Y. Ahmed;J. Allen

  • Landscape controls on riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from Great Britain

    Jennifer L. Williamson;Andrew Tye;Dan J. Lapworth;Don Monteith

  • The metabolic response of marine copepods to environmental warming and ocean acidification in the absence of food

    Daniel J. Mayor;Ulf Sommer;Kathryn B. Cook;Mark R. Viant

  • Habitat partitioning in Antarctic krill: Spawning hotspots and nursery areas

    Frances A. Perry;Angus Atkinson;Sévrine F. Sailley;Geraint A. Tarling

  • Acute toxicity of some treatments commonly used by the salmonid aquaculture industry to Corophium volutator and Hediste diversicolor: Whole sediment bioassay tests

    Daniel J. Mayor;M. Solan;I. Martinez;L. Murray

  • Resource quality affects carbon cycling in deep-sea sediments

    Daniel J Mayor;Barry Thornton;Steve Hay;Alain F Zuur

  • Seasonal variation of zooplankton community structure and trophic position in the Celtic Sea: a stable isotope and biovolume spectrum approach

    Sarah L.C. Giering;Seona R. Wells;Seona R. Wells;Kyle M.J. Mayers;Hanna Schuster

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders National Oceanography Centre
Thomas R. Anderson
Thomas R. Anderson National Oceanography Centre
Chris D. Evans
Chris D. Evans UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Geraint A. Tarling
Geraint A. Tarling British Antarctic Survey
Martin Solan
Martin Solan University of Southampton
David W. Pond
David W. Pond University of Stirling
Dan Lapworth
Dan Lapworth British Geological Survey
Stephanie A. Henson
Stephanie A. Henson National Oceanography Centre
Adrian P. Martin
Adrian P. Martin National Oceanography Centre
Henry A. Ruhl
Henry A. Ruhl Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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