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1930

Overview

Daniel L. Roelke is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States, with a research focus primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered in their research involve Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Sierra E. Cagle, Bryan W. Brooks, Joydeb Bhattacharyya, Kevin M. Stroski, and Crista M. Kieley, indicating a strong network in interdisciplinary environmental studies.

They have published multiple articles in notable scientific venues, with repeated contributions to Ecological Modelling as well as publications in Climate, Environmental Science & Technology, Theoretical Population Biology, and Hydrobiologia.

Notable recent papers by Daniel L. Roelke include:

  • Integrating Agriculture and Ecosystems to Find Suitable Adaptations to Climate Change, 2020, Climate
  • Competitive superiority of N-fixing cyanobacteria when fixed N is scarce: Reconsiderations based on a model with heterocyst differentiation, 2022, Ecological Modelling
  • What, How, When, and Where: Spatiotemporal Water Quality Hazards of Cyanotoxins in Subtropical Eutrophic Reservoirs, 2024, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Using YY supermales to destabilize invasive fish populations, 2020, Theoretical Population Biology
  • Tropical macrophytes promote phytoplankton community shifts in lake mesocosms: relevance for lake restoration in warm climates, 2021, Hydrobiologia

Best Publications

  • Autecology of the diatom Pseudonitzschia australis, a domoic acid producer, from Monterey Bay, California

    K. R. Buck;L. Uttalcooke;C. H. Pilskaln;D. L. Roelke

  • The ecophysiology and bloom dynamics of Prymnesium spp.

    Edna Granéli;Bente Edvardsen;Daniel L. Roelke;Johannes A. Hagström

  • Health and Ecological Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms: Risk Assessment Needs

    Frances M. Van Dolah;Daniel Roelke;Richard M. Greene

  • Growth and toxicity of Prymnesium parvum (Haptophyta) as a function of salinity, light, and temperature

    Jason W. Baker;James P. Grover;Bryan W. Brooks;Fabiola Ureña-Boeck

  • Carbon dioxide exchange in a high marsh on the Texas Gulf Coast: effects of freshwater availability

    F.A. Heinsch;J.L. Heilman;K.J. McInnes;D.R. Cobos

  • Enrichment and detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from water samples using an antibody modified microfluidic chip.

    Udara Dharmasiri;Małgorzata A. Witek;Andre A. Adams;Andre A. Adams;John K. Osiri

  • A decade of fish-killing Prymnesium parvum blooms in Texas: roles of inflow and salinity

    Daniel L. Roelke;James P. Grover;Bryan W. Brooks;Joan Glass

  • A chronicle of a killer alga in the west: ecology, assessment, and management of Prymnesium parvum blooms

    Daniel L. Roelke;Aaron Barkoh;Bryan W. Brooks;James P. Grover

  • A model of phytoplankton competition for limiting and nonlimiting nutrients: Implications for development of estuarine and nearshore management schemes

    D. L. Roelke;P. M. Eldridge;L. A. Cifuentes

  • Effects of nutrient enrichment on Prymnesium parvum population dynamics and toxicity: results from field experiments, Lake Possum Kingdom, USA

    Daniel L. Roelke;Reagan M. Errera;Richard Kiesling;Bryan W. Brooks

  • Copepod food-quality threshold as a mechanism influencing phytoplankton succession and accumulation of biomass, and secondary productivity: a modeling study with management implications

    D.L. Roelke

  • Interactions between flow, periphyton, and nutrients in a heavily impacted urban stream: implications for stream restoration effectiveness

    Justin Murdock;Daniel Roelke;Frances Gelwick

  • Influence of pulsed inflows and nutrient loading on zooplankton and phytoplankton community structure and biomass in microcosm experiments using estuarine assemblages

    Yesim Buyukates;Daniel Roelke

  • Detection of the marine toxins okadaic acid and domoic acid in shellfish and phytoplankton in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Robert W. Dickey;Greta A. Fryxell;H.Ray Granade;Daniel Roelke

  • Prymnesium parvum: An emerging threat to inland waters

    Bryan W. Brooks;James P. Grover;Daniel L. Roelke

  • Seasonally variable riverine production in the Venezuelan llanos

    J. B. Cotner;J. V. Montoya;D. L. Roelke;K. O. Winemiller

  • Nutrient and Phytoplankton Dynamics in a Sewage-Impacted Gulf Coast Estuary: A Field Test of the PEG-Model and Equilibrium Resource Competition Theory

    D. I. Roelke;L. A. Cifuentes;P. M. Eldridge

  • Seasonally varying impact of detritivorous fishes on the benthic ecology of a tropical floodplain river

    Kirk O. Winemiller;José V. Montoya;Daniel L. Roelke;Craig A. Layman

  • The Diversity of Harmful Algal Bloom-Triggering Mechanisms and the Complexity of Bloom Initiation

    Daniel Roelke;Yesim Buyukates

  • Comparison of two domoic acid-producing diatoms: a review

    M. C. Villac;D. L. Roelke;T. A. Villareal;G. A. Fryxell

  • Fundamental predictability in multispecies competition: the influence of large disturbance.

    Daniel Roelke;Sarah Augustine;Yesim Buyukates

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan W. Brooks
Bryan W. Brooks Baylor University
James P. Grover
James P. Grover The University of Texas at Arlington
Kirk O. Winemiller
Kirk O. Winemiller Texas A&M University
Antonietta Quigg
Antonietta Quigg Texas A&M University at Galveston
James L. Pinckney
James L. Pinckney University of South Carolina
James B. Cotner
James B. Cotner University of Minnesota
Simon M. Mitrovic
Simon M. Mitrovic University of Technology Sydney
Luis A. Cifuentes
Luis A. Cifuentes New Mexico State University
Tracy A. Villareal
Tracy A. Villareal The University of Texas at Austin
Edna Granéli
Edna Granéli Linnaeus University

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