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Overview

David M. Nelson is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a primary focus on Ecology. Their research spans several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of ecological and environmental topics, with particular attention to bats, marine animals, birds, and broader wildlife conservation issues. Main topics covered in their research include:

  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

David M. Nelson has published frequently in several scientific venues, showing repeated contributions in the following journals:

  • PeerJ
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecosphere
  • Biogeosciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on wildlife interactions with environmental factors and anthropogenic impacts. Representative papers include:

  • "Vulnerability of avian populations to renewable energy production" (2022), published in Royal Society Open Science
  • "Whole-exome sequencing reveals a long-term decline in effective population size of red spruce (Picea rubens)" (2020), published in Evolutionary Applications
  • "Frequent burning causes large losses of carbon from deep soil layers in a temperate savanna" (2020), published in Journal of Ecology
  • "Advancing interpretation of stable isotope assignment maps: comparing and summarizing origins of known-provenance migratory bats" (2020), published in Animal Migration
  • "Assessing population-level consequences of anthropogenic stressors for terrestrial wildlife" (2020), published in Ecosphere

Their collaborative efforts are reflected by frequent coauthors, including:

  • Juliet Nagel
  • Todd E. Katzner
  • Hannah B. Vander Zanden
  • Jamin G. Wieringa
  • Amanda M. Hale

Best Publications

  • The silica balance in the world ocean: a reestimate.

    Paul Tréguer;David M. Nelson;Aleido J. Van Bennekom;David J. DeMaster

  • Phytoplankton bloom produced by a receding ice edge in the ross sea: spatial coherence with the density field.

    Walker O. Smith;David M. Nelson

  • A review of the Si cycle in the modern ocean: recent progress and missing gaps in the application of biogenic opal as a paleoproductivity proxy

    O Ragueneau;P Tréguer;A Leynaert;R.F Anderson

  • Importance of Ice Edge Phytoplankton Production in the Southern Ocean

    Walker O. Smith;David M. Nelson

  • Sverdrup revisited: Critical depths, maximum chlorophyll levels, and the control of Southern Ocean productivity by the irradiance‐mixing regime

    David M. Nelson;Walker . Smith

  • Iron and silicic acid concentrations regulate Si uptake north and south of the Polar Frontal Zone in the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean

    Valerie M. Franck;Mark A Brzezinski;Kenneth H Coale;David M Nelson

  • Pelagic functional group modeling: Progress, challenges and prospects

    Raleigh R. Hood;Edward A. Laws;Robert A. Armstrong;Nicholas R. Bates

  • Phytoplankton bloom dynamics of the western Ross Sea ice edge—II. Mesoscale cycling of nitrogen and silicon

    David M. Nelson;Walker O. Smith

  • Nutrient depletion indicates high primary productivity in the Weddell Sea

    Joe C. Jennings;Louis I. Gordon;David M. Nelson

  • Phytoplankton growth and new production in the Weddell Sea marginal ice zone in the austral spring and autumn

    Walker . Smith;David M. Nelson

  • Biologically-based estuarine salinity zones derived from a multivariate analysis

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  • The annual silica cycle in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda

    Mark A. Brzezinski;David M. Nelson

  • Phytoplankton bloom dynamics of the western Ross Sea ice edge—I. Primary productivity and species-specific production

    David L. Wilson;Walker O. Smith;David M. Nelson

  • Phosphorus limits phytoplankton growth on the Louisiana shelf during the period of hypoxia formation.

    Jason B. Sylvan;Quay Dortch;David M. Nelson;Alisa F. Maier Brown

  • Seasonal changes in the silicon cycle within a Gulf Stream warm-core ring

    Mark A. Brzezinski;David M. Nelson

  • Particulate matter and nutrient distributions in the ice-edge zone of the Weddell Sea: relationship to hydrography during late summer

    David M. Nelson;Walker O. Smith;Robin D. Muench;Louis I. Gordon

  • Cycling of organic carbon and biogenic silica in the Southern Ocean: Estimates of water-column and sedimentary fluxes on the Ross Sea continental shelf

    David M. Nelson;David J. DeMaster;Robert B. Dunbar;Walker O. Smith

  • Importance of Phaeocystis blooms in the high-latitude ocean carbon cycle

    Walker O. Smith;Louis A. Codispoti;David M. Nelson;Thomas Manley

  • Spring distributions of density, nutrients, and phytoplankton biomass in the ice edge zone of the Weddell‐Scotia Sea

    David M. Nelson;Walker O. Smith;Louis I. Gordon;Bruce A. Huber

  • Silicon dynamics within an intense open-ocean diatom bloom in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean

    Mark A. Brzezinski;David M. Nelson;Valerie M. Franck;Daniel E. Sigmon

  • Production and pelagic dissolution of biogenic silica in the Southern Ocean

    David M. Nelson;Louis I. Gordon

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Brzezinski
Mark A. Brzezinski University of California, Santa Barbara
Walker O. Smith
Walker O. Smith Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Paul Tréguer
Paul Tréguer French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Bernard Quéguiner
Bernard Quéguiner Aix-Marseille University
David J. DeMaster
David J. DeMaster North Carolina State University
Louis I. Gordon
Louis I. Gordon Oregon State University
Michael W. Lomas
Michael W. Lomas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Ronald Greeley
Ronald Greeley Arizona State University
Nicholas R. Bates
Nicholas R. Bates Arizona State University
Benjamin S. Twining
Benjamin S. Twining Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences

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