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74
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Diane K. Stoecker is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences in the United States. Their research contributions span across environmental and earth sciences, with a particular focus on marine and coastal ecosystems.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of their research involve:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change

The primary topics covered in their work are:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

Diane K. Stoecker has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Kevin J. Flynn
  • Aditee Mitra
  • Per Juel Hansen
  • David A. Caron
  • Emile Faure

Their work has been published in key venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • European Journal of Phycology
  • Harmful Algae
  • Journal of Plankton Research

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by this scientist include:

  • "The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo-phago-trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean", 2023, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • "A three-dimensional mixotrophic model of Karlodinium veneficum blooms for a eutrophic estuary", 2022, Harmful Algae
  • "Trait trade-offs in phagotrophic microalgae: the mixoplankton conundrum", 2023, European Journal of Phycology
  • "Ecophysiological traits of mixotrophic Strombidium spp", 2020, Journal of Plankton Research
  • "The Mixoplankton Database (MDB)", 2023, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Diane K. Stoecker was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms: A scientific consensus

    J. Heisler;P.M. Glibert;J.M. Burkholder;D.M. Anderson

  • An experimentally determined carbon : volume ratio for marine “oligotrichous” ciliates from estuarine and coastal waters

    Mary Putt;Diane K. Stoecker

  • Predation on Protozoa: its importance to zooplankton

    Diane K. Stoecker;Judith McDowell Capuzzo

  • Mixotrophy among dinoflagellates

    Diane K. Stoecker

  • Mixotrophy in the Marine Plankton

    Diane K. Stoecker;Per Juel Hansen;David A. Caron;Aditee Mitra

  • Iron and grazing constraints on primary production in the central equatorial Pacific: An EqPac synthesis

    Michael R. Lundry;Richard T. Barber;Robert R. Bidare;Fei Chai

  • Misuse of the phytoplankton-zooplankton dichotomy : the need to assign organisms as mixotrophs within plankton functional types

    Kevin J. Flynn;Diane K. Stoecker;Aditee Mitra;John A. Raven

  • The role of mixotrophic protists in the biological carbon pump

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Joann M. Burkholder;Terje Berge

  • Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Urban Tillmann;John A. Raven

  • Conceptual models of mixotrophy in planktonic protists and some ecological and evolutionary implications

    Diane K. Stoecker

  • Acquired phototrophy in aquatic protists

    Diane K. Stoecker;Matthew D. Johnson;Colomban de Vargas;Fabrice Not

  • Predation by Acartia tonsa Dana on planktonic ciliates and rotifers

    Diane K. Stoecker;David A. Egloff

  • Cryptophyte algae are robbed of their organelles by the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum

    Daniel E. Gustafson;Diane K. Stoecker;Matthew D. Johnson;William F. Van Heukelem

  • Mixotrophy in the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum

    Stoecker Dk;Li A;Coats Dw;Gustafson De

  • Toxic activity from cultures of Karlodinium micrum (=Gyrodinium galatheanum) (Dinophyceae)—a dinoflagellate associated with fish mortalities in an estuarine aquaculture facility

    Jonathan R Deeds;Daniel E Terlizzi;Daniel E Terlizzi;Jason E Adolf;Diane K Stoecker

  • SELECTIVE PREDATION BY FAVELLA EHRENBERGII (TINTINNIA) ON AND AMONG DINOFLAGELLATES

    Diane Stoecker;R. R. L. Guillard;Rhonda M. Kavee

  • Preservation of marine planktonic ciliates: losses and cell shrinkage during fixation

    DK Stoecker;DJ Gifford;M. Putt

  • Plankton community response to sequential silicate and nitrate depletion during the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom

    Michael E. Sieracki;Peter G. Verity;Diane K. Stoecker

  • Mixotrophy in gyrodinium galatheanum (DINOPHYCEAE): grazing responses to light intensity and inorganic nutrients*

    Aishao Li;Diane K. Stoecker;D. Wayne Coats

  • Retention of transcriptionally active cryptophyte nuclei by the ciliate Myrionecta rubra.

    Matthew D. Johnson;Matthew D. Johnson;David Oldach;Charles F. Delwiche;Diane K. Stoecker

  • Large proportion of marine planktonic ciliates found to contain functional chloroplasts

    Diane K. Stoecker;Ann E. Michaels;Linda H. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia M. Glibert
Patricia M. Glibert University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Kevin J. Flynn
Kevin J. Flynn Plymouth Marine Laboratory
JoAnn M. Burkholder
JoAnn M. Burkholder North Carolina State University
John A. Raven
John A. Raven University of Dundee
Edna Granéli
Edna Granéli Linnaeus University
Peter G. Verity
Peter G. Verity Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Michael E. Sieracki
Michael E. Sieracki National Science Foundation
Lawrence W. Harding
Lawrence W. Harding University of California, Los Angeles
Allen R. Place
Allen R. Place University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Donald M. Anderson
Donald M. Anderson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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