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9570
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452

Dolors Planas publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dolors Planas sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 88 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Dolors Planas D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dolors Planas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dolors Planas is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics focus on:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact

Recent publications by Dolors Planas include:

  • Understanding Food Web Mercury Accumulation Through Trophic Transfer and Carbon Processing along a River Affected by Recent Run-of-river Dams (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Microbial Diversity and Mercury Methylation Activity in Periphytic Biofilms at a Run-of-River Hydroelectric Dam and Constructed Wetlands (2021, mSphere)
  • Autotrophs are important contributors to benthic macroinvertebrate food webs in two tropical first-order forest streams (2022, Freshwater Biology)
  • Contribution of the deep chlorophyll maximum to primary production, phytoplankton assemblages and diversity in a small stratified lake (2020, Journal of Plankton Research)
  • Response of sediment phosphorus partitioning to lanthanum-modified clay amendment and porewater chemistry in a small eutrophic lake (2022, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts)

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Marc Amyot
  • Maxime Leclerc
  • Dominic E. Ponton
  • François Bilodeau
  • Romain Vrba

Dolors Planas has published multiple papers in the following venues:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • mSphere
  • Freshwater Biology

Best Publications

  • Flow cytometric determination of bacterial abundance in lake plankton with the green nucleic acid stain SYTO 13

    Paul A. del Giorgio;David F. Bird;Yves T. Prairie;Dolors Planas

  • Methanogens: Principal Methylators of Mercury in Lake Periphyton

    Stéphanie Hamelin;Marc Amyot;Tamar Barkay;Yanping Wang

  • Planktonic production and respiration in oligotrophic Shield lakes

    Richard Carignan;Dolors Planas;Chantal Vis

  • Forest harvest impacts on water quality and aquatic biota on the Boreal Plain: introduction to the TROLS lake program

    E E Prepas;B Pinel-Alloul;D Planas;G Méthot

  • Landscape variables influencing nutrients and phytoplankton communities in Boreal Plain lakes of northern Alberta: a comparison of wetland- and upland-dominated catchments

    E E Prepas;D Planas;J J Gibson;D H Vitt

  • Mercury methylation in the epilithon of boreal shield aquatic ecosystems.

    Mélanie Desrosiers;Dolors Planas;Alfonso Mucci

  • Relationship between Extracellular Low-Molecular-Weight Thiols and Mercury Species in Natural Lake Periphytic Biofilms

    Maxime Leclerc;Dolors Planas;Marc Amyot

  • Pelagic and benthic algal responses in eastern Canadian Boreal Shield lakes following harvesting and wildfires

    Dolors Planas;Mélanie Desrosiers;S-Raphaëlle Groulx;Serge Paquet

  • Top-Down Effects of Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in a Boreal Forest Stream

    José A. Bechara;Guy Moreau;Dolors Planas

  • Comparison of methods to determine algal δ13C in freshwater

    Jérôme Marty;Dolors Planas

  • Quantitative Use of Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis to Determine the Trophic Base of Invertebrate Communities in a Boreal Forest Lotic System

    Michel Junger;Dolors Planas

  • An evaluation of techniques for measuring periphyton metabolism in chambers

    T L Bott;J T Brock;A Baatrup-Pedersen;P A Chambers

  • Biomass and composition of macroinvertebrate communities associated with different types of macrophyte architectures and habitats in a large fluvial lake

    Fabien Cremona;Dolors Planas;Marc Lucotte

  • Nitrate uptake and diffusive nitrate supply in the Central Atlantic

    Dolors Planas;Susana Agustí;Carlos M. Duarte;Tim C. Granata

  • Mercury methylation and demethylation by periphyton biofilms and their host in a fluvial wetland of the St. Lawrence River (QC, Canada)

    Stéphanie Hamelin;Dolors Planas;Marc Amyot

  • Recognition of nutrient and light limitation in turbid mixed layers: Three approaches compared in the Parani floodplain (Argentina)

    Richard Carignan;Dolors Planas

  • Total mercury and methylmercury accumulation in periphyton of Boreal Shield lakes: influence of watershed physiographic characteristics.

    Mélanie Desrosiers;Dolors Planas;Alfonso Mucci

  • Microbial Food Webs in Boreal Humic Lakes and Reservoirs: Ciliates as a Major Factor Related to the Dynamics of the Most Active Bacteria

    R.D. Tadonléké;Dolors Planas;M. Lucotte

  • Identification of two genera of N2-fixing cyanobacteria growing on three feather moss species in boreal forests of Quebec, Canada

    Daniel HouleD. Houle;Daniel HouleD. Houle;Simon Bilodeau GauthierS. Bilodeau Gauthier;Simon Bilodeau GauthierS. Bilodeau Gauthier;Serge PaquetS. Paquet;Serge PaquetS. Paquet;Dolors PlanasD. Planas;Dolors PlanasD. Planas

  • Physical variables driving epiphytic algal biomass in a dense macrophyte bed of the St. Lawrence River (Quebec, Canada)

    Véronique Gosselain;Christiane Hudon;Antonella Cattaneo;Pierre Gagnon

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Amyot
Marc Amyot University of Montreal
Marc Lucotte
Marc Lucotte University of Quebec at Montreal
Ellie E. Prepas
Ellie E. Prepas Lakehead University
Beatrix E. Beisner
Beatrix E. Beisner University of Quebec at Montreal
Richard Carignan
Richard Carignan University of Montreal
Bernadette Pinel-Alloul
Bernadette Pinel-Alloul University of Montreal
David F. Bird
David F. Bird University of Quebec at Montreal
Alfonso Mucci
Alfonso Mucci McGill University
Daniel Houle
Daniel Houle Environment and Climate Change Canada
Charles W. Greer
Charles W. Greer National Research Council Canada

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