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Donald F. Charles

Donald F. Charles

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
8882
World Ranking
6346
National Ranking
2289

Overview

Donald F. Charles is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong concentration in ecology and related subfields. They have contributed to topics such as diatoms and algae research, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, fish ecology and management studies, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, hydrology and sediment transport processes, hydrology and watershed management studies, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

The scientist's publication record includes papers in diverse venues with a focus on ecological and environmental topics. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Ecological Applications
  • Green and Low-Carbon Economy
  • Cryptogamie Algologie

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Donald F. Charles are:

  • Benthic algae assessments in the EU and the US: Striving for consistency in the face of great ecological diversity, 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • Addressing Loss and Damage from Climate Change Through Tokenized Rainfall Futures, 2024, Green and Low-Carbon Economy

Some notable papers from the same body of work where Donald F. Charles is identified as an author contributor include:

  • Characterizing benthic macroinvertebrate and algal biological condition gradient models for California wadeable Streams, USA, 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • Size-dependent effects of dams on river ecosystems and implications for dam removal outcomes, 2024, Ecological Applications
  • Rise of Subgen. Rhoicosphenula Lange-Bert. to the Genus Level, and Description of a New Gomphosphenia s.s. Species from Puerto Rico, 2021, Cryptogamie Algologie

Donald F. Charles collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Marco Cantonati
  • Susanna Theroux
  • Simon Goring
  • Jessica L. Blois
  • Socorro Dominguez Vidaña

Their research contributions span multiple subfields of environmental science, focusing on ecological indicators, aquatic ecosystem dynamics, and the impacts of environmental change. Their work often intersects with efforts to understand freshwater and riverine systems and their biological conditions under various influences.

Best Publications

  • Diatoms : powerful indicators of environmental change

    Sushil S. Dixit;John P. Smol;John C. Kingston;Donald F. Charles

  • Dam Removal: Challenges and Opportunities for Ecological Research and River Restoration

    David D. Hart;Thomas E. Johnson;Karen L. Bushaw-Newton;Richard J. Horwitz

  • Benthic diatoms in USA rivers: distributions along spatial and environmental gradients

    Marina G. Potapova;Donald F. Charles

  • Distribution of benthic diatoms in U.S. rivers in relation to conductivity and ionic composition

    Marina Potapova;Donald F. Charles

  • Diatom metrics for monitoring eutrophication in rivers of the United States

    Marina Potapova;Donald F. Charles

  • The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

    John W. Williams;Eric C. Grimm;Jessica L. Blois;Donald F. Charles

  • Diatoms of Low-Alkalinity Lakes in the Northeastern United States

    Keith Edward Camburn;Donald F. Charles

  • Relationships between surface sediment diatom assemblages and lakewater characteristics in Adirondack lakes

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  • Assessing water quality changes in the lakes of the northeastern United States using sediment diatoms

    Sushil S Dixit;John P Smol;Donald F Charles;Robert M Hughes

  • How Much Acidification Has Occurred in Adirondack Region Lakes (New York, USA) since Preindustrial Times?

    B. F. Cumming;J. P. Smol;J. C. Kingston;D. F. Charles

  • Quantifying species indicator values for trophic diatom indices: a comparison of approaches

    Marina G. Potapova;Donald F. Charles;Karin C. Ponader;Diane M. Winter

  • Diatoms as indicators of surface water acidity

    Richard W. Battarbee;Donald F. Charles;Christian Bigler;Brian F. Cumming

  • Diatoms as indicators of surface water acidity

    RW Battarbee;DF Charles;S Dixit;I Renberg

  • Paleoecological investigation of recent lake acidification in the Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.

    Donald F. Charles;Michael W. Binford;Edward T. Furlong;Ronald A. Hites

  • Acidic Deposition and Aquatic Ecosystems: Regional Case Studies

    Donald F. Charles;S. Christie

  • AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ECOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO DAM REMOVAL: THE MANATAWNY CREEK STUDY

    Karen L. Bushaw-Newton;David D. Hart;James E. Pizzuto;James R. Thomson

  • Effects of removal of a small dam on downstream macroinvertebrate and algal assemblages in a Pennsylvania stream

    James Robertson Thomson;D Hart;Donald F Charles;Timothy L Nightengale

  • Choice of substrate in algae-based water-quality assessment

    Marina Potapova;Donald F. Charles

  • Diatom-based TP and TN inference models and indices for monitoring nutrient enrichment of New Jersey streams

    Karin C. Ponader;Donald F. Charles;Thomas J. Belton

  • Diatom assemblages from Adirondack lakes (New York, USA) and the development of inference models for retrospective environmental assessment

    Sushil S. Dixit;Brian F. Cumming;H. J. B. Birks;John P. Smol

  • New methods for using diatoms and chrysophytes to infer past pH of low-alkalinity lakes

    Donald F. Charles;John P. Smol

  • The PIRLA project: Paleoecological investigations of recent lake acidification

    Donald F. Charles;Donald R. Whitehead

  • Acidic Deposition and Aquatic Ecosystems

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Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Charles T. Driscoll
Charles T. Driscoll Syracuse University
Richard W. Battarbee
Richard W. Battarbee University College London
Brian F. Cumming
Brian F. Cumming Queen's University
Bernard J. Cosby
Bernard J. Cosby University of Virginia
H. J. B. Birks
H. J. B. Birks University of Bergen
Stephen A. Norton
Stephen A. Norton University of Maine
Ingemar Renberg
Ingemar Renberg Umeå University
Marco Cantonati
Marco Cantonati Drexel University
Ronald A. Hites
Ronald A. Hites Indiana University

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