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Dubravko Justic is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on the subfields of Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Pollution.

Justic's work addresses various topics, including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Justic include Haosheng Huang, Vassiliki H. Kourafalou, Hanqin Tian, Shufen Pan, and Yuanzhi Yao.

Their research has been published in several publication venues, notably:

  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Oceanography
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers by Dubravko Justic feature topics on nutrient transport, ecological modeling, and environmental impacts in marine systems:

  • "Long-Term Trajectory of Nitrogen Loading and Delivery From Mississippi River Basin to the Gulf of Mexico," 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Dynamic Energy Budget modelling to predict eastern oyster growth, reproduction, and mortality under river management and climate change scenarios," 2021, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • "Including the effects of subsurface currents on buoyant particles in Lagrangian particle tracking models: Model development and its application to the study of riverborne plastics over the Louisiana/Texas shelf," 2021, Ocean Modelling
  • "Transport Processes in the Gulf of Mexico Along the River-Estuary-Shelf-Ocean Continuum: a Review of Research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative," 2021, Estuaries and Coasts
  • "Ten years of modeling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill," 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software

Best Publications

  • Global change and eutrophication of coastal waters

    Nancy N. Rabalais;R. Eugene Turner;Robert J. Díaz;Dubravko Justić

  • Nutrient changes in the Mississippi River and system responses on the adjacent continental shelf

    Nancy N. Rabalais;R. Eugene Turner;Dubravko JustiĆ;Quay Dortch

  • Changes in nutrient structure of river-dominated coastal waters: stoichiometric nutrient balance and its consequences

    Dubravko Justić;Nancy N. Rabalais;R. Eugene Turner;Quay Dortch

  • Stoichiometric nutrient balance and origin of coastal eutrophication

    Dubravko Justić;Nancy N. Rabalais;R.Eugene Turner

  • Gulf of Mexico hypoxia: alternate states and a legacy

    R. Eugene Turner;Nancy N. Rabalais;Dubravko Justic

  • Fluctuating silicate:nitrate ratios and coastal plankton food webs

    R E Turner;N Qureshi;N N Rabalais;Q Dortch

  • Global patterns of dissolved N, P and Si in large rivers

    R.E. Turner;N.N. Rabalais;D. Justic;Q. Dortch

  • Nutrient-enhanced productivity in the northern Gulf of Mexico: past, present and future

    Nancy N. Rabalais;R. Eugene Turner;Quay Dortch;Dubravko Justic

  • Predicting summer hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico: riverine N, P, and Si loading.

    R.E. Turner;N.N. Rabalais;D. Justic

  • Predicting the response of Gulf of Mexico hypoxia to variations in Mississippi River nitrogen load

    Donald Scavia;Nancy N. Rabalais;R. Eugene Turner;Dubravko Justić

  • Effects of climate change on hypoxia in coastal waters: A doubled CO2 scenario for the northern Gulf of Mexico

    Dubravko Justić;Nancy N. Rabalais;R. Eugene Turner

  • Trends in oxygen content 1911–1984 and occurrence of benthic mortality in the northern Adriatic Sea

    Dubravko Justić;Tarzan Legović;Laura Rottini-Sandrini

  • Seasonal coupling between riverborne nutrients, net productivity and hypoxia

    Dubravko Justić;Nancy N. Rabalais;R. Eugene Turner;William J. Wiseman

  • Characterization of Hypoxia: Topic I Report for the Integrated Assessment on Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico

    Nancy N. Rabalais;R. Eugene Turner;Dubravko Justic;Quay Dortch

  • Modeling the impacts of decadal changes in riverine nutrient fluxes on coastal eutrophication near the Mississippi River Delta

    Dubravko Justić;Nancy N. Rabalais;R.Eugene Turner

  • Implications of global climatic change and energy cost and availability for the restoration of the Mississippi delta

    John W. Day;John Barras;Ellis Clairain;James Johnston

  • Predicting summer hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico: redux.

    R.E. Turner;N.N. Rabalais;D. Justić

  • Reducing hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico: Advice from three models

    Donald Scavia;Dubravko Justic;Victor J. Bierman

  • Forecasting Gulf's Hypoxia: The Next 50 Years?

    Dubravko Justić;Victor J. Bierman;Donald Scavia;Robert D. Hetland

  • Climatic influences on riverine nitrate flux: Implications for coastal marine eutrophication and hypoxia

    Dubravko Justić;R. Eugene Turner;Nancy N. Rabalais

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy N. Rabalais
Nancy N. Rabalais Louisiana State University
R. Eugene Turner
R. Eugene Turner Louisiana State University
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Robert R. Lane
Robert R. Lane Louisiana State University
Kenneth A. Rose
Kenneth A. Rose University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Robert D. Hetland
Robert D. Hetland Texas A&M University
Donald Scavia
Donald Scavia University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert R. Twilley
Robert R. Twilley Louisiana State University
Katja Fennel
Katja Fennel Dalhousie University
Brian Fry
Brian Fry Griffith University

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