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Gary Thomas Banta 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 Gary Thomas Banta sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 100 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gary Thomas Banta 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 Gary Thomas Banta sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Gary Thomas Banta is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, incorporating significant work in specialized subfields such as Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work engages deeply with topics around coastal and marine ecosystems. Key areas of study include coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, isotope analysis in ecology, and aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior.

Gary Thomas Banta has contributed to multiple research articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Carbon sequestration is not inhibited by livestock grazing in Danish salt marshes" (2022, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Nordic Blue Carbon Ecosystems: Status and Outlook" (2022, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Capturing of organic carbon and nitrogen in eelgrass sediments of southern Scandinavia" (2023, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Sediment reworking by the burrowing polychaete Hediste diversicolor modulated by environmental and biological factors across the temperate North Atlantic. A tribute to Gaston Desrosiers" (2021, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology)
  • "Effects of sediment-associated Cu on Tubifex tubifex - Insights gained by standard ecotoxicological and novel, but simple, bioturbation endpoints" (2020, Environmental Pollution)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gary Thomas Banta include:

  • Dorte Krause-Jensen
  • Anna Elizabeth Løvgren Graversen
  • Pere Masqué
  • Christoffer Boström
  • Marianne Holmer

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as Limnology and Oceanography, Ocean & Coastal Management, Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, and Environmental Pollution.

Best Publications

  • What is bioturbation? The need for a precise definition for fauna in aquatic sciences

    Erik Kristensen;Gil Penha-Lopes;Matthieu Delefosse;Thomas Bruun Valdemarsen

  • The Importance of Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium (DNRA) in the Nitrogen Cycle of Coastal Ecosystems

    Anne E. Giblin;Craig R. Tobias;Bongkeun Song;Nathaniel Weston

  • Microplastics: addressing ecological risk through lessons learned

    Kristian Syberg;Farhan R. Khan;Henriette Selck;Annemette Palmqvist

  • The Effects of Salinity on Nitrogen Losses from an Oligohaline Estuarine Sediment

    Anne E. Giblin;Nathaniel B. Weston;Nathaniel B. Weston;Gary Thomas Banta;Jane Tucker

  • Effects of two polychaete worms, Nereis diversicolor and Arenicola marina, on aerobic and anaerobic decomposition in a sandy marine sediment

    Gary T. Banta;Marianne Holmer;Mikael H. Jensen;Erik Kristensen

  • The influence of organic matter on sorption and fate of glyphosate in soil – Comparing different soils and humic substances

    Christian N. Albers;Gary T. Banta;Poul Erik Hansen;Ole S. Jacobsen

  • The Effects of Varying Salinity on Ammonium Exchange in Estuarine Sediments of the Parker River, Massachusetts

    Nathaniel B. Weston;Anne E Giblin;Gary Thomas Banta;Charlse S. Hopkinson

  • Irrigation and deposit feeding by the lugworm Arenicola marina, characteristics and secondary effects on the environment: a review of current knowledge

    H.U. Riisgård;Gary Thomas Banta

  • The measurement of sediment irrigation rates: A comparison of the Br− tracer and 222Rn/226Ra disequilibrium techniques

    W. R. Martin;G. T. Banta

  • Toxic effects and bioaccumulation of nano-, micron- and ionic-Ag in the polychaete, Nereis diversicolor

    Yi Cong;Gary Thomas Banta;Henriette Selck;Deboray Berhanu

  • TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSPORT OF INORGANIC NITROGEN IN SEDIMENTS OF A SOUTHEAST ASIAN MANGROVE FOREST

    Erik Kristensen;Mikael H. Jensen;Gary T. Banta;Kim Hansen

  • Biogeochemical cycling of sulfur and iron in sediments of a south-east Asian mangrove, Phuket Island, Thailand

    Marianne Holmer;Erik Kristensen;Gary Banta;Kim Hansen

  • Estuarine nutrient cycling: The influence of primary producers

    Søren Laurentius Nielsen;Gary T. Banta;Morten Foldager Pedersen

  • Metabolism of pyrene by the polychaetes Nereis diversicolor and Arenicola marina.

    M. Christensen;Ole Andersen;Gary Thomas Banta

  • Microplastic potentiates triclosan toxicity to the marine copepod Acartia tonsa (Dana).

    Kristian Syberg;Anne Nielsen;Farhan Khan;Gary Thomas Banta

  • Carbon, nitrogen and sulfur cycling in sediments of the Ao Nam Bor mangrove forest, Phuket, Thailand: A review

    Erik Kristensen;Marianne Holmer;Gary T. Banta;Mikael H. Jensen

  • Bioturbation and the fate of sediment pollutants: experimental case studies of selected infauna species

    Gary Thomas Banta;Ole Andersen

  • Benthic respiration and nitrogen release in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

    Gary T. Banta;Anne E. Giblin;John E. Hobbie;Jane Tucker

  • Toxicity and bioaccumulation of sediment-associated silver nanoparticles in the estuarine polychaete, Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor.

    Yi Cong;Gary Thomas Banta;Henriette Selck;Deboray Berhanu

  • Effects, Uptake, and Depuration Kinetics of Silver Oxide and Copper Oxide Nanoparticles in a Marine Deposit Feeder, Macoma balthica

    Lina Dai;Kristian Syberg;Gary Thomas Banta;Henriette Selck

  • Estuarine nutrient cycling : the influence of primary producers : the fate of nutrients and biomass

    Søren Laurentius Nielsen;Gary Thomas Banta;Morten Foldager Pedersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Valery E. Forbes
Valery E. Forbes University of Minnesota
Erik Kristensen
Erik Kristensen University of Southern Denmark
Anne E. Giblin
Anne E. Giblin Marine Biological Laboratory
Benni Winding Hansen
Benni Winding Hansen Roskilde University
Eugenia Valsami-Jones
Eugenia Valsami-Jones University of Birmingham
Ole Baltazar Andersen
Ole Baltazar Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Morten Foldager Pedersen
Morten Foldager Pedersen Roskilde University
Marianne Holmer
Marianne Holmer University of Southern Denmark
Poul Erik Hansen
Poul Erik Hansen Roskilde University
Charles S. Hopkinson
Charles S. Hopkinson University of Georgia

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