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Overview

Ivan Valiela is affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work frequently intersects with ecology, oceanography, and earth-surface processes, with particular attention to coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution
  • Recycling and waste management techniques
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine biology and ecology research
  • Coastal and marine dynamics

Their publication record includes work published in several academic venues, such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Advances
  • Communications Biology
  • Regional Studies in Marine Science
  • Estuaries and Coasts

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Ivan Valiela include:

  • Salt marsh sediments act as sinks for microplastics and reveal effects of current and historical land use changes, 2021, Environmental Advances
  • Role of C4 carbon fixation in Ulva prolifera, the macroalga responsible for the world's largest green tides, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Salt marsh vegetation change during a half-century of experimental nutrient addition and climate-driven controls in Great Sippewissett Marsh, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water quality, nutrients, and stable isotopic signatures of particulates and vegetation in a mangrove ecosystem exposed to past anthropogenic perturbations, 2020, Regional Studies in Marine Science
  • Control of N Concentrations in Cape Cod Estuaries by Nitrogen Loads, Season, and Down-Estuary Transit: Assessment by Conventional and Effect-Size Statistics, 2021, Estuaries and Coasts

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kelsey Chenoweth
  • Javier Lloret
  • Daniella Hanacek
  • Elizabeth Elmstrom
  • Rut Pedrosa-Pamies

Best Publications

  • Mangrove forests: one of the world's threatened major tropical environments.

    Ivan Valiela;Jennifer L. Bowen;Joanna K. York

  • Macroalgal blooms in shallow estuaries: Controls and ecophysiological and ecosystem consequences

    Ivan Valiela;James McClelland;Jennifer Hauxwell;Peter J. Behr

  • Marine ecological processes

    Ivan Valiela

  • Couplings of watersheds and coastal waters: sources and consequences of nutrient enrichment in Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts

    Ivan Valiela;Kenneth Foreman;Michael LaMontagne;Douglas Hersh

  • Nitrogen-stable isotope signatures in estuarine food webs : A record of increasing urbanization in coastal watersheds

    James W. McClelland;Ivan Valiela;Robert H. Michener

  • Linking nitrogen in estuarine producers to land-derived sources

    James W. McClelland;Ivan Valiela

  • Transport of groundwater-borne nutrients from watersheds and their effects on coastal waters

    Ivan Valiela;Joseph Costa;Kenneth Foreman;John M. Teal

  • NITROGEN LOADING FROM COASTAL WATERSHEDS TO RECEIVING ESTUARIES: NEW METHOD AND APPLICATION

    I. Valiela;G. Collins;J. Kremer;K. Lajtha

  • MACROALGAL CANOPIES CONTRIBUTE TO EELGRASS (ZOSTERA MARINA) DECLINE IN TEMPERATE ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEMS

    Jennifer Hauxwell;Just Cebrián;Christopher Furlong;Ivan Valiela

  • Production and dynamics of experimentally enriched salt marsh vegetation: Belowground biomass1

    Ivan Valiela;John M. Teal;Norma Y. Persson

  • NUTRIENT LIMITATION IN SALT MARSH VEGETATION1

    Ivan Valiela

  • Oxidation‐reduction potentials in a salt marsh: Spatial patterns and interactions with primary production1

    Brian L. Howes;Robert W. Howarth;John M. Teal;Ivan Valiela

  • The nitrogen budget of a salt marsh ecosystem

    Ivan Valiela;Ivan Valiela;John M. Teal;John M. Teal

  • Nutrient and particulate fluxes in a salt marsh ecosystem: Tidal exchanges and inputs by precipitation and groundwater 1

    Ivan Valiela;John M. Teal;Suzanne Volkmann;Deborah Shafer

  • Eutrophication and macroalgal blooms in temperate and tropical coastal waters: nutrient enrichment experiments with Ulva spp.

    Mirta Teichberg;Sophia E. Fox;Ylva S. Olsen;Ivan Valiela

  • Eelgrass Zostera marina loss in temperate estuaries: relationship to land-derived nitrogen loads and effect of light limitation imposed by algae

    Jennifer Hauxwell;Just Cebrián;Ivan Valiela

  • Interactions of Nutrients, Plant Growth and Herbivory in a Mangrove Ecosystem

    Christopher P. Onuf;John M. Teal;Ivan Valiela

  • Decomposition in salt marsh ecosystems: The phases and major factors affecting disappearance of above-ground organic matter

    Ivan Valiela;John M. Teal;Sarah D. Allen;Richard Van Etten

  • Assessment of a δ15N Isotopic Method to Indicate Anthropogenic Eutrophication in Aquatic Ecosystems

    Marci L. Cole;Ivan Valiela;Kevin D. Kroeger;Gabrielle L. Tomasky

  • Predation by the salt marsh killifish Fundulus heteroclitus (L.) in relation to prey size and habitat structure: Consequences for prey distribution and abundance

    S. Vince;I. Valiela;N. Backus;J.M. Teal

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Teal
John M. Teal Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ruth H. Carmichael
Ruth H. Carmichael University of South Alabama
James W. McClelland
James W. McClelland The University of Texas at Austin
Anne E. Giblin
Anne E. Giblin Marine Biological Laboratory
Just Cebrian
Just Cebrian Mississippi State University
Rafael Sardá
Rafael Sardá Spanish National Research Council
Kate Lajtha
Kate Lajtha Oregon State University
Oscar Iribarne
Oscar Iribarne National University of Mar del Plata
Helena Freitas
Helena Freitas University of Coimbra
Brian L. Howes
Brian L. Howes University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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