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D-Index
55
Citations
11964
World Ranking
2972
National Ranking
204

Overview

James A. Rusak is affiliated with the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks in Canada. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions to oceanography, environmental chemistry, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's primary topics of study include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Oceanographic and atmospheric processes

James A. Rusak's frequently published papers feature research on lake ecosystems, climate impacts, and aquatic community dynamics. Selected recent publications are:

  • Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes, 2021, Nature
  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Road Salt Impacts Freshwater Zooplankton at Concentrations below Current Water Quality Guidelines, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

The scientist collaborates regularly with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
  • Alo Laas
  • Rachel M. Pilla
  • Hans-Peter Grossart
  • Donald C. Pierson

James A. Rusak's work appears prominently in several publication venues, with multiple papers published in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Development

Best Publications

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services.

    Andrew P. Dobson;David Lodge;Jackie Alder;Graeme S. Cumming

  • Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

    Stephen F. Jane;Stephen F. Jane;Gretchen J.A. Hansen;Benjamin M. Kraemer;Peter R. Leavitt;Peter R. Leavitt

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Disturbance‐driven changes in the variability of ecological patterns and processes

    Jennifer M. Fraterrigo;James A. Rusak

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Synchrony in aquatic microbial community dynamics.

    Angela D Kent;Angela D Kent;Anthony C Yannarell;Anthony C Yannarell;James A Rusak;Eric W Triplett

  • Lake‐size dependency of wind shear and convection as controls on gas exchange

    Jordan S. Read;David P. Hamilton;Ankur R. Desai;Kevin C. Rose;Kevin C. Rose

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • Communities contain closely related species during ecosystem disturbance.

    Matthew R Helmus;Wendel Bill Keller;Michael J Paterson;Norman D Yan

  • The dual nature of community variability

    Fiorenza Micheli;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Jordi Bascompte;Ottar N. Bjørnstad

  • A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

    Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Jordan S. Read;Catherine M. O'Reilly

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • A comparison of the species–time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups

    Ethan P. White;Peter B. Adler;William K. Lauenroth;Richard A. Gill

  • Integrating aquatic and terrestrial components to construct a complete carbon budget for a north temperate lake district

    Ishi Buffam;Monica G. Turner;Ankur R. Desai;Paul C. Hanson

  • Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans

    P. R. Leavitt;S. C. Fritz;N. J. Anderson;P. A. Baker

  • Lake sediments record large-scale shifts in moisture regimes across the northern prairies of North America during the past two millennia

    Kathleen R. Laird;Brian F. Cumming;Sybille Wunsam;James A. Rusak;James A. Rusak

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • EVIDENCE FOR A GENERAL SPECIES–TIME–AREA RELATIONSHIP

    Peter B. Adler;Ethan P. White;William K. Lauenroth;Dawn M. Kaufman

  • Patterns and drivers of deep chlorophyll maxima structure in 100 lakes: the relative importance of light and thermal stratification.

    Taylor H. Leach;Beatrix E. Beisner;Cayelan C. Carey;Patricia Pernica

  • Understanding Regional Change: A Comparison of Two Lake Districts

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Barbara J. Benson;Reinette Biggs;Jonathan W. Chipman

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew M. Paterson
Andrew M. Paterson Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
R. Iestyn Woolway
R. Iestyn Woolway Bangor University
David P. Hamilton
David P. Hamilton Griffith University
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Martin Schmid
Martin Schmid Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Linda May
Linda May Natural Environment Research Council
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Donald C. Pierson
Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University

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