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Jean-Pierre Descy

Jean-Pierre Descy

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
8610
World Ranking
3350
National Ranking
47

Overview

Jean-Pierre Descy is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium and specializes in Environmental Science, contributing extensively to this field with a focus on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research primarily covers topics such as Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Jean-Pierre Descy has published several papers, including:

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from African lakes are no longer a blind spot (2022), Science Advances
  • Methane paradox in tropical lakes? Sedimentary fluxes rather than pelagic production in oxic conditions sustain methanotrophy and emissions to the atmosphere (2020), Biogeosciences
  • From historical backgrounds towards the functional classification of river phytoplankton sensu Colin S. Reynolds: what future merits the approach may hold? (2020), Hydrobiologia
  • Long-term impacts of nutrient control, climate change, and invasive clams on phytoplankton and cyanobacteria biomass in a large temperate river (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microcystis aeruginosa and M. wesenbergii Were the Primary Planktonic Microcystin Producers in Several Bulgarian Waterbodies (August 2019) (2020), Applied Sciences

Frequent venues for Jean-Pierre Descy's publications include:

  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège)
  • Science Advances
  • Biogeosciences

Jean-Pierre Descy often collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, including Alberto Borges, Cédric Morana, Steven Bouillon, William Okello, and Loris Deirmendjian. These frequent collaborations indicate an active engagement within a network of researchers contributing to related scientific fields.

Best Publications

  • The production, biomass and structure of phytoplankton in large rivers

    C. S. Reynolds;J.-P. Descy

  • USE OF PHYTOPLANKTON IN LARGE RIVER MANAGEMENT

    John D. Wehr;Jean-Pierre Descy

  • Are phytoplankton dynamics in rivers so different from those in shallow lakes

    C. S. Reynolds;J. P. Descy;Judit Padisák

  • Effects of agricultural land use on fluvial carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide concentrations in a large European river, the Meuse (Belgium).

    A.V. Borges;F. Darchambeau;T. Lambert;S. Bouillon

  • Effects of human land use on the terrestrial and aquatic sources of fluvial organic matter in a temperate river basin (The Meuse River, Belgium)

    Thibault Lambert;Thibault Lambert;Steven Bouillon;François Darchambeau;Cédric Morana

  • Phytoplankton ecology of Lake Kivu (eastern Africa)

    Hugo Sarmento;Mwapu Isumbisho;Jean-Pierre Descy

  • The phytoplankton community of the River Meuse, Belgium: seasonal dynamics (year 1992) and the possible incidence of zooplankton grazing

    Véronique Gosselain;Jean-Pierre Descy;Etienne Everbecq

  • Variations in dissolved greenhouse gases (CO 2 , CH 4 , N 2 O) in the Congo River network overwhelmingly driven by fluvial-wetland connectivity

    Alberto V. Borges;François Darchambeau;Thibault Lambert;Thibault Lambert;Cédric Morana

  • Phytoplankton composition and dynamics in the river Meuse (Belgium)

    J.-P. Descy

  • Ecology of the phytoplankton of the River Moselle: effects of disturbances on community structure and diversity

    J.-P. Descy

  • Silicon Isotopic Fractionation in Lake Tanganyika and Its Main Tributaries

    Laurent Y. Alleman;Damien Cardinal;Christine Cocquyt;Pierre-Denis Plisnier;Pierre-Denis Plisnier

  • Can a community of small‐bodied grazers control phytoplankton in rivers?

    V. Gosselain;L. Viroux;J. ‐P. Descy

  • Phytoplankton pigments and community composition in Lake Tanganyika

    J.‐P. Descy;M.‐A. Hardy;S. Sténuite;S. Pirlot

  • Phylogeny and androgenesis in the invasive Corbicula clams (Bivalvia, Corbiculidae) in Western Europe.

    Lise-Marie Pigneur;Jonathan Marescaux;Kathleen Roland;Emilie Etoundi

  • Abundance and distribution of picoplankton in tropical, oligotrophic Lake Kivu, eastern Africa

    Hugo Sarmento;Hugo Sarmento;Fernando Unrein;Fernando Unrein;Mwapu Isumbisho;Stephane Stenuite

  • Bacterial community composition in Lake Tanganyika: Vertical and horizontal heterogeneity

    Aaike De Wever;Koenraad Muylaert;Katleen Van der Gucht;Samuel Pirlot

  • Development and ecological importance of phytoplankton in a large lowland river (River Meuse, Belgium)

    Jean-Pierre Descy;Véronique Gosselain

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from African lakes are no longer a blind spot

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  • Pigment ratios and phytoplankton assessment in northern Wisconsin lakes

    Jean-Pierre Descy;Harry W. Higgins;Denis J. Mackey;James P. Hurley

  • Vertical Distribution of Ammonia-Oxidizing Crenarchaeota and Methanogens in the Epipelagic Waters of Lake Kivu (Rwanda-Democratic Republic of the Congo)

    Marc Llirós;Frederic Gich;Anna Plasencia;Jean-Christophe Auguet

  • Zooplankton of Lake Kivu, East Africa, half a century after the Tanganyika sardine introduction

    Mwapu Isumbisho;Mwapu Isumbisho;Hugo Sarmento;Boniface Kaningini;Jean-Claude Micha

  • Modelling Community Structure in Freshwater Ecosystems

    Sovan Lek;Michele Scardi;P. F. M. Verdonschot;J.-P. Descy

Frequent Co-Authors

François Darchambeau
François Darchambeau University of Liège
Pierre Servais
Pierre Servais Université Libre de Bruxelles
Alberto Borges
Alberto Borges University of Liège
Hugo Sarmento
Hugo Sarmento Federal University of São Carlos
Bao-Lian Su
Bao-Lian Su University of Namur
Carles M. Borrego
Carles M. Borrego Catalan Institute for Water Research
Sean A. Crowe
Sean A. Crowe University of British Columbia
Bruno Delille
Bruno Delille University of Liège
Gilles Lepoint
Gilles Lepoint University of Liège

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