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Jef Huisman is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focuses predominantly on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on oceanography and ecology. The subfields of study they actively contribute to include environmental chemistry, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their work covers several main topics centered on aquatic and marine ecology, including marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, biocrusts and microbial ecology, ocean acidification effects and responses, isotope analysis in ecology, and fish ecology and management studies.

Jef Huisman has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ecology
  • Harmful Algae
  • Water Research
  • The ISME Journal
  • ISME Communications

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Hydropower reservoirs on the upper Mekong River modify nutrient bioavailability downstream (2020, National Science Review)
  • Viral lysis modifies seasonal phytoplankton dynamics and carbon flow in the Southern Ocean (2021, The ISME Journal)
  • Vibrational modes of water predict spectral niches for photosynthesis in lakes and oceans (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Phenotypic plasticity of carbon fixation stimulates cyanobacterial blooms at elevated CO 2 (2020, Science Advances)
  • Scientists' call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals (2024, Cell)

Jef Huisman frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their main co-authors include:

  • P. Visser
  • Jolanda M. H. Verspagen
  • Tim Piel
  • Corina P. D. Brussaard
  • Dedmer B. Van de Waal

Best Publications

  • Cyanobacterial blooms

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  • Blooms like it hot

    Hans W. Paerl;Jef Huisman

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;William J. Ripple;Kenneth N. Timmis;Farooq Azam

  • Climate change: A catalyst for global expansion of harmful cyanobacterial blooms

    Hans W. Paerl;Jef Huisman

  • Summer heatwaves promote blooms of harmful cyanobacteria

    Klaus D. Jöhnk;Jef Huisman;Jonathan Sharples;Ben Sommeijer

  • Biodiversity of plankton by species oscillations and chaos

    Jef Huisman;Jef Huisman;Franz J. Weissing

  • Changes in turbulent mixing shift competition for light between phytoplankton species

    Jef Huisman;Jonathan Sharples;Jasper M. Stroom;Petra M. Visser

  • Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

    Stefanie Widder;Rosalind J Allen;Thomas Pfeiffer;Thomas P Curtis

  • How rising CO2 and global warming may stimulate harmful cyanobacterial blooms

    Petra M. Visser;Jolanda M.H. Verspagen;Giovanni Sandrini;Lucas J. Stal

  • Population Dynamics of Harmful Cyanobacteria

    Jef Huisman;Florence D. Hulot

  • Critical depth and critical turbulence: Two different mechanisms for the development of phytoplankton blooms

    Jef Huisman;Paul van Oostveen;Franz J. Weissing

  • A hierarchical set of models for species response analysis

    J. Huisman;H. Olff;L.F.M. Fresco

  • Global biodiversity patterns of marine phytoplankton and zooplankton

    Xabier Irigoien;Jef Huisman;Roger P. Harris

  • Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community

    Elisa Benincà;Jef Huisman;Reinhard Heerkloss;Klaus D Jöhnk;Klaus D Jöhnk

  • Reduced mixing generates oscillations and chaos in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum

    Jef Huisman;Nga N. Pham Thi;David M. Karl;Ben Sommeijer

  • Competition for light between phytoplankton species : Experimental tests of mechanistic theory

    Jef Huisman;Jef Huisman;Richard R. Jonker;Cor Zonneveld;Franz J. Weissing

  • Light-limited growth and competition for light in well-mixed aquatic environments : An elementary model

    Jef Huisman;Franz J. Weissing

  • Selective suppression of harmful cyanobacteria in an entire lake with hydrogen peroxide

    Hans C.P. Matthijs;Petra M. Visser;Bart Reeze;Jeroen Meeuse

  • Colorful niches of phototrophic microorganisms shaped by vibrations of the water molecule.

    Maayke Stomp;Jef Huisman;Lucas J Stal;Hans C P Matthijs

  • Adaptive divergence in pigment composition promotes phytoplankton biodiversity

    Maayke Stomp;Jef Huisman;Floris de Jongh;Annelies J. Veraart

  • How Do Sinking Phytoplankton Species Manage to Persist

    Jef Huisman;Manuel Arrayás;Ute Ebert;Ben Sommeijer

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra M. Visser
Petra M. Visser University of Amsterdam
Franz J. Weissing
Franz J. Weissing University of Groningen
Dedmer B. Van de Waal
Dedmer B. Van de Waal University of Amsterdam
Lucas J. Stal
Lucas J. Stal University of Amsterdam
Ellen Van Donk
Ellen Van Donk Utrecht University
Luuc R. Mur
Luuc R. Mur University of Amsterdam
Han Olff
Han Olff University of Groningen
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana

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