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85
Citations
40870
World Ranking
620
National Ranking
217

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John A. Downing is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and primarily works in the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Information Systems and Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics of their work involve Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change and Health Impacts, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Downing's recent notable publications include the following:

  • Protecting local water quality has global benefits (2021), Nature Communications
  • Eutrophication Drives Extreme Seasonal CO2 Flux in Lake Ecosystems (2020), Ecosystems
  • Paradox versus paradigm: A disconnect between understanding and management of freshwater cyanobacterial harmful algae blooms (2022), Freshwater Biology
  • Carbon and nutrient sequestration in small impoundments: a regional study with global implications (2023), Inland Waters
  • Individual species and site dynamics are the main drivers of spatial scaling of stability in aquatic communities (2023), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

They have frequently published in journals such as Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Nature Communications, Ecosystems, Freshwater Biology, and Inland Waters.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Downing include Christopher T. Filstrup, Stephen Polasky, Sheila M. Olmstead, Stephen C. Newbold, and Ana M. Morales-Williams.

In 2019, Downing was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget

    Jonathan J. Cole;Yves T. Prairie;Nina F. Caraco;William H. McDowell

  • Biodiversity and stability in grasslands

    David Tilman;John A. Downing

  • Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate

    Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;James B. Cotner;Steven A. Loiselle

  • The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments

    J.A. Downing;Y.T. Prairie;J.J. Cole;C.M. Duarte

  • Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences

    Robert Howarth;Gilles Billen;Dennis Swaney;Andrea Townsend

  • Freshwater Methane Emissions Offset the Continental Carbon Sink

    David Bastviken;Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;Patrick M. Crill

  • Predicting cyanobacteria dominance in lakes

    John A Downing;Susan B Watson;Edward McCauley

  • Limnology: Inland Water Ecosystems

    Jacob Kalff;John Downing

  • Changing Perspectives on Pearly Mussels, North America's Most Imperiled Animals

    David L. Strayer;John A. Downing;Wendell R. Haag;Timothy L. King

  • The nitrogen : phosphorus relationship in lakes

    John A. Downing;Edward McCauley

  • Emerging global role of small lakes and ponds: little things mean a lot

    John A. Downing

  • Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

    Helmut Hillebrand;Bernd Blasius;Elizabeth Borer;Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan M. Chase

  • Patterns in phytoplankton taxonomic composition across temperate lakes of differing nutrient status

    Susan B. Watson;Edward McCauley;John A. Downing

  • Encyclopedia of Inland Waters

    G. Likens;M.E. Benbow;T.M. Burton;E. Van Donk

  • Eutrophication will increase methane emissions from lakes and impoundments during the 21st century

    Jake J. Beaulieu;Tonya DelSontro;John A. Downing

  • Sediment organic carbon burial in agriculturally eutrophic impoundments over the last century

    John A. Downing;John A. Downing;Jonathan J. Cole;Jack J. Middelburg;Robert G. Striegl

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from lakes and impoundments: Upscaling in the face of global change

    Tonya DelSontro;Jake J. Beaulieu;John A. Downing

  • Empirical analysis of zooplankton filtering and feeding rates1

    Robert Henry Peters;John A. Downing

  • CRC Handbook of Mammalian Body Masses

    Marina Silva;John A. Downing

  • Global abundance and size distribution of streams and rivers

    John A. Downing;Jonathan J. Cole;Carlos A. Duarte;Jack J. Middelburg

  • Fish Production Correlated with Primary Productivity, not the Morphoedaphic Index

    John A. Downing;Céline Plante;Sophie Lalonde

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine L. Kling
Catherine L. Kling Cornell University
Joseph A. Herriges
Joseph A. Herriges Michigan State University
Patricia A. Soranno
Patricia A. Soranno Michigan State University
Tyler Wagner
Tyler Wagner United States Geological Survey
Jack J. Middelburg
Jack J. Middelburg Utrecht University
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Yves T. Prairie
Yves T. Prairie University of Quebec at Montreal
John M. Melack
John M. Melack University of California, Santa Barbara
Spencer A. Wood
Spencer A. Wood University of Washington
Craig A. Stow
Craig A. Stow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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