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308

Overview

John M. Gunn is affiliated with Laurentian University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with specific expertise in areas such as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis; ecology; environmental chemistry; nature and landscape conservation; and global and planetary change.

The researcher's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques

John M. Gunn has published extensively in the field, contributing notably to the following journals:

  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Chemosphere
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John M. Gunn include:

  • The speciation of arsenic in the muscle tissue of inland and coastal freshwater fish from a remote boreal region, 2022, Chemosphere
  • Forest defoliator outbreaks alter nutrient cycling in northern waters, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Shallow floating treatment wetland capable of sulfate reduction in acid mine drainage impacted waters in a northern climate, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Age, body size, growth and dietary habits: What are the key factors driving individual variability in mercury of lacustrine fishes in northern temperate lakes?, 2022, Environmental Research
  • Mercury, selenium and arsenic concentrations in Canadian freshwater fish and a perspective on human consumption intake and risk, 2022, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including Gretchen L. Lescord, Thomas A. Johnston, Alan Lock, Erik J. S. Emilson, and Andrew J. Tanentzap.

Best Publications

  • Logging impacts on the biogeochemistry of boreal forest soils and nutrient export to aquatic systems: A review

    David P. KreutzweiserD.P. Kreutzweiser;David P. KreutzweiserD.P. Kreutzweiser;Paul W. HazlettP.W. Hazlett;Paul W. HazlettP.W. Hazlett;John M. GunnJ.M. Gunn;John M. GunnJ.M. Gunn

  • Selenium and mercury in organisms: Interactions and mechanisms

    Dan-Yi YangD.-Y. Yang;Yu-Wei ChenY.-W. Chen;John M. GunnJ.M. Gunn;Nelson BelzileN. Belzile

  • Restoration and Recovery of an Industrial Region

    John M. Gunn

  • Ecosystem recovery after emission reductions: Sudbury, Canada

    J. Gunn;W. Keller;J. Negusanti;R. Potvin

  • The effect of selenium on mercury assimilation by freshwater organisms

    Nelson Belzile;Yu-Wei Chen;John M. Gunn;Jian Tong

  • Antagonistic effect of selenium on mercury assimilation by fish populations near Sudbury metal smelters

    Yu-Wei Chen;Nelson Belzile;John M. Gunn

  • Forests fuel fish growth in freshwater deltas

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Andrew J. Tanentzap;Erik J. Szkokan-Emilson;Brian W. Kielstra;Michael T. Arts;Michael T. Arts

  • Long-term trends in zooplankton of Dorset, Ontario, lakes: the probable interactive effects of changes in pH, total phosphorus, dissolved organic carbon, and predators

    Norman D Yan;Keith M Somers;Robert E Girard;Andrew M Paterson

  • Comparisons between experimentally- and atmospherically-acidified lakes during stress and recovery

    D. W. Schindler;T. M. Frost;K. H. Mills;P. S. S. Chang

  • Effects of thermocline deepening on lake plankton communities

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  • Recovery of Acidified Lakes: Lessons From Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

    W. Keller;W. Keller;N. D. Yan;J. M. Gunn;J. Heneberry;J. Heneberry

  • Cooling lakes while the world warms: Effects of forest regrowth and increased dissolved organic matter on the thermal regime of a temperate, urban lake

    J Tanentzap Andrew;D Yan Norman;Bill Keller;Robert Girard

  • Developing Conceptual Frameworks for the Recovery of Aquatic Biota from Acidification

    Norman D. Yan;Brian Leung;Wendel (Bill) Keller;Shelley E. Arnott

  • Biological recovery of an acid lake after reductions in industrial emissions of sulphur

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  • Terrestrial support of lake food webs: Synthesis reveals controls over cross-ecosystem resource use

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Brian W. Kielstra;Grace M. Wilkinson;Martin Berggren

  • Evidence of biological recovery in acid-stressed lakes near Sudbury, Canada.

    W. Keller;J.M. Gunn;N.D. Yan

  • Spawning Site Water Chemistry and Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) Sac Fry Survival during Spring Snowmelt

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  • Use of Water Clarity to Monitor the Effects of Climate Change and other Stressors on Oligotrophic Lakes

    John M. Gunn;Ed Snucins;Norman D. Yan;Michael T. Arts

  • Recovery of copepod, but not cladoceran, zooplankton from severe and chronic effects of multiple stressors

    Norman D. Yan;Norman D. Yan;Robert Girard;Jocelyne H. Heneberry;W. Bill Keller

  • Percentage of methylmercury in the muscle tissue of freshwater fish varies with body size and age and among species.

    Gretchen L. Lescord;Thomas A. Johnston;Brian A. Branfireun;John M. Gunn

  • Microbiome functioning depends on individual and interactive effects of the environment and community structure.

    Chloé Orland;Erik J. S. Emilson;Erik J. S. Emilson;Nathan Basiliko;Nadia C. S. Mykytczuk

  • Acid rain - perspectives on lake recovery

    Wendel (Bill) Keller;John M. Gunn;Norman D. Yan

  • Boreal Shield Watersheds : Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment

    John Gunn;Robert John Steedman;Richard Ryder

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman D. Yan
Norman D. Yan York University
Andrew J. Tanentzap
Andrew J. Tanentzap University of Cambridge
David P. Kreutzweiser
David P. Kreutzweiser Natural Resources Canada
Nathan Basiliko
Nathan Basiliko Laurentian University
Nelson Belzile
Nelson Belzile Laurentian University
Brian A. Branfireun
Brian A. Branfireun University of Western Ontario
Beatrix E. Beisner
Beatrix E. Beisner University of Quebec at Montreal
Peter J. Dillon
Peter J. Dillon Trent University
Yves T. Prairie
Yves T. Prairie University of Quebec at Montreal
Shaun A. Watmough
Shaun A. Watmough Trent University

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