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Josef Daniel Ackerman

Josef Daniel Ackerman

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
36
Citations
5379
World Ranking
9121
National Ranking
421

Overview

Josef Daniel Ackerman is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada and is active in the field of environmental science with a focus on aquatic ecosystems. Their research spans multiple subfields, including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, and oceanography.

The main topics covered in their work include fish ecology and management studies, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, marine and fisheries research, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ackerman include Leon Boegman, Todd J. Morris, Aidin Jabbari, Yingming Zhao, and Christopher Farrow.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on various aspects of freshwater and aquatic environmental science. Notable publications include:

  • Increases in Great Lake winds and extreme events facilitate interbasin coupling and reduce water quality in Lake Erie (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Three-dimensional modeling of sediment resuspension in a large shallow lake (2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research)
  • Approaches and research needs for advancing the protection and recovery of imperilled freshwater fishes and mussels in Canada (2021, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences)
  • Empirical modeling of hypolimnion and sediment oxygen demand in temperate Canadian lakes (2021, Inland Waters)
  • Nearshore-offshore exchanges by enhanced turbulent mixing along the north shore of Lake Ontario (2023, Journal of Great Lakes Research)

Josef Daniel Ackerman frequently publishes in well-regarded journals including Limnology and Oceanography, The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports, Journal of Great Lakes Research, and Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Achieving campus sustainability: top‐down, bottom‐up, or neither?

    Marena Brinkhurst;Peter Rose;Gillian Maurice;Josef Daniel Ackerman

  • Fluid Dynamics in Seagrass Ecology—from Molecules to Ecosystems

    Evamaria W. Koch;Josef D. Ackerman;Jennifer Verduin;Michael van Keulen

  • Fluid dynamics in seagrass ecology - from molecules to ecosystems

    E.W. Koch;J.D. Ackerman;J. Verduin;M. van Keulen

  • Reduced mixing in a marine macrophyte canopy.

    J. D. Ackerman;A. Okubo

  • Abiotic pollen and pollination: Ecological, functional, and evolutionary perspectives

    Josef Daniel Ackerman

  • A review of the early life history of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha): comparisons with marine bivalves

    Josef Daniel Ackerman;Blair Sim;S. Jerrine Nichols;Renata Claudi

  • Benthic-pelagic coupling over a zebra mussel reef in western Lake Erie

    Josef Daniel Ackerman;Mark R. Loewen;Paul F. Hamblin

  • Observations of particle capture on a cylindrical collector: Implications for particle accumulation and removal in aquatic systems

    Molly R. Palmer;Heidi M. Nepf;Thomas J. R. Pettersson;Josef D. Ackerman

  • Effect of velocity on the filter feeding of dreissenid mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena bugensis) : implications for trophic dynamics

    Josef Daniel Ackerman

  • Secondary invasion of the round goby into high diversity Great Lakes tributaries and species at risk hotspots: potential new concerns for endangered freshwater species

    Mark Poos;Alan J. Dextrase;Astrid N. Schwalb;Josef D. Ackerman

  • Factors affecting the development and dynamics of hypoxia in a large shallow stratified lake: Hourly to seasonal patterns

    Damien Bouffard;Josef Daniel Ackerman;Leon Boegman

  • Sexual Reproduction of Seagrasses: Pollination in the Marine Context

    Josef Daniel Ackerman

  • Dispersal limitation of unionid mussels and implications for their conservation

    Astrid N. Schwalb;Astrid N. Schwalb;Karl Cottenie;Mark S. Poos;Josef D. Ackerman

  • Variation in pollinator abundance and selection on fragrance phenotypes in an epiphytic orchid.

    James D. Ackerman;Elvia J. Meléndez-Ackerman;José Salguero-Faria

  • Sensitivity of the glochidia (larvae) of freshwater mussels to copper: assessing the effect of water hardness and dissolved organic carbon on the sensitivity of endangered species.

    Patricia L. Gillis;Rebecca J. Mitchell;Astrid N. Schwalb;Kelly A. McNichols

  • Mechanistic implications for pollination in the marine angiosperm Zostera marina

    Josef Daniel Ackerman

  • Diffusivity in a marine macrophyte canopy: implications for submarine pollination and dispersal.

    Josef Daniel Ackerman

  • Convergence of filiform pollen morphologies in seagrasses: Functional mechanisms

    Josef Daniel Ackerman

  • Physiological and Taxonomic Separation of Two Dreissenid Mussels in the Laurentian Great Lakes

    S. Domm;R.W. McCauley;E. Kott;J. D. Ackerman

  • Measurement of local bed shear stress in streams using a Preston-static tube

    Josef Daniel Ackerman;Trent M. Hoover

  • Submarine pollination in the marine angiosperm Zostera marina (Zosteraceae). II. Pollen transport in flow fields and capture by stigmas.

    Josef Daniel Ackerman

  • Coastal Upwelling Influences Hypoxia Spatial Patterns and Nearshore Dynamics in Lake Erie

    M. D. Rowe;E. J. Anderson;D. Beletsky;C. A. Stow

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan K. Spelt
Jan K. Spelt University of Toronto
C. Ross Ethier
C. Ross Ethier Georgia Institute of Technology
David F. Greene
David F. Greene Humboldt State University
Alfred Wüest
Alfred Wüest Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Ralph E. H. Smith
Ralph E. H. Smith University of Waterloo
Dmitry Beletsky
Dmitry Beletsky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Donald A. Jackson
Donald A. Jackson University of Toronto
Chris M. Wood
Chris M. Wood University of British Columbia
Chris C. Wilson
Chris C. Wilson Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

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