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Overview

Joseph P. Montoya is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Ecology, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change. The subfields also include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis as well as Molecular Biology.

Montoya's main topics of investigation highlight areas such as Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology. Other notable topics are Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Coral and Marine Ecosystem Studies, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Montoya include Ajit Subramaniam, Maren Voß, Á. Fernández, Doan Nhu Hai, and Nguyễn Ngọc Lâm.

Montoya's published work features several papers across diverse marine and ecological research themes. Recent papers include:

  • Why understanding food choice is crucial to transform food systems for human and planetary health (2023, BMJ Global Health)
  • Environmental Regulation of the Nitrogen Supply, Mean Trophic Position, and Trophic Enrichment of Mesozooplankton in the Mekong River Plume and Southern South China Sea (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • Mercury methylation linked to nitrification in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean (2022, Marine Chemistry)
  • Small pigmented eukaryote assemblages of the western tropical North Atlantic around the Amazon River plume during spring discharge (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Planktonic habitats in the Amazon Plume region of the Western Tropical North Atlantic (2024, Frontiers in Marine Science)

Their research has been published in several venues, with repeated contributions to Frontiers in Marine Science and Biogeochemistry. Other publication venues include BMJ Global Health, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, and Marine Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean.

    Jonathan P. Zehr;John B. Waterbury;Patricia J. Turner;Joseph P. Montoya

  • A Simple, High-Precision, High-Sensitivity Tracer Assay for N(inf2) Fixation.

    J P Montoya;M Voss;P Kahler;D G Capone

  • Nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium spp.: An important source of new nitrogen to the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic Ocean

    Douglas G. Capone;James A. Burns;Joseph P. Montoya;Ajit Subramaniam

  • TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS AND THE NITROGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF AMINO ACIDS IN PLANKTON

    James W. McClelland;Joseph P. Montoya

  • High rates of N2 fixation by unicellular diazotrophs in the oligotrophic Pacific Ocean.

    Joseph P Montoya;Carolyn M Holl;Jonathan P Zehr;Andrew Hansen

  • The great Atlantic Sargassum belt

    Mengqiu Wang;Chuanmin Hu;Brian B. Barnes;Gary Mitchum

  • The anaerobic oxidation of methane and sulfate reduction in sediments from Gulf of Mexico cold seeps

    Samantha B Joye;Antje Boetius;Antje Boetius;Antje Boetius;Beth N Orcutt;Joseph P Montoya

  • Unicellular Cyanobacterial Distributions Broaden the Oceanic N2 Fixation Domain

    Pia H. Moisander;Roxanne A. Beinart;Ian Hewson;Angelicque E. White

  • Nitrogen Fixation and Nitrogen Isotope Abundances in Zooplankton of the Oligotrophic North Atlantic

    Joseph P. Montoya;Edward J. Carpenter;Douglas G. Capone

  • Extensive bloom of a N2-fixing diatom/cyanobacterial association in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Edward J. Carpenter;Joseph P. Montoya;James Burns;Margaret R. Mulholland

  • Amazon River enhances diazotrophy and carbon sequestration in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean.

    A. Subramaniam;P. L. Yager;E. J. Carpenter;C. Mahaffey

  • The marine nitrogen cycle: recent discoveries, uncertainties and the potential relevance of climate change

    Maren Voss;Hermann W. Bange;Joachim W. Dippner;Jack J. Middelburg

  • Nitrogen isotope patterns in the oxygen-deficient waters of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean

    Maren Voss;Joachim W. Dippner;Joseph P. Montoya

  • An extensive bloom of the N2-fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum in the central Arabian Sea

    Douglas G. Capone;Ajit Subramaniam;Joseph P. Montoya;Maren Voss

  • Estimating the contribution of microalgal taxa to chlorophyll a in the field--variations of pigment ratios under nutrient- and light-limited growth

    Ralf Goericke;Joseph P. Montoya

  • Steady-State Nitrogen Isotope Effects of N2 and N2O Production in Paracoccus denitrificans

    Carol C. Barford;Joseph P. Montoya;Mark A. Altabet;Ralph Mitchell

  • Isotopic fractionation during nitrate uptake by phytoplankton grown in continuous culture

    Joseph P. Montoya;James J. McCarthy

  • Simulating the global distribution of nitrogen isotopes in the ocean

    Christopher J. Somes;Andreas Schmittner;Eric D. Galbraith;Moritz F. Lehmann

  • Trophic relationships among Southern Ocean copepods and krill: some uses and limitations of a stable isotope approach

    Katrin Schmidt;Angus Atkinson;Dorothea Stübing;James W. McClelland

  • INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NITRATE UPTAKE AND NITROGEN FIXATION IN CONTINUOUS CULTURES OF THE MARINE DIAZOTROPH TRICHODESMIUM (CYANOBACTERIA)1

    Carolyn M. Holl;Joseph P. Montoya

Frequent Co-Authors

Maren Voss
Maren Voss Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Douglas G. Capone
Douglas G. Capone University of Southern California
Jonathan P. Zehr
Jonathan P. Zehr University of California, Santa Cruz
Samantha B. Joye
Samantha B. Joye University of Georgia
Ian Hewson
Ian Hewson Cornell University
Tracy A. Villareal
Tracy A. Villareal The University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey P. Chanton
Jeffrey P. Chanton Florida State University
Pia H. Moisander
Pia H. Moisander University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Patricia L. Yager
Patricia L. Yager University of Georgia
Mark A. Altabet
Mark A. Altabet University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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