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Justin D. Brookes

Justin D. Brookes

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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
14053
World Ranking
2477
National Ranking
96

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Justin D. Brookes is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on several subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers key topics in environmental and aquatic systems. These include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Justin D. Brookes has published extensively in various scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Water Research
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Water Resources Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope of their research interests:

  • "Water Depth Underpins the Relative Roles and Fates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Lakes" (2020) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Plastic debris in lakes and reservoirs" (2023) published in Nature
  • "Contributions of external nutrient loading and internal cycling to cyanobacterial bloom dynamics in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for nutrient management" (2021) published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Extreme Climate Anomalies Enhancing Cyanobacterial Blooms in Eutrophic Lake Taihu, China" (2021) published in Water Resources Research
  • "Cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic lakes: Shifting the high-nutrient paradigm" (2021) published in Freshwater Biology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Yunlin Zhang
  • Boqiang Qin
  • Yongqiang Zhou
  • Erik Jeppesen
  • Lei Zhou

Best Publications

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Eco-physiological adaptations that favour freshwater cyanobacteria in a changing climate

    Cayelan C. Carey;Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Emily P. Hoffmann;David P. Hamilton

  • The interaction between climate warming and eutrophication to promote cyanobacteria is dependent on trophic state and varies among taxa

    Anna Rigosi;Cayelan C Carey;Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Justin D Brookes

  • Water Depth Underpins the Relative Roles and Fates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Lakes

    Boqiang Qin;Jian Zhou;James J. Elser;Wayne S. Gardner

  • Plastic debris in lakes and reservoirs

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  • Why Lake Taihu continues to be plagued with cyanobacterial blooms through 10 years (2007-2017) efforts

    Boqiang Qin;Hans W. Paerl;Justin D. Brookes;Jianguo Liu

  • Assessing, quantifying and valuing the ecosystem services of coastal lagoons

    Alice Newton;Ana C. Brito;John D. Icely;Valérie Derolez

  • Effect of chlorination on Microcystis aeruginosa cell integrity and subsequent microcystin release and degradation

    Robert I. Daly;Lionel Ho;Justin D. Brookes

  • Resilience to Blooms

    Justin D. Brookes;Cayelan C. Carey

  • Lake‐size dependency of wind shear and convection as controls on gas exchange

    Jordan S. Read;David P. Hamilton;Ankur R. Desai;Kevin C. Rose;Kevin C. Rose

  • Fate and transport of pathogens in lakes and reservoirs.

    Justin D. Brookes;Jason Antenucci;Matthew Hipsey;Michael D. Burch

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of copper sulphate, chlorine, potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide and ozone on cyanobacterial cell integrity.

    Jiajia Fan;Lionel Ho;Peter Hobson;Justin Brookes

  • Discriminating and assessing adsorption and biodegradation removal mechanisms during granular activated carbon filtration of microcystin toxins.

    Haixiang Wang;Lionel Ho;Lionel Ho;David M. Lewis;Justin D. Brookes;Justin D. Brookes

  • A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

    Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Jordan S. Read;Catherine M. O'Reilly

  • Variations in the buoyancy response of Microcystis aeruginosa to nitrogen, phosphorus and light

    Justin D. Brookes;George G. Ganf

  • Bacterial degradation of microcystin toxins within a biologically active sand filter

    Lionel Ho;Thomas Meyn;Alexandra Keegan;Daniel Hoefel

  • Improving water quality in China: Environmental investment pays dividends.

    Yongqiang Zhou;Jianrong Ma;Yunlin Zhang;Boqiang Qin

  • Contributions of External Nutrient Loading and Internal Cycling to Cyanobacterial Bloom Dynamics in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for Nutrient Management

    Hai Xu;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;Hans W. Paerl;Hans W. Paerl;Justin D. Brookes

  • Spatial distribution of sediment nitrogen and phosphorus in Lake Taihu from a hydrodynamics-induced transport perspective.

    Tingfeng Wu;Boqiang Qin;Justin D. Brookes;Wenming Yan

  • Environmental factors controlling colony formation in blooms of the cyanobacteria Microcystis spp. in Lake Taihu, China.

    Jianrong Ma;Justin D. Brookes;Boqiang Qin;Hans W. Paerl

  • A multi-lake comparative analysis of the General Lake Model (GLM) : Stress-testing across a global observatory network

    Louise C. Bruce;Marieke A. Frassl;Marieke A. Frassl;George B. Arhonditsis;Gideon Gal

  • Determining the probability of cyanobacterial blooms: the application of Bayesian networks in multiple lake systems

    Anna Rigosi;Paul C. Hanson;David P. Hamilton;Matthew R. Hipsey

  • A generic, process‐based model of microbial pollution in aquatic systems

    Matthew R. Hipsey;Jason P. Antenucci;Justin D. Brookes;Justin D. Brookes

Frequent Co-Authors

George G. Ganf
George G. Ganf University of Adelaide
Matthew R. Hipsey
Matthew R. Hipsey University of Western Australia
David P. Hamilton
David P. Hamilton Griffith University
Boqiang Qin
Boqiang Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Lewis
David Lewis University of Adelaide
Gayle Newcombe
Gayle Newcombe South Australian Water Corporation
Cayelan C. Carey
Cayelan C. Carey Virginia Tech
Guangwei Zhu
Guangwei Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yunlin Zhang
Yunlin Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks

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