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Overview

Karl E. Havens was affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and contributed to research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spanned several subfields including Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist focused extensively on topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, fish ecology and management studies, soil and water nutrient dynamics, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Among the recent papers coauthored by Karl E. Havens were:

  • Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Hurricanes, El Niño and harmful algal blooms in two sub-tropical Florida estuaries: Direct and indirect impacts, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Toward predicting climate change effects on lakes: a comparison of 1656 shallow lakes from Florida and Denmark reveals substantial differences in nutrient dynamics, metabolism, trophic structure, and top-down control, 2020, Inland Waters
  • It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Global data set of long-term summertime vertical temperature profiles in 153 lakes, 2021, Scientific Data

Karl E. Havens frequently published in the following venues:

  • EDIS
  • UNC Libraries
  • Scientific Reports
  • Inland Waters
  • Scientific Data

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Ashley R. Smyth
  • Haywood Dail Laughinghouse
  • Hans W. Paerl
  • Rachel M. Pilla
  • Craig E. Williamson

Their research involved integrating various environmental processes and ecosystem dynamics, often addressing nutrient dynamics, harmful algal blooms, and the effects of climate phenomena such as hurricanes and El Niño on aquatic systems.

Best Publications

  • Controlling Eutrophication: Nitrogen and Phosphorus

    Daniel J. Conley;Hans W. Paerl;Robert W. Howarth;Donald F. Boesch

  • Lake responses to reduced nutrient loading - an analysis of contemporary long-term data from 35 case studies

    Erik Jeppesen;Martin Søndergaard;Jens Peder Jensen;Karl E. Havens

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

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

  • Allied attack: climate change and eutrophication

    B. Moss;S. Kosten;M. Meerhoff;R.W. Battarbee

  • It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems

    Hans W. Paerl;J. Thad Scott;Mark J. McCarthy;Silvia E. Newell

  • Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in aquatic ecosystems impacted by climate change and anthropogenic nutrients.

    Hans W. Paerl;Wayne S. Gardner;Karl E. Havens;Alan R. Joyner

  • N:P ratios, light limitation, and cyanobacterial dominance in a subtropical lake impacted by non-point source nutrient pollution

    Karl E. Havens;R.Thomas James;Therese L. East;Val H. Smith

  • Cyanobacteria blooms: effects on aquatic ecosystems.

    Karl E Havens

  • Scale and structure in natural food webs.

    Karl Havens

  • Nutrient dynamics and the eutrophication of shallow lakes Kasumigaura (Japan), Donghu (PR China), and Okeechobee (USA).

    K.E Havens;T Fukushima;P Xie;T Iwakuma

  • Crustacean zooplankton in lakes and reservoirs of temperate and tropical regions: variation with trophic status

    Ricardo Pinto-Coelho;Bernadette Pinel-Alloul;Ginette Méthot;Karl E Havens

  • 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

  • Complex interactions between autotrophs in shallow marine and freshwater ecosystems: implications for community responses to nutrient stress.

    K.E. Havens;J. Hauxwell;A.C. Tyler;S. Thomas

  • Light availability as a possible regulator of cyanobacteria species composition in a shallow subtropical lake

    Karl E. Havens;Edward J. Phlips;Mary F. Cichra;Bai‐lian Li

  • Mitigating eutrophication and toxic cyanobacterial blooms in large lakes: The evolution of a dual nutrient (N and P) reduction paradigm

    Hans W. Paerl;Hans W. Paerl;Karl E. Havens;Hai Xu;Guangwei Zhu

  • Cyanobacterial toxins: a qualitative meta-analysis of concentrations, dosage and effects in freshwater, estuarine and marine biota

    Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Karl E. Havens

  • Trophic position and individual feeding histories of fish from Lake Okeechobee, Florida

    Brian Fry;Patricia L Mumford;Franklin Tam;Don D Fox

  • Recovery of submerged plants from high water stress in a large subtropical lake in Florida, USA

    Karl E Havens;Bruce Sharfstein;Mark A Brady;Therese L East

  • Zooplankton grazing on bacteria and cyanobacteria in a eutrophic lake

    Kirsten A. Work;Karl E. Havens

  • Submerged aquatic vegetation correlations with depth and light attenuating materials in a shallow subtropical lake

    Karl E. Havens

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan D. Steinman
Alan D. Steinman Grand Valley State University
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Edward J. Phlips
Edward J. Phlips University of Florida
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Martin T. Dokulil
Martin T. Dokulil University of Vienna
Dietmar Straile
Dietmar Straile University of Konstanz
Boqiang Qin
Boqiang Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Claire L. Schelske
Claire L. Schelske University of Florida
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University

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