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Kenneth H. Dunton is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant focus on Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work explores several main topics, including marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, isotope analysis in ecology, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Recent publications by Kenneth H. Dunton include:

  • Imprint of Climate Change on Pan-Arctic Marine Vegetation, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change, 2022, BioScience
  • Kelp carbon sink potential decreases with warming due to accelerating decomposition, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Borealization of nearshore fishes on an interior Arctic shelf over multiple decades, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Inherent tolerance of extreme seasonal variability in light and salinity in an Arctic endemic kelp (Laminaria solidungula), 2021, Journal of Phycology

Kenneth H. Dunton has frequently published in venues such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Marine Science, Estuaries and Coasts, and Journal of Phycology.

Frequent collaborators include Kyle Capistrant-Fossa, Megan S. Ballard, Kevin M. Lee, Andrew R. McNeese, and Thomas S. Jerome, reflecting ongoing partnerships across multiple studies.

Best Publications

  • Mechanistic interpretation of carbon isotope discrimination by marine macroalgae and seagrasses.

    John A. Raven;Andrew M. Johnston;Janet E. Kübler;Rebecca Korb

  • Carbon flux in seagrass ecosystems

    Mateo;J. Cebrián;K. Dunton;T. Mutchler

  • The Arctic Ocean Estuary

    James W McClelland;R. M. Holmes;Kenneth H Dunton;R. W. Macdonald

  • Inorganic nitrogen acquisition in the seagrass Thalassia testudinum: Development of a whole‐plant nitrogen budget

    Kun Seop Lee;Kenneth H Dunton

  • The nearshore western Beaufort Sea ecosystem: Circulation and importance of terrestrial carbon in arctic coastal food webs

    Kenneth H. Dunton;Thomas Weingartner;Eddy C. Carmack

  • Seasonal growth and biomass of the subtropical seagrass Halodule wrightii in relation to continuous measurements of underwater irradiance

    Kenneth H Dunton

  • Benthic food-web structure under differing water mass properties in the southern Chukchi Sea

    Katrin Iken;Bodil Bluhm;Kenneth Dunton

  • Effect of in situ light reduction on the maintenance, growth and partitioning of carbon resources in Thalassia testudinum banks ex König

    Kun Seop Lee;Kenneth H. Dunton

  • Dependence of consumers on macroalgal (Laminaria solidungula) carbon in an arctic kelp community: δ13C evidence

    Kenneth H Dunton;D. M. Schell

  • Multi-decadal synthesis of benthic–pelagic coupling in the western arctic: Role of cross-shelf advective processes

    Kenneth H. Dunton;Jonathan L. Goodall;Susan V. Schonberg;Jacqueline M. Grebmeier

  • Arctic biogeography: The paradox of the marine benthic fauna and flora.

    Kenneth H Dunton

  • Life strategy, ecophysiology and ecology of seaweeds in polar waters

    Chris Wiencke;Margaret Nancy Clayton;I Gomez;K Iken

  • Trophic relationships and isotopic gradients among arctic and subarctic marine fauna

    KH Dunton;SM Saupe;AN Golikov;DM Schell

  • Effects of nitrogen enrichment on biomass allocation, growth, and leaf morphology of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum

    Kun Seop Lee;Kenneth H Dunton

  • δ15N and δ13C Measurements of Antarctic Peninsula Fauna: Trophic Relationships and Assimilation of Benthic Seaweeds

    Kenneth H. Dunton

  • Light and temperature demands of marine benthic microalgae and seaweeds in polar regions

    Iván Gómez;Angela Wulff;Michael Y. Roleda;Pirjo Huovinen

  • An Arctic Kelp Community in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea

    Kenneth H. Dunton;Erk Reimnitz;Susan Schonberg

  • The effects of in situ light reduction on the growth of two subtropical seagrasses, Thalassia testudinum and Halodule wrightii

    Andrew B. Czerny;Kenneth H. Dunton

  • Production and carbon reserve dynamics of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, USA

    Kun Seop Lee;Kenneth H. Dunton

  • Food Web Structure of the Alaskan Nearshore Shelf and Estuarine Lagoons of the Beaufort Sea

    Kenneth H. Dunton;Susan V. Schonberg;Lee W. Cooper

  • Diurnal changes in pore water sulfide concentrations in the seagrass Thalassia testudinum beds: the effects of seagrasses on sulfide dynamics.

    Kun Seop Lee;Kenneth H. Dunton

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. McClelland
James W. McClelland The University of Texas at Austin
John H. Trefry
John H. Trefry Florida Institute of Technology
Iván Gómez
Iván Gómez Austral University of Chile
Lee W. Cooper
Lee W. Cooper University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Byron C. Crump
Byron C. Crump Oregon State University
Stein Fredriksen
Stein Fredriksen University of Oslo
Wayne S. Gardner
Wayne S. Gardner The University of Texas at Austin
David R. Maidment
David R. Maidment The University of Texas at Austin
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Diana Walker
Diana Walker University of Western Australia

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