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Kevin J. Flynn is affiliated with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple scientific fields, including medicine, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. Key subfields within their work include oceanography, ecology, surgery, urology, and rheumatology.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, such as marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, urological disorders and treatments, urologic and reproductive health conditions, protist diversity and phylogeny, marine biology and ecology research, and urinary and genital oncology studies.

Recent publications by Kevin J. Flynn include:

  • The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo-phago-trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean, 2023, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • A Bibliometric Analysis of Microalgae Research in the World, Europe, and the European Atlantic Area, 2020, Marine Drugs
  • Differences in physiology explain succession of mixoplankton functional types and affect carbon fluxes in temperate seas, 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • Development and Validation of A Male Anterior Urethral Stricture Classification System, 2020, Urology
  • Protoplasmic streaming of chloroplasts enables rapid photoacclimation in large diatoms, 2021, Journal of Plankton Research

Kevin J. Flynn has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Aditee Mitra
  • Bradley A. Erickson
  • Per Juel Hansen
  • Alex J. Vanni
  • Benjamin N. Breyer

The scientist's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, some of the most frequent being:

  • Urology
  • The Journal of Urology
  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Kevin J. Flynn has authored several books published by prominent institutions. These include four titles published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, such as "DRAMA - a cybernetic approach for Plankton Digital Twins" (2023), "A Simple N-based Mixoplankton Model" (2021), and "Dynamic Ecology in GNU Octave" (2020). Additionally, they authored "Seasonal Distribution Of Non-Constitutive Mixoplankton Across Arctic, Temperate And Mediterranean Coastal Waters" (2021), published by Concordia University.

Best Publications

  • Phytoplankton in a changing world: cell size and elemental stoichiometry

    Zoe V. Finkel;John Beardall;Kevin J. Flynn;Antonietta Quigg;Antonietta Quigg

  • Placing microalgae on the biofuels priority list: a review of the technological challenges

    H. C. Greenwell;L. M. L. Laurens;R. J. Shields;R. W. Lovitt

  • Phytoplankton blooms: a ‘loophole’ in microzooplankton grazing impact?

    X. Irigoien;K. J. Flynn;R. P. Harris

  • Misuse of the phytoplankton-zooplankton dichotomy : the need to assign organisms as mixotrophs within plankton functional types

    Kevin J. Flynn;Diane K. Stoecker;Aditee Mitra;John A. Raven

  • The role of mixotrophic protists in the biological carbon pump

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Joann M. Burkholder;Terje Berge

  • Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Urban Tillmann;John A. Raven

  • Future HAB science: Directions and challenges in a changing climate.

    Mark L. Wells;Mark L. Wells;Bengt Karlson;Angela Wulff;Raphael Kudela

  • Chlorophyll content and fluorescence responses cannot be used to gauge reliably phytoplankton biomass, nutrient status or growth rate

    Mikaela Kruskopf;Kevin J. Flynn

  • End-To-End Models for the Analysis of Marine Ecosystems: Challenges, Issues, and Next Steps

    Kenneth A. Rose;J.Icarus Allen;Yuri Artioli;Manuel Barange

  • Changes in pH at the exterior surface of plankton with ocean acidification

    Kevin Flynn;Jerry C Blackford;Mark Edward Baird;John A Raven

  • Nitrogen sources for the growth of marine microalgae: role of dissolved free amino acids

    KJ Flynn;I. Butler

  • A mechanistic model for describing dynamic multi-nutrient, light, temperature interactions in phytoplankton

    Kevin J. Flynn

  • Modeling of HABs and eutrophication: Status, advances, challenges

    Patricia M. Glibert;J. Icarus Allen;A.F. Bouwman;A.F. Bouwman;Christopher W. Brown

  • Review of climate change impacts on marine aquaculture in the UK and Ireland

    Ruth Callaway;Andrew P. Shinn;Suzanne E. Grenfell;James E. Bron

  • Nutritional status and diet composition affect the value of diatoms as copepod prey.

    Ruth H. Jones;Kevin J. Flynn

  • Promotion of harmful algal blooms by zooplankton predatory activity.

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J Flynn

  • Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now?

    Kevin J. Flynn;Aditee Mitra;Konstantinos Anestis;Anna A. Anschütz

  • Growth dynamics and toxicity of Alexandrium fundyense (Dinophyceae): the effect of changing N:P supply ratios on internal toxin and nutrient levels

    E. H. John;K. J. Flynn

  • Chemical and Physical Factors Influencing Toxin Content

    Edna Granéli;K Flynn

  • Evidence for production of paralytic shellfish toxins by bacteria associated with Alexandrium spp. (Dinophyta) in culture.

    S. Gallacher;Kevin J. Flynn;José M. Franco;E. E. Brueggemann

  • Phytoplankton in a changing world: Cell size and elementary stoichiometry

    Zoe Finkel;John Beardall;Kevin Flynn;Antonietta Quigg

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Raven
John A. Raven University of Dundee
Keith Davidson
Keith Davidson Scottish Association For Marine Science
Patricia M. Glibert
Patricia M. Glibert University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Diane K. Stoecker
Diane K. Stoecker University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
JoAnn M. Burkholder
JoAnn M. Burkholder North Carolina State University
Albert Calbet
Albert Calbet Spanish National Research Council
Christiane Lancelot
Christiane Lancelot Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jerry Blackford
Jerry Blackford Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Antonietta Quigg
Antonietta Quigg Texas A&M University at Galveston
Edna Granéli
Edna Granéli Linnaeus University

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