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2412
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Overview

Laurence Carvalho is affiliated with the Natural Environment Research Council in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to several subfields including environmental chemistry, ecology, oceanography, water science and technology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Water quality and pollution assessment
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics

Laurence Carvalho has contributed research papers to a variety of scientific journals and venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • Inland Waters
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Selected recent papers include:

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Capacity challenges in water quality monitoring: understanding the role of human development, 2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation and the management of small productive lakes, 2020, Inland Waters
  • Securing success for the Nature Restoration Law, 2023, Science

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Bryan M. Spears
  • Sebastian Birk
  • Kenneth Irvine
  • Marko Järvinen
  • Anne Lyche Solheim

Best Publications

  • 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

  • The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future

    Daniel Hering;Angel Borja;Jacob Carstensen;Laurence Carvalho

  • Trophic level asynchrony in rates of phenological change for marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments

    Stephen J. Thackeray;Timothy H. Sparks;Morten Frederiksen;Sarah Burthe

  • Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels

    Stephen J. Thackeray;Peter A. Henrys;Deborah Hemming;James R. Bell

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems.

    Sebastian Birk;Daniel Chapman;Laurence Carvalho;Bryan M. Spears

  • Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: An analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive

    Laurence Carvalho;Eleanor B. Mackay;Ana Cristina Cardoso;Annette Baattrup-Pedersen

  • Managing aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress — An introduction to the MARS project

    Daniel Hering;Laurence Carvalho;Christine Argillier;Meryem Beklioglu

  • Chlorophyll–nutrient relationships of different lake types using a large European dataset

    G. Phillips;O.-P. Pietiläinen;L. Carvalho;A. Solimini

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of cyanobacterial pigments as indicators for cell populations and toxins in eutrophic lakes

    Peter D. Hunter;Andrew N. Tyler;Laurence Carvalho;Geoffrey A. Codd

  • Sustaining recreational quality of European lakes: minimizing the health risks from algal blooms through phosphorus control

    Laurence Carvalho;Claire McDonald;Caridad de Hoyos;Ute Mischke

  • Interaction of Climate Change and Eutrophication

    Erik Jeppesen;Brian Moss;Helen Bennion;Laurence Carvalho

  • Institutional challenges in putting ecosystem service knowledge in practice

    Heli Saarikoski;Eeva Primmer;Sanna-Riikka Saarela;Paula Antunes

  • Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes

    L. Carvalho;S. Poikane;A. Lyche Solheim;G. Phillips

  • Determination of phytoplankton crops by top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in a group of English lakes, the West Midland meres

    Brian Moss;Suzanne McGowan;Laurence Carvalho

  • Ecological status assessment of European lakes: a comparison of metrics for phytoplankton, macrophytes, benthic invertebrates and fish

    Anne Lyche-Solheim;Christian K. Feld;Sebastian Birk;Geoff Phillips

  • Changes in shallow lake functioning: response to climate change and nutrient reduction

    Laurence Carvalho;Alex Kirika

  • A hitchhiker's guide to European lake ecological assessment and intercalibration

    Sandra Poikane;Sebastian Birk;Jürgen Böhmer;Laurence Carvalho

  • Quantitative responses of lake phytoplankton to eutrophication in Northern Europe

    R. Ptacnik;L. Lepistö;E. Willén;P. Brettum

  • Sediment phosphorus cycling in a large shallow lake: spatio-temporal variation in phosphorus pools and release

    Bryan M. Spears;Laurence Carvalho;Rupert Perkins;Alex Kirika

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan M. Spears
Bryan M. Spears UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Linda May
Linda May Natural Environment Research Council
Geoff Phillips
Geoff Phillips University of Stirling
Stephen C. Maberly
Stephen C. Maberly Lancaster University
Helen Bennion
Helen Bennion University College London
Stephen J. Thackeray
Stephen J. Thackeray Lancaster University
Brian Moss
Brian Moss University of Liverpool
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Meryem Beklioglu
Meryem Beklioglu Middle East Technical University
Erik Gómez-Baggethun
Erik Gómez-Baggethun Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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