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Margaret R. Mulholland

Margaret R. Mulholland

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
9560
World Ranking
4744
National Ranking
1754

Overview

Margaret R. Mulholland is affiliated with Old Dominion University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science.

Their work includes detailed studies in several subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes. This expertise underpins investigations into various marine and coastal systems and processes.

Core research topics addressed by Mulholland cover:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Mulholland has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Harmful Algae
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Estuaries and Coasts

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters," 2020, The ISME Journal
  • "A critical review of the 15N2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems," 2020, Limnology and Oceanography Methods
  • "Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation," 2023, Earth system science data
  • "A coastal N2 fixation hotspot at the Cape Hatteras front: Elucidating spatial heterogeneity in diazotroph activity via supervised machine learning," 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Effects of tidal flooding on estuarine biogeochemistry: Quantifying flood-driven nitrogen inputs in an urban, lower Chesapeake Bay sub-tributary," 2021, Water Research

Collaboration plays a key role in Mulholland's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Corday R. Selden
  • Peter Bernhardt
  • Sophie Clayton
  • Alfonso Macías-Tapia
  • P. Dreux Chappell

Best Publications

  • Potential climate-change impacts on the Chesapeake Bay

    Raymond G. Najjar;Christopher R. Pyke;Mary Beth Adams;Denise Breitburg

  • CO2 control of Trichodesmium N2 fixation, photosynthesis, growth rates, and elemental ratios: Implications for past, present, and future ocean biogeochemistry

    D. A. Hutchins;F.-X. Fu;Y. Zhang;M. E. Warner

  • Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Y. W. Luo;S. C. Doney;L. A. Anderson;Mar Benavides

  • Extensive bloom of a N2-fixing diatom/cyanobacterial association in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Edward J. Carpenter;Joseph P. Montoya;James Burns;Margaret R. Mulholland

  • Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters – Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study

    Philip W. Boyd;Philip W. Boyd;Tatiana A. Rynearson;Evelyn A. Armstrong;Feixue Fu

  • Nutrient Cycles and Marine Microbes in a CO2-Enriched Ocean

    David A. Hutchins;Margaret R. Mulholland;Feixue Fu

  • Nitrogen fixation and release of fixed nitrogen by Trichodesmium spp. in the Gulf of Mexico

    Margaret R. Mulholland;Peter W. Bernhardt;Cynthia A. Heil;Deborah A. Bronk

  • Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America

    R. G. Najjar;M. Herrmann;R. Alexander;E. W. Boyer

  • The SouthEast Asian Time-series Study (SEATS) and the biogeochemistry of the South China Sea—An overview

    George T.F. Wong;George T.F. Wong;Teh-Lung Ku;Margaret Mulholland;Chun-Mao Tseng

  • Peptide Hydrolysis, Amino Acid Oxidation, and Nitrogen Uptake in Communities Seasonally Dominated by Aureococcus Anophagefferens

    Margaret R. Mulholland;Christopher J. Gobler;Cindy Lee

  • Dinitrogen fixation and release of ammonium and dissolved organic nitrogen by Trichodesmium IMS101

    Margaret R. Mulholland;Deborah A. Bronk;Douglas G. Capone

  • Nitrogen Uptake and Assimilation

    Margaret R. Mulholland;Michael W. Lomas

  • Interactions between changing pCO2, N2 fixation, and Fe limitation in the marine unicellular cyanobacterium Crocosphaera

    Fei-Xue Fu;Margaret R. Mulholland;Nathan S. Garcia;Aaron Beck

  • The fate of nitrogen fixed by diazotrophs in the ocean

    Margaret R. Mulholland

  • Understanding Causes and Impacts of the Dinoflagellate, Cochlodinium polykrikoides, Blooms in the Chesapeake Bay

    Margaret R. Mulholland;Ryan E. Morse;George E. Boneillo;Peter W. Bernhardt

  • The role of nitrogenous nutrients in the occurrence of harmful algal blooms caused by Cochlodinium polykrikoides in New York estuaries (USA)

    Christopher J. Gobler;Amanda Burson;Florian Koch;Yingzhong Tang

  • Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters.

    M. Consuelo Gazitúa;Dean R. Vik;Simon Roux;Ann C. Gregory

  • The nitrogen physiology of the marine N2-fixing cyanobacteria Trichodesmium spp

    Margaret R Mulholland;Douglas G Capone

  • The effect of growth rate, phosphorus concentration, and temperature on N2 fixation, carbon fixation, and nitrogen release in continuous cultures of Trichodesmium IMS101

    Margaret R. Mulholland;Peter W. Bernhardt

  • Rates of dinitrogen fixation and the abundance of diazotrophs in North American coastal waters between Cape Hatteras and Georges Bank

    M. R. Mulholland;P. W. Bernhardt;J. L. Blanco-Garcia;A. Mannino

  • Reactivity and chemical characterization of effluent organic nitrogen from wastewater treatment plants determined by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry.

    Rajaa Mesfioui;Nancy G. Love;Deborah A. Bronk;Margaret R. Mulholland

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa
Deborah A. Bronk
Deborah A. Bronk Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Douglas G. Capone
Douglas G. Capone University of Southern California
Cynthia A. Heil
Cynthia A. Heil Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Raymond G. Najjar
Raymond G. Najjar Pennsylvania State University
Barak Herut
Barak Herut Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Cindy Lee
Cindy Lee Stony Brook University
Ken Furuya
Ken Furuya Soka University
David A. Hutchins
David A. Hutchins University of Southern California
Edward J. Carpenter
Edward J. Carpenter San Francisco State University

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