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Mark Trimmer publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark Trimmer sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 134 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Mark Trimmer D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark Trimmer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mark Trimmer is a researcher affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their work focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as ecology, environmental chemistry, global and planetary change, oceanography, and atmospheric science.

Their research addresses key topics including methane hydrates and related phenomena, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, climate change and permafrost, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Trimmer has published extensively in several prominent scientific venues, often contributing to:

  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature
  • Nature Geoscience

Recent publications by Trimmer include:

  • "Disproportionate increase in freshwater methane emissions induced by experimental warming," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Warming impairs trophic transfer efficiency in a long-term field experiment," 2021, Nature
  • "Mineralization and nitrification: Archaea dominate ammonia-oxidising communities in grassland soils," 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • "Groundwater springs formed during glacial retreat are a large source of methane in the high Arctic," 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • "Contrasting Biophysical Controls on Carbon Dioxide and Methane Outgassing From Streams," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Trimmer's work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Yizhu Zhu
  • Kevin J. Purdy
  • Catherine Heppell
  • Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
  • Andrew Binley

Trimmer's research contributes to understanding complex environmental processes such as methane emissions under warming conditions, microbial roles in soil chemistry, and carbon and methane dynamics in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. This body of work intersects critical issues in climate science and ecosystem function, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach.

Best Publications

  • Reconciling the temperature dependence of respiration across timescales and ecosystem types

    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Jane M. Caffrey;Alessandro Cescatti;Matteo Dossena

  • Warming alters the metabolic balance of ecosystems

    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;J. Iwan Jones;Mark Trimmer;Guy Woodward

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation measured in sediments along the Thames estuary, United Kingdom.

    Mark Trimmer;Joanna C. Nicholls;Bruno Deflandre

  • Warming alters the size spectrum and shifts the distribution of biomass in freshwater ecosystems

    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;José M. Montoya;Mark Trimmer;Guy Woodward

  • Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research

    Rebecca I.A. Stewart;Matteo Dossena;David A. Bohan;Erik Jeppesen

  • Biomonitoring of Human Impacts in Freshwater Ecosystems: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Nikolai Friberg;Núria Bonada;David C. Bradley;Michael J. Dunbar

  • Impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus: from genomes to natural ecosystems and agriculture

    Maïté S. Guignard;Andrew R. Leitch;Claudia Acquisti;Christophe Eizaguirre

  • Warming alters community size structure and ecosystem functioning

    Matteo Dossena;Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Jonathan Grey;José M. Montoya

  • Nutrients in Estuaries

    D.B. Nedwell;T.D. Jickells;M. Trimmer;R. Sanders

  • Adaptation of phytoplankton to a decade of experimental warming linked to increased photosynthesis.

    C-Elisa Schaum;Samuel Barton;Elvire Bestion;Angus Buckling

  • Remineralization of particulate organic carbon in an ocean oxygen minimum zone.

    Emma L. Cavan;Emma L. Cavan;Mark Trimmer;Felicity Shelley;Richard Sanders

  • River bed carbon and nitrogen cycling: state of play and some new directions.

    Mark Trimmer;Jonathan Grey;Catherine M. Heppell;Alan G. Hildrew

  • Five years of experimental warming increases the biodiversity and productivity of phytoplankton

    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Andrew P. Allen;Maria Cellamare;Matteo Dossena

  • Production of nitrogen gas via anammox and denitrification in intact sediment cores along a continental shelf to slope transect in the North Atlantic

    Mark Trimmer;Joanna Claire Nicholls

  • Nitrogen fluxes through the lower estuary of the river Great Ouse, England: the role of the bottom sediments

    Nedwell Db;Trimmer M

  • Nitrogen fluxes through the lower estuary of the river Great Ouse, England: The role of the bottom sediments

    M. Trimmer;D.B. Nedwell;D.B. Sivyer;S.J. Malcolm

  • Genome size and ploidy influence angiosperm species' biomass under nitrogen and phosphorus limitation

    Maïté S. Guignard;Maïté S. Guignard;Richard A. Nichols;Robert J. Knell;Andy Macdonald

  • Nutrient dynamics in relation to surface-subsurface hydrological exchange in a groundwater fed chalk stream

    J.L. Pretty;A.G. Hildrew;M. Trimmer

  • Consistent temperature dependence of respiration across ecosystems contrasting in thermal history

    Daniel M. Perkins;Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Benoît O.L. Demars;Julia Reiss;Julia Reiss

  • Biphasic Behavior of Anammox Regulated by Nitrite and Nitrate in an Estuarine Sediment

    Mark Trimmer;Joanna C. Nicholls;Nicholas Morley;Christian A. Davies

  • Emission of methane from chalk streams has potential implications for agricultural practices

    I. A. Sanders;C. M. Heppell;J. A. Cotton;G. Wharton

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward Imperial College London
Andrew Binley
Andrew Binley Lancaster University
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher University of Exeter
Hao Zhang
Hao Zhang Lancaster University
Jonathan Grey
Jonathan Grey Lancaster University
Ann Louise Heathwaite
Ann Louise Heathwaite Lancaster University
José M. Montoya
José M. Montoya Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alan G. Hildrew
Alan G. Hildrew Queen Mary University of London
David B. Nedwell
David B. Nedwell University of Essex
Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders National Oceanography Centre

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