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Overview

Meryem Beklioglu is affiliated with Middle East Technical University in Turkey and contributes extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a wide range of subfields including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, and Pollution.

Their work prominently focuses on topics such as Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Recent papers authored by Beklioglu include the following:

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world (2022), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Salinization Increase due to Climate Change Will Have Substantial Negative Effects on Inland Waters: A Call for Multifaceted Research at the Local and Global Scale (2020), published in The Innovation
  • Exposure to a microplastic mixture is altering the life traits and is causing deformities in the non-biting midge Chironomus riparius Meigen (1804) (2020), published in Environmental Pollution
  • Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-based Solutions (2023), published in Hydrobiologia

Beklioglu frequently publishes research in prominent venues including Water, Hydrobiologia, Inland Waters, The Science of The Total Environment, and Freshwater Biology.

  • Water
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Inland Waters
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Freshwater Biology

Their academic collaborations feature coauthors such as Erik Jeppesen, Korhan Özkan, Sandra Brucet, Mariana Meerhoff, and Thomas A. Davidson, with the highest number of joint publications being with Erik Jeppesen.

  • Erik Jeppesen
  • Korhan Özkan
  • Sandra Brucet
  • Mariana Meerhoff
  • Thomas A. Davidson

Best Publications

  • Climate Change Effects on Runoff, Catchment Phosphorus Loading and Lake Ecological State, and Potential Adaptations

    Erik Jeppesen;Brian Kronvang;Mariana Meerhoff;Martin Søndergaard

  • The Role of Water-Level Fluctuations in Shallow Lake Ecosystems - Workshop Conclusions

    Hugo Coops;Meryem Beklioglu;Thomas L. Crisman

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

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

  • Ecological impacts of global warming and water abstraction on lakes and reservoirs due to changes in water level and related changes in salinity

    Erik Jeppesen;Sandra Brucet;Sandra Brucet;Luigi Naselli-Flores;Eva Papastergiadou

  • Climate change effects on nitrogen loading from cultivated catchments in Europe: implications for nitrogen retention, ecological state of lakes and adaptation

    Erik Jeppesen;Brian Kronvang;Jørgen E. Olesen;Joachim Audet

  • Climate change impacts on lakes: an integrated ecological perspective based on a multi-faceted approach, with special focus on shallow lakes

    Erik Jeppesen;Mariana Meerhoff;Thomas A. Davidson;Dennis Trolle

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

    Daniel Hering;Laurence Carvalho;Christine Argillier;Meryem Beklioglu

  • Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world.

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  • State of the art in the functioning of shallow Mediterranean lakes: workshop conclusions

    Meryem Beklioglu;Susana Romo;Ifigenia Kagalou;Xavier Quintana

  • Environmental Warming in Shallow Lakes: A Review of Potential Changes in Community Structure as Evidenced from Space-for-Time Substitution Approaches

    Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Franco Teixeira-de Mello;Carla Kruk;Cecilia Alonso

  • Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins

    Evanthia Mantzouki;Miquel Lürling;Jutta Fastner;Lisette de Senerpont Domis

  • Comparison of the treatment performances of blast furnace slag-based and gravel-based vertical flow wetlands operated identically for domestic wastewater treatment in Turkey

    E. Asuman Korkusuz;Meryem Beklioğlu;Göksel N. Demirer

  • Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer

    Daphne Donis;Evanthia Mantzouki;Daniel F. McGinnis;Dominic Vachon;Dominic Vachon

  • Water level control over submerged macrophyte development in five shallow lakes of Mediterranean Turkey

    Meryem Beklioglu;Gürol Altinayar;Can O. Tan

  • Salinization Increase due to Climate Change Will Have Substantial Negative Effects on Inland Waters: A Call for Multifaceted Research at the Local and Global Scale

    Erik Jeppesen;Meryem Beklioğlu;Korhan Özkan;Zuhal Akyürek

  • Restoration of the eutrophic Lake Eymir, Turkey, by biomanipulation after a major external nutrient control I

    M. Beklioglu;O. Ince;I. Tuzun

  • Climate change and the future of freshwater biodiversity in Europe: a primer for policy-makers

    Brian Moss;Daniel Hering;Andy J. Green;Ahmed Aidoud

  • Modeling the effects of climatic and land use changes on phytoplankton and water quality of the largest Turkish freshwater lake: Lake Beyşehir.

    Tuba Bucak;Dennis Trolle;Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu;A. İdil Çakıroğlu

  • Drought-induced changes in nutrient concentrations and retention in two shallow Mediterranean lakes subjected to different degrees of management

    Arda Özen;Burcu Karapınar;İsmail Kucuk;Erik Jeppesen

  • Use of blast furnace granulated slag as a substrate in vertical flow reed beds: Field application

    E. Asuman Korkusuz;Meryem Beklioğlu;Göksel N. Demirer

  • Mesocosm experiments on the interaction of sediment influence, fish predation and aquatic plants with the structure of phytoplankton and zooplankton communities

    Meryem Beklioglu;Meryem Beklioglu;Brian Moss

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Martin Søndergaard
Martin Søndergaard Aarhus University
Sandra Brucet
Sandra Brucet Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Brian Moss
Brian Moss University of Liverpool
Mariana Meerhoff
Mariana Meerhoff University of the Republic
Torben L. Lauridsen
Torben L. Lauridsen Aarhus University
Thomas A. Davidson
Thomas A. Davidson Aarhus University
Laurence Carvalho
Laurence Carvalho Natural Environment Research Council
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Josef Hejzlar
Josef Hejzlar Czech Academy of Sciences

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