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Michael J. Behrenfeld

Michael J. Behrenfeld

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
72
Citations
36802
World Ranking
1214
National Ranking
451

Best Publications

  • Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic Components

    Christopher B. Field;Michael J. Behrenfeld;James T. Randerson;Paul Falkowski

  • Photosynthetic rates derived from satellite‐based chlorophyll concentration

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Paul G. Falkowski

  • Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Robert T. O'Malley;David A. Siegel;Charles R. McClain

  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

    Ricardo Cavicchioli;William J. Ripple;Kenneth N. Timmis;Farooq Azam

  • Carbon-based ocean productivity and phytoplankton physiology from space

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Michael J. Behrenfeld;Emmanuel Boss;David A. Siegel;Donald M. Shea

  • A consumer's guide to phytoplankton primary productivity models

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Paul G. Falkowski

  • A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color

    Mary-Elena Carr;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie Schmeltz;Maki Noguchi Aita

  • Carbon-based primary productivity modeling with vertically resolved photoacclimation

    T. Westberry;M. J. Behrenfeld;D. A. Siegel;Emmanuel Boss

  • Abandoning Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis on phytoplankton blooms

    Michael J. Behrenfeld

  • Biospheric Primary Production During an ENSO Transition

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;James T. Randerson;Charles R. McClain;Gene C. Feldman

  • Confirmation of iron limitation of phytoplankton photosynthesis in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Anthony J. Bale;Zbigniew S. Kolber;James Aiken

  • Global assessment of ocean carbon export by combining satellite observations and food‐web models

    David A. Siegel;Ken O. Buesseler;Scott C. Doney;Sevrine F. Sailley

  • Seasonal rhythms of net primary production and particulate organic carbon flux to depth describe the efficiency of biological pump in the global ocean

    Michael J. Lutz;Ken Caldeira;Robert B. Dunbar;Michael J. Behrenfeld

  • Resurrecting the Ecological Underpinnings of Ocean Plankton Blooms

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Emmanuel S. Boss

  • Satellite-detected fluorescence reveals global physiology of ocean phytoplankton

    M. J. Behrenfeld;T. K. Westberry;Emmanuel Boss;R. T. O'Malley

  • Revaluating ocean warming impacts on global phytoplankton

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Robert T. O’Malley;Emmanuel S. Boss;Toby K. Westberry

  • The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem Mission: Status, Science, Advances

    P. Jeremy Werdell;Michael J. Behrenfeld;Paula S. Bontempi;Emmanuel Boss

  • Regional variations in the influence of mesoscale eddies on near‐surface chlorophyll

    Peter Gaube;Dennis J. McGillicuddy;Dudley B. Chelton;Michael J. Behrenfeld

  • Widespread iron limitation of phytoplankton in the south pacific ocean

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  • Satellite observations of chlorophyll, phytoplankton biomass, and Ekman pumping in nonlinear mesoscale eddies

    Peter Gaube;Peter Gaube;Dudley B. Chelton;Peter G. Strutton;Michael J. Behrenfeld

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