Michael J. Behrenfeld

Michael J. Behrenfeld publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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Michael J. Behrenfeld D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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Best Publications

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

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

  7543
  Citations

• Photosynthetic rates derived from satellite‐based chlorophyll concentration

  Michael J. Behrenfeld;Paul G. Falkowski

  3483
  Citations

• Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity

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

  2868
  Citations

• Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Microorganisms and Climate Change

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

  1980
  Citations

• Carbon-based ocean productivity and phytoplankton physiology from space

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

  1303
  Citations

• A consumer's guide to phytoplankton primary productivity models

  Michael J. Behrenfeld;Paul G. Falkowski

  967
  Citations

• 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

  819
  Citations

• Carbon-based primary productivity modeling with vertically resolved photoacclimation

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

  805
  Citations

• Abandoning Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis on phytoplankton blooms

  Michael J. Behrenfeld

  794
  Citations

• Biospheric Primary Production During an ENSO Transition

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

  782
  Citations

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

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

  653
  Citations

• 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

  584
  Citations

• 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

  542
  Citations

• Resurrecting the Ecological Underpinnings of Ocean Plankton Blooms

  Michael J. Behrenfeld;Emmanuel S. Boss

  470
  Citations

• Satellite-detected fluorescence reveals global physiology of ocean phytoplankton

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

  411
  Citations

• Revaluating ocean warming impacts on global phytoplankton

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

  400
  Citations

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

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

  395
  Citations

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

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

  383
  Citations

• Widespread iron limitation of phytoplankton in the south pacific ocean

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  383
  Citations

• 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

  334
  Citations