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Ecology and Evolution
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2025

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
102
Citations
41525
World Ranking
252
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award

Overview

Michael L. Pace is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and environmental chemistry.

Their research topics cover various aspects of aquatic and marine ecosystems, including fish ecology and management studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal plant biology, isotope analysis in ecology, and marine and fisheries research.

Michael L. Pace has published in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Limnology and Oceanography, Estuaries and Coasts, Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, and Ecosystems. These venues reflect a focus on aquatic sciences and ecological research.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Freshwater salinization syndrome: from emerging global problem to managing risks, 2021, Biogeochemistry
  • No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Increasing heatwave frequency in streams and rivers of the United States, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Co-occurrence of Aquatic Heatwaves with Atmospheric Heatwaves, Low Dissolved Oxygen, and Low pH Events in Estuarine Ecosystems, 2021, Estuaries and Coasts
  • Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Jonathan A. Walter, Cal D. Buelo, Grace M. Wilkinson, Alice F. Besterman, and Spencer J. Tassone. These collaborations illustrate an interdisciplinary approach within aquatic and environmental science research communities.

Best Publications

  • Bacterial production in fresh and saltwater ecosystems: a cross-system overview

    JJ Cole;S. Findlay;ML Pace

  • Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems.

    Michael L. Pace;Jonathan J. Cole;Stephen R. Carpenter;James F. Kitchell

  • Methane emissions from lakes: Dependence of lake characteristics, two regional assessments, and a global estimate

    David Bastviken;Jonathan Cole;Michael Pace;Lars Tranvik

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Understanding the long-term effects of species invasions.

    David L. Strayer;Valerie T. Eviner;Jonathan M. Jeschke;Jonathan M. Jeschke;Michael L. Pace

  • Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

    S. R. Carpenter;J. J. Cole;M. L. Pace;R. Batt

  • The production of dissolved organic matter by phytoplankton and its importance to bacteria : patterns across marine and freshwater systems

    Stephen B. Baines;Michael L. Pace

  • Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes

    David M. Post;Michael L. Pace;Nelson G. Hairston

  • Ecology for a Crowded Planet

    Margaret Palmer;Emily S. Bernhardt;Elizabeth A. Chornesky;Scott L. Collins

  • Rising stream and river temperatures in the United States

    Sujay S Kaushal;Gene E Likens;Norbert A Jaworski;Michael L Pace;Michael L Pace

  • TROPHIC CASCADES, NUTRIENTS, AND LAKE PRODUCTIVITY: WHOLE‐LAKE EXPERIMENTS

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Jonathan J. Cole;James R. Hodgson;James F. Kitchell

  • Transformation of Freshwater Ecosystems by Bivalves A case study of zebra mussels in the Hudson River

    David L. Strayer;Nina F. Caraco;Jonathan J. Cole;Stuart Findlay

  • Fates of methane from different lake habitats: Connecting whole‐lake budgets and CH4 emissions

    David Bastviken;Jonathan J. Cole;Michael L. Pace;Matthew C. Van de Bogert

  • Transformation of Freshwater Ecosystems by Bivalves

    David L. Strayer;Nina F. Caraco;Jonathan J. Cole;Stuart Findlay

  • Whole-lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs

    Michael L. Pace;Jonathan J. Cole;Stephen R. Carpenter;James F. Kitchell

  • Persistence of net heterotrophy in lakes during nutrient addition and food web manipulations

    Jonathan J. Cole;Michael L. Pace;Stephen R. Carpenter;James F. Kitchell

  • Freshwater salinization syndrome on a continental scale.

    Sujay S Kaushal;Gene E Likens;Michael L Pace;Ryan M Utz

  • ZEBRA MUSSEL INVASION IN A LARGE, TURBID RIVER: PHYTOPLANKTON RESPONSE TO INCREASED GRAZING

    Nina F. Caraco;Jonathan J. Cole;Peter A. Raymond;David L. Strayer

  • The relative importance of protozoans, rotifers, and crustaceans in a freshwater zooplankton community1

    Michael L. Pace;John D. Orcutt

  • Dissolved organic carbon and nutrients as regulators of lake ecosystems: Resurrection of a more integrated paradigm

    Craig E. Williamson;Donald P. Morris;Michael L. Pace;Olaf G. Olson

  • Primary production, new production and vertical flux in the eastern Pacific Ocean

    Michael L. Pace;George A. Knauer;David M. Karl;John H. Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan J. Cole
Jonathan J. Cole New York Botanical Garden
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stuart E. G. Findlay
Stuart E. G. Findlay Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
James F. Kitchell
James F. Kitchell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gene E. Likens
Gene E. Likens University of Connecticut
David L. Strayer
David L. Strayer University of Utah
Nina F. Caraco
Nina F. Caraco New York Botanical Garden
Sujay S. Kaushal
Sujay S. Kaushal University of Maryland, College Park
Brian C. Weidel
Brian C. Weidel United States Geological Survey
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York

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