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Overview

Michael T. Arts is affiliated with Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Ecology, Aquatic Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work encompasses various main topics including Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

Michael T. Arts has authored recent papers covering diverse aspects of aquatic and environmental science. Highlights include:

  • Omega-3 PUFA profoundly affect neural, physiological, and behavioural competences - implications for systemic changes in trophic interactions, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Discrimination between freshwater and marine fish using fatty acids: ecological implications and future perspectives, 2020, Environmental Reviews
  • Peak Abundance of Fatty Acids From Intertidal Biofilm in Relation to the Breeding Migration of Shorebirds, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Schizochytrium sp. (T18) Oil as a Fish Oil Replacement in Diets for Juvenile Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): Effects on Growth Performance, Tissue Fatty Acid Content, and Lipid-Related Transcript Expression, 2021, Animals
  • Trophic ecology of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) across different salinity habitats inferred from fatty acid and stable isotope analysis, 2021, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as the Journal of Great Lakes Research, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Oecologia, Limnology and Oceanography, and Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Collaborations are a notable part of their research, working often with coauthors including Camilla Parzanini, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Janet Koprivnikar, Howard I. Browman, and Caroline Durif.

Best Publications

  • "Essential fatty acids" in aquatic ecosystems: a crucial link between diet and human health and evolution

    Michael T Arts;Robert G Ackman;Bruce J Holub

  • Lipids in aquatic ecosystems

    Michael Theodore Arts;Michael T Brett;Martin J. Kainz

  • Essential fatty acids in the planktonic food web and their ecological role for higher trophic levels

    Martin Kainz;Michael T. Arts;Asit Mazumder

  • Health and condition in fish: the influence of lipids on membrane competency and immune response

    Michael T. Arts;Christopher C. Kohler

  • Climate warming is predicted to reduce omega-3, long-chain, polyunsaturated fatty acid production in phytoplankton.

    Stefanie M. Hixson;Michael T. Arts

  • Lipids in freshwater ecosystems

    Michael Theodore Arts;Bruce C Wainman

  • Production, distribution, and abundance of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: a fundamental dichotomy between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems

    Stefanie M. Hixson;Bhanu Sharma;Martin J. Kainz;Alexander Wacker

  • Preliminary estimates of the export of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (EPA+DHA) from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems

    M.I. Gladyshev;M.T. Arts;N.N. Sushchik

  • The attenuation of ultraviolet radiation in high dissolved organic carbon waters of wetlands and lakes on the northern Great Plains

    Michael T. Arts;Richard D. Robarts;Fumie Kasai;Marley J. Waiser

  • Global change effects on the long‐term feeding ecology and contaminant exposures of East Greenland polar bears

    Melissa A. McKinney;Melissa A. McKinney;Sara J. Iverson;Aaron T. Fisk;Christian Sonne

  • Forests fuel fish growth in freshwater deltas

    Andrew J. Tanentzap;Andrew J. Tanentzap;Erik J. Szkokan-Emilson;Brian W. Kielstra;Michael T. Arts;Michael T. Arts

  • Effect of temperature on the fatty acid composition and temporal trajectories of fatty acids in fasting Daphnia pulex (Crustacea, cladocera)

    Christian Schlechtriem;M. T. Arts;I. D. Zellmer

  • Projected declines in global DHA availability for human consumption as a result of global warming

    Stefanie M. Colombo;Stefanie M. Colombo;Timothy F. M. Rodgers;Miriam L. Diamond;Richard P. Bazinet

  • A fundamental dichotomy in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid abundance between and within marine and terrestrial ecosystems

    Stefanie M. Colombo;Alexander Wacker;Christopher C. Parrish;Martin J. Kainz

  • RESTORING PISCIVOROUS FISH POPULATIONS IN THE LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES CAUSES SEABIRD DIETARY CHANGE

    Craig E. Hebert;D. V. Chip Weseloh;Abde Idrissi;Michael T. Arts

  • Assessing the utility of C:N ratios for predicting lipid content in fishes

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  • Food web structure of a coastal Arctic marine ecosystem and implications for stability

    Bailey C. McMeans;Neil Rooney;Michael T. Arts;Aaron T. Fisk

  • Use of Water Clarity to Monitor the Effects of Climate Change and other Stressors on Oligotrophic Lakes

    John M. Gunn;Ed Snucins;Norman D. Yan;Michael T. Arts

  • Effects of different cooking methods on fatty acid profiles in four freshwater fishes from the Laurentian Great Lakes region.

    Margaret R. Neff;Satyendra P. Bhavsar;Satyendra P. Bhavsar;Eric Braekevelt;Michael T. Arts

  • Spectral gradients of downwelling light in a fluvial lake (Lake Saint-Pierre, St-Lawrence River)

    Jean-Jacques Frenette;Michael T. Arts;Jean Morin

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Robarts
Richard D. Robarts National Water Research Institute
Aaron T. Fisk
Aaron T. Fisk University of Windsor
Martin J. Kainz
Martin J. Kainz Danube University Krems
Craig E. Hebert
Craig E. Hebert Carleton University
Norman D. Yan
Norman D. Yan York University
Bailey C. McMeans
Bailey C. McMeans University of Toronto
Timothy B. Johnson
Timothy B. Johnson Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Satyendra P. Bhavsar
Satyendra P. Bhavsar University of Toronto
Howard I. Browman
Howard I. Browman Norwegian Institute of Marine Research
Michael Power
Michael Power University of Waterloo

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