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D-Index
57
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13844
World Ranking
2680
National Ranking
950

Michael T. Brett publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael T. Brett sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 129 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Michael T. Brett D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael T. Brett sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Michael T. Brett is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Aquatic Science.

The primary focus areas in Brett's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Michael T. Brett include:

  • Preferential retention of algal carbon in benthic invertebrates: Stable isotope and fatty acid evidence from an outdoor flume experiment, 2020, Freshwater Biology
  • The importance of the wind-drag coefficient parameterization for hydrodynamic modeling of a large shallow lake, 2020, Ecological Informatics
  • Basal resources of river food webs largely affect the fatty acid composition of freshwater fish, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Fatty acids as dietary biomarkers in mangrove ecosystems: Current status and future perspective, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Combined effects of eutrophication and warming on polyunsaturated fatty acids in complex phytoplankton communities: A mesocosm experiment, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Brett frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Ecological Informatics
  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Water

Frequent collaborators in Brett's research include Fen Guo, Martin J. Kainz, Stuart E. Bunn, Nadine Ebm, and Brian Fry.

Best Publications

  • The role of highly unsaturated fatty acids in aquatic foodweb processes

    Michael Brett;Dörthe Müller-Navarra

  • A highly unsaturated fatty acid predicts carbon transfer between primary producers and consumers

    Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra;Michael T. Brett;Anne M. Liston;Charles R. Goldman

  • Lipid composition and food quality of some freshwater phytoplankton for cladoceran zooplankters

    Gunnel Ahlgren;Lisa Lundstedt;Michael Brett;Curt Forsberg

  • Diet tracing in ecology: Method comparison and selection

    Jens M. Nielsen;Elizabeth L. Clare;Brian Hayden;Michael T. Brett

  • Lipids in aquatic ecosystems

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

  • Evaluation of the current state of mechanistic aquatic biogeochemical modeling

    George B. Arhonditsis;Michael T. Brett

  • Phytoplankton, not allochthonous carbon, sustains herbivorous zooplankton production

    Michael T. Brett;Martin J. Kainz;Sami J. Taipale;Hari Seshan

  • A meta-analysis of the freshwater trophic cascade.

    Michael T. Brett;Charles R. Goldman

  • How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems

    Michael T. Brett;Stuart E. Bunn;Sudeep Chandra;Aaron W. E. Galloway

  • Consumer Versus Resource Control in Freshwater Pelagic Food Webs

    Michael T. Brett;Charles R. Goldman

  • Unsaturated fatty acid content in seston and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes

    Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra;Michael T. Brett;Sangkyu Park;Sudeep Chandra

  • Fatty acid composition as biomarkers of freshwater microalgae: analysis of 37 strains of microalgae in 22 genera and in seven classes

    Sami Taipale;Ursula Strandberg;Elina Peltomaa;Aaron W. E. Galloway

  • Daphnia fatty acid composition reflects that of their diet

    Michael T. Brett;Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra;Ashley P. Ballantyne;Joseph L. Ravet

  • Eutrophication model for Lake Washington (USA): Part I. Model description and sensitivity analysis

    George B. Arhonditsis;Michael T. Brett

  • Crustacean Zooplankton Fatty Acid Composition

    Michael T. Brett;Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra;Jonas Persson

  • A review and reassessment of lake phosphorus retention and the nutrient loading concept

    Michael T. Brett;Mark M. Benjamin

  • Particulate phosphorus bioavailability as a function of stream flow and land cover.

    Micaela E. Ellison;Michael T. Brett

  • Non-point-source impacts on stream nutrient concentrations along a forest to urban gradient.

    Michael T. Brett;George B. Arhonditsis;Sara E. Mueller;David M. Hartley

  • Empirical analysis of the effect of phosphorus limitation on algal food quality for freshwater zooplankton

    Michael T. Brett;Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra;Park Sang-Kyu

  • Patterns and mechanisms of phytoplankton variability in Lake Washington (USA).

    George B. Arhonditsis;Monika Winder;Michael T. Brett;Daniel E. Schindler

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles R. Goldman
Charles R. Goldman University of California, Davis
Martin J. Kainz
Martin J. Kainz Danube University Krems
George B. Arhonditsis
George B. Arhonditsis University of Toronto
Sami J. Taipale
Sami J. Taipale University of Jyväskylä
Stuart E. Bunn
Stuart E. Bunn Griffith University
Paula Kankaala
Paula Kankaala University of Eastern Finland
Daniel E. Schindler
Daniel E. Schindler University of Washington
James J. Elser
James J. Elser University of Montana
Ashley P. Ballantyne
Ashley P. Ballantyne University of Montana
Jerald L. Schnoor
Jerald L. Schnoor University of Iowa

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