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Neal Michelutti

Neal Michelutti

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
5739
World Ranking
8868
National Ranking
413

Overview

Neal Michelutti is affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and has a research focus primarily spanning Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work is distributed across key subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Oceanography.

The main topics addressed in Michelutti's research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Climate change and permafrost

Michelutti has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, with frequent publication venues as follows:

  • Journal of Paleolimnology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Journal of Phycology
  • Botany

Their recent papers include:

  • "Long-Term Changes in Terrestrial Vegetation Linked to Shifts in a Colonial Seabird Population" (2020) published in Ecosystems
  • "Striking centennial-scale changes in the population size of a threatened seabird" (2020) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Reconstructing Long-Term Changes in Avian Populations Using Lake Sediments: Opening a Window Onto the Past" (2021) published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Linking 19th century European settlement to the disruption of a seabird's natural population dynamics" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Contrasting the ecological effects of decreasing ice cover versus accelerated glacial melt on the High Arctic's largest lake" (2020) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Michelutti frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common coauthors include:

  • John P. Smol
  • Christopher Grooms
  • Jules M. Blais
  • Matthew P. Duda
  • Carsten Meyer-Jacob

Best Publications

  • Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes

    John P. Smol;Alexander P. Wolfe;H. John B. Birks;Marianne S. V. Douglas

  • Mountain lakes: Eyes on global environmental change

    K. A. Moser;J. S. Baron;J. Brahney;I. A. Oleksy

  • Do spectrally inferred determinations of chlorophyll a reflect trends in lake trophic status

    Neal Michelutti;Jules M. Blais;Brian F. Cumming;Andrew M. Paterson

  • Recent primary production increases in arctic lakes

    Neal Michelutti;Alexander P. Wolfe;Rolf D. Vinebrooke;Benoit Rivard

  • Experimental calibration of lake-sediment spectral reflectance to chlorophyll a concentrations: methodology and paleolimnological validation

    Alexander P. Wolfe;Rolf D. Vinebrooke;Neal Michelutti;Benoit Rivard

  • The world’s largest High Arctic lake responds rapidly to climate warming

    Igor Lehnherr;Vincent L. St. Louis;Martin Sharp;Alex S. Gardner

  • The browning and re-browning of lakes: Divergent lake-water organic carbon trends linked to acid deposition and climate change

    Carsten Meyer-Jacob;Neal Michelutti;Andrew M Paterson;Brian F Cumming

  • Climate change forces new ecological states in tropical Andean lakes.

    Neal Michelutti;Alexander P. Wolfe;Colin A. Cooke;William O. Hobbs

  • Seabird-driven shifts in Arctic pond ecosystems

    Neal Michelutti;Bronwyn E Keatley;Samantha Brimble;Jules M Blais

  • Visible spectroscopy reliably tracks trends in paleo-production

    Neal Michelutti;John P. Smol

  • PERIPHYTIC DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES FROM ULTRA‐OLIGOTROPHIC AND UV TRANSPARENT LAKES AND PONDS ON VICTORIA ISLAND AND COMPARISONS WITH OTHER DIATOM SURVEYS IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC1

    Neal Michelutti;Anita J. Holtham;Marianne S. V. Douglas;John P. Smol

  • Diatom response to recent climatic change in a high arctic lake (Char Lake, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut)

    Neal Michelutti;Marianne S.V. Douglas;John P. Smol

  • A multi-proxy lacustrine record of Holocene climate change on northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

    Jason P. Briner;Neal Michelutti;Donna R. Francis;Gifford H. Miller

  • Trophic position influences the efficacy of seabirds as metal biovectors

    Neal Michelutti;Jules M. Blais;Mark L. Mallory;Jaclyn Brash

  • Historical pesticide applications coincided with an altered diet of aerially foraging insectivorous chimney swifts

    Joseph J. Nocera;Jules M. Blais;David V. Beresford;Leah K. Finity

  • Global warming triggers the loss of a key Arctic refugium

    K. M. Rühland;A. M. Paterson;W. Keller;N. Michelutti

  • Ice-cover is the principal driver of ecological change in High Arctic lakes and ponds.

    Katherine Griffiths;Neal Michelutti;Madeline Sugar;Marianne S V Douglas

  • Recent changes in a remote Arctic lake are unique within the past 200,000 years.

    Yarrow Axford;Jason P. Briner;Colin A. Cooke;Donna R. Francis

  • Biogenic silica concentration as a high‐resolution, quantitative temperature proxy at Hallet Lake, south‐central Alaska

    Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Neal Michelutti

  • Physical and chemical limnology of 34 ultra-oligotrophic lakes and ponds near Wynniatt Bay, Victoria Island, Arctic Canada

    Neal Michelutti;Marianne S.V. Douglas;David R.S. Lean;John P. Smol

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Marianne S. V. Douglas
Marianne S. V. Douglas Queen's University
Jules M. Blais
Jules M. Blais University of Ottawa
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta
Mark L. Mallory
Mark L. Mallory Acadia University
Jason P. Briner
Jason P. Briner University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Andrew M. Paterson
Andrew M. Paterson Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Gregory J. Robertson
Gregory J. Robertson Environment and Climate Change Canada
Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada

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