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Overview

Néstor Mazzeo is affiliated with Grupo México in Mexico and specializes in Environmental Science, focusing particularly on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their research contributions span various interconnected subfields that emphasize aquatic and environmental processes.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Mazzeo has published frequently in several academic venues. Key publication outlets include Hydrobiologia, Ecology and Society, Cuadernos del CLAEH, Inland Waters, and Iberoamericana - Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Selected recent papers by Néstor Mazzeo include:

  • Feedback between climate change and eutrophication: revisiting the allied attack concept and how to strike back, 2022, Inland Waters
  • Land use planning in the Amazon basin: challenges from resilience thinking, 2020, Ecology and Society
  • How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America, 2022, Ecology and Society
  • Experimentation in the Design of Public Policies: The Uruguayan Soils Conservation Plans, 2020, Iberoamericana - Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  • Influence of Farming Intensity and Climate on Lowland Stream Nitrogen, 2020, Water

Frequent collaborators in their research include Cristina Zurbriggen, Mariana Meerhoff, Erik Jeppesen, Ismael Díaz, and Franco Teixeira de Mello. These partnerships have contributed to a range of studies across their fields of interest.

Best Publications

  • Warmer climates boost cyanobacterial dominance in shallow lakes

    Sarian Kosten;Sarian Kosten;Vera L. M. Huszar;Eloy Bécares;Luciana S. Costa

  • Allied attack: climate change and eutrophication

    B. Moss;S. Kosten;M. Meerhoff;R.W. Battarbee

  • Impacts of climate warming on lake fish community structure and potential effects on ecosystem function

    Erik Jeppesen;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Kerstin Holmgren;Ivan González-Bergonzoni

  • Restoration of shallow lakes by nutrient control and biomanipulation—the successful strategy varies with lake size and climate

    E. Jeppesen;M. Meerhoff;B. A. Jacobsen;R. S. Hansen

  • The structuring role of free-floating versus submerged plants in a subtropical shallow lake

    Mariana Meerhoff;Néstor Mazzeo;Brian Moss;Lorena Rodríguez-Gallego

  • Biomanipulation as a restoration tool to combat eutrophication : recent advances and future challenges

    Erik Jeppesen;Martin Søndergaard;Torben Linding Lauridsen;Thomas A. Davidson

  • Classification schemes for phytoplankton: a local validation of a functional approach to the analysis of species temporal replacement

    C. Kruk;N. Mazzeo;G. Lacerot;C. S. Reynolds

  • Environmental Warming in Shallow Lakes: A Review of Potential Changes in Community Structure as Evidenced from Space-for-Time Substitution Approaches

    Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Franco Teixeira-de Mello;Carla Kruk;Cecilia Alonso

  • Climate-dependent CO2 emissions from lakes.

    Sarian Kosten;Fábio Roland;David M. L. Da Motta Marques;Egbert H. Van Nes

  • High predation is of key importance for dominance of small-bodied zooplankton in warm shallow lakes: evidence from lakes, fish exclosures and surface sediments

    Carlos Iglesias;Carlos Iglesias;Néstor Mazzeo;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Gissell Lacerot

  • An experimental study of habitat choice by Daphnia: plants signal danger more than refuge in subtropical lakes

    Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Claudia Fosalba;Carla Bruzzone;Néstor Mazzeo

  • Feedback between climate change and eutrophication: revisiting the allied attack concept and how to strike back

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  • Climate-related differences in the dominance of submerged macrophytes in shallow lakes

    Sarian Kosten;Amy Kamarainen;Erik Jeppesen;Egbert H. Van Nes

  • Effects of Egeria densa Planch. beds on a shallow lake without piscivorous fish

    Mariana Meerhoff;Gissell Lacerot;Federico Quintans;Marcelo Loureiro

  • Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in lake sediments: can they be used as temperature and pH proxies?

    Cornelia I. Blaga;Gert-Jan Reichart;Stefan Schouten;André F. Lotter

  • Lake and watershed characteristics rather than climate influence nutrient limitation in shallow lakes

    Sarian Kosten;Vera L. M. Huszar;Néstor Mazzeo;Marten Scheffer

  • Determinants of biodiversity in subtropical shallow lakes (Atlantic coast, Uruguay)

    Carla Kruk;Carla Kruk;Lorena Rodríguez-gallego;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Federico Quintans

  • Horizontal dynamics of zooplankton in subtropical Lake Blanca (Uruguay) hosting multiple zooplankton predators and aquatic plant refuges

    Carlos Iglesias;Guillermo Goyenola;Nestor Mazzeo;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff

  • Limnological changes in a sub‐tropical shallow hypertrophic lake during its restoration: two years of a whole‐lake experiment

    F. Scasso;N. Mazzeo;J. Gorga;C. Kruk

  • Effects of Submerged Vegetation on Water Clarity Across Climates

    Sarian Kosten;Gissell Lacerot;Gissell Lacerot;Erik Jeppesen;David da Motta Marques

  • Biological control of phytoplankton by the subtropical submerged macrophytes Egeria densa and Potamogeton illinoensis: a mesocosm study

    Maarten Vanderstukken;Néstor Mazzeo;Willem Van Colen;Steven A. J. Declerck

  • Field and experimental evidence of the effect of Jenynsia multidentata, a small omnivorous–planktivorous fish, on the size distribution of zooplankton in subtropical lakes

    Carlos Iglesias;Néstor Mazzeo;Guillermo Goyenola;Claudia Fosalba

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariana Meerhoff
Mariana Meerhoff University of the Republic
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Sarian Kosten
Sarian Kosten Radboud University
Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
Vera L. M. Huszar
Vera L. M. Huszar Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Torben L. Lauridsen
Torben L. Lauridsen Aarhus University
Martin Søndergaard
Martin Søndergaard Aarhus University
Zhengwen Liu
Zhengwen Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Egbert H. van Nes
Egbert H. van Nes Wageningen University & Research
Brian Kronvang
Brian Kronvang Aarhus University

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