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78
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22897
World Ranking
919
National Ranking
55

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Paul A. del Giorgio is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research spans a broad range of topics within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem interactions.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Paired O2-CO2 measurements provide emergent insights into aquatic ecosystem function, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Terrestrial connectivity, upstream aquatic history and seasonality shape bacterial community assembly within a large boreal aquatic network, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange, 2023, Nature Communications
  • A new modelling framework to assess biogenic GHG emissions from reservoirs: The G-res tool, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Carbon Dioxide and Methane Dynamics in a Peatland Headwater Stream: Origins, Processes and Implications, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Jean-François Lapierre
  • Yves T. Prairie
  • Caroline Fink-Mercier
  • Pascal Bodmer
  • Marc Amyot

Their work is published often in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Ecosystems
  • Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
  • Water Research

Main fields of study covered by this researcher include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these disciplines, their subfields of interest are:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Their main research topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Paul A. del Giorgio was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 for contributions related to the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • BACTERIAL GROWTH EFFICIENCY IN NATURAL AQUATIC SYSTEMS

    Paul A. del Giorgio;Jonathan J. Cole

  • Methane fluxes show consistent temperature dependence across microbial to ecosystem scales

    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Andrew P. Allen;David Bastviken;Ralf Conrad

  • Using flow cytometry for counting natural planktonic bacteria and understanding the structure of planktonic bacterial communities

    Josep M. Gasol;Paul A. Del Giorgio

  • Carbon emission from hydroelectric reservoirs linked to reservoir age and latitude

    Nathan Barros;Jonathan J. Cole;Lars J. Tranvik;Yves T. Prairie

  • Respiration rates in bacteria exceed phytoplankton production in unproductive aquatic systems

    Paul A. del Giorgio;Jonathan J. Cole;André Cimbleris

  • Respiration in the open ocean

    Paul A. del Giorgio;Carlos M. Duarte

  • Reconciling the temperature dependence of respiration across timescales and ecosystem types

    Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Jane M. Caffrey;Alessandro Cescatti;Matteo Dossena

  • Patterns in planktonic P:R ratios in lakes: Influence of lake trophy and dissolved organic carbon

    Paul A. del Giorgio;Robert H. Peters

  • Compositional changes in free-living bacterial communities along a salinity gradient in two temperate estuaries

    Thierry C. Bouvier;Paul A. del Giorgio

  • Biomass distribution in marine planktonic communities

    Josep M. Gasol;Paul A. del Giorgio;Carlos M. Duarte

  • What’s in an EEM? Molecular Signatures Associated with Dissolved Organic Fluorescence in Boreal Canada

    A. Stubbins;J.-F. Lapierre;M. Berggren;M. Berggren;Y. T. Prairie

  • Flow cytometric determination of bacterial abundance in lake plankton with the green nucleic acid stain SYTO 13

    Paul A. del Giorgio;David F. Bird;Yves T. Prairie;Dolors Planas

  • Increases in terrestrially derived carbon stimulate organic carbon processing and CO2 emissions in boreal aquatic ecosystems

    Jean-François Lapierre;François Guillemette;François Guillemette;Martin Berggren;Martin Berggren;Paul A. del Giorgio

  • LINKING PLANKTONIC BIOMASS AND METABOLISM TO NET GAS FLUXES IN NORTHERN TEMPERATE LAKES

    Paul A. Del Giorgio;Jonathan J. Cole;Nina F. Caraco;Robert H. Peters

  • Toward a standard method of measuring color in freshwater

    Iain D. Cuthbert;Paul del Giorgio

  • Oxic water column methanogenesis as a major component of aquatic CH4 fluxes.

    Matthew J Bogard;Paul A del Giorgio;Lennie Boutet;Maria Carolina Garcia Chaves

  • Terrestrial origin of bacterial communities in complex boreal freshwater networks

    Clara Ruiz-González;Juan Pablo Niño-García;Juan Pablo Niño-García;Paul A. del Giorgio

  • Factors influencing the detection of bacterial cells using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH): A quantitative review of published reports

    Thierry Bouvier;Paul A Del Giorgio

  • Methane ebullition and diffusion from northern ponds and lakes regulated by the interaction between temperature and system productivity

    Tonya DelSontro;Lennie Boutet;Annick St-Pierre;Paul A. del Giorgio

  • Bacterioplankton community structure: Protists control net production and the proportion of active bacteria in a coastal marine community

    Paul A. del Giorgio;Josep M. Gasol;Dolors Vaqué;Paola Mura

  • Jellyfish blooms result in a major microbial respiratory sink of carbon in marine systems.

    Robert H. Condon;Deborah K. Steinberg;Paul A. del Giorgio;Thierry C. Bouvier

  • A comparative study of the cytometric characteristics of high and low nucleic-acid bacterioplankton cells from different aquatic ecosystems.

    Thierry Bouvier;Paul A. Del Giorgio;Josep M. Gasol

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves T. Prairie
Yves T. Prairie University of Quebec at Montreal
Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Beatrix E. Beisner
Beatrix E. Beisner University of Quebec at Montreal
Jonathan J. Cole
Jonathan J. Cole New York Botanical Garden
Alain Tremblay
Alain Tremblay University of Quebec at Montreal
Nigel T. Roulet
Nigel T. Roulet McGill University
Michael L. Pace
Michael L. Pace University of Virginia
David L. Kirchman
David L. Kirchman University of Delaware
Robert H. Peters
Robert H. Peters McGill University
Jan Karlsson
Jan Karlsson Umeå University

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