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Paul J. Blanchfield

Paul J. Blanchfield

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
6616
World Ranking
7044
National Ranking
442

Overview

Paul J. Blanchfield is affiliated with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in ecology and its subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, aquatic science, and global and planetary change.

The main topics covered in their work include fish ecology and management studies, isotope analysis in ecology, fish biology and ecology studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, marine animal studies overview, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, and mercury impact and mitigation studies.

Blanchfield has contributed to multiple research papers in notable publication venues. Among the frequent venues of publication are the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Environmental Evidence, Journal of Fish Biology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations," 2021, Nature
  • "Winter in water: differential responses and the maintenance of biodiversity," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "Thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes," 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • "A New Thermal Categorization of Ice-Covered Lakes," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Using untapped telemetry data to explore the winter biology of freshwater fish," 2021, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Blanchfield include:

  • Matthew M. Guzzo
  • Bailey C. McMeans
  • Lee E. Hrenchuk
  • Michael D. Rennie
  • Mark S. Ridgway

Best Publications

  • Collapse of a fish population after exposure to a synthetic estrogen

    Karen A. Kidd;Paul J. Blanchfield;Kenneth H. Mills;Vince P. Palace

  • Whole-ecosystem study shows rapid fish-mercury response to changes in mercury deposition

    Reed C. Harris;John W. M. Rudd;Marc Amyot;Christopher L. Babiarz

  • Direct and indirect responses of a freshwater food web to a potent synthetic oestrogen

    Karen A. Kidd;Michael J. Paterson;Michael D. Rennie;Cheryl L. Podemski

  • Behavioral responses to annual temperature variation alter the dominant energy pathway, growth, and condition of a cold-water predator

    Matthew M. Guzzo;Paul J. Blanchfield;Paul J. Blanchfield;Michael D. Rennie;Michael D. Rennie;Michael D. Rennie

  • Experimental evidence of a linear relationship between inorganic mercury loading and methylmercury accumulation by aquatic biota.

    Diane M. Orihel;Michael J. Paterson;Paul J. Blanchfield;R. A. Bodaly

  • Performance of temperature and dissolved oxygen criteria to predict habitat use by lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)This paper is part of the series “Forty Years of Aquatic Research at the Experimental Lakes Area”.

    John M. PlumbJ.M. Plumb;John M. PlumbJ.M. Plumb;Paul J. BlanchfieldP.J. Blanchfield;Paul J. BlanchfieldP.J. Blanchfield

  • Reproductive timing and use of redd sites by lake-spawning brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)

    Paul J. Blanchfield;Mark S. Ridgway

  • Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations

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  • Evaluation of Nonlethal Methods for the Analysis of Mercury in Fish Tissue

    R. F. Baker;P. J. Blanchfield;M. J. Paterson;R. J. Flett

  • Winter in water: differential responses and the maintenance of biodiversity

    Bailey C. McMeans;Kevin S. McCann;Matthew M. Guzzo;Timothy J. Bartley;Timothy J. Bartley

  • Elimination of mercury by yellow perch in the wild.

    Jillian L. A. Van Walleghem;Paul J. Blanchfield;Holger Hintelmann

  • Thermal stratification and fish thermal preference explain vertical eDNA distributions in lakes.

    Joanne E Littlefair;Lee E Hrenchuk;Paul J Blanchfield;Paul J Blanchfield;Michael D Rennie;Michael D Rennie

  • Effect of loading rate on the fate of mercury in littoral mesocosms.

    Diane M. Orihel;Michael J. Paterson;Cynthia C. Gilmour;R. A. Bodaly

  • Seasonal habitat selection by lake trout ( Salvelinus namaycush ) in a small Canadian shield lake: constraints imposed by winter conditions

    Paul J. Blanchfield;Lori S. Tate;John M. Plumb;Marie-Laure Acolas

  • Interspecies differences in biochemical, histopathological, and population responses in four wild fish species exposed to ethynylestradiol added to a whole lake

    V. P. Palace;V. P. Palace;R. E. Evans;R. E. Evans;K. G. Wautier;K. G. Wautier;K. H. Mills;K. H. Mills

  • Biochemical and histopathological effects in pearl dace (Margariscus Margarita) chronically exposed to a synthetic estrogen in a whole lake experiment

    Vince P. Palace;Kerry G. Wautier;Robert E. Evans;Paul J. Blanchfield

  • Breeding success of male brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in the wild

    Paul J. Blanchfield;Mark S. Ridgway;Chris C. Wilson

  • The cost of peripheral males in a brook trout mating system

    Paul J. Blanchfield;Paul J. Blanchfield;Mark S. Ridgway

  • Climate change alters the quantity and phenology of habitat for lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in small Boreal Shield lakes

    Matthew M. Guzzo;Paul J. Blanchfield;Paul J. Blanchfield

  • Waterborne 17α-Ethynylestradiol Affects Aggressive Behaviour of Male Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) under Artificial Spawning Conditions

    Andrew R. Majewski;Paul J. Blanchfield;Vince P. Palace;Vince P. Palace;Kerry Wautier

  • Resource partitioning among top-level piscivores in a sub-Arctic lake during thermal stratification

    Matthew M. Guzzo;Paul J. Blanchfield;Paul J. Blanchfield;Andrew J. Chapelsky;Peter A. Cott

  • Bioaccumulation of newly deposited mercury by fish and invertebrates: an enclosure study using stable mercury isotopes

    Michael J. Paterson;Paul J. Blanchfield;Cheryl Podemski;Holger H. Hintelmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Paterson
Michael J. Paterson International Institute for Sustainable Development
Karen A. Kidd
Karen A. Kidd McMaster University
Holger Hintelmann
Holger Hintelmann Trent University
Brian J. Shuter
Brian J. Shuter University of Toronto
Mark S. Ridgway
Mark S. Ridgway Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Bailey C. McMeans
Bailey C. McMeans University of Toronto
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Cynthia C. Gilmour
Cynthia C. Gilmour Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Donald C. Pierson
Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University

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