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France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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56
Citations
14918
World Ranking
3588
National Ranking
137

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2014 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Paul Tréguer is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. The primary field of their research is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a concentration in Oceanography. Their work also spans Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, and Geochemistry and Petrology as subfields.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Paul Tréguer has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • Estimating Biogenic Silica Production of Rhizaria in the Global Ocean, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Unraveling Salinity Extreme Events in Coastal Environments: A Winter Focus on the Bay of Brest, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Dissolved iron in the North Atlantic Ocean and Labrador Sea along the GEOVIDE section (GEOTRACES section GA01), 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Role of small Rhizaria and diatoms in the pelagic silica production of the Southern Ocean, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Oceans
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biogeosciences
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Paul Tréguer collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Aude Leynaert
  • Jill Sutton
  • Guy Jacques
  • Herlé Mercier
  • Sumei Liu

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2016 and membership in the European Academy of Sciences since 2014.

Best Publications

  • Production and dissolution of biogenic silica in the ocean: revised global estimates, comparison with regional data and relationship to biogenic sedimentation

    D. M. Nelson;P. Treguer;M. A. Brzezinski;A. Leynaert

  • The silica balance in the world ocean: a reestimate.

    Paul Tréguer;David M. Nelson;Aleido J. Van Bennekom;David J. DeMaster

  • Growth physiology and fate of diatoms in the ocean: a review

    Géraldine Sarthou;Klaas R. Timmermans;Stéphane Blain;Paul Tréguer

  • The World Ocean Silica Cycle

    Paul J. Tréguer;Christina L. De La Rocha

  • A review of the Si cycle in the modern ocean: recent progress and missing gaps in the application of biogenic opal as a paleoproductivity proxy

    O Ragueneau;P Tréguer;A Leynaert;R.F Anderson

  • Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

    Paul Tréguer;Chris Bowler;Brivaela Moriceau;Stephanie Dutkiewicz

  • On iron limitation of the Southern Ocean : experimental observations in the Weddell and Scotia Seas.

    Henricus de Baar;Anita Buma;Rob F Nolting;Gerhard C Cadee

  • Dynamics of nutrients and phytoplankton, and fluxes of carbon, nitrogen and silicon in the Antarctic Ocean

    Paul Tréguer;Guy Jacques

  • A biogeochemical study of the island mass effect in the context of the iron hypothesis : Kerguelen Islands, Southern Ocean

    Stéphane Blain;Paul Tréguer;Sauveur Belviso;Eva Bucciarelli

  • Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean

    Paul J. Tréguer;Jill N. Sutton;Mark Brzezinski;Matthew A. Charette

  • Resolving the ‘opal paradox’ in the Southern Ocean

    Philippe Pondaven;Olivier Ragueneau;Paul Tréguer;Anne Hauvespre

  • Global change. Silica control of carbon dioxide

    Paul Tréguer;Philippe Pondaven

  • Dynamics of particulate organic matter d15N and d13C during spring phytoplankton blooms in a macrotidal ecosystem (Bay of Seine, France)

    N Savoye;Alain Aminot;Paul Treguer;M Fontugne

  • Determination of biogenic silica in coastal waters: applicability and limits of the alkaline digestion method

    Olivier Ragueneau;Paul Tréguer

  • Iron and manganese in the wake of the Kerguelen Islands (Southern Ocean)

    Eva Bucciarelli;Stéphane Blain;Paul Tréguer

  • Role of silicon as a limiting nutrient to Antarctic diatoms: evidence from kinetic studies in the Ross Sea ice-edge zone

    DM Nelson;P. Treguer

  • Ironn (II) and iron(III) determination in sea water at the nanomolar level with selective on-line preconcentration and spectrophotometric determination

    S. Blain;P. Tréguer

  • Biogeochemical dynamics and the silicon cycle in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during austral spring 1992

    B. Quéguiner;P. Treguér;Ilka Peeken;R. Scharek

  • Biogenic silica recycling in surficial sediments across the Polar Front of the Southern Ocean (Indian Sector)

    Christophe Rabouille;Jean-Francois Gaillard;Paul Tréguer;Marie Anne Vincendeau

  • Nitrification rates, ammonium and nitrate distribution in upper layers of the water column and in sediments of the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean

    Micheline Bianchi;F. Feliatra;Paul Tréguer;Marie-Anne Vincendeau

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Quéguiner
Bernard Quéguiner Aix-Marseille University
Aude Leynaert
Aude Leynaert French National Centre for Scientific Research
Stéphane Blain
Stéphane Blain Université Paris Cité
David M. Nelson
David M. Nelson Oregon State University
Olivier Ragueneau
Olivier Ragueneau Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin
Catherine Jeandel
Catherine Jeandel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Mark A. Brzezinski
Mark A. Brzezinski University of California, Santa Barbara
Géraldine Sarthou
Géraldine Sarthou French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
David J. DeMaster
David J. DeMaster North Carolina State University
Ulrich Bathmann
Ulrich Bathmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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