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Peter H. Burkill is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular attention to the subfields of Oceanography and Ecology.

The scientist's main areas of study encompass Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

A key publication by Peter H. Burkill is the paper titled Biogeochemical cycling in the low oxygen marine environments, published in 2020 in the Journal of Marine Systems. This paper has been cited twice.

Peter H. Burkill has collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Damodar M. Shenoy
  • Hema Uskaikar
  • Siby Kurian
  • Mangesh Gauns
  • Bess B. Ward

The Journal of Marine Systems is the recurring venue for their research publications.

Best Publications

  • A biogeochemical study of the coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi, in the North Atlantic

    Patrick M. Holligan;Emilio Fernández;James Aiken;William M. Balch

  • Microzooplankton grazing and selectivity of phytoplankton in coastal waters

    P. H. Burkill;R. F. C. Mantoura;C. A. Llewellyn;N. J. P. Owens

  • High rate of uptake of organic nitrogen compounds by Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria as a key to their dominance in oligotrophic oceanic waters.

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Glen A. Tarran;Peter H. Burkill

  • Picoplanktonic community structure on an Atlantic transect from 50°N to 50°S

    Mikhail V Zubkov;Michael A Sleigh;Glen A Tarran;Peter H Burkill

  • Mixotrophic basis of Atlantic oligotrophic ecosystems

    Manuela Hartmann;Carolina Grob;Glen A. Tarran;Adrian P. Martin

  • Linking the composition of bacterioplankton to rapid turnover of dissolved dimethylsulphoniopropionate in an algal bloom in the North Sea

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Stephen D. Archer;Ronald P. Kiene

  • Get The Science Right When Paying For Nature's Services

    S. Naeem;J. C. Ingram;A. Varga;T. Agardy

  • Picoplankton community structure on the Atlantic Meridional Transect: a comparison between seasons

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Mikhail V. Zubkov;Michael A. Sleigh;Peter H. Burkill;Raymond J.G. Leakey

  • Ecosystem Services for 2020

    Charles Perrings;S. Naeem;F. Ahrestani;D. E. Bunker

  • Comparison of cellular and biomass specific activities of dominant bacterioplankton groups in stratified waters of the Celtic Sea

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Peter H. Burkill;Rudolf I. Amann

  • Microzooplankton and their herbivorous activity in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean

    P.H. Burkill;E.S. Edwards;E.S. Edwards;A.W.G. John;A.W.G. John;M.A. Sleigh

  • Changes in community composition during dilution cultures of marine bacterioplankton as assessed by flow cytometric and molecular biological techniques.

    Bernhard M. Fuchs;Mikhail V. Zubkov;Mikhail V. Zubkov;Kerstin Sahm;Peter H. Burkill

  • Microzooplankton and their role in controlling phytoplankton growth in the marginal ice zone of the Bellingshausen Sea

    P.H. Burkill;E.S. Edwards;M.A. Sleight

  • Rapid turnover of dissolved DMS and DMSP by defined bacterioplankton communities in the stratified euphotic zone of the North Sea

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Stephen D. Archer;Ronald P. Kiene

  • Synechococcus and its importance to the microbial foodweb of the northwestern Indian Ocean

    P.H. Burkill;R.J.G. Leakey;N.J.P. Owens;R.F.C. Mantoura

  • Molecular identification of picoplankton populations in contrasting waters of the Arabian Sea

    Bernhard M. Fuchs;Dagmar Woebken;Mikhail V. Zubkov;Peter Burkill

  • Is there a decline in marine phytoplankton

    Abigail McQuatters-Gollop;Philip C. Reid;Martin Edwards;Peter H. Burkill

  • Manganese and iron in Indian Ocean waters

    Paul M. Saager;Hein J.W. De Baar;Peter H. Burkill

  • Biogeochemical Cycling In The Northwestern Indian-Ocean - A Brief Overview

    P.H. Burkill;R.F.C. Mantoura;N.J.P. Owens

  • Microbial control of phosphate in the nutrient-depleted North Atlantic subtropical gyre.

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Isabelle Mary;E. Malcolm S. Woodward;Phillip E. Warwick

  • Methane flux to the atmosphere from the Arabian Sea

    N. J. P. Owens;C. S. Law;R. F. C. Mantoura;P. H. Burkill

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikhail V. Zubkov
Mikhail V. Zubkov National Oceanography Centre
Glen A. Tarran
Glen A. Tarran Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Stephen D. Archer
Stephen D. Archer Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Bernhard M. Fuchs
Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Society
Nicholas J. P. Owens
Nicholas J. P. Owens Scottish Association For Marine Science
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
R.F.C. Mantoura
R.F.C. Mantoura Plymouth Marine Laboratory
David J. Scanlan
David J. Scanlan University of Warwick
Adrian P. Martin
Adrian P. Martin National Oceanography Centre
Charles Perrings
Charles Perrings Arizona State University

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