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Overview

Richard B. Rivkin is affiliated with the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. Their research spans multiple topics within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Their work addresses several specific areas including coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine and coastal plant biology, coastal and marine management, and ocean acidification effects and responses. These thematic concentrations reflect an interdisciplinary approach combining oceanography, ecology, environmental chemistry, and policy-related studies.

Throughout their career, Richard B. Rivkin has contributed to the following fields of study:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their research intersects various subfields, notably:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Richard B. Rivkin has published in multiple venues, illustrating the scope and breadth of their scientific output. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Ocean & Coastal Management
  • Journal of Applied Phycology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts

Among recent and representative papers are:

  • "Opportunities for blue carbon strategies in China," published in 2020 in Ocean & Coastal Management
  • "The relationship between two Synechococcus strains and heterotrophic bacterial communities and its associated carbon flow," published in 2021 in Journal of Applied Phycology
  • "Role of diatom-derived oxylipins in organic phosphorus recycling during coastal diatom blooms in the northern South China Sea," published in 2023 in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Potential Impact of the Interactions between Synechococcus and Heterotrophic Bacteria on Oceanic Carbon Flow," published in 2020 in Goldschmidt Abstracts

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Zenghu Zhang
  • Yongyu Zhang
  • Jiaping Wu
  • Haibo Zhang
  • Yiwen Pan

Best Publications

  • Mesoscale iron enrichment experiments 1993-2005 : Synthesis and future directions

    P. W. Boyd;T. Jickells;C. S. Law;S. Blain

  • Ecosystem dynamics based on plankton functional types for global ocean biogeochemistry models

    Corinne Le Quéré;Sandy P Harrison;Sandy P Harrison;I Colin Prentice;I Colin Prentice;Erik Theodoor Buitenhuis

  • The decline and fate of an iron-induced subarctic phytoplankton bloom

    Philip W. Boyd;Cliff S. Law;C.S. Wong;Yukihiro Nojiri

  • Biogenic carbon cycling in the upper ocean: effects of microbial respiration.

    Richard B. Rivkin;Louis Legendre

  • End-To-End Models for the Analysis of Marine Ecosystems: Challenges, Issues, and Next Steps

    Kenneth A. Rose;J.Icarus Allen;Yuri Artioli;Manuel Barange

  • Inorganic nutrient limitation of oceanic bacterioplankton

    Richard B. Rivkin;M. Robin Anderson

  • The microbial carbon pump concept: Potential biogeochemical significance in the globally changing ocean

    Louis Legendre;Louis Legendre;Richard B. Rivkin;Markus G. Weinbauer;Markus G. Weinbauer;Lionel Guidi;Lionel Guidi

  • Biogeochemical fluxes through microzooplankton: GLOBAL MICROZOOPLANKTON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

    Erik T. Buitenhuis;Richard B. Rivkin;Sévrine Sailley;Corinne Le Quéré

  • Role of zooplankton dynamics for Southern Ocean phytoplankton biomass and global biogeochemical cycles

    Corinne Le Quéré;Erik T. Buitenhuis;Róisín Moriarty;Séverine Alvain

  • Vertical Flux of Biogenic Carbon in the Ocean: Is There Food Web Control?

    Richard B. Rivkin;Louis Legendre;Don Deibel;Jean-Éric Tremblay

  • Phytoplankton biomass, production and potential export in the North Water

    Bert Klein;Bernard LeBlanc;Zhi-Ping Mei;Rachel Beret

  • Influence of irradiance and spectral quality on the carbon metabolism of phytoplankton I. Photosynthesis, chemical composition and growth

    RB Rivkin

  • Bacterivory: A Novel Feeding Mode for Asteroid Larvae

    Richard B. Rivkin;Isidro Bosch;John S. Pearse;Evelyn J. Lessard

  • Fluxes of biogenic carbon in the Southern Ocean: roles of large microphagous zooplankton

    Jacques Le Fèvre;Louis Legendre;Richard B. Rivkin

  • Fluxes of carbon in the upper ocean: regulation by food-web control nodes

    Louis Legendre;Richard B. Rivkin

  • Microzooplankton bacterivory and herbivory in the NE subarctic Pacific

    Richard B. Rivkin;Jennifer N. Putland;M. Robin Anderson;Don Deibel

  • Growth responses of Ulva prolifera to inorganic and organic nutrients: Implications for macroalgal blooms in the southern Yellow Sea, China

    Hongmei Li;Yongyu Zhang;Xiurong Han;Xiaoyong Shi

  • Light-shade adaptation by the oceanic dinoflagellates Pyrocystis noctiluca and P. fusiformis

    R. B. Rivkin;H. H. Seliger;E. Swift;W. H. Biggley

  • HETEROTROPHY AND PHOTOHETEROTROPHY BY ANTARCTIC MICROALGAE: LIGHT‐DEPENDENT INCORPORATION OF AMINO ACIDS AND GLUCOSE 1

    Richard B. Rivkin;Mary Putt

  • Opportunities for blue carbon strategies in China

    Jiaping Wu;Haibo Zhang;Haibo Zhang;Yiwen Pan;Dorte Krause-Jensen

  • Characterization of alkaline phosphatase and organic phosphorous utilization in the oceanic dinoflagellate Pyrocystis noctiluca

    R. B. Rivkin;E. Swift

  • Liquid scintillation counting for 14C uptake of single algal cells isolated from natural samples

    Richard B. Rivkin;Howard H. Seliger

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Legendre
Louis Legendre Université Paris Cité
Maurice Levasseur
Maurice Levasseur Université Laval
Don Deibel
Don Deibel Memorial University of Newfoundland
Suzanne Roy
Suzanne Roy Université du Québec à Rimouski
Jean-Éric Tremblay
Jean-Éric Tremblay Université Laval
Philip W. Boyd
Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania
Nianzhi Jiao
Nianzhi Jiao Xiamen University
William K. W. Li
William K. W. Li Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Jean-Claude Therriault
Jean-Claude Therriault Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading

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