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Robert W. Sanders

Robert W. Sanders

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
7964
World Ranking
7333
National Ranking
2615

Overview

Robert W. Sanders is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research focuses on multiple areas within environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work spans significant subfields including ecology, oceanography, molecular biology, physiology, and aerospace engineering. Key research topics undertaken include microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, protist diversity and phylogeny, spaceflight effects on biology, space exploration and technology, marine biology and ecology research, and polar research and ecology.

Several recent publications illustrate the breadth of Sanders's research interests. These include:

  • Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities, 2023, Journal of Plankton Research
  • Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotes Along the West Antarctic Peninsula in Austral Spring, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Effects of light, dissolved nutrients and prey on ingestion and growth of a newly identified mixotrophic alga, Chrysolepidomonas dendrolepidota (Chrysophyceae), 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Disentangling the role of light and nutrient limitation on bacterivory by mixotrophic nanoflagellates, 2023, Journal of Phycology
  • High abundances and negligible grazing during winter by the mixotrophic chrysophyte Dinobryon, 2023, Fottea

Sanders frequently collaborates with other researchers, showing a pattern of coauthorship with Sarah DeVaul Princiotta, Jean-David Grattepanche, Rebecca J. Gast, Chia-Mei Chang, and Nicole C. Millette. These partnerships reflect a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to scientific investigation.

Publication venues where Sanders appears regularly include the Journal of Plankton Research, Frontiers in Microbiology, Hydrobiologia, Journal of Phycology, and Fottea. This distribution indicates a consistent focus on journals relevant to plankton research, microbiology, aquatic biology, and phycology.

Best Publications

  • Seasonal patterns of bacterivory by flagellates, ciliates, rotifers, and cladocerans in a freshwater planktonic community

    Robert W. Sanders;Karen G. Porter;Susan J. Bennett;Adrienne E. DeBiase

  • RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BACTERIA AND HETEROTROPHIC NANOPLANKTON IN MARINE AND FRESH WATERS - AN INTER-ECOSYSTEM COMPARISON

    R.W Sanders;D.A Caron;Ulrike-Gabriele Berninger

  • Protozoa in Planktonic Food Webs1,2

    Karen G. Porter;Evelyn B. Sherr;Barry F. Sherr;Michael Pace

  • Bioavailability of DON from natural and anthropogenic sources to estuarine plankton

    Sybil P. Seitzinger;R. W. Sanders;Renée Styles

  • Contribution of dissolved organic nitrogen from rivers to estuarine eutrophication

    S. P. Seitzinger;R. W. Sanders

  • Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies

    Aditee Mitra;Kevin J. Flynn;Urban Tillmann;John A. Raven

  • Planktonic protozoa and metazoa: predation, food quality and population control

    Robert W. Sanders;Stephen A. Wickham

  • Atmospheric inputs of dissolved organic nitrogen stimulate estuarine bacteria and phytoplankton

    S. P. Seitzinger;R. W. Sanders

  • Mixotrophic Protists in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

    Robert W. Sanders

  • Relationship between phototrophy and phagotrophy in the mixotrophic chrysophyte Poterioochromonas malhamensis

    Robert W. Sanders;Karen G. Porter;David A. Caron

  • Utilization of subsurface food resources for zooplankton reproduction: Implications for diel vertical migration theory

    Craig E. Williamson;Robert W. Sanders;Robert E. Moeller;Paul L.> Stutzman

  • Light-dependent phagotrophy in the freshwater mixotrophic chrysophyte Dinobryon cylindricum

    David A. Caron;Robert W. Sanders;Ee Lin Lim;Celia Marrasé

  • Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus budgets for the mixotrophic phytoflagellate Poterioochromonas malhamensis (chrysophyceae) during bacterial ingestion

    David A. Caron;Karen G. Porter;Robert W. Sanders

  • Heterotrophic and mixotrophic nanoplankton predation on picoplankton in the Sargasso Sea and on Georges Bank

    Robert W. Sanders;Ulrike-G. Berninger;Ee Lin Lim;Paul F. Kemp

  • Heterotrophic, autotrophic, and mixotrophic nanoflagellates: Seasonal abundances and bacterivory in a eutrophic lake

    Robert W. Sanders;Karen G. Porter;Susan J. Bennett

  • Responses of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton to organic carbon and inorganic nutrient additions in contrasting oceanic ecosystems

    David A. Caron;Ee Lin Lim;Robert W. Sanders;Mark R. Dennett

  • Phagotrophy by the picoeukaryotic green alga Micromonas : implications for Arctic Oceans

    Zaid M McKie-Krisberg;Robert W Sanders

  • Ecological strategies of protists and their symbiotic relationships with prokaryotic microbes.

    Rebecca J. Gast;Robert W. Sanders;David A. Caron

  • Tintinnids and other microzooplankton — seasonal distributions and relationships to resources and hydrography in a Maine estuary

    Robert W. Sanders

  • Mixotrophy : a widespread and important ecological strategy for planktonic and sea-ice nanoflagellates in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

    Stefanie D. Moorthi;David A. Caron;Rebecca J. Gast;Robert W. Sanders

  • Depth distribution of bacterial production in a stratified lake with an anoxic hypolimnion

    Robert J. McDonough;Robert W. Sanders;Karen G. Porter;David L. Kirchman

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Caron
David A. Caron University of Southern California
Gwo-Ching Gong
Gwo-Ching Gong National Taiwan Ocean University
John A. Raven
John A. Raven University of Dundee
Craig E. Williamson
Craig E. Williamson Miami University
Sybil P. Seitzinger
Sybil P. Seitzinger University of Victoria
Patricia M. Glibert
Patricia M. Glibert University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Diane K. Stoecker
Diane K. Stoecker University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Kevin J. Flynn
Kevin J. Flynn Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Cynthia C. Gilmour
Cynthia C. Gilmour Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Mark R. Dennett
Mark R. Dennett Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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