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Overview

Sarian Kosten is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands and has published extensively in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses on several subfields including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of Kosten's research cover a diverse range of ecosystem and environmental dynamics. These include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Fish ecology and management studies

Kosten has contributed to scientific literature through publications in multiple journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Aquatic Botany
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Hydrobiologia

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Shifting states, shifting services: Linking regime shifts to changes in ecosystem services of shallow lakes," 2020, Freshwater Biology
  • "Global CO2 emissions from dry inland waters share common drivers across ecosystems," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Feedback between climate change and eutrophication: revisiting the allied attack concept and how to strike back," 2022, Inland Waters
  • "Global importance of methane emissions from drainage ditches and canals," 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Better assessments of greenhouse gas emissions from global fish ponds needed to adequately evaluate aquaculture footprint," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Throughout their career, Kosten has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • José R. Paranaíba
  • Nathan Barros
  • Ralf Aben
  • Ernandes Sobreira Oliveira
  • Annelies J. Veraart

Best Publications

  • Warmer climates boost cyanobacterial dominance in shallow lakes

    Sarian Kosten;Sarian Kosten;Vera L. M. Huszar;Eloy Bécares;Luciana S. Costa

  • Allied attack: climate change and eutrophication

    B. Moss;S. Kosten;M. Meerhoff;R.W. Battarbee

  • Global CO2 emissions from dry inland waters share common drivers across ecosystems

    P. S. Keller;N. Catalán;N. Catalán;D. von Schiller;H. P. Grossart;H. P. Grossart

  • Comparison of cyanobacterial and green algal growth rates at different temperatures

    Miquel Lürling;Fassil Eshetu;Fassil Eshetu;Elisabeth J. Faassen;Sarian Kosten;Sarian Kosten

  • Plankton dynamics under different climatic conditions in space and time

    Lisette N. De Senerpont Domis;James J. Elser;Alena S. Gsell;Vera L. M. Huszar

  • Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems

    M. Scheffer;S. Barrett;S. R. Carpenter;C. Folke

  • Impacts of climate change on submerged and emergent wetland plants

    Frederick T. Short;Sarian Kosten;Pamela A. Morgan;Sparkle L Malone

  • Significant fraction of CO2 emissions from boreal lakes derived from hydrologic inorganic carbon inputs

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Sarian Kosten;Marcus B. Wallin;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Cross continental increase in methane ebullition under climate change

    Ralf C. H. Aben;Nathan Barros;Ellen van Donk;Thijs Frenken

  • Translating Regime Shifts in Shallow Lakes into Changes in Ecosystem Functions and Services

    Sabine Hilt;Erik Jeppesen;Annelies J. Veraart

  • Shifting states, shifting services: Linking regime shifts to changes in ecosystem services of shallow lakes

    Annette B.G. Janssen;Sabine Hilt;Sarian Kosten;Jeroen J.M. de Klein

  • Environmental Warming in Shallow Lakes: A Review of Potential Changes in Community Structure as Evidenced from Space-for-Time Substitution Approaches

    Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Franco Teixeira-de Mello;Carla Kruk;Cecilia Alonso

  • Climate-dependent CO2 emissions from lakes.

    Sarian Kosten;Fábio Roland;David M. L. Da Motta Marques;Egbert H. Van Nes

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • Global variation in the beta diversity of lake macrophytes is driven by environmental heterogeneity rather than latitude

    Janne Alahuhta;Sarian Kosten;Munemitsu Akasaka;Dominique Auderset

  • Feedback between climate change and eutrophication: revisiting the allied attack concept and how to strike back

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  • Climate-related differences in the dominance of submerged macrophytes in shallow lakes

    Sarian Kosten;Amy Kamarainen;Erik Jeppesen;Egbert H. Van Nes

  • Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in lake sediments: can they be used as temperature and pH proxies?

    Cornelia I. Blaga;Gert-Jan Reichart;Stefan Schouten;André F. Lotter

  • Lake and watershed characteristics rather than climate influence nutrient limitation in shallow lakes

    Sarian Kosten;Vera L. M. Huszar;Néstor Mazzeo;Marten Scheffer

  • Seasonal and diel variation in greenhouse gas emissions from an urban pond and its major drivers

    Tamara van Bergen;Nathan O. Barros;Nathan O. Barros;Raquel Mendonça;Raquel Mendonça;Ralf Aben

  • Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Jens Hartmann;Dag O. Hessen;Jiří Kopáček

Frequent Co-Authors

Fábio Roland
Fábio Roland Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Vera L. M. Huszar
Vera L. M. Huszar Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
Néstor Mazzeo
Néstor Mazzeo University of the Republic
Leon P. M. Lamers
Leon P. M. Lamers Radboud University
Edwin T. H. M. Peeters
Edwin T. H. M. Peeters Wageningen University & Research
Ellen Van Donk
Ellen Van Donk Utrecht University
Sabine Hilt
Sabine Hilt Leibniz Association
Janne Alahuhta
Janne Alahuhta University of Oulu

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