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Overview

Stuart E. Jones is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with extensive work across various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research themes cover a broad range of topics, particularly emphasizing Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine and Fisheries Research, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Jones has published in several frequent venues, such as Fisheries Research, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Ecology Letters, and Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

Among the recent scientific papers are:

  • Microbial population dynamics and evolutionary outcomes under extreme energy limitation, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dormancy dampens the microbial distance-decay relationship, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The Regenerating Adult Zebrafish Retina Recapitulates Developmental Fate Specification Programs, 2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Angiogenic Marker Prognostic Models in Pregnant Women With Hypertension, 2020, Hypertension
  • Shifting limitation of primary production: experimental support for a new model in lake ecosystems, 2020, Ecology Letters

Frequent coauthors who regularly collaborate with Jones include:

  • Christopher T. Solomon
  • Carly R. Olson
  • Colin J. Dassow
  • Greg G. Sass
  • Brittni L. Bertolet

Jones's work covers a diverse set of disciplines and integrates multiple aspects of environmental science, aquatic ecology, and microbial physiology, contributing to a multifaceted understanding of ecosystem dynamics and biological processes in both marine and freshwater environments.

Best Publications

  • Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

    Jay T. Lennon;Stuart E. Jones;Stuart E. Jones

  • A Guide to the Natural History of Freshwater Lake Bacteria

    Ryan J. Newton;Stuart E. Jones;Alexander Eiler;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Dormancy contributes to the maintenance of microbial diversity

    Stuart E. Jones;Jay T. Lennon

  • Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective.

    Jennifer B. H. Martiny;Stuart E. Jones;Jay T. Lennon;Adam C. Martiny

  • Conditionally Rare Taxa Disproportionately Contribute to Temporal Changes in Microbial Diversity

    Ashley Shade;Stuart E. Jones;J. Gregory Caporaso;J. Gregory Caporaso;Jo Handelsman

  • Particle size distribution and optimal capture of aqueous macrobial eDNA

    Cameron R. Turner;Matthew A. Barnes;Charles C. Y. Xu;Stuart E. Jones

  • Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Inputs of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter to Lakes: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

    Christopher T. Solomon;Stuart E. Jones;Brian C. Weidel;Ishi Buffam

  • Productivity and depth regulate lake contributions to atmospheric methane

    William E. West;Kevin P. Creamer;Stuart E. Jones

  • Interannual dynamics and phenology of bacterial communities in a eutrophic lake

    Ashley Shade;Angela D. Kent;Stuart E. Jones;Ryan J. Newton

  • Phylogenetic ecology of the freshwater Actinobacteria acI lineage.

    Ryan J. Newton;Stuart E. Jones;Matthew R. Helmus;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Resuscitation of the rare biosphere contributes to pulses of ecosystem activity.

    Zachary T. Aanderud;Stuart E. Jones;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Jay T. Lennon

  • Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit.

    Ed K. Hall;Emily S. Bernhardt;Raven L. Bier;Mark A. Bradford

  • Effects of algal and terrestrial carbon on methane production rates and methanogen community structure in a temperate lake sediment

    William E. West;James J. Coloso;Stuart E. Jones

  • Effects of weather-related episodic events in lakes: an analysis based on high frequency data.

    Eleanor Jennings;Stuart E. Jones;Lauri Arvola;Peter A. Staehr

  • The influence of habitat heterogeneity on freshwater bacterial community composition and dynamics

    Ashley Shade;Stuart E. Jones;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Annual patterns in bacterioplankton community variability in a humic lake.

    Angela D Kent;S. E. Jones;Anthony Yannarell;Anthony Yannarell;J. M. Graham

  • Evidence for structuring of bacterial community composition by organic carbon source in temperate lakes.

    Stuart E. Jones;Ryan J. Newton;Katherine D. McMahon

  • Sensitivity of soil respiration and microbial communities to altered snowfall

    Zachary T. Aanderud;Stuart E. Jones;Donald R. Schoolmaster;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • Terrestrial carbon is a resource, but not a subsidy, for lake zooplankton.

    Patrick T. Kelly;Christopher T. Solomon;Brian C. Weidel;Stuart E. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay T. Lennon
Jay T. Lennon Indiana University
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian C. Weidel
Brian C. Weidel United States Geological Survey
Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
Ashley Shade
Ashley Shade Michigan State University
Gary A. Lamberti
Gary A. Lamberti University of Notre Dame
Angela D. Kent
Angela D. Kent University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James B. Cotner
James B. Cotner University of Minnesota
Paul A. del Giorgio
Paul A. del Giorgio University of Quebec at Montreal
Alan F. Hamlet
Alan F. Hamlet University of Notre Dame

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