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Suzanne McGowan is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to ecology, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, oceanography, and water science and technology.

The main topics of Suzanne McGowan's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Their frequent publication venues indicate a focus on environmental and water-related sciences, including:

  • Water Research
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Hydrology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Suzanne McGowan cover a range of topics related to aquatic and climate systems. Selected works include:

  • "Synergistic impacts of nutrient enrichment and climate change on long-term water quality and ecological dynamics in contrasting shallow-lake zones," 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Sentinel responses of Arctic freshwater systems to climate: linkages, evidence, and a roadmap for future research," 2022, Arctic Science
  • "Healthy waterways and ecologically sustainable cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration (northern China): Challenges and future directions," 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • "Marine resource abundance drove pre-agricultural population increase in Stone Age Scandinavia," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Evidence for centennial-scale Mid-Holocene episodes of hypolimnetic anoxia in a high-altitude lake system from central Tian Shan (Kyrgyzstan)," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent collaborators of Suzanne McGowan include Virginia N. Panizzo, Melanie J. Leng, Nga Do, Linghan Zeng, and Duc Anh Trinh, reflecting a collaborative research network focused on environmental and aquatic sciences.

Best Publications

  • Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene.

    Zofia E Taranu;Irene Gregory-Eaves;Peter R Leavitt;Lynda Bunting

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans

    P. R. Leavitt;S. C. Fritz;N. J. Anderson;P. A. Baker

  • First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

    Nathalie Dubois;Nathalie Dubois;Émilie Saulnier-Talbot;Keely Mills;Peter Gell

  • Determination of phytoplankton crops by top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in a group of English lakes, the West Midland meres

    Brian Moss;Suzanne McGowan;Laurence Carvalho

  • Classification of hydrological regimes of northern floodplain basins (Peace–Athabasca Delta, Canada) from analysis of stable isotopes (δ18O, δ2H) and water chemistry

    Brent B. Wolfe;Brent B. Wolfe;Tammy L. Karst-Riddoch;Roland I. Hall;Thomas W. D. Edwards

  • Controls of algal abundance and community composition during ecosystem state change

    Suzanne McGowan;Peter R. Leavitt;Roland I. Hall;N. John Anderson

  • Spatial variability of climate and land-use effects on lakes of the northern Great Plains

    Samantha V. Pham;Peter R. Leavitt;Suzanne McGowan;Pedro Peres-Neto

  • Spatial and temporal variability of prairie lake hydrology as revealed using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen

    Samantha V. Pham;Peter R. Leavitt;Suzanne McGowan;Bjoern Wissel

  • Climate Versus In-Lake Processes as Controls on the Development of Community Structure in a Low-Arctic Lake (South-West Greenland)

    N. John Anderson;Klaus P. Brodersen;David B. Ryves;Suzanne McGowan

  • Recent ecological change in ancient lakes

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Suzanne Mcgowan;Tedy Ozersky;Salvatore G.P. Virdis

  • Vertically-challenged limnology; contrasts between deep and shallow lakes

    Brian Moss;Meryem Beklioglu;Laurence Carvalho;Sabri Kilinc

  • Catchment-mediated atmospheric nitrogen deposition drives ecological change in two alpine lakes in SE Tibet

    Zhujun Hu;Nicholas John Anderson;Xiangdong Yang;Suzanne McGowan

  • Factors driving changes in freshwater mussel (Bivalvia, Unionida) diversity and distribution in Peninsular Malaysia

    Alexandra Zieritz;Manuel Lopes-Lima;Arthur E. Bogan;Ronaldo Sousa

  • Development and evaluation of a diatom‐conductivity model from lakes in West Greenland

    D. B. Ryves;S. Mcgowan;N. J. Anderson

  • Humans and climate as drivers of algal community change in Windermere since 1850

    Suzanne McGowan;Philip Barker;Elizabeth Y. Haworth;Peter R. Leavitt

  • The Arctic in the twenty-first century: changing biogeochemical linkages across a paraglacial landscape of Greenland

    N. John Anderson;Jasmine E. Saros;Joanna E. Bullard;Sean M.P. Cahoon

  • A Whole-Lake Experiment to Determine the Effects of Winter Droughts on Shallow Lakes

    Suzanne McGowan;Peter R. Leavitt;Roland I. Hall

  • Hydroecological responses of the Athabasca Delta, Canada, to changes in river flow and climate during the 20th century

    Brent B. Wolfe;Roland I. Hall;Thomas W. D. Edwards;Sheila R. Vardy

  • Ancient blue-green blooms

    Suzanne McGowan;George Britton;Elizabeth Haworth;Brian Moss

  • Deciphering long-term records of natural variability and human impact as recorded in lake sediments: a palaeolimnological puzzle

    Keely Mills;Daniel Schillereff;Émilie Saulnier-Talbot;Peter Gell

  • Synergistic impacts of nutrient enrichment and climate change on long-term water quality and ecological dynamics in contrasting shallow-lake zones

    Qi Lin;Ke Zhang;Suzanne McGowan;Eric Capo

  • Lake and catchment response to Holocene environmental change: spatial variability along a climate gradient in southwest Greenland

    N. J. Anderson;A. C. Liversidge;S. McGowan;M. D. Jones

  • First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems

    Nathalie Dubois;Emilie Saulnier-Talbot;Keely Mills;Peter Gell

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Peter R. Leavitt
Peter R. Leavitt University of Regina
Vivienne J. Jones
Vivienne J. Jones University College London
N. John Anderson
N. John Anderson Loughborough University
David B. Ryves
David B. Ryves Loughborough University
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Anson W. Mackay
Anson W. Mackay University College London
Peter G. Langdon
Peter G. Langdon University of Southampton
Bent Vad Odgaard
Bent Vad Odgaard Aarhus University
Helen Bennion
Helen Bennion University College London

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