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Thierry Moutin is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France, conducting research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on oceanography, with significant contributions to environmental chemistry, geochemistry and petrology, global and planetary change, and ecology.

The scientist's research topics encompass:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ocean acidification effects and responses
  • Aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics
  • Groundwater and isotope geochemistry
  • Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies
  • Marine biology and ecology research
  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies

Thierry Moutin has published in various scientific venues with notable frequency in Frontiers in Marine Science, alongside publications in Geophysical Research Letters and Optics Express.

Recent papers include:

  • The Delayed Island Mass Effect: How Islands can Remotely Trigger Blooms in the Oligotrophic Ocean, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the CO2 System in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: A Case Study in the North Western Levantine Basin, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Projected Effects of Climate-Induced Changes in Hydrodynamics on the Biogeochemistry of the Mediterranean Sea Under the RCP 8.5 Regional Climate Scenario, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Optical proxy for particulate organic nitrogen from BGC-Argo floats, 2020, Optics Express

Frequent collaborators include Anne Petrenko, Monique Messié, Andrea M. Doglioli, Clément Aldebert, and Élodie Martinez, with multiple coauthorships signifying ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity.

    Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Helen F. Fredricks;Byron E. Pedler;Byron E. Pedler;Sonya T. Dyhrman

  • Marine ecosystems' responses to climatic and anthropogenic forcings in the Mediterranean

    X. Durrieu de Madron;C. Guieu;R. Sempéré;P. Conan

  • Primary production, carbon export and nutrients availability in western and eastern Mediterranean Sea in early summer 1996 (MINOS cruise)

    T. Moutin;Patrick Raimbault

  • Does competition for nanomolar phosphate supply explain the predominance of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus

    Thierry Moutin;Tron F. Thingstad;Dominique Marie

  • Longitudinal and vertical trends of bacterial limitation by phosphorus and carbon in the Mediterranean Sea.

    F. Van Wambeke;U. Christaki;A. Giannakourou;T. Moutin

  • Phosphate availability and the ultimate control of new nitrogen input by nitrogen fixation in the tropical Pacific Ocean

    Thierry Moutin;David M. Karl;Solange Duhamel;P. Rimmelin

  • Integrated survey of elemental stoichiometry (C, N, P) from the western to eastern Mediterranean Sea

    M. Pujo-Pay;Pascal Conan;L. Oriol;V. Cornet-Barthaux

  • Nutrient limitation of primary productivity in the Southeast Pacific (BIOSOPE cruise)

    S. Bonnet;C. Guieu;F. Bruyant;O. Prášil

  • Microzooplankton diversity: relationships of tintinnid ciliates with resources, competitors and predators from the Atlantic Coast of Morocco to the Eastern Mediterranean

    J.R Dolan;Hervé Claustre;F Carlotti;S Plounevez

  • Carbon and nitrogen uptake and export in the equatorial Pacific at 150°W: Evidence of an efficient regenerated production cycle

    Patrick Raimbault;Gerd Slawyk;Benyahia Boudjellal;Christine Coatanoan

  • Hot spot of N2 fixation in the western tropical South Pacific pleads for a spatial decoupling between N2 fixation and denitrification.

    Sophie Bonnet;Mathieu Caffin;Hugo Berthelot;Thierry Moutin

  • Aphotic N2 fixation in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific Ocean.

    Sophie Bonnet;Julien Dekaezemacker;Kendra A. Turk-Kubo;Thierry Moutin

  • Thick bottom nepheloid layers in the western Mediterranean generated by deep dense shelf water cascading

    Pere Puig;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Jordi Salat;Katrin Schroeder

  • Phosphate availability controls Trichodesmium spp. biomass in the SW Pacific Ocean

    Thierry Moutin;Nathalie Van Den Broeck;Beatriz Beker;Cécile Dupouy

  • Biogeochemical Controls of Surface Ocean Phosphate

    Adam C. Martiny;Michael W. Lomas;Weiwei Fu;Philip W. Boyd

  • Re-examination of the MAGIC method to determine low orthophosphate concentration in seawater

    Peggy Rimmelin;Thierry Moutin

  • Decrease of phosphate concentration in a high rate pond by precipitation of calcium phosphate: Theoretical and experimental results

    T. Moutin;J.Y. Gal;H. El Halouani;B. Picot

  • The input of nutrients by the Rhône river into the Mediterranean Sea: recent observations and comparison with earlier data

    T. Moutin;P. Raimbault;H. L. Golterman;B. Coste

  • Availability of iron and major nutrients for phytoplankton in the northeast Atlantic Ocean

    Stèphane Blain;Cècile Guieu;Hervè Claustre;Karine Leblanc

  • Toward a taxon‐specific parameterization of bio‐optical models of primary production: A case study in the North Atlantic

    Hervé Claustre;Marcel Babin;Davy Merien;Joséphine Ras

  • Early spring phosphorus limitation of primary productivity in a NW Mediterranean coastal zone (Gulf of Lions)

    Frédéric Diaz;Patrick Raimbault;Benyahia Boudjellal;Nicole Garcia

  • Deep silicon maxima in the stratified oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea

    Y. Crombet;Karine Leblanc;Bernard Queguiner;T. Moutin

Frequent Co-Authors

Sophie Bonnet
Sophie Bonnet Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Patrick Raimbault
Patrick Raimbault Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Mireille Pujo-Pay
Mireille Pujo-Pay Sorbonne University
Louis Marie Prieur
Louis Marie Prieur Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Cécile Guieu
Cécile Guieu Université Paris Cité
Pascal Conan
Pascal Conan Sorbonne University
Karine Leblanc
Karine Leblanc Aix-Marseille University
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité
Josephine Ras
Josephine Ras Université Paris Cité
Urania Christaki
Urania Christaki University of Lille

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