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Wayne S. Gardner is primarily affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The research topics covered by Wayne S. Gardner include:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Notable recent papers by Wayne S. Gardner include:

  • Water Depth Underpins the Relative Roles and Fates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Lakes, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Contributions of external nutrient loading and internal cycling to cyanobacterial bloom dynamics in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for nutrient management, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Membrane inlet mass spectrometry method (REOX/MIMS) to measure 15N-nitrate in isotope-enrichment experiments, 2021, Ecological Indicators
  • It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Higher Levels of Soluble Reactive Phosphorus Promote Labile Organic Nitrogen Cycling in Subsurface Coastal Waters, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wayne S. Gardner include:

  • Boqiang Qin
  • Silvia E. Newell
  • Justin D. Brookes
  • Kaijun Lu
  • Zhanfei Liu

The main publication venues where Gardner's work has appeared are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Controlling harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a hyper-eutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China): The need for a dual nutrient (N & P) management strategy

    Hans W. Paerl;Hai Xu;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;Guangwei Zhu

  • It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems

    Hans W. Paerl;J. Thad Scott;Mark J. McCarthy;Silvia E. Newell

  • Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in aquatic ecosystems impacted by climate change and anthropogenic nutrients.

    Hans W. Paerl;Wayne S. Gardner;Karl E. Havens;Alan R. Joyner

  • Reverse-phase separation method for determining pollutant binding to Aldrich humic acid and dissolved organic carbon of natural waters

    Peter F. Landrum;Sheila R. Nihart;Brian J. Eadie;Wayne S. Gardner

  • Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) as a nitrogen link, versus denitrification as a sink in a shallow estuary (Laguna Madre/Baffin Bay, Texas)

    Soonmo An;Wayne S. Gardner

  • Water Depth Underpins the Relative Roles and Fates of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Lakes

    Boqiang Qin;Jian Zhou;James J. Elser;Wayne S. Gardner

  • Nitrogen fixation and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) support nitrogen dynamics in Texas estuaries

    Wayne S. Gardner;Mark J. McCarthy;Soonmo An;Dmitri Sobolev

  • Sediment Trap Studies in Lake Michigan: Resuspension and Chemical Fluxes in the Southern Basin

    Brian J. Eadie;Richard L. Chambers;Wayne S. Gardner;Gerald L. Bell

  • The effect of salinity on ammonium sorption in aquatic sediments: Implications for benthic nutrient recycling

    Sybil P. Seitzinger;Wayne S. Gardner;Anne K. Spratt

  • Seasonal patterns in lipid content of Lake Michigan macroinvertebrates

    Wayne S. Gardner;Thomas F. Nalepa;William A. Frez;Elizabeth A. Cichocki

  • Denitrification, dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium, and nitrogen fixation along a nitrate concentration gradient in a created freshwater wetland

    J. Thad Scott;J. Thad Scott;Mark J. McCarthy;Mark J. McCarthy;Wayne S. Gardner;Robert D. Doyle

  • Micromethod for lipids in aquatic invertebrates1

    Wayne S. Gardner;William A. Frez;Elizabeth A. Cichocki;Christopher C. Parrish

  • Algal blooms: Noteworthy nitrogen

    Hans W. Paerl;Wayne S. Gardner;Mark J. McCarthy;Benjamin L. Peierls

  • Ecosystem-Level Effects of Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha): An Enclosure Experiment in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron

    Robert T. Heath;Gary L. Fahnenstiel;Wayne S. Gardner;Joann F. Cavaletto

  • A Novel Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometer Method to Measure 15NH4+ for Isotope-Enrichment Experiments in Aquatic Ecosystems

    Guoyu Yin;Lijun Hou;Min Liu;Zhanfei Liu

  • Nitrogen dynamics and microbial food web structure during a summer cyanobacterial bloom in a subtropical, shallow, well-mixed, eutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China)

    Mark J. McCarthy;Peter J. Lavrentyev;Longyuan Yang;Lu Zhang

  • Nitrogen dynamics at the sediment–water interface in shallow, sub-tropical Florida Bay: why denitrification efficiency may decrease with increased eutrophication

    Wayne S. Gardner;Mark J. McCarthy

  • Simultaneous measurement of denitrification and nitrogen fixation using isotope pairing with membrane inlet mass spectrometry analysis.

    Soonmo An;Wayne S. Gardner;Todd Kana

  • Fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in controlled ecosystem enclosures

    Richard F. Lee;Wayne S Gardner;J. W. Anderson;J. W. Blaylock

  • The effects of sea salts on the forms of nitrogen released from estuarine and freshwater sediments: Does ion pairing affect ammonium flux?

    Wayne S. Gardner;Sybil P. Seitzinger;John M. Malczyk

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. McCarthy
Mark J. McCarthy Wright State University
James B. Cotner
James B. Cotner University of Minnesota
Zhanfei Liu
Zhanfei Liu The University of Texas at Austin
Brian J. Eadie
Brian J. Eadie Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Thomas H. Johengen
Thomas H. Johengen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Henry A. Vanderploeg
Henry A. Vanderploeg National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas F. Nalepa
Thomas F. Nalepa University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Boqiang Qin
Boqiang Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gary L. Fahnenstiel
Gary L. Fahnenstiel Michigan Technological University

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