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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
66
Citations
23887
World Ranking
2038
National Ranking
77

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Yves T. Prairie is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work explores numerous topics related to environmental and atmospheric sciences. Main topics include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

Yves T. Prairie has contributed to several recent papers in prominent scientific venues. Notable publications include:

  • "Year-2020 Global Distribution and Pathways of Reservoir Methane and Carbon Dioxide Emissions According to the Greenhouse Gas From Reservoirs (G-res) Model", 2021, published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Improving the accuracy of electricity carbon footprint: Estimation of hydroelectric reservoir greenhouse gas emissions", 2020, published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Reservoir CO2 and CH4 emissions and their climate impact over the period 1900-2060", 2022, published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Technical note: CO 2 is not like CH 4 - limits of and corrections to the headspace method to analyse p CO 2 in fresh water", 2021, published in Biogeosciences
  • "A new modelling framework to assess biogenic GHG emissions from reservoirs: The G-res tool", 2021, published in Environmental Modelling & Software

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

  • Cynthia Soued
  • Paul A. del Giorgio
  • Sara Mercier-Blais
  • Shoji D. Thottathil
  • Paula C. J. Reis

Their academic output has been featured in various publication venues, with multiple contributions to journals and platforms such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget

    Jonathan J. Cole;Yves T. Prairie;Nina F. Caraco;William H. McDowell

  • Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate

    Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;James B. Cotner;Steven A. Loiselle

  • The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments

    J.A. Downing;Y.T. Prairie;J.J. Cole;C.M. Duarte

  • Carbon emission from hydroelectric reservoirs linked to reservoir age and latitude

    Nathan Barros;Jonathan J. Cole;Lars J. Tranvik;Yves T. Prairie

  • Sediment organic carbon burial in agriculturally eutrophic impoundments over the last century

    John A. Downing;John A. Downing;Jonathan J. Cole;Jack J. Middelburg;Robert G. Striegl

  • Patterns and regulation of dissolved organic carbon: An analysis of 7,500 widely distributed lakes

    Sebastian Sobek;Lars J. Tranvik;Yves T. Prairie;Pirkko Kortelainen

  • Prevalence of Heterotrophy and Atmospheric CO2 Emissions from Aquatic Ecosystems

    Carlos M. Duarte;Yves T. Prairie

  • Global abundance and size distribution of streams and rivers

    John A. Downing;Jonathan J. Cole;Carlos A. Duarte;Jack J. Middelburg

  • What’s in an EEM? Molecular Signatures Associated with Dissolved Organic Fluorescence in Boreal Canada

    A. Stubbins;J.-F. Lapierre;M. Berggren;M. Berggren;Y. T. Prairie

  • Flow cytometric determination of bacterial abundance in lake plankton with the green nucleic acid stain SYTO 13

    Paul A. del Giorgio;David F. Bird;Yves T. Prairie;Dolors Planas

  • Change of fire frequency in the eastern Canadian boreal forests during the Holocene: does vegetation composition or climate trigger the fire regime?

    Christopher Carcaillet;Christopher Carcaillet;Yves Bergeron;Pierre J. H. Richard;Bianca Fréchette

  • Oxic water column methanogenesis as a major component of aquatic CH4 fluxes.

    Matthew J Bogard;Paul A del Giorgio;Lennie Boutet;Maria Carolina Garcia Chaves

  • Methane ebullition and diffusion from northern ponds and lakes regulated by the interaction between temperature and system productivity

    Tonya DelSontro;Lennie Boutet;Annick St-Pierre;Paul A. del Giorgio

  • Unifying Nutrient–Chlorophyll Relationships in Lakes

    Yves T. Prairie;Carlos M. Duarte;Jacob Kalff

  • The relationship between near-surface turbulence and gas transfer velocity in freshwater systems and its implications for floating chamber measurements of gas exchange

    Dominic Vachon;Yves T. Prairie;Jonathan J. Cole

  • Bacterial metabolism and growth efficiency in lakes: The importance of phosphorus availability

    Erik M. Smith;Yves T. Prairie

  • The summer metabolic balance in the epilimnion of southeastern Quebec lakes

    Yves T. Prairie;David F. Bird;Jonathan J. Cole

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Freshwater Reservoirs: What Does the Atmosphere See?

    Yves T. Prairie;Jukka Alm;Jake Beaulieu;Nathan Barros

  • CO2 emissions from saline lakes: A global estimate of a surprisingly large flux

    Carlos M. Duarte;Yves T. Prairie;Carlos Montes;Jonathan J. Cole

  • The ecosystem size and shape dependence of gas transfer velocity versus wind speed relationships in lakes

    Dominic Vachon;Yves T. Prairie

  • Respiration in lakes

    Michael L. Pace;Yves T. Prairie

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. del Giorgio
Paul A. del Giorgio University of Quebec at Montreal
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jonathan J. Cole
Jonathan J. Cole New York Botanical Garden
David F. Bird
David F. Bird University of Quebec at Montreal
Lars J. Tranvik
Lars J. Tranvik Uppsala University
Alain Tremblay
Alain Tremblay University of Quebec at Montreal
John A. Downing
John A. Downing University of Minnesota
Nigel T. Roulet
Nigel T. Roulet McGill University
Beatrix E. Beisner
Beatrix E. Beisner University of Quebec at Montreal
Pirkko Kortelainen
Pirkko Kortelainen Finnish Environment Institute

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