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David M. Karl

Active 1976–2023

100
Papers
43,259
Citations
87
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,561 citing papers, 28% of this breakdownGermany: 700 citing papers, 7.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 641 citing papers, 7% of this breakdownChina: 607 citing papers, 6.6% of this breakdownFrance: 525 citing papers, 5.7% of this breakdownCanada: 351 citing papers, 3.8% of this breakdownSpain: 349 citing papers, 3.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 298 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 294 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownJapan: 234 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownItaly: 185 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownSweden: 173 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Environmental Science49.8%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences17.4%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16.7%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences5%
  • Medicine2.5%
  • Engineering1.6%
  • Other7%

Topics

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology16.5%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies8.5%
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems8.3%
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny5.5%
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena3.2%
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research3%
  • Other55%

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  1. Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

    Authors: Ricardo Cavicchioli, William J. Ripple, Kenneth N. Timmis, Farooq Azam, Lars R. Bakken, Matthew Baylis, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Antje Boëtius, Philip W. Boyd, Aimée T. Classen, Thomas W. Crowther, Roberto Danovaro, Christine M. Foreman, Jef Huisman, David A. Hutchins, Janet Jansson, David M. Karl, Britt Koskella, David B. Mark Welch, Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Mary Ann Moran, Victoria J. Orphan, David Reay, Justin V. Remais, Virginia I. Rich, Brajesh K. Singh, Lisa Y. Stein, Frank J. Stewart, Matthew B. Sullivan, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Scott C. Weaver, Eric A. Webb, Nicole S. Webster - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2019 cited by 2,074

  2. Present and future global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

    Authors: Pedro Flombaum, José L. Gallegos, Rodolfo A. Gordillo, José Rincón, Lina L. Zabala, Nianzhi Jiao, David M. Karl, William K. W. Li, Michael W. Lomas, Daniele Veneziano, Carolina Vera, Jasper A. Vrugt, Adam C. Martiny - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 cited by 1,446

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

    Authors: Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy, Helen F. Fredricks, Byron E. Pedler, Sonya T. Dyhrman, David M. Karl, Michal Koblížek, Michael W. Lomas, Tracy J. Mincer, Lisa R. Moore, Thierry Moutin, Michael S. Rappé, Eric A. Webb - Nature 2009 cited by 865

  4. Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future

    Authors: James N. Galloway, Frank Dentener, Douglas G. Capone, Elizabeth W. Boyer, Robert W. Howarth, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Gregory P. Asner, Cory C. Cleveland, Pamela Green, Elisabeth A. Holland, David M. Karl, Anthony F. Michaels, John H. Porter, Alan R. Townsend, C. J. V�osmarty - Biogeochemistry 2004 cited by 5,409

  5. The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific

    Authors: Douglas B. Rusch, Aaron L. Halpern, Granger Sutton, Karla B. Heidelberg, Shannon J. Williamson, Shibu Yooseph, Dongying Wu, Jonathan A. Eisen, Jeff Hoffman, Karin Remington, Karen Beeson, Bao Tran, Hamilton O. Smith, Holly Baden-Tillson, Clare Stewart, Joyce Thorpe, Jason Freeman, Cynthia Andrews‐Pfannkoch, Joseph E. Venter, Kelvin Li, Saul Kravitz, John F. Heidelberg, Terry Utterback, Yu-Hui Rogers, Luisa I. Falcón, Valeria Souza, Germán Bonilla‐Rosso, Luis E. Eguiarte, David M. Karl, Shubha Sathyendranath, Trevor Platt, Eldredge Bermingham, Víctor A. Gallardo, Giselle Tamayo‐Castillo, Michael R. Ferrari, Robert L. Strausberg, Kenneth Nealson, Robert Friedman, M.E. Frazier, J. Craig Venter - PLoS Biology 2007 cited by 2,103

  6. Community Genomics Among Stratified Microbial Assemblages in the Ocean's Interior

    Authors: Edward F. DeLong, Christina M. Preston, Tracy J. Mincer, Virginia I. Rich, Steven Hallam, Niels‐Ulrik Frigaard, Asunción Martínez Martínez, Matthew B. Sullivan, Robert A. Edwards, Beltran Rodriguez Brito, Sallie W. Chisholm, David M. Karl - Science 2006 cited by 1,365

  7. Biological composition and microbial dynamics of sinking particulate organic matter at abyssal depths in the oligotrophic open ocean

    Authors: Dominique Boeuf, Bethanie R. Edwards, John M. Eppley, Sarah K. Hu, Kirsten Poff, Anna E. Romano, David A. Caron, David M. Karl, Edward F. DeLong - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019 cited by 214

  8. Environmental drivers of a microbial genomic transition zone in the ocean’s interior

    Authors: Daniel R. Mende, Jessica A. Bryant, Frank O. Aylward, John M. Eppley, Torben Nielsen, David M. Karl, Edward F. DeLong - Nature Microbiology 2017 cited by 218

  9. Abiotic selection of microbial genome size in the global ocean

    Authors: David Kamanda Ngugi, Silvia G. Acinas, Pablo Sánchez, Josep M. Gasol, Susana Agustı́, David M. Karl, Carlos M. Duarte - Nature Communications 2023 cited by 51

  10. Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean

    Authors: M. Karner, Edward F. DeLong, David M. Karl - Nature 2001 cited by 1,640

  11. Overlooked and widespread pennate diatom-diazotroph symbioses in the sea

    Authors: Christopher R. Schvarcz, Samuel T. Wilson, Mathieu Caffin, Rosalina Stancheva, Qian Li, Kendra A. Turk‐Kubo, Angelicque White, David M. Karl, Jonathan P. Zehr, Grieg F. Steward - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 77

  12. The Underwater Vision Profiler 5: An advanced instrument for high spatial resolution studies of particle size spectra and zooplankton

    Authors: Marc Picheral, Lionel Guidi, Lars Stemmann, David M. Karl, Ghizlaine Iddaoud, Gabriel Gorsky - Limnology and Oceanography Methods 2010 cited by 357

  13. Multiple B-vitamin depletion in large areas of the coastal ocean

    Authors: Sergio A. Sañudo‐Wilhelmy, Lynda S. Cutter, Reginaldo Durazo, Emily A. Smail, Laura Gómez‐Consarnau, Eric A. Webb, Maria G. Prokopenko, William M. Berelson, David M. Karl - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 209

  14. Phosphate‐limited ocean regions select for bacterial populations enriched in the carbon–phosphorus lyase pathway for phosphonate degradation

    Authors: Oscar A. Sosa, Daniel J. Repeta, Edward F. DeLong, M. D. Ashkezari, David M. Karl - Environmental Microbiology 2019 cited by 136

  15. Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone

    Authors: Ken O. Buesseler, Carl H. Lamborg, Philip W. Boyd, Phoebe J. Lam, Thomas W. Trull, Robert R. Bidigare, James K. B. Bishop, Karen L. Casciotti, Frank Dehairs, Marc Elskens, Makio C. Honda, David M. Karl, David A. Siegel, Mary W. Silver, Deborah K. Steinberg, Jim Valdes, Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy, Stephanie E. Wilson - Science 2007 cited by 660

  16. Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean

    Authors: Jonathan P. Zehr, John Waterbury, Patricia J. Turner, Joseph P. Montoya, Enoma Omoregie, Grieg F. Steward, Andrew S. Hansen, David M. Karl - Nature 2001 cited by 735

  17. Production of methane and ethylene from plastic in the environment

    Authors: Sarah‐Jeanne Royer, Sara Ferrón, Samuel T. Wilson, David M. Karl - PLoS ONE 2018 cited by 562

  18. Marine methane paradox explained by bacterial degradation of dissolved organic matter

    Authors: Daniel J. Repeta, Sara Ferrón, Oscar A. Sosa, C. G. Johnson, Lucas Repeta, Marianne Acker, Edward F. DeLong, David M. Karl - Nature Geoscience 2016 cited by 368

  19. Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of a Microbial Community Residing at a Depth of 4,000 Meters at Station ALOHA in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

    Authors: Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Jennifer Braff, David M. Karl, Edward F. DeLong - Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2009 cited by 211

  20. A system of coordinated autonomous robots for Lagrangian studies of microbes in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum

    Authors: Yanwu Zhang, John P. Ryan, Brett W. Hobson, Brian Kieft, Anna Romano, Benedetto Barone, Christina M. Preston, Brent Roman, Ben-Yair Raanan, Douglas Pargett, Mathilde Dugenne, Angelicque E. White, Fernanda Henderikx Freitas, Steve Poulos, Samuel T. Wilson, Edward F. Delong, David M. Karl, James M. Birch, James G. Bellingham, Christopher A. Scholin - Science Robotics, Sci. Robotics 2021 cited by 61

  21. Aerobic production of methane in the sea

    Authors: David M. Karl, Lucas J. Beversdorf, Karin M. Björkman, Matthew J. Church, Asunción Martínez Martínez, Edward F. DeLong - Nature Geoscience 2008 cited by 570

  22. Diversity and Activity of Communities Inhabiting Plastic Debris in the North Pacific Gyre

    Authors: Jessica A. Bryant, Tara M. Clemente, Donn A. Viviani, Allison A. Fong, Kimberley Anh Thomas, Paul F. Kemp, David M. Karl, Angelicque White, Edward F. DeLong - mSystems 2016 cited by 476

  23. Microbial oceanography and the Hawaii Ocean Time-series programme

    Authors: David M. Karl, Matthew J. Church - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2014 cited by 227

  24. Microbial Sources of Exocellular DNA in the Ocean

    Authors: Morgan D. Linney, John M. Eppley, Anna E. Romano, Elaine Luo, Edward F. DeLong, David M. Karl - Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2022 cited by 23