Paul G. Falkowski

Research topics

• Marine and coastal ecosystems · 4 papers
• Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology · 2 papers
• Marine Biology and Ecology Research · 2 papers
• Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · 1 paper
• Isotope Analysis in Ecology · 1 paper
• Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• Michael J. Behrenfeld · 2 papers
• Christopher B. Field · 1 paper
• James T. Randerson · 1 paper
• Tom Fenchel · 1 paper
• Edward F. DeLong · 1 paper
• Richard T. Barber · 1 paper
• Victor S. Smetacek · 1 paper
• Donald E. Canfield · 1 paper

Papers

1. Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic ComponentsScience · 1998 · 6,606 citations

   Integrating conceptually similar models of the growth of marine and terrestrial primary producers yielded an estimated global net primary production (NPP) of 104.9 petagrams of carbon per year, with roughly equal contributions from land and oceans. Approaches based on satellite…

2. The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical CyclesScience · 2008 · 3,556 citations

   Virtually all nonequilibrium electron transfers on Earth are driven by a set of nanobiological machines composed largely of multimeric protein complexes associated with a small number of prosthetic groups. These machines evolved exclusively in microbes early in our planet's history…

3. Photosynthetic rates derived from satellite‐based chlorophyll concentrationLimnology and Oceanography · 1997 · 3,007 citations

   We assembled a dataset of 14 C‐based productivity measurements to understand the critical variables required for accurate assessment of daily depth‐integrated phytoplankton carbon fixation ( PP ( PP eu ) u ) from measurements of sea surface pigment concentrations (…

4. Biogeochemical Controls and Feedbacks on Ocean Primary ProductionScience · 1998 · 2,941 citations

   Changes in oceanic primary production, linked to changes in the network of global biogeochemical cycles, have profoundly influenced the geochemistry of Earth for over 3 billion years. In the contemporary ocean, photosynthetic carbon fixation by marine phytoplankton leads to formation…

5. The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen CycleScience · 2010 · 2,763 citations

   Atmospheric reactions and slow geological processes controlled Earth's earliest nitrogen cycle, and by ~2.7 billion years ago, a linked suite of microbial processes evolved to form the modern nitrogen cycle with robust natural feedbacks and controls. Over the past century,…