| Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test KN Mertens, K Verhoeven, T Verleye, S Louwye, A Amorim, S Ribeiro, ... Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 157 (3-4), 238-252, 2009 | 200 | 2009 |
| Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: investigating its potential as salinity proxy KN Mertens, S Ribeiro, I Bouimetarhan, H Caner, NC Nebout, B Dale, ... Marine Micropaleontology 70 (1-2), 54-69, 2009 | 173 | 2009 |
| Quantitative estimation of Holocene surface salinity variation in the Black Sea using dinoflagellate cyst process length KN Mertens, LR Bradley, Y Takano, PJ Mudie, F Marret, AE Aksu, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 39, 45-59, 2012 | 139 | 2012 |
| IOC-UNESCO taxonomic reference list of harmful micro algae N Lundholm, C Churro, S Fraga, M Hoppenrath, M Iwataki, J Larsen, ... Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/hab on 2025-10-20. doi:10.14284/362, 2009 | 112 | 2009 |
| Glacial cold-water coral growth in the Gulf of Cádiz: Implications of increased palaeo-productivity C Wienberg, N Frank, KN Mertens, JB Stuut, M Marchant, J Fietzke, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 298 (3-4), 405-416, 2010 | 110 | 2010 |
| Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distributions in the Black Sea corridor: from aegean to aral seas, including marmara, black, azov and caspian seas PJ Mudie, F Marret, KN Mertens, L Shumilovskikh, SAG Leroy Marine Micropaleontology 134, 1-152, 2017 | 105 | 2017 |
| Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments II: further tests of the Lycopodium marker-grain method KN Mertens, AM Price, V Pospelova Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 184, 74-81, 2012 | 89 | 2012 |
| A review of recent freshwater dinoflagellate cysts: taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeocology ME Kenneth Neil Mertens, Karin Rengefors, Øjvind Phycologia 51 (6), 612-619, 2012 | 80 | 2012 |
| An overview and brief description of common marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst taxa occurring in surface sediments of the Northern Hemisphere N Van Nieuwenhove, MJ Head, A Limoges, V Pospelova, KN Mertens, ... Marine Micropaleontology 159, 101814, 2020 | 76 | 2020 |
| Differences in the chemical composition of organic‐walled dinoflagellate resting cysts from phototrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates K Bogus, KN Mertens, J Lauwaert, IC Harding, H Vrielinck, ... Journal of Phycology 50 (2), 254-266, 2014 | 73 | 2014 |
| Sediment archives reveal irreversible shifts in plankton communities after World War II and agricultural pollution R Siano, M Lassudrie, P Cuzin, N Briant, V Loizeau, S Schmidt, A Ehrhold, ... Current Biology 31 (12), 2682-2689. e7, 2021 | 71 | 2021 |
| the IODP Expedition 307 Scientific Party. 2007. Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Lower and Middle Miocene of the Porcupine Basin S Louwye, A Foubert, K Mertens, D Van Rooij Geological Magazine 145 (3), 321-344, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Holocene salinity changes in the southwestern Black Sea: a reconstruction based on dinoflagellate cysts TJ Verleye, KN Mertens, S Louwye, HW Arz Palynology 33 (1), 77-100, 2009 | 64 | 2009 |
| Process length variation in cysts of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum, from surface sediments of the Baltic–Kattegat–Skagerrak estuarine system: a … KN Mertens, B Dale, M Ellegaard, IDAM JANSSON, A Godhe, A Kremp, ... Boreas 40 (2), 242-255, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
| Process length variation of the cyst of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum in the North Pacific and Baltic‐Skagerrak region: calibration as an annual density … KN Mertens, M Bringué, N Van Nieuwenhove, Y Takano, V Pospelova, ... Journal of Quaternary Science 27 (7), 734-744, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| Cryptic speciation in Protoceratium reticulatum (Dinophyceae): Evidence from morphological, molecular and ecophysiological data N Wang, KN Mertens, B Krock, Z Luo, A Derrien, V Pospelova, Y Liang, ... Harmful Algae 88, 101610, 2019 | 57 | 2019 |
| Resting cysts of freshwater dinoflagellates in southeastern Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) as proxies of cultural eutrophication FMG McCarthy, KN Mertens, M Ellegaard, K Sherman, V Pospelova, ... Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 166 (1-2), 46-62, 2011 | 52 | 2011 |
| A review of rare, poorly known, and morphologically problematic extant marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst taxa of the orders Gymnodiniales and Peridiniales from the … KN Mertens, H Gu, PR Gurdebeke, Y Takano, D Clarke, H Aydin, Z Li, ... Marine Micropaleontology 159, 101773, 2020 | 51 | 2020 |
| Archaeperidinium saanichi sp. nov.: A new species based on morphological variation of cyst and theca within the Archaeperidinium minutum Jörgensen 1912 species complex KN Mertens, A Yamaguchi, H Kawami, S Ribeiro, BS Leander, AM Price, ... Marine Micropaleontology 96, 48-62, 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
| Dinoflagellate cysts as proxies for Holocene environmental change in estuaries: diversity, abundance and morphology M Ellegaard, B Dale, KN Mertens, V Pospelova, S Ribeiro Applications of paleoenvironmental techniques in estuarine studies, 295-312, 2017 | 49 | 2017 |
Vera PospelovaProfessor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of MinnesotaVerified email at uvic.ca
