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Researcher

Kenneth Mertens

Awards & Distinctions

84 Results

2018

Identification key for Pliocene and Quaternary Spiniferites taxa bearing intergonal processes based on observations from estuarine and coastal environments

Audrey LimogesLaurent LondeixKenneth MertensAndre RochonVera PospelovaTomasa CuellarAnne de Vernal

A1 Journal Article in PALYNOLOGY

Pentaplacodinium saltonense gen. et sp nov (Dinophyceae) and its relationship to the cyst-defined genus Operculodinium and yessotoxin-producing Protoceratium reticulatum

Kenneth MertensM Consuelo Carbonell-MooreVera PospelovaMartin J HeadAndrea HighfieldDeclan SchroederHaifeng GuKarl B AndreeMargarita FernandezAika Yamaguchi et al.

A1 Journal Article in HARMFUL ALGAE

Taxonomic re-investigation and geochemical characterization of Reid’s (1974) species of Spiniferites from holotype and topotype material

Pieter GurdebekeKenneth MertensKara BogusFabienne MarretNicolas ChomératHenk VrielinckStephen Louwye

A1 Journal Article in PALYNOLOGY

2017

Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distributions in the Black Sea Corridor : from Aegean to Aral Seas, including Marmara, Black, Azov and Caspian Seas

Peta J MudieFabienne MarretKenneth MertensLyudmila ShumilovskikhSuzanne AG Leroy

A1 Journal Article in MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY

First record of resting cysts of the benthic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum leve in a natural reservoir in Gujan-Mestras, Gironde, France

Kenneth MertensHaifeng GuVera PospelovaNicolas ChomératElisabeth NézanPieter GurdebekeKara BogusHenk VrielinckMyriam RumebeClaire Meteigner

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

The cyst-theca relationship of the dinoflagellate cyst Trinovantedinium pallidifulvum, with erection of Protoperidinium lousianensis sp. nov. and their phylogenetic position within the Conica group

Kenneth MertensHaifeng GuYoshihito TakanoAndrea M PriceVera PospelovaKara BogusGerard JM VersteeghFabienne MarretR Eugene TurnerNancy N Rabalais et al.

A1 Journal Article in PALYNOLOGY

2016

Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments, III : identifying the source of Lycopodium loss during palynological processing and further testing of the Lycopodium marker-grain method

Andrea Michelle PricePieter GurdebekeKenneth MertensVera Pospelova

A1 Journal Article in REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Holocene dinoflagellate cyst record from Vancouver Islands (British Columbia, Canada) : preliminary results

Pieter GurdebekeKenneth MertensZhen LiVera PospelovaAudrey DallimoreStephen Louwye

Holocene dinoflagellate cysts from fjords of western Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)

Pieter GurdebekeVera PospelovaKenneth MertensJasmin ChanaAudrey DallimoreStephen Louwye

2015

Cyst-theca relationship and phylogenetic positions of the diplopsalioideans (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), with description of Niea and Qia gen. nov.

Tingting LiuKenneth MertensHaifeng Gu

A1 Journal Article in PHYCOLOGIA

Cyst–theca relationship and phylogenetic positions of Protoperidinium (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) species of the sections Conica and Tabulata, with description of Protoperidinium shanghaiense sp. nov.

Haifeng GuTingting LiuKenneth Mertens

A1 Journal Article in PHYCOLOGIA

Dinoflagellate cysts in recent sediments from fjords of Western Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)

Pieter GurdebekeVera PospelovaKenneth MertensJasmin ChanaAudrey DallimoreStephen Louwye

First report of fossilized cysts produced by the benthic Bysmatrum subsalsum (Dinophyceae) from a shallow Mexican lagoon in the Gulf of Mexico

Audrey LimogesKenneth MertensAna-Carolina Ruíz-FernándezAnne de Vernal

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Taxonomic re-examination of the toxic armored dinoflagellate Pyrodinium bahamense Plate 1906 : can morphology or LSU sequencing separate P. bahamense var. compressum from var. bahamense?

Kenneth MertensJennifer WolnyConsuelo Carbonell-MooreKara BogusMarianne EllegaardAudrey LimogesAnne de VernalPieter GurdebekeTakuo OmuraAbdulrahman Al-muftah et al.

A1 Journal Article in HARMFUL ALGAE

2014

Differences in the chemical composition of organic-walled dinoflagellate resting cysts from phototrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates

Kara BogusKenneth MertensJohan LauwaertIan C HardingHenk VrielinckKarin AF ZonneveldGerard JM Versteegh

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Living fossils in the Indo-Pacific warm pool: a refuge for thermofile dinoflagellates during glaciations

Kenneth MertensYoshihito TakanoMartin J HeadKazumi Matsuoka

A1 Journal Article in GEOLOGY

New acritarchs from the late Cenozoic of the southern North Sea Basin and the North Atlantic realm

Koen VerhoevenStephen LouwyeManuel Paez-ReyesKenneth MertensDries Vercauteren

A1 Journal Article in PALYNOLOGY

New dinoflagellate species Protoperidinium haizhouense sp. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), its cyst-theca relationship and phylogenetic position within the Monovela group

Tingting LiuHaifeng GuKenneth MertensDongzhao Lan

A1 Journal Article in PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Some new acritarch species from the lower and middle Miocene of the Porcupine Basin, North Atlantic Ocean: biostratigraphy and palaeoecology

Willemijn QuaijtaalKenneth MertensStephen Louwye

A1 Journal Article in PALYNOLOGY

Statistically assessing the correlation between salinity and morphology in cysts produced by the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum from surface sediments of the North Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean–Marmara–Black Sea region, and Baltic–Kattegat–Skagerrak estuarine system

Ida-Maria JanssonKenneth MertensMartin J Head

A1 Journal Article in PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

2013

A new heterotrophic dinoflagellate from the North-eastern Pacific, Protoperidinium fukuyoi: cyst–theca relationship, phylogeny, distribution and ecology

Kenneth MertensAika YamaguchiYoshihito TakanoVera PospelovaMartin HeadTaoufik RadiAnna PieńkowskiAnne de VernalHisae KawamiKazumi Matsuoka

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Dinoflagellate cysts in recent sediments from fjords of western Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada): preliminary results

Pieter GurdebekeVera PospelovaKenneth MertensJasmin ChanaAudrey DallimoreStephen Louwye

Late Quaternary climatic and oceanographic changes in the Northeast Pacific as recorded by dinoflagellate cysts from Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (Mexico)

Andrea M PriceKenneth MertensVera PospelovaThomas F PedersenRaja S Ganeshram

A1 Journal Article in PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Late Quaternary climatic and oceanographic changes in the Northeast Pacific as recorded by dinoflagellate cysts from Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (Mexico)

Andrea PriceKenneth MertensVera PospelovaTom PedersenRaja Ganeshram

Molecular characterization and cyst-cell size relationships in the globally distributed yessotoxin producing dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum

Kenneth MertensYoshihito TakanoKazumi MatsuokaVera PospelovaConsuelo Carbonell-MooreKarl AndreeMargarita FernandezMarianne EllegaardKazuhiko KoikeAndre Rochon et al.

Morphological variation in dinoflagellate cysts: current status and future challenges

Kenneth Mertens

Understanding cyst-theca relationships in freshwater dinoflagellates

Francine McCarthyKenneth MertensYoshihito TakanoAndrea KruegerMartin Head

You are what you eat: differences in the chemical composition of organic-walled resting cysts from phototrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates

Kara BogusKenneth MertensJohan LauwaertIan HardingHenk VrielinckKarin ZonneveldGerard Versteegh

You are what you eat: differences in the chemical composition of organic-walled resting cysts from phototrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates

Kara BogusKenneth MertensJohan LauwaertIan HardingHenk VrielinckKarin ZonneveldGerard Versteegh

2012

A review of recent freshwater dinoflagellate cysts : taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeocology

Kenneth MertensKarin RengeforsØjvind MoestrupMarianne Ellegaard

A1 Journal Article in PHYCOLOGIA

Archaeperidinium saanichi sp. nov.: a new species based on morphological variation of cyst and theca within the Archaeperidinium minutum Jörgensen 1912 species complex

Kenneth MertensAika YamaguchiHisae KawamiSofia RibeiroBrian S LeanderAndrea Michelle PriceVera PospelovaMarianne EllegaardKazumi Matsuoka

A1 Journal Article in MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY

Average process length variation of the marine dinoflagellate cyst Operculodinium centrocarpum in the tropical and Southern Hemisphere Oceans: assessing its potential as a palaeosalinity proxy

Thomas VerleyeKenneth MertensMarty D YoungBarrie DaleAndrew McMinnLouis ScottKarin AF ZonneveldStephen Louwye

A1 Journal Article in MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY

Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments, II: further tests of the Lycopodiummarker-grain method

Kenneth MertensAndrea Michelle PriceVera Pospelova

A1 Journal Article in REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: further tests of the Lycopodium marker-grain method

Kenneth MertensAndrea PriceVera Pospelova

Dinoflagellate cysts as indicators of millennial scale climatic and oceanographic variability in Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (Mexico) during the Late Quaternary

Andrea PriceKenneth MertensVera PospelovaTom PedersenRaja Ganeshram

Insights on ecology of potentially toxic dinoflagellates and their cysts in British Columbian estuarine waters

Vera PospelovaSvetlana EsenkulovaAndrea PriceKenneth Mertens

Palynological evidence for gradual changes in salinity for the Black Sea during Early to Mid-Holocene

Fabienne MarretLee BradleyPeta MudieAli AksuRichard HiscottKenneth MertensE IvanovaI Murdmaa

Polyphyletic round brown spiny dinoflagellate cysts

Kazumi MatsuokaKenneth MertensHisae KawamiYoshihito TakanoVera PospelovaAnna Pieńkowski

Process length of dinoflagellate cysts as salinity proxy

Kenneth MertensStephen Louwye

Process length variation of the cyst of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum in the North Pacific and Baltic-Skagerrak region: calibration as an annual density proxy and first evidence of pseudo-cryptic speciation

Kenneth MertensManuel BringuéNicolas Van NieuwenhoveYoshihito TakanoVera PospelovaAndré RochonAnne De VernalTaoufik RadiBarrie DaleTimothy Patterson et al.

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Process length variation of the cyst of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum in the North Pacific: a new density proxy and first evidence of pseudo-cryptic speciation

Kenneth MertensManuel BringuéNicolas Van NieuwenhoveYoshihito TakanoVera PospelovaAndré RochonAnne de VernalTaoufik RadiBarrie DaleRT Patterson et al.

Quantitative estimation of Holocene surface salinity variation in the Black Sea using dinoflagellate cyst process length

Kenneth MertensLee R BradleyYoshihito TakanoPeta J MudieFabienne MarretAli E AksuRichard N HiscottThomas VerleyeErik A MousingLudmilla L Smyrnova et al.

A1 Journal Article in QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

2011

Ecological signals in recent dinoflagellate cysts from Scandinavian waters

Barrie DaleAmy DaleKnut BakkenNiels GundersenRoger KoniecnyKenneth Mertens

Process length variation in cysts of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum, from surface sediments of the Baltic–Kattegat–Skagerrak estuarine system: a regional salinity proxy

Kenneth MertensBarrie DaleMarianne EllegaardIda-Maria JanssonAnna GodheAnke KrempStephen Louwye

A1 Journal Article in BOREAS

Process length variation of Operculodinium centrocarpum in the North Pacific and its relation to salinity and temperature

Kenneth MertensManuel BringuéVera PospelovaNicolas Van NieuwenhoveAndre RochonAnne de VernalStephen LouwyeKazumi Matsuoka

Resting cysts of freshwater dinoflagellates in southeastern Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) as proxies of cultural eutrophication

Francine McCarthyKenneth MertensMarianne EllegaardKeith ShermanVera PospelovaSofia RibeiroStephan BlascoDries Vercauteren

A1 Journal Article in REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

The geographical distribution and (palaeo)ecology of Selenopemphix undulata sp. nov., a new late Quaternary dinoflagellate cyst from the Pacific Ocean

Thomas VerleyeVera PospelovaKenneth MertensStephen Louwye

A1 Journal Article in MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY

2010

British Columbian fjords, sediment traps, Operculodinium centrocarpum and a few other questions

Vera PospelovaAndrea PriceKenneth MertensAlica ChangRT Patterson

Freshwater dinocysts as paleolomnological proxies: case studies from Honey Harbour, Ontario and Sluice Pond, Massachusetts

Francine McCarthyKenneth MertensJB HubenyR ZanattaJ LewisMarianne EllegaardVera PospelovaSofia RibeiroDries Vercauteren

Further testing of the Lycopodium method to determine absolute abundances of dinoflagellate cysts with a focus on the sodiumpolytungstate method

Kenneth MertensAndrea PriceVera PospelovaFabienne MarretMarianne Ellegaard

Glacial cold-water corals growth in the Gulf of Cádiz: implications of increased palaeo-productivity

Claudia WienbergNorbert FrankKenneth MertensJan-Berend StuutMargarita MarchantJan FietzkeFuru MienisDierk Hebbeln

A1 Journal Article in EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Holocene dinoflagellate cyst record of climate and primary productivity change in the Santa Barbara Basin, southern California

Vera PospelovaKenneth MertensTom Pedersen

Morphological variation of Operculodinium centrocarpum and Lingulodinium machaeorophorum in culture and the field and relation to environmental parameters

Kenneth MertensMarianne EllegaardStephen Louwye

Morphological variation of Operculodinium centrocarpum and Lingulodinium machaerophorum in culture and the field and relation to environmental parameters

Kenneth MertensMarianne EllegaardStephen LouwyeBarrie DaleUlrike HolzwarthFabienne MarretPeta MudieSuzanne LeroyVera PospelovaFrancesca Sangiorgi et al.

The spatial distribution and (palaeo)ecology of a new late Quaternary dinoflagellate cyst from the Pacific Ocean: Selenopemphix undulata

Thomas VerleyeVera PospelovaKenneth MertensStephen Louwye

2009

30 000 years of productivity and salinity variations in the late Quaternary Cariaco Basin revealed by dinoflagellate cysts

Kenneth MertensCatalina GonzalesIrina DelusinaStephen Louwye

A1 Journal Article in BOREAS

Coccolithophores as palaeoecological indicators for shifts of the ITCZ in the Cariaco Basin during the late Quaternary

Kenneth MertensMatt LynnMylene AycardHui-Ling LinStephen Louwye

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

Kenneth MertensKoen VerhoevenThomas VerleyeStephen LouwyeAna AmorimSofia RibeiroAmr S DeafIan C HardingStijn De SchepperCatalina Gonzáles et al.

A1 Journal Article in REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Holocene salinity changes in the southwestern Black Sea : a reconstruction based on dinoflagellate cysts

Thomas VerleyeKenneth MertensStephen LouwyeHelge W Arz

A1 Journal Article in PALYNOLOGY

Palynological signals of recent anthropogenic impacts on the Black Sea and the implications for early Holocene salinity changes.

Peta MudieKenneth MertensFabienne MarretThomas VerleyeAli AksuRichard Hiscott

Tracing hydrological millennial-scale cycles in the late Quaternary of the Cariaco Basin and the southern Gulf of Cádiz using coccoliths and dinoflagellate cysts

Kenneth MertensStephen Louwye

What drives the distribution of cysts of Lingulodinium polyedrum?

Kenneth MertensStephen Louwye

2008

Calibrated dinocyst events in the Miocene of Porcupine Basin, off southwest Ireland (IODP 307)

Stephen LouwyeAnneleen FoubertKenneth MertensDavid Van Rooijthe IODP Expedition 307 Scientific Party

Galeacysta etrusca complex, dinoflagellate cyst marker of Paratethyan influxes into Mediterranean Sea, before and after the peak of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

Gilles EscarguelSperanta-Maria PopescuFlorent DalesmeG JouannicMartin HeadMC Melinte-DobrinescuM Süto-SzentaiK BakracG ClauzonJean-Pierre Suc et al.

Holocene dinoflagellate cysts as salinity indicators from the southwestern Black Sea

Thomas VerleyeKenneth MertensStephen LouwyeH ARZ

Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the lower and Middle Miocene of the Porcupine Basin

Stephen LouwyeAnneleen FoubertKenneth MertensDavid Van Rooij

A1 Journal Article in GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Lingulodinium machaerophorum process length variations in the surface sediment: a salinity proxy?

Kenneth MertensSofia RibeiroIlham BouimetarhanHulya CanerNathalie Combourieu-NeboutBarrie DaleAnne de VernalMarianne EllegaardMariana FilipovaAnna Godhe et al.

Mediterranean-Paratethys connections before and after Messinian Salinity Crisis

Speranta-Maria PopescuJean-Pierre SucG ClauzonMC Melinte-DobrinescuG EscarguelF QuillévéréM-LC SîrbescuF DalesmeM JouannicMartin Head et al.

New dinoflagellate cysts from the Miocene of the Porcupine Basin, offshore southwest Ireland

Stephen LouwyeKenneth MertensDries Vercauterendries vercauteren

A1 Journal Article in PALYNOLOGY

New idea concerning Mediterranean-Paratethys connections and Lago Mare events using the Galeacysta etrusca Complex morphology

Speranta-Maria PopescuJean-Pierre SucG ClauzonMC Melinte-DobrinescuGilles EscarguelF QuillévéreFlorent DalesmeG JouannicMartin HeadM Süto-Szentai et al.

Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: investigating its potential as salinity proxy

Kenneth MertensSofia RibeiroIlham BouimetarhamHulya CanerNathalie Combourieu NeboutBarrie DaleAnne de VernalMarianne EllegaardMariana FilipovaAnne Godhe et al.

A1 Journal Article in Marine Micropaleontology

Reconstructing marine productivity of the Cariaco Basin during marine isotope stages 3 and 4 using organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts

Catalina GonzálezLydie DupontKenneth MertensGerold Wefer

A1 Journal Article in PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

The Holocene salinity changes in the southwestern Black Sea: A reconstruction based on dinoflagellate cysts

Thomas VerleyeKenneth MertensStephen LouwyeH ARZ

The absolute abundance calibration project: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

Kenneth MertensA AMORIMS RIBEIROA DEAFI HARDINGS DE SCHEPPERA DE VERNALT RADIK DYBKJAERN POULSEN et al.

2007

A biostratigraphical analysis with dinoflagellate cysts of a Lower Miocene sequence in the Deurganckdok, Antwerp habour, northern Belgium

Stephen LouwyeKenneth Mertens

Bookchapter in Observations paléontologiques réalisées dans les terrains néogènes belges de 1971 à 2004 entre Kallo et Doel, port d’Anvers, Rive gauche (Flandre-Orientale, Belgique) : le Miocène du Deurganckdok à Doel

Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Lower and Middle Miocene of Porcupine Basin, IODP Expedition 307.S : a dinocyst study

Stephen LouwyeAnneleen FoubertKenneth MertensDavid Van Rooijthe IODP Expedition 307 Scientific Party

2006

Biometry of late Quaternary coccoliths from the Southern Cadiz region

Kenneth MertensHeleen VannesteAnneleen FoubertStephen LouwyeDierk Hebbeln

Coccoliths, dinoflagellates and diatoms as palaeoceanographical tools in the Late Quaternary Cariaco Basin

Kenneth Mertens

Coccoliths, dinoflagellates, foraminifers and diatoms in the Late Quaternary Cairaco Basin: the importance of taphonomical overprinting

Kenneth MertensStephen Louwye

Dinoflagellate cysts and coccoliths as palaeooceanographical indicators in the Gulf of Cadiz

Kenneth MertensStephen LouwyeL VANKERCKHOVENH VANNESTEA FOUBERT

A4 Journal Article in Danmarks og Gronlands Undersogelse Rapport

Integrated palynostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Middle and Lower Miocene of Porcupine Bay (Holes 1318B and 1318C, IODP Exp. 307)

Stephen LouwyeKenneth Mertens

2005

Coccolithophores as indicators of dissolution in the Cariaco basin, ODP site 1002

Kenneth Mertens

Dinoflagellate cysts as Late Quaternary paleoclimatological indicators in the Cariaco Basin (ODP Site 1002C)

Kenneth MertensStephen Louwye

Dissolution as indicated by coccoliths in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

Kenneth MertensStephen Louwye