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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
84
Citations
19768
World Ranking
810
National Ranking
23

Best Publications

  • Resolving the effect of climate change on fish populations

    Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp;Myron A. Peck;Georg H. Engelhard;Christian Möllmann

  • Ecology: managing evolving fish stocks.

    Christian Jørgensen;Katja Enberg;Erin S. Dunlop;Robert Arlinghaus;Robert Arlinghaus

  • Managing Evolving Fish Stocks

    C. Joergensen;K. Enberg;E.S. Dunlop;R. Arlinghaus

  • Reconsidering the Consequences of Selective Fisheries

    S.M. Garcia;J. Kolding;J. Kolding;J. Rice;Marie-Joelle Rochet

  • Micro-scale distribution of beam trawl effort in the southern North Sea between 1993 and 1996 in relation to the trawling frequency of the sea bed and the impact on benthic organisms

    A. D. Rijnsdorp;A. M. Buys;F. Storbeck;E. G. Visser

  • Fisheries as a large-scale experiment on life-history evolution: disentangling phenotypic and genetic effects in changes in maturation and reproduction of North Sea plaice, Pleuronectes platessa L.

    A. D. Rijnsdorp

  • Warming temperatures and smaller body sizes : synchronous changes in growth of North Sea fishes

    Alan R. Baudron;Coby L. Needle;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp;C. Tara Marshall

  • Global analysis of depletion and recovery of seabed biota after bottom trawling disturbance

    Jan Geert Hiddink;Simon Jennings;Marija Sciberras;Claire L. Szostek

  • The footprint of bottom trawling in European waters: distribution, intensity, and seabed integrity

    Ole Ritzau Eigaard;Francois Bastardie;N.T. Hinzen;Lene Buhl-Mortensen

  • Fisheries-induced trends in reaction norms for maturation in North Sea plaice

    R.E. Grift;A.D. Rijnsdorp;S. Barot;Mikko Heino

  • Bottom trawl fishing footprints on the world’s continental shelves

    Ricardo O. Amoroso;C. Roland Pitcher;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp;Robert A. McConnaughey

  • Estimating seabed pressure from demersal trawls, seines, and dredges based on gear design and dimensions

    Ole R. Eigaard;Francois Bastardie;Mike Breen;Grete E. Dinesen

  • Recruitment of sole stocks, Solea solea (L.), in the Northeast Atlantic

    A.D. Rijnsdorp;F.A. Van Beek;S. Flatman;R.M. Millner

  • Recruitment in flatfish, with special emphasis on North Atlantic species: progress made by the Flatfish Symposia

    Henk W. van der Veer;Rüdiger Berghahn;John M. Miller;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp

  • Selective Tidal Transport of North Sea Plaice Larvae Pleuronectes platessa in Coastal Nursery Areas

    A. D. Rijnsdorp;M. Van Stralen;H. W. Van Der Veer

  • Hunting in the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, and the adaptive significance of daily habits.

    Adriaan Rijnsdorp;Serge Daan;Cornelis Dijkstra

  • Low effective population size and evidence for inbreeding in an overexploited flatfish, plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.)

    Galice Hoarau;E Eva Boon;Dorris N Jongma;Steven Ferber

  • Impacts of climate change on the complex life cycles of fish

    Pierre Petitgas;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp;Mark Dickey-Collas;Georg H. Engelhard

  • Response of benthic fauna to experimental bottom fishing: A global meta‐analysis

    Marija Sciberras;Jan Geert Hiddink;Simon Jennings;Simon Jennings;Simon Jennings;Claire L Szostek

  • Changes in growth of North Sea plaice since 1950 in relation to density, eutrophication, beam-trawl effort, and temperature

    A. D. Rijnsdorp;P. I. van Leeuwen

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