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Overview

Andrea Sundermann is a researcher affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States, with a primary focus on environmental science. Their work encompasses a broad range of topics within this field, with particular emphasis on ecological impacts in freshwater systems.

The main fields of study for Andrea Sundermann include environmental science, with a significant concentration on ecology, nature and landscape conservation, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, water science and technology, and pollution. Their research covers several key topics, including freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, fish ecology and management studies, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, water quality and pollution assessment, and species distribution and climate change.

They have published in a variety of peer-reviewed scientific journals, with frequent publication venues comprising:

  • Environmental Sciences Europe
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Limnologica
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers represent a range of environmental and ecological topics, such as:

  • "Better integration of chemical pollution research will further our understanding of biodiversity loss," published in 2023 in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "A new index of a water temperature equivalent for summer respiration conditions of benthic invertebrates in rivers as a bio-indicator of global climate change," published in 2022 in Limnologica
  • "Aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in rivers influenced by mining activities," published in 2022 in Scientific Reports
  • "Effects of multiple stressors on benthic invertebrates using Water Framework Directive monitoring data," published in 2023 in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Economic costs of invasive species in Germany," published in 2021 in NeoBiota

Andrea Sundermann often collaborates with various co-authors, including Matthias Oetken and Ariane Moulinec, with whom they have six joint publications each. Other frequent collaborators include Jörg Oehlmann with four publications, as well as Sarah Johann and Henner Hollert, both with three joint works.

Best Publications

  • River restoration success depends on the species pool of the immediate surroundings.

    Andrea Sundermann;Stefan Stoll;Peter Haase

  • The impact of hydromorphological restoration on river ecological status: a comparison of fish, benthic invertebrates, and macrophytes

    P. Haase;D. Hering;S. C. Jähnig;A. W. Lorenz

  • Assessing streams in Germany with benthic invertebrates: development of a practical standardised protocol for macroinvertebrate sampling and sorting

    Peter Haase;Susanne Lohse;Steffen Pauls;Karin Schindehütte

  • River restoration success: a question of perception

    S. C. Jähnig;A. W. Lorenz;D. Hering;C. Antons

  • Dispersal distance and the pool of taxa, but not barriers, determine the colonisation of restored river reaches by benthic invertebrates

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Stefan Stoll;Andrea Sundermann;Peter Haase

  • Assessing streams in Germany with benthic invertebrates: selection of candidate metrics.

    Daniel Hering;Carolin Meier;Claudia Rawer-Jost;Christian K. Feld

  • Effects of changing climate on European stream invertebrate communities: A long-term data analysis

    Jonas Jourdan;Robert B. O'Hara;Roberta Bottarin;Kaisa-Leena Huttunen

  • First audit of macroinvertebrate samples from an EU Water Framework Directive monitoring program: human error greatly lowers precision of assessment results.

    Peter Haase;Steffen U. Pauls;Steffen U. Pauls;Karin Schindehütte;Andrea Sundermann

  • Context dependency in biodiversity patterns of central German stream metacommunities

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Jani Heino;Andrea Sundermann;Peter Haase;Peter Haase

  • Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species’ abundance trends

    Diana E. Bowler;Christian Hof;Peter Haase;Peter Haase;Ingrid Kröncke

  • Disentangling environmental drivers of benthic invertebrate assemblages: The role of spatial scale and riverscape heterogeneity in a multiple stressor environment

    Moritz Leps;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Veronica Dahm;Peter Haase

  • Stressor prioritisation in riverine ecosystems: Which environmental factors shape benthic invertebrate assemblage metrics?

    Andrea Sundermann;Miriam Gerhardt;Heike Kappes;Peter Haase

  • Hydromorphological restoration of running waters: effects on benthic invertebrate assemblages

    Andrea Sundermann;Claudia Antons;Nathalie Cron;Armin W. Lorenz

  • Water quality variables and pollution sources shaping stream macroinvertebrate communities.

    Elisabeth Berger;Elisabeth Berger;Peter Haase;Mathias Kuemmerlen;Moritz Leps

  • Moderate warming over the past 25 years has already reorganized stream invertebrate communities

    Peter Haase;Francesca Pilotto;Fengqing Li;Andrea Sundermann

  • Macrophytes respond to reach-scale river restorations

    Armin W. Lorenz;Thomas Korte;Andrea Sundermann;Kathrin Januschke

  • Assessing the impact of errors in sorting and identifying macroinvertebrate samples

    Peter Haase;John Murray-Bligh;Susanne Lohse;Steffen Pauls

  • Time is no healer: increasing restoration age does not lead to improved benthic invertebrate communities in restored river reaches.

    Moritz Leps;Moritz Leps;Andrea Sundermann;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Armin W. Lorenz

  • Do adult and YOY fish benefit from river restoration measures

    Armin W. Lorenz;Stefan Stoll;Andrea Sundermann;Peter Haase

  • The importance of the regional species pool, ecological species traits and local habitat conditions for the colonization of restored river reaches by fish.

    Stefan Stoll;Jochem Kail;Armin W. Lorenz;Andrea Sundermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Haase
Peter Haase University of Duisburg-Essen
Stefan Stoll
Stefan Stoll University of Duisburg-Essen
Armin W. Lorenz
Armin W. Lorenz University of Duisburg-Essen
Jonathan D. Tonkin
Jonathan D. Tonkin University of Canterbury
Steffen U. Pauls
Steffen U. Pauls Senckenberg German Entomological Institute
Daniel Hering
Daniel Hering University of Duisburg-Essen
Sonja C. Jähnig
Sonja C. Jähnig Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ralph T. Clarke
Ralph T. Clarke Bournemouth University
Jani Heino
Jani Heino University of Oulu
Ralf B. Schäfer
Ralf B. Schäfer University of Kaiserslautern-Landau - RPTU

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