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Christian Skov is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, global and planetary change, sociology and political science, and genetics.

The main topics of their work include fish ecology and management studies, marine and fisheries research, wildlife ecology and conservation, coral and marine ecosystems studies, diverse aspects of tourism research, digital marketing and social media, and recreation, leisure, and wilderness management.

Christian Skov has published extensively in several venues, frequently appearing in Fisheries Research, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Fisheries Management and Ecology, and Journal of Animal Ecology.

They have coauthored with researchers such as Casper Gundelund, Kieran Hyder, Paul Venturelli, Robert Arlinghaus, and Marc Simon Weltersbach, with whom they have published multiple papers.

Recent papers by Christian Skov include the following:

  • Technological innovations in the recreational fishing sector: implications for fisheries management and policy, 2021, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • Preparing for a changing future in recreational fisheries: 100 research questions for global consideration emerging from a horizon scan, 2020, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • First Assessment of the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Marine Recreational Fisheries, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Insights into the users of a citizen science platform for collecting recreational fisheries data, 2020, Fisheries Research
  • Sustainable lake restoration: From challenges to solutions, 2023, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Christian Skov has contributed to book publications with FAO eBooks and Winchester University Press. Notably, these include "Data collection systems and methodologies for the inland fisheries of Europe" (2020), "Proceedings of the EIFAAC symposium on inland fisheries and aquaculture: advances in technology, stock assessment and citizen science in an era of climate change" (2023), and "Conservatism, Christian Democracy and the dynamics of transformation" (2025).

Best Publications

  • Lake restoration: successes, failures and long‐term effects

    Martin Søndergaard;Erik Jeppesen;Torben L. Lauridsen;Christian Skov

  • Partial migration in fishes: causes and consequences

    B.B. Chapman;K. Hulthén;J. Brodersen;P.A. Nilsson

  • Partial migration in fishes: definitions, methodologies and taxonomic distribution.

    B B Chapman;C Skov;K Hulthén;Jacob Brodersen

  • To boldly go: individual differences in boldness influence migratory tendency

    Ben B. Chapman;Kaj Hulthén;David R. Blomqvist;Lars-Anders Hansson

  • Recreational sea fishing in Europe in a global context-Participation rates, fishing effort, expenditure, and implications for monitoring and assessment

    Kieran Hyder;Marc Simon Weltersbach;Mike Armstrong;Keno Ferter

  • CONDITION-DEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL DECISION-MAKING DETERMINES CYPRINID PARTIAL MIGRATION

    Jakob Brodersen;P. Anders Nilsson;Lars-Anders Hansson;Christian Skov

  • Angler apps as a source of recreational fisheries data: opportunities, challenges and proposed standards

    Paul A. Venturelli;Kieran Hyder;Christian Skov

  • There and back again: migration in freshwater fishes

    Christer Brönmark;Kaj Hulthén;P. A. Nilsson;C. Skov

  • Seasonal migration determined by a trade-off between predator avoidance and growth

    Christer Brönmark;Christian Skov;Jakob Brodersen;P. Anders Nilsson

  • Sizing up your enemy: individual predation vulnerability predicts migratory probability

    Christian Skov;Henrik Baktoft;Jakob Brodersen;Christer Brönmark

  • Evaluation of PIT-tagging in cyprinids

    C. Skov;J. Brodersen;C. Brönmark;L.‐A. Hansson

  • How to link biomanipulation and sustainable fisheries management: a step‐by‐step guideline for lakes of the European temperate zone

    T. Mehner;R. Arlinghaus;Søren Berg;H. Dörner

  • Consequences of fish predation, migration, and juvenile ontogeny on zooplankton spring dynamics

    Lars-Anders Hansson;Alice Nicolle;Jakob Brodersen;Pia Romare

  • Technological innovations in the recreational fishing sector: implications for fisheries management and policy.

    Steven J. Cooke;Paul Venturelli;William M. Twardek;Robert J. Lennox

  • Behavior of pike (Esox lucius L.) .50 cm in a turbid reservoir and in a clearwater lake

    N. Jepsen;S. Beck;C. Skov;A. Koed

  • Effects of passive integrated transponder tags on survival and growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar

    Martin Hage Larsen;Aske N. Thorn;Christian Skov;Kim Aarestrup

  • What is the influence of a reduction of planktivorous and benthivorous fish on water quality in temperate eutrophic lakes? : A systematic review

    Claes Bernes;Stephen R. Carpenter;Anna Gårdmark;Per Larsson

  • Does roach behaviour differ between shallow lakes of different environmental state

    Lene Jacobsen;Søren Berg;Niels Jepsen;Christian Skov

  • The physiological basis of the migration continuum in brown trout ( Salmo trutta)

    Mikkel Boel;Kim Aarestrup;Henrik Baktoft;Torben Larsen

  • Size‐dependent predator–prey relationships between pikeperch and their prey fish

    H. Dörner;H. Dörner;S. Hülsmann;F. Hölker;F. Hölker;Christian Skov

  • A predation cost to bold fish in the wild

    Kaj Hulthén;Ben B. Chapman;P. Anders Nilsson;P. Anders Nilsson;Lars Anders Hansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jakob Brodersen
Jakob Brodersen Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
P. Anders Nilsson
P. Anders Nilsson Lund University
Christer Brönmark
Christer Brönmark Lund University
Lars-Anders Hansson
Lars-Anders Hansson Lund University
Kim Aarestrup
Kim Aarestrup Technical University of Denmark
Robert Arlinghaus
Robert Arlinghaus Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Niels Jepsen
Niels Jepsen Technical University of Denmark
G. van der Velde
G. van der Velde Radboud University
Martin Søndergaard
Martin Søndergaard Aarhus University
Peter Grønkjær
Peter Grønkjær Aarhus University

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