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Christian Wild

Christian Wild

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
57
Citations
11580
World Ranking
2724
National Ranking
147

Overview

Christian Wild is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a specific emphasis on oceanography and ecology.

The scientist's work covers several topics within marine and coastal biology, including coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, and marine biology and ecology research. Additional topics of interest include ocean acidification effects and responses, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Christian Wild has contributed to numerous publications throughout their career. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • PeerJ
  • Diversity

They have collaborated often with several researchers, including:

  • Yusuf C. El-Khaled
  • Arjen Tilstra
  • Florian Roth
  • Nils Rädecker
  • Christian R. Voolstra

Among Christian Wild's recent published works are:

  • "Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Vulnerability of global coral reef habitat suitability to ocean warming, acidification and eutrophication," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "A meta-analysis to assess long-term spatiotemporal changes of benthic coral and macroalgae cover in the Mexican Caribbean," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Nitrogen eutrophication particularly promotes turf algae in coral reefs of the central Red Sea," 2020, PeerJ
  • "Early trajectories of benthic coral reef communities following the 2015/16 coral bleaching event at remote Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles," 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Coral mucus functions as an energy carrier and particle trap in the reef ecosystem

    Christian Wild;Markus Huettel;Anke Klueter;Stephan G. Kremb

  • Nitrogen cycling in corals: the key to understanding holobiont functioning?

    Nils Rädecker;Nils Rädecker;Claudia Pogoreutz;Christian R. Voolstra;Jörg Wiedenmann

  • Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals

    Nils Rädecker;Claudia Pogoreutz;Hagen M. Gegner;Hagen M. Gegner;Anny Cárdenas;Anny Cárdenas

  • Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers

    Christian Wild;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg;Malik S. Naumann;M. Florencia Colombo-Pallotta

  • Coral surface area quantification-evaluation of established techniques by comparison with computer tomography

    Malik S. Naumann;Wolfgang Niggl;Christian Laforsch;Christian Glaser

  • Effects of transparent exopolymer particles and muddy terrigenous sediments on the survival of hard coral recruits

    K. E. Fabricius;C. Wild;E. Wolanski;Doris Abele

  • Degradation and mineralization of coral mucus in reef environments

    Christian Wild;Mohammed Rasheed;Ursula Werner;Ulrich Franke

  • Coral mucus fuels the sponge loop in warm- and cold-water coral reef ecosystems

    Laura Rix;Jasper M. de Goeij;Christina E. Mueller;Ulrich Struck

  • Physical Ecosystem Engineers and the Functioning of Estuaries and Coasts

    J. L. Gutierrez;C. G. Jones;J. E. Byers;K. K. Arkema

  • Biology and ecology of coral mucus release

    John C. Bythell;Christian Wild

  • Influence of coral mucus on nutrient fluxes in carbonate sands

    Christian Wild;Holger Woyt;Markus Huettel

  • Effects of ocean acidification on microbial community composition of, and oxygen fluxes through, biofilms from the Great Barrier Reef

    Verena Witt;Verena Witt;Christian Wild;Kenneth R. N. Anthony;Guillermo Diaz-Pulido

  • Sugar enrichment provides evidence for a role of nitrogen fixation in coral bleaching

    Claudia Pogoreutz;Nils Rädecker;Nils Rädecker;Anny Cárdenas;Anny Cárdenas;Anny Cárdenas;Astrid Gärdes

  • Differential recycling of coral and algal dissolved organic matter via the sponge loop

    Laura Rix;Jasper M. de Goeij;Dick van Oevelen;Ulrich Struck

  • Dominance of Endozoicomonas bacteria throughout coral bleaching and mortality suggests structural inflexibility of the Pocillopora verrucosa microbiome.

    Claudia Pogoreutz;Claudia Pogoreutz;Nils Rädecker;Anny Cárdenas;Astrid Gärdes

  • Organic matter release by dominant hermatypic corals of the Northern Red Sea

    M. S. Naumann;A. Haas;U. Struck;C. Mayr

  • First evidence for zooplankton feeding sustaining key physiological processes in a scleractinian cold-water coral.

    Malik S. Naumann;Covadonga Orejas;Christian Wild;Christine Ferrier-Pagès

  • In-situ Effects of Eutrophication and Overfishing on Physiology and Bacterial Diversity of the Red Sea Coral Acropora hemprichii

    Christian Jessen;Javier Felipe Villa Lizcano;Till Bayer;Cornelia Roder

  • Rebuilding Coral Reefs: A Decadal Grand Challenge

    Nancy Knowlton;Emily Corcoran;Thomas Felis;Sebastian Ferse

  • Organic matter release by Red Sea coral reef organisms-Potential effects on microbial activity and in situ O2 availability

    Christian Wild;Wolfgang Niggl;Naumann;Af Haas

  • Data for 'Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals'

    Nils Rädecker;Claudia Pogoreutz;Hagen M. Gegner;Anny Cárdenas

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian R. Voolstra
Christian R. Voolstra University of Konstanz
Sebastian C. A. Ferse
Sebastian C. A. Ferse University of Bremen
Markus Huettel
Markus Huettel Florida State University
Ulrich Struck
Ulrich Struck Museum für Naturkunde
Sven Uthicke
Sven Uthicke Australian Institute of Marine Science
Burton H. Jones
Burton H. Jones King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Christoph Mayr
Christoph Mayr University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Tim Rixen
Tim Rixen Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Christian Laforsch
Christian Laforsch University of Bayreuth
Maggy M. Nugues
Maggy M. Nugues PSL University

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