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Christoph Humborg

Christoph Humborg

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Earth Science
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
63
Citations
14775
World Ranking
1593
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Christoph Humborg is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work addresses various aspects of marine and coastal ecosystems, focusing on biogeochemical processes and environmental dynamics.

The main fields of study for Christoph Humborg include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, the subfields frequently explored are:

  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science

The scientist's research topics span a range of environmental and ecological phenomena, such as:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Christoph Humborg has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Marine Environmental Research

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Christoph Humborg are:

  • Biogeochemical functioning of the Baltic Sea, 2022, Earth System Dynamics
  • Methane emissions offset atmospheric carbon dioxide uptake in coastal macroalgae, mixed vegetation and sediment ecosystems, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Removal of phosphorus and nitrogen in sediments of the eutrophic Stockholm archipelago, Baltic Sea, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Reference state, structure, regime shifts, and regulatory drivers in a coastal sea over the last century: The Central Baltic Sea case, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • High spatiotemporal variability of methane concentrations challenges estimates of emissions across vegetated coastal ecosystems, 2022, Global Change Biology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Alf Norkko
  • Christian Stranne
  • Bo G. Gustafsson
  • Florian Roth
  • Xiaole Sun

Best Publications

  • Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

    Peter A. Raymond;Jens Hartmann;Ronny Lauerwald;Ronny Lauerwald;Sebastian Sobek

  • Effect of Danube River dam on Black Sea biogeochemistry and ecosystem structure

    Christoph Humborg;Venugopalan Ittekkot;Adriana Cociasu;Bodo v. Bodungen

  • Overview of eutrophication indicators to assess environmental status within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

    Joao G. Ferreira;Jesper H. Andersen;Angel Borja;Suzanne B. Bricker

  • Hypoxia in the Baltic Sea and Basin-Scale Changes in Phosphorus Biogeochemistry

    Daniel J. Conley;Christoph Humborg;Lars Rahm;Oleg P. Savchuk

  • Hypoxia is increasing in the coastal zone of the Baltic sea

    Daniel J. Conley;Jacob Carstensen;Juris Aigars;Philip Axe

  • Silicon Retention in River Basins: Far-reaching Effects on Biogeochemistry and Aquatic Food Webs in Coastal Marine Environments

    Christoph Humborg;Daniel J. Conley;Lars Rahm;Fredrik Wulff

  • Nitrogen fluxes from the landscape are controlled by net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs and by climate

    Robert Howarth;Dennis Swaney;Gilles Billen;Josette Garnier

  • An extensive bloom of the N2-fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum in the central Arabian Sea

    Douglas G. Capone;Ajit Subramaniam;Joseph P. Montoya;Maren Voss

  • CO2 supersaturation along the aquatic conduit in Swedish watersheds as constrained by terrestrial respiration, aquatic respiration and weathering.

    Christoph Humborg;Carl-Magnus Mörth;Marcus Sundbom;Hans Borg

  • Hydrological Alterations and Marine Biogeochemistry: A Silicate Issue?

    Venugopalan Ittekkot;Christoph Humborg;Petra Schäfer

  • Long-term ecological changes in Romanian coastal Waters of the Black Sea

    Adriana Cociasu;Liliana Dorogan;Christoph Humborg;Luci Popa

  • Evaluating regional variation of net anthropogenic nitrogen and phosphorus inputs (NANI/NAPI), major drivers, nutrient retention pattern and management implications in the multinational areas of Baltic Sea basin

    Bongghi Hong;Dennis P. Swaney;Carl-Magnus Mörth;Erik Smedberg

  • Net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs to watersheds and riverine N export to coastal waters: a brief overview

    Dennis P Swaney;Bongghi Hong;Chaopu Ti;Robert W Howarth

  • Decreased silica land-sea fluxes through damming in the Baltic Sea catchment - significance of particle trapping and hydrological alterations

    C. Humborg;M. Pastuszak;Juris Aigars;H. Siegmund

  • Nitrogen processes in aquatic ecosystems

    P Durand;L Breuer;Penny J. Johnes;G Billen

  • The Baltic Sea a century ago : a reconstruction from model simulations, verified by observations

    Oleg P. Savchuk;Fredrik Wulff;Sven Hille;Christoph Humborg

  • Hypoxia Sustains Cyanobacteria Blooms in the Baltic Sea

    Carolina P. Funkey;Daniel J. Conley;Nina S. Reuss;Christoph Humborg

  • Nonconservative behavior of dissolved organic carbon across the Laptev and East Siberian seas

    Vanja Alling;Laura Sanchez-Garcia;Don Porcelli;Sveta Pugach

  • Making the ecosystem approach operational—Can regime shifts in ecological- and governance systems facilitate the transition?

    H. Österblom;A. Gårdmark;L. Bergström;B. Müller-Karulis

  • Future changes in the Baltic Sea acid-base (pH) and oxygen balances

    Anders Omstedt;Moa Edman;Björn Claremar;Peter Frodin

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl-Magnus Mörth
Carl-Magnus Mörth Stockholm University
Bo G. Gustafsson
Bo G. Gustafsson Stockholm University
Dennis P. Swaney
Dennis P. Swaney Cornell University
Igor Semiletov
Igor Semiletov Russian Academy of Sciences
Alf Norkko
Alf Norkko University of Helsinki
Reiner Giesler
Reiner Giesler Umeå University
Fredrik Wulff
Fredrik Wulff Stockholm University
Daniel J. Conley
Daniel J. Conley Lund University
Leif G. Anderson
Leif G. Anderson University of Gothenburg
Maren Voss
Maren Voss Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

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