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Overview

Daniel Hering is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and has made significant contributions to environmental science, particularly within freshwater ecology and biodiversity research.

The main field of study focuses on Environmental Science with 160 publications. Subfields of study include:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Research topics explored by Daniel Hering cover diverse aspects of freshwater ecosystems and related environmental processes. They have published extensively on the following topics:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Frequent publication venues for Daniel Hering include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors associated with their work are:

  • Sebastian Birk
  • Willem Kaijser
  • Armin W. Lorenz
  • Christian Schürings
  • Jochem Kail

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Hering include:

  • Securing success for the Nature Restoration Law, 2023, Science
  • The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt, 2023, Nature
  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research, 2021, Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • Three hundred ways to assess Europe's surface waters: An almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive

    Sebastian Birk;Wendy Bonne;Angel Borja;Sandra Brucet

  • Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

    Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Myrna Diaz;Richard Harrington

  • The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future

    Daniel Hering;Angel Borja;Jacob Carstensen;Laurence Carvalho

  • Assessment of european streams with diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and fish : a comparative metric-based analysis of organism response to stress

    Daniel Hering;Richard K. Johnson;Sandra Kramm;Stefan Schmutz

  • Overview and application of the AQEM assessment system

    Daniel Hering;Otto Moog;Leonard Sandin;Piet F. M. Verdonschot

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems.

    Sebastian Birk;Daniel Chapman;Laurence Carvalho;Bryan M. Spears

  • www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences ☆

    Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber;Daniel Hering

  • Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services

    Gary W. Luck;Richard Harrington;Paula A. Harrison;Claire Kremen

  • Cook book for the development of a Multimetric Index for biological condition of aquatic ecosystems: experiences from the European AQEM and STAR projects and related initiatives

    Daniel Hering;Christian K. Feld;Otto Moog;Thomas Ofenböck

  • Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: An analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive

    Laurence Carvalho;Eleanor B. Mackay;Ana Cristina Cardoso;Annette Baattrup-Pedersen

  • Implementation options for DNA-based identification into ecological status assessment under the European Water Framework Directive.

    Daniel Hering;Angel Borja;J.Iwan Jones;Didier Pont

  • Indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem services: a synthesis across ecosystems and spatial scales

    Christian K. Feld;Pedro Martins da Silva;José Paulo Sousa;Francesco De Bello

  • From Natural to Degraded Rivers and Back Again: A Test of Restoration Ecology Theory and Practice

    Christian K. Feld;Sebastian Birk;David C. Bradley;Daniel Hering

  • Managing aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress — An introduction to the MARS project

    Daniel Hering;Laurence Carvalho;Christine Argillier;Meryem Beklioglu

  • Drivers and stressors of freshwater biodiversity patterns across different ecosystems and scales: a review

    Sonja Stendera;R. Adrian;N. Bonada;M. Cañedo-Argüelles

  • The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt

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  • Community structure or function: effects of environmental stress on benthic macroinvertebrates at different spatial scales

    Christian K. Feld;Daniel Hering

  • The Development of a System to Assess the Ecological Quality of Streams Based on Macroinvertebrates – Design of the Sampling Programme within the AQEM Project

    Daniel Hering;Andrea Buffagni;Otto Moog;Leonard Sandin

  • Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration.

    Jan U Lemm;Markus Venohr;Lidija Globevnik;Kostas Stefanidis

  • The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches

    Mike T. Furse;Daniel Hering;Otto Moog;Piet Verdonschot

  • A New Method for Assessing the Impact of Hydromorphological Degradation on the Macroinvertebrate Fauna of Five German Stream Types

    Armin Lorenz;Daniel Hering;Christian Karl Feld;Peter Rolauffs

  • The use of large wood in stream restoration: experiences from 50 projects in Germany and Austria

    Jochem Kail;Daniel Hering;Susanne Muhar;Marc Gerhard

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian K. Feld
Christian K. Feld University of Duisburg-Essen
Armin W. Lorenz
Armin W. Lorenz University of Duisburg-Essen
Sonja C. Jähnig
Sonja C. Jähnig Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Peter Haase
Peter Haase University of Duisburg-Essen
Sebastian Birk
Sebastian Birk University of Duisburg-Essen
Florian Leese
Florian Leese University of Duisburg-Essen
Leonard Sandin
Leonard Sandin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Wolfram Graf
Wolfram Graf BOKU University
Nikolai Friberg
Nikolai Friberg Aarhus University
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Piet F. M. Verdonschot Wageningen University & Research

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