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Dean Jacobsen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior. Their research also spans areas such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

The scientist has published extensively in several journals, with frequent contributions to Freshwater Biology, The Science of The Total Environment, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Inland Waters, and Ecological Indicators.

Dean Jacobsen's recent papers include the following:

  • Scientists' warning of threats to mountains, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • A global perspective on the application of riverine macroinvertebrates as biological indicators in Africa, South-Central America, Mexico and Southern Asia, 2021, Ecological Indicators
  • Insects in high-elevation streams: Life in extreme environments imperiled by climate change, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • The dilemma of altitudinal shifts: caught between high temperature and low oxygen, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Specialized meltwater biodiversity persists despite widespread deglaciation, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Dean Jacobsen frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include Nikolai Friberg, Olivier Dangles, Sophie Cauvy-Fraunié, Oscar Alberto Rojas-Castillo, and Tor Erik Eriksen.

Best Publications

  • Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

    Alexander M. Milner;Alexander M. Milner;Kieran Khamis;Tom J. Battin;John Edward Brittain

  • Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;B Bookhagen;Christian Huggel;Dean Jacobsen

  • Structure and diversity of stream invertebrate assemblages : the influence of temperature with altitude and latitude

    Dean Jacobsen;Rikke Schultz;Andrea Encalada

  • Biodiversity under threat in glacier-fed river systems

    Dean Jacobsen;Alexander M. Milner;Alexander M. Milner;Lee E. Brown;Olivier Dangles;Olivier Dangles;Olivier Dangles

  • Rapid decline of snow and ice in the tropical Andes – Impacts, uncertainties and challenges ahead

    Mathias Vuille;Mark Carey;Christian Huggel;Wouter Buytaert

  • Specialized meltwater biodiversity persists despite widespread deglaciation

    Clint C. Muhlfeld;Clint C. Muhlfeld;Timothy Joseph Cline;J. Joseph Giersch;Erich Peitzsch

  • Feeding plasticity of two detritivore-shredders

    Nikolai Friberg;Dean Jacobsen

  • A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels.

    Jani Heino;Adriano Sanches Melo;Luis Mauricio Bini;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • The macroinvertebrate fauna of Ecuadorian highland streams in the wet and dry season

    Dean Jacobsen;Andrea Encalada

  • The legacy of pesticide pollution: An overlooked factor in current risk assessments of freshwater systems.

    Jes Jessen Rasmussen;Peter Wiberg-Larsen;Annette Baattrup-Pedersen;Nina Cedergreen

  • Macroinvertebrates: composition, life histories and production

    Dean Jacobsen;Claudia Cressa;Jude M. Mathooko;David Dudgeon

  • Contrasting patterns in local and zonal family richness of stream invertebrates along an Andean altitudinal gradient

    Dean Jacobsen

  • Low oxygen pressure as a driving factor for the altitudinal decline in taxon richness of stream macroinvertebrates.

    Dean Jacobsen;Dean Jacobsen

  • Climate change and alpine stream biology: progress, challenges, and opportunities for the future.

    Scott Hotaling;Debra S. Finn;Debra S. Finn;J. Joseph Giersch;David W. Weisrock

  • Altitudinal changes in diversity of macroinvertebrates from small streams in the Ecuadorian Andes

    Dean Jacobsen

  • Environmental harshness and global richness patterns in glacier-fed streams

    Dean Jacobsen;Olivier Dangles;Olivier Dangles

  • Scientists' warning of threats to mountains.

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  • Are macroinvertebrates in high altitude streams affected by oxygen deficiency

    Dean Jacobsen;Stig Rostgaard;Juan José Vásconez

  • Tropical High-Altitude Streams

    Dean Jacobsen

  • The effect of organic pollution on the macroinvertebrate fauna of Ecuadorian highland streams

    Dean Jacobsen

  • Effects of deforestation on macroinvertebrate diversity and assemblage structure in Ecuadorian Amazon streams

    Berit H. Bojsen;Dean Jacobsen

  • Ecosystem sentinels for climate change? Evidence of wetland cover changes over the last 30 years in the tropical Andes.

    Olivier Dangles;Antoine Rabatel;Martin Kraemer;Gabriel Zeballos

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Dangles
Olivier Dangles Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Nikolai Friberg
Nikolai Friberg Aarhus University
Kaj Sand-Jensen
Kaj Sand-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Antoine Rabatel
Antoine Rabatel Grenoble Alpes University
Kirsten Christoffersen
Kirsten Christoffersen University of Copenhagen
John E. Brittain
John E. Brittain University of Oslo
Alexander M. Milner
Alexander M. Milner University of Birmingham
Matthias Huss
Matthias Huss University of Fribourg
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Mathias Vuille
Mathias Vuille University at Albany, State University of New York

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