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2025

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81
Citations
21356
World Ranking
805
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17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Erik Kristensen is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple disciplines, focusing particularly on ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, earth-surface processes, and environmental chemistry.

The core areas of research include coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, coastal and marine dynamics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and marine and fisheries research.

Frequent publication venues for Kristensen's research include:

  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators of Kristensen encompass Cintia O. Quintana, Troels Lange, Thomas Valdemarsen, Mogens Flindt, and Faming Wang.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Erik Kristensen feature diverse topics related to coastal and marine ecosystems:

  • "Carbonate chemistry and carbon sequestration driven by inorganic carbon outwelling from mangroves and saltmarshes," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Macrofaunal control of microbial community structure in continental margin sediments," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Response of macrophyte litter decomposition in global blue carbon ecosystems to climate change," 2023, Global Change Biology
  • "Large-scale eelgrass transplantation: a measure for carbon and nutrient sequestration in estuaries," 2021, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • "Pneumatophores and crab burrows increase CO2 and CH4 emission from sediments in two Brazilian fringe mangrove forests," 2022, Marine Ecology Progress Series

Best Publications

  • Organic carbon dynamics in mangrove ecosystems : a review

    Erik Kristensen;Steven Bouillon;Thorsten Dittmar;Cyril Marchand

  • Mangrove Production and Carbon sinks: A revision of global budget estimates

    Steven Bouillon;Alberto V. Borges;Edward Castaneda-Moya;Karen Diele

  • What is bioturbation? The need for a precise definition for fauna in aquatic sciences

    Erik Kristensen;Gil Penha-Lopes;Matthieu Delefosse;Thomas Bruun Valdemarsen

  • Organic matter diagenesis at the oxic/anoxic interface in coastal marine sediments, with emphasis on the role of burrowing animals

    Erik Kristensen

  • Mangrove crabs as ecosystem engineers; with emphasis on sediment processes

    Erik Kristensen

  • Aerobic and anaerobic decomposition of organic matter in marine sediment: which is fastest?

    E. Kristensen;S. I. Ahmed;A. H. Devol

  • Approaches to assess the environmental impact of organic farming with particular regard to Denmark

    Birgitte Hansen;Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe;Erik Steen Kristensen

  • The fate of organic carbon and nitrogen in experimental marine sediment systems: Influence of bioturbation and anoxia

    E. Kristensen;T. H. Blackburn

  • Decomposition of plant materials in marine sediment exposed to different electron acceptors (O2, NO3−, and SO42−), with emphasis on substrate origin, degradation kinetics, and the role of bioturbation

    Erik Kristensen;Marianne Holmer

  • Impact of marine fish cage farming on metabolism and sulfate reduction of underlying sediments

    M. Holmer;E. Kristensen

  • Macrofaunal Burrows and Irrigation in Marine Sediment: Microbiological and Biogeochemical Interactions

    Erik Kristensen;J.E. Kostka

  • Energy Utilization in Crop and Dairy Production in Organic and Conventional Livestock Production Systems

    Karen Refsgaard;Niels Halberg;Erik Steen Kristensen

  • Determination of organic carbon in marine sediments: a comparison of two CHN-analyzer methods

    Erik Kristensen;Frede Ø. Andersen

  • Control by fiddler crabs (Uca vocans) and plant roots (Avicennia marina) on carbon, iron, and sulfur biogeochemistry in mangrove sediment

    Erik Kristensen;Daniel M. Alongi

  • The rates and pathways of carbon oxidation in bioturbated saltmarsh sediments

    Joel E. Kostka;Britta Gribsholt;Ellen Petrie;Dava Dalton

  • Voiding patterns and prevalence of incontinence in women. A questionnaire survey

    P. Sommer;T. Bauer;K. K. Nielsen;E. S. Kristensen

  • Impact of polychaetes ( Nereis spp. and Arenicola marina ) on carbon biogeochemistry in coastal marine sediments

    Erik Kristensen

  • Effects of two polychaete worms, Nereis diversicolor and Arenicola marina, on aerobic and anaerobic decomposition in a sandy marine sediment

    Gary T. Banta;Marianne Holmer;Mikael H. Jensen;Erik Kristensen

  • Towards a systemic research methodology in agriculture: Rethinking the role of values in science

    Hugo Fjelsted Alrøe;Erik Steen Kristensen

  • Nitrogen leaching from conventional versus organic farming systems — a systems modelling approach

    Birgitte Hansen;Erik Steen Kristensen;Ruth Grant;Henning Høgh-Jensen

  • The Phosphorus Cycle

    Donald E. Canfield;Erik Kristensen;Bo Thamdrup

Frequent Co-Authors

Marianne Holmer
Marianne Holmer University of Southern Denmark
Gary Thomas Banta
Gary Thomas Banta University of Southern Denmark
Donald E. Canfield
Donald E. Canfield University of Southern Denmark
Bo Thamdrup
Bo Thamdrup University of Southern Denmark
Alberto Borges
Alberto Borges University of Liège
Mette Vaarst
Mette Vaarst Aarhus University
Joel E. Kostka
Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology
Shing Yip Lee
Shing Yip Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong
Uffe Jørgensen
Uffe Jørgensen Aarhus University

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