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Gerald Jurasinski

Gerald Jurasinski

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
6021
World Ranking
7073
National Ranking
368

Gerald Jurasinski publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerald Jurasinski sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 126 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Gerald Jurasinski D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerald Jurasinski sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gerald Jurasinski is a researcher affiliated with the University of Greifswald in Germany, specializing in environmental science. Their research primarily focuses on peatlands and wetlands ecology, with significant contributions to understanding ecosystem dynamics, gas exchanges, and biogeochemical processes.

The scientist has published extensively in the field of environmental science, with a notable concentration on subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, plant science, environmental chemistry, and soil science. This broad subdisciplinary range supports their study of complex interactions within wetland ecosystems and their response to environmental stresses.

The main research topics covered by Jurasinski include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Jurasinski's frequent co-authors consist of researchers with whom they have collaborated on multiple publications. Key collaborators include:

  • Anke Günther
  • Franziska Koebsch
  • Dominik Žák
  • Daniel Köhn
  • John Couwenberg

Their research has been disseminated through various publication venues, reflecting a pattern of recurring contributions to specific journals. The most frequent venues are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Preprints.org
  • Nature Communications
  • Biogeosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of Gerald Jurasinski's recent papers include:

  • Prompt rewetting of drained peatlands reduces climate warming despite methane emissions, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Sulphate in freshwater ecosystems: A review of sources, biogeochemical cycles, ecotoxicological effects and bioremediation, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Rewetting does not return drained fen peatlands to their old selves, 2021, Nature Communications
  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales, 2021, Global Change Biology

This body of work highlights a sustained focus on freshwater wetlands, methane fluxes, and ecosystem restoration, contributing data and analysis relevant to both ecological functioning and climate change mitigation.

Best Publications

  • Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Manuel J. Steinbauer;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski;Aino Kulonen

  • Prompt rewetting of drained peatlands reduces climate warming despite methane emissions

    Anke Günther;Alexandra Barthelmes;Alexandra Barthelmes;Vytas Huth;Hans Joosten;Hans Joosten

  • Inventory, differentiation, and proportional diversity: a consistent terminology for quantifying species diversity.

    Gerald Jurasinski;Vroni Retzer;Carl Beierkuhnlein

  • High emissions of greenhouse gases from grasslands on peat and other organic soils.

    Bärbel Tiemeyer;Elisa Albiac Borraz;Jürgen Augustin;Michel Bechtold

  • Resurveying historical vegetation data - opportunities and challenges.

    Jutta Kapfer;Radim Hédl;Gerald Jurasinski;Martin Kopecký;Martin Kopecký

  • Sulphate in freshwater ecosystems: A review of sources, biogeochemical cycles, ecotoxicological effects and bioremediation

    Dominik Zak;Dominik Zak;Michael Hupfer;Alvaro Cabezas;Gerald Jurasinski

  • Rewetting does not return drained fen peatlands to their old selves.

    J. Kreyling;F. Tanneberger;F. Jansen;S. van der Linden

  • A new methodology for organic soils in national greenhouse gas inventories: Data synthesis, derivation and application

    Bärbel Tiemeyer;Annette Freibauer;Elisa Albiac Borraz;Jürgen Augustin

  • Effects of land use intensity on the full greenhouse gas balance in an Atlantic peat bog

    S. Beetz;H. Liebersbach;S. Glatzel;G. Jurasinski

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Identifying the driving factors behind observed elevational range shifts on European mountains

    John‐Arvid Grytnes;Jutta Kapfer;Jutta Kapfer;Gerald Jurasinski;Hilary H. Birks

  • Upward shift of alpine plants increases floristic similarity of mountain summits

    Gerald Jurasinski;Jürgen Kreyling

  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales.

    Sara Helen Knox;Sheel Bansal;Gavin McNicol;Karina Schafer

  • The effect of biomass harvesting on greenhouse gas emissions from a rewetted temperate fen

    Anke Günther;Vytas Huth;Gerald Jurasinski;Stephan Glatzel

  • Assessing the spatial variability of soil organic carbon stocks in an alpine setting (Grindelwald, Swiss Alps)

    U. Hoffmann;T. Hoffmann;G. Jurasinski;S. Glatzel

  • Controls for multi-scale temporal variation in ecosystem methane exchange during the growing season of a permanently inundated fen

    Franziska Koebsch;Gerald Jurasinski;Marian Koch;Joachim Hofmann

  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes : Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands

    Jeremy Irvin;Sharon Zhou;Gavin McNicol;Fred Lu

  • Understanding the Coastal Ecocline: Assessing Sea–Land Interactions at Non-tidal, Low-Lying Coasts Through Interdisciplinary Research

    Gerald Jurasinski;Manon Janssen;Maren Voss;Maren Voss;Michael E. Böttcher;Michael E. Böttcher

  • Resurvey of historical vegetation plots: a tool for understanding long-term dynamics of plant communities

    Radim Hédl;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski

  • Interdisciplinary Geo-ecological Research across Time Scales in the Northeast German Lowland Observatory (TERENO-NE)

    Ingo Heinrich;Daniel Balanzategui;Oliver Bens;Gerald Blasch

  • Methane Exchange in a Coastal Fen in the First Year after Flooding - A Systems Shift

    Juliane Hahn;Stefan Köhler;Stephan Glatzel;Gerald Jurasinski

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Glatzel
Stephan Glatzel University of Vienna
Dominik Zak
Dominik Zak Aarhus University
Torsten Sachs
Torsten Sachs Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Tim Urich
Tim Urich University of Greifswald
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Susanne Liebner
Susanne Liebner University of Potsdam
Bernd Lennartz
Bernd Lennartz University of Rostock
Hans Joosten
Hans Joosten University of Greifswald
Haitao Wang
Haitao Wang Nankai University
Jürgen Augustin
Jürgen Augustin Leibniz Association

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