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Hartvig Christie is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and related environmental sciences.

Their major fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with subfields centered around Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. This multidisciplinary focus supports a comprehensive understanding of marine ecosystems and their dynamics.

Christie has contributed extensively to the study of marine and coastal plant biology and ecosystem dynamics, working within topics such as Coastal and Marine Management, Marine and Fisheries Research, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Christie include:

  • Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Financial and Institutional Support Are Important for Large-Scale Kelp Forest Restoration, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Lithothamnion (Hapalidiales, Rhodophyta) in the changing Arctic and Subarctic: DNA sequencing of type and recent specimens provides a systematics foundation*, 2021, European Journal of Phycology
  • Variation in Population Structure and Standing Stocks of Kelp Along Multiple Environmental Gradients and Implications for Ecosystem Services, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Incorporating facilitative interactions into small-scale eelgrass restoration-challenges and opportunities, 2021, Restoration Ecology

Frequent co-authors in Christie's work include:

  • Eli Rinde
  • Trine Bekkby
  • Stein Fredriksen
  • Hege Gundersen
  • Kasper Hancke

Christie publishes regularly in several scientific venues, with prolific contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Best Publications

  • Macrophytes as habitat for fauna

    Hartvig Christie;Kjell Magnus Norderhaug;Stein Fredriksen

  • North Atlantic phylogeography and large‐scale population differentiation of the seagrass Zostera marina L.

    Jeanine L. Olsen;Wytze T. Stam;James A. Coyer;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • Species distribution and habitat exploitation of fauna associated with kelp (Laminaria hyperborea) along the Norwegian Coast

    Hartvig Christie;Nina Mari Jørgensen;Kjell Magnus Norderhaug;Elisabeth Waage-Nielsen

  • Large-scale shift from sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) to ephemeral algae along the south and west coast of Norway

    Frithjof E. Moy;Hartvig Christie

  • Sea urchin grazing and kelp re-vegetation in the NE Atlantic

    Kjell Magnus Norderhaug;Hartvig C. Christie

  • Fish–macrofauna interactions in a kelp ( Laminaria hyperborea ) forest

    k.m. norderhaug;h. christie;j.h. fosså;s. fredriksen

  • Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions

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  • Regrowth of kelp and colonization of epiphyte and fauna community after kelp trawling at the coast of Norway

    Hartvig Christie;Stein Fredriksen;Eli Rinde

  • Effects of removing sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis): Stability of the barren state and succession of kelp forest recovery in the east Atlantic.

    Hans Petter Leinaas;Hartvig Christie

  • Status, trends and drivers of kelp forests in Europe: an expert assessment

    R. M. Araujo;J. Assis;R. Aguillar;L. Airoldi

  • Colonisation of kelp imitations by epiphyte and holdfast fauna; a study of mobility patterns

    K. M. Norderhaug;H. Christie;E. Rinde

  • EFFECTS OF DENSITY‐DEPENDENT AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES ON THE REGULATION OF COD POPULATIONS

    Jean Marc Fromentin;Ransom A. Myers;Ottar N. Bjørnstad;Nils Chr Stenseth

  • Effects of wave exposure on population structure, demography, biomass and productivity of the kelp Laminaria hyperborea

    Morten Foldager Pedersen;Lars Brammer Nejrup;Stein Fredriksen;Hartvig Christie

  • Predicting long-term changes in marine benthic communities

    JS Gray;H. Christie

  • Eutrophication-induced changes in benthic algae affect the behaviour and fitness of the marine amphipod Gammarus locusta

    Patrik Kraufvelin;Sonja Salovius;Hartvig Christie;Frithjof E. Moy

  • Infauna from Zostera marina L. meadows in Norway. Differences in vegetated and unvegetated areas

    Stein Fredriksen;Annelies De Backer;Christoffer Boström;Hartvig Christie

  • The Response of Experimental Rocky Shore Communities to Nutrient Additions

    Tor L. Bokn;Carlos M. Duarte;Morten F. Pedersen;Nuria Marba

  • Species richness in macroalgae and macrofauna assemblages on Fucus serratus L. (Phaeophyceae) and Zostera marina L. (Angiospermae) in Skagerrak, Norway

    Stein Fredriksen;Hartvig Christie;Bjarte Andre Sæthre

  • Bushy or smooth, high or low; importance of habitat architecture and vertical position for distribution of fauna on kelp

    Hartvig Christie;Nina Mari Jørgensen;Kjell Magnus Norderhaug

  • Seasonal Patterns of Sporophyte Growth, Fertility, Fouling, and Mortality of Saccharina latissima in Skagerrak, Norway: Implications for Forest Recovery

    Guri Sogn Andersen;Henning Steen;Hartvig Christie;Stein Fredriksen

  • Nutrient Addition to Experimental Rocky Shore Communities Revisited: Delayed Responses, Rapid Recovery

    Patrik Kraufvelin;Frithjof E. Moy;Hartvig Christie;Tor L. Bokn

Frequent Co-Authors

Stein Fredriksen
Stein Fredriksen University of Oslo
Morten Foldager Pedersen
Morten Foldager Pedersen Roskilde University
Dominique Davoult
Dominique Davoult Sorbonne University
Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Jason M. Hall-Spencer Plymouth University
Christoffer Boström
Christoffer Boström Åbo Akademi University
Robert S. Steneck
Robert S. Steneck University of Maine
Thomas Wernberg
Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia
Jonne Kotta
Jonne Kotta University of Tartu
Núria Marbà
Núria Marbà Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies
Roberto Danovaro
Roberto Danovaro Marche Polytechnic University

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