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Jacob Carstensen

Jacob Carstensen

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
66
Citations
19918
World Ranking
1666
National Ranking
33

Overview

Jacob Carstensen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and conducts research primarily within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including oceanography, global and planetary change, ecology, management, monitoring, policy and law, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's research focuses on topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, coastal and marine management, isotope analysis in ecology, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Jacob Carstensen has published extensively in various scientific journals and contributed to books published by TemaNord. These books include "Science in brief: OMAI - Assessing acidification in the Baltic Sea" (2021) and "Sustainable levels of human activities in the Nordic marine environment" (2024).

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Carstensen include:

  • Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary (2022), Earth System Dynamics
  • System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion (2021), Progress In Oceanography
  • A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean (2021), Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biogeochemical functioning of the Baltic Sea (2022), Earth System Dynamics
  • Century-long records reveal shifting challenges to seagrass recovery (2020), Global Change Biology

Frequent coauthors in Carstensen's work include Bo G. Gustafsson, Vivi Fleming, Ciarán Murray, Daniel J. Conley, and Jesper H. Andersen.

Jacob Carstensen publishes regularly in several scientific venues, with a number of publications appearing in:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Ecological thresholds and regime shifts: approaches to identification.

    Tom Andersen;Jacob Carstensen;Emilio Hernández-García;Carlos M. Duarte

  • Is Ocean Acidification an Open-Ocean Syndrome? Understanding Anthropogenic Impacts on Seawater pH

    Carlos M. Duarte;Carlos M. Duarte;Iris E. Hendriks;Tommy S. Moore;Ylva S. Olsen;Ylva S. Olsen

  • Deoxygenation of the Baltic Sea during the last century

    Jacob Carstensen;Jesper H. Andersen;Bo G. Gustafsson;Daniel J. Conley

  • Return to Neverland: Shifting baselines affect eutrophication restoration targets

    Carlos M. Duarte;Daniel J. Conley;Jacob Carstensen;María Sánchez-Camacho

  • Hypoxia-Related Processes in the Baltic Sea

    Daniel J. Conley;Svante Björck;Erik Bonsdorff;Jacob Carstensen

  • Marine management - towards an integrated implementation of the European Marine Strategy Framework and the Water Framework Directives.

    Ángel Borja;Mike Elliott;Jacob Carstensen;Anna-Stiina Heiskanen

  • Human activities and climate variability drive fast‐paced change across the world's estuarine–coastal ecosystems

    James Cloern;Paulo Cesar Oliveira Vergne de Abreu;Jacob Carstensen;Laurent Chauvaud

  • Hypoxia is increasing in the coastal zone of the Baltic sea

    Daniel J. Conley;Jacob Carstensen;Juris Aigars;Philip Axe

  • Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

    John A. Dearing;Rong Wang;Ke Zhang;James G. Dyke

  • The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Jan Dierking;Helen C. Andersson;Erik Bonsdorff

  • Long-term temporal and spatial trends in eutrophication status of the Baltic Sea.

    Jesper H. Andersen;Jesper H. Andersen;Jacob Carstensen;Daniel J. Conley;Karsten Dromph;Karsten Dromph

  • Eutrophication-driven deoxygenation in the coastal ocean

    Nancy N Rabalais;Wei-Jun Cai;Jacob Carstensen;Daniel J Conley

  • Good Environmental Status of marine ecosystems: What is it and how do we know when we have attained it?

    Angel Borja;Mike Elliott;Jesper H. Andersen;Ana C. Cardoso

  • Impacts of offshore wind farm construction on harbour porpoises: acoustic monitoring of echolocation activity using porpoise detectors (T-PODs)

    J. Carstensen;O. D. Henriksen;J. Teilmann

  • LONG-TERM CHANGES AND IMPACTS OF HYPOXIA IN DANISH COASTAL WATERS

    Daniel J. Conley;Jacob Carstensen;Gunni Ærtebjerg;Peter Bondo Christensen

  • Overview of Integrative Assessment of Marine Systems: The Ecosystem Approach in Practice

    Angel Borja;Michael Elliott;Jesper H. Andersen;Torsten Berg

  • Pile driving zone of responsiveness extends beyond 20 km for harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena (L.)).

    Jakob Tougaard;Jacob Carstensen;Jonas Teilmann;Henrik Skov

  • Ecosystem thresholds with hypoxia

    Daniel J. Conley;Jacob Carstensen;Raquel Vaquer-Sunyer;Carlos M. Duarte

  • Nutrient pressures and ecological responses to nutrient loading reductions in Danish streams, lakes and coastal waters

    Brian Kronvang;Erik Jeppesen;Daniel J. Conley;Martin Søndergaard

  • A welcome can of worms? Hypoxia mitigation by an invasive species

    Joanna Norkko;Joanna Norkko;Daniel C. Reed;Daniel C. Reed;Karen Timmermann;Alf Norkko;Alf Norkko

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Conley
Daniel J. Conley Lund University
Dorte Krause-Jensen
Dorte Krause-Jensen Aarhus University
Bo G. Gustafsson
Bo G. Gustafsson Stockholm University
Carlos M. Duarte
Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Alf Norkko
Alf Norkko University of Helsinki
Anna-Stiina Heiskanen
Anna-Stiina Heiskanen Finnish Environment Institute
Hans Henrik Jakobsen
Hans Henrik Jakobsen Aarhus University
Jonas Teilmann
Jonas Teilmann Aarhus University
Maren Voss
Maren Voss Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

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