2026 Karl M. Wantzen: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	39	6315	6094	283	279	114	7414

Overview

Karl M. Wantzen is affiliated with François Rabelais University in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans diverse subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, and Pollution.

The main topics covered in Wantzen's work include:

Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
Urban Green Space and Health

Wantzen has published research in several frequent venues, reflecting the scope of their work:

Hydrobiologia
The Science of The Total Environment
Sustainability
Geographical Journal
Environmental Pollution

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

"More than one million barriers fragment Europe's rivers," published in 2020 in Nature
"Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice," published in 2022 in The Journal of Peasant Studies
"Human-River Encounter Sites: Looking for Harmony between Humans and Nature in Cities," published in 2021 in Sustainability
"The use of anthropogenic debris as nesting material by the greater thornbird, an inland-wetland-associated bird of South America," published in 2020 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
"River culture: How socio-ecological linkages to the rhythm of the waters develop, how they are lost, and how they can be regained," published in 2022 in Geographical Journal

Frequent co-authors partnering with Wantzen include:

Yixin Cao
Martín C. M. Blettler
Luis A. Espínola
Pierre Girard
Carlos García de Leániz

Best Publications

More than one million barriers fragment Europe's rivers.

Barbara Belletti;Barbara Belletti;Carlos Garcia de Leaniz;Joshua Jones;Simone Bizzi;Simone Bizzi

643
Citations
Biodiversity and its conservation in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Wolfgang J. Junk;Catia Nunes da Cunha;Karl Matthias Wantzen;Peter Petermann

633
Citations
The flood pulse concept: new aspects, approaches and applications - an update

W. J. Junk;K. M. Wantzen

615
Citations
Ecological effects of water-level fluctuations in lakes: an urgent issue

Karl M. Wantzen;Karl-Otto Rothhaupt;Martin Mörtl;Marco Cantonati

405
Citations
Detritus processing by invertebrate shredders: a neotropical–temperate comparison

Karl M. Wantzen;Rüdiger Wagner

270
Citations
Neotropical Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Insecta)

J. Arias J. R. Rueda-Delgado G. Adis;K. M. Wantzen;A. Borkent;G. R. Spinelli

248
Citations
A conceptual model of litter breakdown in low order streams

Manual A.S. Graça;Verónica Ferreira;Christina Canhoto;Andrea C. Encalada;Andrea C. Encalada

227
Citations
Organic Matter Processing in Tropical Streams

Karl M. Wantzen;Catherine M. Yule;Jude M. Mathooko;Catherine M. Pringle

200
Citations
An extension of the floodpulse concept (FPC) for lakes

Karl M. Wantzen;Wolfgang J. Junk;Karl-Otto Rothhaupt

196
Citations
Seasonal isotopic shifts in fish of the Pantanal wetland, Brazil

Karl M. Wantzen;Francisco de Arruda Machado;Maren Voss;Hinnerk Boriss

188
Citations
River Culture: an eco-social approach to mitigate the biological and cultural diversity crisis in riverscapes

Karl Matthias Wantzen;Aziz Ballouche;Isabelle Longuet;Ibrahima Bao

187
Citations
Soil Erosion from Agriculture and Mining: A Threat to Tropical Stream Ecosystems

Karl M. Wantzen;Jan H. Mol

169
Citations
Leaf-litter decomposition in an Amazonian floodplain stream: effects of seasonal hydrological changes

Guillermo Rueda-Delgado;Karl Matthias Wantzen;Marcela Beltran Tolosa

155
Citations
Massive plastic pollution in a mega-river of a developing country: Sediment deposition and ingestion by fish (Prochilodus lineatus).

Martín C.M. Blettler;Nicolás Garello;Léa Ginon;Elie Abrial

139
Citations
Urban Stream and Wetland Restoration in the Global South—A DPSIR Analysis

Karl M. Wantzen;Carlos Bernardo Mascarenhas Alves;Sidia Diaouma Badiane;Raita Bala

118
Citations
Tropical Stream Conservation

Alonso Ramírez;Catherine M. Pringle;Karl M. Wantzen

117
Citations
Physical pollution: effects of gully erosion on benthic invertebrates in a tropical clear-water stream

Karl M. Wantzen

116
Citations
The Rhine River Basin

Urs F. Uehlinger;Karl M. Wantzen;Rob S. Leuven;Hartmut Arndt

111
Citations
Threats Underestimated in Freshwater Plastic Pollution: Mini-Review

Martín C. M. Blettler;Karl M. Wantzen

105
Citations
Stream-valley systems of the Brazilian Cerrado: impact assessment and conservation scheme

Karl M. Wantzen;Alberto Siqueira;Cátia Nunes da Cunha;Maria de Fátima Pereira de Sá

104
Citations
How do plant-herbivore interactions of trees influence coarse detritus processing by shredders in aquatic ecosystems of different latitudes?

Karl M. Wantzen;Rüdiger Wagner;Rainer Suetfeld;Wolfgang J. Junk

99
Citations
Stable carbon and nitrogen signatures of decomposing tropical macrophytes

Claudia Fellerhoff;Maren Voss;Karl Matthias Wantzen

91
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang J. Junk Max Planck Society

Stephan Pauleit Technical University of Munich

Luz Boyero University of the Basque Country

Karl-Otto Rothhaupt University of Konstanz

Jukka Jokela Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Maren Voss Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

Catherine M. Pringle University of Georgia

Andrea C. Encalada Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Alonso Ramírez North Carolina State University

Urs Uehlinger Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

External Links

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