2026 Karsten Reise: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	65	2261	2157	153	150	279	11894

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Karsten Reise is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences.

Their subfields of study include:

Global and Planetary Change
Oceanography
Ecology
Atmospheric Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The main research topics addressed by Reise encompass:

Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
Marine Biology and Ecology Research
Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
Marine and fisheries research
Marine and coastal plant biology
Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Reise has published extensively in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

Marine Biodiversity
Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
Phycologia
Marine Biology
Aquatic Invasions

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Reise include:

Introduced species in a tidal ecosystem of mud and sand: curse or blessing?, 2023, Marine Biodiversity
Marine turf of an invasive alga expels lugworms from the lower shore, 2021, Marine Biology
Invading grass-like alga transforms rippled sand bars into bumpy muddy flats: arrival of a game changer in the Wadden Sea?, 2022, Aquatic Invasions

Additional relevant publications related to Reise's network and field include:

Spread of the invasive shell-boring annelid Polydora websteri (Polychaeta, Spionidae) into naturalised oyster reefs in the European Wadden Sea, 2020, Marine Biodiversity
Invasive Vaucheria (Xanthophyceae) at the lower shore of the Wadden Sea, 2022, Phycologia

Frequent collaborators working alongside Reise are:

K. Mathias Wegner
Andreas M. Waser
Dagmar Lackschewitz
Christian Buschbaum
David W. Thieltges

Best Publications

Tidal Flat Ecology

Karsten Reise

714
Citations
Sediment mediated species interactions in coastal waters

Karsten Reise

453
Citations
Introduced Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) in the northern Wadden Sea: Invasion accelerated by warm summers?

S. Diederich;G. Nehls;J. E. E. van Beusekom;K. Reise

336
Citations
Parasites affect food web structure primarily through increased diversity and complexity.

Jennifer A. Dunne;Kevin D. Lafferty;Andrew P. Dobson;Ryan F. Hechinger

319
Citations
Introduced Marine Species of the North Sea Coasts

Karsten Reise;Stephan Gollasch;Wim J. Wolff

310
Citations
Experiments on epibenthic predation in the Wadden Sea

K. Reise

267
Citations
Are aliens threatening European aquatic coastal ecosystems

Karsten Reise;Sergej Olenin;David W. Thieltges

254
Citations
Effects of bioturbation and bioirrigation by lugworms (Arenicola marina) on physical and chemical sediment properties and implications for intertidal habitat succession

N. Volkenborn;S.I.C. Hedtkamp;J.E.E. van Beusekom;K. Reise

238
Citations
Long-term changes in the macrobenthic invertebrate fauna of the Wadden Sea: Are polychaetes about to take over?

K. Reise

232
Citations
Ecosystem engineering and biodiversity in coastal sediments: posing hypotheses

Tjeerd J. Bouma;Sergej Olenin;Karsten Reise;Tom Ysebaert

224
Citations
Human transformations of the Wadden Sea ecosystem through time : a synthesis

Heike K. Lotze;Heike K. Lotze;Heike K. Lotze;Karsten Reise;Boris Worm;Justus van Beusekom

223
Citations
Pacific oysters invade mussel beds in the European Wadden Sea

Karsten Reise

213
Citations
Shift from native mussels to alien oysters: Differential effects of ecosystem engineers

Judith Kochmann;Judith Kochmann;Christian Buschbaum;Nils Volkenborn;Karsten Reise

207
Citations
Historical changes in the benthos of the Wadden Sea around the island of Sylt in the North Sea

Karsten Reise;Elisabeth Herre;Manfred Sturm

205
Citations
Mytilid mussels: global habitat engineers in coastal sediments

Christian Buschbaum;Sabine Dittmann;Jae-Sang Hong;In-Seo Hwang

200
Citations
Ecological Comparisons of Sedimentary Shores

Karsten Reise

189
Citations
A meiofaunal “thiobios” limited to the anaerobic sulfide system of marine sand does not exist

K. Reise;P. Ax

182
Citations
Coast of change: habitat loss and transformations in the Wadden Sea

Karsten Reise

181
Citations
Macrobenthos of the subtidal Wadden Sea: revisited after 55 years

W. Riesen;K. Reise

174
Citations
Ökosystem Wattenmeer: Austausch-, Transport- und Stoffumwandlungsprozesse

Ch. Gätje;Karsten Reise

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Thieltges Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Stephan Gollasch GoConsult

Heike K. Lotze Dalhousie University

Lubos Polerecky Utrecht University

Athanasios T. Vafeidis Kiel University

Wytze T. Stam University of Groningen

Sergej Olenin Klaipėda University

Ingrid Kröncke Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

James A. Coyer University of New Hampshire

Martin Thiel Catholic University of the North

External Links

Personal website of Karsten Reise

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