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2023

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65
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11894
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2261
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Karsten Reise publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karsten Reise sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 279 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Karsten Reise D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karsten Reise sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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

  • Sediment mediated species interactions in coastal waters

    Karsten Reise

  • 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

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

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

  • Introduced Marine Species of the North Sea Coasts

    Karsten Reise;Stephan Gollasch;Wim J. Wolff

  • Experiments on epibenthic predation in the Wadden Sea

    K. Reise

  • Are aliens threatening European aquatic coastal ecosystems

    Karsten Reise;Sergej Olenin;David W. Thieltges

  • 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

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

    K. Reise

  • Ecosystem engineering and biodiversity in coastal sediments: posing hypotheses

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

  • 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

  • Pacific oysters invade mussel beds in the European Wadden Sea

    Karsten Reise

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

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

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

    Karsten Reise;Elisabeth Herre;Manfred Sturm

  • Mytilid mussels: global habitat engineers in coastal sediments

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

  • Ecological Comparisons of Sedimentary Shores

    Karsten Reise

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

    K. Reise;P. Ax

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

    Karsten Reise

  • Macrobenthos of the subtidal Wadden Sea: revisited after 55 years

    W. Riesen;K. Reise

  • Ökosystem Wattenmeer: Austausch-, Transport- und Stoffumwandlungsprozesse

    Ch. Gätje;Karsten Reise

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Thieltges
David W. Thieltges Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Heike K. Lotze
Heike K. Lotze Dalhousie University
Lubos Polerecky
Lubos Polerecky Utrecht University
Athanasios T. Vafeidis
Athanasios T. Vafeidis Kiel University
Wytze T. Stam
Wytze T. Stam University of Groningen
Sergej Olenin
Sergej Olenin Klaipėda University
Ingrid Kröncke
Ingrid Kröncke Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
James A. Coyer
James A. Coyer University of New Hampshire
Martin Thiel
Martin Thiel Catholic University of the North

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