2026 Ken Haste Andersen: 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	50	3922	3782	50	49	224	7185

Overview

Ken Haste Andersen is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, nature and landscape conservation, and the combined fields of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Frequent co-authors in their research include André Visser, P. Daniël van Denderen, Thomas Kiørboe, Colleen M. Petrik, and Jérôme Pinti.

Their work appears regularly in several prominent scientific journals and platforms. The most frequent venues for their publications are the ICES Journal of Marine Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Ecology and Biogeography, Progress In Oceanography, and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Selected recent papers by Ken Haste Andersen include:

"Global analysis of fish growth rates shows weaker responses to temperature than metabolic predictions," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
"Quantifying nitrogen fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in sinking marine particles," 2021, Nature Communications
"Interacting Temperature, Nutrients and Zooplankton Grazing Control Phytoplankton Size-Abundance Relationships in Eight Swiss Lakes," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
"Model estimates of metazoans' contributions to the biological carbon pump," 2023, Biogeosciences
"Linking Plankton Size Spectra and Community Composition to Carbon Export and Its Efficiency," 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Best Publications

Asymptotic size determines species abundance in the marine size spectrum.

Ken Haste Andersen;Jan Beyer

351
Citations
Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales*

K. H. Andersen;T. Berge;R. J. Goncalves;M. Hartvig;M. Hartvig;M. Hartvig

277
Citations
Thermal niche of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua: limits, tolerance and optima

David A. Righton;Ken Haste Andersen;Francis Neat;Vilhjalmur Thorsteinsson

271
Citations
Food web framework for size-structured populations.

Martin Hartvig;Ken Haste Andersen;Jan Beyer

234
Citations
Damped trophic cascades driven by fishing in model marine ecosystems

Ken Haste Andersen;Martin Pedersen

197
Citations
Evaluating targets and trade-offs among fisheries and conservation objectives using a multispecies size spectrum model

Julia L. Blanchard;Ken H. Andersen;Finlay Scott;Finlay Scott;Niels T. Hintzen

187
Citations
Forage fish, their fisheries, and their predators: who drives whom?

Georg H. Engelhard;Myron A. Peck;Anna Rindorf;Sophie Smout

184
Citations
The consequences of balanced harvesting of fish communities

Nis Sand Jacobsen;Henrik Gislason;Ken Haste Andersen

157
Citations
Geolocation of North Sea cod (Gadus morhua) using hidden Markov models and behavioural switching

Martin Wæver Pedersen;David Righton;David Righton;Uffe Høgsbro Thygesen;Ken Haste Andersen

141
Citations
Expected rate of fisheries-induced evolution is slow

Ken Haste Andersen;Keith Brander

140
Citations
mizer: an R package for multispecies, trait-based and community size spectrum ecological modelling

Finlay Scott;Finlay Scott;Julia L. Blanchard;Ken Haste Andersen

129
Citations
A trait-based approach to ocean ecology

Thomas Kiørboe;Andre Visser;Ken Haste Andersen

128
Citations
The theoretical foundations for size spectrum models of fish communities

Ken Haste Andersen;Nis Sand Jacobsen;K.D. Farnsworth

118
Citations
Size structure, not metabolic scaling rules, determines fisheries reference points

Ken Haste Andersen;Jan Beyer

101
Citations
Maximizing fisheries yields while maintaining community structure

Jeppe Kolding;Nis Sand Jacobsen;Ken Haste Andersen;Paul A.M. van Zwieten

97
Citations
Capital versus income breeding in a seasonal environment.

Julie Sainmont;Ken Haste Andersen;Oystein Varpe;André W. Visser

93
Citations
Thermal performance of fish is explained by an interplay between physiology, behaviour and ecology.

Philipp Neubauer;Ken Haste Andersen

93
Citations
When in life does density dependence occur in fish populations

Ken Haste Andersen;Nis Sand Jacobsen;Teunis Jansen;Jan E Beyer

91
Citations
Some Atlantic cod Gadus morhua in the Baltic Sea visit hypoxic water briefly but often.

S. Neuenfeldt;K.H. Andersen;Hans-Harald Hinrichsen

86
Citations
Feeding and growth of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) in the eastern Baltic Sea under environmental change

Stefan Neuenfeldt;Valerio Bartolino;Alessandro Orio;Ken Haste Andersen

81
Citations
Trophic and individual efficiencies of size-structured communities

Ken Haste Andersen;Jan Beyer;P. Lundberg

80
Citations
Evolution of boldness and life history in response to selective harvesting

Ken Haste Andersen;Lise Marty;Robert Arlinghaus

79
Citations
Adaptive feeding behavior and functional responses in zooplankton

Thomas Kiørboe;Enrico Saiz;Peter Tiselius;Ken Haste Andersen

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

André W. Visser Technical University of Denmark

Thomas Kiørboe Technical University of Denmark

Martin Lindegren Technical University of Denmark

Lorenzo Amati National Institute for Astrophysics

Julia L. Blanchard University of Tasmania

Tomas Bohr Technical University of Denmark

Keith Brander Technical University of Denmark

Brian R. MacKenzie Technical University of Denmark

An Pang Tsai Tohoku University

Lars Hultman Linköping University

External Links

Personal website of Ken Haste Andersen

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