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Kristin Kaschner

Kristin Kaschner

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
9843
World Ranking
5994
National Ranking
316

Overview

Kristin Kaschner is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and focuses their research on Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Oceanography. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research topics frequently cover Marine and Fisheries Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies. Other important topics in their work include Coastal and Marine Management, Marine Animal Studies Overview, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Marine and Coastal Plant Biology.

Kristin Kaschner's recent publications include:

  • Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate, 2021, Nature
  • Climate velocity reveals increasing exposure of deep-ocean biodiversity to future warming, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • A climate risk index for marine life, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Where Marine Protected Areas would best represent 30% of ocean biodiversity, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction, 2020, Marine Policy

These papers have appeared in prominent journals with papers published in Nature and its related titles like Nature Climate Change, as well as Biological Conservation and Marine Policy.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Kaschner include:

  • Cristina Garilao
  • Kathleen Kesner-Reyes
  • William W. L. Cheung
  • David Mouillot
  • Boris Worm

Kaschner's research is published predominantly in journals such as Nature, Global Change Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Climate Change, and Nature Communications. These venues indicate a focus on globally relevant environmental and oceanographic issues.

Best Publications

  • The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats

    Marta Coll;Marta Coll;Chiara Piroddi;Jeroen Steenbeek;Kristin Kaschner

  • An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

    Daniel L. Rabosky;Jonathan Chang;Pascal O. Title;Peter F. Cowman;Peter F. Cowman

  • Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

    Enric Sala;Juan Mayorga;Darcy Bradley;Reniel B. Cabral

  • Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling

    J. V. Redfern;M. C. Ferguson;E. A. Becker;K. D. Hyrenbach

  • Mapping world-wide distributions of marine mammal species using a relative environmental suitability (RES) model

    K Kaschner;RA Watson;AW Trites;D Pauly

  • Forage Fish: From Ecosystems to Markets

    Jacqueline Alder;Brooke Campbell;Vasiliki Karpouzi;Kristin Kaschner

  • Current global risks to marine mammals: Taking stock of the threats

    Isabel C. Avila;Kristin Kaschner;Carsten F. Dormann

  • Global Priorities for Marine Biodiversity Conservation

    Elizabeth R. Selig;Will R. Turner;Sebastian Troëng;Bryan P. Wallace

  • Current and Future Patterns of Global Marine Mammal Biodiversity

    Kristin Kaschner;Derek P. Tittensor;Jonathan Ready;Tim Gerrodette

  • Predicting the distributions of marine organisms at the global scale

    Jonathan Ready;Kristin Kaschner;Andy B. South;Paul D. Eastwood

  • The Convention on Biological Diversity's Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas: Origins, development, and current status

    Daniel C. Dunn;Jeff Ardron;Nicholas Bax;Nicholas Bax;Patricio Bernal

  • Recovery trends in marine mammal populations.

    Anna M. Magera;Joanna E. Mills Flemming;Kristin Kaschner;Line B. Christensen

  • The global potential for whale watching

    A.M. Cisneros-Montemayor;U.R. Sumaila;K. Kaschner;D. Pauly

  • Climate velocity reveals increasing exposure of deep-ocean biodiversity to future warming

    Isaac Brito-Morales;Isaac Brito-Morales;David S. Schoeman;David S. Schoeman;Jorge García Molinos;Michael T. Burrows

  • Global Coverage of Cetacean Line-Transect Surveys: Status Quo, Data Gaps and Future Challenges

    Kristin Kaschner;Nicola Jane Quick;Rebecca Lucy Jewell;Robert Williams

  • A climate risk index for marine life

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  • Metabolic asymmetry and the global diversity of marine predators.

    John M. Grady;John M. Grady;Brian S. Maitner;Ara S. Winter;Kristin Kaschner

  • Database-driven models of the world's Large Marine Ecosystems

    Villy Christensen;Carl J. Walters;Robert Ahrens;Jacqueline Alder

  • Geographic and temporal dynamics of a global radiation and diversification in the killer whale

    Phillip A. Morin;Kim M. Parsons;Frederick I. Archer;María C. Ávila-Arcos

  • Where Marine Protected Areas would best represent 30% of ocean biodiversity

    Qianshuo Zhao;Fabrice Stephenson;Fabrice Stephenson;Carolyn Lundquist;Carolyn Lundquist;Kristin Kaschner

  • Large Marine Protected Areas Represent Biodiversity Now and Under Climate Change

    T. E. Davies;T. E. Davies;S. M. Maxwell;K. Kaschner;Cristina Garilao

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Pauly
Daniel Pauly University of British Columbia
Patrick N. Halpin
Patrick N. Halpin Duke University
William W. L. Cheung
William W. L. Cheung University of British Columbia
Derek P. Tittensor
Derek P. Tittensor Dalhousie University
Andrew D. Foote
Andrew D. Foote Norwegian University of Science and Technology
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Benjamin S. Halpern
Benjamin S. Halpern University of California, Santa Barbara
Reg Watson
Reg Watson University of Tasmania
Jake Rice
Jake Rice Fisheries and Oceans Canada
David Obura
David Obura Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean

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