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51
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8788
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3681
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24

Martin J. Kainz publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Martin J. Kainz sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 159 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Martin J. Kainz D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Martin J. Kainz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Martin J. Kainz is affiliated with Danube University Krems in Austria and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

Their research covers several scientific topics, notably Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Matthias Pilecky, Fen Guo, Sami J. Taipale, Stuart E. Bunn, and Leonard I. Wassenaar.

Martin J. Kainz has published extensively in several scientific journals. The main venues for their publications include Freshwater Biology, The Science of The Total Environment, Limnology and Oceanography, Oecologia, and Ecology Letters.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Kainz include:

  • The evolutionary ecology of fatty-acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Omega-3 PUFA profoundly affect neural, physiological, and behavioural competences - implications for systemic changes in trophic interactions (2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Preferential retention of algal carbon in benthic invertebrates: Stable isotope and fatty acid evidence from an outdoor flume experiment (2020, Freshwater Biology)
  • Climate change shifts the timing of nutritional flux from aquatic insects (2022, Current Biology)

Best Publications

  • Lipids in aquatic ecosystems

    Michael Theodore Arts;Michael T Brett;Martin J. Kainz

  • Phytoplankton, not allochthonous carbon, sustains herbivorous zooplankton production

    Michael T. Brett;Martin J. Kainz;Sami J. Taipale;Hari Seshan

  • How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems

    Michael T. Brett;Stuart E. Bunn;Sudeep Chandra;Aaron W. E. Galloway

  • Essential fatty acids in the planktonic food web and their ecological role for higher trophic levels

    Martin Kainz;Michael T. Arts;Asit Mazumder

  • Mountain lakes: Eyes on global environmental change

    K. A. Moser;J. S. Baron;J. Brahney;I. A. Oleksy

  • Production, distribution, and abundance of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: a fundamental dichotomy between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems

    Stefanie M. Hixson;Bhanu Sharma;Martin J. Kainz;Alexander Wacker

  • The importance of high-quality algal food sources in stream food webs - current status and future perspectives

    Fen Guo;Martin J. Kainz;Fran Sheldon;Stuart E. Bunn

  • Characterizing dietary variability and trophic positions of coastal calanoid copepods: insight from stable isotopes and fatty acids

    Rana El-Sabaawi;Rana El-Sabaawi;John F. Dower;Martin Kainz;Asit Mazumder

  • Diet‐switching experiments show rapid accumulation and preferential retention of highly unsaturated fatty acids in Daphnia

    Sami J. Taipale;Martin J. Kainz;Michael T. Brett

  • Increasing Water Temperature Triggers Dominance of Small Freshwater Plankton.

    Serena Rasconi;Andrea Gall;Katharina Winter;Martin J. Kainz

  • Temperature increase and fluctuation induce phytoplankton biodiversity loss - Evidence from a multi-seasonal mesocosm experiment.

    Serena Rasconi;Katharina Winter;Martin J. Kainz

  • The evolutionary ecology of fatty-acid variation: Implications for consumer adaptation and diversification.

    Cornelia W. Twining;Cornelia W. Twining;Joey R. Bernhardt;Joey R. Bernhardt;Alison M. Derry;Cameron M. Hudson

  • A fundamental dichotomy in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid abundance between and within marine and terrestrial ecosystems

    Stefanie M. Colombo;Alexander Wacker;Christopher C. Parrish;Martin J. Kainz

  • Selective transfer of polyunsaturated fatty acids from phytoplankton to planktivorous fish in large boreal lakes.

    Ursula Strandberg;Minna Hiltunen;Elli Jelkänen;Sami J. Taipale

  • Combined effects of food quality and temperature on somatic growth and reproduction of two freshwater cladocerans

    HÉlène Masclaux;Alexandre Bec;Martin J. Kainz;Christian Desvilettes

  • Effect of nutrition on fatty acid profiles of riverine, lacustrine, and aquaculture-raised salmonids of pre-alpine habitats

    Martin Heissenberger;Jörg Watzke;Martin J. Kainz

  • High-quality algae attached to leaf litter boost invertebrate shredder growth

    Fen Guo;Martin J. Kainz;Dominic Valdez;Fran Sheldon

  • Tracing the fate of microplastic carbon in the aquatic food web by compound-specific isotope analysis.

    S. J. Taipale;E. Peltomaa;J. V. K. Kukkonen;M. J. Kainz

  • Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology

    Cornelia W Twining;Cornelia W Twining;Sami J Taipale;Liliane Ruess;Alexandre Bec

  • The importance of bioconcentration into the pelagic food web base for methylmercury biomagnification: A meta-analysis.

    Pianpian Wu;Martin J. Kainz;Andrea Garcia Bravo;Staffan Åkerblom

  • Effect of algal and bacterial diet on methyl mercury concentrations in zooplankton.

    Martin Kainz;Asit Mazumder

  • The influence of bacteria‐dominated diets on Daphnia magna somatic growth, reproduction, and lipid composition

    Sami J. Taipale;Michael T. Brett;Katja Pulkkinen;Martin J. Kainz

  • A Fatty Acid Based Bayesian Approach for Inferring Diet in Aquatic Consumers

    Aaron W. E. Galloway;Michael T. Brett;Gordon W. Holtgrieve;Eric J. Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael T. Brett
Michael T. Brett University of Washington
Stuart E. Bunn
Stuart E. Bunn Griffith University
Sami J. Taipale
Sami J. Taipale University of Jyväskylä
Michael T. Arts
Michael T. Arts Toronto Metropolitan University
Tom J. Battin
Tom J. Battin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Robert Ptacnik
Robert Ptacnik Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Asit Mazumder
Asit Mazumder University of Victoria
Fran Sheldon
Fran Sheldon Griffith University
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Dominik Martin-Creuzburg
Dominik Martin-Creuzburg University of Konstanz

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