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Nikolai Friberg

Nikolai Friberg

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
9396
World Ranking
3332
National Ranking
46

Nikolai Friberg 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 Nikolai Friberg sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 150 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nikolai Friberg 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 Nikolai Friberg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nikolai Friberg is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology and nature and landscape conservation. Their body of work spans several subfields including molecular biology, water science and technology, and ecological modeling.

The scientist's main topics of study include freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, fish ecology and management studies, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies. Other areas of research cover aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, isotope analysis in ecology, species distribution and climate change, as well as hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Friberg has published extensively in several scientific venues. Notable publication platforms for their work include Water, The Science of The Total Environment, Ecological Indicators, Freshwater Biology, and Communications Biology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Friberg include:

  • The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt (2023, Nature)
  • A global perspective on the application of riverine macroinvertebrates as biological indicators in Africa, South-Central America, Mexico and Southern Asia (2021, Ecological Indicators)
  • Assessing the Benefits of Forested Riparian Zones: A Qualitative Index of Riparian Integrity Is Positively Associated with Ecological Status in European Streams (2020, Water)
  • Trait-based ecology at large scales: Assessing functional trait correlations, phylogenetic constraints and spatial variability using open data (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Small Patches of Riparian Woody Vegetation Enhance Biodiversity of Invertebrates (2020, Water)

Friberg frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include Brendan G. McKie, Peter Goethals, John E. Brittain, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, and Francis J. Burdon.

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has contributed to book publications. Notably, they have published a book titled Metabarcoding for use in Nordic routine aquatic biomonitoring - a validation study (2021) with TemaNord.

Best Publications

  • Biomonitoring of Human Impacts in Freshwater Ecosystems: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    Nikolai Friberg;Núria Bonada;David C. Bradley;Michael J. Dunbar

  • From Natural to Degraded Rivers and Back Again: A Test of Restoration Ecology Theory and Practice

    Christian K. Feld;Sebastian Birk;David C. Bradley;Daniel Hering

  • Temperature and the metabolic balance of streams

    Benoît O.L. Demars;J. Russell Manson;Jon S. Ólafsson;Gísli M. Gíslason

  • Relationships between structure and function in streams contrasting in temperature

    Nikolai Friberg;Nikolai Friberg;John Bøhme Dybkjær;J.S. Olafsson;G.M. Gislason

  • The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt

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  • The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches

    Mike T. Furse;Daniel Hering;Otto Moog;Piet Verdonschot

  • Emergence and lateral dispersal of adult Plecoptera and Trichoptera from Broadstone Stream, U.K.

    Irene Petersen;Julie H. Winterbottom;Stuart Orton;Nikolai Friberg

  • Feeding plasticity of two detritivore-shredders

    Nikolai Friberg;Dean Jacobsen

  • Interaction of Climate Change and Eutrophication

    Erik Jeppesen;Brian Moss;Helen Bennion;Laurence Carvalho

  • Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate

    Guy Woodward;Jonathan P. Benstead;Oliver S. Beveridge;Julia Blanchard

  • Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

    Scott D. Tiegs;David M. Costello;Mark W. Isken;Guy Woodward

  • The legacy of pesticide pollution: An overlooked factor in current risk assessments of freshwater systems.

    Jes Jessen Rasmussen;Peter Wiberg-Larsen;Annette Baattrup-Pedersen;Nina Cedergreen

  • Stream macroinvertebrate occurrence along gradients in organic pollution and eutrophication

    Nikolai Friberg;Jens Skriver;Søren Erik Larsen;Morten Lauge Pedersen

  • Impacts of Warming on the Structure and Functioning of Aquatic Communities: Individual- to Ecosystem-Level Responses

    Eoin J. O'Gorman;Doris E. Pichler;Georgina Adams;Georgina Adams;Jonathan P. Benstead

  • Sentinel systems on the razor's edge: effects of warming on Arctic geothermal stream ecosystems

    Guy Woodward;John B. Dybkjær;Jón S. Ólafsson;Gísli M. Gíslason

  • Climate change and geothermal ecosystems: natural laboratories, sentinel systems, and future refugia

    Eoin J. O'Gorman;Jonathan P. Benstead;Wyatt F. Cross;Nikolai Friberg

  • Impacts and indicators of change in lotic ecosystems

    Nikolai Friberg

  • Consistent temperature dependence of respiration across ecosystems contrasting in thermal history

    Daniel M. Perkins;Gabriel Yvon-Durocher;Benoît O.L. Demars;Julia Reiss;Julia Reiss

  • Long-term, habitat-specific response of a macroinvertebrate community to river restoration

    Nikolai Friberg;Brian Kronvang;Hans Ole Hansen;Lars M. Svendsen

  • Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover

    Lee E. Brown;Kieran Khamis;Martin Wilkes;Phillip Blaen

  • Climate change and the future of freshwater biodiversity in Europe: a primer for policy-makers

    Brian Moss;Daniel Hering;Andy J. Green;Ahmed Aidoud

  • Biological assessment of running waters in Denmark: introduction of the Danish Stream Fauna Index (DSFI)

    Jens Skriver;Nikolai Friberg;Jørn Kirkegaard

Frequent Co-Authors

Søren Ejling Larsen
Søren Ejling Larsen Technical University of Denmark
Annette Baattrup-Pedersen
Annette Baattrup-Pedersen Aarhus University
Brian Kronvang
Brian Kronvang Aarhus University
Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward Imperial College London
Leonard Sandin
Leonard Sandin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Dean Jacobsen
Dean Jacobsen University of Copenhagen
Tenna Riis
Tenna Riis Aarhus University
Daniel Hering
Daniel Hering University of Duisburg-Essen
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Piet F. M. Verdonschot Wageningen University & Research
Daniel C. Reuman
Daniel C. Reuman University of Kansas

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