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59
Citations
13163
World Ranking
2427
National Ranking
58

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - The Rockefeller Prentice Memorial Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics, American Society of Animal Science

Overview

Richard K. Johnson is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a specialized focus on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, Surgery, and Oceanography as subfields.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Johnson has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Water
  • Global Change Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Ecological Indicators

Among the recent scholarly papers authored or coauthored by Johnson are:

  • The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt, 2023, Nature
  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Invasion impacts and dynamics of a European-wide introduced species, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Assessing the Benefits of Forested Riparian Zones: A Qualitative Index of Riparian Integrity Is Positively Associated with Ecological Status in European Streams, 2020, Water
  • Assessing the Ecological Status of European Rivers and Lakes Using Benthic Invertebrate Communities: A Practical Catalogue of Metrics and Methods, 2021, Water

Frequent collaborators in their research network include Brendan G. McKie, Peter Goethals, Peter Haase, David G. Angeler, and Marie Anne Eurie Forio.

Johnson has contributed to the academic literature also through books, notably a publication titled "Metabarcoding for use in Nordic routine aquatic biomonitoring - a validation study," released in 2021 by TemaNord.

In recognition of their academic contributions, Johnson received The Rockefeller Prentice Memorial Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics from the American Society of Animal Science in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Setting expectations for the ecological condition of streams: the concept of reference condition

    John L. Stoddard;David P. Larsen;Charles P. Hawkins;Richard K. Johnson

  • The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future

    Daniel Hering;Angel Borja;Jacob Carstensen;Laurence Carvalho

  • Assessment of european streams with diatoms, macrophytes, macroinvertebrates and fish : a comparative metric-based analysis of organism response to stress

    Daniel Hering;Richard K. Johnson;Sandra Kramm;Stefan Schmutz

  • Towards sustainable land use: identifying and managing the conflicts between human activities and biodiversity conservation in Europe

    Juliette Young;Allan Watt;Peter Nowicki;Didier Alard

  • Evaluation of the use of landscape classifications for the prediction of freshwater biota: synthesis and recommendations

    C. P. Hawkins;R. H. Norris;J. Gerritsen;R. M. Hughes

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

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  • The Development of a System to Assess the Ecological Quality of Streams Based on Macroinvertebrates – Design of the Sampling Programme within the AQEM Project

    Daniel Hering;Andrea Buffagni;Otto Moog;Leonard Sandin

  • Correcting a fundamental error in greenhouse gas accounting related to bioenergy

    Helmut Haberl;Detlef Sprinz;Marc Bonazountas;Pierluigi Cocco

  • The STAR project: context, objectives and approaches

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

  • Ecological relationships between stream communities and spatial scale: implications for designing catchment‐level monitoring programmes

    Richard K. Johnson;Mike T. Furse;Daniel Hering;Leonard Sandin

  • A comparative review of recovery processes in rivers, lakes, estuarine and coastal waters

    P. F. M. Verdonschot;B. M. Spears;C. K. Feld;S. Brucet

  • Local, landscape and regional factors structuring benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in Swedish streams

    Leonard Sandin;Richard K. Johnson

  • Establishing Reference Conditions for European Streams

    R.C. Nijboer;R.K. Johnson;P.F.M. Verdonschot;M. Sommerhäuser

  • Identifying, managing and monitoring conflicts between forest biodiversity conservation and other human interests in Europe

    J. Niemela;Juliette C. Young;D. Alard;M. Askasibar

  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research.

    Alain Maasri;Alain Maasri;Sonja C. Jähnig;Sonja C. Jähnig;Mihai C. Adamescu;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian

  • The Swedish monitoring of surface waters: 50 years of adaptive monitoring

    Jens Fölster;Richard K. Johnson;Martyn N. Futter;Anders Wilander

  • Spatial scale and ecological relationships between the macroinvertebrate communities of stony habitats of streams and lakes

    Richard K. Johnson;Willem Goedkoop;Leonard Sandin

  • Detection of ecological change using multiple organism groups: metrics and uncertainty

    Richard K. Johnson;Daniel Hering;Mike T. Furse;Ralph T. Clarke

  • Pelagic-benthic coupling: Profundal benthic community response to spring diatom deposition in mesotrophic Lake Erken

    Willem Goedkoop;Richard K. Johnson

  • Response of taxonomic groups in streams to gradients in resource and habitat characteristics

    Richard K. Johnson;Daniel Hering

  • Ecoregions and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages of Swedish streams

    Leonard Sandin;Richard K. Johnson

  • Bioassessment of Freshwater Ecosystems: Using the Reference Condition Approach

    Richard K. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonard Sandin
Leonard Sandin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Daniel Hering
Daniel Hering University of Duisburg-Essen
David G. Angeler
David G. Angeler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Brendan G. McKie
Brendan G. McKie Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Willem Goedkoop
Willem Goedkoop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Piet F. M. Verdonschot
Piet F. M. Verdonschot Wageningen University & Research
Nikolai Friberg
Nikolai Friberg Aarhus University
Craig R. Allen
Craig R. Allen University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jacob Carstensen
Jacob Carstensen Aarhus University
Mats Lindegarth
Mats Lindegarth University of Gothenburg

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