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D-Index
56
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15971
World Ranking
2788
National Ranking
152

Rita Adrian 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 Rita Adrian sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 152 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rita Adrian 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 Rita Adrian sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Rita Adrian is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental sciences, with a particular focus on aquatic ecosystems and related ecological dynamics.

The main fields of study covered by their work include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. More specific subfields are Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Research topics prominently addressed by Rita Adrian encompass:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Frequent co-authors associated with their research include:

  • Orlane Anneville
  • Benjamin M. Kraemer
  • Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki
  • James A. Rusak
  • Hans-Peter Grossart

Rita Adrian has contributed publications to several scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Ecology Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Modelling & Software

Recent research papers by Rita Adrian include:

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector, 2022, Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

  • Lakes as sentinels of climate change

    Rita Adrian;Catherine M. O'Reilly;Horacio Zagarese;Stephen B. Baines

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model : Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

    Ulrich Sommer;Rita Adrian;Lisette N. de Senerpont Domis;James J. Elser

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • Cyanobacteria dominance: Quantifying the effects of climate change

    Carola Wagner;Rita Adrian

  • Ecology under lake ice

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Aaron W.E. Galloway;Stephen M. Powers;Ted Ozersky

  • Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe

    Francesca Pilotto;Francesca Pilotto;Ingolf Kühn;Ingolf Kühn;Rita Adrian;Renate Alber

  • Climate-driven changes in spring plankton dynamics and the sensitivity of shallow polymictic lakes to the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Dieter Gerten;Rita Adrian

  • Life‐history traits of lake plankton species may govern their phenological response to climate warming

    Rita Adrian;Susann Wilhelm;Dieter Gerten

  • Global impacts of the 1980s regime shift

    Philip C. Reid;Renata E. Hari;Grégory Beaugrand;David M. Livingstone

  • Impact of summer warming on the thermal characteristics of a polymictic lake and consequences for oxygen, nutrients and phytoplankton

    Susann Wilhelm;Rita Adrian

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Drivers and stressors of freshwater biodiversity patterns across different ecosystems and scales: a review

    Sonja Stendera;R. Adrian;N. Bonada;M. Cañedo-Argüelles

  • Large-scale climatic signatures in lakes across Europe: a meta-analysis

    Thorsten Blenckner;Rita Adrian;David M. Livingstone;Eleanor Jennings

  • Ecosystem respiration: Drivers of daily variability and background respiration in lakes around the globe

    Christopher T. Solomon;Denise A. Bruesewitz;David C. Richardson;Kevin C. Rose

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • Effects of ice duration on plankton succession during spring in a shallow polymictic lake

    Rita Adrian;Norbert Walz;Thomas Hintze;Sigrid Hoeg

  • A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

    Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Jordan S. Read;Catherine M. O'Reilly

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation and plankton dynamics in two European lakes –‐ two variations on a general theme

    Dietmar Straile;Rita Adrian

  • Long‐term response of a shallow, moderately flushed lake to reduced external phosphorus and nitrogen loading

    J. Köhler;S. Hilt;R. Adrian;A. Nicklisch

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Dietmar Straile
Dietmar Straile University of Konstanz
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Peeter Nõges
Peeter Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
David M. Livingstone
David M. Livingstone Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Tiina Nõges
Tiina Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Thorsten Blenckner
Thorsten Blenckner Stockholm Resilience Centre
Lauri Arvola
Lauri Arvola University of Helsinki

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