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Sonja C. Jähnig is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany and focuses on research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research addresses a variety of main topics, such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes.

Frequent coauthors in Sonja C. Jähnig's publications include Fengzhi He, Sami Domisch, Jens Kiesel, Klement Tockner, and Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber. Their collaborative efforts have contributed to research published in prominent venues with recurrent appearances in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Global Change Biology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt, 2023, Nature
  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: Recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • People need freshwater biodiversity, 2023, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Restoring Rivers and Floodplains for Habitat and Flood Risk Reduction: Experiences in Multi-Benefit Floodplain Management From California and Germany, 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science

Best Publications

  • The role of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas

    Adrien Favre;Martin Päckert;Steffen U. Pauls;Sonja C. Jähnig

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

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  • The alliance for freshwater life : a global call to unite efforts for freshwater biodiversity science and conservation

    William Darwall;Vanessa Bremerich;Aaike De Wever;Anthony I. Dell

  • The global decline of freshwater megafauna

    Fengzhi He;Fengzhi He;Fengzhi He;Christiane Zarfl;Vanessa Bremerich;Jonathan N. W. David

  • Climate‐change winners and losers: stream macroinvertebrates of a submontane region in Central Europe

    Sami Domisch;Sonja C. Jähnig;Peter Haase

  • Modelling distribution in European stream macroinvertebrates under future climates

    Sami Domisch;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Núria Bonada;Steffen U. Pauls

  • The impact of hydromorphological restoration on river ecological status: a comparison of fish, benthic invertebrates, and macrophytes

    P. Haase;D. Hering;S. C. Jähnig;A. W. Lorenz

  • A comparative analysis of restoration measures and their effects on hydromorphology and benthic invertebrates in 26 central and southern European rivers

    Sonja C. Jähnig;Karel Brabec;Andrea Buffagni;Stefania Erba

  • River restoration success: a question of perception

    S. C. Jähnig;A. W. Lorenz;D. Hering;C. Antons

  • 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

  • People need freshwater biodiversity

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  • Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020 : recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience

    Charles B. van Rees;Kerry A. Waylen;Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber;Stephen J. Thackeray

  • Future large hydropower dams impact global freshwater megafauna.

    Christiane Zarfl;Jürgen Berlekamp;Fengzhi He;Sonja C. Jähnig

  • Dispersal as a limiting factor in the colonization of restored mountain streams by plants and macroinvertebrates

    Robert J. Brederveld;Sonja C. Jähnig;Armin W. Lorenz;Stefan Brunzel

  • Re-Meandering German Lowland Streams: Qualitative and Quantitative Effects of Restoration Measures on Hydromorphology and Macroinvertebrates

    Armin W. Lorenz;Sonja C. Jähnig;Daniel Hering

  • Context dependency in biodiversity patterns of central German stream metacommunities

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Jani Heino;Andrea Sundermann;Peter Haase;Peter Haase

  • The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia

    Kris Van Looy;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Jonathan D. Tonkin;Mathieu Floury;Catherine Leigh

  • Effects of re‐braiding measures on hydromorphology, floodplain vegetation, ground beetles and benthic invertebrates in mountain rivers

    Sonja C. Jähnig;Stefan Brunzel;Sebastian Gacek;Armin W. Lorenz

  • Contrasting metacommunity structure and beta diversity in an aquatic‐floodplain system

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Stefan Stoll;Sonja C. Jähnig;Peter Haase

  • Freshwater Megafauna: Flagships for Freshwater Biodiversity under Threat.

    Savrina F Carrizo;Sonja C Jähnig;Vanessa Bremerich;Jörg Freyhof

  • Limiting factors and thresholds for macroinvertebrate assemblages in European rivers: Empirical evidence from three datasets on water quality, catchment urbanization, and river restoration

    Jochem Kail;Jens Arle;Sonja C. Jähnig

  • Application of species distribution models in stream ecosystems: the challenges of spatial and temporal scale, environmental predictors and species occurrence data

    Sami Domisch;Sonja C. Jähnig;John P. Simaika;Mathias Kuemmerlen

Frequent Co-Authors

Sami Domisch
Sami Domisch Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Daniel Hering
Daniel Hering University of Duisburg-Essen
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
Nicola Fohrer
Nicola Fohrer Kiel University
Peter Haase
Peter Haase University of Duisburg-Essen
Jonathan D. Tonkin
Jonathan D. Tonkin University of Canterbury
Armin W. Lorenz
Armin W. Lorenz University of Duisburg-Essen
Michael T. Monaghan
Michael T. Monaghan Freie Universität Berlin
Jonathan M. Jeschke
Jonathan M. Jeschke Freie Universität Berlin
Steffen U. Pauls
Steffen U. Pauls Senckenberg German Entomological Institute

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