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Stefan Schmutz

Stefan Schmutz

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
9496
World Ranking
3660
National Ranking
23

Overview

Stefan Schmutz is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research encompasses various subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Aquatic Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work addresses multiple topics within environmental sciences, particularly focusing on:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Schmutz has contributed to frequently publishing in the following venues:

  • Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Environmental Management
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • River Research and Applications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Daniel S. Hayes
  • Stefan Auer
  • Günther Unfer
  • Simon Führer
  • Franz Greimel

Among the recent publications associated with Stefan Schmutz are:

  • "Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Response of European grayling, Thymallus thymallus, to multiple stressors in hydropeaking rivers," 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Reviving Europe's rivers: Seven challenges in the implementation of the Nature Restoration Law to restore free-flowing rivers," 2024, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • "The coupled socio-ecohydrological evolution of river systems: Towards an integrative perspective of river systems in the 21st century," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Effects of cold and warm thermopeaking on drift and stranding of juvenile European grayling (Thymallus thymallus)," 2022, River Research and Applications

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems.

    Sebastian Birk;Daniel Chapman;Laurence Carvalho;Bryan M. Spears

  • Assessing river biotic condition at a continental scale: a European approach using functional metrics and fish assemblages

    D. Pont;B. Hugueny;U. Beier;D. Goffaux

  • Resistance and resilience of the forest soil microbiome to logging-associated compaction.

    Martin Hartmann;Pascal A Niklaus;Stephan Zimmermann;Stefan Schmutz

  • Re‐establishing and assessing ecological integrity in riverine landscapes

    M. Jungwirth;S. Muhar;S. Schmutz

  • Managing aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress — An introduction to the MARS project

    Daniel Hering;Laurence Carvalho;Christine Argillier;Meryem Beklioglu

  • Multiple human pressures and their spatial patterns in European running waters

    Rafaela Schinegger;Clemens Trautwein;Andreas Melcher;Stefan Schmutz

  • Riverine Ecosystem Management: Science for Governing Towards a Sustainable Future

    Stefan Schmutz;Jan Sendzimir

  • Fish Migration and Fish Bypasses

    Stefan Schmutz;Steven Weiss;Mathias Jungwirth

  • Response of Fish Communities to Hydrological and Morphological Alterations in Hydropeaking Rivers of Austria

    S. Schmutz;Tor Haakon Bakken;T. Friedrich;F. Greimel

  • Full-length haplotype reconstruction to infer the structure of heterogeneous virus populations

    Francesca Di Giallonardo;Armin Töpfer;Melanie Rey;Sandhya Prabhakaran

  • Untangling the effects of multiple human stressors and their impacts on fish assemblages in European running waters.

    Rafaela Schinegger;Martin Palt;Pedro Segurado;Stefan Schmutz

  • Fish-based methods for assessing European running waters: a synthesis

    S. Schmutz;I. G. Cowx;G. Haidvogl;D. Pont

  • A multi-level concept for fish-based, river-type-specific assessment of ecological integrity

    S. Schmutz;M. Kaufmann;B. Vogel;M. Jungwirth

  • A Predictive Index of Biotic Integrity Model for Aquatic-Vertebrate Assemblages of Western U.S. Streams

    Didier Pont;Robert M. Hughes;Thomas R. Whittier;Stefan Schmutz

  • Ecologically-based criteria for hydropeaking mitigation: A review

    Miguel Moreira;Daniel S. Hayes;Isabel Boavida;Martin Schletterer

  • Fundamentals of fish ecological integrity and their relation to the extended serial discontinuity concept

    M. Jungwirth;S. Muhar;S. Schmutz

  • Advancing towards functional environmental flows for temperate floodplain rivers

    Daniel S. Hayes;Daniel S. Hayes;Julia M. Brändle;Carina Seliger;Bernhard Zeiringer

  • Dams: Ecological Impacts and Management

    Stefan Schmutz;Otto Moog

  • The effects of recreated instream and ecotone structures on the fish fauna of an epipotamal river

    M. Jungwirth;S. Muhar;S. Schmutz

  • Identification of rivers with high and good habitat quality: methodological approach and applications in Austria

    Susanne Muhar;Michaela Schwarz;Stefan Schmutz;Mathias Jungwirth

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra Trkola
Alexandra Trkola University of Zurich
Michael Huber
Michael Huber University of Zurich
Jürg Böni
Jürg Böni University of Zurich
Helmut Habersack
Helmut Habersack BOKU University
Karin J. Metzner
Karin J. Metzner University of Zurich
Daniel Hering
Daniel Hering University of Duisburg-Essen
Didier Pont
Didier Pont BOKU University
Wolfram Graf
Wolfram Graf BOKU University
Roger D. Kouyos
Roger D. Kouyos University of Zurich

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