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Thomas Hein

Thomas Hein

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
7117
World Ranking
7096
National Ranking
58

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Thomas Hein is a researcher affiliated with BOKU University in Austria, specializing in environmental science with a focus on ecology and watershed management. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, water science and technology, environmental chemistry, and global and planetary change.

The researcher's main topics revolve around:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Thomas Hein has published extensively in several scientific venues, most frequently in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Ecological Indicators
  • PLoS ONE

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Freshwater systems and ecosystem services: Challenges and chances for cross-fertilization of disciplines" (2021, AMBIO)
  • "Effects of macrophytes on ecosystem metabolism and net nutrient uptake in a groundwater fed lowland river" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "River-floodplain restoration and hydrological effects on GHG emissions: Biogeochemical dynamics in the parafluvial zone" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Reviving Europe's rivers: Seven challenges in the implementation of the Nature Restoration Law to restore free-flowing rivers" (2024, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water)
  • "Analysing the potential to restore the multi-functionality of floodplain systems by considering ecosystem service quality, quantity and trade-offs" (2020, River Research and Applications)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Gabriele Weigelhofer
  • Andrea Funk
  • Elisabeth Bondar-Kunze
  • Martin Tschikof
  • Damiano Baldan

Thomas Hein is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, reflecting engagement with the broader scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Zooplankton biomass and community structure in a Danube River floodplain system: effects of hydrology

    Christian Baranyi;T. Hein;C. Holarek;S. Keckeis

  • HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY AND FLOOD PULSES AS THE CENTRAL ASPECTS FOR THE INTEGRITY OF A RIVER-FLOODPLAIN SYSTEM

    Gudrun Heiler;Thomas Hein;Fritz Schiemer;Gudrun Bornette

  • staRdom: Versatile Software for Analyzing Spectroscopic Data of Dissolved Organic Matter in R

    Mathias Pucher;Urban Wuensch;Gabriele Weigelhofer;Kathleen Murphy

  • Challenges of river basin management: Current status of, and prospects for, the River Danube from a river engineering perspective.

    Helmut Habersack;Thomas Hein;Adrian Stanica;Igor Liska

  • Allochthonous and autochthonous particulate organic matter in floodplains of the River Danube: the importance of hydrological connectivity

    Thomas Hein;Christian Baranyi;Gerhard J. Herndl;Wolfgang Wanek

  • Current status and restoration options for floodplains along the Danube River

    Thomas Hein;Ulrich Schwarz;Helmut Habersack;Iulian Nichersu

  • Quantifying ecosystem service trade-offs: The case of an urban floodplain in Vienna, Austria

    Samai Sanon;Thomas Hein;Wim Douven;Peter Winkler

  • Freshwater systems and ecosystem services: Challenges and chances for cross-fertilization of disciplines.

    Ágnes Vári;Simone A. Podschun;Tibor Erős;Thomas Hein

  • Exploring variability in environmental impact risk from human activities across aquatic ecosystems

    Florian Borgwardt;Leonie Robinson;Daniel Trauner;Heliana Teixeira

  • Longitudinal changes in the bacterial community composition of the Danube River: a whole-river approach.

    Christian Winter;Thomas Hein;Gerhard Kavka;Robert L. Mach

  • Linking the restoration of rivers and riparian zones/wetlands in Europe: Sharing knowledge through case studies

    Bruna Gumiero;Jenny Mant;Thomas Hein;Josu Elso

  • The Danube River Basin

    Nike Sommerwerk;Thomas Hein;Martin Schneider-Jacoby;Christian Baumgartner

  • Developments in water quality monitoring and management in large river catchments using the Danube River as an example

    Deborah V. Chapman;Chris Bradley;Gretchen M. Gettel;István Gábor Hatvani

  • Temperature and species richness effects in phytoplankton communities

    Stefanie Schabhüttl;Peter Hingsamer;Gabriele Weigelhofer;Thomas Hein

  • Impact of drying and re-flooding of sediment on phosphorus dynamics of river-floodplain systems

    Iris M. Schönbrunner;Stefan Preiner;Thomas Hein

  • Ecological complexity of wetlands within a river landscape

    Gudrun Bornette;Claude Amoros;Hervé Piegay;Janine Tachet

  • The impact of surface water exchange on the nutrient and particle dynamics in side-arms along the River Danube, Austria.

    Thomas Hein;Christian Baranyi;Walter Reckendorfer;Fritz Schiemer

  • How do long-term development and periodical changes of river-floodplain systems affect the fate of contaminants? Results from European rivers

    G.J. Lair;F. Zehetner;M. Fiebig;M.H. Gerzabek

  • Identification of conservation and restoration priority areas in the Danube River based on the multi-functionality of river-floodplain systems.

    Andrea Funk;Javier Martínez-López;Florian Borgwardt;Daniel Trauner

  • Managing the world’s most international river: the Danube River Basin

    Nike Sommerwerk;Nike Sommerwerk;Jürg Bloesch;Momir Paunović;Christian Baumgartner

  • The significance of zooplankton grazing in a floodplain system of the River Danube

    Susanne Keckeis;Christian Baranyi;Thomas Hein;Claudia Holarek

  • The Danube restoration project: functional aspects and planktonic productivity in the floodplain system

    T. Hein;G. Heiler;D. Pennetzdorfer;P. Riedler

Frequent Co-Authors

Franz Zehetner
Franz Zehetner BOKU University
Sonja C. Jähnig
Sonja C. Jähnig Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
J.C. Huang
J.C. Huang City University of Hong Kong
Fritz Schiemer
Fritz Schiemer University of Vienna
Gilles Pinay
Gilles Pinay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Helmut Habersack
Helmut Habersack BOKU University
Wolfgang Wanek
Wolfgang Wanek University of Vienna
Sami Domisch
Sami Domisch Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
António J.A. Nogueira
António J.A. Nogueira University of Aveiro

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