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Thorsten Blenckner

Thorsten Blenckner

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
8405
World Ranking
3886
National Ranking
96

Thorsten Blenckner 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 Thorsten Blenckner sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 134 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thorsten Blenckner 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 Thorsten Blenckner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thorsten Blenckner is affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's main areas of study comprise marine and fisheries research, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, coastal and marine management, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine biology and ecology research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Susa Niiranen, Maciej T. Tomczak, Christian Möllmann, R. Voss, and Bärbel Müller-Karulis.

Typical publication venues where Thorsten Blenckner's work appears are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • CABI One Health
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Thorsten Blenckner include:

  • Atmospheric circulation and its impact on ice phenology in Scandinavia, 2024, Epsilon Open Archive (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet biblioteket (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences))
  • The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Governing complexity: Integrating science, governance, and law to manage accelerating change in the globalized commons, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Operationalizing Ocean Health: Toward Integrated Research on Ocean Health and Recovery to Achieve Ocean Sustainability, 2020, One Earth
  • Reference state, structure, regime shifts, and regulatory drivers in a coastal sea over the last century: The Central Baltic Sea case, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography

Thorsten Blenckner is also the author of the book Nordic Marine Ecosystems in a Changing Climate, published by TemaNord in 2025.

Best Publications

  • The importance of benthic-pelagic coupling for marine ecosystem functioning in a changing world

    Jennifer R. Griffiths;Martina Kadin;Francisco J. A. Nascimento;Tobias Tamelander

  • Reconstructing the Development of Baltic Sea Eutrophication 1850–2006

    Bo G. Gustafsson;Frederik Schenk;Thorsten Blenckner;Kari Eilola

  • Changes of the plankton spring outburst related to the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Thorsten Blenckner;Kurt Pettersson

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

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

  • Confronting Feedbacks of Degraded Marine Ecosystems

    Magnus Nyström;Albert V. Norström;Thorsten Blenckner;Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Maricela de la Torre-Castro

  • Regional and local impact on species diversity - from pattern to processes

    Helmut Hillebrand;Thorsten Blenckner

  • CO2 supersaturation along the aquatic conduit in Swedish watersheds as constrained by terrestrial respiration, aquatic respiration and weathering.

    Christoph Humborg;Carl-Magnus Mörth;Marcus Sundbom;Hans Borg

  • Marine regime shifts: drivers and impacts on ecosystems services

    Juan Rocha;Johanna Yletyinen;Johanna Yletyinen;Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs;Thorsten Blenckner;Thorsten Blenckner

  • Principles for managing marine ecosystems prone to tipping points

    Kimberly A. Selkoe;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Thorsten Blenckner;Margaret R. Caldwell;Larry B. Crowder

  • A conceptual model of climate-related effects on lake ecosystems

    Thorsten Blenckner

  • Junk-food in marine ecosystems

    Henrik Österblom;Olof Olsson;Thorsten Blenckner;Robert W. Furness

  • Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans

    P. R. Leavitt;S. C. Fritz;N. J. Anderson;P. A. Baker

  • A holistic view of marine regime shifts

    Alessandra Conversi;Alessandra Conversi;Vasilis Dakos;Anna Gårdmark;Scott Ling

  • Twenty years of spatially coherent deepwater warming in lakes across Europe related to the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Martin T. Dokulil;Albert Jagsch;Glen D. George;Orlane Anneville

  • Comparing reconstructed past variations and future projections of the Baltic Sea ecosystem—first results from multi-model ensemble simulations

    H E Markus Meier;Helén C Andersson;Berit Arheimer;Thorsten Blenckner

  • The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points

    Christoph Heinze;Christoph Heinze;Thorsten Blenckner;Helena Martins;Dagmara Rusiecka;Dagmara Rusiecka

  • Combined effects of global climate change and regional ecosystem drivers on an exploited marine food web

    Susa Niiranen;Susa Niiranen;Johanna Yletyinen;Johanna Yletyinen;Maciej T. Tomczak;Thorsten Blenckner

  • Making the ecosystem approach operational—Can regime shifts in ecological- and governance systems facilitate the transition?

    H. Österblom;A. Gårdmark;L. Bergström;B. Müller-Karulis

  • Predator transitory spillover induces trophic cascades in ecological sinks.

    Michele Casini;Thorsten Blenckner;Christian Möllmann;Anna Gårdmark

  • Implementing ecosystem-based fisheries management: from single-species to integrated ecosystem assessment and advice for Baltic Sea fish stocks

    Christian Möllmann;Martin Lindegren;Thorsten Blenckner;Lena Bergström

  • Reconstructing the Development of Baltic Sea Eutrophication

    Bo G. Gustafsson;Frederik Schenk;Thorsten Blenckner;Kari Eilola

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Lindegren
Martin Lindegren Technical University of Denmark
Anna Gårdmark
Anna Gårdmark Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Christian Möllmann
Christian Möllmann Universität Hamburg
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Bärbel Müller-Karulis
Bärbel Müller-Karulis Stockholm University
Michele Casini
Michele Casini University of Bologna
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Henrik Österblom
Henrik Österblom Stockholm University
Dietmar Straile
Dietmar Straile University of Konstanz

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