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Tjisse van der Heide is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields primarily within environmental sciences and earth and planetary sciences, with particular focus on ecology and oceanography. Their scholarly work addresses various aspects of marine and coastal ecosystems and dynamics.

The main fields of study covered by van der Heide include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of their research emphasize:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Their work centers around several core topics:

  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Van der Heide has been published extensively in several scientific venues, providing a platform for dissemination of their research findings. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series

Frequent collaborators in their research include Laura L. Govers, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Valérie C. Reijers, Ralph J. M. Temmink, and Karin Didderen, with whom van der Heide has coauthored multiple publications.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by van der Heide comprise:

  • Recovering wetland biogeomorphic feedbacks to restore the world's biotic carbon hotspots, 2022, Science
  • Positive Ecological Interactions and the Success of Seagrass Restoration, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant-bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • A global analysis of how human infrastructure squeezes sandy coasts, 2024, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Recovering wetland biogeomorphic feedbacks to restore the world’s biotic carbon hotspots

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  • Sulfide as a soil phytotoxin-a review

    Leon P. M. Lamers;Laura L. Govers;Inge C. J. M. Janssen;Jeroen J. M. Geurts

  • The fundamental role of ecological feedback mechanisms for the adaptive management of seagrass ecosystems - a review.

    Paul S. Maxwell;Johan S. Eklöf;Marieke M. van Katwijk;Katherine R. O'Brien

  • A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems

    Tjisse van der Heide;Laura L. Govers;Jimmy de Fouw;Han Olff

  • Facilitation shifts paradigms and can amplify coastal restoration efforts

    Brian R. Silliman;Elizabeth Schrack;Qiang He;Rebecca Cope

  • Habitat collapse due to overgrazing threatens turtle conservation in marine protected areas

    Marjolijn J. A. Christianen;Peter M. J. Herman;Tjeerd J. Bouma;Leon P. M. Lamers

  • Positive feedbacks in seagrass ecosystems - Evidence from large-scale empirical data

    Tjisse van der Heide;Egbert H. van Nes;Marieke M. van Katwijk;Han Olff

  • Foundation species' overlap enhances biodiversity and multifunctionality from the patch to landscape scale in southeastern United States salt marshes

    Christine Angelini;Tjisse van der Heide;John N. Griffin;Joseph P. Morton

  • Spatial self‐organized patterning in seagrasses along a depth gradient of an intertidal ecosystem

    Tjisse van der Heide;Tjeerd J. Bouma;Egbert H. van Nes;Johan van de Koppel

  • Positive ecological interactions and the success of seagrass restoration

    Stephanie R. Valdez;Y. Stacy Zhang;Tjisse van der Heide;Tjisse van der Heide;Mathew A. Vanderklift

  • Integrating ecosystem engineering and food webs

    Dirk Sanders;Clive G. Jones;Elisa Thébault;Tjeerd J. Bouma

  • A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought

    Christine Angelini;John N. Griffin;Johan van de Koppel;Leon P M Lamers

  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success.

    Ralph J. M. Temmink;Marjolijn J. A. Christianen;Marjolijn J. A. Christianen;Gregory S. Fivash;Christine Angelini

  • Major changes in the ecology of the Wadden Sea : Human impacts, ecosystem engineering and sediment dynamics

    Britas Klemens Eriksson;Tjisse van der Heide;Johan van de Koppel;Theunis Piersma

  • Spatially extended habitat modification by intertidal reef-building bivalves has implications for consumer-resource interactions

    Els M. van der Zee;Tjisse van der Heide;Serena Donadi;Johan S. Eklöf

  • Long-distance interactions regulate the structure and resilience of coastal ecosystems

    Johan van de Koppel;Tjisse van der Heide;Andrew H. Altieri;Britas Klemens Eriksson

  • Facilitating foundation species: The potential for plant-bivalve interactions to improve habitat restoration success

    Karine Gagnon;Eli Rinde;Elizabeth Grace Tunka Bengil;Laura Carugati

  • Cross-habitat interactions among bivalve species control community structure on intertidal flats

    Serena Donadi;Tjisse van der Heide;Els M. van der Zee;Johan S. Eklöf;Johan S. Eklöf;Johan S. Eklöf

  • A simple equation for describing the temperature dependent growth of free-floating macrophytes

    Tjisse van der Heide;Rudi M.M. Roijackers;Egbert H. van Nes;Edwin T.H.M. Peeters

  • Mutualistic interactions amplify saltmarsh restoration success

    Marlous Derksen‐Hooijberg;Christine Angelini;Leon P. M. Lamers;Annieke Borst

  • Supplementary Material for A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems

    Tjisse van der Heide;Laura L. Govers;Jimmy de Fouw;Han Olff

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan van de Koppel
Johan van de Koppel Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Han Olff
Han Olff University of Groningen
Tjeerd J. Bouma
Tjeerd J. Bouma Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Leon P. M. Lamers
Leon P. M. Lamers Radboud University
Alfons J. P. Smolders
Alfons J. P. Smolders Radboud University
Brian R. Silliman
Brian R. Silliman Duke University
Britas Klemens Eriksson
Britas Klemens Eriksson University of Groningen
Jan A. van Gils
Jan A. van Gils Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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