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D-Index
84
Citations
43848
World Ranking
648
National Ranking
38

Villy Christensen 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 Villy Christensen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 251 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Villy Christensen 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 Villy Christensen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Villy Christensen is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their primary research field is Environmental Science, with notable contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's work extensively covers marine and fisheries research, with a particular focus on marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coral and marine ecosystems, fish ecology and management, as well as coastal and marine ecosystems and management.

Frequent collaborators include Marta Coll, Jeroen Steenbeek, Carl J. Walters, Derek P. Tittensor, and Ryan Heneghan.

Scientific publications appear regularly in several leading journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Earth's Future
  • Marine Policy
  • PLoS ONE

Recent papers by the scientist feature the following titles and publication details:

  • Next-generation ensemble projections reveal higher climate risks for marine ecosystems, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications, 2020, DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator, 2020, Science
  • WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies, 2021, Science
  • Advancing Global Ecological Modeling Capabilities to Simulate Future Trajectories of Change in Marine Ecosystems, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • Fishing Down Marine Food Webs

    Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen;Johanne Dalsgaard;Rainer Froese

  • Towards sustainability in world fisheries

    Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen;Sylvie Guénette;Tony J. Pitcher

  • Primary production required to sustain global fisheries

    D. Pauly;V. Christensen

  • Ecopath with Ecosim: methods, capabilities and limitations

    Villy Christensen;Carl J Walters

  • ECOPATH II − a software for balancing steady-state ecosystem models and calculating network characteristics

    V. Christensen;D. Pauly

  • Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace as tools for evaluating ecosystem impact of fisheries

    Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen;Carl Walters

  • Structuring dynamic models of exploited ecosystems from trophic mass-balance assessments

    Carl Walters;Villy Christensen;Daniel Pauly

  • A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

    Derek P. Tittensor;Derek P. Tittensor;Matt Walpole;Samantha L. L. Hill;Daniel G. Boyce;Daniel G. Boyce

  • Diet composition and trophic levels of marine mammals

    D. Pauly;A. W. Trites;E. Capuli;V. Christensen

  • Trophic models of aquatic ecosystems

    Villy Christensen;D. Pauly

  • The future for fisheries.

    Daniel Pauly;Jackie Alder;Elena Bennett;Villy Christensen

  • The Mediterranean Sea under siege: spatial overlap between marine biodiversity, cumulative threats and marine reserves

    Marta Coll;Marta Coll;Chiara Piroddi;Camille Albouy;Camille Albouy;Frida Ben Rais Lasram

  • Ecosystem maturity - towards quantification

    Villy Christensen

  • Hundred‐year decline of North Atlantic predatory fishes

    Villy Christensen;Sylvie Guénette;Johanna J Heymans;Carl J Walters

  • A method for identifying keystone species in food web models

    Simone Libralato;Villy Christensen;Daniel Pauly

  • Ecospace: Prediction of Mesoscale Spatial Patterns in Trophic Relationships of Exploited Ecosystems, with Emphasis on the Impacts of Marine Protected Areas

    Carl Walters;Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen

  • Global ensemble projections reveal trophic amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change

    Heike K Lotze;Derek P Tittensor;Derek P Tittensor;Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz;Tyler D Eddy;Tyler D Eddy

  • Best practice in Ecopath with Ecosim food-web models for ecosystem-based management

    Johanna Jacomina Heymans;Marta Coll;Marta Coll;Jason S. Link;Steven Mackinson

  • Representing Density Dependent Consequences of Life History Strategies in Aquatic Ecosystems: EcoSim II

    Carl Walters;Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen;James F. Kitchell

  • Possible ecosystem impacts of applying MSY policies from single-species assessment

    Carl J. Walters;Villy Christensen;Steven J. Martell;James F. Kitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Pauly
Daniel Pauly University of British Columbia
Carl J. Walters
Carl J. Walters University of British Columbia
Marta Coll
Marta Coll Spanish National Research Council
Jeroen Steenbeek
Jeroen Steenbeek Spanish National Research Council
Johanna J. Heymans
Johanna J. Heymans Scottish Association For Marine Science
Elizabeth A. Fulton
Elizabeth A. Fulton Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Reg Watson
Reg Watson University of Tasmania
William W. L. Cheung
William W. L. Cheung University of British Columbia
Derek P. Tittensor
Derek P. Tittensor Dalhousie University
Dirk Zeller
Dirk Zeller University of Western Australia

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