List of works - Sonja C. Jähnig

300 years of change for native fish species in the upper Danube River Basin – historical flow alterations versus future climate change

preprint

A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research

scientific article

A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research

A comparative analysis of restoration measures and their effects on hydromorphology and benthic invertebrates in 26 central and southern European rivers

article

A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research

scientific article published in 2021

A high-resolution streamflow and hydrological metrics dataset for ecological modeling using a regression model

scientific article published on 06 November 2018

A meeting framework for inclusive and sustainable science

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

A new model linking macroinvertebrate assemblages to habitat composition in rivers: development, sensitivity and univariate application

article

An attack on two fronts: predicting how changes in land use and climate affect the distribution of stream macroinvertebrates

Anthropogenic land-use stress alters community concordance at the river-riparian interface

scientific article published in 2016

Application of species distribution models in stream ecosystems: the challenges of spatial and temporal scale, environmental predictors and species occurrence data

scholarly article by Sami Domisch published in February 2015

Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Indicators for River Health in Changjiang Basin

Challenges and opportunities of German-Chinese cooperation in water science and technology

article

Characterizing macroinvertebrate communities across China: Large-scale implementation of a self-organizing map

article

Choice of study area and predictors affect habitat suitability projections, but not the performance of species distribution models of stream biota

article

Climate change impacts on ecologically relevant hydrological indicators in three catchments in three European ecoregions

scientific article

Climate model variability leads to uncertain predictions of the future abundance of stream macroinvertebrates

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Climatic and Catchment-Scale Predictors of Chinese Stream Insect Richness Differ between Taxonomic Groups

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

Combined effects of life-history traits and human impact on extinction risk of freshwater megafauna

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Community–environment relationships of riverine invertebrate communities in central Chinese streams

article

Context dependency in biodiversity patterns of central German stream metacommunities

Contrasting metacommunity structure and beta diversity in an aquatic-floodplain system

scientific article published in 2015

Current and future latitudinal gradients in stream macroinvertebrate richness across North America

Disappearing giants: a review of threats to freshwater megafauna

scientific article published in 2017

Disentangling the effect of climatic and hydrological predictor variables on benthic macroinvertebrate distributions from predictive models

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Dispersal as a limiting factor in the colonization of restored mountain streams by plants and macroinvertebrates

article

Do alien species affect native freshwater megafauna?

scientific article published in 2023

Effects of re-braiding measures on hydromorphology, floodplain vegetation, ground beetles and benthic invertebrates in mountain rivers

article

Elements of metacommunity structure of river and riparian assemblages: Communities, taxonomic groups and deconstructed trait groups

scientific article published in 2016

Elevation, aspect, and local environment jointly determine diatom and macroinvertebrate diversity in the Cangshan Mountain, Southwest China

scientific article

Environmental Controls on River Assemblages at the Regional Scale: An Application of the Elements of Metacommunity Structure Framework

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Environmental and spatial characterisation of an unknown fauna using DNA sequencing - an example with Himalayan Hydropsychidae (Insecta: Trichoptera)

article

Exceptional body size-extinction risk relations shed new light on the freshwater biodiversity crisis

scientific article

Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Flagship umbrella species needed for the conservation of overlooked aquatic biodiversity.

scientific article

Freshwater Megafauna: Flagships for Freshwater Biodiversity under Threat

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Freshwater megafauna diversity: Patterns, status and threats

scientific article published in 2018

Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration

scientific article published on 27 February 2024

From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene

scientific article published in 2021

From topography to hydrology-The modifiable area unit problem impacts freshwater species distribution models

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Future large hydropower dams impact global freshwater megafauna

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Future-proofing the Emergency Recovery Plan for freshwater biodiversity

scientific article published in 2023

Global introductions and environmental impacts of freshwater megafish

scientific article published in April 2024

Hydromorphological parameters indicating differences between single- and multiple-channel mountain rivers in Germany, in relation to their modification and recovery

article

Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity

scientific article published on 14 October 2024

Identifying and applying an optimum set of environmental variables in species distribution models

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Impacts of land use changes on hydrological components and macroinvertebrate distributions in the Poyang lake area

article

Impacts of loss of free-flowing rivers on global freshwater megafauna

scientific article

Improving hydrological model optimization for riverine species

scientific article published in 2017

In-depth approach to river restoration

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Increased sediment deposition triggered by climate change impacts freshwater pearl mussel habitats and metapopulations

scientific article published in 2021

Integrating catchment properties in small scale species distribution models of stream macroinvertebrates

article

Introducing the H2020 AQUACROSS project: Knowledge, Assessment, and Management for AQUAtic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aCROSS EU policies

scholarly article by M. Lago et al published February 2019 in Science of the Total Environment

Invasion impacts and dynamics of a European‐wide introduced species

scientific article published on 16 May 2022

Latitudinal patterns and large-scale environmental determinants of stream insect richness across Europe

article

Limiting factors and thresholds for macroinvertebrate assemblages in European rivers: Empirical evidence from three datasets on water quality, catchment urbanization, and river restoration

article

Metacommunity Structures of Macroinvertebrates and Diatoms in High Mountain Streams, Yunnan, China

scientific article published in 2020

Metacommunity structuring in Himalayan streams over large elevational gradients: the role of dispersal routes and niche characteristics

Modelling distribution in European stream macroinvertebrates under future climates

scientific article

Modelling of riverine ecosystems by integrating models: conceptual approach, a case study and research agenda

article

Modelling spatial distribution of surface runoff and sediment yield in a Chinese river basin without continuous sediment monitoring

article

Molecular association and morphological characterisation of larval types (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae)

scientific article published in 2018

Molecular phylogeny of Himalopsyche (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 June 2019

More exposure opportunities for promoting freshwater conservation

scientific article

Mountain river restoration measures and their success(ion): Effects on river morphology, local species pool, and functional composition of three organism groups

article

Multi-decadal improvements in the ecological quality of European rivers are not consistently reflected in biodiversity metrics

scientific article published on 26 January 2024

Multiple‐stressor effects on leaf litter decomposition in freshwater ecosystems: A meta‐analysis

scientific article published on 9 May 2024

People need freshwater biodiversity

Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and water planetary boundary

scientific article published on 5 April 2022

Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and water planetary boundary

scientific article published in March 2022

Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and water planetary boundary

scientific article published on 26 August 2021

Projected effects of Climate-change-induced flow alterations on stream macroinvertebrate abundances.

scientific article

Put freshwater megafauna on the table before they are eaten to extinction

article by Fengzhi He & Sonja C. Jähnig published 3 July 2019 in Conservation Letters

Quantitative hydrological preferences of benthic stream invertebrates in Germany

article

Re-meandering German lowland streams: qualitative and quantitative effects of restoration measures on hydromorphology and macroinvertebrates

scientific article

Restoration effort, habitat mosaics, and macroinvertebrates - does channel form determine community composition?

article

Restoring Rivers and Floodplains for Habitat and Flood Risk Reduction: Experiences in Multi-Benefit Floodplain Management From California and Germany

scientific article published on 16 March 2022

Rethinking megafauna

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity

scientific article

Reviving Europe's rivers: Seven challenges in the implementation of the Nature Restoration Law to restore free‐flowing rivers

scientific article published on 30 January 2024

River restoration success: a question of perception.

scientific article

River water quality assessment in selected Yangtze tributaries: Background and method development

article

SMART Research: Toward Interdisciplinary River Science in Europe

scientific article published in 2020

Safeguarding Freshwater Life Beyond 2020: Recommendations for the New Global Biodiversity Framework from the European Experience

Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: Recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience

scientific article

Severity Multipliers as a Methodology to Explore Potential Effects of Climate Change on Stream Bioassessment Programs

scholarly article by Sonja C. Jähnig et al published 3 April 2017 in Water

Social equity shapes zone-selection: Balancing aquatic biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services delivery in the transboundary Danube River Basin

scholarly article by Sami Domisch et al published 15 March 2019 in Science of the Total Environment

Stream macroinvertebrate communities in restored and impacted catchments respond differently to climate, land-use, and runoff over a decade

scientific article published in June 2024

Substrate-specific macroinvertebrate diversity patterns following stream restoration

Substratum associations of benthic invertebrates in lowland and mountain streams

scientific article published in 2013

Supplementary material to "Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and water planetary boundary"

scientific article published on 5 April 2022

The Alliance for Freshwater Life : A global call to unite efforts for freshwater biodiversity science and conservation

scientific article published in August 2018

The Freshwater Information Platform: An online network supporting freshwater biodiversity research and data publishing

scientific article

The Freshwater Information Platform: a global online network providing data, tools and resources for science and policy support

scientific article published on 6 June 2019

The Rise of Riverine Flow-ecology and Environmental Flow Research

The climate sensitive zone along an altitudinal gradient in central Himalayan rivers: a useful concept to monitor climate change impacts in mountain regions

scholarly article by Ram Devi Tachamo Shah et al published 30 May 2015 in Climatic Change

The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

scientific article published on 10 March 2023

The global decline of freshwater megafauna

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

The impact of hydromorphological restoration on river ecological status: a comparison of fish, benthic invertebrates, and macrophytes

scholarly article by P. Haase et al published 27 July 2012 in Hydrobiologia

The impacts of reduced connectivity on multiple facets of aquatic insect diversity in floodplain wetlands, Northeast China

scientific article published in February 2024

The potential of ecosystem-based management to integrate biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision in aquatic ecosystems

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt

The role of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas.

scientific article

The three Rs of river ecosystem resilience: Resources, recruitment, and refugia

The untapped potential of conservation journals to promote freshwater biodiversity

preprint

Three hundred years of past and future changes for native fish species in the upper Danube River Basin—Historical flow alterations versus future climate change

scientific article published on 15 January 2024

Trait-based approach of aquatic insects to track recovery of wetland ecosystems in Northeast China

scientific article published in November 2023

Twenty‐five essential research questions to inform the protection and restoration of freshwater biodiversity

scientific article

Using streamflow observations to estimate the impact of hydrological regimes and anthropogenic water use on European stream macroinvertebrate occurrences

article

Variation in macroinvertebrate community structure of functional process zones along the river continuum: New elements for the interpretation of the river ecosystem synthesis

scientific article published in 2021

List of works by Sonja C. Jähnig

300 years of change for native fish species in the upper Danube River Basin – historical flow alterations versus future climate change

A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research

A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research

A comparative analysis of restoration measures and their effects on hydromorphology and benthic invertebrates in 26 central and southern European rivers

A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research

A high-resolution streamflow and hydrological metrics dataset for ecological modeling using a regression model

A meeting framework for inclusive and sustainable science

A new model linking macroinvertebrate assemblages to habitat composition in rivers: development, sensitivity and univariate application

An attack on two fronts: predicting how changes in land use and climate affect the distribution of stream macroinvertebrates

Anthropogenic land-use stress alters community concordance at the river-riparian interface

Application of species distribution models in stream ecosystems: the challenges of spatial and temporal scale, environmental predictors and species occurrence data

Benthic Macroinvertebrates as Indicators for River Health in Changjiang Basin

Challenges and opportunities of German-Chinese cooperation in water science and technology

Characterizing macroinvertebrate communities across China: Large-scale implementation of a self-organizing map

Choice of study area and predictors affect habitat suitability projections, but not the performance of species distribution models of stream biota

Climate change impacts on ecologically relevant hydrological indicators in three catchments in three European ecoregions

Climate model variability leads to uncertain predictions of the future abundance of stream macroinvertebrates

Climatic and Catchment-Scale Predictors of Chinese Stream Insect Richness Differ between Taxonomic Groups

Combined effects of life-history traits and human impact on extinction risk of freshwater megafauna

Community–environment relationships of riverine invertebrate communities in central Chinese streams

Context dependency in biodiversity patterns of central German stream metacommunities

Contrasting metacommunity structure and beta diversity in an aquatic-floodplain system

Current and future latitudinal gradients in stream macroinvertebrate richness across North America

Disappearing giants: a review of threats to freshwater megafauna

Disentangling the effect of climatic and hydrological predictor variables on benthic macroinvertebrate distributions from predictive models

Dispersal as a limiting factor in the colonization of restored mountain streams by plants and macroinvertebrates

Do alien species affect native freshwater megafauna?

Effects of re-braiding measures on hydromorphology, floodplain vegetation, ground beetles and benthic invertebrates in mountain rivers

Elements of metacommunity structure of river and riparian assemblages: Communities, taxonomic groups and deconstructed trait groups

Elevation, aspect, and local environment jointly determine diatom and macroinvertebrate diversity in the Cangshan Mountain, Southwest China

Environmental Controls on River Assemblages at the Regional Scale: An Application of the Elements of Metacommunity Structure Framework

Environmental and spatial characterisation of an unknown fauna using DNA sequencing - an example with Himalayan Hydropsychidae (Insecta: Trichoptera)

Exceptional body size-extinction risk relations shed new light on the freshwater biodiversity crisis

Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms

Flagship umbrella species needed for the conservation of overlooked aquatic biodiversity.

Freshwater Megafauna: Flagships for Freshwater Biodiversity under Threat

Freshwater megafauna diversity: Patterns, status and threats

Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration

From meta‐system theory to the sustainable management of rivers in the Anthropocene

From topography to hydrology-The modifiable area unit problem impacts freshwater species distribution models

Future large hydropower dams impact global freshwater megafauna

Future-proofing the Emergency Recovery Plan for freshwater biodiversity

Global introductions and environmental impacts of freshwater megafish

Hydromorphological parameters indicating differences between single- and multiple-channel mountain rivers in Germany, in relation to their modification and recovery

Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity

Identifying and applying an optimum set of environmental variables in species distribution models

Impacts of land use changes on hydrological components and macroinvertebrate distributions in the Poyang lake area

Impacts of loss of free-flowing rivers on global freshwater megafauna

Improving hydrological model optimization for riverine species

In-depth approach to river restoration

Increased sediment deposition triggered by climate change impacts freshwater pearl mussel habitats and metapopulations

Integrating catchment properties in small scale species distribution models of stream macroinvertebrates

Introducing the H2020 AQUACROSS project: Knowledge, Assessment, and Management for AQUAtic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aCROSS EU policies

Invasion impacts and dynamics of a European‐wide introduced species

Latitudinal patterns and large-scale environmental determinants of stream insect richness across Europe

Limiting factors and thresholds for macroinvertebrate assemblages in European rivers: Empirical evidence from three datasets on water quality, catchment urbanization, and river restoration

Metacommunity Structures of Macroinvertebrates and Diatoms in High Mountain Streams, Yunnan, China

Metacommunity structuring in Himalayan streams over large elevational gradients: the role of dispersal routes and niche characteristics

Modelling distribution in European stream macroinvertebrates under future climates

Modelling of riverine ecosystems by integrating models: conceptual approach, a case study and research agenda

Modelling spatial distribution of surface runoff and sediment yield in a Chinese river basin without continuous sediment monitoring

Molecular association and morphological characterisation of larval types (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae)

Molecular phylogeny of Himalopsyche (Trichoptera, Rhyacophilidae) ⬇️

More exposure opportunities for promoting freshwater conservation

Mountain river restoration measures and their success(ion): Effects on river morphology, local species pool, and functional composition of three organism groups

Multi-decadal improvements in the ecological quality of European rivers are not consistently reflected in biodiversity metrics

Multiple‐stressor effects on leaf litter decomposition in freshwater ecosystems: A meta‐analysis

People need freshwater biodiversity

Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and water planetary boundary

Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and water planetary boundary

Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and water planetary boundary

Projected effects of Climate-change-induced flow alterations on stream macroinvertebrate abundances.

Put freshwater megafauna on the table before they are eaten to extinction

Quantitative hydrological preferences of benthic stream invertebrates in Germany

Re-meandering German lowland streams: qualitative and quantitative effects of restoration measures on hydromorphology and macroinvertebrates

Restoration effort, habitat mosaics, and macroinvertebrates - does channel form determine community composition?

Restoring Rivers and Floodplains for Habitat and Flood Risk Reduction: Experiences in Multi-Benefit Floodplain Management From California and Germany

Rethinking megafauna

Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity