List of works - Sebastian Birk

A hitchhiker's guide to European lake ecological assessment and intercalibration

scientific article published in May 2015

A new broad typology for rivers and lakes in Europe: Development and application for large-scale environmental assessments

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

A new procedure for comparing class boundaries of biological assessment methods: A case study from the Danube Basin

scientific article published in May 2009

Anthropogenic Stressors in Upland Rivers: Aquatic Macrophyte Responses. A Case Study from Bulgaria

scientific article published in 2021

Assessing multiple stressor effects to inform climate change management responses in three European catchments

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Biological assessment of European lakes: ecological rationale and human impacts

scientific article published on 18 February 2013

Bringing European river quality into line: an exercise to intercalibrate macro-invertebrate classification methods

scientific article published on 11 March 2011

Catchment properties and the photosynthetic trait composition of freshwater plant communities

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Comparative test of ecological assessment methods of lowland streams based on long-term monitoring data of macrophytes

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

Defining ecological status of phytobenthos in very large rivers: a case study in practical implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Romania

scholarly article

Deriving nutrient criteria to support 'good' ecological status in European lakes: An empirically based approach to linking ecology and management

scientific article published on 28 September 2018

Diagnosing the causes of river deterioration using stressor-specific metrics

scientific article published in February 2019

Direct comparison of assessment methods using benthic macroinvertebrates: a contribution to the EU Water Framework Directive intercalibration exercise

scientific article published in August 2006

Disentangling the effects of land use and geo-climatic factors on diversity in European freshwater ecosystems

scientific article published in January 2016

Diversity of European seagrass indicators: patterns within and across regions

Ecological status assessment of European lakes: a comparison of metrics for phytoplankton, macrophytes, benthic invertebrates and fish

scientific article published in February 2013

Evaluating the biological validity of European river typology systems with least disturbed benthic macroinvertebrate communities

scientific article published in 2022

FORUM: Effective management of ecological resilience - are we there yet?

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

From Natural to Degraded Rivers and Back Again

scientific article published in 2011

Getting into the water with the Ecosystem Services Approach: The DESSIN ESS evaluation framework

scientific article published in April 2018

Harmonising the bioassessment of large rivers in the absence of near-natural reference conditions - a case study of the Danube River

scientific article published on 25 June 2012

Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Intercalibrating classifications of ecological status: Europe's quest for common management objectives for aquatic ecosystems

scientific article published on 09 April 2013

Intercalibration of aquatic ecological assessment methods in the European Union: Lessons learned and way forward

scientific article published in December 2014

Intercalibration of assessment methods for macrophytes in lowland streams: direct comparison and analysis of common metrics

scientific article published in August 2006

LaRiMo - A simple and efficient GIS-based approach for large-scale morphological assessment of large European rivers

scientific article published in July 2018

Large-scale river restoration pays off: A case study of ecosystem service valuation for the Emscher restoration generation project

scientific article published in April 2018

Making the ecosystem services approach operational: A case study application to the Aarhus River, Denmark

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Managing aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress--an introduction to the MARS project

scientific article

Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration

scientific article published on 28 December 2020

Pan-European Calculation of Hydrologic Stress Metrics in Rivers: A First Assessment with Potential Connections to Ecological Status

scientific article published on 5 April 2019

Plant trait characteristics vary with size and eutrophication in European lowland streams

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: An analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive

scientific article published in March 2019

Quantified biotic and abiotic responses to multiple stress in freshwater, marine and ground waters.

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

Redundancy in the ecological assessment of lakes: Are phytoplankton, macrophytes and phytobenthos all necessary?