Christian E. Torgersen

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Christian E. Torgersen is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian E. Torgersen has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Ecology, 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 26 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Christian E. Torgersen's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (45 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (36 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (23 papers). Christian E. Torgersen is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (45 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (36 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (23 papers). Christian E. Torgersen collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Christian E. Torgersen's co-authors include Hiram W. Li, Colden V. Baxter, Kurt D. Fausch, Bruce A. McIntosh, E. Ashley Steel, Aimee H. Fullerton, David M. Price, Robert E. Gresswell, Joshua J. Lawler and Russell N. Faux and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Christian E. Torgersen

62 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Landscapes to Riverscapes: Bridging the Gap between Research and Conservation of Stream Fishes

2002 1.3k citations Christian E. Torgersen, Colden V. Baxter et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Christian E. Torgersen	3.5k	3.3k	1.6k	811	444	62	4.8k
Nicolas Lamouroux	3.1k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	843 1.0×	407 0.9×	103	4.8k
Mary C. Freeman	4.2k 1.2×	3.9k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	476 1.1×	123	5.8k
Fran Sheldon	2.7k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	849 1.0×	681 1.5×	111	4.5k
Colden V. Baxter	4.4k 1.3×	4.8k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	900 2.0×	86	6.3k
Daniel J. Isaak	3.2k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	873 1.1×	268 0.6×	78	4.2k
E. Ashley Steel	2.3k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	241 0.5×	87	3.6k
Stefan Schmutz	3.3k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	631 0.8×	475 1.1×	123	5.1k
Timo Muotka	3.9k 1.1×	5.5k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	727 0.9×	1.2k 2.6×	164	7.1k
Keith H. Nislow	3.8k 1.1×	3.7k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 2.4×	363 0.8×	132	6.2k
Gordon H. Reeves	3.3k 1.0×	3.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 1.7×	365 0.8×	79	4.9k

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Briggs, Martin A., Joshua R. Benton, Christopher P. Konrad, et al.. (2025). James Buttle Review: The Characteristics of Baseflow Resilience Across Diverse Ecohydrological Terrains. Hydrological Processes. 39(3). 4 indexed citations

Torgersen, Christian E., et al.. (2024). Environmental drivers and spatial patterns of antibiotic-resistant, enteric coliforms across a forest–urban riverscape. Freshwater Science. 43(3). 231–249. 1 indexed citations

Torgersen, Christian E., et al.. (2023). Who spawns where? Temperature, elevation, and discharge differentially affect the distribution of breeding by six Pacific salmonids within a large river basin. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 80(8). 1365–1384. 1 indexed citations

Torgersen, Christian E., et al.. (2023). Spatial and Temporal Variation of Large Wood in a Coastal River. Ecosystems. 27(1). 19–32. 3 indexed citations

Torgersen, Christian E., Céline Le Pichon, Aimee H. Fullerton, et al.. (2021). Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 97(2). 481–504. 72 indexed citations

Mejia, Francine, et al.. (2021). Integrating regional and local monitoring data and assessment tools to evaluate habitat conditions and inform river restoration. Ecological Indicators. 131. 108213–108213. 4 indexed citations

Fuller, Matthew R., et al.. (2021). Integrating thermal infrared stream temperature imagery and spatial stream network models to understand natural spatial thermal variability in streams. Journal of Thermal Biology. 100. 103028–103028. 4 indexed citations

Richardson, J., Christian E. Torgersen, & L. Monika Moskal. (2019). Lidar-based approaches for estimating solar insolation in heavily forested streams. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(7). 2813–2822. 10 indexed citations

Lawler, Joshua J. & Christian E. Torgersen. (2019). Assessing the Relative Importance of Factors at Multiple Spatial Scales Affecting Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife. 5(1). 12–24. 3 indexed citations

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Pollock, Michael M., et al.. (2018). Modeling intrinsic potential for beaver (Castor canadensis) habitat to inform restoration and climate change adaptation. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0192538–e0192538. 46 indexed citations

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Fullerton, Aimee H., et al.. (2017). Longitudinal thermal heterogeneity in rivers and refugia for coldwater species: effects of scale and climate change. Aquatic Sciences. 80(1). 1–15. 86 indexed citations

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Foley, Melissa M., Francis J. Magilligan, Christian E. Torgersen, et al.. (2017). Landscape context and the biophysical response of rivers to dam removal in the United States. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0180107–e0180107. 48 indexed citations

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Isaak, Daniel J., Erin E. Peterson, Jay M. Ver Hoef, et al.. (2014). Applications of spatial statistical network models to stream data. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 1(3). 277–294. 147 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Jonathan B., et al.. (2013). Diel horizontal migration in streams: Juvenile fish exploit spatial heterogeneity in thermal and trophic resources. Ecology. 94(9). 2066–2075. 146 indexed citations

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Ruesch, Aaron S., Christian E. Torgersen, Joshua J. Lawler, et al.. (2012). Projected Climate‐Induced Habitat Loss for Salmonids in the John Day River Network, Oregon, U.S.A.. Conservation Biology. 26(5). 873–882. 77 indexed citations

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Piégay, Hervé, R.N. Handcock, Christian E. Torgersen, et al.. (2012). Thermal infrared remote sensing of water temperature in riverine landscapes: Chapter 5. 85–113. 26 indexed citations

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Ruff, Casey P., Daniel E. Schindler, Jonathan B. Armstrong, et al.. (2011). Temperature-associated population diversity in salmon confers benefits to mobile consumers. Ecology. 92(11). 2073–2084. 65 indexed citations

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Brenkman, Samuel J., Jeffrey J. Duda, Christian E. Torgersen, et al.. (2011). A riverscape perspective of Pacific salmonids and aquatic habitats prior to large‐scale dam removal in the Elwha River, Washington, USA. Fisheries Management and Ecology. 19(1). 36–53. 42 indexed citations

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Gresswell, Robert E., et al.. (2006). A Spatially Explicit Approach for Evaluating Relationships among Coastal Cutthroat Trout, Habitat, and Disturbance in Small Oregon Streams. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 457–471. 37 indexed citations

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Torgersen, Christian E., Robert E. Gresswell, & Douglas S. Bateman. (2004). Pattern detection in stream networks: Quantifying spatial variability in fish distribution. 2. 405–420. 25 indexed citations

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