Daniel Hering

18.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
168 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Daniel Hering is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Hering has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Ecology, 81 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 28 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Hering's work include Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (94 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (70 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (44 papers). Daniel Hering is often cited by papers focused on Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (94 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (70 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (44 papers). Daniel Hering collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Austria. Daniel Hering's co-authors include Christian K. Feld, Richard K. Johnson, Armin W. Lorenz, Leonard Sandin, P.F.M. Verdonschot, Astrid Schmidt‐Kloiber, Otto Moog, Ángel Borja, Sebastian Birk and Sonja C. Jähnig and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Hering

161 papers receiving 10.2k 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.

Three hundred ways to assess Europe's surface waters: An almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive

2011 806 citations Sebastian Birk, Daniel Hering et al. profile →
Towards an assessment of multiple ecosystem processes and services via functional traits

2010 747 citations Daniel Hering et al. profile →
The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future

2010 739 citations Daniel Hering et al. profile →
www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences

2015 380 citations Astrid Schmidt‐Kloiber, Daniel Hering profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Daniel Hering	7.7k	5.0k	2.0k	1.8k	1.5k	168	10.6k
Charles P. Hawkins	7.7k 1.0×	5.9k 1.2×	2.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	134	9.6k
Catherine M. Pringle	7.6k 1.0×	6.5k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	199	11.2k
Vincent H. Resh	10.9k 1.4×	7.7k 1.6×	2.0k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	231	13.7k
Robert M. Hughes	7.1k 0.9×	6.8k 1.4×	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	948 0.6×	232	10.3k
Doris Soto	5.8k 0.7×	4.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	2.9k 1.9×	90	10.8k
Alan G. Hildrew	7.8k 1.0×	5.8k 1.2×	957 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	882 0.6×	120	9.6k
Sylvain Dolédec	6.7k 0.9×	5.5k 1.1×	859 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	112	9.4k
J. Bruce Wallace	12.8k 1.7×	9.1k 1.8×	2.0k 1.0×	3.3k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	164	14.8k
Kurt D. Fausch	10.6k 1.4×	11.5k 2.3×	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	2.6k 1.7×	124	15.0k
Paul J. Wood	5.2k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	181	7.3k

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Lorenz, Armin W., et al.. (2025). Contributions of source populations, habitat suitability and trait overlap to benthic invertebrate community assembly in restored urban streams. Ecological Processes. 14(1).

Buchner, Dominik, et al.. (2025). Enhancing biodiversity through sowing and reduced management of grasslands on dikes and floodplains. Basic and Applied Ecology. 87. 100–109. 1 indexed citations

Schürings, Christian, Jens Kiesel, Hong Hanh Nguyen, et al.. (2025). Drivers of recovery and degradation of riverine benthic invertebrate communities: a Germany-wide analysis. Ecological Processes. 14(1).

Hering, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Effects of extensive grazing and mowing compared to abandonment on the biodiversity of European grasslands: A meta‐analysis. Applied Vegetation Science. 27(4). 2 indexed citations

Macher, Till‐Hendrik, Arne J. Beermann, Jens Arle, et al.. (2024). Fit for purpose? Evaluating benthic invertebrate DNA metabarcoding for ecological status class assessment in streams under the Water Framework Directive. Water Research. 272. 122987–122987. 7 indexed citations

Schürings, Christian, et al.. (2024). River ecological status is shaped by agricultural land use intensity across Europe. Water Research. 251. 121136–121136. 25 indexed citations

Buchner, Dominik, et al.. (2024). Fine sediment and the insecticide chlorantraniliprole inhibit organic‐matter decomposition in streams through different pathways. Freshwater Biology. 69(3). 365–375. 1 indexed citations

Kail, Jochem, Kathrin Januschke, & Daniel Hering. (2023). Freshwater-related species richness in Natura 2000 sites strongly depends on the surrounding land use besides local habitat conditions. Journal of Environmental Management. 340. 118025–118025. 7 indexed citations

Schürings, Christian, et al.. (2023). Assessment of cultivation intensity can improve the correlative strength between agriculture and the ecological status in rivers across Germany. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 361. 108818–108818. 9 indexed citations

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Jähnig, Sonja C., Viktor Baranov, Florian Altermatt, et al.. (2020). Revisiting global trends in freshwater insect biodiversity. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 8(2). 48 indexed citations

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Wilkes, Martin, François Edwards, J. Iwan Jones, et al.. (2020). Trait‐based ecology at large scales: Assessing functional trait correlations, phylogenetic constraints and spatial variability using open data. Global Change Biology. 26(12). 7255–7267. 30 indexed citations

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Weigand, Alexander, Agnès Bouchez, Pieter Boets, et al.. (2019). Taming the Wild West of Molecular Tools Application in Aquatic Research and Biomonitoring. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. 3 indexed citations

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Buchner, Dominik, Arne J. Beermann, Alex Laini, et al.. (2019). Analysis of 13,312 benthic invertebrate samples from German streams reveals minor deviations in ecological status class between abundance and presence/absence data. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0226547–e0226547. 27 indexed citations

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Mergen, Patricia, Kristian Meissner, Daniel Hering, et al.. (2018). DNAqua-Net or how to navigate on the stormy waters of standards and legislations. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 2. e25953–e25953. 3 indexed citations

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Hering, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Freshwater species distributions along thermal gradients. Ecology and Evolution. 9(1). 111–124. 11 indexed citations

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Jähnig, Sonja C., et al.. (2017). Severity Multipliers as a Methodology to Explore Potential Effects of Climate Change on Stream Bioassessment Programs. Water. 9(4). 188–188. 3 indexed citations

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Leese, Florian, Daniel Hering, & J. Wolfgang Wägele. (2017). Potential of DNA-based methods for biomonitoring of European waters.. 107. 49–53. 1 indexed citations

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Kupilas, Benjamin, et al.. (2017). Hydromorphological restoration stimulates river ecosystem metabolism. Biogeosciences. 14(7). 1989–2002. 23 indexed citations

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Schmidt‐Kloiber, Astrid, et al.. (2014). Description of the AQEM/STAR invertebrate database. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

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Kiesel, Jens, Daniel Hering, Britta Schmalz, & Nicola Fohrer. (2009). A transdisciplinary approach for modelling macroinvertebrate habitats in lowland streams.. IAHS-AISH publication. 24–33. 14 indexed citations

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