Jim van Belzen

3.4k total citations
55 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Jim van Belzen is a scholar working on Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jim van Belzen has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 29 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 14 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jim van Belzen's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (41 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (26 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (13 papers). Jim van Belzen is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (41 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (26 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (13 papers). Jim van Belzen collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and China. Jim van Belzen's co-authors include Tjeerd J. Bouma, P.M.J. Herman, Johan van de Koppel, Stijn Temmerman, Zhan Hu, Daphne van der Wal, Cristina Galván, Bárbara Ondiviela, María Maza and Íñigo J. Losada and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jim van Belzen

53 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Jim van Belzen 1.7k 941 732 433 346 55 2.1k
Nicholas M. Enwright 1.6k 0.9× 655 0.7× 372 0.5× 452 1.0× 301 0.9× 40 1.9k
Camille L. Stagg 1.9k 1.1× 694 0.7× 360 0.5× 532 1.2× 330 1.0× 54 2.2k
Thorsten Balke 2.1k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 389 0.5× 338 0.8× 376 1.1× 46 2.3k
TJ Bouma 1.5k 0.9× 944 1.0× 568 0.8× 192 0.4× 243 0.7× 25 1.7k
Angus Garbutt 1.4k 0.8× 521 0.6× 303 0.4× 434 1.0× 224 0.6× 54 1.9k
David Samuel Johnson 1.8k 1.0× 398 0.4× 611 0.8× 458 1.1× 244 0.7× 69 2.1k
David M. Burdick 2.4k 1.4× 657 0.7× 1.2k 1.6× 598 1.4× 196 0.6× 78 3.0k
Anna R. Armitage 1.1k 0.7× 352 0.4× 659 0.9× 317 0.7× 108 0.3× 55 1.4k
Luzhen Chen 1.6k 1.0× 484 0.5× 269 0.4× 330 0.8× 204 0.6× 60 1.9k
Andrew S. From 1.2k 0.7× 569 0.6× 244 0.3× 271 0.6× 286 0.8× 21 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jim van Belzen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jim van Belzen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jim van Belzen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jim van Belzen. Jim van Belzen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smit, Jaco C. de, et al.. (2025). Plant species, inundation, and sediment grain size control the development of sediment stability in tidal marshes. Ecological Applications. 35(1). e3078–e3078. 1 indexed citations
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Smit, Jaco C. de, Jim van Belzen, Gregory S. Fivash, et al.. (2024). Sediment dynamics shape macrofauna mobility traits and abundance on tidal flats. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(10). 2278–2293. 1 indexed citations
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Fivash, Gregory S., et al.. (2024). Abiotic origins of self‐organized ridge‐runnel patterns on tidal flats. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(6). 1378–1389. 1 indexed citations
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Belzen, Jim van, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Daphne van der Wal, et al.. (2023). Vegetation controls on channel network complexity in coastal wetlands. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7158–7158. 24 indexed citations
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Gourgue, Olivier, Jim van Belzen, Christian Schwarz, et al.. (2022). Biogeomorphic modeling to assess the resilience of tidal-marsh restoration to sea level rise and sediment supply. Earth Surface Dynamics. 10(3). 531–553. 40 indexed citations
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Belzen, Jim van, et al.. (2021). Algal‐Induced Biogeomorphic Feedbacks Lay the Groundwork for Coastal Wetland Development. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(10). 4 indexed citations
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Gourgue, Olivier, Jim van Belzen, Christian Schwarz, et al.. (2021). Biogeomorphic modeling to assess resilience of tidal marsh restoration to sea level rise and sediment supply. Institutional Repository University of Antwerp (University of Antwerp). 7 indexed citations
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Reijers, Valérie C., Selwyn Hoeks, Jim van Belzen, et al.. (2020). Sediment availability provokes a shift from Brownian to Lévy‐like clonal expansion in a dune building grass. Ecology Letters. 24(2). 258–268. 17 indexed citations
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Belzen, Jim van, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Daphne van der Wal, et al.. (2019). Estuarine biofilm patterns: Modern analogues for Precambrian self‐organization. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 45(5). 1141–1154. 31 indexed citations
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Temmerman, Stijn, Jim van Belzen, Olivier Gourgue, et al.. (2019). A bio-geomorphic model for smart design of climate resilient tidal marsh restoration. EGUGA. 15731.
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Reijers, Valérie C., Koen Siteur, Selwyn Hoeks, et al.. (2019). A Lévy expansion strategy optimizes early dune building by beach grasses. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2656–2656. 36 indexed citations
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Fouw, Jimmy de, Tjisse van der Heide, Jim van Belzen, et al.. (2018). A facultative mutualistic feedback enhances the stability of tropical intertidal seagrass beds. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12988–12988. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Heng, Daphne van der Wal, Xiangyu Li, et al.. (2017). Zooming in and out: Scale dependence of extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting salt marsh erosion. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 122(7). 1455–1470. 65 indexed citations
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Lo, Veronica, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Jim van Belzen, Carl Van Colen, & Laura Airoldi. (2017). Interactive effects of vegetation and sediment properties on erosion of salt marshes in the Northern Adriatic Sea. Marine Environmental Research. 131. 32–42. 50 indexed citations
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Belzen, Jim van, Johan van de Koppel, Matthew L. Kirwan, et al.. (2017). Vegetation recovery in tidal marshes reveals critical slowing down under increased inundation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15811–15811. 111 indexed citations
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Zhu, Zhenchang, Jim van Belzen, Tao Hong, et al.. (2016). Sprouting as a gardening strategy to obtain superior supplementary food: evidence from a seed‐caching marine worm. Ecology. 97(12). 3278–3284. 22 indexed citations
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Fouw, Jimmy de, Laura L. Govers, Johan van de Koppel, et al.. (2016). Drought, Mutualism Breakdown, and Landscape-Scale Degradation of Seagrass Beds. Current Biology. 26(8). 1051–1056. 69 indexed citations
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Strain, Elisabeth M. A., et al.. (2015). Management of Local Stressors Can Improve the Resilience of Marine Canopy Algae to Global Stressors. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0120837–e0120837. 45 indexed citations
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Christianen, Marjolijn J. A., Jim van Belzen, P.M.J. Herman, et al.. (2013). Low-Canopy Seagrass Beds Still Provide Important Coastal Protection Services. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e62413–e62413. 209 indexed citations
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Weerman, Ellen J., Jim van Belzen, Max Rietkerk, et al.. (2011). Changes in diatom patch‐size distribution and degradation in a spatially self‐organized intertidal mudflat ecosystem. Ecology. 93(3). 608–618. 63 indexed citations

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