Nils Rädecker

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Nils Rädecker is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Rädecker has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Ecology, 37 papers in Oceanography and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nils Rädecker's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (46 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (31 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (12 papers). Nils Rädecker is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (46 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (31 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (12 papers). Nils Rädecker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland. Nils Rädecker's co-authors include Claudia Pogoreutz, Christian Wild, Christian R. Voolstra, Anny Cárdenas, Christian R. Voolstra, Jörg Wiedenmann, Astrid Gärdes, Mathieu Pernice, Jean‐Baptiste Raina and Gabriela Perna and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nils Rädecker

49 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Nitrogen cycling in corals: the key to understanding holobiont functioning?

2015 379 citations Nils Rädecker, Claudia Pogoreutz et al. profile →
Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals

2021 219 citations Nils Rädecker, Claudia Pogoreutz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nils Rädecker Germany	21	1.7k	1.1k	428	272	260	49	1.8k
Claudia Pogoreutz Saudi Arabia	21	1.5k 0.9×	917 0.9×	331 0.8×	270 1.0×	292 1.1×	40	1.7k
Anny Cárdenas Germany	22	1.5k 0.9×	853 0.8×	339 0.8×	272 1.0×	284 1.1×	35	1.6k
R. D. Gates United States	22	2.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	658 1.5×	309 1.1×	192 0.7×	27	2.1k
David Abrego Australia	23	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	657 1.5×	269 1.0×	217 0.8×	35	2.1k
D. Tye Pettay United States	26	2.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.8×	576 1.3×	165 0.6×	99 0.4×	39	2.4k
Renaud Grover Monaco	28	2.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	883 2.1×	206 0.8×	152 0.6×	54	2.1k
Aurélie Moya Australia	20	1.1k 0.7×	740 0.7×	408 1.0×	319 1.2×	155 0.6×	34	1.5k
Ross Cunning United States	24	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	590 1.4×	246 0.9×	148 0.6×	47	2.0k
Victor H. Beltran Australia	14	1.3k 0.8×	927 0.9×	338 0.8×	145 0.5×	171 0.7×	19	1.4k
Clinton A. Oakley New Zealand	18	1.2k 0.8×	638 0.6×	188 0.4×	198 0.7×	144 0.6×	41	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Nils Rädecker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Rädecker

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Marangon, Emma, Nils Rädecker, Jiangtao Li, et al.. (2025). Destabilization of mutualistic interactions shapes the early heat stress response of the coral holobiont. Microbiome. 13(1). 31–31. 2 indexed citations

Yi, Lan, Nils Rädecker, Huaxia Sheng, et al.. (2024). Gene expression of Pocillopora damicornis coral larvae in response to acidification and ocean warming. BMC Genomic Data. 25(1). 28–28. 3 indexed citations

Rädecker, Nils, Claudia Pogoreutz, Guilhem Banc‐Prandi, et al.. (2024). Host starvation and in hospite degradation of algal symbionts shape the heat stress response of the Cassiopea-Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis. Microbiome. 12(1). 42–42. 12 indexed citations

Sheng, Huaxia, Nils Rädecker, Yi Lan, et al.. (2024). Symbiodiniaceae algal symbionts of Pocillopora damicornis larvae provide more carbon to their coral host under elevated levels of acidification and temperature. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1528–1528. 2 indexed citations

Xiang, Nan, Achim Meyer, Claudia Pogoreutz, et al.. (2023). Excess labile carbon promotes diazotroph abundance in heat-stressed octocorals. Royal Society Open Science. 10(3). 221268–221268. 3 indexed citations

Banc‐Prandi, Guilhem, et al.. (2023). Symbiotic nutrient exchange enhances the long-term survival of cassiosomes, the autonomous stinging-cell structures of Cassiopea. mSphere. 9(1). e0032223–e0032223. 3 indexed citations

Risse‐Buhl, Ute & Nils Rädecker. (2023). Disentangling microbial exopolymer dynamics in intertidal sediments. 1 indexed citations

Rädecker, Nils & Anders Meibom. (2023). Symbiotic nutrient cycling enables the long-term survival of Aiptasia in the absence of heterotrophic food sources. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 4 indexed citations

Rädecker, Nils, et al.. (2022). High light quantity suppresses locomotion in symbiotic Aiptasia. Symbiosis. 86(3). 293–304. 3 indexed citations

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Roth, Florian, Nils Rädecker, Susana Carvalho, et al.. (2021). High Summer Temperatures Amplify Functional Differences Between Coral‐ and Algae‐Dominated Reef Communities. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 102(1). 3 indexed citations

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Klein, Shannon G., Nathan R. Geraldi, Andrea Antón, et al.. (2021). Projecting coral responses to intensifying marine heatwaves under ocean acidification. Global Change Biology. 28(5). 1753–1765. 47 indexed citations

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Ziegler, Maren, Andrea Antón, Shannon G. Klein, et al.. (2021). Integrating environmental variability to broaden the research on coral responses to future ocean conditions. Global Change Biology. 27(21). 5532–5546. 20 indexed citations

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Bonnet, Sophie, Nils Rädecker, Gabriela Perna, et al.. (2021). Microbes support enhanced nitrogen requirements of coral holobionts in a high CO₂ environment. Molecular Ecology. 30(22). 5888–5899. 15 indexed citations

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Rädecker, Nils, Claudia Pogoreutz, Hagen M. Gegner, et al.. (2021). Heat stress reduces the contribution of diazotrophs to coral holobiont nitrogen cycling. The ISME Journal. 16(4). 1110–1118. 27 indexed citations

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Rädecker, Nils, Claudia Pogoreutz, Hagen M. Gegner, et al.. (2021). Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(5). 219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Voolstra, Christian R., Carol Buitrago‐López, Gabriela Perna, et al.. (2020). Standardized short‐term acute heat stress assays resolve historical differences in coral thermotolerance across microhabitat reef sites. Global Change Biology. 26(8). 4328–4343. 125 indexed citations

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Roth, Florian, Nils Rädecker, Najeh M. Kharbatia, et al.. (2020). Simultaneous Measurements of Dinitrogen Fixation and Denitrification Associated With Coral Reef Substrates: Advantages and Limitations of a Combined Acetylene Assay. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. 6 indexed citations

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Tilstra, Arjen, Florian Roth, Nils Rädecker, et al.. (2019). Denitrification Aligns with N2 Fixation in Red Sea Corals. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19460–19460. 27 indexed citations

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Pogoreutz, Claudia, Nils Rädecker, Anny Cárdenas, et al.. (2018). Dominance of Endozoicomonas bacteria throughout coral bleaching and mortality suggests structural inflexibility of the Pocillopora verrucosa microbiome. Ecology and Evolution. 8(4). 2240–2252. 99 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, Anny, Matthew J. Neave, Mohamed Fauzi Haroon, et al.. (2017). Excess labile carbon promotes the expression of virulence factors in coral reef bacterioplankton. The ISME Journal. 12(1). 59–76. 54 indexed citations

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