Scientific publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Baldan, D, Chattopadhyay, S, Prus, P, Funk, A, Keller, A, Piniewski, M. (2022) Regionalization strategy affects the determinants of fish community structure. Ecohydrology.     https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2425
  • Bondar-Kunze, E., Funk, A., Haidvogl, G. et al. Der Meta-Ökosystem Ansatz in der Praxis – Integration von hydromorphologischen Veränderungen und menschlichen Eingriffen in die Meta-Ökosystem-Theorie zur Entwicklung eines nachhaltigen Flussmanagements an der österreichischen Donau. Österr Wasser- und Abfallw 74, 501–509 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00506-022-00893-2
  • Damiano Baldan, David Cunillera-Montcusí, Andrea Funk, Thomas Hein, Introducing ‘riverconn’: an R package to assess river connectivity indices, Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 156, 2022, 105470, ISSN 1364-8152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105470
  • Eder M, Perosa F, Hohensinner S, Tritthart M, Scheuer S, Gelhaus M, Cyffka B, Kiss T, Van Leeuwen B, Tobak Z, Sipos G, Csikós N, Smetanová A, Bokal S, Samu A, Gruber T, Gălie A-C, Moldoveanu M, Mazilu P, Habersack H. How Can We Identify Active, Former, and Potential Floodplains? Methods and Lessons Learned from the Danube River. Water. 2022; 14(15):2295. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14152295
  • Hohensinner, S., Grupe, S., Klasz, G., & Payer, T. (2022). Long-term deposition of fine sediments in Vienna’s Danube floodplain before and after channelization. Geomorphology, 398, 108038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108038
  • Meulenbroek, P., Hein, T., Friedrich, T. et al. (2020). Sturgeons in large rivers: detecting the near-extinct needles in a haystack via eDNA metabarcoding from water samples.
    Biodivers Conserv 31, 2817–2832. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-022-02459-w
  • Panchan, R. Pinter, K. Schmutz, S. Unfer, G. (2022) Seasonal migration and habitat use of adult barbel (Barbus barbus) and nase (Chondrostoma nasus) along a river stretch of the Austrian Danube River. Environmental Biology of fishes, 105(11), 1601-1616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01352-3
  • C. Hauer, L. Schmalfuss, G. Unfer, M. Schletterer, M. Fuhrmann, P. Holzapfel, (2023) Evaluation of the potential stranding risk for aquatic organisms according to long-term morphological changes and grain size in alpine rivers impacted by hydropeaking, Science of The Total Environment,Volume 883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163667
  • Valentin, S., Günther, U., & Thomas, F. (2023). Only Survivors Grow – Effects of Predation on Stocked Juvenile Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758) in a Stagnant Waterbody. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 23. https://www.trjfas.org/uploads/pdf_14976.pdf,
  • Haidvogl, G (2023): The history of the Lobau in the 19th and 20th century: Land use change, diversification of human uses and long-term conflicts between conservation and utilization. Acta ZooBot Austria 159, 5-19 https://www.zoobot.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Acta159_02_Haidvogl.pdf
  • Baldan D, Cunillera-Montcusí D, Funk A, Piniewski M, Cañedo-Argüelles M, Hein T. The effects of longitudinal fragmentation on riverine beta diversity are modulated by fragmentation intensity. Sci Total Environ. 2023 Sep https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166703
  •  Funk, Andrea & Baldan, Damiano & Bondar-Kunze, Elisabeth & Recinos, Sonia & Kowal, Johannes & Hein, Thomas. (2023). Connectivity as a driver of river-floodplain functioning: A dynamic, graph theoretic approach. Ecological Indicators 154 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110877
  • Kowal JL, Auer S, Schmutz S, Graf W, Wimmer R, Tonolla D, Meulenbroek P. Does Soundpeaking Affect the Behavior of Chub (Squalius cephalus) and Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)? An Experimental Approach. Fishes. 2023; 8(12):581. https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/8/12/581
  • Hayes, Daniel & Hauer, Christoph & Unfer, Günther. (2024). Fish stranding in relation to river bar morphology and baseflow magnitude: Combining field surveys and hydrodynamic–numerical modelling. Ecohydrology. 10.1002/eco.2616. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2616
  • Meulenbroek, P., Curto, M., Priglinger, P. et al. Small-scale metapopulation structure of a limnophilic fish species in a natural river system investigated using microsatellite genotyping by amplicon sequencing (SSR-GBAS). BMC Ecol Evo 24, 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02192-0
  • Stoffers, T., Altermatt, F., Baldan, D., Bilous, O., Borgwardt, F., Buijse, A. D., Bondar-Kunze, E., Cid, N., Erős, T., Ferreira, M. T., Funk, A., Haidvogl, G., Hohensinner, S., Kowal, J., Nagelkerke, L. A. J., Neuburg, J., Peller, T., Schmutz, S., Singer, G. A., … Hein, T. (2024). Reviving Europe’s rivers: Seven challenges in the implementation of the Nature Restoration Law to restore free-flowing rivers. WIREs Water, e1717. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1717

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