Peer Reviewed Publications
2024
Elisabeth Bondar-Kunze, Anna-Lisa Dittrich, Philipp Gmeiner, Marcel Liedermann, Thomas Hein,
The effect of ship-induced wave trains on periphytic algal communities in the littoral zone of a large regulated river (River Danube, Austria), Science of The Total Environment, Volume 954, 2024, 176068, ISSN 0048-9697,
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.
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
Johannes L. Kowal, Andrea Funk, Günther Unfer, Damiano Baldan, Gertrud Haidvogl, Christoph Hauer, Maria T. Ferreira, Paulo Branco, Rafaela Schinegger, Thomas Hein,
River continuum disruptions in a highly altered system: The perspective of potamodromous fish,
Ecological Indicators,
Volume 164,
2024
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).
2023
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.
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
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.
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)
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
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.
2022
Baldan, D, Chattopadhyay, S, Prus, P, Funk, A, Keller, A, Piniewski, M. (2022) Regionalization strategy affects the determinants of fish community structure. Ecohydrology.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Meulenbroek, P., Hein, T., Friedrich, T. et al. (2022). Sturgeons in large rivers: detecting the near-extinct needles in a haystack via eDNA metabarcoding from water samples.
Biodivers Conserv 31, 2817–2832.
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