Employee photo: Henning Reiss

Henning Reiss

Professor
Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture
Study location
Bodø
Office
Bodø, Noatun, B2.016

I am a marine ecologist with research interests in benthic community ecology, fjord ecosystems, anthropogenic impacts on benthic environments, food webs, to mention some.

I have a PhD in natural sciences from the University of Oldenberg (Germany) and after several postdoc positions at the Senckenberg Institute (Germany) and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), I started at Nord (2011).

I supervise PhD, MSc, and BSc projects in marine ecology and teach several courses in biology and scientific methods (BIO1016, BIO2024, BI224F, BIO5021, BI313F)

About my research: Benthic Ecology Blog

2025
A taxonomically reliable DNA barcode reference library for North Sea macrobenthos 2025 Scientific Data - Magdalini Christodoulou, Sofie Derycke, Kevin K. Beentjes, Hans Hillewaert, Silke Laakmann, Kennet Lundin, Elham Kamyab, Sahar Khodami, Sara Maes, Henning Reiss, Carolin Uhlir, Laure Van den Bulcke, Berry Van der Hoorn, Annelies De Backer, Pedro Martinez Arbizu
A Long-Term Ecological Research Data Set From the Marine Genetic Monitoring Program ARMS-MBON 2018–2020 2025 Molecular Ecology Resources - Nauras Nauras Daraghmeh, Katrina Exter, Justine Pagnier, Piotr Balazy, Ibon Cancio, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Eva Chatzinikolaou, Maciej Chelchowski, Nathan Alexis Mitchell Chrismas, Thierry Comtet, Thanos Dailianis, Klaas Deneudt, Oihane Diaz de Cerio, Markos Digenis, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, José González, Laura Kauppi, Jon Bent Kristoffersen, Piotr Kukliński, Rafał Lasota, Liraz Levy, Magdalena Małachowicz, Borut Mavrič, Jonas Mortelmans, Estefania Paredes, Henning Reiss, Ioulia Santi, Georgia Sarafidou, Grigorios Skouradakis, Jostein Sigurd Solbakken, Peter A. U. Staehr, Javier Tajadura, Jakob Thyrring, Jesus S. Troncoso, Emmanouela Vernadou, Frederique Viard, Haris Zafeiropoulos, Małgorzata Zbawicka, Christina Pavloudi, Matthias Obst
Roadmap to sustainably develop the European seaweed industry 2025 npj Ocean Sustainability - Alexander Oliver Jüterbock, Hin Hoarau Heemstra, Karin Andrea Wigger, Bernardo Duarte, Christian Guido Bruckner, Annelise Chapman, Delin Duan, Aschwin Engelen, Clement Gauci, Griffin Goldstein Hill, Zi-Min Hu, Prabhat Khanal, Ananya Khatei, Amy Leigh Mackintosh, Heidi Meland, Ricardo Melo, Anne Margrete Leiros Nilsen, Leonore Olsen, Ralf Rautenberger, Henning Reiss, Jie Zhang
Advancing molecular macrobenthos biodiversity monitoring: a comparison between Oxford Nanopore and Illumina based metabarcoding and metagenomics 2025 PeerJ - Karlijn Doorenspleet, Amalia Aikaterini Mailli, Berry B. van der Hoorn, Kevin K. Beentjes, Annelies De Backer, Sofie Derycke, Albertinka J. Murk, Henning Reiss, Reindert Nijland
2024
The effect of climate warming on the north-east Atlantic marine fish community 2024 - Francesc Gordo Vilaseca, Mark John Costello, Alexander Jueterbock, Henning Reiss, Marta Coll Monton
A Latitudinal Cline in the Taxonomic Structure of Eelgrass Epifaunal Communities is Associated With Plant Genetic Diversity 2024 Global Ecology and Biogeography - Collin P. Gross, J. Emmett Duffy, Kevin A. Hovel, Pamela L. Reynolds, Christoffer Boström, Katharyn E. Boyer, Mathieu Cusson, Johan Eklöf, Aschwin H. Engelen, Britas Klemens Eriksson, F. Joel Fodrie, John N. Griffin, Clara M. Hereu, Masakazu Hori, A. Randall Hughes, Mikhail V. Ivanov, Pablo Jorgensen, Melissa R. Kardish, Claudia Kruschel, Kun-Seop Lee, Jonathan Lefcheck, Karen McGlathery, Per-Olav Moksnes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Mary I. O'Connor, Nessa E. O'Connor, Jeanine L. Olsen, Robert J. Orth, Bradley J. Peterson, Henning Reiss, Francesca Rossi, Jennifer Ruesink, Erik E. Sotka, Jonas Thormar, Fiona Tomas, Richard Unsworth, Erin P. Voigt, Matthew A. Whalen, Shelby L. Ziegler, John J. Stachowicz
Seasonality of primary production explains the richness of pioneering benthic communities 2024 Nature Communications - Matteo Cecchetto, Agnès Dettai, Cyril Gallut, Matthias Obst, Piotr Kuklinski, Piotr Balazy, Maciej Chelchowski, Magdalena Małachowicz, Anita Poćwierz-Kotus, Małgorzata Zbawicka, Henning Reiss, Marc P. Eléaume, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Christina Pavloudi, Katrina Exter, Diego Fontaneto, Stefano Schiaparelli
The cumulative impacts of climate change and fishing on marine communities 2024 - Mark John Costello, Henning Reiss, Charles Patrick Lavin
Benthic remineralization under future Arctic conditions and evaluating the potential for changes in carbon sequestration in warming sediments 2024 Scientific Reports - Arunima Sen, Èric Jordà Molina, Thaise Ricardo de Freitas, Silvia Hess, Henning Reiss, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Paul Eric Renaud
Future trends of marine fish biomass distributions from the North Sea to the Barents Sea 2024 Nature Communications - Francesc Gordo Vilaseca, Mark John Costello, Marta Coll, Alexander Jueterbock, Henning Reiss, Fabrice Stephenson
2023
Over 20% of marine fishes shifting in the North and Barents Seas, but not in the Norwegian Sea 2023 PeerJ - Francesc Gordo Vilaseca, Laurene Anne Marie Pecuchet, Marta Coll, Henning Reiss, Alexander Jueterbock, Mark John Costello
Lack of strong seasonality in macrobenthic communities from the northern Barents Sea shelf and Nansen Basin 2023 Progress in Oceanography - Èric Jordà-Molina, Arunima Sen, Bodil A. Bluhm, Paul E. Renaud, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk, Joanna Legeżyńska, Barbara Oleszczuk, Henning Reiss
Spatio-temporal dynamics of soft-bottom macrobenthic communities in a rapidly changing Arctic: a case study of the Northwestern Barents Sea 2023 - Eric Jorda Molina, Henning Reiss, Arunima Sen, Paul Eric Renaud, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Mark Silberberger
Seafloor warm water temperature anomalies impact benthic macrofauna communities of a high-Arctic cold-water fjord 2023 Marine Environmental Research - Èric Jordà-Molina, Paul E. Renaud, Marc J. Silberberger, Arunima Sen, Bodil A. Bluhm, Michael L. Carroll, William G. Ambrose Jr., Finlo Cottier, Henning Reiss
2022
Environmental monitoring data reveals geographic and depth-based differentiation of benthic fjord communities 2022 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science - Arunima Sen, Marc Jürgen Silberberger, Johan C. Faust, Sabine K.J. Cochrane, Paul Eric Renaud, Henning Reiss
A Pleistocene legacy structures variation in modern seagrass ecosystems 2022 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) - J. Emmett Duffy, John J. Stachowicz, Pamela L. Reynolds, Kevin A. Hovel, Marlene Jahnke, Erik E. Sotka, Christoffer Boström, Katharyn E. Boyer, Mathieu Cusson, Johan Eklöf, Aschwin H. Engelen, Britas Klemens Eriksson, F. Joel Fodrie, John N Griffin, Clara M. Hereu, Masakazu Hori, A. Randall Hughes, Mikhail V. Ivanov, Pablo Jorgensen, Claudia Kruschel, Kun-Seop Lee, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Per-Olav Moksnes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Mary I. O’Connor, Nessa E. O’Connor, Robert J. Orth, Bradley J. Peterson, Henning Reiss, Katrin Reiss, J. Paul Richardson, Francesca Rossi, Jennifer L. Ruesink, Stewart T. Schultz, Jonas Thormar, Fiona Tomas, Richard Unsworth, Erin Voigt, Matthew A. Whalen, Shelby L. Ziegler, Jeanine L. Olsen
The biogeography of community assembly: latitude and predation drive variation in community trait distribution in a guild of epifaunal crustaceans 2022 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences - Colin P. Gross, Emmett Duffy, Kevin A Hovel, Melissa R Kardish, Pamela L. Reynolds, Christoffer Boström, Katharyn Boyer, Mathieu Cusson, Johan Eklöf, Aschwin H. Engelen, Britas Klemens Eriksson, F. Joel Fodrie, John N. Griffin, Clara M. Hereu, Masakazu Hori, A. Randall Hughes, Mikhail V. Ivanov, Pablo Jorgensen, Claudia Kruschel, Kun-Seop Lee, Jonathan Lefcheck, Karen McGlathery, Per-Olav Moksnes, Masahiro Nakaoka, Mary I. O'Connor, Nessa E O'Connor, Jeanine L. Olsen, Robert J Orth, Bradley J. Peterson, Henning Reiss, Francesca Rossi, Jennifer Ruesink, Erik E. Sotka, Jonas Thormar, Fiona Tomas, Richard Unsworth, Erin P Voigt, Matthew A. Whalen, Shelby L Ziegler, John J. Stachowicz
Exploring the potential of mRNA for taxonomic delineation of marine benthic eukaryotes 2022 Marine Genomics - Amalia Aikaterini Mailli, Lars Martin Jakt, Henning Reiss, Martina Elisabeth Luise Kopp, Truls Borg Moum
2020
A Marine Biodiversity Observation Network for Genetic Monitoring of Hard-Bottom Communities(ARMS-MBON) 2020 Frontiers in Marine Science - Matthias Obst, Katrina Exter, A. Louise Allcock, Christos Arvanitidis, Alizz Axber, Maria Bustamante, Ibon Cancio, Diego Carreira-Flores, Eva Chatzinikolaou, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Nathan Chrismas, Melody S. Clark, Thierry Comtet, Thanos Dailianis, Neil Davies, Klaas Deneudt, Oihane Diaz de Cerio, Ana Fortic, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Pascal I. Hablützel, Kleoniki Keklikoglou, Georgios Kotoulas, Rafal Lasota, Barbara R. Leite, Stéphane Loisel, Laurent Lévêque, Liraz Levy, Magdalena Malachowicz, Borut Mavric, Christopher Meyer, Jonas Mortelmans, Joanna Norkko, Nicolas Pade, Anne Marie Power, Andreja Ramšak, Henning Reiss, Jostein Solbakken, Peter A. Staehr, Per Sundberg, Jakob Thyrring, Jesus S. Troncoso, Frédérique Viard, Roman Wenne, Eleni Ioanna Yperifanou, Malgorzata Zbawicka, Christina Pavloudi
A Generic Framework to Assess the Representation and Protection of Benthic Ecosystems in European Marine Protected Areas 2020 Aquatic conservation - Clare Greathead, Paolo Magni, Jan Vanaverbeke, Lene Buhl-Mortensen, Urszula Janas, Mats Blomqvist, Johan Craeymeersch, Jennifer Dannheim, Alexander Darr, Steven Degraer, Nicolas Desroy, Annick Donnay, Yessica Griffiths, Ivan Guala, Laurent Guerin, Hayley Hinchen, Céline Labrune, Henning Reiss, Gert Van Hoey, Silvana N.R. Birchenough
2019
Methodological elements for optimising the spatial monitoring design to support regional benthic ecosystem assessments 2019 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment - Gert Van Hoey, Julia Wischnewski, Johan Craeymeersch, Jennifer Dannheim, Lisette Enserink, Laurent Guerin, Francisco Marco-Rius, Joey O’Connor, Henning Reiss, Anne F. Sell, Marie Vanden Berghe, Michael L. Zettler, Steven Degraer, Silvana N.R. Birchenough
Interregional comparison of benthic ecosystem functioning: Community bioturbation potential in four regions along the NE Atlantic shelf 2019 Ecological Indicators - Mayya Gogina, Michael L. Zettler, Jan Vanaverbeke, Jennifer Dannheim, Gert Van Hoey, Nicolas Desroy, Alexa Wrede, Henning Reiss, Steven Degraer, V Van Lancker, Aurelie Foveau, Ulrike Braeckman, Dario Fiorentino, Jan Holstein, Silvana N.R. Birchenough
Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands 2019 Hydrobiologia - Steven Degraer, V. Van Lancker, T.A.G.P. Van Dijk, Silvana N.R. Birchenough, B. De Witte, M. Elliott, S. Le Bot, Henning Reiss, V. Stelzenmuller, S. Van Gaever, E. Balian, D. Cox, F. Hernandez, G. Lacroix, Han J. Lindeboom, Jan Reubens, K. Soetaert
2016
Modelling climate change effects on benthos: Distributional shifts in the North Sea from 2001 to 2099 2016 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science - Michael Weinert, Moritz Mathis, Ingrid Kröncke, Hermann Neumann, Thomas Pohlmann, Henning Reiss
2015
Benthos distribution modelling and its relevance for marine ecosystem management 2015 ICES Journal of Marine Science - Henning Reiss, Silvana Birchenough, Angel Borja, Lene Buhl-Mortensen, Johan Craeymeersch, Jennifer Dannheim, Alexander Darr, Ibon Galparsoro, Mayya Gogina, Hermann Neumann, Jacques Populus, Anna M. Rengstorf, Mireia Valle, Gert van Hoey, Michael L. Zettler, Steven Degraer
Climate change and marine benthos: A review of existing research and future directions in the North Atlantic 2015 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (WIRESs) - Silvana N.R. Birchenough, Henning Reiss, Steven Degraer, Nova Mieszkowska, Ángel Borja, Lene Buhl-Mortensen, Ulrike Braeckman, Johan A. Craeymeersch, Ilse De Mesel, Francis Kerckhof, Ingrid Kröncke, Santiago Parra, Marijn Rabaut, Alexander Schröder, Carl Van Colen, Gert van Hoey, Magda Vincx, Kai Wätjen
2014
Sensitivity assessment as a tool for spatial and temporal gear-based fisheries management 2014 Ocean and Coastal Management - Jochen Depestele, Wouter Courtens, Steven Degraer, Jan Haelters, Kris Hostens, Mardik Leopold, Eunice Pinn, Bea Merckx, Hans Polet, Marijn Rabaut, Henning Reiss, Eric Stienen, Sofie Vandendriessche, Filip A. M. Volckaert, Magda Vincx
2013
Benthos and demersal fish habitats in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea 2013 Helgoland Marine Research - Hermann Neumann, Henning Reiss, Siegfried Ehrich, Anne Sell, Kay Panten, Matthias Kloppmann, Ingo Wilhelms, Ingrid Kröncke
Meiofauna as food source for small-sized demersal fish in the southern North Sea 2013 Helgoland Marine Research - Sabine Schückel, Anne Sell, Terue C. Kihara, Annemarie Koeppen, Ingrid Kröncke, Henning Reiss
A bioturbation classification of European marine infaunal invertebrates 2013 Ecology and Evolution - Ana M. Queiros, Silvana Birchenough, Julie Bremner, Jasmin A. Godbold, Ruth Parker, Alicia Romero-Ramirez, Henning Reiss, Martin Solan, Paul J. Somerfield, Carl Van Colen, Gert van Hoey, Stephen Widdicombe
On the myths of indicator species: issues and further consideration in the use of static concepts for ecological applications 2013 PLOS ONE - Michael L. Zettler, C. Edward Proffitt, Alexander Darr, Steven Degraer, Lisa Devriese, Clare Greathead, Jonne Kotta, Paolo Magni, George Martin, Henning Reiss, Jeroen Speybroeck, Davide Tagliapietra, Gert van Hoey, Tom Ysebaert
2012
Monitoring marine populations and communities: methods dealing with imperfect detectability 2012 Aquatic Biology - Stelios Katsanevakis, Anke Weber Smit, Carlo Pipitone, Mardik Leopold, Michelle Cronin, Meike Scheidat, Thomas K. Doyle, Lene Buhl-Mortensen, Pål Buhl-Mortensen, Giovanni D'Anna, Ingeborg de Boois, Padmini Dalpadado, Dimitrios Damalas, Fabio Fiorentino, Germana Garofalo, Vincenzo Maximiliano Giacalone, Kate Hawley, Yiannis Issaris, Jeroen Jansen, Carolyn Rosten, Leyla Knittweis, Ingrid Kröncke, Simone Mirto, Iñigo Muxika, Henning Reiss, Hein Rune Skjoldal, Sandra Vöge
Diet overlap among flatfish species in the southern North Sea 2012 Journal of Fish Biology - Sabine Schückel, Anne F. Sell, Ingrid Kröncke, Henning Reiss
2011
Species distribution modelling of marine benthos: a North Sea case study 2011 Marine Ecology Progress Series - Henning Reiss, Sarah Cunze, Konstantin König, Hermann Neumann, Ingrid Kröncke
Ecosystem-based marine spatial management: Review of concepts, policies, tools, and critical issues 2011 Ocean and Coastal Management - Stelios Katsanevakis, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Andy South, Thomas Kirk Sørensen, Peter J.S. Jones, Sandy Kerr, Fabio Badalamenti, Christos Anagnostou, Patricia Breen, Guillem Chust, Giovanni D'Anna, Mike Duijn, Tatiana Filatova, Fabio Fiorentino, Helena Hulsman, Kate Johnson, Aristomenis P. Karageorgis, Ingrid Kröncke, Simone Mirto, Carlo Pipitone, Susan Portelli, Wanfei Qiu, Henning Reiss, Dimitris Sakellariou, Maria Salomidi, Luc van Hoof, Vassiliki Vassilopoulou, Tomás Vega Fernández, Sandra Vöge, Anke Weber Smit, Argyro Zenetos, Remment ter Hofstede
Changes in North Sea macrofauna communities and species distribution between 1986 and 2000 2011 Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science - Ingrid Kröncke, Henning Reiss, Jaqueline D. Eggleton, John Aldridge, Magda J.N. Bergman, Sabine Cochrane, Johan A. Craeymeersch, Steven Degraer, Nicolas Desroy, Jean-Marie Dewarumez, Gerard C.A. Duineveld, Karel Essink, Hans Hillewaert, Marc S.S. Lavaleye, Andreas Moll, Stefan Nehring, Richard Newell, Eivind Oug, Thomas Pohlmann, Eike Rachor, Mike Robertson, Heye Rumohr, Michaela Schratzberger, Rebecca Smith, Edward Vanden Berghe, Jan van Dalfsen, Gert van Hoey, Magda Vincx, Wouter Willems, Hubert L. Rees
2010
Unsuitability of TAC management within an ecosystem approach to fisheries: An ecological perspective 2010 Journal of Sea Research - Henning Reiss, Simon P.R. Greenstreet, Leonie Robinson, Siegfried Ehrich, Lis Lindal Jørgensen, Gerjan J. Piet, Wim J. Wolff
2023
Biodiversity in the northern Barents Sea and adjacent Nansen Basin – towards an updated inventory 2023 Nansen Legacy symposium: Towards a new Arctic Ocean - Past, Present, Future - Slawomir Kwasniewski, Andreas Altenburger, Philipp Kurt Wolf Assmy, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Anna Maria Dabrowska, Bente Edvardsen, Lucie Hélène Marie Goraguer, Rolf Rudolf Gradinger, Katarzyna Grzelak, Eric Jorda Molina, Kit M. Kovacs, Christian Lydersen, Sanna Majaneva, Miriam Marquardt, M Ormanczyk, Henning Reiss, Paul Eric Renaud, Karoline Saubrekka, Agnieszka Tatarek, Anna Vader, Joel Vikberg Wernström, Maria Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, Anette Wold, Lise Øvreås, and other collaborators
Seasonal and Spatial Variability in Macrobenthic Size Structure and Functioning in the Northern Barents Sea 2023 Nansen Legacy symposium: Towards a new Arctic Ocean - Past, Present, Future - Barbara Górska, Eric Jorda Molina, Henning Reiss, Paul Eric Renaud, Arunima Sen, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro Bluhm, Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk
2022
Spatial and seasonal patterns in microbenthic communities along the north-western Barents Sea and Nansen Basin 2022 55th European Marine Biology Symposium - Eric Jorda Molina, Arunima Sen, Bodil Bluhm, Paul Eric Renaud, Maria Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, Joanna Legezynska, B Olesczuk, Henning Reiss
Lack of (or weak) seasonality in Barents sea and Nansen Basin sediments and biota? A preliminary assessment 2022 Nansen Legacy Annual Meeting - Amanda Ziegler, Thaise Ricardo de Freitas, Andreas Altenburger, Elisabeth Alve, Bodil Bluhm, Yasemin V. Bodur, Ivan J. Cautain, Silvia Hess, Stephen Gustav Kohler, Laura M. Kull, Eric Jorda Molina, Francesca Naletto, Henning Reiss, Paul Eric Renaud, Arunima Sen, Joel Vikberg Wernström, Lise Øverås