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Villy Christensen
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Research
Latest papers
Machine learning applied to global scale species distribution models.
Scientific reports · 2025
Unsettling the record: modelling the devastating cumulative effects of selected environmental stressors and loss of human life caused by colonization in Burrard Inlet, Canada.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025 · senior author
Exploring Drivers of Historic Mercury Trends in Beluga Whales Using an Ecosystem Modeling Approach.
ACS environmental Au · 2024
Latest funding
- $198,000
Evaluating future scenarios for the global ocean
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Testing whether the Availability of Chinook Salmon is Insufficient to Support a Healthy Southern Resident Killer Whale Population
NSERC · 2018 · Co-investigator
- $1,650,000
Training our Future Ocean Leaders
NSERC · 2016 · Co-investigator
23 publications.
Machine learning applied to global scale species distribution models.
Fuster-Alonso A, Mestre-Tomás J, Baez JC, Pennino MG, Barber X, Bellido JM, Conesa D, López-Quílez A, Steenbeek J, Christensen V, Coll M
Unsettling the record: modelling the devastating cumulative effects of selected environmental stressors and loss of human life caused by colonization in Burrard Inlet, Canada.
Efford M, Taft S, Morin J, George M, George M, Speller C, Christensen V
Exploring Drivers of Historic Mercury Trends in Beluga Whales Using an Ecosystem Modeling Approach.
Gillies EJ, Li ML, Christensen V, Hoover C, Sora KJ, Loseto LL, Cheung WWL, Angot H, Giang A
A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets.
Efford M, de la Puente S, George M, George M, Testani A, Taft S, Morin J, Hilsden J, Zhu J, Chen P, Paskulin L, Toniello G, Christensen V, Speller C
The combined effects of predation, fishing, and ocean productivity on salmon species targeted by marine mammals in the northeast Pacific.
Couture F, Christensen V, Walters C
Retrospective analysis of the pelagic ecosystem of the Western Mediterranean Sea: Drivers, changes and effects.
Coll M, Bellido JM, Pennino MG, Albo-Puigserver M, Báez JC, Christensen V, Corrales X, Fernández-Corredor E, Giménez J, Julià L, Lloret-Lloret E, Macias D, Ouled-Cheikh J, Ramírez F, Sbragaglia V, Steenbeek J
Archaeology demonstrates sustainable ancestral Coast Salish salmon stewardship over thousands of years.
Efford M, Taft S, Morin J, George M, George M, Cavers H, Hilsden J, Paskulin L, Loewen D, Zhu J, Christensen V, Speller C
Modelling the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem at high spatial resolution to inform the ecosystem-based management in the region.
Piroddi C, Coll M, Macias D, Steenbeek J, Garcia-Gorriz E, Mannini A, Vilas D, Christensen V
Requirements and availability of prey for northeastern pacific southern resident killer whales.
Couture F, Oldford G, Christensen V, Barrett-Lennard L, Walters C
Making spatial-temporal marine ecosystem modelling better - A perspective.
Steenbeek J, Buszowski J, Chagaris D, Christensen V, Coll M, Fulton EA, Katsanevakis S, Lewis KA, Mazaris AD, Macias D, de Mutsert K, Oldford G, Pennino MG, Piroddi C, Romagnoni G, Serpetti N, Shin YJ, Spence MA, Stelzenmüller V
Evaluating future scenarios for the global ocean
Principal investigators: Christensen, Villy
Keywords: Climate change; Ecosystem modelling; Ecosystem services; Fisheries ecology; Food webs; Foraging arena theory; Management scenarios; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Temporal-spatial modelling
Testing whether the Availability of Chinook Salmon is Insufficient to Support a Healthy Southern Resident Killer Whale Population
Principal investigators: Trites, Andrew
Training our Future Ocean Leaders
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon
Modeling Life in the Future Ocean
Principal investigators: Christensen, Villy
NSERC Canadian Fisheries Research Network / Réseau canadien de recherche sur la pêche du CRSNG
Principal investigators: Stephenson, Robert
Linking fisheries research to oceanography and climate change research
Principal investigators: Christensen, Villy
Direct multi-touch interaction for a very large wall display
Principal investigators: Booth, Kellogg
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- William Cheung and Boris Worm: 7 shared papers
- Camilla Speller and Villy Christensen: 3 shared papers
- Daniel Pauly and William Cheung: 3 shared papers
- Philippe Le Billon and Daniel Pauly: 2 shared papers
- Daniel Pauly and Boris Worm: 2 shared papers
- Carl Walters and Villy Christensen: 2 shared papers
- Boris Worm and Villy Christensen: 2 shared papers
- Kristen Hopewell and Philippe Le Billon: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Curtis Suttle: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Brian Copeland: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Natalie Ban: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Tony Charles: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and William Cheung: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Elena Bennett: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Philippe Tortell: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Evgeny Pakhomov: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Tyler Eddy: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Carol McAusland: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Derek Armitage: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Megan Bailey: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Werner Antweiler: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Frederik Noack: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Gerald Singh: 1 shared paper
- Kristen Hopewell and Evan Andrews: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Curtis Suttle: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Brian Copeland: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Natalie Ban: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Tony Charles: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Elena Bennett: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Philippe Tortell: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Evgeny Pakhomov: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Tyler Eddy: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Carol McAusland: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Derek Armitage: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Megan Bailey: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Werner Antweiler: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Frederik Noack: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Gerald Singh: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Le Billon and Evan Andrews: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Brian Copeland: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Natalie Ban: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Tony Charles: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Elena Bennett: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Philippe Tortell: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Evgeny Pakhomov: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Tyler Eddy: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Carol McAusland: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Derek Armitage: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Megan Bailey: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Werner Antweiler: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Frederik Noack: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Gerald Singh: 1 shared paper
- Curtis Suttle and Evan Andrews: 1 shared paper
- Brian Copeland and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Wei Cui and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Pauly and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Natalie Ban and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Tony Charles and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- William Cheung and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Elena Bennett and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Tortell and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Evgeny Pakhomov and Villy Christensen: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Amanda Giang: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Tyler Eddy: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Carol McAusland: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Derek Armitage: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Megan Bailey: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Werner Antweiler: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Frederik Noack: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Gerald Singh: 1 shared paper
- Villy Christensen and Evan Andrews: 1 shared paper
- Department of Zoology at UBC
- School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
- Oceans and Fisheries, Institute for the
- Department of Anthropology
- Biology
- Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability - The University of British Columbia
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Other
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Camilla Speller
Department of Anthropology
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Boris Worm
Biology
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Carl Walters
Department of Zoology at UBC
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Megan Bailey
Urban and regional planning
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Derek Armitage
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Amanda Giang
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability - The University of British Columbia
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Evan Andrews
Environmental Management
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Gerald Singh
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Frederik Noack
Natural Resources, Environment, Energy
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Werner Antweiler
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Carol McAusland
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Tyler Eddy
School of Fisheries
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Philippe Le Billon
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Brian Copeland
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Wei Cui
Peter A. Allard School of Law
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Daniel Pauly
Department of Zoology at UBC
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Kristen Hopewell
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Natalie Ban
School of Environmental Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Tony Charles
Professor, School of the Environment & Sobey School of Business
1 shared papers, latest 2021
William Cheung
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Elena Bennett
Geography
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Philippe Tortell
Earth Ocean & Atmsopheric Science
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Evgeny Pakhomov
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Curtis Suttle
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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