We introduce
Poisson–Nijenhuis, deforming-Nijenhuis and Nijenhuis pairs that extend to Courant
algebroids the notion of a Poisson–Nijenhuis manifold, both the Poisson and the
Nijenhuis structures being (1,1)-tensors on a Courant algebroid. In each case, we
construct the natural hierarchies by successive deformation by one of the
(1,1)-tensors.