Project-related publications from DynaTrait members
2023
Adje, G., Wojcik, L.A. & Gaedke, U. (2023) Functional diversity increases the resistance of a tritrophic food web to environmental changes. Theor Ecol. Link
de la Cruz Barron, M., E. van Velzen, U. Klümper, M. Weitere, T. U. Berendonk and D. Kneis (2023) Shifts from cooperative to individual-based predation defense determine microbial predator-prey dynamics. The ISME Journal: 1-11.
Hattich GSI, Listmann L, Havenhand J, Reusch TBH, Matthiessen B (2023) Temporal variation in ecological and evolutionary contributions to phytoplankton functional shifts. Limnology and Oceanography 68: 297-306. Link
Ilić M, Walden S, Hammerstein SK, Stockenreiter M, Stibor H, Fink P (2023) Pigment and fluorescence proxies to estimate functional diversity of phytoplankton communities. Fundamental and Applied Limnology (in press). Link
Li, X., T. Klauschies, W. Yang, Z. Yang & U. Gaedke (2023) Trait adaptation enhances species coexistence and reduces bistability in an intraguild predation module. Ecol. Evol. 13:e9749. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9749
van Velzen, E. and U. Gaedke (2023) Back to the drawing board: re-thinking growth-defense trade-offs. Oikos 2023: e09918. doi: 10.1111/oik.09918
2022
Acevedo-Trejos E, Cadier M, Chakraborty S, Chen B, Cheung SY, Grigoratou, Guill C, Hassenrück C, Kerimoglu O, Klauschies T, Lindemann C, Palacz A, Ryabov A, Scotti M, Smith S. L, Våge S, Prowe F (2022) Modelling approaches for capturing plankton diversity (MODIV), their societal applications and data needs. Frontiers in Marine Science 9. Link
Ehrlich E, Thygesen UH, Kiørboe T (2022) Evolution of toxins as a public good in phytoplankton. Proc. R. Soc. B 289:20220393. Link
Grigoratou M. et al (2022) The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Plankton Workshops: Plankton Ecosystem Function, Biodiversity, and Forecasting—Research Requirements and Applications. Limnology and Oceanography 31 (1): 22-26. Link
Hamer J, Matthiessen B, Pulina S, Hattich GSI (2022) Maintenance of Intraspecific Diversity in Response to Species Competition and Nutrient Fluctuations. Microorganisms, 10(1):113. Link
Hermann RJ, Becks (2022) Change in prey genotype frequency rescues predator from extinction R. Soc. open sci. 9:220211. 220211. Link
Hillebrand, H., Acevedo-Trejos, E., Moorthi, S.D., Ryabov, A., Striebel, M., Thomas, P.K., and Schneider, M.-L. (2022). Cell size as driver and sentinel of phytoplankton community structure and functioning. Functional Ecology 36, 276-293. Link
Kath NJ, Gaedke U, van Velzen E(2022) The double‑edged sword of inducible defences: costs and benefits of maladaptive switching from the individual to the community level, Scientific Reports. Link
Klauschies T, Isanta-Navarro J (2022) The joint effects of salt and 6PPD contamination on a freshwater herbivore. Science of the Total Environment 829: 154675 Link
Isanta Navarro J, Klauschies T, Wacker A, Martin-Creuzburg D (2022) A sterol-mediated gleaner-opportunist trade-off underlies the evolution of grazer resistance to cyanobacteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Link
Thomas, P. K., Kunze, C., Van De Waal, D.B., Hillebrand, H., and Striebel, M. (2022). Elemental and biochemical nutrient limitation of zooplankton: A meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 25, 2776-2792. Link
Titocci J, Bon M, Fink P (2022) Morpho-functional traits reveal differences in size fractionated phytoplankton communities but do not significantly affect zooplankton grazing Microorganisms 10(1):182. Link
Titocci J, Fink P (2022) Food quality impacts on reproductive traits, development and fatty acid composition of the freshwater calanoid copepod Eudiaptomus sp. Journal of Plankton Research: (in press). Link
Thongthaisong P, Kasada M, Grossart H-P, Wollrab S (2022) Critical role of parasite-mediated trophic interactions for energy flow and community dynamics Link
Van Velzen E, Gaedke U, Klauschies T (2022) Quantifying the capacity for contemporary trait changes to drive intermittent predator-prey cycles. Ecol. Monogr. e1505. Link
Villalba LA, Karnatak R, Grossart H-P, Wollrab S (2022) Flexible habitat choice of pelagic bacteria increases system stability and energy flow through the microbial loop. Limnol. Oceanogr. 67: 1402-1415 Link
Villalba LA, Kasada M, Zoccarato L, Wollrab S & HP Grossart (2022) Differing escape responses of the marine bacterium Marinobacter adhaerens in the presence of planktonic vs. surface-associated protist grazers. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(2022)17, Art. 10082 Link
Werner, J., Pietsch, T., Hilker, F. M., & Arndt, H. (2022). Intrinsic nonlinear dynamics drive single-species systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2209601119. Link
2021
Bernardes JP, John U, Woltermann N, Valiadi M, Hermann R, Becks L (2021) The evolution of convex trade-offs enables the transition towards multicellularity. Nature Communications 12, 4222, Link
Ceulemans R, Guill C, Gaedke U (2021) Top predators govern multitrophic diversity effects in tritrophic food webs. Ecology 102(7), Link
Charalampous E, Matthiessen B, Sommer U (2021) Grazing induced shifts in phytoplankton cell size explain the community response to nutrient supply. Microorganisms, 9, 2440. Link
Flöder S, Yong J, Klauschies T, Gaedke U, Brinkhoff T, Poprick T, Moorthi S (2021) Intraspecific Trait Variation Alters the Outcome of Competition in Freshwater Ciliates. Ecol. Evol.11: 10225–10243, Link
Gerhard M, Mori C, Striebel M (2021) Nonrandom species loss in phytoplankton communities and its effect on ecosystem functioning. Limnology and Oceanography,Link
Groß E, Boersma M, Meunier CL (2021) Environmental impacts on single-cell variation within a ubiquitous diatom: The role of growth rate. PLoS ONE 16: e0251213, Link
Grossart HP, Hassan EA, Masigol H, Arias-Andres M, Rojas-Jimenez K (2021) Inland Water Fungi in the Anthropocene: Current and Future Perspectives. Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, 2nd edition, Link
Hattich GSI, Listmann L, Govaert L, Pansch C, Reusch TBH, Matthiessen B (2021) Experimentally decomposing phytoplankton community change into ecological and evolutionary contributions, Functional Ecology, Link
Herstoff EM, Meunier CL, Boersma M, Baines SB (2021) Leveraging differences in multiple prey traits allows selective copepods to meet their threshold elemental ratios. Limnology and Oceanography 66:2914-2922, Link
Hillebrand H, Acevedo Trejos E, Moorthi SD, Ryabov A, Striebel A, Thomas P, Schneider M-L (2021) Cell size as driver and sentinel of phytoplankton community structure and functioning. Functional Ecology 36: 276–293 Link
Ilic M, Cordellier M, Fink P (2021) Intrapopulation variability in a functional trait: Susceptibility ofDaphniato limitation by dietary fatty acids. Freshwater Biology 66 (1): 130-141, Link
Klawonn I, Van den Wyngaert S, Parada AE, Arandia-Gorostidi N, Whitehouse MJ, Grossart HP, Dekas AE (2021) Characterizing the “fungal shunt”: Parasitic fungi on diatoms affect carbon flow and bacterial communities in aquatic microbial food webs. PNAS 118 (23), Link
Li X, Yang W, Gaedke U, de Ruiter PC (2021) Energetic constraints imposed on trophic interaction strengths enhance resilience in empirical and model food webs J. Animal Ecol. 90: 2065-2076. Link
Rojas-Jimenez K, Araya-Lobo A, Quesada-Perez F, Akerman-Sanchez J, Delgado-Duran B, Ganzert L, Zavialov PO, Alymkulov S, Kirillin G, Grossart HP (2021) Variation of bacterial communities along the vertical gradient in Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan. Environ. Microbiol. R. 13(3), 337–347, Link
Ryabov A, Kerimoglu O, Litchman E, Olenina I, Roselli L, Basset A, Stanca E, Blasius B (2021) Shape matters: the relationship between cell geometry and diversity in phytoplankton. Ecology Letters. 24: 847-61, Link
Stockenreiter M, Isanta Navarro J, Buchberger F, Stibor H (2021) Community shifts from eukaryote to cyanobacteria dominated phytoplankton: The role of mixing depth and light quality. Freshwater Biology, Link
Wan W, HP Grossart, D He, W Yuan, Y Yang (2021) Stronger environmental adaptation of rare rather than abundant bacterioplankton in response to dredging in eutrophic Lake Nanhu (Wuhan, China), Water Research 190, 116751, LInk
Wojcik LA, Ceulemans R, Gaedke U (2021) Functional diversity buffers the effects of a pulse perturbation on the dynamics of tritrophic food webs. Ecol. & Evol.11: 15639–15663. Link
2020
Blasius B, Rudolf L, Weithoff G, Gaedke U, Fussmann G (2020). Long-term cyclic persistence in an experimental predator-prey system. Nature 577: 226-230, Link
Buchberger F, Stibor H, Neusius D, Nickelsen J, Stockenreiter M (2020) Transgenic and cell wall-deficient Chlamydomonas reinhardtii food affects life history of Daphnia magna. Journal of Applied Phycology 32 (1): 319-328, Link
Burberg C, Petzoldt T, von Elert E (2020) Phosphate limitation increases content of protease inhibitors in the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa. Toxins 12: 33, Link.
Chien C-T, Pahlow M, Schartau M, Oschlies A (2020) Optimality-based non-Redfield plankton–ecosystem model (OPEM v1.1) in UVic-ESCM 2.9 – Part 2: Sensitivity analysis and model calibration. Geoscientific Model Development 13: 4691-4712, Link
Ehrlich E, Gaedke U (2020) Coupled changes in traits and biomasses cascading through a tritrophic plankton food web. Limnology and Oceanography 65: 2502-2514, Link
Ehrlich E, Kath NJ, Gaedke U (2020) The shape of a defense-growth trade-off governs seasonal trait dynamics in natural phytoplankton. ISME Journal, Link
Frank F, Danger M, Hillebrand H, Striebel M (2020) Stoichiometric constraints on phytoplankton resource use efficiency in monocultures and mixtures. Limnology and Oceanography, Link
Grossart HP, Massana R, McMahon KD, Walsh DA (2020) Linking metagenomics to aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycles. Limnol. Oceanogr. 65, S2-S20
Grossart HP, Van den Wyngaert S, Kagami M, Wurzbacher C, Cunliffe M, Rojas-Jimenez K (2020) Pilze in aquatischen Ökosystemen. Grundlagen aus der allgemeinen Limnologie Pilze in aquatischen Ökosystemen I-V 9.5. Handbuch Angewandte Limnologie – 35. Erg. Lfg. 01/20
Ilić M, Cordellier M, Fink P (2020) Intrapopulation variability in a functional trait: Susceptibility of Daphnia to limitation by dietary fatty acids. Frshwater Biology, Link
Klauschies T, Gaedke U (2020) Nutrient retention by predators undermines predator coexistence on one prey. Theoret Ecol. 13, 183-208, Link
Listmann L, Hattich GSI, Matthiessen B, Reusch TBH (2020) Eco-evolutionary coupling within a two-species phytoplankton community driven by experimental selection. Frontiers in Marine Science, doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00634
Listmann L, Hattich GSI, Matthiessen B, Reusch TBH (2020) Eco-evolutionary interaction in competing phytoplankton: nutrient driven genotype sorting likely explains dominance shift and species responses to CO2. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 634, Link
Mi C, Shatwell T, Ma J, Wentzky VC, Boehrer B, Xu Y, Rinke K (2020) The formation of a metalimnetic oxygen minimum exemplifies how ecosystem dynamics shape biogeochemical processes: A modelling study. Water Research 175: 115701, Link
Pahlow M, Chien C-T, Arteaga LA, Oschlies A (2020) Optimality-based non-Redfield plankton–ecosystem model (OPEM v1.1) in UVic-ESCM 2.9 – Part 1: Implementation and model behaviour. Geoscientific Model Development 13: 4663-4690, Link
Schaelicke S, Heim S, Martin-Creuzburg D, Wacker A (2020) Inter- and intraspecific differences in rotifer fatty acid composition during acclimation to low quality food. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375(1804): 20190644, Link
Trogant S, Becker K, Schweinsberg M, Ioannidou I, Tollrian R, Weiss LC (2020). Simple morphology-based species identification in Euplotes spp. Fundam. Appl. Limnol. / Arch. Hydrobiol., Link
Van Velzen, E. (2020) Predator coexistence through emergent fitness equalization. Ecology 101: e02995
Weitere M, Brauns M, Rinke K, Borchardt D, Wentzky V (2020) Wasserqualität und Biodiversität: eine enge wechselseitige Beziehung. - In: Spreen D, Kandarr J (Eds.), Biodiversität im Meer und an Land. Vom Wert biologischer Vielfalt, Potsdam : Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, 54-57, Link
Wentzky VC, Tittel J, Jäger CG, Bruggeman J, Rinke K (2020) Seasonal succession of functional traits in phytoplankton communities and their interaction with trophic state. Journal of Ecology, Link
2019
Buchberger F, Stibor H, Neusius D, Nickelsen J, Stockenreiter M (2019) Transgenic and cell wall-deficient Chlamydomonas reinhardtii food affects life history of Daphnia magna. J Appl Phycol , Link
Burberg C, Ilić M, Petzoldt T, von Elert E (2019) Nitrate determines growth and protease inhibitor content of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa. J Appl Phycol 31:1697-1707.
Carey JC, Jankowski K, Julian PI, Sethna LR, Thomas PK, Rohweder J (2019) Exploring silica stoichiometry on a large floodplain riverscape. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 346, Link
Ceulemans R, Gaedke U, Klauschies T, Guill C (2019) The effects of functional diversity on biomass production, variability, and resilience of ecosystem functions in a tritrophic system, Scientific Reports 9, Article number 7541, Link
Gerhard M, Koussoroplis AM, Hillebrand H, Striebel M (2019) Phytoplankton community responses to temperature fluctuations under different nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry. Ecology, Link
Grossart HP, Van den Wyngaert S, Kagami M, Wurzbacher C, Cunliffe M, Rojas-Jimenez K (2019) Fungi in aquatic ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology 17 (6), 339-354, Link
Hodapp D, Hillebrand H, Striebel M (2019) “Unifying” the concept of resource use efficiency in ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Link
Ilić M, Werner C, Fink P (2019) Equal relevance of omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids for the fitness of Daphnia spp, Limnology and Oceanography 64 (6): 2512-2525, Link
Mi C, Sadeghian A, Lindenschmidt K-E, Rinke K (2019) Variable withdrawal elevations as a management tool to counter the effects of climate warming in Germany's largest drinking water reservoir. Environmental Sciences Europe 31:19, Link
Mittler U, Blasius B, Gaedke U, Ryabov AB (2019) Length–volume relationship of lake phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 17: 58-68, Link
Prowe AEF, Visser AW, Andersen KH, Chiba S, Kiørboe T (2019): Biogeography of zooplankton feeding strategy. Limnology and Oceanography 64: 661-678, doi:10.1002/lno.11067
Raatz M, van Velzen E, Gaedke U (2019) Co-adaptation impacts robustness of predator-prey dynamics against perturbations. Ecol. Evol. 9: 3823-3836, Link
Rosenbaum B, Raatz M, Fussmann GF, Weithoff G, Gaedke U (2019) Estimating parameters from multiple time series of population dynamics using Bayesian inference. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6: 234, Link
Schaelicke S, Teubner J, Martin-Creuzburg D, Wacker A (2019) Fitness response variation within and among consumer species can be co-mediated by food quantity and biochemical quality. Scientific Reports 9:16126, Link
Schaelicke S, Sobisch L-Y, Martin-Creuzburg D, Wacker A (2019) Food quantity-quality co-limitation: Interactive effects of dietary carbon and essential lipid supply on population growth of a freshwater rotifer. Freshwater Biology 64(5): 903-912, Link
Stockenreiter M, Litchman E (2019) Nitrogen-fixer enhances lipid yields in algal polycultures, Algal Research 44, Link
Trommer G, Lorenz P, Lentz A, Fink P, Stibor H (2019) Nitrogen enrichment leads to changing fatty acid composition in phytoplankton and negatively affects zooplankton in a lake community, Scientific Reports 9, Article number 16805, Link
Weyhenmeyer GA, ...Wentzky V,... , Flaim G (2019) Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters. Scientific reports, 9(1): 1-10, Link
Wentzky VC, Frassl MA, Rinke K, Boehrer B (2019) Metalimnetic oxygen minimum and the presence of Planktothrix rubescens in a low-nutrient drinking water reservoir. Water research, 148: 208-218, Link
Windisch HS, Fink P (2019) Transcriptome sequencing of a keystone aquatic herbivore yields insights on the temperature-dependent metabolism of essential lipids, BMC Genomics 20: 894, Link
Yamamichi M, Klauschies T, Miner BE, van Velzen E (2019) Modelling inducible defences in predator–prey interactions: assumptions and dynamical consequences of three distinct approaches, Ecology Letters, 22(2):390-404, Link
2018
Acevedo-Trejos E, Marañón E, Merico A (2018) Phytoplankton size diversity and ecosystem function relationships across oceanic regions. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci., 285, Link
Charalampous E, Matthiessen B, Sommer U (2018) Light effects on phytoplankton morphometric traits influence nutrient utilization ability. Journal of Plankton Research, 40 (5), 568–579. Link
Ehrlich E, Gaedke U (2018). Not attackable or not crackable - How pre- and post-attack defenses with different competition costs affect prey coexistence and population dynamics", Ecology and Evolution, online open access: Link
Flöder S, Bromann L, Moorthi S (2018) Inter- and intraspecific consumer trait variations determine consumer diversity effects in multispecies predator-prey systems. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 81(3), 243-256, Link
Kath NJ, A Boit, C Guill, Gaedke U (2018) Accounting for activity respiration results in realistic trophic transfer efficiencies in allometric trophic network (ATN) models. Theoretical Ecology, 1-11, doi.org/10.1007/s12080-018-0378-z
Kerimoglu O, Große F, Kreus M, Lenhart HJ, Beusekom van JEE (2018) A model-based projection of historical state of a coastal ecosystem: relevance of phytoplankton stoichiometry. Science of the Total Environment 639, 1311-1323. Link
Klauschies T, Coutinho RM, Gaedke U (2018) A beta distribution-based moment closure enhances the reliability of trait-based aggregate models for natural communities. Ecol. Modelling 381: 46-77. Link
Mi C, Frassl MA, Boehrer B, Rinke K (2018) Episodic wind events induce persistent shifts in the thermal stratification of a reservoir (Rappbode Reservoir, Germany). International Review of Hydrobiology 103: 71-82, Link
Peeters F, Straile D (2018) Trait selection and co-existence of phytoplankton in partially mixed systems: Trait based modelling and potential of an aggregated approach. PLosONE. 13(3): e0194076. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194076
Raatz M, S Schaelicke, M Sieber, A Wacker, Gaedke U (2018) One man's trash is another man's treasure-the effect of bacteria on phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions in chemostat systems, Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods 16:629-639. Link
Su B, Pahlow M, Prowe AEF (2018) The role of microzooplankton trophic interactions in modelling a suite of mesocosm ecosystems. Ecological Modelling 368, p.169-179. Link
Theodosiou L, Hiltunen T, Becks L (2018) The role of stressors in altering eco‐evolutionary dynamics, Functional Ecology, Link
Tsakalakis I, Pahlow M, Oschlies A, Blasius B, Ryabov AB (2018) Diel light cycle as a key factor for modelling phytoplankton biogeography and diversity. Ecological Modelling. 384: 241-8, Link
Van Velzen E, Gaedke U (2018) Reversed predator-prey cycles are driven by the amplitude of prey oscillations. Ecology and Evolution 8: 6317–6329.
Van Velzen E, Thieser T, Berendonk T, Weitere M, Gaedke U (2018) Inducible defense destabilizes predator-prey dynamics: the importance of multiple predators. Oikos. 00:1-12. Link
Wentzky VC, Tittel J, Jäger CG, Rinke K (2018) Mechanisms preventing a decrease in phytoplankton biomass after phosphorus reductions in a German drinking water reservoir—results from more than 50 years of observation. Freshwater Biology, 63(9): 1063-1076, Link
2017
Beisser D, Graupner N, Bock C, Wodniok S, Grossmann L, Vos M, Sures B, Rahmann S, Boenigk J. (2017) Comprehensive transcriptome analysis provides new insights into nutritional strategies and phylogenetic relationships of chrysophytes. PeerJ 5:e2832. Link
Beisser D, Kaschani F, Graupner N, Grossmann L, Jensen M, Ninck S, Schulz F, Rahmann S, Boenigk J, Kaiser M (2017) Quantitative Proteomics Reveals Ecophysiological Effects of Light and Silver Stress on the Mixotrophic Protist Poterioochromonas malhamensis. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0168183. Link
Bengfort M, van Velzen E, Gaedke U (2017) Slight phenotypic variation in predators and prey causes complex predator-prey oscillations. Ecol. Complexity 31: 115-124. Link
Ehrlich E, Becks L, Gaedke U (2017) Trait-fitness relationships determine how trade-off shapes affect species coexistence. Ecology 98: 3188-3198. Link
Gaedke U, Klauschies T (2017) Analysing the shape of observed trait distributions enables a data-based moment closure of aggregate models. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. early view, doi: 10.1002/lom3.10218. Link
Gall A, Übel U, Ebensen U, Hillebrand H, Meier S, Singer G, Wacker A, Striebel M (2017) Planktotrons: A highly controlled indoor mesocosm facility for aquatic biodiversity and food web research. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. Link
Hammerstein S, Stockenreiter M, Stibor H (2017) Directed diversity manipulations within natural phytoplankton communities. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. Link.
Hattich GSI, Listmann L, Raab J, Ozod-Seradj D, Reusch TBH, Matthiessen B (2017) Inter- and intraspecific phenotypic plasticity of three phytoplankton species in response to ocean acidification. Biol. Lett. 13: 20160774. Link
Kerimoglu O, Hofmeister R, Maerz J, Riethmüller R, Wirtz KW (2017) The acclimative biogeochemical model of the southern North Sea. Biogeosciences, 14, 4499-4531. Link
Kerimoglu O, Jacquet S, Vinçon-Leite B, Lemaire BJ, Rimet F, Soulignac F, Trévisan D, and Anneville O (2017) Modelling seasonal and inter-annual variation of plankton groups in Lake Bourget. Ecological Modelling, 359, 415-433. Link
Raatz M, Gaedke U, Wacker A (2017) High food quality of prey lowers its risk of extinction. Oikos. doi: 10.1111/oik.03863. Link.
Ruiter PC de, Gaedke U (2017) Emergent facilitation promotes biological diversity in pelagic food webs. Food Webs, 10:15-21. Link
Seiler C, van Velzen E, Neu T, Gaedke U, Berendonk T, Weitere M (2017) Grazing resistance of bacterial biofilms: A matter of predators' feeding trait. Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Microbiology Ecology 93(9), fix112. Link
Taherzadeh N, Kerimoglu O, Wirtz KW (2017) Can we predict phytoplankton community size structure using size scalings of eco-physiological traits? Ecological Modelling, 360, 279-289. Link
van Velzen E, Gaedke U (2017) Disentangling eco-evolutionary dynamics of predator-prey coevolution: the case of antiphase cycles. Scientific Reports, 7: 17125, doi: 10.1038/s41598. Link
Weithoff G, Gaedke U (2017) Mean functional traits of lake phytoplankton reflect seasonal and inter-annual changes in nutrients, climate and herbivory. Journal of Plankton Research. Link.
Wickman J, Diehl S, Blasius B, Klausmeier CA, Ryabov AB, Brännström Å (2017) Determining selection across heterogeneous landscapes: A perturbation-based method and its application to modeling evolution in space. The American Naturalist. 189: 381-95, Link
Wohlgemuth D, Filip J, Hillebrand H, Moorthi SD (2017) Prey diversity effects on ecosystem functioning depend on species identity and food web structure. Oecologica 184: 653–661, Link
Wohlrab S, Selander E, John U (2017) Predator cues reduce intraspecific trait variability in a marine dinoflagellate. BMC Ecology, 17:8. Link
Wohlrab S, Tillmann U, Cembella A, John U (2017) Trait changes induced by species interactions in two phenotypically distinct strains of a marine dinoflagellate. The ISME Journal, 10: 2658-2668. Link
2016
Acevedo-Trejo E, Brandt G, Smith SL, Merico A (2016) PhytoSFDM version 1.0.0: Phytoplankton Size and Functional Diversity Model. Geoscientific Model Development 9: 4071-4085. Link
Coutinho R, Klauschies T, Gaedke U (2016) Bimodal trait distributions with large variances question the reliability of trait-based aggregate models. Theoretical Ecology, 9: 389-408. Link
Hodapp D, Hillebrand H, Blasius B, Ryabov AB (2016) Environmental and trait variability constrain community structure and the biodiversity‐productivity relationship. Ecology. 97: 1463-74, Link
Klauschies T, Vasseur DA, and Gaedke U (2016). Trait adaptation promotes species coexistence in diverse predator and prey communities. Ecology and Evolution 6: 4141-4159. Link.
Moorthi SD, Schmitt JA, Ryabov A, Tsakalakis I, Blasius B, Prelle L, Tiedemann M, Hodapp D (2016) Unifying ecological stoichiometry and metabolic theory to predict production and trophic transfer in a marine planktonic food web. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 371: 20150270, Link
Smith SL, Vallina S, Merico A (2016) Phytoplankton size-diversity mediates an emergent trade-off in ecosystem functioning for rare versus frequent disturbances. Scientific Reports 6(34170): 1-11. Link
van Velzen E, Etienne RS (2016) The importance of ecological costs for the evolution of plant defense against herbivores. J. Theor. Biol. 372: 89-99. Link
Wirtz K, Kerimoglu O (2016) Autotrophic Stoichiometry Emerging from Optimality and Variable Co-limitation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4:131. Link
2015
Acevedo-Trejos E, Brandt G, Bruggeman J, Merico A (2015) Mechanisms shaping size structure and functional diversity of phytoplankton communities in the ocean. Scientific Reports 5(8918): 1-8. Link
Massie T, Weithoff G, Kuckländer N, Gaedke U, B. Blasius (2015) Enhanced Moran effect by spatial variation in environmental autocorrelation. Nature Comm. 6: 5993. Link
Ryabov AB, Morozov A, Blasius B (2015) Imperfect prey selectivity of predators promotes biodiversity and irregularity in food webs. Ecology Letters. 18 (11):1262-9, Link
Smith SL, Pahlow M, Merico A, Acevedo-Trejos E, Sasai Y, Yoshikawa C, Sasaoka K, Fujiki T, Matsumoto K, Honda M (2015) Flexible phytoplankton functional type (FlexPFT) model: size-scaling of traits and optimal growth. Journal of Plankton Research 38(4): 977-992. Link
Weithoff G, Rocha MR, Gaedke U (2015) Comparing seasonal dynamics of functional and taxonomic diversity reveals the driving forces underlying phytoplankton community structure. Freshwater Biology 60: 758-767. Link
2014
Merico A, Brandt G, Smith SL, Oliver M (2014) Sustaining diversity in trait-based models of phytoplankton communities. Front. Ecol. Evol., 2, 1–8, Link
2011 and earlier
Tirok K, Bauer B, Wirtz K, Gaedke U (2011) Predator-prey dynamics driven by feedback between functionally diverse trophic levels. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27357. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027357. Link
Tirok K, Gaedke U (2010) Internally driven alternation of functional traits in a multi-species predator-prey system. Ecology 91: 1748-1762. Link
Tirok K, Gaedke U (2007) Regulation of planktonic ciliate dynamics and functional composition during spring in Lake Constance. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 49: 87-100. Link