Linking phytoplankton biodiversity and food quality effects in herbivore zooplankton - and prolongation: Diversity, Variability and Food Quality in Aquatic Systems

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Alexander Wacker
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems ; Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management ; Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: from 2013 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 228804654

• Final Report Year: 2019

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Publications

• High food quality of prey lowers its risk of extinction. Oikos, Vol. 126. 2017, Issue 10, pp. 1501-1510.
  Raatz, M., U. Gaedke, & A. Wacker
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.03863|)
• Linking primary producer diversity and food quality effects on herbivores: A biochemical perspective. Scientific Reports, Vol. 7. 2017, 11035.
  Marzetz, V., A-M. Koussoroplis, D. Martin-Creuzburg, M. Striebel, & A. Wacker
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11183-3)
• Understanding and predicting physiological performance of organisms in fluctuating and multifactorial environments. Ecological Monographs, Vol. 87. 2017, Issue 2, pp. 178-197.
  Koussoroplis, A-M., S. Pincebourde, & A. Wacker
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1247|)
• Environmental concentrations of pharmaceuticals directly and indirectly influence an aquatic food web. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Vol. 156. 2018, pp. 271-278.
  Grzesiuk, M., E. Spijkerman, S. Lachmann, & A. Wacker
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.03.019)
• One man's trash is another man's treasure - the effect of bacteria on phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions in chemostat systems. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, Vol. 16. 2018, Issue 10, pp. 629-639.
  Raatz, M., S. Schaelicke, M. Sieber, A. Wacker, & U. Gaedke
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10269|)
• Feeding in the frequency domain: Coarser-grained environments increase consumer sensitivity to resource variability, covariance and phase. Ecology Letters, Vol. 22. 2019, Issue 7, pp. 1104-1114.
  Koussoroplis, A-M., S. Schälicke, M. Raatz, M. Bach, & A. Wacker.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13267)
• Food quantity-quality co-limitation: Interactive effects of dietary carbon and essential lipid supply on population growth of a freshwater rotifer. Freshwater Biology, Vol. 64. 2019, Issue 5, pp. 903-912.
  Schälicke, S., L-Y. Sobisch, D. Martin-Creuzburg, & A. Wacker.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13272|)
• Nitrate or ammonium: Influences of nitrogen source on the physiology of a green alga. Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 9. 2019, Issue 3, pp. 1070-1082.
  Lachmann, S.C, T. Mettler-Altmann, A. Wacker, & E. Spijkerman
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4790)