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A critique for meta-analyses and the productivity-diversity relationship

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A cross-system meta-analysis reveals coupled predation effects on prey biomass and diversity

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A cross-system synthesis of consumer and nutrient resource control on producer biomass

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

A multivariate analysis of beta diversity across organisms and environments

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A quantitative analysis of temporal turnover in aquatic species assemblages across ecosystems

scientific article published on February 2010

A second class of peroxidases linked to the trypanothione metabolism

scientific article published on 3 December 2002

A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

article published in 2014

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

All wet or dried up? Real differences between aquatic and terrestrial food webs

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Altered complementary feeding strategies of the consumers Hydrobia ulvae and Idotea emarginata via passive selectivity

article by N. Aberle et al published 1 March 2009 in Helgoland Marine Research

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

scientific article published in June 2015

BIOVOLUME CALCULATION FOR PELAGIC AND BENTHIC MICROALGAE

article published in 1999

Biodiversity Effects on Aquatic Ecosystem Functioning - Maturation of a New Paradigm

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes

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Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

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Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

article by Wolfgang W Weisser et al published September 2017 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic environments

scientific article published in 2004

Biodiversity effects on plant stoichiometry

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Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research

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Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in fish communities: biomass is related to evenness and the environment, not to species richness

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions

scientific article published in 2017

Biotic habitat complexity controls species diversity and nutrient effects on net biomass production

scientific article published in January 2006

Body size determines the strength of the latitudinal diversity gradient

article published in 2001

Bridging Food Webs, Ecosystem Metabolism, and Biogeochemistry Using Ecological Stoichiometry Theory.

scientific article published on 12 July 2017

CONTROL OF MICROBENTHIC COMMUNITIES BY GRAZING AND NUTRIENT SUPPLY

scientific article published in August 2002

Can monitoring data contribute to the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate? Evaluating data from a highly dynamic ecosystem

article by Dorothee Hodapp et al published 29 December 2013 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Cascading predator control interacts with productivity to determine the trophic level of biomass accumulation in a benthic food web

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Cell size as driver and sentinel of phytoplankton community structure and functioning

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Climate Change and the Future of Freshwater Biodiversity in Europe: A Primer for Policy-Makers

scientific article published in December 2009

Climate Change: Warming Impacts on Marine Biodiversity

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Coherent response of zoo‐ and phytoplankton assemblages to global warming since the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article published on 6 April 2024

Combining marine macroecology and palaeoecology in understanding biodiversity: microfossils as a model

scientific article published on 30 September 2015

Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

scientific article published in Science

Competition between benthic and pelagic microalgae for phosphorus and light – long-term experiments using artificial substrates

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Competition between benthic cyanobacteria and diatoms as influenced by different grain sizes and temperatures

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Competition between pelagic and benthic microalgae for phosphorus and light

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Consequences of dominance: a review of evenness effects on local and regional ecosystem processes

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Consumer Diversity Enhances Secondary Production by Complementarity Effects in Experimental Ciliate Assemblages

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Consumer diversity indirectly changes prey nutrient content

scientific article published in 2009

Consumer effects decline with prey diversity

scientific article published in 2004

Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure

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Consumer versus resource control of species diversity and ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in Nature

Control of Microbenthic Communities by Grazing and Nutrient Supply

scientific article published in 2002

Control of epibenthic ciliate communities by grazers and nutrients

scientific article published in 2004

Correction to 'Cross-continental analysis of coastal biodiversity change'

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Cross-continental analysis of coastal biodiversity change

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Cyanobacteria dominance influences resource use efficiency and community turnover in phytoplankton and zooplankton communities

scientific article published on 28 January 2014

Decomposing multiple dimensions of stability in global change experiments

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Differences in species richness patterns between unicellular and multicellular organisms

scientific article published on January 2001

Direct and indirect cumulative effects of temperature, nutrients, and light on phytoplankton growth

scientific article published on 31 July 2024

Disciplinary diversity in marine sciences: the urgent case for an integration of research

scientific article published in 2017

Disentangling distance decay of similarity from richness gradients: response to Baselga (2007)

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Dispersal frequency affects local biomass production by controlling local diversity

scientific article published in June 2006

Dispersal restricts local biomass but promotes the recovery of metacommunities after temperature stress

scientific article published in 2014

Diversity and community biomass depend on dispersal and disturbance in microalgal communities

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Diversity of benthic microalgae in response to colonization time and eutrophication

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Diversity-stability relationship varies with latitude in zooplankton.

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Dominance by a canopy forming seaweed modifies resource and consumer control of bloom-forming macroalgae

scientific article published in 2007

Dominance of the non-indigenous diatom Mediopyxis helysia in Wadden Sea phytoplankton can be linked to broad tolerance to different Si and N supplies

scholarly article by Sandra Meier et al published January 2015 in Journal of Sea Research

Ecological stoichiometry of indirect grazer effects on periphyton nutrient content

scientific article published on 5 December 2007

Effect of (a)synchronous light fluctuation on diversity, functional and structural stability of a marine phytoplankton metacommunity

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Effect of consumer loss on resource removal depends on species-specific traits

article published in 2017

Effect of continuous nutrient enrichment on microalgae colonizing hard substrates

Effect of grazing and nutrient supply on periphyton biomass and nutrient stoichiometry in habitats of different productivity

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Effect of grazing and water column nutrient supply on biomass and nutrient content of sediment microalgae

Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

scientific article published in 2016

Effects of climate-driven temperature changes on the diversity of freshwater macroinvertebrates.

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Effects of experimental warming on biodiversity depend on ecosystem type and local species composition

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Effects of grazer richness and composition on algal biomass in a closed and open marine system

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Effects of macrograzers and light on periphyton stoichiometry

article by Helmut Hillebrand et al published July 2004 in Oikos

Effects of nutrient depletion on ejectisomes of cryptophytes

scientific article published in 2016

Effects of site‐selection bias on estimates of biodiversity change

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Effects of snail grazers and light on the benthic microbial food web in periphyton communities

scientific article published in 2010

Effects of temperature on the interaction between phytoplankton communities and benthic filter feeders

scholarly article by Paulin Hardenbicker et al published 1 December 2015 in Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Effects of total resources, resource ratios, and species richness on algal productivity and evenness at both metacommunity and local scales

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Ejectisins: tough and tiny polypeptides are a major component of cryptophycean ejectisomes

Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory

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Environmental and trait variability constrain community structure and the biodiversity-productivity relationship

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Environmental conditions of a salt-marsh biodiversity experiment on the island of Spiekeroog (Germany)

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

Environmental filtering and taxonomic relatedness underlie the species richness–evenness relationship

Environmental stoichiometry mediates phytoplankton diversity effects on communities' resource use efficiency and biomass

scientific article published in 2021

Estimation of functional diversity and species traits from ecological monitoring data

scientific article published in 2022

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Experimental salt marsh islands: A model system for novel metacommunity experiments

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Failures to disagree are essential for environmental science to effectively influence policy development

scientific article published on 25 February 2022

Food web complexity affects stoichiometric and trophic interactions

scientific article published in 2006

Functional and structural stability are linked in phytoplankton metacommunities of different connectivity

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Functional trait dimensions of trophic metacommunities

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Functional trait dissimilarity drives both species complementarity and competitive disparity

scientific article published in 2017

Functionally reversible impacts of disturbances on lake food webs linked to spatial and seasonal dependencies

scientific article published in 2021

Further investigations on the polypeptides and reconstitution of prasinophycean ejectisomes

Genetic variation of a foundation rockweed species affects associated communities.

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Geographic patterns of diversity in streams are predicted by a multivariate model of disturbance and productivity

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Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems

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Global biogeography of autotroph chemistry: is insolation a driving force?

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Global change drives modern plankton communities away from the pre-industrial state

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Goldman revisited: Faster-growing phytoplankton has lower N : P and lower stoichiometric flexibility

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Grazing regulates the spatial variability of periphyton biomass

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Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

scientific article published on 9 March 2014

Heterotrophic flagellates increase microalgal biomass yield

Historical contingency and productivity effects on food-chain length

Importance of mixotrophic bacterivory can be predicted by light and loss rates

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Integrating community assembly and biodiversity to better understand ecosystem function: the Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems (CAFE) approach

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Interspecific competition alters leaf stoichiometry in 20 grassland species

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Invasion by mobile aquatic consumers enhances secondary production and increases top-down control of lower trophic levels

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Invited review: Direct and indirect effects in herbivore – periphyton interactions

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Isolation and characterisation of the trichocysts of the dinophyte Prorocentrum micans

Krill vs salps: dominance shift from krill to salps is associated with higher dissolved N:P ratios

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Life-history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

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Light regime and consumer control of autotrophic biomass

article by Helmut Hillebrand published 17 February 2005 in Journal of Ecology

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Long-term effects of plant diversity and composition on plant stoichiometry

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Low algal carbon content and its effect on the C : P stoichiometry of periphyton

Low statistical power and overestimated anthropogenic impacts, exacerbated by publication bias, dominate field studies in global change biology

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Low statistical power and overestimated anthropogenic impacts, exacerbated by publication bias, dominate field studies in global change biology

scientific article published on 29 October 2021

META-ANALYSIS OF GRAZER CONTROL OF PERIPHYTON BIOMASS ACROSS AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS(1).

scientific article published on August 2009

Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions

Marine microbenthic community structure regulated by nitrogen loading and grazing pressure

scientific article published in 2000

Marine primary producers in a darker future: a meta‐analysis of light effects on pelagic and benthic autotrophs

scientific article published in 2023

Meta-analysis on pulse disturbances reveals differences in functional and compositional recovery across ecosystems

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Meta-analysis results are unlikely to be biased by differences in variance and replication between ecological lab and field studies

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Metaecosystem Dynamics of Marine Phytoplankton Alters Resource Use Efficiency along Stoichiometric Gradients

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Microbial food web structure affects bottom-up effects and elemental stoichiometry in periphyton assemblages

Modeling drivers of biodiversity change emphasizes the need for multivariate assessments and rescaled targeting for management

scientific article published in 2022

More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species

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Multiple functions increase the importance of biodiversity for overall ecosystem functioning

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Multiple vs. single phytoplankton species alter stoichiometry of trophic interaction with zooplankton

scientific article published in November 2015

Multitrophic diversity effects depend on consumer specialization and species-specific growth and grazing rates

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Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

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New innovations for 2018 and beyond

scientific article published in March 2018

Nitrogenous nutrition of the potentially toxic diatom Pseudonitzschia pungens f. multiseries Hasle

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Non-Redfield, nutrient synergy and flexible internal elemental stoichiometry in a marine bacterium.

scientific article published on 9 May 2017

North Atlantic Oscillation signatures in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems-a meta-analysis

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Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities.

scientific article published on 12 July 2011

Nutrient loading associated with agriculture land use dampens the importance of consumer-mediated niche construction

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Nutritional indicators and their uses in ecology.

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Nutritional mode and specialization alter protist consumer diversity effects on prey assemblages

scientific article published in 2012

On the Generality of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

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On the morphology and predatory behavior of the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina exposed to reduced salinity

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Opposing effects of grazing and nutrients on diversity

article published in 2003

Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity

scientific article published in September 2017

Phytoplankton community responses to temperature fluctuations under different nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Phytoplankton responses to temperature increases are constrained by abiotic conditions and community composition

scientific article published on 04 August 2016

Plankton response to global warming is characterized by non-uniform shifts in assemblage composition since the last ice age

scientific article published in 2022

Planktotrons: A novel indoor mesocosm facility for aquatic biodiversity and food web research

scientific article published in 2017

Plant diversity and functional groups affect Si and Ca pools in aboveground biomass of grassland systems

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Plant diversity effects on pollinating and herbivorous insects can be linked to plant stoichiometry

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Plant diversity impacts decomposition and herbivory via changes in aboveground arthropods

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Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Predation on mutualists can reduce the strength of trophic cascades

scientific article published in November 2006

Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Prey diversity effects on ecosystem functioning depend on consumer identity and prey composition

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

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Rapid reorganization of global biodiversity

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Reciprocal subsidies between freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems structure consumer resource dynamics

scientific article published on May 2012

Regional and local impact on species diversity - from pattern to processes

scientific article published in August 2002

Regressions of local on regional diversity do not reflect the importance of local interactions or saturation of local diversity

scientific article published in 2005

Reply to: Empirical pressure-response relations can benefit assessment of safe operating spaces

scientific article published in 2021

Reporting standards in experimental studies

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Resource stoichiometry and consumers control the biodiversity-productivity relationship in pelagic metacommunities

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Response of epilithic microphytobenthos of the Western Baltic Sea to in situ experiments with nutrient enrichment

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Response to Comments on "Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness"

scientific article published in Science

Responses of primary productivity to increased temperature and phytoplankton diversity

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Role of nutrient supply in grazer–periphyton interactions: reciprocal influences of periphyton and grazer nutrient stoichiometry

Running to stand still: temperature effects on species richness, species turnover, and functional community dynamics

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Scale Both Confounds and Informs Characterization of Species Coexistence in Empirical Systems

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Scale dependence of temporal biodiversity change in modern and fossil marine plankton

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Separating the influence of resource 'availability' from resource 'imbalance' on productivity-diversity relationships.

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Shorter Food Chain Length in Ancient Lakes: Evidence from a Global Synthesis

scientific article published on June 6, 2012

Signatures of nutrient limitation and co-limitation: responses of autotroph internal nutrient concentrations to nitrogen and phosphorus additions

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Spatial and temporal patterns of microphytobenthos communities along the marine-terrestrial boundary in the German Wadden Sea

scientific article published in 2022

Spatial and temporal variation in the biomass and nutrient status of epilithic algae in Lake Erken, Sweden

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Spatial autocorrelation and dispersal limitation in freshwater organisms

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Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation

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Spatial variation of grazer effects on epilithic meiofauna and algae

Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning

scientific article published on 7 May 2024

Species richness changes across two trophic levels simultaneously affect prey and consumer biomass

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Species traits and species diversity affect community stability in a multiple stressor framework

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Stability of marine phytoplankton communities facing stress related to global change: Interactive effects of heat waves and turbidity

scholarly article by Merle Remy et al published December 2017 in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Stoichiometric variation in C:N, C:P, and N:P ratios of littoral benthic invertebrates

Strength, slope and variability of marine latitudinal gradients

scientific article published in 2004

Structural equation modeling approach to the diversity-productivity relationship of Wadden Sea phytoplankton

scholarly article by D Hodapp et al published 16 March 2015 in Marine Ecology Progress Series

Temperature effects on phytoplankton diversity — The zooplankton link

scholarly article by Aleksandra M. Lewandowska et al published January 2014 in Journal of Sea Research

Temperature mean and variance alter phytoplankton biomass and biodiversity in a long-term microcosm experiment

scholarly article by Tanja Burgmer & Helmut Hillebrand published 13 December 2010 in Oikos

Temperature mediates competitive exclusion and diversity in benthic microalgae under different N:P stoichiometry

scientific article published in 2011

Temporal declines in Wadden Sea phytoplankton cell volumes observed within and across species

scientific article published on 27 December 2021

The body-size structure of macrobenthos changes predictably along gradients of hydrodynamic stress and organic enrichment

scientific article published in 2015

The distance decay of similarity in ecological communities

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The distance decay of similarity in ecological communities

scientific article published on 07 November 2007

The drivers of biogeochemistry in beach ecosystems: A cross-shore transect from the dunes to the low-water line

scholarly article by Melanie Beck published in March 2017

The effect of grazing and nutrient supply on periphyton associated bacteria

scientific article published on 18 November 2004

The exponentially fed batch culture as a reliable alternative to conventional chemostats

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The functional role of planktonic mixotrophs in altering seston stoichiometry

article published in 2017

The impact of climate warming on species diversity across scales: Lessons from experimental meta‐ecosystems

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

The importance of phytoplankton trait variability in spring bloom formation

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The imprint of the geographical, evolutionary and ecological context on species-area relationships

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The influence of balanced and imbalanced resource supply on biodiversity-functioning relationship across ecosystems

scientific article published in May 2016

The marine bacterium Phaeobacter inhibens secures external ammonium by rapid buildup of intracellular nitrogen stocks

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

The relationship between species richness and evenness: a meta-analysis of studies across aquatic ecosystems

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Think ratio! A stoichiometric view on biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research

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Threshold elemental ratios of carbon and phosphorus in aquatic consumers

scientific article published in July 2006

Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Top-down versus bottom-up control of autotrophic biomass—a meta-analysis on experiments with periphyton

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Toward More Integrated Ecosystem Research in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments

Understorey benthic microalgae and their consumers depend on habitat complexity and light in a microtidal coastal ecosystem

Warming and oligotrophication cause shifts in freshwater phytoplankton communities

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Warming leads to higher species turnover in a coastal ecosystem

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