List of works - Ursula Gaedke

A beta distribution-based moment closure enhances the reliability of trait-based aggregate models for natural populations and communities

scientific article published in 2018

A comparison of whole-community and ecosystem approaches (biomass size distributions, food web analysis, network analysis, simulation models) to study the structure, function and regulation of pelagic food webs

scientific article published in 1995

A mechanistic basis for underyielding in phytoplankton communities

scientific article

A seasonal alternation of coherent and compensatory dynamics occurs in phytoplankton

scientific article published on 04 August 2005

Accounting for activity respiration results in realistic trophic transfer efficiencies in allometric trophic network (ATN) models

scientific article published on 19 May 2018

Analyzing the shape of observed trait distributions enables a data-based moment closure of aggregate models

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Benchmarking successional progress in a quantitative food web

scientific article

Benthic carbon is inefficiently transferred in the food webs of two eutrophic shallow lakes

article

Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

article

Bimodal trait distributions with large variances question the reliability of trait-based aggregate models

article published in 2016

Challenges and opportunities for integrating lake ecosystem modelling approaches

article

Co-adaptation impacts the robustness of predator-prey dynamics against perturbations

article

Comparing seasonal dynamics of functional and taxonomic diversity reveals the driving forces underlying phytoplankton community structure

scientific article published on 29 December 2014

Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities

scientific article

Complementary ecophysiological strategies combine to facilitate survival in the hostile conditions of a deep chlorophyll maximum ⬇️

scientific article published on December 28, 2011

Complex transient dynamics of stage-structured populations in response to environmental changes.

scientific article published on 5 June 2013

Contrasting response of two shallow eutrophic cold temperate lakes to a partial winterkill of fish

article

Coupled changes in traits and biomasses cascading through a tritrophic plankton food web

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Cycles, phase synchronization, and entrainment in single-species phytoplankton populations

scientific article

Decreased phosphorus incorporation explains the negative effect of high iron concentrations in the green microalga Chlamydomonas acidophila

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Disentangling eco-evolutionary dynamics of predator-prey coevolution: the case of antiphase cycles

scientific article

Diversity, functional similarity, and top-down control drive synchronization and the reliability of ecosystem function.

scientific article

Dome patterns in pelagic size spectra reveal strong trophic cascades

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Effect of ctenophore predation on mesozooplankton during a spring outburst of Pleurobrachia pileus

scientific article published in 1990

Empirical correspondence between trophic transfer efficiency in freshwater food webs and the slope of their size spectra

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Energetic constraints imposed on trophic interaction strengths enhance resilience in empirical and model food webs

scientific article published in 2021

Energetic equivalence underpins the size structure of tree and phytoplankton communities

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Enhanced Input of Terrestrial Particulate Organic Matter Reduces the Resilience of the Clear-Water State of Shallow Lakes: A Model Study

article

Enhanced Moran effect by spatial variation in environmental autocorrelation

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Estimating Parameters From Multiple Time Series of Population Dynamics Using Bayesian Inference

scientific article published on 22 January 2019

Frequency of virus-resistant hosts determines experimental community dynamics

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Functional diversity buffers the effects of a pulse perturbation on the dynamics of tritrophic food webs

scientific article

Functionally similar species have similar dynamics

scientific article published on 03 October 2011

Grazing resistance of bacterial biofilms: a matter of predators' feeding trait

scientific article

Heated relations: temperature-mediated shifts in consumption across trophic levels

scientific article

High food quality of prey lowers its risk of extinction

scientific article published in 2017

Independent colimitation for carbon dioxide and inorganic phosphorus.

scientific article

Inducible defense destabilizes predator-prey dynamics: the importance of multiple predators

scientific article published in 2018

Inorganic carbon limitation and mixotrophic growth in Chlamydomonas from an acidic mining lake.

scientific article published in June 2005

Internally driven alternation of functional traits in a multispecies predator-prey system

scientific article published in June 2010

Intraspecific trait variation alters the outcome of competition in freshwater ciliates

article published in 2021

Lake morphometry and wind exposure may shape the plankton community structure in acidic mining lakes

scientific article published on May 2010

Large biomass of small feeders: ciliates may dominate herbivory in eutrophic lakes

scientific article published in 2015

Long-term cyclic persistence in an experimental predator-prey system

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Mechanistic theory and modelling of complex food-web dynamics in Lake Constance

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

Mixotrophs combine resource use to outcompete specialists: Implications for aquatic food webs ⬇️

scientific article published on October 20, 2003

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

article

Mysterious ciliates: seasonally recurrent and yet hard to predict

scientific article published in 2022

Natural selection for grazer resistance to toxic cyanobacteria: evolution of phenotypic plasticity?

scientific article

Not attackable or not crackable-How pre- and post-attack defenses with different competition costs affect prey coexistence and population dynamics.

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

Nutrient retention by predators undermines predator coexistence on one prey

scientific article published in 2019

Plant community diversity and composition affect individual plant performance

scientific article published on 9 July 2010

Predation and competition effects on the size diversity of aquatic communities

article

Predator-Prey Dynamics Driven by Feedback between Functionally Diverse Trophic Levels ⬇️

scientific article published on November 11, 2011

Predator-mediated coexistence of calanoid copepods in a spatially heterogeneous environment: a numerical simulation model

scientific article published in 1991

Productivity, herbivory, and species traits rather than diversity influence invasibility of experimental phytoplankton communities

scientific article

Quantifying the capacity for contemporary trait changes to drive intermittent predator–prey cycles

scientific article published in 2022

Quantitative food web structure and ecosystem functions in a warm-temperate seagrass bed

scientific article published in 2021

Resisting annihilation: relationships between functional trait dissimilarity, assemblage competitive power and allelopathy

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Reverse evolution: driving forces behind the loss of acquired photosynthetic traits

scientific article

Reversed predator–prey cycles are driven by the amplitude of prey oscillations.

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Seasonal variations alter the impact of functional traits on plankton dynamics

scientific article

Slight phenotypic variation in predators and prey causes complex predator-prey oscillations

scientific article published in 2017

Spectral analysis unmasks synchronous and compensatory dynamics in plankton communities

scientific article published in August 2007

Stress responses and metal tolerance of Chlamydomonas acidophila in metal-enriched lake water and artificial medium.

scientific article published on 12 April 2007

The effect of irradiance, vertical mixing and temperature on spring phytoplankton dynamics under climate change: long-term observations and model analysis

scientific article

The effects of functional diversity on biomass production, variability, and resilience of ecosystem functions in a tritrophic system

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

The first decade of oligotrophication in Lake Constance : I. The response of phytoplankton biomass and cell size

scientific article published in March 1993

The first decade of oligotrophication of Lake Constance : II. The response of phytoplankton taxonomic composition

scientific article published on 01 March 1993

The role of predation for seasonal variability patterns among phytoplankton and ciliates

scientific article published in 2006

The shape of a defense-growth trade-off governs seasonal trait dynamics in natural phytoplankton

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

The utility of covariances: a response to Ranta et al

article

Top predators govern multitrophic diversity effects in tritrophic food webs

scientific article published on 03 May 2021

Trait adaptation enhances species coexistence and reduces bistability in an intraguild predation module

scientific article published in 2023

Trait adaptation promotes species coexistence in diverse predator and prey communities

scientific article

Trait-fitness relationships determine how trade-off shapes affect species coexistence

scientific article published on 15 October 2017

Trophic Transfer Efficiency in Lakes

scientific article published in 2022

Warming induces shifts in microzooplankton phenology and reduces time-lags between phytoplankton and protozoan production

scientific article published on 13 May 2012

Warming-induced changes in predation, extinction and invasion in an ectotherm food web.

scientific article

Weak Response of Animal Allochthony and Production to Enhanced Supply of Terrestrial Leaf Litter in Nutrient-Rich Lakes

article

List of works by Ursula Gaedke

A beta distribution-based moment closure enhances the reliability of trait-based aggregate models for natural populations and communities

A comparison of whole-community and ecosystem approaches (biomass size distributions, food web analysis, network analysis, simulation models) to study the structure, function and regulation of pelagic food webs

A mechanistic basis for underyielding in phytoplankton communities

A seasonal alternation of coherent and compensatory dynamics occurs in phytoplankton

Accounting for activity respiration results in realistic trophic transfer efficiencies in allometric trophic network (ATN) models

Analyzing the shape of observed trait distributions enables a data-based moment closure of aggregate models

Benchmarking successional progress in a quantitative food web

Benthic carbon is inefficiently transferred in the food webs of two eutrophic shallow lakes

Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

Bimodal trait distributions with large variances question the reliability of trait-based aggregate models

Challenges and opportunities for integrating lake ecosystem modelling approaches

Co-adaptation impacts the robustness of predator-prey dynamics against perturbations

Comparing seasonal dynamics of functional and taxonomic diversity reveals the driving forces underlying phytoplankton community structure

Compensatory dynamics are rare in natural ecological communities

Complementary ecophysiological strategies combine to facilitate survival in the hostile conditions of a deep chlorophyll maximum ⬇️

Complex transient dynamics of stage-structured populations in response to environmental changes.

Contrasting response of two shallow eutrophic cold temperate lakes to a partial winterkill of fish

Coupled changes in traits and biomasses cascading through a tritrophic plankton food web

Cycles, phase synchronization, and entrainment in single-species phytoplankton populations

Decreased phosphorus incorporation explains the negative effect of high iron concentrations in the green microalga Chlamydomonas acidophila

Disentangling eco-evolutionary dynamics of predator-prey coevolution: the case of antiphase cycles

Diversity, functional similarity, and top-down control drive synchronization and the reliability of ecosystem function.

Dome patterns in pelagic size spectra reveal strong trophic cascades

Effect of ctenophore predation on mesozooplankton during a spring outburst of Pleurobrachia pileus

Empirical correspondence between trophic transfer efficiency in freshwater food webs and the slope of their size spectra

Energetic constraints imposed on trophic interaction strengths enhance resilience in empirical and model food webs

Energetic equivalence underpins the size structure of tree and phytoplankton communities

Enhanced Input of Terrestrial Particulate Organic Matter Reduces the Resilience of the Clear-Water State of Shallow Lakes: A Model Study

Enhanced Moran effect by spatial variation in environmental autocorrelation

Estimating Parameters From Multiple Time Series of Population Dynamics Using Bayesian Inference

Frequency of virus-resistant hosts determines experimental community dynamics

Functional diversity buffers the effects of a pulse perturbation on the dynamics of tritrophic food webs

Functionally similar species have similar dynamics

Grazing resistance of bacterial biofilms: a matter of predators' feeding trait

Heated relations: temperature-mediated shifts in consumption across trophic levels

High food quality of prey lowers its risk of extinction

Independent colimitation for carbon dioxide and inorganic phosphorus.

Inducible defense destabilizes predator-prey dynamics: the importance of multiple predators

Inorganic carbon limitation and mixotrophic growth in Chlamydomonas from an acidic mining lake.

Internally driven alternation of functional traits in a multispecies predator-prey system

Intraspecific trait variation alters the outcome of competition in freshwater ciliates

Lake morphometry and wind exposure may shape the plankton community structure in acidic mining lakes

Large biomass of small feeders: ciliates may dominate herbivory in eutrophic lakes

Long-term cyclic persistence in an experimental predator-prey system

Mechanistic theory and modelling of complex food-web dynamics in Lake Constance

Mixotrophs combine resource use to outcompete specialists: Implications for aquatic food webs ⬇️

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

Mysterious ciliates: seasonally recurrent and yet hard to predict

Natural selection for grazer resistance to toxic cyanobacteria: evolution of phenotypic plasticity?

Not attackable or not crackable-How pre- and post-attack defenses with different competition costs affect prey coexistence and population dynamics.

Nutrient retention by predators undermines predator coexistence on one prey

Plant community diversity and composition affect individual plant performance

Predation and competition effects on the size diversity of aquatic communities

Predator-Prey Dynamics Driven by Feedback between Functionally Diverse Trophic Levels ⬇️

Predator-mediated coexistence of calanoid copepods in a spatially heterogeneous environment: a numerical simulation model

Productivity, herbivory, and species traits rather than diversity influence invasibility of experimental phytoplankton communities

Quantifying the capacity for contemporary trait changes to drive intermittent predator–prey cycles

Quantitative food web structure and ecosystem functions in a warm-temperate seagrass bed

Resisting annihilation: relationships between functional trait dissimilarity, assemblage competitive power and allelopathy

Reverse evolution: driving forces behind the loss of acquired photosynthetic traits

Reversed predator–prey cycles are driven by the amplitude of prey oscillations.

Seasonal variations alter the impact of functional traits on plankton dynamics

Slight phenotypic variation in predators and prey causes complex predator-prey oscillations

Spectral analysis unmasks synchronous and compensatory dynamics in plankton communities

Stress responses and metal tolerance of Chlamydomonas acidophila in metal-enriched lake water and artificial medium.

The effect of irradiance, vertical mixing and temperature on spring phytoplankton dynamics under climate change: long-term observations and model analysis

The effects of functional diversity on biomass production, variability, and resilience of ecosystem functions in a tritrophic system

The first decade of oligotrophication in Lake Constance : I. The response of phytoplankton biomass and cell size

The first decade of oligotrophication of Lake Constance : II. The response of phytoplankton taxonomic composition

The role of predation for seasonal variability patterns among phytoplankton and ciliates

The shape of a defense-growth trade-off governs seasonal trait dynamics in natural phytoplankton

The utility of covariances: a response to Ranta et al

Top predators govern multitrophic diversity effects in tritrophic food webs

Trait adaptation enhances species coexistence and reduces bistability in an intraguild predation module

Trait adaptation promotes species coexistence in diverse predator and prey communities

Trait-fitness relationships determine how trade-off shapes affect species coexistence

Trophic Transfer Efficiency in Lakes

Warming induces shifts in microzooplankton phenology and reduces time-lags between phytoplankton and protozoan production

Warming-induced changes in predation, extinction and invasion in an ectotherm food web.