List of works - Thomas Mehner

A management-orientated comparative analysis of urban and rural anglers living in a metropolis (Berlin, Germany).

scientific article published on 25 March 2004

A test of food web hypotheses by exploring time series of fish, zooplankton and phytoplankton in an oligo-mesotrophic lake

scientific article published in 2008

Assessing the Utility of Hydrogen, Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes in Estimating Consumer Allochthony in Two Shallow Eutrophic Lakes

scientific article

Behaviour in a standardized assay, but not metabolic or growth rate, predicts behavioural variation in an adult aquatic top predator Esox lucius in the wild

scientific article published on 6 March 2016

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

article

Biomanipulation of lake ecosystems: successful applications and expanding complexity in the underlying science

scientific article published in 2002

Can size distributions of European lake fish communities be predicted by trophic positions of their fish species?

scientific article published in July 2022

Capacity challenges in water quality monitoring: understanding the role of human development

scientific article published on 19 April 2020

Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-based Solutions

scientific article published on 14 February 2023

Coexistence of behavioural types in an aquatic top predator: a response to resource limitation?

scientific article

Comparison of fish size spectra obtained from hydroacoustics and gillnets across seven European natural lakes

scientific article published in December 2022

Comparison of losses of planktivorous fish by predation and seine-fishing in a lake undergoing long-term biomanipulation

scientific article published in 2002

Consumer-resource stoichiometry as a predictor of trophic discrimination (Δ13 C, Δ15 N) in aquatic invertebrates

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

article

Coupling insights from a carp, Cyprinus carpio, angler survey with feeding experiments to evaluate composition, quality and phosphorus input of groundbait in coarse fishing

article

Density-dependent effects as key drivers of intraspecific size structure of six abundant fish species in lakes across Europe

scientific article published in April 2016

Determinants of habitat use in large roach

scientific article published in 2006

Determinants of management preferences of recreational anglers in Germany: Habitat management versus fish stocking

article

Development of a fish-based index to assess the eutrophication status of European lakes

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

Documented and Potential Biological Impacts of Recreational Fishing: Insights for Management and Conservation

Ecological commonalities among pelagic fishes: comparison of freshwater ciscoes and marine herring and sprat

scientific article published in 2012

Ecological conditions drive pace-of-life syndromes by shaping relationships between life history, physiology and behaviour in two populations of Eastern mosquitofish

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Effects of fish predation on density and size spectra of prey fish communities in lakes

scientific article published in 2016

Effects of piscivore-mediated habitat use on growth, diet and zooplankton consumption of roach: an individual-based modelling approach

article published in 2002

Effects of predation pressure and resource use on morphological divergence in omnivorous prey fish.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

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

article

Environmental and spatial determinants of fish community structure in an Afro‐tropical river ecosystem

scientific article published in 2023

European fish-based assessment reveals high diversity of systems for determining ecological status of lakes

scientific article

Evidence for independent origin of two spring-spawning ciscoes (Salmoniformes: Coregonidae) in Germany

article

Exploring ultimate hypotheses to predict diel vertical migrations in coregonid fish

scientific article

Feeding Aquatic Ecosystems: Whole-Lake Experimental Addition of Angler’s Ground Bait Strongly Affects Omnivorous Fish Despite Low Contribution to Lake Carbon Budget

article

Fish diversity in European lakes: geographical factors dominate over anthropogenic pressures

scientific article published on 3 June 2013

Fishermen’s perceptions and experiences toward the impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on freshwater fish biodiversity in Côte d’Ivoire

Genetic mixing from enhancement stocking in commercially exploited vendace populations

scientific article published in 2009

Genetic population structure of sympatric and allopatric populations of Baltic ciscoes (Coregonus albula complex, Teleostei, Coregonidae).

scientific article

Genetic relationships between sympatric and allopatric Coregonus ciscoes in North and Central Europe

scientific article

Geographical patterns in the body-size structure of European lake fish assemblages along abiotic and biotic gradients

scientific article published on 2 July 2014

High stock density impairs growth, female condition and fecundity, but not quality of early reproductive stages in vendace (Coregonus albula)

scientific article published in 2017

How to link biomanipulation and sustainable fisheries management: a step-by-step guideline for lakes of the European temperate zone

article

Hydroacoustic estimates of fish densities in comparison with stratified pelagic trawl sampling in two deep, coregonid-dominated lakes

article

Impacts of climate warming on the long-term dynamics of key fish species in 24 European lakes

scientific article published on 6 June 2012

Initiation of the midsummer decline of Daphnia as related to predation, non-consumptive mortality and recruitment: a balance

scientific article published in 2004

Intraspecific temperature dependence of the scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes and its ecological implications

article by Jan Ohlberger et al published 11 August 2011 in Oikos

Is ecological segregation in a pair of sympatric coregonines supported by divergent feeding efficiencies?

article published in 2008

Lake depth alters the trajectory of ontogenetic niche shifts in Eurasian perch (<i>Perca fluviatilis</i>) in small lakes

scientific article published in 2023

Metadata of European Lake Fishes Dataset

scientific article published in 2017

Model‐based decomposition of environmental, spatial and species‐interaction effects on the community structure of common fish species in 772 European lakes

scientific article published on 10 May 2021

Morphological differences between two ecologically similar sympatric fishes.

scientific article published in December 2009

Morphological variation of African snakehead (Parachanna obscura) populations along climate and habitat gradients in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa

scientific article published in 2023

Non-native Fish Occurrence and Biomass in 1943 Western Palearctic Lakes and Reservoirs and their Abiotic and Biotic Correlates

scientific article

Partial diel vertical migrations in pelagic fish

scientific article published on 2 March 2011

Pelagic trophic transfer efficiency in an oligotrophic, dimictic deep lake (Lake Stechlin, Germany) and its relation to fisheries yield

scientific article published in 2004

Performance level and efficiency of two differing predator-avoidance strategies depend on nutritional state of the prey fish

scholarly article by Volker Huckstorf et al published 5 June 2009 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Plasticity in habitat use determines metabolic response of fish to global warming in stratified lakes

scientific article published on 4 March 2012

Population genetics of the African snakehead fish <i>Parachanna obscura</i> along West Africa's water networks: Implications for sustainable management and conservation

scientific article published in January 2023

Population response of pelagic fishes (ciscoes, Coregonus spp.) to rapidly accelerated eutrophication of an originally oligotrophic deep lake

scientific article published on 15 March 2024

Predation and competition effects on the size diversity of aquatic communities

article

Reconciling the opposing effects of warming on phytoplankton biomass in 188 large lakes.

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Reconciling traditional inland fisheries management and sustainability in industrialized countries, with emphasis on Europe

article by Robert Arlinghaus et al published December 2002 in Fish and Fisheries

Reduction of nutrient loading, planktivore removal and piscivore stocking as tools in water quality management: The feldberger haussee biomanipulation project

scientific article published in 2003

Response of the residential piscivorous fish community to introduction of a new predator type in a mesotrophic lake

article

Short-term fish predation destroys resilience of zooplankton communities and prevents recovery of phytoplankton control by zooplankton grazing

scholarly article by Zeynep Ersoy et al published 2019 in PLOS ONE

Simulation of trait- and density-mediated indirect effects induced by piscivorous predators

scientific article published in 2005

Size Spectra of Pelagic Fish Populations in a Deep Lake—Methodological Comparison between Hydroacoustics and Midwater Trawling

scientific article published on 01 June 2021

Size diversity and species diversity relationships in fish assemblages of Western Palearctic lakes

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Size-dependent foraging niches of European Perch Perca fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) and North American Yellow Perch Perca flavescens (Mitchill, 1814)

article by Stefan M. Linzmaier et al published 15 October 2017 in Environmental Biology of Fishes

Socio-economic characterisation of specialised common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) anglers in Germany, and implications for inland fisheries management and eutrophication control

article

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of trophic variables in a deep lake as reflected by repeated singular samplings

article

Strong correspondence between gillnet catch per unit effort and hydroacoustically derived fish biomass in stratified lakes

scientific article published on 24 September 2012

Systematic deviations from linear size spectra of lake fish communities are correlated with predator-prey interactions and lake-use intensity

scientific article published in 2018

Temperature sensitivity of vertical distributions of zooplankton and planktivorous fish in a stratified lake

scientific article published on 21 September 2006

Temperature-related nocturnal vertical segregation of coexisting coregonids

scientific article published in 2010

Testing the devil's impact on southern Baltic and North Sea basins whitefish (Coregonus spp.) diversity

scientific article published in 2018

Testing the reliability and construct validity of a simple and inexpensive procedure to measure the use value of recreational fishing

scientific article published in 2004

The European freshwater landscape and hotspot areas of mass effects and regional connectivity

scientific article published in 2023

The effect of predation pressure and predator adaptive foraging on the relative importance of consumptive and non-consumptive predator net effects in a freshwater model system

scientific article published in 2014

The effect of temperature on mortality in small perch marked with coded wire tags

scientific article published in 2006

Top-down and bottom-up effects on zooplankton size distribution in a deep stratified lake

scientific article published in 2021

Trophic Transfer Efficiency in Lakes

scientific article published in 2022

Variation in flexural stiffness of the lepidotrichia within and among the soft fins of yellow perch under different preservation techniques

scientific article published on 08 June 2018

When no catches matter: Coping with zeros in environmental assessments

scientific article published in 2010

List of works by Thomas Mehner

A management-orientated comparative analysis of urban and rural anglers living in a metropolis (Berlin, Germany).

A test of food web hypotheses by exploring time series of fish, zooplankton and phytoplankton in an oligo-mesotrophic lake

Assessing the Utility of Hydrogen, Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes in Estimating Consumer Allochthony in Two Shallow Eutrophic Lakes

Behaviour in a standardized assay, but not metabolic or growth rate, predicts behavioural variation in an adult aquatic top predator Esox lucius in the wild

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

Biomanipulation of lake ecosystems: successful applications and expanding complexity in the underlying science

Can size distributions of European lake fish communities be predicted by trophic positions of their fish species?

Capacity challenges in water quality monitoring: understanding the role of human development

Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-based Solutions

Coexistence of behavioural types in an aquatic top predator: a response to resource limitation?

Comparison of fish size spectra obtained from hydroacoustics and gillnets across seven European natural lakes

Comparison of losses of planktivorous fish by predation and seine-fishing in a lake undergoing long-term biomanipulation

Consumer-resource stoichiometry as a predictor of trophic discrimination (Δ13 C, Δ15 N) in aquatic invertebrates

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

Coupling insights from a carp, Cyprinus carpio, angler survey with feeding experiments to evaluate composition, quality and phosphorus input of groundbait in coarse fishing

Density-dependent effects as key drivers of intraspecific size structure of six abundant fish species in lakes across Europe

Determinants of habitat use in large roach

Determinants of management preferences of recreational anglers in Germany: Habitat management versus fish stocking

Development of a fish-based index to assess the eutrophication status of European lakes

Documented and Potential Biological Impacts of Recreational Fishing: Insights for Management and Conservation

Ecological commonalities among pelagic fishes: comparison of freshwater ciscoes and marine herring and sprat

Ecological conditions drive pace-of-life syndromes by shaping relationships between life history, physiology and behaviour in two populations of Eastern mosquitofish

Effects of fish predation on density and size spectra of prey fish communities in lakes

Effects of piscivore-mediated habitat use on growth, diet and zooplankton consumption of roach: an individual-based modelling approach

Effects of predation pressure and resource use on morphological divergence in omnivorous prey fish.

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

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

Environmental and spatial determinants of fish community structure in an Afro‐tropical river ecosystem

European fish-based assessment reveals high diversity of systems for determining ecological status of lakes

Evidence for independent origin of two spring-spawning ciscoes (Salmoniformes: Coregonidae) in Germany

Exploring ultimate hypotheses to predict diel vertical migrations in coregonid fish

Feeding Aquatic Ecosystems: Whole-Lake Experimental Addition of Angler’s Ground Bait Strongly Affects Omnivorous Fish Despite Low Contribution to Lake Carbon Budget

Fish diversity in European lakes: geographical factors dominate over anthropogenic pressures

Fishermen’s perceptions and experiences toward the impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on freshwater fish biodiversity in Côte d’Ivoire

Genetic mixing from enhancement stocking in commercially exploited vendace populations

Genetic population structure of sympatric and allopatric populations of Baltic ciscoes (Coregonus albula complex, Teleostei, Coregonidae).

Genetic relationships between sympatric and allopatric Coregonus ciscoes in North and Central Europe

Geographical patterns in the body-size structure of European lake fish assemblages along abiotic and biotic gradients

High stock density impairs growth, female condition and fecundity, but not quality of early reproductive stages in vendace (Coregonus albula)

How to link biomanipulation and sustainable fisheries management: a step-by-step guideline for lakes of the European temperate zone

Hydroacoustic estimates of fish densities in comparison with stratified pelagic trawl sampling in two deep, coregonid-dominated lakes

Impacts of climate warming on the long-term dynamics of key fish species in 24 European lakes

Initiation of the midsummer decline of Daphnia as related to predation, non-consumptive mortality and recruitment: a balance

Intraspecific temperature dependence of the scaling of metabolic rate with body mass in fishes and its ecological implications

Is ecological segregation in a pair of sympatric coregonines supported by divergent feeding efficiencies?

Lake depth alters the trajectory of ontogenetic niche shifts in Eurasian perch (<i>Perca fluviatilis</i>) in small lakes

Metadata of European Lake Fishes Dataset

Model‐based decomposition of environmental, spatial and species‐interaction effects on the community structure of common fish species in 772 European lakes

Morphological differences between two ecologically similar sympatric fishes.

Morphological variation of African snakehead (Parachanna obscura) populations along climate and habitat gradients in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa

Non-native Fish Occurrence and Biomass in 1943 Western Palearctic Lakes and Reservoirs and their Abiotic and Biotic Correlates

Partial diel vertical migrations in pelagic fish

Pelagic trophic transfer efficiency in an oligotrophic, dimictic deep lake (Lake Stechlin, Germany) and its relation to fisheries yield

Performance level and efficiency of two differing predator-avoidance strategies depend on nutritional state of the prey fish

Plasticity in habitat use determines metabolic response of fish to global warming in stratified lakes

Population genetics of the African snakehead fish <i>Parachanna obscura</i> along West Africa's water networks: Implications for sustainable management and conservation

Population response of pelagic fishes (ciscoes, Coregonus spp.) to rapidly accelerated eutrophication of an originally oligotrophic deep lake

Predation and competition effects on the size diversity of aquatic communities

Reconciling the opposing effects of warming on phytoplankton biomass in 188 large lakes.

Reconciling traditional inland fisheries management and sustainability in industrialized countries, with emphasis on Europe

Reduction of nutrient loading, planktivore removal and piscivore stocking as tools in water quality management: The feldberger haussee biomanipulation project

Response of the residential piscivorous fish community to introduction of a new predator type in a mesotrophic lake

Short-term fish predation destroys resilience of zooplankton communities and prevents recovery of phytoplankton control by zooplankton grazing

Simulation of trait- and density-mediated indirect effects induced by piscivorous predators

Size Spectra of Pelagic Fish Populations in a Deep Lake—Methodological Comparison between Hydroacoustics and Midwater Trawling

Size diversity and species diversity relationships in fish assemblages of Western Palearctic lakes

Size-dependent foraging niches of European Perch Perca fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) and North American Yellow Perch Perca flavescens (Mitchill, 1814)

Socio-economic characterisation of specialised common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) anglers in Germany, and implications for inland fisheries management and eutrophication control

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of trophic variables in a deep lake as reflected by repeated singular samplings

Strong correspondence between gillnet catch per unit effort and hydroacoustically derived fish biomass in stratified lakes

Systematic deviations from linear size spectra of lake fish communities are correlated with predator-prey interactions and lake-use intensity

Temperature sensitivity of vertical distributions of zooplankton and planktivorous fish in a stratified lake

Temperature-related nocturnal vertical segregation of coexisting coregonids

Testing the devil's impact on southern Baltic and North Sea basins whitefish (Coregonus spp.) diversity

Testing the reliability and construct validity of a simple and inexpensive procedure to measure the use value of recreational fishing

The European freshwater landscape and hotspot areas of mass effects and regional connectivity

The effect of predation pressure and predator adaptive foraging on the relative importance of consumptive and non-consumptive predator net effects in a freshwater model system

The effect of temperature on mortality in small perch marked with coded wire tags

Top-down and bottom-up effects on zooplankton size distribution in a deep stratified lake