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List of works by Robert Ptacnik

A compendium of cell and natural unit biovolumes for >1200 freshwater phytoplankton species

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A light-induced shortcut in the planktonic microbial loop

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

A process-based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

A process-based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology

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AQUACOSM-plus: an International Network for Aquatic Mesocosm Facilities Supporting Experimental Ecosystem Studies and cross-disciplinary RI- RI collaborations

Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes

scientific article published on 3 May 2022

Against the tide: Recent diversity increase enhances resource use in a coastal ecosystem

scientific article published in 2014

Biodiversity effects on plant stoichiometry

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

scientific article published in 2017

Challenges and prospects for interpreting long-term phytoplankton diversity changes in Lake Zurich (Switzerland)

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Chytrids alleviate the harmful effect of heat and cyanobacteria diet on <i>Daphnia</i> via PUFA-upgrading

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published in December 2009

Disentangling metacommunity processes using multiple metrics in space and time

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

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Diversity predicts stability and resource use efficiency in natural phytoplankton communities.

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Ecological threshold responses in European lakes and their applicability for the Water Framework Directive (WFD) implementation: synthesis of lakes results from the REBECCA project

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

Effects of light availability on mixotrophy and microzooplankton grazing in an oligotrophic plankton food web: Evidences from a mesocosm study in Eastern Mediterranean waters

scientific article published in 2012

Energy--dependent bacterivory in Ochromonas minima--a strategy promoting the use of substitutable resources and survival at insufficient light supply

scientific article published on 13 July 2006

Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: Inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps

scientific article published in 2019

Environmental variability in aquatic ecosystems: Avenues for future multifactorial experiments

scientific article published in 2022

Food spectrum of Branchinecta orientalis—are anostracans omnivorous top consumers of plankton in temporary waters?

scientific article published on 30 May 2018

Freshwater phytoplankton diversity: models, drivers and implications for ecosystem properties

scientific article published on 04 July 2020

Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world

scientific article published in May 2022

From adverse to beneficial: Contrasting dietary effects of freshwater mixotrophs on zooplankton

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

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Functional richness outperforms taxonomic richness in predicting ecosystem functioning in natural phytoplankton communities

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

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

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Grazing resistance and poor food quality of a widespread mixotroph impair zooplankton secondary production

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Habitat loss over six decades accelerates regional and local biodiversity loss via changing landscape connectance

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Heterotrophic flagellates increase microalgal biomass yield

How pondscapes function: connectivity matters for biodiversity even across small spatial scales in aquatic metacommunities

scientific article published in December 2023

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

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Life-history omnivory in the fairy shrimp (Branchiopoda: Anostraca)

scientific article published in 2023

Light-induced changes on the feeding behaviour of the calanoid copepod Clausocalanus furcatus (Brady, 1883): evidence from a mesocosm study

Light‐dependent niche differentiation in two mixotrophic bacterivores

scientific article published in 2022

Microbial stowaways: Waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro‐ and microeukaryotic communities

scientific article published in 2022

Mucilage protects the planktonic desmid <i>Staurodesmus</i> sp. against parasite attack by a chytrid fungus

scientific article published in 2022

Oligopeptide chemotypes of the toxic freshwater cyanobacterium Planktothrix can form sub-populations with dissimilar ecological traits

scientific article published on 16 November 2010

Opposing patterns of zooplankton diversity and functioning along a natural stress gradient: when the going gets tough, the tough get going

scientific article published in 2013

Parasitic Chytrids Upgrade and Convey Primary Produced Carbon During Inedible Algae Proliferation

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Phytoplankton Species Richness along Coastal and Estuarine Salinity Continua

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Plankton metacommunities in floodplain wetlands under contrasting hydrological conditions.

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

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Pleistocene allopatric differentiation followed by recent range expansion explains the distribution and molecular diversity of two congeneric crustacean species in the Palaearctic

scientific article published in 2021

Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton communities along coastal salinity continua

scientific article published in 2022

Quantitative responses of lake phytoplankton to eutrophication in Northern Europe

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

REBECCA databases: experiences from compilation and analyses of monitoring data from 5,000 lakes in 20 European countries

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

Regional and fine-scale local adaptation in salinity tolerance in Daphnia inhabiting contrasting clusters of inland saline waters

scientific article published in 2024

Regional species pools control community saturation in lake phytoplankton.

scientific article published on 14 July 2010

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

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Seston Fatty Acid Responses to Physicochemical Changes in Subalpine Lake Lunz, Austria

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

Snapshot Surveys for Lake Monitoring, More Than a Shot in the Dark

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Spatial insurance against a heatwave differs between trophic levels in experimental aquatic communities

scientific article published on 7 April 2023

The effect of a mixotrophic chrysophyte on toxic and colony-forming cyanobacteria

scientific article published in September 2009

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

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Trophic switches in pelagic systems

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Wartime scars or reservoirs of biodiversity? The value of bomb crater ponds in aquatic conservation

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Wind dispersal results in a gradient of dispersal limitation and environmental match among discrete aquatic habitats.

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Zooplankton communities and Bythotrephes longimanus in lakes of the montane region of the northern Alps.

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Zooplankton communities and in lakes of the montane region of the northern Alps

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