Publications

ST Lennartz, DP Keller, A Oschlies, B Blasius, T Dittmar (2024) Mechanisms underpinning the net removal rates of dissolved organic carbon in the global ocean. GBC 38: e2023GB007912.
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A Ryabov, U Berger, B Blasius, B Meyer (2023) Driving forces of Antarctic krill abundance. Science Advances 9: eadh4584.
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JD McLaren, H Schmaljohann, B Blasius (2023) Gauge-and-compass migration: inherited magnetic headings and signposts can adapt to changing geomagnetic landscapes. Movement Ecology 11: 37.
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A Ryabov, B Blasius, H Hillebrand, I Olenina, T Gross (2022) Estimation of functional diversity and species traits from ecological monitoring data. PNAS 119: e2118156119.
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JD McLaren, H Schmaljohann, B Blasius (2022) Predicting performance of naïve migratory animals, from many wrongs to self-correction. Communications Biology 5: 1058.
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A Lahiri, M Kamrul Hassan, B Blasius, J Kurths (2022) Dynamic scaling and stochastic fractal in nucleation and growth processes. Chaos 32: 093124.
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A Jamieson-Lane, B Blasius (2022) The Gossip Paradox: why do bacteria share genes?. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 19: 5482-5508.
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O Kerimoglu, NH Hintz, L Lücken, B Blasius, L Böttcher, C Bunse, T Dittmar, B Heyerhoff, C Mori, M Striebel, M Simon (2022) Growth, organic matter release, aggregation and recycling during a diatom bloom: a model-based analysis of a mesocosm experiment. bioRxiv 18: 2022-05.
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A Jamieson-Lane, A Friedrich, B Blasius (2022) Comparing Optimization Criteria in Antibiotic Allocation Protocols. Royal Society Open Science 9: 220181.
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L Luecken, ST Lennartz, J Froehlich, B Blasius (2022) Emergent Diversity and Persistent Turnover in Evolving Microbial Cross-Feeding Networks. Frontiers in Network Physiology 2: 834057.
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M Mohammed, B Blasius, A Ryabov (2022) Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient. Theoretical Ecology 15: 51-63.
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A Jamieson-Lane, B Blasius (2021) Comment on 'Indirect Fitness Benefits Enable the Spread of Host Genes Promoting Costly Transfer of Beneficial Plasmids'. PLoS Biology 19: e3001449.
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T Dittmar, S Lennartz, H Buck-Wiese, D Hansell, C Santinelli, C Vanni, B Blasius, J-H Hehemann (2021) Enigmatic persistence of dissolved organic matter in the oceans. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2: 570-583.
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B Bauer, M Kleyer, DC Albach, B Blasius, U Brose, T Ferreira-Arruda, U Feudel, G Gerlach, C Hof, H Kreft, L Kuczynsk, K Lõhmus, S Moorthi, C Scherber, S Scheu, G Zotz, H Hillebrand (2021) Functional trait dimensions of trophic metacommunities. Ecography 44: 1486-1500.
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T Upmann, H Uecker, L Hammann, B Blasius (2021) Optimal stock–enhancement of a spatially distributed renewable resource. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 123, 104060.
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L Hammann, B Silliman, B Blasius (2021) Optimal Planting Distance in a Simple Model of Habitat Restoration With an Allee Effect. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 1248.
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D Tschink D, G Gerlach, M Winklhofer, C Kohlmeier, B Blasius, L Eickelmann, Y Schadewell, J Strahl (2021) Diminished growth and vitality in juvenile Hydractinia echinata under anticipated future temperature and variable nutrient conditions. Scientific Reports 11: 1-4.
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A Ryabov, O Kerimoglu, E Litchman, I Olenina, L Roselli, A Basset, E Stanca, B Blasius (2021) Shape matters: the relationship between cell geometry and diversity in phytoplankton. Ecology Letters 24: 847-861.
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A Mentges, C Deutsch, C Feenders, ST Lennartz, B Blasius, T Dittmar (2020) Microbial physiology governs the oceanic distribution of dissolved organic carbon in a scenario of equal degradability. Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 732.
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A Jamieson-Lane, B Blasius (2020) Calculation of epidemic arrival time distributions using branching processes. Physical Review E, 102: 042301.
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T Gross, KT Allhoff, B Blasius, U Brose, B Drossel, AK Fahimipour, C Guill, JD Yeakel, F Zeng (2020) Modern models of trophic meta-communities. Philosophical Transactions B, 375, 20190455.
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B Blasius (2020) Power-law distribution in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Chaos, 30, 093123.
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K von Prillwitz, B Blasius (2020) Mid-domain effect for food chain length in a colonization-extinction model. Theoretical Ecology.
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B Blasius, L Rudolf, G Weithoff, U Gaedke & GF Fussmann (2020) Long-term cyclic persistence in an experimental predator–prey system. Nature 577, 226–230.
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I Tsakalakis, B Blasius, A Ryabov (2020) Resource competition and species coexistence in a two-patch metaecosystem model. Theoretical Ecology 13: 209-221.
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U Mittler, B Blasius, U Gaedke, AB Ryabov (2019) Length–volume relationship of lake phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 17, 58-68.
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M Kleyer, J Trinogga, MA Cebrián‐Piqueras, A Trenkamp, C Fløjgaard, R Ejrnæs, TJ Bouma, V Minden, M Maier, J Mantilla‐Contreras, DC Albach (2019) Trait correlation network analysis identifies biomass allocation traits and stem specific length as hub traits in herbaceous perennial plants. Journal of Ecology 107: 829-842.
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H Seebens, E Briski, S Ghabooli, T Shiganova, HJ MacIsaac, B Blasius (2019) Non-native species spread in a complex network, the interaction of global transport and local population dynamics determines invasion success. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20190036.
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L Spruch, J Hellwig, G Zotz, B Blasius (2019) Modeling community assembly on growing habitat islands: a case study on trees and their vascular epiphyte communities. Theoretical Ecology 12, 513-529.
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A Mentges, C Feenders, C Deutsch, B Blasius, T Dittmar (2019) Long-term stability of marine dissolved organic carbon emerges from a neutral network of compounds and microbes. Scientific Reports 9:1-3.
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D Wünsch, K Trautwein, S Scheve, C Hinrichs, C Feenders, B Blasius, D Schomburg, R Rabus (2019) Amino Acid and Sugar Catabolism in the Marine Bacterium Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395 from an Energetic Viewpoint. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 11.
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A Kölzsch, E Kleyheeg, H Kruckenberg, M Kaatz, B Blasius (2018) A periodic Markov model to formalize animal migration on a network. Royal Society Open Science 5, 180438.
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K Trautwein, M Hensler, K Wiegmann, E Skorubskaya, L Wöhlbrand, D Wünsch, C Hinrichs, C Feenders, C Müller, K Schell, H Ruppersberg, J Vagts, S Koßmehl, A Steinbüchel, P Schmidt-Kopplin, H Wilkes, H Hillebrand, B Blasius, D Schomburg, R Rabus (2018) The marine bacterium Phaeobacter inhibens secures external ammonium by rapid buildup of intracellular nitrogen stocks. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94, fiy154.
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I Tsakalakis, M Pahlow, A Oschlies, B Blasius, AB Ryabov (2018) Diel light cycle as a key factor for modelling phytoplankton biogeography and diversity. Ecological Modelling 384, 241-248.
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H Hillebrand, B Blasius, ET Borer, JM Chase, JA Downing, BK Eriksson, CT Filstrup, WS Harpole, D Hodapp, S Larsen, AM Lewandowska, EW Seabloom, DB Van de Waal, AB Ryabov (2018) Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55, 169-84.
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H Seebens, TM Blackburn, EE Dyer, P Genovesi, PE Hulme, JM Jeschke, S Pagad, P Pyšek, M van Kleunen, M Winter, M Ansong, M Arianoutsou, S Bacher, B Blasius, et al. (2018) Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, E2264-73.
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H Seebens, F Essl, B Blasius (2017) The intermediate distance hypothesis of biological invasions. Ecology Letters 20, 158-165.
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L Wöhlbrand, R Rabus, B Blasius, C Feenders (2017) Influence of nanoLC column and gradient length as well as MS/MS frequency and sample complexity on shotgun protein identification of marine bacteria. Microbial Physiology, 27, 199-212..
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L Wöhlbrand, B Wemheuer, C Feenders, HS Ruppersberg, C Hinrichs, B Blasius, R Daniel, R Rabus (2017) Complementary metaproteomic approaches to assess the bacterioplankton response toward a phytoplankton spring bloom in the Southern North Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 442.
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J Wickman, S Diehl, B Blasius, CA Klausmeier, AB Ryabov, Å Brännström (2017) Determining selection across heterogeneous landscapes: A perturbation-based method and its application to modeling evolution in space. The American Naturalist 189, 381-95.
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K Trautwein, C Feenders, R Hulsch, HS Ruppersberg, A Strijkstra, M Kant, J Vagts, D Wünsch, B Michalke, M Maczka, S Schulz (2017) Non-Redfield, nutrient synergy and flexible internal elemental stoichiometry in a marine bacterium. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93, fix059.
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J Liao, D Bearup, Y Wang, I Nijs, D Bonte, Y Li, U Brose, S Wang, B Blasius (2017) Robustness of metacommunities with omnivory to habitat destruction: disentangling patch fragmentation from patch loss. Ecology 98, 1631-9.
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J Liao, D Bearup, B Blasius (2017) Food web persistence in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, 20170350.
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J Liao, D Bearup, B Blasius (2017) Diverse responses of species to landscape fragmentation in a simple food chain. Journal of Animal Ecology 86, 1169-78.
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D Bearup, B Blasius (2017) Ecotone formation induced by the effects of tidal flooding: A conceptual model of the mud flat-coastal wetland ecosystem. Ecological Complexity 32, 217-227.
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A Mentges, C Feenders, M Seibt, B Blasius, T Dittmar (2017) Functional molecular diversity of marine dissolved organic matter is reduced during degradation. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4, 194.
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AB Ryabov, AM de Roos, B Meyer, S Kawaguchi, B Blasius (2017) Competition-induced starvation drives large-scale population cycles in Antarctic krill. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 0177.
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H Seebens, TM Blackburn, EE Dyer, P Genovesi, PE Hulme, JM Jeschke, S Pagad, P Pyšek, M Winter, M Arianoutsou, S Bacher, B Blasius, … (2017) No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide. Nature Communications 8, 14435.
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A Strijkstra, K Trautwein, S Roesler, C Feenders, D Danzer, U Riemenschneider, B Blasius, R Rabus (2016) High performance CCD camera system for digitalisation of 2D DIGE gels. Proteomics 16: 1975-9.
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JB Delfau, H Ollivier, C López, B Blasius, E Hernández-García (2016) Pattern formation with repulsive soft-core interactions: Discrete particle dynamics and Dean-Kawasaki equation. Physical Review E, 94, 042120.
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SD Moorthi, JA Schmitt, AB Ryabov, I Tsakalakis, B Blasius, L Prelle, M Tiedemann, D Hodapp (2016) Unifying ecological stoichiometry and metabolic theory to predict production and trophic transfer in a marine planktonic food web. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371: 20150270.
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D Ritterskamp, D Bearup, B Blasius (2016) A new dimension: Evolutionary food web dynamics in two dimensional trait space. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 405, 66-81.
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D Ritterskamp, D Bearup, B Blasius (2016) Emergence of evolutionary cycles in size-structured food webs. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 408, 187-197.
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D Hodapp, H Hillebrand, B Blasius, AB Ryabov (2016) Environmental and trait variability constrain community structure and the biodiversity‐productivity relationship. Ecology 97:1463-74.
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D Ritterskamp, C Feenders, D Bearup, B Blasius (2016) Evolutionary food web models: effects of an additional resource. Theoretical Ecology, 9, 501-512.
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K Trautwein, SE Will, R Hulsch, U Maschmann, K Wiegmann, M Hensler, V Michael, H Ruppersberg, D Wünsch, C Feenders, M Neumann-Schaal, S Kaltenhäuser, M Ulbrich, K Schmidt-Hohagen, B Blasius, J Petersen, Schomburg, R Rabus (2016) Native plasmids restrict growth of Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395: energetic costs of plasmids assessed by quantitative physiological analyses. Environmental Microbiology 18: 4817-4829.
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L Wöhlbrand, HS Ruppersberg, C Feenders, B Blasius, HP Braun, R Rabus (2016) Analysis of membrane–protein complexes of the marine sulfate reducer Desulfobacula toluolica Tol2 by 1D blue native‐PAGE complexome profiling and 2D blue native‐/SDS‐PAGE. Proteomics 16: 973-88.
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H Seebens, N Schwartz, PJ Schupp, B Blasius (2016) Predicting the spread of marine species introduced by global shipping. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 5646-5651.
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AB Ryabov, A Morozov, B Blasius (2015) Imperfect prey selectivity of predators promotes biodiversity and irregularity in food web. Ecology Letters 18, 1262-9.
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PV Paulau, C Feenders, B Blasius (2015) Motif analysis in directed ordered networks and applications to food webs. Scientific Reports 5, 11926.
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H Seebens, F Essl, W Dawson, N Fuentes, D Moser, J Pergl, P Pyšek, M van Kleunen, E Weber, M Winter, B Blasius (2015) Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change. Global Change Biology 21, 4128-4140.
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TM Massie, G Weithoff, N Kuckländer, U Gaedke, B Blasius (2015) Enhanced Moran effect by spatial variation in environmental autocorrelation. Nature Communications 6, 5993.
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AB Ryabov, B Blasius (2014) Depth of the biomass maximum affects the rules of resource competition in a water column. The American Naturalist 184, E132-46..
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H Seebens, MT Gastner, B Blasius, F Courchamp (2013) The risk of marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping. Ecology Letters 16, 782-790.
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AB Ryabov, B Blasius (2011) A graphical theory of competition on spatial resource gradients. Ecology Letters 14, 220-228.
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P Kaluza, A Kölzsch, MT Gastner, B Blasius (2010) The complex network of global cargo ship movements. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 7, 1093-1103.
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TM Massie, B Blasius, G Weithoff, U Gaedke, GF Fussmann (2010) Cycles, phase synchronization, and entrainment in single-species phytoplankton populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, 4236-4241.
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B Blasius, R Tönjes (2009) Zipf’s law in the popularity distribution of chess openings. Physical Review Letters 103, 218701.
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T Gross, B Blasius (2007) Adaptive coevolutionary networks: a review. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 5, 259-271.
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OU Kheowan, E Mihaliuk, B Blasius, I Sendina-Nadal, K Showalter (2007) Wave mediated synchronization of nonuniform oscillatory media. Physical Review Letters 98, 074101.
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R Steuer, T Gross, J Selbig, B Blasius (2006) Structural kinetic modeling of metabolic networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, 11868-11873.
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T Gross, CJD D’Lima, B Blasius (2006) Epidemic dynamics on an adaptive network. Physical Review Letters 96, 208701.
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B Blasius, R Tönjes (2005) Quasiregular concentric waves in heterogeneous lattices of coupled oscillators. Physical Review Letters 95, 084101.
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GF Fussmann, B Blasius (2005) Community response to enrichment is highly sensitive to model structure. Biology Letters 1, 9-12.
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E Montbrió, J Kurths, B Blasius (2004) Synchronization of two interacting populations of oscillators. Physical Review E 70, 056125.
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B Blasius, E Montbrió, J Kurths (2003) Anomalous phase synchronization in populations of nonidentical oscillators. Physical Review E 67, 035204.
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B Blasius, A Huppert, L Stone (1999) Complex dynamics and phase synchronization in spatially extended ecological systems. Nature 399, 354-359.
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