Bernd Blasius

Publications

My publications, preprints, and scientific reports.

Climate change will displace habitats prioritised for marine protected areas in the high seas

C Reddin, Á Kocsis, S Berends, B Blasius, JC Dajka, J Freund, H Hillebrand, T Kaur, W Kiessling, M Kucera, L Meysick, B Siebenhuener, I Smith, T Strack, T Grothmann, M Rillo, L Jonkers| Research Square (2026)

A growth-maintenance tradeoff determines nutrient-limited growth in phytoplankton

R Ranjan, A Ryabov, K Halsey, H Hillebrand, MK Thomas, B Blasius| arXiv:2107.13792 (2026)

Network Flow Methods for NMR-Based Compound Identification

L Lücken, N Mitschke, T Dittmar, B Blasius| Analytical Chemistry 97:4832-40 (2025)

Mechanisms underpinning the net removal rates of dissolved organic carbon in the global ocean

ST Lennartz, DP Keller, A Oschlies, B Blasius, T Dittmar| Global Biogeochemical Cycles 38: e2023GB007912 (2024)

Driving forces of Antarctic krill abundance

A Ryabov, U Berger, B Blasius, B Meyer| Science Advances 9: eadh4584 (2023)

Estimation of functional diversity and species traits from ecological monitoring data

A Ryabov, B Blasius, H Hillebrand, I Olenina, T Gross| PNAS 119: e2118156119 (2022)

Predicting performance of naïve migratory animals, from many wrongs to self-correction

JD McLaren, H Schmaljohann, B Blasius| Communications Biology 5: 1058 (2022)

Dynamic scaling and stochastic fractal in nucleation and growth processes

A Lahiri, M Kamrul Hassan, B Blasius, J Kurths| Chaos 32: 093124 (2022)

The Gossip Paradox: why do bacteria share genes?

A Jamieson-Lane, B Blasius| Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 19: 5482-5508 (2022)

Growth, organic matter release, aggregation and recycling during a diatom bloom: a model-based analysis of a mesocosm experiment

O Kerimoglu, NH Hintz, L Lücken, B Blasius, L Böttcher, C Bunse, T Dittmar, B Heyerhoff, C Mori, M Striebel, M Simon| bioRxiv 18: 2022-05 (2022)

Comparing Optimization Criteria in Antibiotic Allocation Protocols

A Jamieson-Lane, A Friedrich, B Blasius| Royal Society Open Science 9: 220181 (2022)

Emergent Diversity and Persistent Turnover in Evolving Microbial Cross-Feeding Networks

L Luecken, ST Lennartz, J Froehlich, B Blasius| Frontiers in Network Physiology 2: 834057 (2022)

Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient

M Mohammed, B Blasius, A Ryabov| Theoretical Ecology 15: 51-63 (2022)

Enigmatic persistence of dissolved organic matter in the oceans

T Dittmar, S Lennartz, H Buck-Wiese, D Hansell, C Santinelli, C Vanni, B Blasius, J-H Hehemann| Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2: 570-583 (2021)

Functional trait dimensions of trophic metacommunities

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| Ecography 44: 1486-1500 (2021)

Optimal Planting Distance in a Simple Model of Habitat Restoration With an Allee Effect

L Hammann, B Silliman, B Blasius| Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 1248 (2021)

Diminished growth and vitality in juvenile Hydractinia echinata under anticipated future temperature and variable nutrient conditions

D Tschink D, G Gerlach, M Winklhofer, C Kohlmeier, B Blasius, L Eickelmann, Y Schadewell, J Strahl| Scientific Reports 11: 1-4 (2021)

Optimal stock–enhancement of a spatially distributed renewable resource

T Upmann, H Uecker, L Hammann, B Blasius| Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 123, 104060 (2021)

Shape matters: the relationship between cell geometry and diversity in phytoplankton

A Ryabov, O Kerimoglu, E Litchman, I Olenina, L Roselli, A Basset, E Stanca, B Blasius| Ecology Letters 24: 847-861 (2021)

Calculation of epidemic arrival time distributions using branching processes

A Jamieson-Lane, B Blasius| Physical Review E, 102: 042301 (2020)

Microbial physiology governs the oceanic distribution of dissolved organic carbon in a scenario of equal degradability

A Mentges, C Deutsch, C Feenders, ST Lennartz, B Blasius, T Dittmar| Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 732 (2020)

Modern models of trophic meta-communities

T Gross, KT Allhoff, B Blasius, U Brose, B Drossel, AK Fahimipour, C Guill, JD Yeakel, F Zeng| Philosophical Transactions B, 375, 20190455 (2020)

Mid-domain effect for food chain length in a colonization-extinction model

K von Prillwitz, B Blasius| Theoretical Ecology (2020)

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

B Blasius, L Rudolf, G Weithoff, U Gaedke & GF Fussmann| Nature 577, 226–230 (2020)

Length–volume relationship of lake phytoplankton

U Mittler, B Blasius, U Gaedke, AB Ryabov| Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 17, 58-68 (2019)

Trait correlation network analysis identifies biomass allocation traits and stem specific length as hub traits in herbaceous perennial plants

M Kleyer, J Trinogga, MA Cebrián‐Piqueras, A Trenkamp, C Fløjgaard, R Ejrnæs, TJ Bouma, V Minden, M Maier, J Mantilla‐Contreras, DC Albach| Journal of Ecology 107: 829-842 (2019)

Long-term stability of marine dissolved organic carbon emerges from a neutral network of compounds and microbes

A Mentges, C Feenders, C Deutsch, B Blasius, T Dittmar| Scientific Reports 9:1-3 (2019)

Non-native species spread in a complex network, the interaction of global transport and local population dynamics determines invasion success

H Seebens, E Briski, S Ghabooli, T Shiganova, HJ MacIsaac, B Blasius| Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20190036 (2019)

Resource competition and species coexistence in a two-patch metaecosystem model

I Tsakalakis, B Blasius, A Ryabov| Theoretical Ecology 13: 209-221 (2019)

Amino Acid and Sugar Catabolism in the Marine Bacterium Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395 from an Energetic Viewpoint

D Wünsch, K Trautwein, S Scheve, C Hinrichs, C Feenders, B Blasius, D Schomburg, R Rabus| Applied and Environmental Microbiology 11 (2019)

A periodic Markov model to formalize animal migration on a network

A Kölzsch, E Kleyheeg, H Kruckenberg, M Kaatz, B Blasius| Royal Society Open Science 5, 180438 (2018)

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

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| FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94, fiy154 (2018)

Diel light cycle as a key factor for modelling phytoplankton biogeography and diversity

I Tsakalakis, M Pahlow, A Oschlies, B Blasius, AB Ryabov| Ecological Modelling 384, 241-248 (2018)

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

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| Journal of Applied Ecology, 55, 169-84 (2018)

Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools

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.| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, E2264-73 (2018)

The intermediate distance hypothesis of biological invasions

H Seebens, F Essl, B Blasius| Ecology Letters 20, 158-165 (2017)

Complementary metaproteomic approaches to assess the bacterioplankton response toward a phytoplankton spring bloom in the Southern North Sea

L Wöhlbrand, B Wemheuer, C Feenders, HS Ruppersberg, C Hinrichs, B Blasius, R Daniel, R Rabus| Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 442 (2017)

Robustness of metacommunities with omnivory to habitat destruction: disentangling patch fragmentation from patch loss

J Liao, D Bearup, Y Wang, I Nijs, D Bonte, Y Li, U Brose, S Wang, B Blasius| Ecology 98, 1631-9 (2017)

Diverse responses of species to landscape fragmentation in a simple food chain

J Liao, D Bearup, B Blasius| Journal of Animal Ecology 86, 1169-78 (2017)

Food web persistence in fragmented landscapes

J Liao, D Bearup, B Blasius| Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, 20170350 (2017)

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

K Trautwein, C Feenders, R Hulsch, HS Ruppersberg, A Strijkstra, M Kant, J Vagts, D Wünsch, B Michalke, M Maczka, S Schulz| FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93, fix059 (2017)

Determining selection across heterogeneous landscapes: A perturbation-based method and its application to modeling evolution in space

J Wickman, S Diehl, B Blasius, CA Klausmeier, AB Ryabov, Å Brännström| The American Naturalist 189, 381-95 (2017)

Functional molecular diversity of marine dissolved organic matter is reduced during degradation

A Mentges, C Feenders, M Seibt, B Blasius, T Dittmar| Frontiers in Marine Science, 4, 194 (2017)

Competition-induced starvation drives large-scale population cycles in Antarctic krill

AB Ryabov, AM de Roos, B Meyer, S Kawaguchi, B Blasius| Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 0177 (2017)

No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide

H Seebens, TM Blackburn, EE Dyer, P Genovesi, PE Hulme, JM Jeschke, S Pagad, P Pyšek, M Winter, M Arianoutsou, S Bacher, B Blasius, ...| Nature Communications 8, 14435 (2017)

High performance CCD camera system for digitalisation of 2D DIGE gels

A Strijkstra, K Trautwein, S Roesler, C Feenders, D Danzer, U Riemenschneider, B Blasius, R Rabus| Proteomics 16: 1975-9 (2016)

Pattern formation with repulsive soft-core interactions: Discrete particle dynamics and Dean-Kawasaki equation

JB Delfau, H Ollivier, C López, B Blasius, E Hernández-García| Physical Review E, 94, 042120 (2016)

Unifying ecological stoichiometry and metabolic theory to predict production and trophic transfer in a marine planktonic food web

SD Moorthi, JA Schmitt, AB Ryabov, I Tsakalakis, B Blasius, L Prelle, M Tiedemann, D Hodapp| Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371: 20150270 (2016)

A new dimension: Evolutionary food web dynamics in two dimensional trait space

D Ritterskamp, D Bearup, B Blasius| Journal of Theoretical Biology, 405, 66-81 (2016)

Emergence of evolutionary cycles in size-structured food webs

D Ritterskamp, D Bearup, B Blasius| Journal of Theoretical Biology, 408, 187-197 (2016)

Evolutionary food web models: effects of an additional resource

D Ritterskamp, C Feenders, D Bearup, B Blasius| Theoretical Ecology, 9, 501-512 (2016)

Native plasmids restrict growth of Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395: energetic costs of plasmids assessed by quantitative physiological analyses

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| Environmental Microbiology 18: 4817-4829 (2016)

Predicting the spread of marine species introduced by global shipping

H Seebens, N Schwartz, PJ Schupp, B Blasius| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 5646-5651 (2016)

Imperfect prey selectivity of predators promotes biodiversity and irregularity in food web

AB Ryabov, A Morozov, B Blasius| Ecology Letters 18, 1262-9 (2015)

Motif analysis in directed ordered networks and applications to food webs

PV Paulau, C Feenders, B Blasius| Scientific Reports 5, 11926 (2015)

Enhanced Moran effect by spatial variation in environmental autocorrelation

TM Massie, G Weithoff, N Kuckländer, U Gaedke, B Blasius| Nature Communications 6, 5993 (2015)

Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change

H Seebens, F Essl, W Dawson, N Fuentes, D Moser, J Pergl, P Pyšek, M van Kleunen, E Weber, M Winter, B Blasius| Global Change Biology 21, 4128-4140 (2015)

Depth of the biomass maximum affects the rules of resource competition in a water column

AB Ryabov, B Blasius| The American Naturalist 184, E132-46. (2014)

Sanctions as honest signals–the evolution of pool punishment by public sanctioning institutions

S Schoenmakers, C Hilbe, B Blasius, A Traulsen| Journal of Theoretical Biology 356: 36-46 (2014)

Make your trappings count: the mathematics of pest insect monitoring

B Blasius| Physics of Life Reviews 11: 531-532 (2014)

The risk of marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping

H Seebens, MT Gastner, B Blasius, F Courchamp| Ecology Letters 16, 782-790 (2013)

Subcellular protein localization (cell envelope) in Phaeobacter inhibens DSM 17395

S Koßmehl, L Wöhlbrand, K Drüppel, C Feenders, B Blasius, R Rabus| Proteomics 13: 2743-2760 (2013)

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

TM Massie, A Ryabov, B Blasius, G Weithoff, U Gaedke| The American Naturalist 182: 103-119 (2013)

Physiological and proteomic adaptation of Aromatoleum aromaticum EbN1 to low growth rates in benzoate-limited, anoxic chemostats

K Trautwein, S Lahme, L Wöhlbrand, C Feenders, K Mangelsdorf, J Harder, A Steinbüchel, B Blasius, R Reinhardt, R Rabus| Journal of Bacteriology 194: 2165-2180 (2012)

Consequences of fluctuating group size for the evolution of cooperation

Å Brännström, T Gross, B Blasius, U Dieckmann| Journal of Mathematical Biology 63: 263-281 (2011)

Changes in the gradient percolation transition caused by an Allee effect

MT Gastner, B Oborny, AB Ryabov, B Blasius| Physical Review Letters 106: 128103 (2011)

Biological versus technical variability in 2‐D DIGE experiments with environmental bacteria

H Zech, C Echtermeyer, L Wöhlbrand, B Blasius, R Rabus| Proteomics 11: 3380-3389 (2011)

A graphical theory of competition on spatial resource gradients

AB Ryabov, B Blasius| Ecology Letters 14, 220-228 (2011)

Complexity in human transportation networks: a comparative analysis of worldwide air transportation and global cargo-ship movements

O Woolley-Meza, C Thiemann, D Grady, JJ Lee, H Seebens, B Blasius, D Brockmann| European Physical Journal B 84: 589-600 (2011)

Frontiers in network science: advances and applications

B Blasius, D Brockmann| European Physical Journal B 84: 491–492 (2011)

Indications of marine bioinvasion from network theory: an analysis of the global cargo ship network.

A Kolzsch, B Blasius| European Physical Journal B 84: 601–612 (2011)

The complex network of global cargo ship movements

P Kaluza, A Kölzsch, MT Gastner, B Blasius| Journal of the Royal Society Interface 7, 1093-1103 (2010)

Vertical distribution and composition of phytoplankton under the influence of an upper mixed layer

AB Ryabov, L Rudolf, B Blasius| Journal of Theoretical Biology 263: 120-133 (2010)

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

TM Massie, B Blasius, G Weithoff, U Gaedke, GF Fussmann| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, 4236-4241 (2010)

Zipf’s law in the popularity distribution of chess openings

B Blasius, R Tönjes| Physical Review Letters 103: 218701 (2009)

Dynamic and topological interplay in adaptive networks

B Blasius, T Gross| Reviews of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity 2: 63-106 (2009)

Perturbation analysis of complete synchronization in networks of phase oscillators

R Tönjes, B Blasius| Physical Review E 80: 026202 (2009)

Coevolutionary motion and swarming in a niche space model of ecological species interactions

CJ Dommar, A Ryabov, B Blasius| European Physical Journal Special Topics 157: 223-238 (2008)

Universal occurrence of the phase-flip bifurcation in time-delay coupled systems

A Prasad, SK Dana, R Karnatak, J Kurths, B Blasius, R Ramaswamy| Chaos 18: 023111 (2008)

Active Motion and Swarming

U Erdmann, B Blasius, L Schimansky-Geier| The European Physical Journal Special Topics 157 (2008)

Theoretical approaches to bird migration: The white stork as a case study

A Kölzsch, B Blasius| The European Physical Journal Special Topics 157: 191-208 (2008)

Population growth and persistence in a heterogeneous environment: the role of diffusion and advection

AB Ryabov, B Blasius| Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena 3: 42-86 (2008)

Adaptive coevolutionary networks: a review

T Gross, B Blasius| Journal of the Royal Society Interface 5, 259-271 (2007)

Generalized models–A new tool for the investigation of ecological systems

T Gross, M Baurmann, U Feudel, B Blasius| World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems: 21-48 (2007)

Seasonal forcing drives spatio-temporal pattern formation in rabies epidemics

NV Festenberg, T Gross, B Blasius| Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena 2: 63-73 (2007)

From structure to dynamics of metabolic pathways: application to the plant mitochondrial TCA cycle

R Steuer, AN Nesi, AR Fernie, T Gross, B Blasius, J Selbig| Bioinformatics 23: 1378-1385 (2007)

Predator-prey oscillations, synchronization and pattern formation in ecological systems

R Tönjes, B Blasius| World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems: 397-427 (2007)

Wave mediated synchronization of nonuniform oscillatory media

OU Kheowan, E Mihaliuk, B Blasius, I Sendina-Nadal, K Showalter| Physical Review Letters 98, 074101 (2007)

Structural kinetic modeling of metabolic networks

R Steuer, T Gross, J Selbig, B Blasius| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103, 11868-11873 (2006)

Epidemic dynamics on an adaptive network

T Gross, CJD D’Lima, B Blasius| Physical Review Letters 96, 208701 (2006)

Host-finding behaviour and navigation capabilities of symbiotic zooxanthellae

Z Pasternak, B Blasius, A Abelson, Y Achituv| Coral Reefs 25: 201-207 (2006)

Quasiregular concentric waves in heterogeneous lattices of coupled oscillators

B Blasius, R Tönjes| Physical Review Letters 95, 084101 (2005)

A model for seasonal phytoplankton blooms

A Huppert, B Blasius, R Olinky, L Stone| Journal of Theoretical Biology 236: 276-290 (2005)

Extinction risk, coloured noise and the scaling of variance

MC Wichmann, K Johst, M Schwager, B Blasius, F Jeltsch| Theoretical Population Biology 68: 29-40 (2005)

Defect-enhanced anomaly in frequency synchronization of asymmetrically coupled spatially extended systems

J Bragard, E Montbrio, C Mendoza, S Boccaletti, B Blasius| Physical Review E, 71: 025201 (2005)

Automatic control of phase synchronization in coupled complex oscillators

VN Belykh, GV Osipov, N Kuckländer, B Blasius, J Kurths| Physica D 200: 81-104 (2005)

Experiment on anomalous phase synchronization

SK Dana, B Blasius, J Kurths| Experimental Chaos 742: 69-74 (2004)

Community response to enrichment is highly sensitive to model structure

GF Fussmann, B Blasius| Biology Letters 1, 9-12 (2004)

Synchronization of two interacting populations of oscillators

E Montbrió, J Kurths, B Blasius| Physical Review E 70, 056125 (2004)

Host location in flow by larvae of the symbiotic barnacle Trevathana dentata using odour-gated rheotaxis

Z Pasternak, B Blasius, Y Achituv, A Abelson| Proceedings of the Royal Society B 271: 1745 (2004)

Host location by larvae of a parasitic barnacle: larval chemotaxis and plume tracking in flow

Z Pasternak, B Blasius, A Abelson| Journal of Plankton Research 26: 487-493 (2004)

Chaos in a periodically forced chemostat with algal mortality

S Clodong, B Blasius| Proceedings Royal Society B 271: 1617 (2004)

What minimal models can tell: A reply to van Nes and Scheffer

A Huppert, B Blasius, L Stone| The American Naturalist 163: 927-929 (2004)

Anomalous phase synchronization in populations of nonidentical oscillators

B Blasius, E Montbrió, J Kurths| Physical Review E 67, 035204 (2003)

Auxin transport synchronizes the pattern of cell division in a tobacco cell line

P Campanoni, B Blasius, P Nick| Plant Physiology 133: 1251-1260 (2003)

Phase synchronization in noisy oscillators with nonisochronicity

B Blasius, GC Rodrigues| Noise in Complex Systems and Stochastic Dynamics 5114: 278-288 (2003)

Jamming coverage in competitive random sequential adsorption of a binary mixture

MK Hassan, J Schmidt, B Blasius, J Kurths| Physical Review E 65: 045103 (2002)

A model of phytoplankton blooms

A Huppert, B Blasius, L Stone| The American Naturalist 159: 156-171 (2002)

Stochastic noise interferes coherently with a model biological clock and produces specific dynamic behaviour

F Beck, B Blasius, U Lüttge, R Neff, U Rascher| Proceedings Royal Society 268: 1307 (2001)

Categories of chaos and fractal basin boundaries in forced predator–prey models

J Vandermeer, L Stone, B Blasius| Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 12: 265-276 (2001)

Ecology: nonlinearity and the Moran effect

B Blasius, L Stone| Nature 406: 846 (2000)

Chaos and phase synchronization in ecological systems

B Blasius, L Stone| International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 10: 2361-2380 (2000)

Chaotic waves and phase synchronization in spatially extended ecological systems

B Blasius, L Stone| AIP Conference Proceedings, 502, No. 1, 221-225, American Institute of Physics (2000)

Complex dynamics and phase synchronization in spatially extended ecological systems

B Blasius, A Huppert, L Stone| Nature 399, 354-359 (1999)

Oscillatory model of crassulacean acid metabolism with a dynamic hysteresis switch

B Blasius, R Neff, F Beck| Proceedings of the Royal Society B 266: 93 (1999)

A model for photosynthetic oscillations in crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)

B Blasius, F Beck, U Lüttge| Journal of Theoretical Biology 184: 345-351 (1997)

Chiral Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory

B Blasius| Master thesis, TU-Darmstadt, Germany (1993)