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Dietmar Straile is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their research focuses on environmental science, particularly related to aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, which constitute a major part of their work.

The main fields of study for Straile include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with more specialized subfields in Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science.

Key topics in their research encompass a variety of aquatic and ecological themes:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Diatoms and Algae Research

Straile has published several notable papers, including:

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world's large lakes, 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Increased winter drownings in ice-covered regions with warmer winters, 2020, PLoS ONE

Their frequent coauthors include Klaus Jöhnk, Frank Peeters, Orlane Anneville, Nico Salmaso, and Sebastian Diehl, illustrating collaborative efforts within the aquatic and environmental sciences.

Publication venues where Straile's work is frequently featured include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • Lakes as sentinels of climate change

    Rita Adrian;Catherine M. O'Reilly;Horacio Zagarese;Stephen B. Baines

  • Lake responses to reduced nutrient loading - an analysis of contemporary long-term data from 35 case studies

    Erik Jeppesen;Martin Søndergaard;Jens Peder Jensen;Karl E. Havens

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world

    Sapna Sharma;Kevin Blagrave;John J. Magnuson;Catherine M. O’Reilly

  • Gross growth efficiencies of protozoan and metazoan zooplankton and their dependence on food concentration, predator-prey weight ratio, and taxonomic group

    Dietmar Straile

  • Global impacts of the 1980s regime shift

    Philip C. Reid;Renata E. Hari;Grégory Beaugrand;David M. Livingstone

  • Large-scale climatic signatures in lakes across Europe: a meta-analysis

    Thorsten Blenckner;Rita Adrian;David M. Livingstone;Eleanor Jennings

  • Climatic warming causes regime shifts in lake food webs

    Marten Scheffer;Dietmar Straile;Egbert H. van Nes;Harry Hosper

  • Earlier onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in lakes of the temperate zone in a warmer climate

    Frank Peeters;Dietmar Straile;Andreas Lorke;David M. Livingstone

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • Meteorological forcing of plankton dynamics in a large and deep continental European lake.

    Dietmar Straile

  • Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes

    Jean Philippe Jenny;Orlane Anneville;Fabien Arnaud;Yoann Baulaz

  • A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

    Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Jordan S. Read;Catherine M. O'Reilly

  • Complex effects of winter warming on the physicochemical characteristics of a deep lake

    Dietmar Straile;Klaus Jöhnk;Rossknecht Henno

  • Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins

    Evanthia Mantzouki;Miquel Lürling;Jutta Fastner;Lisette de Senerpont Domis

  • Biogeochemical fluxes through mesozooplankton

    Erik Buitenhuis;Erik Buitenhuis;Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Olivier Aumont;Grégory Beaugrand

  • The Response of Freshwater Ecosystems to Climate Variability Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Dietmar Straile;David M. Livingstone;Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;D. Glen George

  • Phosphorus decrease and climate variability : mediators of synchrony in phytoplankton changes among European peri-alpine lakes

    Orlane Anneville;Orlane Anneville;Sonja Gammeter;Dietmar Straile

  • North Atlantic Oscillation synchronizes food-web interactions in central European lakes.

    Dietmar Straile

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation and plankton dynamics in two European lakes –‐ two variations on a general theme

    Dietmar Straile;Rita Adrian

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Peeter Nõges
Peeter Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
David M. Livingstone
David M. Livingstone Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Tiina Nõges
Tiina Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
Frank Peeters
Frank Peeters University of Konstanz
Ursula Gaedke
Ursula Gaedke University of Potsdam
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Nico Salmaso
Nico Salmaso Fondazione Edmund Mach
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks

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