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Gregor F. Fussmann

Gregor F. Fussmann

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Ecology and Evolution

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33
Citations
5449
World Ranking
7799
National Ranking
476

Overview

Gregor F. Fussmann is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has made contributions primarily in Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology, Genetics, Pollution, Oceanography, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research encompasses a range of topics, including:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Gregor F. Fussmann's work has been published in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Selected recent papers illustrate the breadth of their research interests:

  • "Warming winters in lakes: Later ice onset promotes consumer overwintering and shapes springtime planktonic food webs" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Community rescue in experimental phytoplankton communities facing severe herbicide pollution" (2020), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Environmental RNA degrades more rapidly than environmental DNA across a broad range of pH conditions" (2022), Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "Widespread agrochemicals differentially affect zooplankton biomass and community structure" (2021), Ecological Applications
  • "A Glyphosate-Based Herbicide Cross-Selects for Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Bacterioplankton Communities" (2022), mSystems

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as Andrew Gonzalez, Beatrix E. Beisner, Vincent Fugère, Marie-Pier Hébert, and Naíla Barbosa da Costa, reflecting a consistent partnership with experts in related fields.

Best Publications

  • Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator–prey system

    Takehito Yoshida;Laura E. Jones;Stephen P. Ellner;Gregor F. Fussmann;Gregor F. Fussmann

  • Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems

    G. F. Fussmann;M. Loreau;P. A. Abrams

  • Crossing the Hopf Bifurcation in a Live Predator-Prey System

    Gregor F. Fussmann;Stephen P. Ellner;Stephen P. Ellner;Kyle W. Shertzer;Nelson G. Hairston

  • The effect of elevated CO2 on growth and competition in experimental phytoplankton communities

    Etienne Low‐Décarie;Gregor F. Fussmann;Graham Bell

  • Community response to enrichment is highly sensitive to model structure.

    Gregor F Fussmann;Bernd Blasius

  • Evolution as a critical component of plankton dynamics

    Gregor F Fussmann;Stephen P Ellner;Nelson G Hairston

  • Food web complexity and chaotic population dynamics

    Gregor F. Fussmann;Gerd Heber

  • Causes of maladaptation

    Steven P. Brady;Daniel I. Bolnick;Amy L. Angert;Andrew Gonzalez

  • Long-term cyclic persistence in an experimental predator-prey system.

    Bernd Blasius;Lars Rudolf;Guntram Weithoff;Ursula Gaedke

  • Predator–prey cycles in an aquatic microcosm: testing hypotheses of mechanism

    Kyle W. Shertzer;Stephen P. Ellner;Gregor F. Fussmann;Nelson G. Hairston

  • Rapid contemporary evolution and clonal food web dynamics

    Laura E. Jones;Lutz Becks;Stephen P. Ellner;Nelson G. Hairston

  • Understanding Maladaptation by Uniting Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives

    Steven P Brady;Daniel I Bolnick;Rowan D H Barrett;Lauren Chapman

  • EFFECTS OF SUCCESSIONAL DYNAMICS ON METAPOPULATION PERSISTENCE

    Stephen P. Ellner;Gregor Fussmann

  • Aquatic primary production in a high-CO2 world

    Etienne Low-Décarie;Gregor F. Fussmann;Graham Bell

  • Evolutionary and plastic rescue in multitrophic model communities.

    Caolan Kovach-Orr;Gregor F. Fussmann

  • The importance of crustacean zooplankton in structuring rotifer and phytoplankton communities; an enclosure study

    Gregor Fussmann

  • The mechanics of predator-prey interactions : first principles of physics predict predator-prey size ratios

    Sébastien M. J. Portalier;Gregor F. Fussmann;Michel Loreau;Mehdi Cherif

  • A DIRECT, EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF RESOURCE VS. CONSUMER DEPENDENCE

    Gregor F. Fussmann;Gregor F. Fussmann;Guntram Weithoff;Takehito Yoshida

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

    Thomas M. Massie;Bernd Blasius;Guntram Weithoff;Ursula Gaedke

  • Environmental RNA degrades more rapidly than environmental DNA across a broad range of pH conditions

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  • CO 2 alters community composition and response to nutrient enrichment of freshwater phytoplankton

    Etienne Low-Décarie;Graham Bell;Gregor F. Fussmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Marilyn E. Scott
Marilyn E. Scott McGill University
Andrew Gonzalez
Andrew Gonzalez McGill University
Graham Bell
Graham Bell McGill University
Andrew P. Hendry
Andrew P. Hendry McGill University
Beatrix E. Beisner
Beatrix E. Beisner University of Quebec at Montreal
Stephen P. Ellner
Stephen P. Ellner Cornell University
Nelson G. Hairston
Nelson G. Hairston Cornell University
Viviane Yargeau
Viviane Yargeau McGill University
Melania E. Cristescu
Melania E. Cristescu McGill University
Ursula Gaedke
Ursula Gaedke University of Potsdam

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