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Herwig Stibor is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. The primary fields of study of their research encompass Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions specifically in the subfields of Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Paleontology.

Their research focuses on several main topics including Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Herwig Stibor has published in various scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Water Research
  • Water
  • Freshwater Biology

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Community shifts from eukaryote to cyanobacteria dominated phytoplankton: The role of mixing depth and light quality" (2021), Freshwater Biology
  • "Multiple-stressor exposure of aquatic food webs: Nitrate and warming modulate the effect of pesticides" (2022), Water Research
  • "Disentangling the direct and indirect effects of agricultural runoff on freshwater ecosystems subject to global warming: A microcosm study" (2020), Water Research
  • "Responses of lake phytoplankton communities to changing inorganic nitrogen supply forms" (2020), Aquatic Sciences
  • "Warming lowers critical thresholds for multiple stressor-induced shifts between aquatic primary producers" (2022), The Science of The Total Environment

Throughout their career, they have collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Maria Stockenreiter
  • Joey Allen
  • Sabine Hilt
  • Bastian Herbert Polst
  • Mechthild Schmitt-Jansen

The research topics explored by Herwig Stibor reflect a multidisciplinary approach that bridges the chemical, biological, and ecological dynamics of aquatic and marine environments. Their work examines factors such as nutrient supply, environmental stressors including warming and pesticides, and the ecological responses within phytoplankton communities and aquatic food webs. This intersection of environmental chemistry and ecology supports understanding the impacts of global environmental changes on freshwater and marine ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Predator induced life-history shifts in a freshwater cladoceran.

    Herwig Stibor

  • Pelagic food web configurations at different levels of nutrient richness and their implications for the ratio fish production:primary production

    Ulrich Sommer;Herwig Stibor;Alexis Katechakis;Frank Sommer

  • Copepoda-Cladocera-Tunicata : The role of three major mesozooplankton groups in pelagic food webs

    Ulrich Sommer;Herwig Stibor

  • Copepods act as a switch between alternative trophic cascades in marine pelagic food webs

    Herwig Stibor;Olav Vadstein;Sebastian Diehl;Anna Gelzleichter

  • From molecular manipulation of domesticated Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to survival in nature

    Severin Sasso;Herwig Stibor;Maria Mittag;Arthur R Grossman

  • Pelagic food web configurations at different levels of nutrient richness and their implications for the ratio fish production:primary production

    Unknown

  • Predator-induced phenotypic variation in the pattern of growth and reproduction in Daphnia hyalina (Crustacea: Cladocera)

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  • Water temperature and mixing depth affect timing and magnitude of events during spring succession of the plankton

    Stella Angela Berger;Sebastian Diehl;Herwig Stibor;Gabriele Trommer

  • Feeding selectivities and food niche separation of Acartia clausi, Penilia avirostris (Crustacea) and Doliolum denticulatum (Thaliacea) in Blanes Bay (Catalan Sea, NW Mediterranean)

    Alexis Katechakis;Herwig Stibor;Ulrich Sommer;Thomas Hansen

  • Water temperature and stratification depth independently shift cardinal events during plankton spring succession

    Stella A. Berger;Sebastian Diehl;Herwig Stibor;Gabriele Trommer

  • Grazing by mesozooplankton from Kiel Bight, Baltic Sea, on different sized algae and natural seston size fractions

    Frank Sommer;H. Stibor;Ulrich Sommer;B. Velimirov

  • The coupling of biodiversity and productivity in phytoplankton communities: consequences for biomass stoichiometry

    Maren Striebel;Stephan Behl;Herwig Stibor

  • Components of additive variance in life-history traits of Daphnia hyalina: seasonal differences in the response to predator signals.

    Herwig Stibor;Winfried Lampert

  • Functional group richness: implications of biodiversity for light use and lipid yield in microalgae

    Maria Stockenreiter;Florian Haupt;Anne-Kathrin Graber;Jukka Seppälä

  • Copepod and microzooplankton grazing in mesocosms fertilised with different Si:N ratios: no overlap between food spectra and Si:N influence on zooplankton trophic level

    Ulrich Sommer;Thomas Hansen;Olga Blum;Nina Holzner

  • Moderate increase in the biomass of omnivorous copepods may ease grazing control of planktonic algae

    Olav Vadstein;Herwig Stibor;Bettina Lippert;Kjetil Løseth

  • Grazing during early spring in the Gulf of Aqaba and the northern Red Sea

    Ulrich Sommer;Ulrike G. Berninger;Ruth Böttger-Schnack;Astrid Cornils

  • Spectral niche complementarity and carbon dynamics in pelagic ecosystems.

    Maren Striebel;Stephan Behl;Sebastian Diehl;Herwig Stibor

  • The relative importance of species diversity and functional group diversity on carbon uptake in phytoplankton communities

    Unknown

  • Feeding selectivities of the marine cladocerans Penilia avirostris, Podon intermedius and Evadne nordmanni

    Unknown

  • Mixotrophy of a photosynthetic flagellate viewed from an optimal foraging perspective.

    Herwig Stibor;Ulrich Sommer

  • A comparative study of responses in planktonic food web structure and function in contrasting European coastal waters exposed to experimental nutrient addition

    Y. Olsen;S. Agustí;T. Andersen;C. M. Duarte

  • Mixotrophic versus photoautotrophic specialist algae as food for zooplankton: The light : nutrient hypothesis might not hold for mixotrophs

    Alexis Katechakis;Tanja Haseneder;Robert Kling;Herwig Stibor

  • Estimating the size at maturity in field populations of Daphnia (Cladocera)

    Herwig Stibor;Winfried Lampert

  • Calanoid copepods and nutrient enrichment determine population dynamics of the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica: a mesocosm experiment

    Herwig Stibor;Olav Vadstein;Bettina Lippert;Wendy Roederer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Sommer
Ulrich Sommer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Sebastian Diehl
Sebastian Diehl Umeå University
Thomas F. Hansen
Thomas F. Hansen University of Oslo
Olav Vadstein
Olav Vadstein Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Yngvar Olsen
Yngvar Olsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Winfried Lampert
Winfried Lampert Max Planck Society
Robert Ptacnik
Robert Ptacnik Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen University of Oslo
Anton F. Post
Anton F. Post University of Rhode Island
Timo Tamminen
Timo Tamminen Finnish Environment Institute

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