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Overview

Klaus Jürgens is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Germany. Their research contributions primarily focus on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to ecology, oceanography, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, and atmospheric science.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Jürgens has authored several recent papers covering various aspects of marine and environmental microbiology. Notable publications include:

  • Ecosystem-wide metagenomic binning enables prediction of ecological niches from genomes, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Biogeochemical functioning of the Baltic Sea, 2022, Earth System Dynamics
  • Biological manganese-dependent sulfide oxidation impacts elemental gradients in redox-stratified systems: indications from the Black Sea water column, 2022, The ISME Journal
  • Evaluation of the distributions of hydroxylated glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in Holocene Baltic Sea sediments for reconstruction of sea surface temperature: the effect of changing salinity, 2022, Climate of the past
  • Organic matter availability drives the spatial variation in the community composition and activity of Antarctic marine bacterioplankton, 2022, Environmental Microbiology

Their frequent co-authors include Christiane Hassenrück, Christian Meeske, Sara Beier, Gregor Rehder, and Judith Piontek. These collaborations underline a consistent engagement with researchers in microbial and marine ecological studies.

Jürgens' publications have appeared most frequently in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Communications Biology
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • The ISME Journal

Best Publications

  • Transitions in bacterial communities along the 2000 km salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea

    Daniel Pr Herlemann;Matthias Labrenz;Klaus Jürgens;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Predation as a shaping force for the phenotypic and genotypic composition of planktonic bacteria

    Klaus Jürgens;Carsten Matz

  • The potential importance of grazing-resistant bacteria in planktonic systems

    Klaus Jürgens;Hans Güde

  • Morphological and compositional changes in a planktonic bacterial community in response to enhanced protozoan grazing.

    Klaus Jürgens;Jakob Pernthaler;Sven Schalla;Rudolf Amann

  • Impact of Daphnia on planktonic microbial food webs ― a review

    Klaus Jürgens

  • Impact of Violacein-Producing Bacteria on Survival and Feeding of Bacterivorous Nanoflagellates

    Carsten Matz;Peter Deines;Jens Boenigk;Hartmut Arndt

  • Experimental demonstration of chaos in a microbial food web

    Lutz Becks;Frank M. Hilker;Horst Malchow;Klaus Jürgens

  • Changes in biogenic carbon flow in response to sea surface warming

    Julia Wohlers;Anja Engel;Eckart Zöllner;Petra Breithaupt

  • Direct and Indirect Effects of Protist Predation on Population Size Structure of a Bacterial Strain with High Phenotypic Plasticity

    Gianluca Corno;Klaus Jürgens

  • Genome and physiology of a model Epsilonproteobacterium responsible for sulfide detoxification in marine oxygen depletion zones

    Jana Grote;Thomas Schott;Christian G. Bruckner;Frank Oliver Glöckner

  • Selective feeding behaviour of key free-living protists: avenues for continued study

    David J. S. Montagnes;Ana B. Barbosa;Jens Boenigk;Keith Davidson

  • Particle-Associated Differ from Free-Living Bacteria in Surface Waters of the Baltic Sea

    Angelika Rieck;Daniel P. R. Herlemann;Klaus Jürgens;Hans-Peter Grossart;Hans-Peter Grossart

  • Regulation of bacterial biomass and community structure by metazoan and protozoan predation

    Silke Langenheder;Klaus Jürgens

  • Epsilonproteobacteria represent the major portion of chemoautotrophic bacteria in sulfidic waters of pelagic redoxclines of the Baltic and Black Seas.

    Jana Grote;Günter Jost;Matthias Labrenz;Gerhard J. Herndl

  • Cascading predation effects of Daphnia and copepods on microbial food web components

    Eckart Zöllner;Barbara Santer;Maarten Boersma;Hans-Georg Hoppe

  • Protistan Grazing on Marine Bacterioplankton

    Klaus Jürgens;Ramon Massana

  • High Motility Reduces Grazing Mortality of Planktonic Bacteria

    Carsten Matz;Klaus Jürgens

  • Interaction of nutrient limitation and protozoan grazing determines the phenotypic structure of a bacterial community

    Carsten Matz;Klaus Jürgens

  • Effect of zooplankton-mediated trophic cascades on marine microbial food web components (bacteria, nanoflagellates, ciliates)

    Eckart Zöllner;Eckart Zöllner;Hans-Georg Hoppe;Ulrich Sommer;Klaus Jürgens;Klaus Jürgens

  • Salinity Induced Regime Shift in Shallow Brackish Lagoons

    Erik Jeppesen;Martin Søndergaard;Asger Roer Pedersen;Klaus Jürgens

  • Metagenomic de novo assembly of an aquatic representative of the verrucomicrobial class Spartobacteria.

    Daniel P. R. Herlemann;Daniel Lundin;Matthias Labrenz;Klaus Jürgens

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Labrenz
Matthias Labrenz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Ulrich Sommer
Ulrich Sommer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Hartmut Arndt
Hartmut Arndt University of Cologne
Anja Engel
Anja Engel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Anders F. Andersson
Anders F. Andersson Royal Institute of Technology
Ramon Massana
Ramon Massana Spanish National Research Council
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Gerhard J. Herndl
Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna
Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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