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Maarten Boersma is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research predominantly focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with substantial contributions to subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of their scientific work include Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and fisheries research, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics.

Boersma has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include Limnology and Oceanography, Journal of Plankton Research, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Oikos, and the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

The scientist has been involved in several research papers. Notable recent publications are:

  • A systematic study of zooplankton-based indices of marine ecological change and water quality: Application to the European marine strategy framework Directive (MSFD), 2022, Ecological Indicators
  • Seasonal Dynamics of Pelagic Mycoplanktonic Communities: Interplay of Taxon Abundance, Temporal Occurrence, and Biotic Interactions, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Addressing critical limitations of oyster (Ostrea edulis) restoration: Identification of nature-based substrates for hatchery production and recruitment in the field, 2020, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Environmentally induced functional shifts in phytoplankton and their potential consequences for ecosystem functioning, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Host-parasitoid associations in marine planktonic time series: Can metabarcoding help reveal them?, 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors accompanying Boersma's work include Cédric L. Meunier, Karen Helen Wiltshire, Nelly Tremblay, Luis Giménez, and Julien Di Pane.

Best Publications

  • Predator-mediated plasticity in morphology, life history, and behavior of Daphnia: the uncoupling of responses

    Maarten Boersma;Piet Spaak;Luc De Meester

  • Resilience of North Sea phytoplankton spring bloom dynamics: An analysis of long‐term data at Helgoland Roads

    Karen Helen Wiltshire;Arne Michael Malzahn;Kai Wirtz;Wulf Greve

  • Too much of a good thing: on stoichiometrically balanced diets and maximal growth.

    Maarten Boersma;James J. Elser

  • MINERAL LIMITATION OF ZOOPLANKTON: STOICHIOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS AND OPTIMAL FORAGING

    Klaus Plath;Maarten Boersma

  • Helgoland Roads, North Sea: 45 Years of Change

    Karen Helen Wiltshire;Karen Helen Wiltshire;Alexandra Kraberg;Inka Bartsch;Maarten Boersma

  • Extraction of pigments and fatty acids from the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus (Chlorophyceae)

    Karen Helen Wiltshire;Maarten Boersma;Anita Möller;Heinke Buhtz

  • Complementary impact of copepods and cladocerans on phytoplankton

    Ulrich Sommer;Frank Sommer;Barbara Santer;Colleen Jamieson

  • Nutrient limitation of primary producers affects planktivorous fish condition

    Arne Michael Malzahn;Nicole Aberle;Nicole Aberle;Catriona Clemmesen;Maarten Boersma

  • Stoichiometry: Linking elements to biochemicals

    Thomas R. Anderson;Maarten Boersma;David Raubenheimer

  • Goldman revisited: Faster-growing phytoplankton has lower N: P and lower stoichiometric flexibility

    Helmut Hillebrand;Georg Steinert;Maarten Boersma;Arne Malzahn

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

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

  • New trends in marine chemical ecology

    A. Ianora;M. Boersma;R. Casotti;A. Fontana

  • Life at the edge: Is food quality really of minor importance at low quantities?

    Maarten Boersma;Christian Kreutzer

  • Genetic markers Genealogies and Biogeographic patterns in the Cladocera

    Klaus Schwenk;Anna Sand;Maarten Boersma;Michaela Brehm

  • Differential effects of phosphorus and fatty acids on Daphnia magna growth and reproduction

    Claes Becker;Maarten Boersma

  • Nutritional Limitation Travels up the Food Chain

    Maarten Boersma;Nicole Aberle;Florian M. Hantzsche;Katherina L. Schoo;Katherina L. Schoo

  • Environmental stress and local adaptation in Daphnia magna

    Luc De Meester;Maarten Boersma;Piet Spaak

  • Resource quality effects on life histories of Daphnia

    Claes Becker;Maarten Boersma

  • Differential effects of nutrient-limited primary production on primary, secondary or tertiary consumers

    Arne M. Malzahn;Florian Hantzsche;Katherina L. Schoo;Katherina L. Schoo;Maarten Boersma

  • The nutritional quality of P‐limited algae for Daphnia

    Maarten Boersma

  • Predator-mediated plasticity in morphology, life history, and behavior of Daphnia: The uncoupling of responses (vol 152, pg 237, 1998)

    M Boersma;P Spaak;Luc De Meester

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Helen Wiltshire
Karen Helen Wiltshire Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Piet Spaak
Piet Spaak Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Wolf M. Mooij
Wolf M. Mooij Wageningen University & Research
Catriona Clemmesen
Catriona Clemmesen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Klaus Schwenk
Klaus Schwenk University of Koblenz and Landau
Georg Pohnert
Georg Pohnert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Antje Wichels
Antje Wichels Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gunnar Gerdts
Gunnar Gerdts Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Bernhard M. Fuchs
Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Society

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