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Monika Winder is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden, focusing primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans several specialized subfields including ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, molecular biology, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses diverse topics such as microbial community ecology and physiology, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, marine and fisheries research, isotope analysis in ecology, marine biology and ecology research, and identification and quantification in food.

Monika Winder has contributed to multiple recent publications, which include:

  • Reconstructing marine plankton food web interactions using DNA metabarcoding, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Influence of settling organic matter quantity and quality on benthic nitrogen cycling, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • DNA metabarcoding reveals trophic niche diversity of micro and mesozooplankton species, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The potential of fatty acid isotopes to trace trophic transfer in aquatic food-webs, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Molecular evidence of host-parasite interactions between zooplankton and Syndiniales, 2020, Aquatic Ecology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Andreas Novotny
  • Sara Zamora-Terol
  • Kinlan M. G. Jan
  • Séréna Albert
  • Per Hedberg

Monika Winder regularly publishes in a range of scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Molecular Ecology

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

  • CLIMATE CHANGE UNCOUPLES TROPHIC INTERACTIONS IN AN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM

    Monika Winder;Daniel E. Schindler

  • Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model : Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

    Ulrich Sommer;Rita Adrian;Lisette N. de Senerpont Domis;James J. Elser

  • Phytoplankton response to a changing climate

    Monika Winder;Ulrich Sommer

  • Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;B Bookhagen;Christian Huggel;Dean Jacobsen

  • Climatic effects on the phenology of lake processes

    Monika Winder;Daniel E. Schindler

  • The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Jan Dierking;Helen C. Andersson;Erik Bonsdorff

  • Lake warming favours small-sized planktonic diatom species.

    Monika Winder;John E Reuter;S. Geoffrey Schladow

  • The importance of benthic-pelagic coupling for marine ecosystem functioning in a changing world

    Jennifer R. Griffiths;Martina Kadin;Francisco J. A. Nascimento;Tobias Tamelander

  • Plankton dynamics under different climatic conditions in space and time

    Lisette N. De Senerpont Domis;James J. Elser;Alena S. Gsell;Vera L. M. Huszar

  • The annual cycles of phytoplankton biomass

    Monika Winder;James E. Cloern

  • Ocean acidification-induced food quality deterioration constrains trophic transfer.

    Dennis Rossoll;Rafael Bermúdez;Helena Hauss;Kai G. Schulz

  • A bioenergetic framework for the temperature dependence of trophic interactions.

    Benjamin Gilbert;Tyler D. Tunney;Kevin S. McCann;John P. DeLong

  • Partitioning the Relative Importance of Phylogeny and Environmental Conditions on Phytoplankton Fatty Acids

    Aaron W. E. Galloway;Monika Winder

  • Meta-analysis of amino acid stable nitrogen isotope ratios for estimating trophic position in marine organisms.

    Jens M. Nielsen;Brian N. Popp;Monika Winder

  • Temporal organization of phytoplankton communities linked to physical forcing

    Monika Winder;Deborah A. Hunter

  • Patterns and mechanisms of phytoplankton variability in Lake Washington (USA).

    George B. Arhonditsis;Monika Winder;Michael T. Brett;Daniel E. Schindler

  • Environmental stability and lake zooplankton diversity - contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability.

    Jonathan B Shurin;Monika Winder;Rita Adrian;Wendel Bill Keller

  • Shifts in Zooplankton Community Structure: Implications for Food Web Processes in the Upper San Francisco Estuary

    Monika Winder;Monika Winder;Alan D. Jassby

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Sommer
Ulrich Sommer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Henn Ojaveer
Henn Ojaveer University of Tartu
Erik Bonsdorff
Erik Bonsdorff Åbo Akademi University
Piet Spaak
Piet Spaak Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Daniel E. Schindler
Daniel E. Schindler University of Washington
Anastasija Zaiko
Anastasija Zaiko Sequench Limited
Thorsten B.H. Reusch
Thorsten B.H. Reusch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Axel Temming
Axel Temming Universität Hamburg
Harri Kuosa
Harri Kuosa Finnish Environment Institute
James E. Cloern
James E. Cloern United States Geological Survey

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