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Overview

Ulrich Sommer is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and neuroscience, with particular attention to physiology, endocrine and autonomic systems, and emergency medicine.

The scientist has contributed to the fields of obstructive sleep apnea research, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and restraint-related deaths. These topics form the core of their investigative work.

Sommer has coauthored publications with researchers including Lisa Lindner, David T. Kent, and Clemens Heiser.

Their recent publication record includes work in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. One specific paper from 2024 is titled "Evaluation of an OSA Risk Screening Smartphone App in a General, Non-Symptomatic Population Sample (ESOSA)."

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Restraint-Related Deaths

  • Lisa Lindner
  • David T. Kent
  • Clemens Heiser

  • Journal of Clinical Medicine

  1. Evaluation of an OSA Risk Screening Smartphone App in a General, Non-Symptomatic Population Sample (ESOSA), 2024, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Best Publications

  • The PEG-model of seasonal succession of planktonic events in fresh waters

    Ulrich Sommer;Z. Maciej Gliwicz;Winfried Lampert;Annie Duncan

  • Global warming benefits the small in aquatic ecosystems

    Martin Daufresne;Kathrin Lengfellner;Ulrich Sommer

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

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

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the role of species co‐tolerance

    Rolf D. Vinebrooke;Kathryn L. Cottingham;Jon Norberg;Marten Scheffer

  • Phytoplankton response to a changing climate

    Monika Winder;Ulrich Sommer

  • Consumer versus resource control of species diversity and ecosystem functioning

    Boris Worm;Heike K. Lotze;Heike K. Lotze;Helmut Hillebrand;Ulrich Sommer

  • Comparison between steady state and non-steady state competition: experiments with natural phytoplankton

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  • Cladocerans versus copepods: the cause of contrasting top–down controls on freshwater and marine phytoplankton

    Ulrich Sommer;Frank Sommer

  • Climate change and the timing, magnitude, and composition of the phytoplankton spring bloom

    Ulrich Sommer;Kathrin Lengfellner

  • 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 nutrient stoichiometry of benthic microalgal growth: Redfield proportions are optimal

    Helmut Hillebrand;Ulrich Sommer

  • 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

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

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

  • The paradox of the plankton: Fluctuations of phosphorus availability maintain diversity of phytoplankton in flow-through cultures1

    Ulrich Sommer

  • Diversity in planktonic communities: An experimental test of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis.

    Sabine Flöder;Ulrich Sommer

  • Intermediate disturbance in the ecology of phytoplankton and the maintenance of species diversity: a synthesis

    C. S. Reynolds;J. Padisák;Ulrich Sommer

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

    Julia Wohlers;Anja Engel;Eckart Zöllner;Petra Breithaupt

  • Effects of sea surface warming on marine plankton.

    Aleksandra M. Lewandowska;Daniel G. Boyce;Daniel G. Boyce;Daniel G. Boyce;Matthias Hofmann;Birte Matthiessen

  • The Role of Competition for Resources in Phytoplankton Succession

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

    Ulrich Sommer;Herwig Stibor

  • A history of atmospheric CO[2] and its effects on plants, animals, and ecosystems

    I.T. Baldwin;M.M. Caldwell;G. Heldmaier;Robert B. Jackson

  • Coastal food web structure, carbon storage, and nitrogen retention regulated by consumer pressure and nutrient loading

    Boris Worm;Heike K. Lotze;Ulrich Sommer

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Moustaka-Gouni
Maria Moustaka-Gouni Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thomas F. Hansen
Thomas F. Hansen University of Oslo
Helmut Hillebrand
Helmut Hillebrand Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Herwig Stibor
Herwig Stibor Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Boris Worm
Boris Worm Dalhousie University
Heike K. Lotze
Heike K. Lotze Dalhousie University
Klaus Jürgens
Klaus Jürgens Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Konstantinos Ar. Kormas
Konstantinos Ar. Kormas University Of Thessaly
Olav Vadstein
Olav Vadstein Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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