Maren Striebel

🌈 The life of plankton in a rainbow – The spectral quality of light has a significant impact on phytoplankton community dynamics and seston biochemistry with propagating effects to herbivores🔆

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@sebastianneun.bsky.social
@marenstriebel.bsky.social
@icbm-uol.bsky.social

Light spectrum matters: Interactive effects of light and nutrients on phytoplankton communities and trophic transfer Overall, our results showed that the spectral quality of light has a significant impact on phytoplankton community dynamics and the biochemical composition of lake seston. Moreover, the results sugge....

I am thrilled to share our new study which has just come out in @journalofecology.bsky.social! We show how the wavelength spectrum of #light shapes #phytoplankton communities, and associated consequences for trophic transfer. Light spectrum matters! 🌈🌊
#livinginarainbow

➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Light spectrum matters: Interactive effects of light and nutrients on phytoplankton communities and trophic transfer Overall, our results showed that the spectral quality of light has a significant impact on phytoplankton community dynamics and the biochemical composition of lake seston. Moreover, the results sugge...

New paper with @sebastianneun.bsky.social and Alexander Wacker from @animalecologyhgw.bsky.social

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The three finalists were chosen by a scientific board and the order was decided by audience vote.

Anika presenting her paper during plenary session

After a turbulent and exciting few weeks, the great news is that @anikahappe.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD thesis AND was awarded second place in the DGL Early Career Award.
Congratulations!!!

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Workshop attendees standing on the steps in front of the event venue. The individuals are dressed in casual to semi-formal attire. Image text: Why Are Cells the Size They Are? Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK 13-16 July 2025

The Company of Biologists Workshop: Why Are Cells the Size They Are?

Thank you to Workshop organisers Dustin Marshall and Craig White.

#Workshop #Biology #CellBiology #Cells #Community #Collaboration #Research #Researchers #Academia #Academics

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We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
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StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - Scientific Data Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content

I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@icbm-uol.bsky.social offers a fully funded professorship in theoretical oceanography. Join a great team of physicists, chemists, and biologists working on the marine environment. Oldenburg is a truly livable city and connected to a range of marine institutes in NW Germany

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If you are interested in a postdoc opportunity in Europe, I'd suggest you to consider the EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship:

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If you are into marine microbial ecology and evolution, I'd love to support your application (see more at merenlab.org).

E-MAIL ME NOW! :)

Many thanks go to all co-authors who have all made substantial contributions: @anikahappe.bsky.social , Apostolos Koussoroplis, @hillebr1.bsky.social, Julian Merder and @marenstriebel.bsky.social ☺️

My first post is finally here:

I am very excited to share our newest paper in Ecology where we present the temperature-dependent effect of multiple resources on #phytoplankton growth, using gradients of temperatures, light and nutrients.

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Nutrient pulse scenarios drive contrasting patterns in the functional stability of freshwater phytoplankton Climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity, and stochasticity of extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall, storm-induced mixing, or prolonged drought periods. This results in more var...

What a great first thing to do after my holidays: I am excited to share our newest paper in which we mimicked rainfall scenarios as nutrient and cDOM pulses of different frequency and intensity in #mesocosms and disentangled the effects on plankton #stoichiometry! doi.org/10.1002/lno.... @aslo.org

A big thank you to my co-authors (@marenstriebel.bsky.social, @asterionella.bsky.social, Bence Gergácz, Bence Buttyán, Jens Nejstgaard, Silke Langenheder) and all those who contributed to a wonderful time at the @fieldSITES.bsky.social mesocosm site at Lake Erken with #AQUACOSM.

Read our new paper in EcologicalMonographs esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We introduce a framework on how to partition species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities based on species absolute change in biomass and relative change in proportion.

Interestingly, compensatory dynamics between species, where rare species increased in biomass after dominant species decreased in biomass following the disturbance, occurred in both model simulations and empirical data.

with @marenstriebel.bsky.social @hillebr1.bsky.social & others (not on bluesky)

@icbm-uol.bsky.social

Congratulations to @sebastianneun.bsky.social for winning the Wilhelmshaven Science Award in the student category!

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The first doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... and the second doi.org/10.1002/lno.... are available as well

Moderate and extreme warming under a varied resource supply alter the microzooplankton–phytoplankton coupling in North Sea coastal communities Rising temperature is one of the most visible effects of global change on Earth; however, it is barely known how moderate or extreme warming events impact the trophic interactions and the energy tran....

Finally the third manuscript from the 2022 Aquacosm_plus experiment from the Planktotrons @icbm-uol.bsky.social is published:

Moderate and extreme warming under a varied resource supply alter the microzooplankton–phytoplankton coupling in North Sea coastal communities

doi.org/10.1002/lno....

Deep Dive: What's stealing the light from our oceans? Coastal waters are darkening, with drastic consequences for marine life and the fishing industry. We explore what’s causing our once clear coastal waters to go murky.

Coastal waters are darkening, with drastic consequences for marine life. This new podcast from DW explores what’s causing our once clear coastal waters to go murky. Amazing work Jonas and colleagues - really worth listening! @ostseeforschung.bsky.social

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We are looking for a geoscientist with strong competence in geology, sedimentology, geoecology and/or geobotany of coastal systems, preferably with a focus on the study of shelf seacoasts.

ICBM is seeking to fill a

Professorship (f/m/x) "Anthropocene Coast"
salary scale W2

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Why are you passionate about your research topic? There is still so much unknown to be discovered in deep-sea research and especially in my field, lipid and metabolite research, that the explorer's heart is burning! We know that the samples are unique and offer insights into a completely foreign world that we want to explore. Dr. Florence Schubotz, Organic Geochemist at MARUM, University of Bremen

What impact does your research have? We need to understand what makes marine ecosystems resilient - also to be able to assess how we can best protect the oceans. Prof. Dr. Helmut Hillebrand, marine ecologist at the ICBM/ HIFMB, University of Oldenburg

Your research in short: What is the most exciting thing at the moment? As an organic geochemist, I am very interested in how carbon in its various forms moves through marine biota, the ocean and the sea floor - today and in the past, and how these processes interact with the climate. Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Organic Geochemist at MARUM, University of Bremen

Why are you passionate about your research topic? I am fascinated by how tiny microorganisms have such a huge global impact, for example by storing carbon in the ocean. Prof. Dr. Sinikka Lennartz, ocean modeler at the ICBM, University of Oldenburg

🌊🌍 Celebrate #WorldOceanDay on June 8th! We asked researchers from the University of Bremen and the University of Oldenburg what drives them and what they are passionate about. Read the full interview here ➡️ uol.de/en/news/arti...
#TogetherforaStrongerOcean
@hifmb.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social

Cross-domain diversity effects: linking diatom species richness, intraspecific richness, and biomass production to host-associated bacterial diversity Abstract. Interactions between bacteria and microalgae are important for the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, yet interactions based on the biodiversity

Early insights into diversity effects across taxonomic domains in the ocean!
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So grateful for the fantastic collaboration, hard work, and fun juggling 9 diatom strains and their associated bacteria
@pkthomas.bsky.social
@marenstriebel.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social

Our first #Aquacosm_plus #OpenAccess publication on the impact of warming on North Sea phytoplankton is published! This project was lead by Antonia Ahme and Anika Happe supported by a great team 🦠🔥🫧 #Planktotrons
@icbm-uol.bsky.social

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Happy (Planktonic) Holidays!