Publications
Key Publications
- Wirtz, K., Smith, S.L., Mathis, M., & Taucher, J. (2022): Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2022), doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01430-5
- Wirtz, K. (2021): Changing readiness to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 steered long-term epidemic and social trajectories. Sci Rep 11, 13919 (2021), doi:10.1038/s41598-021-93248-y
- Gronenborn, D.; Strien, H.; Wirtz, K.; Turchin, P.; Zielhofer, C.; van Dick, R. : Inherent Collapse? Social Dynamics and External Forcing in Early Neolithic and Modern Southwest Germany. In: Riede, F.; Sheets, P. (eds.): Going Forward by Looking Back : Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse. New York: Berghahn, 2020. 333 - 366. (ISBN: 978-1-78920-864-1)
- Wirtz, K., & Smith, S.L. (2020): Vertical migration by bulk phytoplankton sustains biodiversity and nutrient input to the surface ocean. Sci Rep 10, 1142, doi:10.1038/s41598-020-57890-2
- Wirtz, K.W. (2019): Physics or biology? Persistent chlorophyll accumulation in a shallow coastal sea explained by pathogens and carnivorous grazing. PLOS ONE, February 22, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0212143
- Ingrid Holzwarth, Holger Weilbeer and Kai W. Wirtz (2019): The effect of bathymetric modification on water age in the Elbe Estuary Die Küste, 87, https://doi.org/10.18171/1.087109
- Chen, B., Smith, S.L., & Wirtz, K.W. (2019): Effect of phytoplankton size diversity on primary productivity in the North Pacific: trait distributions under environmental variability. Ecol Lett, 22: 56-66, doi:10.1111/ele.13167
- Zhang, W., & Wirtz K.W. (2017): Mutual Dependence Between Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Infaunal Macrobenthos Resolved by Mechanistic Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, doi:10.1002/2017JG003909
- Lemmen, C., Hofmeister, R., Klingbeil, K., Nasermoaddeli, M.H., Kerimoglu, O., Burchard, H., Kösters, F., & Wirtz, K.W. (2018): Modular System for Shelves and Coasts (MOSSCO v1.0) – a flexible and multi-component framework for coupled coastal ocean ecosystem modelling. Geosci. Model Dev., doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-138
- Slavik, K., Lemmen, C., Zhang, W., Kerimoglu, O., Klingbeil, K., & Wirtz, K.W. (2018): The large scale impact of offshore windfarm structures on pelagic primary production in the southern North Sea. Hydrobiologia, pp 1–19, doi:10.1007/s10750-018-3653-5
Publications since 2017
- Krishna, S., Peterson, V., Listmann, L., & Hinners, J. (2024): Interactive effects of viral lysis and warming in a coastal ocean identified from an idealized ecosystem model. Ecological Modelling, Volume 487, 110550, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110550
- Stelzenmüller, V., Rehren, J., Örey, S., Lemmen, C., Krishna, S., Hasenbein, M., Püts, M., Probst, W.N., Diekmann, R., Scheffran, J., Bos, O.G., & Wirtz, K: (2024): Framing future trajectories of human activities in the German North Sea to inform cumulative effects assessments and marine spatial planning. Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 349, 119507, doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119507
- Krishna, S., Ulloa, H.N., Barbe, E., & Wüest, A. (2023): Disentangling the effects of climate change and reoligotrophication on primary production in a large lake. Aquat Sci 85, 16 (2023), doi:10.1007/s00027-022-00910-2
- Lemmen, C., & Gronenborn, D. (2023): The Diffusion of People and Cultures in the Course of the Spread of Farming. In: Bunde, A., Caro, J., Chmelik, C., Kärger, J., & Vogl, G. (eds): Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society. Springer, Cham., doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05946-9_17
- García-Oliva, O., Hantzsche, F.M., Boersma, M., & Wirtz, Kai (2022): Phytoplankton and particle size spectra indicate intense mixotrophic dinoflagellates grazing from summer to winter. Journal of Plankton Research, Vol. 44, Issue 2, 2022, pp 224–240, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbac013
- García-Oliva, O., & Wirtz, K. (2022): Size-dependent and -independent prey selection of dinoflagellates. Mar Biol 169, 122, doi:10.1007/s00227-022-04102-2
- Bellou, N., Gambardella, C., Karantzalos, K., Gama Monteiro, J., Canning-Clode, J., Kemna, S., Arrieta-Giron, C.A., & Lemmen, C. (2021): Global assessment of innovative solutions to tackle marine litter. Nat Sustain 4, 516–524, doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00726-2
- Zhang, W., Neumann, A., Daewel, U., Wirtz, K., van Beusekom, J.E.E., Eisele, A., Ma, M., & Schrum, C. (2021): Quantifying importance of macrobenthos for benthic-pelagic coupling in a temperate coastal shelf sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC016995, doi:10.1029/2020JC016995
- Feurdean, A., Vannière, B., Finsinger, W., Warren, D., Connor, S.C., Forrest, M., Liakka, J., Panait, A., Werner, C., Andrič, M., Bobek, P., Carter, V.A., Davis, B., Diaconu, A.-C., Dietze, E., Feeser, I., Florescu, G., Gałka, M., Giesecke, T., Jahns, S., Jamrichová, E., Kajukało, K., Kaplan, J., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Kuneš, P., Kupriyanov, D., Lamentowicz, M., Lemmen, C., Magyari, E.K., Marcisz, K., Marinova, E., Niamir, A., Novenko, E., Obremska, M., Pędziszewska, A., Pfeiffer, M., Poska, A., Rösch, M., Słowiński, M., Stančikaitė, M., Szal, M., Święta-Musznicka, J., Tanţău, I., Theuerkauf, M., Tonkov, S., Valkó, O., Vassiljev, J., Veski, S., Vincze, I., Wacnik, A., Wiethold, J., & Hickler, T. (2020): Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe. Biogeosciences, 17, 1213–1230, doi:10.5194/bg-17-1213-2020
- Gronenborn, D., Strien, H.-C., Wirtz, K.W., Turchin, P., Zielhofer, C., & van Dick, R. (2020): Inherent Collapse? Social Dynamics and External Forcing in Early Neolithic and Modern SW Germany.” In: Riede, F., & Sheets, P.D. (eds.): Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse, 333-366, Catastrophes in Context volume 3, New York, Oxford: Berghahn.
- Wirtz, K., & Smith, S.L. (2020): Vertical migration by bulk phytoplankton sustains biodiversity and nutrient input to the surface ocean. Sci Rep 10, 1142, doi:10.1038/s41598-020-57890-2
- Xu, X., Lemmen, C., & Wirtz, K.W. (2020): Less Nutrients but More Phytoplankton: Long-Term Ecosystem Dynamics of the Southern North Sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 7:662, doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.00662
- Taherzadeh, N., Bengfort, M., & Wirtz, K.W. (2019): A Trait-Based Framework for Explaining Non-additive Effects of Multiple Stressors on Plankton Communities. Front. Mar. Sci. 6:351, doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00351
- Zhang, W., Wirtz, K., Daewel, U., Wrede, A., Kröncke, I., Kuhn, G., Neumann, A., Meyer, J., Ma, M., & Schrum, C. (2019): The budget of macrobenthic reworked organic carbon - a modelling case study of the North Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2019JG005109
- Wirtz, K.W. (2019): Physics or biology? Persistent chlorophyll accumulation in a shallow coastal sea explained by pathogens and carnivorous grazing. PLOS ONE, February 22, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0212143
- Chen, B., Smith, S.L., & Wirtz, K.W. (2019): Effect of phytoplankton size diversity on primary productivity in the North Pacific: trait distributions under environmental variability. Ecol Lett, 22: 56-66, doi:10.1111/ele.13167
- Holzwarth, I., Weilbeer, H., & Wirtz, K.W. (2018): The effect of bathymetric modification on water age in the Elbe Estuary. To appear in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
- Schartau, M., Riethmüller, R., Flöser, G., Beusekom, J.E.E. van, Krasemann, H., Hofmeister, R., & Wirtz, K. (2019): On the separation between inorganic and organic fractions of suspended matter in a marine coastal environment. Progress in Oceanography, Volume 171, Pages 231-250, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2018.12.011
- Zhao, C., Maerz J., Hofmeister, R., Röttgers, R., Wirtz, K., Riethmüller, R., & Schrum, C. (2019): Characterizing the vertical distribution of chlorophyll a in the German Bight. Continental Shelf Research, pp 127-146, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2019.01.012
- Lemmen, C. (2018): North Sea Ecosystem-Scale Model-Based Quantification of Net Primary Productivity Changes by the Benthic Filter Feeder Mytilus edulis. Water, 10(11), 1527, doi:10.3390/w10111527
- Lemmen, C. (2018): Simulated net primary productivity (NPP) in the southern North Sea 2003-2013 for a simulation with and without consideration of benthic filtration by Mytilus edulis. PANGAEA, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.892274
- Lemmen C., Gronenborn D. (2018): The Diffusion of Humans and Cultures in the Course of the Spread of Farming. In: Bunde A., Caro J., Kärger J., Vogl G. (eds) Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society, pp 333-349, Springer, Cham, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67798-9_17
- Lemmen, C., Hofmeister, R., Klingbeil, K., Nasermoaddeli, M.H., Kerimoglu, O., Burchard, H., Kösters, F., & Wirtz, K.W. (2018): Modular System for Shelves and Coasts (MOSSCO v1.0) – a flexible and multi-component framework for coupled coastal ocean ecosystem modelling. Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 915-935, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-915-2018
- Michels, J., Stippkugel, A., Lenz, M., Wirtz, K., & Engel, A. (2018): Rapid aggregation of biofilm-covered microplastics with marine biogenic particles. Proc. R. Soc. B 20181203, doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.1203
- Robinson, D. T., Di Vittorio, A., Alexander, P., Arneth, A., Barton, C. M., Brown, D. G., Kettner, A., Lemmen, C., O'Neill, B. C., Janssen, M., Pugh, T. A. M., Rabin, S. S., Rounsevell, M., Syvitski, J. P., Ullah, I., and Verburg, P. H. (2018): Modelling feedbacks between human and natural processes in the land system, accepted for Earth Syst. Dynam. doi:10.5194/esd-2017-68
- Slavik, K., Lemmen, C., Zhang, W., Kerimoglu, O., Klingbeil, K., & Wirtz, K.W. (2018): The large scale impact of offshore windfarm structures on pelagic primary production in the southern North Sea. Hydrobiologia, pp 1–19, doi:10.1007/s10750-018-3653-5
- Bengfort, M., van Velzen, E., Gaedke, U. (2017) Slight phenotypic variation in predators and prey causes complex predator-prey oscillations. Ecological Complexity 31, 115-124, doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2017.06.003
- Gronenborn, D., Strien, H.C., Lemmen, C.: Population Dynamics, Social Resilience Strategies, and Adaptive Cycles in Early Farming Societies of SW Central Europe, Quaternary International, in press Mar 2017, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.018
- Holzwarth, I., & Wirtz, K.W. (2017): Anthropogenic impacts on estuarine oxygen dynamics: a model based evaluation. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2018.01.020
- Kerimoglu, O., Eisele, A., Grage, A., Große, F., Kreus, M., Lenhart, H.J., Leujak, W., van Beusekom, J., Wirtz, K., (2017). Numerical modelling of the response of coastal zones to changes in nutrient loadings: scenario analysis. Technical Report. Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht. Geesthacht
- Kerimoglu, O., Hofmeister, R., Maerz, J., Wirtz, K.W. A novel acclimative biogeochemical model and its implementation to the southern North Sea. Biogeosciences Discussions, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2017-104
- Onur Kerimoglu, Stéphan Jacquet, Brigitte Vinçon-Leite, Bruno J. Lemaire, Frédéric Rimet, Frédéric Soulignac, Dominique Trévisan, Orlane Anneville (2017): Modelling the plankton groups of the deep, peri-alpine Lake Bourget. Ecological Modelling, Volume 359, 10 September 2017, Pages 415–433, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.06.005
- Moreno de Castro, M., Schartau, M. and Wirtz, K.W. (2017): Potential sources of variability in ocean acidification mesocosm experiments. Biogeosciences, 14, 1883-1901, doi:10.5194/bg-2016-83
- M.H. Nasermoaddeli, C. Lemmen, G. Stigge, O. Kerimoglu, H. Burchard, K. Klingbeil, R. Hofmeister, M. Kreus, K.W. Wirtz, F. Kösters (2017): A model study on the large-scale effect of macrofauna on the suspended sediment concentration in a shallow shelf sea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2017, ISSN 0272-7714, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2017.11.002
- Taherzadeh, N., Kerimoglu, O., Wirtz, K.W. (2017): Can We Predict Phytoplankton Community Size Structure Using Size Scalings of Eco-Physiological traits? Ecological Modelling, Volume 360, 24 September 2017, Pages 279-289, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.07.008
- Zhang, W., & Wirtz K.W. (2017): Mutual Dependence Between Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Infaunal Macrobenthos Resolved by Mechanistic Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, doi:10.1002/2017JG00390