Publications of Maarten Boersma

Sommer, U.; Sommer, F.; Santer, B.; Jamieson, C.; Boersma, M.; Becker, C.; Hansen, T.: Complementary impact of copepods on phytoplankton. Ecology Letters 4 (6), pp. 545 - 550 (2001)

Plath, K.; Boersma, M.: Mineral limitation of zooplankton: stoichiometric constraints and optimal foraging. Ecology 82 (5), pp. 1260 - 1269 (2001)

Lass, S.; Boersma, M.; Wiltshire, K. H.; Spaak, P.; Boriss, H.: Does trimethylamine induce life-history reactions in Daphnia? Cladocera, pp. 199 - 206 (2001)

Spaak, P.; Boersma, M.: The influence of fish kairomones on the induction and vertical distribution of sexual individuals of the Daphnia galeata species complex. Hydrobiologia 442 (1-3), pp. 185 - 193 (2001)

Boersma, M.; Stelzer, C.-P.: Response of a zooplankton community to the addition of unsaturated fatty acids: an enclosure study. Freshwater Biology 45 (2), pp. 179 - 188 (2000)

Boersma, M.: The nutritional quality of P-limited algae for Daphnia. Limnology and Oceanography 45 (5), pp. 1157 - 1161 (2000)

Lass, S.; Boersma, M.; Spaak, P.: How do migrating daphnids cope with fish predation risk in the epilimnion under anoxic conditions in the hypolimnion? Journal of Plankton Research 22 (7), pp. 1411 - 1418 (2000)

Spaak, P.; Vanoverbeke, J.; Boersma, M.: Predator-induced life-history changes and the coexistence of five taxa in a Daphnia species complex. Oikos 89 (1), pp. 164 - 174 (2000)

Boersma, M.; Boriss, H.; Mitchell, S. E.: Maternal effects after sexual reproduction in Daphnia magna. Journal of Plankton Research 22 (2), pp. 279 - 285 (2000)

Wiltshire, K. H.; Boersma, M.; Möller, A.; Buhtz, H.: Extraction of pigments and fatty acids from the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus (Chlorophyceae). Aquatic Ecology 34 (2), pp. 119 - 126 (2000)

Boriss, H.; Boersma, M.; Wiltshire, K. H.: Trimethylamine induces migration of waterfleas. Nature 398 (6726), p. 382 (1999)

Boersma, M.; De Meester, L.; Spaak, P.: Environmental stress and local adaptation in Daphnia magna. Limnology and Oceanography 44 (2), pp. 393 - 402 (1999)

Boersma, M.; Spaak, P.; De Meester, L.: Predator-mediated plasticity in morphology, life history, and behavior of Daphnia: the uncoupling of responses. American Naturalist 152 (2), pp. 237 - 248 (1998)

Schwenk, K.; Sand, A.; Boersma, M.; Brehm, M.; Mader, E.; Offerhaus, D.; Spaak, P.: Genetic markers, genealogies and biogeographic patterns in the cladocera. Aquatic Ecology 32 (1), pp. 37 - 51 (1998)

Vijverberg, J.; Boersma, M.: Long-term dynamics of small-bodied and large-bodied cladocerans during the eutrophication of a shallow reservoir, with special attention for Chydorus sphaericus. Hydrobiologia 360 (1-3), pp. 233 - 242 (1997)

Amarasinghe, P. B.; Boersma, M.; Vijverberg, J.: The effect of temperature, and food quantity and quality on the growth and development rates in laboratory-cultured copepods and cladocerans from a Sri Lankan reservoir. Hydrobiologia 350, pp. 131 - 144 (1997)

Spaak, P.; Boersma, M.: Tail spine length in the Daphnia galeata complex: costs and benefits of induction by fish. Aquatic Ecology 31 (1), pp. 89 - 98 (1997)

Boersma, M.; Wiltshire, K. H. (Eds.): Cladocera. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Cladocera. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (2001), XXV, 350 pp.

Boersma, M.: Offspring size in Daphnia: does it pay to be overweight? Cladocera: The Biology of Model Organisms, Postojna, Slovenia, August 08, 1996 - August 15, 1996. Cladocera: The Biology of Model Organisms. proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Cladocera, pp. 79 - 88 (1998)

Mooij, W. M.; Boersma, M.; Vijverberg, J.: The effect of size-selective predation on the population growth rate, the production to biomass ratio and the population structure of Daphnia galeata: a modelling approach. In: Trophic interactions of age-0 fish and zooplankton in temperate waters, pp. 87 - 97 (Eds. Mehner, T.; Winfield, I. J.). Proceedings of a Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Workshop, Dresden, Germany, February 05, 1996 - February 08, 1996. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart (1997)