Publications
Key Publications
- Garcia-Oliva, O., Wirtz, K. (2025): The complex structure of aquatic food webs emerges from a few assembly rules. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9, 576–588. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02647-1
- Wirtz, K.W., Antunes, N., Diachenko, A., Laabs, J., Lemmen, C., Lohmann, G., McLaughlin, R., Zorita, E., & Gronenborn, D. (2024): Multicentennial cycles in continental demography synchronous with solar activity and climate stability. Nature Communications15, 10248, doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54474-w
- Wirtz, K., Smith, S.L., Mathis, M., & Taucher, J. (2022): Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production. Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01430-5
- Wirtz, K. (2021): Changing readiness to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 steered long-term epidemic and social trajectories. Scientific Reports 11, 13919, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-93248-y
- 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. Geoscientific Model Development, 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 2025 and forthcoming
- Garcia-Oliva, O., Wirtz, K. (2025): The complex structure of aquatic food webs emerges from a few assembly rules. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9, 576–588. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02647-1
- Ismael Kherroubi Garcia , Christopher Erdmann, Sandra Gesing, Michael Barton, Lauren Cadwallader, Geerten Hengeveld, Christine R. Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Knight, Carsten Lemmen, Rebecca Ringuette, Qing Zhan, Melissa Harrison, Feilim Mac Gabhann, Natalie Meyers, Cailean Osborne, Charlotte Till, Paul Brenner, Matt Buys, Min Chen, Allen Lee, Jason Papin, Yuhan Rao (2025) Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices. PLoS Comput Biol 21(1): e1012702. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012702
- Krishna S, Lemmen C, Örey S, Rehren J, Pane J D, Mathis M, Püts M, Hokamp S, Pradhan H K, Hasenbein M, Scheffran J and Wirtz K W (2025) Interactive effects of multiple stressors in coastal ecosystems. Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1481734. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1481734
- Yu, H.-C., Zhang, Y. J., Nerger, L., Lemmen, C., Yu, J. C. S., Chou, T.-Y., Chu, C.-H., & Terng, C.-T. (2025). Development of a flexible data assimilation system for a 3D unstructured-grid ocean model under Earth System Modeling Framework. Ocean Modelling, 196, 102546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2025.102546
Publications 2024
- Imbert, T., Poggiale, J.-C., & Gauduchon, M. (2024). Intra-specific diversity and adaptation modify regime shifts dynamics under environmental change. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 21(12), 7783–7804. https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2024342
- Wirtz, K. W., Antunes, N., Diachenko, A., Laabs, J., Lemmen, C., Lohmann, G., McLaughlin, R., Zorita, E., & Gronenborn, D. (2024). Multicentennial cycles in continental demography synchronous with solar activity and climate stability. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54474-w
- 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
- Lemmen, C., Hokamp, S., Örey, S., & Scheffran, J. (2024): Viable North Sea (ViNoS): A NetLogo Agent-based Model of German Small-scale Fisheries. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(95), 5731, doi:10.21105/joss.05731
- Lemmen, C., & Sommer, P.S. (2024): Good modelling software practices. Ecological Modelling, Vol 498, 110890, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110890
- Martin, A.P., Dominguez, A.B., Baker, C.A., Baumas, C.M.J., Bisson, K.M., Cavan, E., Freilich, M., Galbraith, E., Galí, M., Henson, S., Kvale, K.F., Lemmen, C., Luo, J.Y., McMonagle, H., de Melo Viríssimo, F., Möller, K.O., Richon, C., Suresh, I., Wilson, J.D., Woodstock, M.S., & Yool, A. (2024): When to add a new process to a model – and when not: A marine biogeochemical perspective. Ecological Modelling, Vol 498, 110870, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110870
- 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
- Wirtz, K. W., Hofmeister, R., Klingbeil, K., & Lemmen, C. (2024). MOSSCO Southern North Sea coastal gradient bentho-pelagic ecosystem simulation 2000-2012. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. doi:10.26050/WDCC/MOSSCO_grad2000-2011
- Wirtz, K. W., Hofmeister, R., Klingbeil, K., & Lemmen, C. (2024). MOSSCO Southern North Sea Long-term bentho-pelagic ecosystem simulation 1961-2012. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. doi:10.26050/WDCC/MOSSCO_sim1961-2012
Publications 2017-2023
- 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. Aquatic Sciences 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, 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. Marine Biology 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. Nature Sustainability 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, 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. Scientific Reports 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. Frontiers in Marine Science 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. Frontiers in Marine Science 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, 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. Ecology Letters, 22: 56-66, doi:10.1111/ele.13167
- Holzwarth, I., Weilbeer, H., & Wirtz, K.W. (2019): The effect of bathymetric modification on water age in the Elbe Estuary. Die Küste 87, 261-282, doi:10.18171/1.087109
- 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