Curriculum Vitae

GREGOR FUSSMANN
Associate Professor
Director, Gault Nature Reserve
McGill University • Department of Biology
1205 ave. Docteur-Penfield
Montreal • Quebec • H3A 1B1 • Canada
Phone: 514-398-1370 • FAX: 514-398-5069
E-mail: gregor.fussmann@mcgill.ca

Education

Ph.D. in Limnology, Max-Planck-Institute of Limnology, Plön, Germany and University of Kiel, Germany
Supervisors: Prof. W. Lampert and Prof. K. O. Rothhaupt
- In-situ enclosure experiments on zooplankton interactions

Diploma in Biology (Zoology, Botany, Ecology), Free University of Berlin, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. W. Dohle
- Changes of the rotifer community in a lake during fall circulation

Employment

Director, Gault Nature Reserve, McGill University, Mont Sant-Hilaire, Canada

Associate Professor, McGill University, Dept. of Biology, Montreal, Canada

Assistant Professor (“Wissenschaftlicher Assistent”), Potsdam University, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology

Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Research Associate, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Mentors: Prof. N.G. Hairston Jr and Prof. S.P. Ellner
- Nonlinear dynamics of predator-prey systems in microcosms

Research Associate, Institute for Hydrobiology, Technical University Dresden, Germany
- Ecotoxicology of zebra fish embryos

Ph.D. Fellowship from the Max-Planck Society

Research Assistant, Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
- Sedimentation in the lowland River “Spree”

Sabbatical

Visiting professor on sabbatical, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany
- The evolution and maintenance of sex in monogonont rotifers

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, McGill University, Dept. of Biology, Montreal, Canada

BIOL 206 “Methods in Biology of Organisms” (16%) (taught with Prof. Gonzalez, Prof. Abouheif, Prof. Chapman and Prof. Lefebvre)
Fall 2011
BIOL 305 “Animal Diversity” (25%) (taught with Prof. Bell, Prof. Millien and Prof. Green)
Winter 2010
BIOL 308 “Ecological Dynamics” (50%) (taught with Prof. Guichard, de Mazancourt in 2008)
Fall 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011;
Coordinator: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
BIOL 331 “Ecology and Behavior Field Course”,
Fall 2004 (25%), 2006 (25%), 2007 (33%)
BIOL 395 “Quantitative Biology Seminar” (10%) (taught with Prof. Vogel, Prof. Guichard and others)
Fall 2011
BIOL 432 “Limnology” (50%) (taught with Prof. Gregory-Eaves),
Fall 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (50%), 2009 (100%), 2011 (50%);
Coordinator: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
BIOL 499 “Honours Program” (100%)
Coordinator: 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010
BIOL 571 “Experimental Ecology and Evolution” (33%) (taught with Profs. Bell, Gonzalez)
Spring 2005, 2007

Assistant Professor, University of Potsdam, Germany

Lecture “Applied Mathematics and Statistics for Ecologists” (Winter 2001/2002, 2002/2003 and 2003/2004)
Lecture “Theoretical Ecology” (Summer 2002 and Summer 2003, co-taught)
Computer Lab “Computer Simulations in Ecology” (Winter 2001/2002, 2002/2003 and 2003/2004)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

“Limnology - The Ecology of Lakes” (co-taught with Prof. N.G. Hairston Jr)
Lecture (taught one third of classes) and Lab (organized and taught all classes)

Undergraduate Teching Assistant, Institute for Zoology, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Aquatic Ecology
Zoology
Phylogenetics
Vertebrate Biology

Advising undergraduate research assistants

A total of 54 students participated in my research:

Max-Planck-Institute of Limnology, Plön, Germany (5)
Cornell Unversity, Ithaca, NY, USA (10)
University of Potsdam, Germany (4)
McGill University, Montreal, Canada (35)

Research Grants

Grants Presently Held:

NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada) - RTI Equipment Grant
High-replication lake mesocosms for metacommunity research
Fussmann (PI, McGill), Gonzales (McGill) & Beisner (UQÀM)

NSERC: $59,951
matching funds: $24,000
total: $83,951

NSERC - Discovery Grant
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems
Fussmann (PI)

total: $120,000

Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS)
Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine (CAMBAM)

total: $180,000
Fussmann share: ≈ 4%

NSERC - Strategic Project Grant
Integrating across scales in marine aquaculture: the role of trophic dynamics and nutrient recycling for mussel production
Fussmann (PI), Archambault (Rimouski), Lovejoy (Laval), Tremblay (Rimouski), McKindsey (DFO), S. Plourde (DFO), Myrand (MAPAQ) & Culture Moules des Iles (Iles de la Madeleine)
Support from RAQ, SODIM (Aquaculture Industry) & DFO

from NSERC: $559,876
from RAQ: $36,000
from SODIM: $15,000

total: $610,876

NSERC - Special Research Opportunity Grant
Ecology and evolution of parasite-host relationships in a real ecosystem
Fussmann (PI), Hendry (McGill), Scott (McGill) & Bentzen (Dalhousie)

total: $351,800

James S. McDonnell Foundation
21st Century Science Initiative Grant: Studying Complex Systems
Contemporary rapid evolution: Dynamics and persistence in complex ecological communities
Ellner (PI), Hairston, Jones, Becks (all Cornell) & Fussmann

total: US$449,459
total subaward to Fussmann: US$76,500

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
Infrastructure Operating Fund
Infrastructure to explore the interplay of ecological and evolutionary dynamics in plankton communities
Fussmann (PI)

total: $52,443

Grants Previously Held:

NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada) - RTI Equipment Grant
Integrated laboratory system for eco-evolutionary research on small fishes
Hendry (PI, McGill) & 5 others

total: $47,867
Fussmann share: ≈ 15%

NSERC - RTI Equipment Grant
CO2 analysis system to study the ecology and evolution of phytoplankton communities in response to increasing CO2 concentration Fussmann (PI) & Bell (McGill)

total: $11,909

McGill School of the Environment
Interdisciplinary Research Seed Fund
Scott (McGill), Hendry (McGill) & Fussmann

total: $2,000

NSERC - Discovery Grant
Linking population dynamics to the trophic and genetic structure of communities
Fussmann (PI)

total: $140,000

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
New Opportunities Fund
Infrastructure to explore the interplay of ecological and evolutionary dynamics in plankton communities
Fussmann (PI)

total: $437,038

NSERC - RTI Equipment Grant
Set of eight chemostats for the culture of predator-prey communities
Fussmann (PI)

total: $18,747

Languages

German, English, French, Latin

Scientific Cooperation

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
- “Synchronization in Ecological Systems”

Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany

Editor

Ecology Letters (Blackwell Publishers), Subject editor

Invited evaluator of Faculty of 1000 (www.facultyof1000.com), Faculty of Ecology, Section Population Ecology

Guest Associate Editor for Proceedings International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology
(SIL Congress Montreal)

Reviewer or Referee

Journals:
American Naturalist
Archiv für Hydrobiologie
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Current Biology
Ecological Monographs
Ecology
Ecology Letters
Frontiers in Zoology
Functional Ecology
Hydrobiologia
Journal of Animal Ecology
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Journal of Plankton Research
Journal of Statistical Software
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Limnology & Oceanography
Mathematical Biosciences
McGill Science Undergraduate Research Jounal
Nature
Oecologia
Oikos
Proceedings of the Royal Society London B
Science
Theoretical Population Biology
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Verhandlungen der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Limnologie

Granting Agencies:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
German Science Foundation (DFG)
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Austrian Science Fund
Belgian Science Policy Office

Membership: Research Centres and Professional Societies

Réseau Aquaculture Québec (RAQ; FQRNT - Programme regroupements stratégique)
Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QSBS)

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
International Society of Limnology (SIL)
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE)

Scientific Activities

Coordinator of the CEEB (Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour) faculty group within the Department of Biology (≈ 20 faculty).

Special Session organizer “Evolution of Rotifers”. XII International Rotifer Symposium, Berlin, Germany.

Lead organizer of the Topical Session “Predator-prey interactions - linking mechanism to community dynamics” at the ASLO conference, Nice, France

Member of Faculty of 1000 (www.facultyof1000.com), Faculty of Ecology, Section Population Ecology

Organizer of the Special Session “Ecology and genetics of clonal organisms” at the SIL conference

Organizer of the Topical Session “The role of genetic diversity in changing environments” at the ASLO conference

Co-organizer of the Special Symposium “Evolution on ecological time scales” at the ESA/INTECOL conference

Departmental Committees

Green Committee, Department of Biology.

Coordinator of the CEEB (Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour) faculty group within the Department of Biology (» 20 faculty).

Seminar Committee, Department of Biology.

Curriculum Committee, Department of Biology (including: delegate to the Faculty Committee of the Faculty of Science).

Ad hoc member of committee for Hector Guzman's application for Adjunct Professor Status, Department of Biology.

Ad hoc member of committee for Claire de Mazancourt's application for Associate Status, Department of Biology.

Graduate Training Committee, Department of Biology.

Faculty Search Committee “Theoretical Ecology.”

Thesis Examiner

23 candidates

Ph.D. Qualifying Exams

26 candidates

Student Supervisory Committees

Ph.D. candidates, current: 11
Ph.D. candidates, past: 3

M.Sc. candidates, current: 4
M.Sc. candidates, past: 7

Media Coverage

Nouveau directeur à la Réserve Gault. L'Œil Régional.

Publication Fussmann et al. (2007) Functional Ecology rated as ‘Must read’ in Faculty of 1000

Cover photograph: Showing a chemostat to undergraduate student as part of the “Soup and Science” presentation. McGill Reporter

Radio Interview, Deutschlandfunk, about “Rapid Evolution” in Yoshida et al. (2003) Nature

Simple rules predict predator-prey struggles. Cornell Chronicle

Survival of the fittest: New model offers fresh clues. CNN.com (http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/12/11/survival.fittest.enn/)

Abstracts and Presentations

Evolving communities: the role of intrinsic and extrinsic environments. Workshop on Evolutionary Rescue, Montpellier, France.

Granados, M., G.F. Fussmann & S. Plourde. Dissecting intraguild predation: The relative contribution of competition and predation to the maintenance of intraguild prey. Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Pedruski, M., G.F. Fussmann & A. Gonzalez. Dynamics in competitive metacommunities: Fitness inequality and niche differentiation. Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Low-Décarie, G.F. Fussmann & G. Bell. Adaptation of microalgae to nutrient fertilization. Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium, Montreal, QC, Canada (Poster).

Dargent, F., J. Torres-Dowdall, M.E. Scott, C. Ghalambor, I. Ramnarine & G.F. Fussmann. Forming mixed-species shoals reduces parasite loads in Poecilia reticulata and its sister species Poecilia picta. Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX, USA.

Duffy, S., G.F. Fussmann & C.W. McKindsey. Predator-prey interactions between the blue mussel Mytilus edulis and zooplankton: A case of intraguild predation. Aquaculture Canada, QuÈbec City, QC, Canada.

Granados, M., G.F. Fussmann & S. Plourde. The contrasting differences in zooplankton community composition and abundance between aquaculture (farm) and control sites in the Havre-aux-Maisons lagoon, QC. Aquaculture Canada, QuÈbec City, QC, Canada.

Dargent, F., J. Torres-Dowdall, M.E. Scott, C. Ghalambor, I. Ramnarine & G.F. Fussmann. Mixed-species group formation as a potential mechanism of parasite resistance for guppies. Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Low-DÈcarie, G.F. Fussmann & G. Bell. The effect of elevated CO2 on growth and competition in experimental phytoplankton communities. Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Duffy, S., G.F. Fussmann & C. McKindsey. Predator-prey interactions between the blue mussel Mytilus edulis and zooplankton - A case of intraguild predation. PHYSIOMAR10, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Fussmann, G.F. Persistence, cycles and synchronization in experimental populations. CAMBAM (Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine) workshop. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Granados, M., G.F. Fussmann & S. Plourde. The impact of mussel aquaculture on zooplankton communities. PHYSIOMAR10, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Dargent, F., M.E. Scott, A. Hendry & G.F. Fussmann. Evolution of resistance in Poecilia reticulata released from predators and parasites. Eleventh Annual Quebec Molecular Parasitology Symposium, McGill University, St Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada.

Pérez-Jvostov, F., G.F. Fussmann, A.P. Hendry & M.E. Scott. Do evolutionary divergent Trinidadian guppy populations differ in their response to Gyrodactylus parasites? Evolution 2010: Annual Meetings of the American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution and Society of Systematic Biologists. Portland, OR, U.S.A. (Poster).

Kovach-Orr, C. & G.F. Fussmann. Differences between phenotypic plasticity and genetic diversity in tri-trophic food webs. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Pérez-Jvostov, F., A.P. Hendry, G.F. Fussmann & M.E. Scott. Variation in host-parasite dynamics across populations: guppy-Gyrodactylus interactions in experimental stream channels. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Pedruski, M., A. Gonzales & G.F. Fussmann. Competitive dynamics in experimental metacommunities: equalizing and stabilizing mechanisms. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Low-Décarie, E., M. Jewell, G.F. Fussmann & G. Bell. Phytoplankton show no adaptive response to elevated CO2. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Fussmann, G.F. & A. Derry. Source-sink dynamics in experimental microcosm metacommunities. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Delaire, L., G.F. Fussmann & A.P. Hendry. Evolutionary effects of parasitism on the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Québec City, QC, Canada (Poster).

Duffy, S., G.F. Fussmann & C. McKindsey. Predator-prey interactions between the blue mussel Mytilus edulis and zooplankton - A case of intraguild predation. PHYSIOMAR10, Québec City, QC, Canada (Poster).

Ellner, S.P., L. Becks, M. Cortez, G.F. Fussmann, N.G. Hairston, G. Hooker & L.E. Jones. Rapid clonal evolution and food web dynamics. Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

Fussmann, G.F. Rotifers: superb objects for the study of macro- and microevolutionary change. XII International Rotifer Symposium, Berlin, Germany. (Invited key note speaker).

Low-Decarie, E., G.F. Fussmann & G. Bell. Phytoplankton competitive dynamics are altered by elevated CO2. Halifax, NS, Canada.

Dargent, F., M.E. Scott & G.F. Fussmann. Evolution of tolerance and resistance in a guppy-parasite system. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Halifax, NS, Canada (Poster).

Delaire, L.C., F. Dargent, F. Pérez-Jvostov, G.F. Fussmann & A. Hendry. The evolutionary effects of parasitism on the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata): a survey. Halifax, NS, Canada (Poster).

Kovach-Orr, C. & G.F. Fussmann. The differential effects of genotypic diversity and phenotypic plasticity on community stability. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Halifax, NS, Canada (Poster).

Pedruski, M.T., G.F. Fussmann & A. Gonzalez. The relative importance of equalizing and stabilizing mechanisms in competitive coexistence. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Halifax, NS, Canada (Poster).

Pérez-Jvostov, F., L. Delaire, F. Dargent, M. E. Scott & G.F. Fussmann. Ecological response of Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) to infections by Gyrodactylus sp. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Halifax, NS, Canada (Poster).

Fussmann, G.F., L. Rudolf, G. Weithoff, U. Gaedke & B. Blasius. Long-term cyclic persistence and phase signature in an experimental predator-prey system. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Nice, France.

Fussmann, G.F. McGill STARS Lecture (Science Talks About Research for Staff).

Fussmann, G.F. NERC-funded workshop “Linking evolutionary and ecological dynamics” at the Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, UK (invited speaker).

Massie, T.M., B. Blasius, G. Weithoff, U. Gaedke & G.F. Fussmann. Ecological Society of America, San Jose, CA, USA (Poster).

Fussmann, G.F. Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), Montreal, Canada (invited speaker).

Fussmann, G.F. Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Symposium “Mathematical Biology”, Newark, New Jersey, USA (invited speaker).

C. Mavromatis, C., G.F. Fussmann & C. Infante-Rivard. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution, Montreal, QC, Canada (Poster).

Fussmann, G.F. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

Fussmann, G.F. 1st GRECA (Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Comportementale et Animale) Symposium on “Fitness: what index for what goal?” at the Université de Québec à Montréal (invited speaker).

Fussmann, G.F., G. Kramer & M. Labib. International Rotifer Symposium XI, Mexico City, Mexico.

Fussmann, G.F. Ecological Society of America, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Cao, J., G.F. Fussmann & J.O. Ramsay. Statistical Society of Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.

Fussmann, G.F. Ecological Society of America, Savannah, Georgia, USA.

Fussmann, G.F. Workshop “Synchronization and complex dynamics in networks with applications in ecology,” University of Potsdam, Germany, Institute of Physics.

Fussmann, G.F., G. Weithoff & T. Yoshida. International Rotifer Smposium X, Illmitz, Austria.

Fussmann, G.F., S. Ellner & N.G. Hairston, Jr. Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, Utah, USA.

Fussmann, G.F., S. Ellner & N.G. Hairston, Jr. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Fussmann, G.F., S. Ellner & N.G. Hairston, Jr. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Fussmann, G.F., S. Ellner & N.G. Hairston, Jr. Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), Dublin, Ireland.

Fussmann, G.F. Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Fussmann, G.F. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Fussmann, G.F. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Reno, Nevada, USA.

Fussmann, G.F. International Rotifer Symposium VII, Mikołajki, Poland.

Fussmann, G.F. International Rotifer Symposium VI, Banyoles, Spain.

Departmental Seminars

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany

University of Constance, Germany

University of Umeå, Sweden

Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

University of Cologne, Germany

IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz Institute, Kiel, Germany

University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Carl-von-Ossietzky-University Oldenburg, Institute of the Marine Environment, Germany

University of Potsdam, Germany

Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Munich Graduate School for Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany (invited speaker)

Dartmouth College, Department of Biology, Hanover, NH, USA

Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Institut Maurice-Lamontagne, Mont-Joli, Canada

Dept. of Computational Science and Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Dept. of Biological Sciences, Université de Québec à Rimouski, Canada

Centre of Nonlinear Dynamics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Dept. of Biological Sciences, Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada

Dept. of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal, Canada

Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany

Dept. of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Dept. of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Dept. of Biological Sciences, Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell Univerity, Ithaca, NY, USA

Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Publications

Pérez-Jvostov, F., A.P. Hendry, G.F. Fussmann & M.E. Scott. Are host-parasite interactions influenced by adaptation to predators? A test with guppies and Gyrodactylus in experimental stream channels. Oecologia (in press).

Low-Decarie, E., G.F. Fussmann & G. Bell. The effect of elevated CO2 on growth and competition in experimental phytoplankton communities. Global Change Biology 17, 2525-2535.

Fussmann, G.F. Rotifers: excellent objects for the study of macro- and microevolutionary change. Hydrobiologia 662, 11-18.

Massie, T.M., B. Blasius, G. Weithoff, U. Gaedke & G.F. Fussmann. Cycles, phase synchronization, and entrainment in single-species phytoplankton populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 107, 4236-4241.

Jones, L.E., L. Becks, S.P. Ellner, N.G. Hairston Jr., T. Yoshida & G.F. Fussmann. Rapid contemporary evolution and clonal food web dynamics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364, 1579-1591.

Fussmann, G.F. The lake as a system of differential equations - a paradigm for the aquatic ecologist of the 21st century? International Review of Hydrobiology 93, 532-540.

Fussmann, G.F. Experimental measurements of functional response: What is the relevance for food web theory? Proceedings International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology 30, 255-258.

Cao, J., G.F. Fussmann & J.O. Ramsay. Estimating a predator-prey dynamical model with the parameter cascades method. Biometrics 64, 959-967.

Fussmann, G. Chaotic dynamics in food web systems. In: “Complex Population Dynamics: Nonlinear Modeling in Ecology, Epidemiology and Genetics.” Eds.: Blasius, B., J. Kurths & L. Stone, World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems - Vol. 7, p. 1-20.

Fussmann, G.F., G. Kramer & M. Labib. Incomplete induction of mixis in Brachionus calyciflorus: patterns of reproduction at the individual level. Hydrobiologia 593, 111-119.

Fussmann, G.F., M. Loreau & P.A. Abrams. Eco-evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems. Functional Ecology 21, 465-477.

Fussmann, G.F., G. Weithoff & T. Yoshida. A direct, experimental test of resource- vs. consumer-dependence. Reply to a comment by Jensen et al. Ecology 88, 1603-1604.

Fussmann, G.F., G. Weithoff & T. Yoshida. A direct, experimental test of resource- vs. consumer-dependence. Ecology 86, 2924-2930.

Fussmann, G.F., S.P. Ellner, N.G. Hairston Jr., L.E. Jones, K.W. Shertzer & T. Yoshida. Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of experimental plankton communities. Advances in Ecological Research 37, 221-243.

Fussmann, G.F. & B. Blasius. Community response to enrichment is highly sensitive to model structure. Biology Letters 1, 9-12.

Fussmann,G.F., S.P. Ellner & N.G. Hairston Jr. Evolution as a critical component of plankton dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Academy of London B Biological Sciences 270, 1015-1022.

Yoshida, T., L.E. Jones, S.P. Ellner, G.F. Fussmann & N.G. Hairston Jr. Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator-prey system. Nature 424, 303-306.

Ellner, S.P. & G.F. Fussmann. Effects of successional dynamics on metapopulation persistence. Ecology 84, 882-889.

Shertzer, K.W., S.P. Ellner, G.F. Fussmann & N.G. Hairston Jr. Predator-prey cycles in an aquatic microcosm: testing hypotheses of mechanism. Journal of Animal Ecology 71, 802-815.

Fussmann, G.F. & G. Heber. Food web complexity and chaotic population dynamics. Ecology Letters 5, 394-401.

Hairston, N.G. Jr. & G.F. Fussmann. Lake Ecosystems, in: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Reference Ltd., Nature Publishing Group, www.els.net.

Fussmann, G.F., S.P. Ellner, K.W. Shertzer & N.G. Hairston Jr. Crossing the Hopf bifurcation in a live predator-prey system. Science 290, 1358-1360.

Fussmann, G. The importance of crustcean zooplankton in structuring rotifer and phytoplankton communities: an enclosure study. Journal of Plankton Research 18, 1897-1915.

Fussmann, G. Abundance, succession and morphological variation of planktonic rotifers during autumnal circulation in a hypertrophic lake (Heiligensee, Berlin). Hydrobiologia 255/256, 353-360.

Existing Manuscripts (Submitted or To Be Submitted)

Duffy, S., M. Granados, C.W. McKindsey & G.F. Fussmann. Persistence requires modification: How alterations to the basic intraguild predation food web facilitate the coexistence of a mussel intraguild predator and their prey. Submitted to Functional Ecology.

Kovach-Orr, C. & G.F. Fussmann. Evolutionary and plastic rescue in multitrophic model communities. Submitted to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Hiltz, J.C., A. Hajiaboli, G. Singh, T. Gonzalez, R.B. Lennox, G.F. Fussmann, E. Low-DÈcarie & M.P. Andrews. Nanopatterned gold by templated solid state dewetting on the silica warp and weft of diatoms. Submitted to Chemistry of Materials.

Gotanda, K.M., L.C. Delaire, J.A.M. Raeymaekers, F. Pérez-Jvostov, F. Dargent, P. Bentzen, M.E. Scott, G.F. Fussmann & A.P. Hendry. Predation, parasitism, and phenotypes within natural populations of Trinidadian guppies. Submitted to Oikos.

Rudolf, L., G. Weithoff, U. Gaedke, G.F. Fussmann & B. Blasius. Long-term cyclic persistence and phase signature in an experimental predator-prey system. Resubmission to Nature invited.