Recent publications
Ohlberger 2013. Climate warming and ectotherm body size – from individual physiology to community ecology. Functional Ecology. Accepted.
Ohlberger et al. 2013. Biotic and abiotic effects on cohort size distributions in fish. Oikos. Early Online.
Ohlberger et al. 2012. Community-level consequences of cannibalism. American Naturalist 180(6):791-801.
Mehner et al. 2012. Ecological commonalities among pelagic fishes - comparison of freshwater ciscoes and marine herring and sprat. Marine Biology 159:2583-2603.
Rouyer et al. 2012. Does increasing mortality change the response of fish populations to environmental fluctuations? Ecology Letters 15: 658–665.
Jan Ohlberger
Keywords: community interactions, ecological speciation, life-history, metabolic scaling, population dynamics, energetics, thermal adaptation
Research interests: I am an animal physiologist and evolutionary ecologist. My research aims at understanding the functioning of living organisms and their interdependence with the abiotic world. I am particularly interested in the ecological and evolutionary responses of fish populations to climate change, exploitation and infectious diseases. One of my goals is to link physiological processes at the individual level with the population dynamics and the adaptive evolution of species. I use a variety of approaches including laboratory experiments, statistical analysis of time-series data, and mathematical models in combination with empirical data such as eco-evolutionary models, size-structured population models, and stage-based biomass models.
