Prof. Dr. Markus Weitere

Contact / Address

Prof. Dr. Markus Weitere
Head of Department

Department of River Ecology
Helmholtz-Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Brückstraße 3a
39114 Magdeburg

Tel: 0391 810 9600
Fax: 0391 810 9111
markus.weitere@ufz.de

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Curriculum vitae

since 2010

Head of department River Ecology at Helmholtz-Center for Environmental Research - UFZ and Professor for Applied River Ecology at the Technical University of Dresden

2009

Habilitation at the Faculty for Maths and  Natural Sciences of the University of Cologne

2004-2010

Member of academic staff at Zoological Institute of the University of Cologne

2003/ 04

Post-Doc at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australien (Research Group Kjelleberg)

2001/02

Post-Doc at Free University of Berlin (Research Group Hausmann) and Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremerhaven (Research Group Berninger)

1998-2001

Doctoral thesis at University of Cologne (Research Group Arndt)

1990-1997

Student of Biology (Emphasis: Aquatic Ecology) at University of Cologne


Research fields

  • Procressorientated river ecology
  • Effects of stressors on the ecosystem functioning  in running waters
  • Structure and function of multi-trophic Biofilms
  • Experimential analysis of cause and effects in running waters

Selected activities in the scientific community

2006 – 2008

Selection committee for post-doc scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Since 2011

Editor-in-chief for International Review of Hydrobiology

Since 2011

Selection committee for PhD-scholarships of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

Since 2014

Spokesman of the integrated project (IP) „Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems“ within POF III/ Topic 3

Since 2014

Spokesman of the integrated project (IP) „Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems“ within POF III/ Topic 3

Since 2015

Review Board “Water Research” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)


Current Research Projects

  • Integrated Project „Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Interactions between flow hydrodynamics and biofilm attributes and functioning (BIOFLOW). Funded by the German Science Foundation – DFG
  • “Trait variability and defense costs in coupled bi-trophic plankton - biofilm systems: effects on predator-prey dynamics and coexistence”. Within the Priority Program “Flexibility matters: Interplay between trait diversity and ecological dynamics using aquatic communities as model systems (DynaTrait)”. Funded by the German Science Foundation – DFG
  • Grazer control of benthic algal biomass: The role of food quality on different levels of spatial organization. (Funded by the German Science Foundation – DFG)
  • Wilde Mulde: Revitalisierung einer Wildflusslandschaft in Mitteldeutschland. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Implementation of regional protective measures and development of a new national conservation program for the priority species: Freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) and Painter‘s mussel (Unio pictorum) – ArKoNaVera. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)


List of Publications

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Publications before 2010

2009

Caspers, B., Junge, C., Weitere, M. & Steinfartz, S. (2009): Habitat adaptation rather than genetic distance correlates with female preference in fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra). Frontiers in Zoology 6(13), DOI: 1186/1742-9994-6-13.
Kathol, M., Norf, H., Arndt, H. & Weitere, M. (2009): Effects of temperature increase on the grazing of planktonic bacteria by biofilm-dwelling consumers. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 55: 65-79.
Norf, H., Arndt, H. & Weitere, M. (2009): Effects of resource supplements on mature ciliate biofilms: An empirical test using a novel type of flow cells. Biofouling 25: 769-778.
Norf, H., Arndt, H. & Weitere, M. (2009): Responses of biofilm-dwelling ciliate communities to planktonic and benthic resource enrichment. Microbial Ecology 57: 687-700.
Vohmann, A., Mutz, M., Arndt, H. & Weitere, M. (2009): Grazing impact and phenology of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri and the bryozoans Plumatella emarginata and Fredericella sultana under experimental warming. Freshwater Biology 54: 1078-1092.
Weitere, M., Vohmann, A., Schulz, N., Linn, C., Dietrich, D. & Arndt, H. (2009): Linking environmental warming to the fitness of the invasive clam Corbicula fluminea. Global Change Biology 15: 2838-2851.
Wey, J., Norf, H., Arndt, H. & Weitere, M. (2009): Role of dispersal in shaping communities of ciliates and heterotrophic flagellates within riverine biofilms. Limnology and Oceanography 54: 1615-1626.

2008

Weitere, M., Dahlmann, J., Viergutz, C. and Arndt, H. (2008): Differential grazer-mediated effects of high summer temperatures on pico- and nanoplankton communities. Limnology and Oceanography 53(2), 477-486.
Wey, J., Scherwass, A., Norf, H., Arndt, H. and Weitere, M. (2008): Effects of protozoan grazing within river biofilms under semi-natural conditions. Aquatic Micorbial Ecology 52, 283-296.

2007

Steinfartz, S., Weitere, M. and Tautz, D. (2007): Tracing the first step to speciation - ecological and genetic differentiation of a salamander population in a small forest. Molecular Ecology 16(21), 4550-4561.
Nitsche, F., Weitere, M., Scheckenbach, F., Hausmann, K., Wylezich, C. and Arndt, H. (2007): Deep sea records of choanoflagellates with a description of two new species. Acta Protozoologica 46(2), 99-106.
Norf, H., Arndt, H. and Weitere, M. (2007): Impact of local temperature increase on the early development of biofilm-associated ciliate communities. Oecologia 151(2), 341-350.
Viergutz, C., Kathol, M., Norf, H., Arndt, H. and Weitere, M. (2007): Control of microbial communities by the macrofauna: A sensitive interaction in the context of extreme summer temperatures? Oecologia 151(1), 115-124.
Wylezich, C., Mylnikov, A.P., Weitere, M. and Arndt, H. (2007): Freshwater thaumatomonads as common amoeboid heterotrophic flagellates: Distribution, phylogenetic relationships and description of a new species. Journal of Eucaryotic Microbiology 54(4), 347-357.

2006-2002

Hausmann, K., Selchow, P., Scheckenbach, F., Weitere, M. and Arndt, H. (2006): Cryptic species in a morphospecies complex of heterotrophic flagellates: The case study of Caecitellus spp. Acta Protozoologica 45: 415-431.
Queck, S.Y., Weitere, M., Moreno, A.M., Rice, S.A. and Kjelleberg, S. (2006): The role of the quorum sensing mediated developmental traits in the resistance of Serratia marcescens biofilms against protozoan grazing. Environmental Microbiology 8(6), 1017-1025.
Scheckenbach, F., Wylezich, C., Mylnikov, A.P., Weitere, M. and Arndt, H. (2006): Molecular comparisons of freshwater and marine isolates of the same morphospecies of heterotrophic flagellates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72: 6638-6643.
Scheckenbach, F., Wylezich, C., Weitere, M., Hausmann, K. and Arndt, H. (2005): Molecular identity of strains of heterotrophic flagellates isolated from surface waters and deep-sea sediments of the South Atlantic based on SSU rDNA. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 38: 239-247.
Weitere, M., Bergfeld, T., Matz, C., Rice, S.A. and Kjelleberg, S. (2005): Grazing resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms depends on type of protective mechanism, developmental stage and protozoan feeding mode. Environmental Microbiology 7: 1593-1601.
Weitere, M., Scherwass, A., Sieben, K.-T. and Arndt, H. (2005): Planktonic food web structure and potential carbon flow in the lower River Rhine with a focus on the role of the protozoans. River Research and Applications 21: 535-549.
Budéus, G., Cisewski, B., Ronski S., Dietrich, D. and Weitere, M. (2004): Structure and effects of a long lived vortex in the Greenland Sea. Geophysical Research Letters 31(5): Art. No. L05304.
Weitere, M., Tautz, D., Neumann, D. and Steinfartz, S. (2004): Adaptive divergence vs. environmental plasticity: tracing local genetic adaptation of metamorphosis traits in salamanders. Molecular Ecology 13(6): 1665-1677.
Arndt, H., Schmidt-Denter, K., Auer, B. and Weitere, M. (2003): Biofilms and protozoans. In: Krumbein, W.E., Paterson, D.M. und Zavarzin, G.A. (eds.): Fossil and recent biofilms, mats and networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: 173-189.
Weitere, M. and Arndt, H. (2003): Structure of the heterotrophic flagellate community in the water column of the River Rhine (Germany). European Journal of Protistology 39(3): 287-300.
Weitere, M., Schmidt-Denter, K. and Arndt, H. (2003): Laboratory experiments on the impact of biofilms on the plankton of a large river. Freshwater Biology 48, 1983-1992.
Hausmann, K., Hülsmann, N., Polianski, I., Schade, S. and Weitere, M. (2002): Benthic protozoans along a transect at different depths (156 to 4,617 meters) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Deep Sea Research Part I 49: 1959-1970.
Hausmann, K., Weitere, M., Wolf, M. and Arndt, H. (2002): Meteora sporadica gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Protista incertae sedis) - an extraordinary free-living protist from the Mediterranean deep sea. European Journal of Protistology 38: 171-177.
Weitere, M. and Arndt, H. (2002): Top-down effects on pelagic heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) in a large river (River Rhine): Do losses to the benthos play a role? Freshwater Biology 47: 1437-1450.
Weitere, M. and Arndt, H. (2002): Water discharge-regulated bacteria/ heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) interactions in the water column of the River Rhine. Microbial Ecology 44: 19-29.
Arndt, H., Dietrich, D., Auer, B., Cleven, E.J., Gräfenhan, T., Weitere, M. and Mylnikov, A.P. (2000): Functional diversity of heterotrophic flagellates in aquatic ecosystems. In: Leadbeater, B.S.C. and Green, J.C. (eds.): The flagellates. Taylor & Francis, London, New York: 240-268.