Prof. Dr. Sebastian
Diehl
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Curriculum Vitae
University Education
1981-1983
University of Konstanz, Germany,
undergraduate studies in biology
1983-1987
University of Göttingen, Germany, Diplom in
biology (appr. equiv. MSc)
1985-1986
University of Lund, Sweden, studies in
limnology and water management
1987-1994
Graduate studies at the Universities of Lund
(until 1989) and Umeå, Sweden; graduate
advisor Dr. Lennart Persson
Professional Positions
7.87-6.89
Research (50%) and teaching (variable)
assistant, Dept. of Ecology, Limnology,
University of Lund
7.89-6.94
Research and teaching assistant (100%),
Dept. of Animal Ecology, University of Umeå
6.94-9.96
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of
California at Santa Barbara
10.96-present
Professor, Dept. of Zoology, LudwigMaximilians-Universität, München; Director of
the Limnological Research Station of the
University of Munich at Seeon
Professional Services
I have presented numerous contributed and invited papers at
international conferences and at national conferences in my
respective academic "home countries" Sweden, the U.S., and
Germany. I have organized and co-chaired (together with Orlando
Sarnelle) the Special Session "The interplay between theory and
field experiment: getting beyond yes-or-no answers" at the annual
meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
in Copenhagen, June 2000. I have also given over 40 invited talks
at German, American, Swedish, Norwegian, Canadian, Dutch,
Swiss, and Austrian university departments.
I have reviewed manuscripts/proposals for the following scientific
journals/grant agencies: American Naturalist, Aquatic Sciences,
Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and
Aquatic Sciences, Ecography, Ecology, Ecology Letters,
Environmental Biology of Fishes, Estuaries, Fisheries Bulletin,
Freshwater Biology, Hydrobiologia, Journal of Animal Ecology,
Journal of the North American Benthological Society, Journal of
theoretical Biology, Limnologica, Limnology and Oceanography,
Nature, Oecologia, Oikos, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Water
Research, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (= German Science
Foundation), Volkswagen-Foundation, The Israel Science
Foundation, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO).
I have served on the Editorial Board of Oecologia from 1999 to
2003 and serve on the Editorial Board of The American Naturalist
since October 2002.
I serve as the director of the Limnological Research Station of the
University of Munich at Seeon since October 1996.
I have served as a member of the Steering council (Fakultätsrat) of
the Biology Section (Fakultät für Biologie), University of Munich
from 2002-2004. I have served as a member of the Steering
committee of the Department of Biology II (formerly Institute of
Zoology), University of Munich from 1998-2004 and as its vicedirector from 2002-2004.
I serve on the Nature Conservation Board (Oberster
Naturschutzbeirat) of the Bavarian Ministery of the Environment
and Health since 2005.
Teaching Experience
Lectures
Introductory limnology (2 hrs/wk), Priniciples of ecology (4 hrs/wk,
together with W. Gabriel)), Stream ecology (2 hrs/wk), Introduction
to Fish Biology (1 single lecture)
Seminars
Limnology (2 hrs/wk), Resource competition (2 hrs/sk), Stream
ecology (2 hrs/wk, co-taught with C. Matthaei)
Field
/
lab
courses
Freshwater invertebrates (1 wk), Introduction to experimental
research in freshwater ecology (1 wk), Introduction to ecology (1
wk of a 6 wks course, co-taught wit h W. Traunsburger, H. Stibor,
C. Matthaei), Aquatic ecology (5 wks), Methods in Stream Ecology
(1 wk) , Introduction to Fish Biology (1 single 3 hrs lab course,
embedded in course "Animal Diversity")
Course
coordination
Basal Course Ecology and evolutionary Biology (6 wk; co-taught
with 8 other faculty members)
Publications
Publications in Refereed Scientific Journals and Books
1) Diehl, S. 1988. Foraging efficiency of three fishes: Effects of
structural complexity and light. Oikos 53: 207-214.
2) Persson, L. and Diehl, S. 1990. Mechanistic individual-based
approaches in the population/community ecology of fish. Annales
Zoologici Fennici 27:165-182.
3) Persson, L., Diehl, S., Johansson, L., Andersson, G. and
Hamrin, S. 1991. The change of fish communities along the
productivity gradient of temperate lakes - patterns and the
importance of size-structured interactions. Journal of Fish Biology
38:281-293.
4) Persson, L., Diehl, S., Johansson, L., Andersson, G. and
Hamrin, S. 1992. Trophic interactions in temperate lake
ecosystems: a test of food chain theory. American Naturalist
140:59-84.
5) Diehl, S. 1992. Fish predation and benthic community structure:
the role of omnivory and habitat complexity. Ecology 73:16461661.
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6) Persson, L., Johansson, L., Andersson, G., Diehl, S. and
Hamrin, S.F. 1993. Density dependent interactions in lake
ecosystems: whole lake perturbation experiments. Oikos 66:193208.
7) Diehl, S. 1993. Effects of habitat structure on resource
availability, diet, and growth of benthivorous perch (Perca
fluviatilis). Oikos 67:403-414.
8) Diehl, S. 1993. Relative consumer sizes and the strengths of
direct and indirect interactions in omnivorous feeding relationships.
Oikos 68:151-157.
9) Diehl, S., Lundberg, P.A., Gardfjell, H., Oksanen, L. and
Persson, L. 1993. Daphnia-phytoplankton interactions in lakes: is
there a need for ratio-dependent models? American Naturalist
142:1052-1061.
10) Eklöv, P. and Diehl, S. 1994. Piscivore efficiency and refuging
prey: the importance of predator search mode. Oecologia 98:344353.
11) Diehl, S., and Eklöv, P. 1995. Effects of piscivore-mediated
habitat use on resources, diet, and growth of benthivorous perch
(Perca
fluviatilis).
Ecology
76:1712-1726.
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12) Diehl, S. 1995. Direct and indirect effects of omnivory in a
littoral
lake
community.
Ecology
76:1727-1740.
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13) Persson, L., Diehl, S., Eklöv, P. and Christensen, B. 1997.
Flexibility in fish behaviour - consequences at the population and
community levels. - Pages 316-343 in Godin, J.-G.J. (ed.).
Behavioural ecology of teleost fishes. Oxford University Press,
Oxford, UK, 384 pp.
14) Cooper, S.D., Barmuta, L., Sarnelle, O., Kratz, K., and Diehl,
S. 1997. Quantifying spatial heterogeneity in streams. Journal of
the North American Benthological Society 16:174-188.
15) Nisbet, R.M., Diehl, S., Cooper, S.D., Wilson, W.G., Donalson,
D.D., and Kratz, K. 1997. Primary productivity gradients and shortterm population dynamics in open systems. Ecological
Monographs
67:535-553.
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16) Diehl, S., and Kornijow, R. 1998. Influence of submerged
macrophytes on trophic interactions among fish and
macroinvertebates. - Pages 24-46 in Jeppesen, E., Søndergaard,
Ma., Søndergaard, Mo., and Christoffersen, K. (eds). The
structuring role of submerged macrophytes in lakes. Springer
Verlag, New York.
17) Cooper, S.D., S. Diehl. K. Kratz, and O. Sarnelle. 1998.
Implications of scale for patterns and processes in stream ecology.
Australian Journal of Ecology 23:27-40.
18) Jenkins, T.M. Jr., S. Diehl, S.D. Cooper, and K.W. Kratz. 1999.
Effects of intraspecific density on individual growth of brown trout
in
streams.
Ecology
80:941-956.
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19) Wahlström, E., L. Persson, S. Diehl, and P. Byström. 2000.
Size-dependent predation and pelagic community structure comparisons among lakes with different top predators. Oecologia
123:138-148.
20) Diehl, S., and M. Feißel. 2000. Effects of enrichment on 3-level
food chains with omnivory. American Naturalist 155:200-218.
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21) Diehl, S., S.D. Cooper, K.W. Kratz, R.M. Nisbet, S.K. Roll,
S.M. Wiseman, and T.M.Jenkins, Jr. 2000. Effects of multiple,
predator-induced behaviors on short-term population dynamics in
open
systems.
American
Naturalist
156:293-313.
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22) Diehl, S, and M. Feißel. 2001. Intraguild prey suffer from
enrichment of their resources: a microcosm experiment with
ciliates.
Ecology
82:2977-2983.
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23) Diehl, S. 2002. Phytoplankton, light, and nutrients in a gradient
of
mixing
depths:
theory.
Ecology
83:386-398.
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24) Diehl, S., S. Berger, R. Ptacnik, and A. Wild. 2002.
Phytoplankton, light, and nutrients in a gradient of mixing depths:
field
experiments.
Ecology
83:399-411.
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25) Chase, J., P.A. Abrams, J. Grover, S. Diehl, P. Chesson, R.D.
Holt, S.A. Richards, R.M. Nisbet, and T.J. Case. 2002. The
interaction between predation and competition: A review and
synthesis. Ecology Letters 5:302-315.
26) Kunz, T. J., and S. Diehl. 2003. Phytoplankton, light, and
nutrients in a gradient of mixing depths: a field test of producerresource theory. Freshwater Biology 48:1050-1063.
27) Ptacnik, R., S. Diehl, and S. Berger. 2003. Patterns of
abundance of phytoplankton species along an experimental mixing
depth gradient. Limnology and Oceanography 48:1903-1912.
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28) Diehl, S. 2003. The evolution and maintenance of omnivory:
dynamic constraints and the role of food quality. Ecology 84:25572567.
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29) Stibor, H., O. Vadstein, S. Diehl, A. Gelzleichter, F. Hantzsche,
A. Katechakis, B. Lippert, K. Løseth, C. Peters, W. Roederer, M.
Sandow, L. Sundt-Hansen, and Y. Olsen. 2004. Copepods act as
a switch between alternative trophic cascades in marine food
webs. Ecology Letters 7:321-328.
30) Roll, S., S. Diehl, and S.D. Cooper. 2005. Effects of grazer
immigration and nutrient enrichment on an open algae-grazer
system.
Oikos
108:386-400.
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31) Krivan, V., and S. Diehl. 2005. Adaptive omnivory and species
coexistence in tri-trophic food webs. Theoretical Population
Biology 67:85-99.
32) Anderson, K.E., R.M. Nisbet, S. Diehl, and S.D. Cooper. 2005.
Spatial scaling of population responses to environmental variability
in advection-dominated systems. Ecology Letters 8:933-943.
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33) Diehl, S., S.A. Berger, and R. Wöhrl. 2005. Flexible nutrient
stoichiometry mediates environmental influences on phytoplankton
and
its
abiotic
resources.
Ecology
6:2931-2945.
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34) Liess, A., and S. Diehl. 2006. Effects of enrichment on protist
abundances and bacterial composition in simple microbial
communities. Oikos 114:15-26.
35) Berger, S.A., S. Diehl, T.J. Kunz, D. Albrecht, A.M. Oucible,
and S. Ritzer. 2006. Light supply, plankton biomass and seston
stoichiometry in a gradient of lake mixing depths. Limnology and
Oceanography
51:1898-1905.
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36) Anderson, K.E., R.M. Nisbet, and S. Diehl. 2006. Spatial
scaling of consumer-resource interactions in advection-dominated
systems.
American
Naturalist
168:358-372.
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37) Berger, S.A., S. Diehl, H. Stibor, G. Trommer, M. Ruhenstroth,
C. Jäger, and M. Striebel. 2006. Water temperature and mixing
depth affect timing and intensity of events during spring
succession of the plankton. Oecologia, online first DOI
10.1007/s00442-006-0550-9.
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