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  1. Fungal Diversity in a Mountain Lake Is Explained by Weather Patterns

    Article • Freshwater Biology, May 2026, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  2. Inter‐Period and Inter‐Season Variability of Zooplankton of a Mountain Lake With an Emphasis on Under‐Ice Communities

    Article • Freshwater Biology, August 2025, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  3. Ontogenetic changes in swimming performance of a freshwater calanoid copepod

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, June 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  4. Lake ice quality in a warming world

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  5. Influence of egg sacs on the swimming performance of freshwater cyclopoid copepods

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, March 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  6. Decadal changes in surface CO2 concentrations and CO2 fluxes in a mountain lake

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, March 2024, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  7. Swimming behavior and energy metabolism of the calanoid copepod invader Sinodiaptomus sarsi

    Article • Zoology, August 2023, Elsevier

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  8. Trait-Based Research on Rotifera: The Holy Grail or Just Messy?

    Article • Water, April 2023, MDPI AG

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  9. Blooms also like it cold

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography Letters, February 2023, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger, Kiyoko Yokota

  10. A georeferenced dataset of Italian occurrence records of the phylum Rotifera

    Article • Journal of Limnology, February 2023, PAGEPress Publications

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  11. Influence of temperature on swimming performance and respiration rate of the cold-water cyclopoid copepod Cyclops vicinus

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, October 2022, Elsevier

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  12. Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  13. Multi-annual comparisons of summer and under-ice phytoplankton communities of a mountain lake

    Article • Hydrobiologia, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  14. Swimming and respiration in cyclopoid copepods Thermocyclops oithonoides and Oithona davisae and calanoid copepod Paracalanus parvus

    Article • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology, July 2022, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  15. Temporal and spatial differences of the under-ice microbiome are linked to light transparency and chlorophyll-a

    Article • Hydrobiologia, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  16. The new Checklist of the Italian Fauna: Rotifera

    Article • Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, January 2022, California Digital Library (CDL)

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  17. A 40-year perspective of an alpine lake: Is everything the same?

    Article • Limnologica, November 2021, Elsevier

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  18. Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Krzebietke, PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  19. The under-ice microbiome, a five-year study at Lake Tovel

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  20. Do inferences about freshwater phytoplankton communities change when based on microscopy or high‐throughput sequencing data?

    Article • Freshwater Biology, December 2020, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  21. Ice Cover and Extreme Events Determine Dissolved Oxygen in a Placid Mountain Lake

    Article • Water Resources Research, August 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  22. Global CO2 emissions from dry inland waters share common drivers across ecosystems

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  23. Tracking of algal cells: case study of swimming speed of cold-adapted dinoflagellates

    Article • Hydrobiologia, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  24. Multifaceted aspects of synchrony between freshwater prokaryotes and protists

    Article • Molecular Ecology, September 2019, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  25. First study on the male inducing signal in Keratella cochlearis: Crowding is the key

    Article • Limnologica, July 2019, Elsevier

    Univ.Prof. Dr. Thomas Weisse, PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  26. Shift from nival to pluvial recharge of an aquifer-fed lake increases water temperature

    Article • Inland Waters, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  27. Negative phototactic response to UVR in three cosmopolitan rotifers: a video analysis approach

    Article • Hydrobiologia, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  28. Dataset of environmental variables, phytoplankton pigments and cyanotoxins

    Article • Scientific Data, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Krzebietke, PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  29. Temporal variability of bacterioplankton is habitat driven

    Article • Molecular Ecology, September 2018, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  30. Switching between swimming states in rotifers – case study Keratella cochlearis

    Article • Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  31. Taxonomic and functional diversity of rotifers, what do they tell us about community assembly?

    Article • Hydrobiologia, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  32. Plankton dynamics across the freshwater, transitional and marine research sites of the LTER-Italy Network. Patterns, fluctuations, drivers

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2018, Elsevier

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  33. Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins

    Article • Toxins, April 2018, MDPI AG

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger, Dr Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Krzebietke

  34. There to stay: invasive filamentous green alga Mougeotia in Lake Kinneret, Israel

    Article • Hydrobiologia, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  35. Life history traits and demographic parameters in the Keratella cochlearis (Rotifera, Monogononta) species complex

    Article • Hydrobiologia, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Univ.Prof. Dr. Thomas Weisse, PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  36. Mitonuclear discordance as a confounding factor in the DNA taxonomy of monogonont rotifers

    Article • Zoologica Scripta, December 2017, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  37. Morphological and molecular analyses of epikarstic Parastenocarididae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from two Sicilian caves, with description of a new Stammericaris

    Article • Zootaxa, November 2017, Magnolia Press

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  38. Dissolved oxygen dynamics under ice: Three winters of high-frequency data from Lake Tovel, Italy

    Article • Water Resources Research, August 2017, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  39. Effects of re-oligotrophication and climate change on lake thermal structure

    Article • Freshwater Biology, September 2016, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  40. High diversity in Keratella cochlearis (Rotifera, Monogononta): morphological and genetic evidence

    Article • Hydrobiologia, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Univ.Prof. Dr. Thomas Weisse, PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  41. Comparative Analysis of Membrane Lipids in Psychrophilic and Mesophilic Freshwater Dinoflagellates

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, April 2016, Frontiers

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  42. Filming of zooplankton: a case study of rotifer males and Daphnia magna

    Article • Journal of Limnology, November 2015, PAGEPress Publications

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  43. Phytoplankton functional response to spatial and temporal differences in a cold and oligotrophic lake

    Article • Hydrobiologia, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  44. Community assembly of rotifers based on morphological traits

    Article • Hydrobiologia, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  45. Cryptic diversity within the rotiferPolyarthra dolichopteraalong an altitudinal gradient

    Article • Freshwater Biology, September 2014, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  46. SEXUAL SPECIES ARE SEPARATED BY LARGER GENETIC GAPS THAN ASEXUAL SPECIES IN ROTIFERS

    Article • Evolution, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  47. Temperature-induced changes in lipid biomarkers and mycosporine-like amino acids in the psychrophilic dinoflagellatePeridinium aciculiferum

    Article • Freshwater Biology, February 2014, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  48. Stable isotopes of lakes and precipitation along an altitudinal gradient in the Eastern Alps

    Article • Biodegradation, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  49. The widely used small subunit 18S rDNA molecule greatly underestimates true diversity in biodiversity surveys of the meiofauna

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  50. Using DNA taxonomy to investigate the ecological determinants of plankton diversity: explaining the occurrence of Synchaeta spp. (Rotifera, Monogononta) in mountain lakes

    Article • Freshwater Biology, June 2012, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  51. Changes in galactolipid composition of the cold freshwater dinoflagellate Borghiella dodgei in response to temperature

    Article • Hydrobiologia, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  52. Different Diversification Rates Between Sexual and Asexual Organisms

    Article • Evolutionary Biology, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  53. ADAPTATION OF A PSYCHROPHILIC FRESHWATER DINOFLAGELLATE TO ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION1

    Article • Journal of Phycology, July 2011, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  54. Using the guild ratio to characterize pelagic rotifer communities

    Article • Hydrobiologia, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  55. Rotifer species richness along an altitudinal gradient in the Alps

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, June 2010, Wiley

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  56. Eco-fingerprinting of the dinoflagellate Borghiella dodgei: experimental evidence of a specific environmental niche

    Article • Hydrobiologia, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  57. Rotifer–crustacean interactions in a pseudokarstic lake: influence of hydrology

    Article • Aquatic Ecology, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  58. Multifactorial nature of rotifer water layer preferences in an oligotrophic lake

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, February 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  59. Water residence time as a driving force of zooplankton structure and succession

    Article • Aquatic Sciences, November 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger

  60. Trophi morphology and its usefulness for identification of formalin-preserved species of Synchaeta Ehrenberg, 1832 (Rotifera: Monogononta: Synchaetidae)

    Article • Zoologischer Anzeiger, October 2006, Elsevier

    PhD Ulrike Obertegger