Publications – Prof.dr. Jef Huisman

The Paradox of the Plankton, Our 2005 book:

on the cover of Ecology Letters Harmful Cyanobacteria

Books

Huisman, J., Matthijs, H.C.P & Visser, P.M., eds. 2005. Harmful Cyanobacteria. Springer, Berlin.

My favorite journal publications, listed per subject

Climate change:

Van de Waal, D.B., Verspagen, J.M.H., Finke, J.F., Vournazou, V., Immers, A.K., Kardinaal, W.E.A., Tonk, L., Becker, S., van Donk, E., Visser, P.M. & Huisman, J. 2011. Reversal in competitive dominance of a toxic versus non-toxic cyanobacterium in response to rising CO₂. ISME Journal 5: 1438-1450.

This paper is highlighted in Nature Climate Change: Wilhelm, S.W. & Boyer, G.L. 2011. Healthy competition. Nature Climate Change 1: 300-301.

Van de Waal, D.B., Verschoor, A.M., Verspagen, J.M.H., van Donk, E. & Huisman, J. 2010. Climate-driven changes in the ecological stoichiometry of aquatic ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 145-152.

Van de Waal, D.B., Verspagen, J.M.H., Lürling, M., van Donk, E., Visser, P.M. & Huisman, J. 2009. The ecological stoichiometry of toxins produced by harmful cyanobacteria: an experimental test of the carbon-nutrient balance hypothesis. Ecology Letters 12: 1326-1335.

Paerl, H.W. & Huisman, J. 2009. Climate change: a catalyst for global expansion of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. Environmental Microbiology Reports 1: 27-37.

Paerl, H.W. & Huisman, J. 2008. Blooms like it hot. Science 320: 57-58.

Jöhnk, K.D., Huisman, J., Sharples, J., Sommeijer, B., Visser, P.M. & Stroom, J.M. 2008. Summer heatwaves promote blooms of harmful cyanobacteria. Global Change Biology 14: 495-512.

De Senerpont Domis, L.N., Mooij, W.M. & Huisman, J. 2007. Climate-induced shifts in an experimental phytoplankton community: a mechanistic approach. Hydrobiologia 584: 403-413.

Huisman, J., Pham Thi, N.N., Karl, D.M. & Sommeijer, B. 2006. Reduced mixing generates oscillations and chaos in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum. Nature 439: 322-325.

Living in variable environments:

Benincà, E., Dakos, V., van Nes, E.H., Huisman, J. & Scheffer, M. 2011. Resonance of plankton communities with temperature fluctuations. American Naturalist 178: E85-E95.

Visser, F., Hartman, K.L., Pierce, G.J., Valavanis, V.D. & Huisman, J. 2011. Timing of migratory baleen whales at the Azores in relation to the North Atlantic spring bloom. Marine Ecology Progress Series 440: 267-279.

Dakos, V., Benincà, E., van Nes, E.H., Philippart, C.J.M., Scheffer, M. & Huisman, J. 2009. Interannual variability in species composition explained as seasonally entrained chaos. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 276: 2871-2880.

Stomp, M., van Dijk, M.A., van Overzee, H.M.J., Wortel, M., Sigon, C., Egas, M., Hoogveld, H., Gons, H.J. & Huisman, J. 2008. The timescale of phenotypic plasticity and its impact on competition in fluctuating environments. American Naturalist 172: E169-E185.

Ducobu, H., Huisman, J., Jonker, R.R. & Mur, L.R. 1998. Competition between a prochlorophyte and a cyanobacterium under various phosphorus regimes: comparison with the Droop model. Journal of Phycology 34: 467-476.

Global biodiversity patterns:

Stomp, M., Huisman, J., Mittelbach, G.G., Litchman, E. & Klausmeier, C.A. 2011. Large-scale biodiversity patterns in freshwater phytoplankton. Ecology 92: 2096-2107.

This paper is highlighted as Editors’ Choice in Science. Science 333: 15 (2011).

Huisman, J. 2010. Comment on “Patterns of diversity in marine phytoplankton”. Science 329: 512.

Irigoien, X., Huisman, J. & Harris, R.P. 2005. Different measures of biodiversity. Nature 433 (27 January 2005) doi:10.1038/nature03320.

Irigoien, X., Huisman, J. & Harris, R.P. 2004. Global biodiversity patterns of marine phytoplankton and zooplankton. Nature 429: 863-867.

This paper is highlighted in Nature’s News & Views: Morin, P.J. & Fox, J.W. 2004. Diversity in the deep blue sea. Nature 429: 813-814.

Chaos & biodiversity:

Benincà, E., Jöhnk, K.D., Heerkloss, R. & Huisman, J. 2009. Coupled predator-prey oscillations in a chaotic food web. Ecology Letters 12: 1367-1378.

This paper is highlighted in Nature and Science:

Research Highlights. Nature 462: 15 (2009).

Editors’ Choice. Science 326: 773 (2009).

Benincà, E., Huisman, J., Heerkloss, R., Jöhnk, K.D., Branco, P., van Nes, E.H., Scheffer, M. & Ellner, S.P. 2008. Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community. Nature 451: 822-825.

This paper is highlighted in Nature’s Authors Abstractions. Nature 451: xiii (14 February 2008).

And in Science-NOW: Pennisi, E. 2008. Plankton politics are unpredictable. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org of February 13, 2008.

Scheffer, M., Rinaldi, S., Huisman, J. & Weissing, F.J. 2003. Why plankton communities have no equilibrium: solutions to the paradox. Hydrobiologia 491: 9-18.

Huisman, J. & Weissing, F.J. 2002. Oscillations and chaos generated by competition for interactively essential resources. Ecological Research 17: 175-181.

Huisman, J. & Weissing, F.J. 2001. Biological conditions for oscillations and chaos generated by multispecies competition. Ecology 82: 2682-2695.

Huisman, J. & Weissing, F.J. 2001. Fundamental unpredictability in multispecies competition. American Naturalist 157: 488-494.

This paper is highlighted as Editors’ Choice in Science. Science 292: 811 (2001).

And discussed in the online edition of Scientific American: Baker, O. 2001. Who will win? http://www.sciam.com/explore_directory.cfm of May 21, 2001.

Huisman, J., Johansson, A.M., Folmer, E.O. & Weissing, F.J. 2001. Towards a solution of the plankton paradox: the importance of physiology and life history. Ecology Letters 4: 408-411.

Huisman, J. & Weissing, F.J. 2000. Reply - Coexistence and resource competition. Nature 407: 694.

Huisman, J. & Weissing, F.J. 1999. Biodiversity of plankton by species oscillations and chaos. Nature 402: 407-410.

This paper is highlighted in Nature’s News & Views: Sommer, U. 1999. Competition and coexistence. Nature 402: 366-367.

Competition for nutrients and light:

Gerla, D.J., Wolf, W.M. & Huisman, J. 2011. Photoinhibition and the assembly of light-limited phytoplankton communities. Oikos 120: 359-368.

Agawin, N.S.R., Rabouille, S., Veldhuis, M.J.W., Servatius, L., Hol, S., van Overzee, H.M.J. & Huisman, J. 2007. Competition and facilitation between unicellular nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria and non-nitrogen-fixing phytoplankton species. Limnology and Oceanography 52: 2233-2248.

Kardinaal, W.E.A., Tonk, L., Janse, I., Hol, S., Slot, P., Huisman, J. & Visser, P.M. 2007. Competition for light between toxic and nontoxic strains of the harmful cyanobacterium Microcystis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73: 2939-2946.

Wilson, J.B., Spijkerman, E. & Huisman, J. 2007. Is there really insufficient support for Tilman’s R* concept? A comment on Miller et al. American Naturalist 169: 700-706.

Passarge, J., Hol, S., Escher, M. & Huisman, J. 2006. Competition for nutrients and light: stable coexistence, alternative stable states, or competitive exclusion? Ecological Monographs 76: 57-72.

Huisman, J., Sharples, J., Stroom, J., Visser, P.M., Kardinaal, W.E.A., Verspagen, J.M.H. & Sommeijer, B. 2004. Changes in turbulent mixing shift competition for light between phytoplankton species. Ecology 85: 2960-2970.

Huisman, J., van Oostveen, P. & Weissing, F.J. 1999. Species dynamics in phytoplankton blooms: incomplete mixing and competition for light. American Naturalist 154: 46-68.

Huisman, J., Jonker, R.R., Zonneveld, C. & Weissing, F.J. 1999. Competition for light between phytoplankton species: experimental tests of mechanistic theory. Ecology 80: 211-222.

Huisman, J. 1999. Population dynamics of light-limited phytoplankton: microcosm experiments. Ecology 80: 202-210.

De Nobel, W.T., Huisman, J., Snoep, J.L. & Mur, L.R. 1997. Competition for phosphorus between the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria Anabaena and Aphanizomenon. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 24: 259-267.

Huisman, J. & Weissing, F.J. 1995. Competition for nutrients and light in a mixed water column: a theoretical analysis. American Naturalist 146: 536-564.

Weissing, F.J. & Huisman, J. 1994. Growth and competition in a light gradient. Journal of Theoretical Biology 168: 323-336.

Huisman, J. & Weissing, F.J. 1994. Light-limited growth and competition for light in well-mixed aquatic environments: an elementary model. Ecology 75: 507-520.

Coexistence in the light spectrum:

Haverkamp, T.H.A., Schouten, D., Doeleman, M., Wollenzien, U., Huisman, J. & Stal, L.J. 2009. Colorful microdiversity of Synechococcus strains (picocyanobacteria) isolated from the Baltic Sea. ISME Journal 3: 397-408.

Acinas, S.G., Haverkamp, T.H.A., Huisman, J. & Stal, L.J. 2009. Phenotypic and genetic diversification of Pseudanabaena spp. (Cyanobacteria). ISME Journal 3: 31-46.

Atamna-Ismaeel, N., Sabehi, G., Sharon, I., Witzel, K.P., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K., Barkay, T., Stomp, M., Huisman, J. & Béjà, O. 2010. Corrigendum: Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems. ISME Journal 4: 462.

Atamna-Ismaeel, N., Sabehi, G., Sharon, I., Witzel, K.P., Labrenz, M., Jürgens, K., Barkay, T., Stomp, M., Huisman, J. & Béjà, O. 2008. Widespread distribution of proteorhodopsins in freshwater and brackish ecosystems. ISME Journal 2: 656-662.

Haverkamp, T., Acinas, S.G., Doeleman, M., Stomp, M., Huisman, J. & Stal, L.J. 2008. Diversity and phylogeny of Baltic Sea picocyanobacteria inferred from their ITS and phycobiliprotein operons. Environmental Microbiology 10: 174-188.

Stomp, M., Huisman, J., Stal, L.J. & Matthijs, H.C.P. 2007. Colorful niches of phototrophic microorganisms shaped by vibrations of the water molecule. ISME Journal 1: 271-282.

This paper is highlighted in Nature’s News & Views: Raven, J. 2007. Photosynthesis in watercolours. Nature 448:418.

Stomp, M., Huisman, J., Vörös, L., Pick, F.R., Laamanen, M., Haverkamp, T. & Stal, L.J. 2007. Colourful coexistence of red and green picocyanobacteria in lakes and seas. Ecology Letters 10: 290-298.

This paper is highlighted as Editors’ Choice in Science. Science 315: 1339 (2007).

Stomp, M., Huisman, J., de Jongh, F., Veraart, A.J., Gerla, D., Rijkeboer, M., Ibelings, B.W., Wollenzien, U.I.A. & Stal, L.J. 2004. Adaptive divergence in pigment composition promotes phytoplankton biodiversity. Nature 432: 104-107.

This paper is highlighted in Science-NOW: Proffitt, F. 2004. Plankton share the spectrum. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org of October 12, 2004.

Plankton dynamics & hydrodynamics:

Pham Thi, N.N., Huisman, J. & Sommeijer, B. 2005. Simulation of 3D phytoplankton dynamics: competition in light-limited environments. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 174: 57-77.

Huisman, J. & Sommeijer, B. 2002. Population dynamics of sinking phytoplankton in light-limited environments: simulation techniques and critical parameters. Journal of Sea Research 48: 83-96.

Huisman, J. & Sommeijer, B. 2002. Maximal sustainable sinking velocity of phytoplankton species. Marine Ecology Progress Series 244: 39-48.

Huisman, J., Arrayás, M., Ebert, U. & Sommeijer, B. 2002. How do sinking phytoplankton species manage to persist? American Naturalist 159: 245-254.

Ebert, U., Arrayás, M., Temme, N., Sommeijer, B. & Huisman, J. 2001. Critical conditions for phytoplankton blooms. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 63: 1095-1124.

Huisman, J., van Oostveen, P. & Weissing, F.J. 1999. Critical depth and critical turbulence: two different mechanisms for the development of phytoplankton blooms. Limnology and Oceanography 44: 1781-1787.

Harmful algal blooms:

Matthijs, H.C.P., Visser, P.M., Reeze, B., Meeuse, J., Slot, P.C., Wijn, G., Talens, R. & Huisman, J. 2012. Selective suppression of harmful cyanobacteria in an entire lake with hydrogen peroxide. Water Research (in press).

Van de Waal, D.B., Ferreruela, G., Tonk, L., van Donk, E., Huisman, J., Visser, P.M. & Matthijs, H.C.P. 2010. Pulsed nitrogen supply induces dynamic changes in the amino acid composition and microcystin production of the harmful cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 74: 430-438.

Blauw, A.N., Los, F.J., Huisman, J. & Peperzak, L. 2010. Nuisance foam events and Phaeocystis globosa blooms in Dutch coastal waters analyzed with fuzzy logic. Journal of Marine Systems 83: 115-126.

Wilken, S., Wiezer, S., Huisman, J. & van Donk, E. 2010. Microcystins do not provide anti-herbivore defence against mixotrophic flagellates. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 59: 207-216.

Tonk, L., Welker, M., Huisman, J. & Visser, P.M. 2009. Production of cyanopeptolins, anabaenopeptins, and microcystins by the harmful cyanobacteria Anabaena 90 and Microcystis PCC 7806. Harmful Algae 8: 219-224.

Tonk, L., van de Waal, D.B., Slot, P., Huisman, J., Matthijs, H.C.P. & Visser, P.M. 2008. Amino acid availability determines the ratio of microcystin variants in the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 65: 383-390.

Kardinaal, W.E.A., Janse, I., Kamst-van Agterveld, M., Meima, M., Snoek, J., Mur, L.R., Huisman, J., Zwart, G. & Visser, P.M. 2007. Microcystis genotype succession in relation to microcystin concentrations in freshwater lakes. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 48: 1-12.

Tonk, L., Bosch, K., Visser, P.M. & Huisman, J. 2007. Salt tolerance of the harmful cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 46: 117-123.

Verspagen, J.M.H., Visser, P.M. & Huisman, J. 2006. Aggregation with clay causes sedimentation of the buoyant cyanobacteria Microcystis spp. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 44: 165-174.

Verspagen, J.M.H., Passarge, J., Jöhnk, K.D., Visser, P.M., Peperzak, L., Boers, P., Laanbroek, H.J. & Huisman, J. 2006. Water management strategies against toxic Microcystis blooms in the Dutch delta. Ecological Applications 16: 313-327.

Tonk, L., Visser, P.M., Christiansen, G., Dittmann, E., Snelder, O.F.M., Wiedner, C., Mur, L.R. & Huisman, J. 2005. The microcystin composition of the cyanobacterium Planktothrix agardhii changes towards a more toxic variant with increasing light intensity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71: 5177-5181.

Verspagen, J.M.H., Snelder, E.O.F.M., Visser, P.M., Jöhnk, K.D., Ibelings, B.W., Mur, L.R. & Huisman, J. 2005. Benthic-pelagic coupling in the population dynamics of the harmful cyanobacterium Microcystis. Freshwater Biology 50: 854-867.

Verspagen, J.M.H., Snelder, E.O.F.M., Visser, P.M., Huisman, J., Ibelings, B.W. & Mur, L.R. 2004. Recruitment of benthic Microcystis (cyanophyceae) to the water column: internal buoyancy changes or resuspension? Journal of Phycology 40: 260-270.

Genomics & Physiology of Cyanobacteria:

Krasikov, V., Aguirre von Wobeser, E., Dekker, H.L., Huisman, J. & Matthijs, H.C.P. 2012. Time-series resolution of gradual nitrogen starvation and its impact on photosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Physiologia Plantarum (in press).

Aguirre von Wobeser, E., Ibelings, B.W., Bok, J., Krasikov, V., Huisman, J. & Matthijs, H.C.P. 2011. Concerted changes in gene expression and cell physiology of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 during transitions between nitrogen and light-limited growth. Plant Physiology 155: 1445-1457.

Plant-herbivore interactions:

Branco, P., Stomp, M., Egas, M. & Huisman, J. 2010. Evolution of nutrient uptake reveals a trade-off in the ecological stoichiometry of plant-herbivore interactions. American Naturalist 176: E162-E176.

Kuang, Y., Huisman, J. & Elser, J.J. 2004. Stoichiometric plant-herbivore models and their interpretation. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 1: 215-222.

Huisman, J., Grover, J.P., van der Wal, R. & van Andel, J. 1999. Competition for light, plant-species replacement and herbivory along productivity gradients. In: Herbivores: Between Plants and Predators (H. Olff, V.K. Brown & R.H. Drent, eds), pp.239-269. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

Huisman, J. & Olff, H. 1998. Competition and facilitation in multispecies plant-herbivore systems of productive environments. Ecology Letters 1: 25-29.

van de Koppel, J., Huisman, J., van der Wal, R. & Olff, H. 1996. Patterns of herbivory along a productivity gradient: an empirical and theoretical investigation. Ecology 77: 736-745.

Marine mammals:

Visser, F., Hartman, K.L., Rood, E.J.J., Hendriks, A.J.E., Zult, D.B., Wolff, W.J., Huisman, J. & Pierce, G.J. 2011. Risso’s dolphins alter daily resting pattern in response to whale watching at the Azores. Marine Mammal Science 27: 366-381.

Microbial ecology:

Hulot, F. & Huisman, J. 2004. Allelopathic interactions between phytoplankton species: the roles of heterotrophic bacteria and mixing intensity. Limnology and Oceanography 49: 1424-1434.

Van Bergeijk, S.A., Schönefeldt, K., Stal, L.J. & Huisman, J. 2002. Production and consumption of dimethylsulfide (DMS) and dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in a diatom-dominated intertidal sediment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 231: 37-46.

Matthijs, H.C.P., Jeanjean, R., Yeremenko, N., Huisman, J., Joset, F. & Hellingwerf, K.J. 2002. Hypothesis: versatile function of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase in cyanobacteria provides regulation for transient photosystem I-driven cyclic electron flow. Functional Plant Biology 29: 201-210.

Huisman, J., Matthijs, H.C.P., Visser P.M., Balke, H., Sigon, C.A.M., Passarge, J., Weissing, F.J. & Mur, L.R. 2002. Principles of the light-limited chemostat: theory and ecological applications. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 81: 117-133.

Vegetation dynamics:

Huisman, J. 1994. The models of Berendse and Tilman: two different perspectives on plant competition? Functional Ecology 8: 282-288.

Olff, H., Huisman, J. & van Tooren, B.F. 1993. Species dynamics and nutrient accumulation during early primary succession in coastal sand dunes. Journal of Ecology 81: 693-706.

Huisman, J., Olff, H. & Fresco, L.F.M. 1993. A hierarchical set of models for species response analysis. Journal of Vegetation Science 4: 37-46.

Evolution:

van Boven, M., Weissing, F.J., Heg, D. & Huisman, J. 1996. Competition between segregation distorters: coexistence of "superior" and "inferior" haplotypes at the t complex. Evolution 50: 2488-2498.