Katherina Schoo

PhD Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany (2010)

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

'phone +27 [0]46 603-8530
FAX +27 [0]46 622-8959
e-mail k.schoo@ru.ac.za

Research interests

Food web studies
Coastal trophic interactions
Trophic tracers
Ecological stoichiometry
Food quality effects

Some recent publications

Schoo K.L., Aberle N., Malzahn A.M., Boersma M., 2012. Food quality affects secondary consumers even at low quantities: An experimental test with larval European lobster. PLoS ONE 7(3): e33550. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033550.

Schoo K.L., Aberle N., Malzahn A., Boersma M., 2010. Does the nutrient stoichiometry of primary producers affect the secondary consumer Pleurobrachia pileus? Aquatic Ecology 44(1): 233 - 242.

Malzahn A., Hantzsche F., Schoo K.L., Boersma M., Aberle N., 2010. Differential effects of nutrient-limited primary production on primary, secondary or tertiary consumers. Oecologia 162(1): 35 - 48.

Boersma M., Aberle N., Hantzsche F., Schoo K.L., Wiltshire K.H., Malzahn A., 2008. Nutritional limitation travels up the food chain. International Review of Hydrobiology 93(4): 479 - 488.