Dr.

Sabine Wollrab

Research Group Leader
Department
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
Email
sabine.wollrab@igb-berlin.de
Phone
033082 69926
Fax
033082 69917

Zur alten Fischerhütte 2, OT Neuglobsow, 16775 Stechlin

Profile
Research group
Theoretical Ecology
Expertise

Theoretical Ecology, Food Web Dynamics, Structured Population Dynamics, Predator-Prey Interactions, Aquatic Food Webs, Spatial ecology, Meta-population/community models

CV

11/2022 – 10/2023:  Deputy Department Head (interim) at Department of Plankton and Microbial Ecology, IGB Berlin

since 2014:                  Research Group Leader, IGB Berlin

2013 – 2014:               Postdoc, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Lansing, USA

2013:                             PhD in Theoretical Ecology, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München

Publications

2025

February 2025
Jeremy Fonvielle; Lukas Thuile Bistarelli; Yile Tao; Jason N. Woodhouse; Tom Shatwell; Luis A. Villalba; Stella A. Berger; Christopher C.M. Kyba; Jens C. Nejstgaard; Andreas Jechow; Franziska Kupprat; Susanne Stephan; Tim J.W. Walles; Sabine Wollrab; Franz Hölker; Thorsten Dittmar; Mark O. Gessner; Gabriel A. Singer; Hans-Peter Grossart

Skyglow increases cyanobacteria abundance and organic matter cycling in lakes

Water Research. - XX(2025)X, Art. 123315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123315

2024

2023

2022

December 2022
von: Stephan Garack, Marco Neubert, Axel Sauer, Juliane Albrecht Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung (IÖR) e. V., Dresden; Kerstin Günther, Martin Friedrichs-Manthey, Sabine Wollrab, Sonja Jähnig, Stella A. Berger, Ulrike Kienel, Georgiy Kirillin, Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V., Berlin. Herausgeber: Umweltbundesamt

Entwicklung der ökologischen Beschaffenheit von Oberflächengewässern im Klimawandel: Wirkungsmechanismen, Modellierungsansätze und Handlungsempfehlungen zur Umsetzung der EG-WRRL ; [Abschlussbericht, Abschlussdatum: Mai 2021]

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/entwicklung-der-oekologischen-beschaffenheit-von
September 2022
Malgorzata Golub; Wim Thiery; Rafael Marcé; Don Pierson; Inne Vanderkelen; Daniel Mercado-Bettin; R. Iestyn Woolway; Luke Grant; Eleanor Jennings; Benjamin M. Kraemer; Jacob Schewe; Fang Zhao; Katja Frieler; Matthias Mengel; Vasiliy Y. Bogomolov; Damien Bouffard ... Georgiy Kirillin ... Tom Shatwell ... Rita Adrian ... Sabine Wollrab ...

A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector

Geoscientific Model Development. - 15(2022), 4597–4623
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4597-2022
March 2022
Stephan Garack (Dresden); Sabine Wollrab; Sonja Jähnig; Kerstin Günther; Stella A. Berger (Berlin); Marco Neubert; Juliane Albrecht (Dresden); Martin Friedrichs-Manthey (Berlin/Leipzig); Axel Sauer (Dresden); Georgyi Kirillin (Berlin)

Entwicklung der ökologischen Beschaffenheit von Oberflächengewässern im Klimawandel

KW Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft. - 15(2022)2, 98-107

2021

December 2021
Andreas Jechow; Günther Schreck; Christopher C. M. Kyba; Stella A. Berger; Lukas Thuile Bistarelli; Matthias Bodenlos; Mark O. Gessner; Hans-Peter Grossart; Franziska Kupprat; Jens C. Nejstgaard; Andreas Pansch; Armin Penske; Michael Sachtleben; Tom Shatwell; Gabriel A. Singer; Susanne Stephan; Tim J. W. Walles; Sabine Wollrab; Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska; Franz Hölker

Design and implementation of an illumination system to mimic skyglow at ecosystem level in a large-scale lake enclosure facility

Scientific Reports. - 11(2021), Art. 23478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02772-4

2020

2017

2015

BLIC

The relative influence of biodiversity and biotic interactions on the early stages of phytoplankton bloom formation.

Contact persons
Sabine Wollrab
Department(s)
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
Start
09/2023
End
08/2026
Topic

CONNECT

Connectivity and synchronisation of lake ecosystems in space and time

Contact persons
Stella A. Berger
Sabine Wollrab
Department(s)
(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
Start
05/2018
End
10/2022
Topic

FungiTrait

Food web dynamics and energy transport from phyto- to zooplankton under the influence of parasitic fungi.

Contact persons
Hans-Peter Grossart
Sabine Wollrab
Department(s)
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
Start
03/2018
End
02/2022
Topic

Bridging in Biodiversity Science (BIBS)

BIBS is a BMBF project for biodiversity data collection and synthesis in Germany

Contact persons
Mark Gessner
Hans-Peter Grossart
Department(s)
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
(Dept. 5) Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology
Start
12/2016
End
08/2021
Topic

BactiTrait

Comparing phenotypic plasticity in bacterial prey traits and ecological consequences by using specialist vs. generalist strains and organic aggregates as model systems.

Contact persons
Hans-Peter Grossart
Sabine Wollrab
Department(s)
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
Start
07/2015
End
12/2018
Topic

ILES

Skyglow, the diffuse illumination of the night sky by artificial light, has never before been experienced during evolutionary history. Together with another feature of global change – the brownification of lakes caused by humic substances – skyglow disrupts the current light conditions in lake ecosystems. We will elucidate the ecological consequences of these phenomena and the mechanisms underlying them.

Contact persons
Mark Gessner
Franz Hölker
Department(s)
(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry
(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology
(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology
(Dept. 4) Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Start
07/2015
End
06/2018
Topic
Former Publications

2013

Wollrab, S., De Roos A.M. & Diehl, S. (2013) Ontogenetic diet shifts promote predator-mediated coexistence. Ecology, 94, 2886–2897.

2012

Wollrab, S., Diehl, S., & De Roos, A.M. (2012) Simple rules describe bottom-up and top-down control in food webs with alternative energy pathways. Ecology Letters, 15, 935-946.