Univ.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Martin Kainz

Fedorcák, J.; Veselý, L.; Košco, J.; Mari, S.; Kainz, M. J.; Závorka, L. (2025). Dietary overlap of invasive cyprinids and common carp in fishponds of Central Europe. Aquaculture, 595 (2025): /10.1016/j.aquaculture.2024.741677

Gmeiner, I.; Vitecek, S.; Wassenaar, L.I.; Kainz, M.J.; Pilecky, M. (2025). Selective Retention of Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Heptageniidae (Ephemeroptera) of Subalpine Streams. Freshwater Biology, Vol. 70 Issue 6: 10.1111/fwb.70052

Huang, J.; Guo, F.; Kainz, M.J.; Bunn, S.E.; Ouyang, X.; Li, F.; Du, Qu.; Zhang, Y. (2025). Quantitative assessment of trophic flow based on polyunsaturated fatty acids reveals that high-quality algae support aquatic food webs irrespective of dams. Limnology and Oceanography: 10.1002/lno.70100

Twining, C.W; Blanco, A.; Dutton, C.; Kainz, M.J.; Harvey, E.; et.al. (2025). Integrating the Bright and Dark Sides of Aquatic Resource Subsidies—A Synthesis. Ecology Letters, 2025; 28:e70109: 10.1111/ele.70109

Abonyi, A.; Fornberg, J.; Rasconi, S.; Ptacnik, R.; Kainz, M. J.; Lafferty, K. D. (2024). The chytrid insurance hypothesis: integrating parasitic chytrids into a biodiversity–ecosystem functioning framework for phytoplankton–zooplankton population dynamics. Oecologia, Special Issue: Parasites In Aquatic Ecology: 10.1007/s00442-024-05519-w

Anparasan, L.; Pilecky, M.; Ramirez, M. I.; Hobson, K. A.; Kainz, M. J.; Wassenaar, L. I. (2024). Essential and nonessential fatty acid composition and use in overwintering monarch butterflies. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology: 10.1007/s00359-024-01727-0

Huang, J., Guo, F., Burford, M. A., Kainz, M. J., Li, F., Gao, W., Ouyang, X., Zhang, Y. (2024). How do small dams alter river food webs? A food quality perspective along the aquatic food web continuum. Journal of Environmental Management, 335: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120501

Kers, E.; Leu, E.; Amundsen, P.-A.; Primicerio, R.; Kainz, M.; Poste, A. E. (2024). Under ice plankton and lipid dynamics in a subarctic lake. Journal of Plankton Research, 2024, 00, 1-15: 10.1093/plankt/fbae015

Luo, Yiduo; Wang, Yu; Guo, Fen; Kainz, M. J.; You, Jiaqi; Li, Feilong; Gao, Wei; Shen, Xiaomei; Tao, Juan; Zhang, Yuan (2024). Sources and fate of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in a highly eutrophic lake. Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 932: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172879

Pilecky, M. Turunen, A.; Sohrabi, M. S.; Ghimire, S.; Ilo, T.; Kesti, P.; Vitecek, S.; Fehlinger, L.; Akkanen, J.; Taipale, S. J.; Vainikka, A.; Kahilainen, K. K.; Kainz, M. J.; Strandberg, U. (2024). Chironomids regulate long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid levels independent of lake nutrient or dissolved organic carbon concentrations. OIKOS, 2024:e10816: 10.1007/s00442-024-05574-3

Pilecky, M., Kämmer, S.-K., Winter, K., Ptacnikova, R., Meador, T. B., Wassenaar, L. I., Fink, P., Kainz, M. J. (2024). Compound-specific stable isotope analyses of fatty acids indicate feeding zones of zooplankton across the water column of a subalpine lake. Oecologia, 205:325-337: 10.1007/s00442-024-05574-3

Pilecky, M; Kainz, M. J.; Wassenaar, L. I. (2024). Exploring hydrogen isotope fractionation in lipid biomolecules of freshwater algae: implications for ecological and paleoenvironmental studies. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies: https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2024.2419880

Pilecky, M; Kainz, M.J.; Wassenaar, L. (2024). Evaluation of lipid extraction methods for fatty acid quantification and compound-specific d13C and d2Hn analyses. Analytical Biochemistry, Vol. 687, April 2024: 10.1016/j.ab.2023.115455

Shipley, J. R.; Oester, R.; Mathieu-Resuge, M.; Parmar, T. P.; Kowarik, C.; Ilíc, M.; Kainz, M. J.; Martin-Creuzburg, D.; Obrist, M. K.; Graham, C. H.; Gossner, M. M.; Matthews, B.; Twining, C. W. (2024). Consumer biodiversity increases organic nutrient availability across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Science, Vol. 386, No. 6719: 10.1126/science.adp6198

Veselý, L.; Balzani, P.; Haubrock, P.; Buric, M.; Glon, M. Eroli, F; Ruokonen, T.; Kainz, M.; Heikki Hämäläninen H.; Kouba, A. (2024). Species-specific trophic discrimination factors can reduce the uncertainty of stable isotope analyses. Hydrobiologia, 851:3471–3487: 10.1007/s10750-024-05513-6

Yan, K.; Guo, F.; Kainz, M. J.; Bunn, S. E.; Li, F.; Gao, W.; Quyang, X.; Zhang, Y. (2024). Increasing water nutrient reduces the availability of high-quality food resources for aquatic consumers and consequently simplifies river food webs. Science of The Total Environment: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172706

Yan, K.; Guo, F.; Kainz, M.J.; Li, Feilong; Gao, W.; Bunn, S. E.; Zhang, Y. (2024). The importance of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as high-quality food in freshwater ecosystems with implications of global change. Biological Reviews, 99(1),pp.200-218: 10.1111/brv.13017

Zhang, J.; Kainz, M. J.; Wang, X.; Tan, X.; Zhang, Q. (2024). Eutrophication and loss of riparian shading influence food quality and trophic relation in stream food webs. Water Research, 249, 120926: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120926

Zhang, Y.; Feng, Kai; Song, D.; Wang, Q.; Ye, S.; Liu, J.; Kainz, M. J. (2024). Dietary fatty acid transfer in pelagic food webs across trophic and climatic differences of Chinese lakes. Science of The Total Environment, Vol. 913: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169562

Kainz, M. J., Pilecky, M., Guo, F. (2024). Diet tracers in food webs: fatty acids and their carbon and hydrogen stable isotopes. In: Calver, M. and Loneragan, N., Quantifying diets of wildlife and fish: practical and applied methods: 105-118, CSIRO Publishing, Australien