Dr. Fabian Wolf
Seestrasse 15
18119 Rostock, Germany
Expertise
- Experimental stress ecology
- Experimental design and mesocosm systems
- Impact of extreme events and climate change on benthic species
- Analysis of long-term abiotic data sets
- Species community ocean quahog (Arctica islandica)
- Blue Carbon - carbon balancing
- Scientific diver
Schematic representation of the different processes of the carbon budget of the Arctica islandica community, after Sea et al. (2022).
Course of Temperature of the surface water (1.8 m Waterdepth; based on a 22-year dataset: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.919186) of the Kiel Inner Fjord during the year 2018 (black line). The typical seasonality is shown by the grey solid line. The two dotted lines show the 90% (higher) and 10% (lower) percentile. Temperatures obe the seasonality, but below the 90% percentile are shown in orange. Temperatures below the seasonality, but above the 10% percentile are shown in light blue. Temperatures above the 90% percentile are shown in red and indicate exceptional warm periods that are potentially stressful for organisms. Temperatures below the 10% percentile are shown in darkblue and indicate exceptional cool periods. For more information see Wolf et al. 2022 (10.3389/fmars.2021.790241).
Publications
* shared first authorship
Kraufvelin, Lucinda; Pansch, Christian; Wolf, Fabian; Barboza, Francisco R.; Vajedsamiei, Jahangir; Nordström, Marie C.; Kortsch, Susanne (2026): Warming simplifies marine ecological networks through losses in trophic and non-trophic interactions. In MEPS, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps15092
Schulz, Louisa; Gogina, Mayya; Friedland, René; Wolf, Fabian; Kniesz, Katharina; Zettler, Michael L. (2025): Recent distribution and population structure of the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica (Linnaeus, 1767), in the German waters of the Baltic Sea – Ecological insights and relevance for conservation. In J. Sea Res., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2025.102630
Rühmkorff, Sarah*; Wolf, Fabian*; Vajedsamiei, Jahangir; Barboza, Francisco Rafael; Hiebenthal, Claas; Pansch, Christian (in press): Marine heatwaves and upwelling shape stress responses in a keystone predator. In Proc. R. Soc. B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2262
Wolf, Fabian (2022): Extreme events and warming in the Baltic Sea: relevance for coastal benthic communities. Doctoral Thesis, macau.unikiel.de/servlets/MCRFile
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Wolf, Fabian; Seebass, Katja; Pansch, Christian (2022): The Role of Recovery Phases in Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Marine Heatwaves on the Sea Star Asterias rubens. In Front. Mar. Sci. 8, p. 1029. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.790241.
Wahl, Martin; Barboza, Francisco R.; Buchholz, Björn; Dobretsov, Sergey; Guy‐Haim, Tamar; Rilov, Gil; Schuett, Renate; Wolf, Fabian; Vajedsamiei, Jahangir; Yazdanpanah, Maryam; Pansch, Christian (2021): Pulsed pressure. Fluctuating impacts of multifactorial environmental change on a temperate macroalgal community. In Limnol. Oceanogr. 33, p. 477. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11954.
Melzner, Frank; Buchholz, Björn; Wolf, Fabian; Panknin, Ulrike; Wall, Marlene (2020): Ocean winter warming induced starvation of predator and prey. In: Proceedings. Biological sciences 287 (1931), S. 20200970. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0970.
Morón Lugo, Sonia C.; Baumeister, Moritz; Nour, Ola Mohamed; Wolf, Fabian; Stumpp, Meike; Pansch, Christian (2020): Warming and temperature variability determine the performance of two invertebrate predators. In: Scientific reports 10 (1), S. 6780. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63679-0.
Rapp, Insa; Schlosser, Christian; Browning, Thomas J.; Wolf, Fabian; Le Moigne, Frédéric A. C.; Gledhill, Martha; Achterberg, Eric P. (2020): El Niño-Driven Oxygenation Impacts Peruvian Shelf Iron Supply to the South Pacific Ocean. In: Geophysical Research Letters, Band 47, 7, DOI: 10.1029/2019GL086631.