- E-mailbernadette.pree@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 44 89
- Visitor AddressThormøhlens gate 53 A/B5006 Bergen
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I am a Post Doc in the project MIXSTRUCT, which as a primary objective aims to decipher the impact bacterivorous phytoflagellates have on the structure of the microbial food web.
In order to achieve this, I work on developing an approach suitable to quantify and identify mixotrophy in controlled laboratory experiments and natural marine microbial communities. Moreover, I am interested on whether elevated organic carbon content as a consequence of increased run-off from land and thwaing permafrost soils, affects mixotrophic organism´s performance and impact.
Academic article
- (2021). How microbial food web interactions shape the arctic ocean bacterial community revealed by size fractionation experiments. Microorganisms. 1-21.
- (2018). Comparing EPA production and fatty acid profiles of three Phaeodactylum tricornutum strains under western Norwegian climate conditions. Algal Research. 11-22.
- (2018). Bacterial community composition responds to changes in copepod abundance and alters ecosystem function in an Arctic mesocosm study. The ISME Journal. 2694-2705.
- (2017). The response of heterotrophic prokaryote and viral communities to labile organic carbon inputs is controlled by the predator food chain structure. Viruses. 1-15.
- (2017). Dampened copepod-mediated trophic cascades in a microzooplankton-dominated microbial food web: A mesocosm study. Limnology and Oceanography. 1031-1044.
- (2016). Linking internal and external bacterial community control gives mechanistic framework for pelagic Virus-To-Bacteria ratios. Environmental Microbiology. 3932-3948.
- (2015). What difference does it make if viruses are strain-, rather than speciesspecific? Frontiers in Microbiology.
- (2015). A simple adjustment to test reliability of bacterivory rates derived from the dilution method. Limnology and Oceanography : Methods. 114-123.
Academic lecture
- (2019). Mixotrophy and The minimum food web model .
Doctoral dissertation
- (2016). Predation in the marine microbial food web. Challenging models with experimental results.
Poster
- (2017). Eat and be eaten at 80N.
- (2017). Different outdoor performance of three Phaeodactylum tricornutum strains under western Norwegian climate conditions.
Academic literature review
- (2018). Simple models combining competition, defence and resource availability have broad implications in pelagic microbial food webs. Ecology Letters. 1440-1452.
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