Publications

2022

Tracking the microplastic accumulation from past to present in the freshwater ecosystems: A case study in Susurluk Basin, Turkey. Fatma Feisal Almas, Gizem Bezirci, Ali Serhan Çağan, Kerem Gökdağ, Tamer Çırak, Gökben Başaran Kankılıç, Elif Paçal, Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu. Chemosphere.

Increased Water Abstraction and Climate Change Have Substantial Effect on Morphometry, Salinity, and Biotic Communities in Lakes: Examples from the Semi-Arid Burdur Basin (Turkey). Mehmet Arda Çolak, Barış Öztaş, İbrahim Kaan Özgencil, Melisa Soyluer, Mustafa Korkmaz, Arely Ramírez-García, Melisa Metin, Gültekin Yılmaz, Serhat Ertuğrul, Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Cihelio Alves Amorim, Can Özen, Meral Apaydın Yağcı, Abdulkadir Yağcı, Juan Pablo Pacheco, Korhan Özkan, Meryem Beklioğlu, Erik Jeppesen, Zuhal Akyürek. Water, 14(8): 1241.

2021

A review of plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems of Turkey. Cem Çevik, Ahmet Erkan Kıdeyş, Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Gökben Başaran Kankılıç, Sedat Gündoğdu. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-20.

Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer. Donis vd., (>100, çok yazarlı) Limnology and Oceanography, 66(12): 4314-433 (Q1)

Decadal changes in size, salinity, waterbirds, and fish in lakes in the Konya Closed Basin, Turkey, associated with climate change and increasing water abstraction for agriculture. Gültekin Yılmaz, Mehmet Arda Çolak, İbrahim Kaan Özgencil, Melisa Metin, Mustafa Korkmaz, Serhat Ertuğrul, Melisa Soyluer, Tuba Bucak, Ü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Korhan Özkan, Zuhal Akyürek, Meryem Beklioğlu, Erik Jeppesen. Inland Waters, (Q2).

Salinity shapes food webs of lakes in semiarid climate zones: a stable isotope approach. Nicolas Vidal, Jinlei Yu, María Florencia Gutierrez, Franco Teixeira de Mello, Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Ayşe Idil Çakiroglu, Hu He, Mariana Meerhoff, Sandra Brucet, Zhengwen Liu, Erik Jeppesen. Inland Waters, 1-16. (Q2)

Determinants of phytoplankton size structure in warm, shallow lakes. Şeyda Erdoğan, Meryem Beklİoğlu, Elena Litchman, Elizabeth T Miller, Etі E Levі, Tuba Bucak, Ülkü Nіhan Tavşanoğlu. Journal of Plankton Research, 43(3): 353-366. (Q1)

2020

Microplastics in a dam lake in Turkey: type, mesh size effect, and bacterial biofilm communities. Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Gökben Başaran Kankılıç, Gülçin Akca, Tamer Çırak, Şeyda Erdoğan. Environmetal Science and Pollution Research, doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-10424-9.

Influences of climate and nutrient enrichment on the multiple trophic levels of Turkish shallow lakes. Meryem Beklioğlu, Tuba Bucak, Eti E Levi, Şeyda Erdoğan, Arda Özen, Nur Filiz, Gizem Bezirci, Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu, Ü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Didem Gökçe, Nilsun Demir, Müfit Özuluğ, Mustafa Duran, Korhan Özkan, Sandra Brucet, Erik Jeppesen. Inland Waters, doi: 10.1080/20442041.1746599.

Sub-lethal toxicities of zinc pyrithione, copper pyrithione alone and in combination to the indicator mussel species Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788 (Bivalvia, Unionidae). Nikola Třešňáková, A. Çağlan Günal, Gökben Başaran Kankılıç, Elif Paçal,
Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Recep Uyar, Figen Erkoç. Chemistry and Ecology, do: 10.1080/02757540.2020.1735377.

Seasonal Dynamics of Riverine Zooplankton Functional Groups in Turkey: Kocaçay River Basin as a case study. Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Nuray Emir Akbulut. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, doi: 10.4194/1303-2712-v20_1_07.

2019

Determination of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Water and Sediment Samples from Kızılırmak River. Özgür Kuzukıran, Ayhan Filazi , Pınar Arslan, Begüm Yurdakök Dikmen , Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu. Kocatepe Veterinary Journal, 12(4):430-436, doi: 10.30607/kvj.625858.

2018

Paleolimnology: Description of 150-Years Changes in Lakes Eymir and Mogan. Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Gizem Bezirci, Eti E. Levi, Şeyda Erdoğan, Meryem Beklioğlu. Eymir Araştırmalar, Proje ve Planlama Çalışmaları, Editors: Funda Baş Bütüner and H. Çağatay Keskinok, METU Faculty of Architecture Publications. (Book Chapter)

Changes in water and nutrient budget in Lakes Mogan ve Eymir during wet and drought period; and Future Forecasts. Arda Özen, Jan Coppens, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Ceylan Yozgatlıgil, Meryem Beklioğlu. Eymir Araştırmalar, Proje ve Planlama Çalışmaları, Editors: Funda Baş Bütüner and H. Çağatay Keskinok, METU Faculty of Architecture Publications (Book Chapter)

A European Multi Lake Survey dataset of environmental variables, phytoplankton pigments and cyanotoxin. Mantzouki vd. (176th /206 authors). Nature Scientific Data, 5:180226, doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.226

Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins. Mantzouki vd. (44th/197 authors). Toxins; 10, 156; doi:10.3390/toxins10040156

Modeling the effects of climatic and land use changes on phytoplankton and water quality of the largest Turkish freshwater lake: Lake Beyşehir. Tuba Bucak, Dennis Trolle, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Arda Özen, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioğlu. Science of The Total Environment; 802–816. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.258

Patterns of microbial food webs of mediterranean shallow lakes with contrasting nutrient levels and predation pressures. Arda Özen, Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu, Eti Ester Levi, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioğlu. Hydrobiologia, doi: 10.1007/s10750-017-3329-6

Salinity shapes zooplankton taxa and functional diversity and has complex effects on size structure in lakes. María Florencia Gutierrez, Ülkü Nihan Tavsanoglu, Nicolas Vidal, Jinlei Yu, Franco Teixeira de Mello, Ayşe Idil Çakiroglu, Hu He, Zhengwen Liu, Erik Jeppesen. Hydrobiologia. doi: 10.1007/s10750-018-3529-8

Impacts of environmental factors on Zooplankton taxonomic diversity in coastal lagoons in Turkey. Nuray Akbulut, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu. Turkish Journal of Zoology, doi:10.3906/zoo-1704-37

2017

Effects of nutrient and water level changes on the composition and size structure of zooplankton communities in shallow lakes under different climatic conditions: a pan-European mesocosm experiment. Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Michal Šorf, Konstantinos Stefanidis, Sandra Brucet, Semra Türkan, Helen Agasild, Didier L. Baho; Ulrike Scharfenberger, Josef Hejzlar, Eva Papastergiadou, Rita Adrian, David G. Angeler, Priit Zingel, Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu, Arda Özen, Stina Drakere, Martin Søndergaard, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioglu. Aquatic Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s10452-017-9615-6

Restoration of eutrophic lakes with fluctuating water levels: A 20-year monitoring study of 2 inter-connected lakes. Meryem Beklioğlu, Tuba Bucak, Jan Coppens, Gizem Bezirci, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Eti E. Levi, Şeyda Erdoğan, Nur Filiz, Korhan Özkan & Arda Özen. Water, doi: 10.3390/w9020127

Size-based interactions across trophic levels of the food web in shallow Mediterranean lakes. Brucet S., Tavşanoğlu U.N., Özen A., Levi E., Bezirci G., Çakıroğlu A.İ., Jeppesen E., Svenning J.-C., Ersoy Z., Beklioğlu M. Freshwater Biology, DOI 10.1111/fwb.12997

2016

Fish assemblage and diversity in lakes of western and central Turkey - role of geo-climatic and other environmental variables. Thomas Boll, Eti E. Levi, Gizem Bezirci, Müfit Özuluğ, Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu, Seval Özcan, Sandra Brucet, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioğlu. Hydrobiologia, 771:31-44, doi:10.1007/s10750-015-2608-3

Impact of alternating wet and dry periods on long-term seasonal phosphorus and nitrogen budgets of two Mediterranean shallow lakes. Jan Coppens, Arda Özen, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Şeyda Erdoğan, Eti E. Levi, Ceylan Yozgatlıgül, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioğlu. Science of The Total Environment, doi:10.1016j. scitotenv.

Inferring past environmental changes in three Turkish lakes from sub-fossil Cladocera. Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu¸Eti E. Levi, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu¸ Gizem Bezirci, Şeyda Erdoğan, Nur Filiz, Thorbjørn Joest Andersen, Thomas A. Davidson, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioğlu. Hydrobiologia, doi: 10.1007/s10750-015-2581-x

2015

Sized based diel migration of zooplankton in Mediterranean shallow lakes assessed from in situ experiments with artificial plants. Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Sandra Brucet, Eti Ester Levi, Tuba Bucak, Gizem Bezirci, Arda Özen, Liselotte S. Johansson, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioğlu. Hydrobiologia, doi: 10.1007/s10750-015-2192-6

Temperature effects on body size of freshwater crustacean zooplankton from Greenland to the tropics. Karl E. Havens, Ricardo Motta Pinto-Coelho, Meryem Beklioglu, Kirsten S. Christoffersen, Erik Jeppesen, Torben L. Lauridsen, Asit Mazumder, Ginette Méthot, Bernadette Pinel Alloul, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Şeyda Erdoğan, Jacobus Vijverberg. Hydrobiologia, DOI: 10.1007/s10750-014-2000-8

Effects of Salinity on Zooplankton Community Structure from Two Maar Lakes and One Freshwater Lake In Konya Closed Basin, Turkey. Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Reihaneh Malek, Nuray Akbulut. Ekoloji, 94:25-32. 2015.

Macroecological patterns of resilience revealed through a multinational, synchronised experiment. Didier L. Baho, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Michal Šorf, Kostantinos Stefanidis, Stina Drakare, Ulrike Scharfenberger, Helen Agasild, Meryem Beklioğlu, Josef Hejzlar, Rita Adrian, Eva Papastergiadou, Priit Zingel, Martin Søndergaard, Erik Jeppesen, David G. Angeler. Sustainability, 7:1142-1160.

2014

Assessing climate change effects on shallow lakes: Design and assessment of a cross-European climate gradient mesocosm experiment. Frank Landkildehus, Martin Søndergaard, Meryem Beklioglu, Rita Adrian, Davıd G. Angeler, Josef Hejzlar, Eva Papastergiadou, Priit Zingel, Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu, Ulrike Scharfenberger, Stina Drakare, Tiina Nõges, Michal Šorf, Konstantınos Stefanidis, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Cristina Trigal, Aldoushy Mahdy, Christina Papadaki, Lea Tuvikene, Søren E. Larsen, Martin Kernan, Erik Jeppesen. Estonian Journal of Ecology, 63(2): 71-89.

Water level and fish-mediated cascading effects on the microbial communities in eutrophic warm shallow lakes: a mesocosm experiment. Arda Özen, Tuba Bucak, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Ayşe İdil Çakıroğlu, Eti Levi, Erik Jeppesen, Jan Coppens, Meryem Beklioğlu. Hydrobiologia, 740:25-35.

Relatedness between contemporary and surface sedıment sub-fossil cladocera assemblages in Turkish shallow lakes. A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, Thomas A. Davidson, Tuba Bucak, Arda Özen, Gürçay K. Akyıldız, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioğlu. Journal of Paleolimnology, 52:367-383

2012

Sediment – not plants – is the prefered refuge for Daphnia against fish predation in Mediterranean shallow lakes: an experimental approach. Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Şeyda Erdoğan, Mariana Meerhoff, Erik Jeppesen, Meryem Beklioglu. Freshwater Biology, 57: 795-802.

The role of water level for macrophyte growth and trophic interactions in eutrophic Mediterranean shallow lakes: a mesocosm experiment with and without fish. Tuba Bucak, Ece Saraoğlu, Eti Ester Levi, Ü. Nihan Tavşanoğlu, A. İdil Çakıroğlu, Erik Jeppesen& Meryem Beklioğlu. Freshwater Biology, 57:1631–1642.

2008

The vectorial capacity of Anopheles sacharovi in the malaria endemic area of Şanlıurfa, Turkey. Tavşanoğlu, N., Çağlar, S.S. European Mosquito Bulletin, 26: 18-23.