Dr. Thijs Frenken
PostdocAquatic Ecology |
Research expertiseCyanobacterial toxin production Phytoplankton Phytoplankton parasites Water quality
Page last updated: 04-11-2021
Experience
2020-present: Postdoctoral fellow at Netherlands Insitute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
2019-2020: Postdoctoral fellow at Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER), Universtiy of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2018-2019: Postdoctoral fellow at Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
2014-2018: PhD Student at Netherlands Insitute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Education
Wageningen University:
MSc Earth & Envrionment (MEE), Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, 2011 - 2013
Wageningen University:
BSc, Soil, Water & Atmosphere, 2008 - 2011
Bouwens van der Boijecollege:
VWO, Atheneum, 2002 - 2008
- Borer, E. T., Paseka, R., Peace, A., Asik, L., Everett, R., Frenken, T., González, A., Strauss, A. T., van de Waal, D. B., White, L. A., & Seabloom, E. W. (2022). Disease-mediated nutrient dynamics: Coupling host-pathogen interactions with ecosystem elements and energy. Ecological Monographs, 92(2), [e1510]. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1510
- Frenken, T., Paseka, R., González, A., Asik, L., Seabloom, E. W., White, L., Borer, E. T., Strauss, A. T., Peace, A., & van de Waal, D. B. (2021). Changing elemental cycles, stoichiometric mismatches, and consequences for pathogens of primary producers. Oikos, 130(7), 1046-1055. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08253
- Borer, E. T., Asik, L., Everett, R. A., Frenken, T., Gonzalez, A. L., Paseka, R. E., Peace, A., Seabloom, E. W., Strauss, A. T., van de Waal, D. B., & White, L. A. (2021). Elements of disease in a changing world: modelling feedbacks between infectious disease and ecosystems. Ecology Letters, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13617
- Paseka, R., White, L., Van de Waal, D., Strauss, A., González, A., Everett, R., Peace, A., Seabloom, E. W., Frenken, T., & Borer, E. T. (2020). Disease-mediated ecosystem services: Pathogens, plants, and people. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 35(8), 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.04.003
- Frenken, T., Wolinska, J., Tao, Y., Rohrlack, T., & Agha, R. (2020). Infection of filamentous phytoplankton by fungal parasites enhances herbivory in pelagic food webs. Limnology and Oceanography, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11474
- Piwosz, K., Vrdoljak, A., Frenken, T., González-Olalla, J. M., Šantić, D., McKay, R., Spilling, K., Guttman, L., Znachor, P., Mujakic, I., Fecskeová, L., Zoccarato, L., Hanusová, M., Pessina, A., Reich, T., Grossart, H-P., & Koblizek, M. (2020). Light and primary production shape bacterial activity and community composition of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in a microcosm experiment. mSphere, 5. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00354-20
- Frenken, T., Miki, T., Kagami, M., Van de Waal, D. B., Van Donk, E., Rohrlack, T., & Gsell, A. S. (2020). The potential of zooplankton in constraining chytrid epidemics in phytoplankton hosts. Ecology, 101(1), [e02900]. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2900
- Frenken, T., Brussaard, C. P. D., Velthuis, M., Aben, R. C., Kazanjian, G., Hilt, S., Kosten, S., Peeters, E. T. H. M., de Senerpont Domis, L., Stephan, S., van Donk, E., & Van de Waal, D. (2020). Warming advances virus population dynamics in a temperate freshwater plankton community. Limnology & Oceanography Letters, 5(4), 295-304. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10160
- Cheng, K., Frenken, T., Brussaard, C. P. D., & Van de Waal, D. B. (2019). Cyanophage Propagation in the Freshwater Cyanobacterium Phormidium Is Constrained by Phosphorus Limitation and Enhanced by Elevated pCO2. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, [617]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00617
- Frenken, T., Wierenga, J. H. W., van Donk, E., Declerck, S. A. J., de Senerpont Domis, L., Rohrlack, T., & Van de Waal, D. B. (2018). Fungal parasites of a toxic inedible cyanobacterium provide food to zooplankton. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(6), 2384-2393. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10945
- Kazanjian, G., Velthuis, M., Aben, R. C., Stephan, S., Peeters, E. T. H. M., Frenken, T., Touwen, J., Xue, F., Kosten, S., Van de Waal, D. B., de Senerpont Domis, L., van Donk, E., & Hilt, S. (2018). Impacts of warming on top-down and bottom-up controls of periphyton production. Scientific Reports, 8(1), [9901]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26348-x
- Frenken, T. (2018). Live and Let die : How climate change affects bottom-up and top-down factors regulating phytoplankton disease (PhD Thesis). https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/363352
- Frenken, T., Wierenga, J., Gsell, A. S., van Donk, E., Rohrlack, T., & Van de Waal, D. B. (2017). Changes in N:P Supply Ratios affect the Ecological Stoichiometry of a Toxic Cyanobacterium and its Fungal Parasite. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, [1015]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01015
- Aben, R. C. H., Barros, N., van Donk, E., Frenken, T., Hilt, S., Kazanjian, G., Lamers, L. P. M., Peeters, E. T. H. M., Roelofs, J. G. M., de Senerpont Domis, L. N., Stephan, S., Velthuis, M., Van de Waal, D. B., Wik, M., Thornton, B. F., Wilkinson, J., DelSontro, T., & Kosten, S. (2017). Cross continental increase in methane ebullition under climate change. Nature Communications, 8(1), [1682]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01535-y
- Frenken, T., Alacid, E., Berger, S. A., Bourne, E. C., Gerphagnon, M., Grossart, H-P., Gsell, A. S., Ibelings, B. W., Kagami, M., Küpper, F. C., Letcher, P. M., Loyau, A., Miki, T., Nejstgaard, J. C., Rasconi, S., Reñé, A., Rohrlack, T., Rojas-Jimenez, K., Schmeller, D. S.,... Agha, R. (2017). Integrating chytrid fungal parasites into plankton ecology: research gaps and needs. Environmental Microbiology, 19(10), 3802-3822. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13827
- Velthuis, M., de Senerpont Domis, L. N., Frenken, T., Stephan, S., Kazanjian, G., Aben, R., Hilt, S., Kosten, S., van Donk, E., & Van de Waal, D. B. (2017). Warming advances top-down control and reduces producer biomass in a freshwater plankton community. Ecosphere, 8(1), [e01651]. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1651
- Frenken, T., Velthuis, M., De Senerpont Domis, L., Stephan, S., Aben, R. C., Kosten, S., van Donk, E., & Van de Waal, D. B. (2016). Warming accelerates termination of a phytoplankton spring bloom by fungal parasites. Global Change Biology, 22(1), 299-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13095
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- Frenken, T. (2017). Top-down Regulation of Algal Blooms: Pathogens as a Potential Whole Lake Biological Control Measure? LakeLine, 37-39.
- Frenken, T., & Gsell, A. S. (2017). Waterschimmels treffen algen. In Schimmels (Vol. 2017, pp. 41-43). (Cahiers Biowetenschappen en Maatschappij). http://www.biomaatschappij.nl/product/schimmels/
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