Publications

* : shared first authorship, **: student co-supervised

Submitted/In review

Sgarzi S, Badosa A, Compte J, Leiva-Presa À, Ersoy Z, López E, Brucet S. Longer hydroperiods intensify predation effects on planktonic size spectra in Mediterranean temporary ponds, Revision in Hydrobiologia
Cunillera-Montcusí D*, Ersoy Z*, Hébert MP, Zadereev E, Kefford B, Cañedo-Argüelles M. Salinisation effects on aquatic food webs. In Bundschuh M (Ed.) Aquatic Food Webs in the Anthropocene: Impacts of Stressors of Emerging Concern. Elsevier. Planned publication date: February 2026. ISBN: 9780443265389.

2025

Ersoy Z*, Evangelista C* … Arranz I.* 2025. GLOSSAQUA: A global dataset of size spectra across aquatic ecosystems. Ecology, 106(3), e70050.
López-Rodríguez N**, Buchner D, Cañedo-Argüelles M, Fontserè R, Leese F, Múrria C, Bonada N, Ersoy Z 2025. eDNA metabarcoding: a non-invasive method to track temporal community dynamics in temporary rivers, Limnetica, 45(1).

2024

Ersoy Z, López-Rodríguez N**, Acosta R, … Bonada N. 2024. Evaluating the response of current biotic indices and functional metrics to natural and anthropogenic predictors in disconnected pools of temporary rivers. Science of the Total Environment, 948, 174825.
Bonada N, Sánchez Montoya M, Cid N,…Ersoy Z… Prat N. 2024. Retos y oportunidades para la evaluación del estado ecológico en ríos temporales. Ecosistemas, 33(1), 2655.

2023

Pereira CL*, Ersoy Z*, Gravel D, Araújo MB, Matias MG. 2023. Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs. BioScience, 73, 862-878.
Nava V, Chandra S, Aherne J, …Ersoy Z …Leoni B. 2023. Plastic debris in lakes and reservoirs worldwide. Nature, 619, 317-322.
Arnott SE, Fugère V, Symons CC, Melles SJ, Beisner BE, Cañedo-Argüelles M, Hébert MP, Brentrup JA, Downing AL, Gray DK, Greco DA, McClymont A, Relyea RA, Rusak J, Searle CL, Astorg L, Baker HK, Ersoy Z et al. 2022. Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community-level salt tolerance. Limnology & Oceanography Letters, 8(1), 8-18.
Hébert MP, Symons CC, Cañedo-Argüelles M, Arnott SE, Derry AM, Fugère V, Hintz WD, Melles SJ, Astorg L, Baker HK, Brentrup JA, Downing AL, Ersoy Z et al. 2022. Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments. Limnology & Oceanography Letters, 8(1), 19-29.

2022

Ersoy Z, Abril M, Cañedo-Argüelles M, Espinosa C, Vendrell-Puigmitja L, Proia L. 2022. Experimental assessment of salinization effects on freshwater zooplankton communities and their trophic interactions under eutrophic conditions. Environmental Pollution, 313, 120127.
Hintz WD, Arnott SE, Symons CC, Greco DA, McClymont A, Brentrup JA, Cañedo-Argüelles M, Derry AM, Downing AL, Gray DK, Melles SJ, Relyea RA, Rusak J, Searle CL, Astorg L, Baker HK, Beisner BE, Cottingham KL, Ersoy Z et al. 2022. Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization. PNAS, 119 (9) e2115033119.

2020

Ersoy Z*, Scharfenberger U*, Baho DL, Bucak T, Feldmann T, Hejzlar J, Levi EE, Mahdy A, Noges T, Papastergiadou E, Stefanidis K, Sondergaard M, Trigal C, Jeppesen E, Beklioglu M. 2020. Impact of nutrients and water level changes on submerged macrophytes along a temperature gradient: a Pan-European mesocosm experiment. Global Change Biology, 26, 6831-8851.

2019

Ersoy Z, Brucet S, Bartrons M, Mehner T. 2019. Experimental tests of fish predation on zooplankton, and recovery rate of zooplankton community structure after stop of predation. PLoS ONE, 14(2): e0212351.

2017

Brucet S, Tavşanoğlu ÜN, Özen A, Levi E, Bezirci G, Çakıroğlu Aİ, Jeppesen E, Svenning JC, Ersoy Z, Beklioğlu M. 2017. Size-based interactions across trophic levels of food webs in shallow Mediterranean lakes. Freshwater Biology, 62, 1819-1830.
Ersoy Z, Jeppesen E, Sgarzi S, Arranz I, Cañedo-Argüelles M, Quintana XD, Landkildehus F, Bartrons M, Brucet S. 2017. Size-based interactions and trophic transfer efficiency are modified by fish predation and cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Mývatn, Iceland. Freshwater Biology, 62, 1942-1952.
Cañedo-Argüelles M, Sgarzi S, Arranz I, Quintana XD, Ersoy Z, Landkildehus F, Lauridsen TL, Jeppesen E, Brucet S. 2017. Role of predation in biological communities in naturally eutrophic subarctic Lake Mývatn, Iceland. Hydrobiologia, 790, 1, 213-223.

Ersoy Z, Elverici M. 2020. Biodiversity indices in aquatic ecosystems. In Ü.N. Tavşanoğlu, G.B. Kankılıç, Ş. Erdoğan (Eds.) Field and Laboratory Techniques in Freshwater Ecosystems, Nobel, pp 393-411. ISBN 978-625-402-870-0. (in Turkish)

Ersoy Z. 2018. Biotic and environmental factors shaping body size distributions in freshwater planktonic food webs. (PhD thesis, Universitat de Vic, Spain)
Ersoy Z. 2015. Impact of nutrient and water level changes on submerged macrophytes along a latitudinal gradient: a pan-european mesocosm experiment (Master thesis, Middle East Technical University, Turkey)