Publications in Biology

(1) Gabriel W. (1982):
Modelling reproductive strategies of Daphnia. - Arch. Hydrobiol. 95: 69 80.

(2) Lynch M. and Gabriel W. (1983):
Phenotypic evolution and parthenogenesis. - American Naturalist 122: 745 764.

(3) Lampert W. and Gabriel W.(1984):
Tracer kinetics in Daphnia: an improved two compartment model and experimental test. - Arch. Hydrobiol. 100: 1 20.

(4) Gabriel W. and Lampert W. (1985):
Can cannibalism be advantageous in cyclopoids? A mathematical model. - Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 22: 3164 3168.

(5) Taylor B. E. and Gabriel W. (1985):
Reproductive strategies of two similar Daphnia species. - Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 22: 3047 3050.

(6) Gabriel W. (1985):
Overcoming food limitation by cannibalism : A model study on cyclopoids. - In: W. Lampert (Ed.): Food limitation and the structure of zooplankton communities. - Arch. Hydrobiol. Beih. Ergebn. Limnol. 21: 373 381.

(7) Gabriel W. (1985):
Simulation komplexer Populationsdynamik. - In: D. P. F. Möller (ed.): Simulationstechnik. Informatik Fachberichte Bd. 109. pp 318 324, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo.

(8) Lynch M. and Gabriel W. (1987):
Environmental tolerance. - American Naturalist 129: 283 303.

(9) Gabriel W. (1987):
The use of computer simulation to evaluate the testability of a new fitness concept. - In: D. P. F. Möller (ed.): Systems Analysis of Biological Processes. Advances in Systems Analysis, Vol. 2. pp 82 88. Vieweg, Braunschweig.

(10) Lynch M. and Gabriel W. (1987):
Evolution of the breadth of biochemical adaptation. - In: P. Calow (Ed.): Evolutionary Physiological Ecology. pp 67 83. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

(11) Gabriel W., Taylor B. E., and Kirsch Prokosch S. (1987):
Cladoceran birth and death rate estimation: experimental comparisons of egg ratio models. - Freshwater Biology 18: 361 372.

(12) Gabriel W. (1988):
Quantitative genetic models for parthenogenetic species. - In: G. de Jong (ed.): Population genetics and evolution. pp 73 82. Springer, Heidelberg.

(13) Gabriel W. and Wagner G. P. (1988):
Parthenogenetic populations can remain stable in spite of high mutation rate and random drift. - Naturwissenschaften 75: 204 205.

(14) Gabriel W. and Thomas B. (1988):
The influence of food availability, predation risk, and metabolic costs on the evolutionary stability of diel vertical migration in zooplankton. - Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 23: 807-811.

(15) Gabriel W. and Thomas B. (1988):
Vertical migration of zooplankton as an evolutionarily stable strategy. - American Naturalist 132: 199-216.

(16) Gabriel W. and Thomas B. (1988):
Ultimate causes of vertical migration in zooplankton: An evaluation by evolutionary game theory. - In: Wolff, Soeder and Drepper (eds.): Ecodynamics, contributions to theoretical ecology. pp 127-134. Springer, Heidelberg.

(17) Van den Bosch F., de Roos A. M., and Gabriel W. (1988):
Cannibalism as a life boat mechanism. -
J. Math. Biol. 26: 619-633.

(18) Thomas B. and Gabriel W. (1989):
Interaction analysis and stability concept as a means for understanding complex systems. - In: D. P. F. Möller (ed.): System Analysis of Biomedical Processes. Advances in System Analysis, Vol. 5. pp 166-172. Vieweg, Braunschweig.

(19) Gabriel W. and Thomas B. (1989):
Predictive value of evolutionary game theory for vertical migration in zooplankton. - In: D. P. F. Möller (ed.): System Analysis of Biomedical Processes. Advances in System Analysis, Vol. 5. pp 173-180. Vieweg, Braunschweig.

(20) Gabriel W. (1990):
Vertikalwanderung von Zooplankton als evolutionär stabile Strategie. - In: B. Streit (Ed.): Evolutionsprozesse im Tierreich. pp 87-106. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel.

(21) Wagner G. P. and Gabriel W. (1990):
Quantitative variation in finite parthenogenetic populations: What stops Muller's ratchet in the absence of recombination? - Evolution 44: 715-731.

(22) Lynch M. and Gabriel W. (1990):
Mutation load and survival of small populations.
- Evolution 44: 1725-1737.

(23) Gabriel W., Bürger R., and Lynch M. (1991):
Population extinction by mutational load and demographic stochasticity. - In: A. Seitz and V. Loeschcke (Eds.): Species Conservation: a Population Biological Approach. pp 49-59. Birkhäuser, Basel.

(24) Gabriel W. and van den Bosch F. (1991):
Consequences of intraspecific predation: A stage structured population model approach. - In: D. P .F. Möller and O. Richter (Eds.), Analyse dynamischer Systeme in Medizin, Biologie und Ökologie. Informatik-Fachberichte 275, pp 177-184, Springer Berlin.

(25) Gabriel W. and Taylor B. (1991):
Optimal resource allocation in cladocerans. - Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 24: 2784-2787.

(26) van den Bosch F. and Gabriel W. (1991):
The impact of cannibalism on the population dynamics of cyclopoid copepods. - Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 24: 2848-2850.

(27) Lynch M., Gabriel W., and Wood A. M. (1991):
Adaptive and demographic responses of plankton populations to environmental change. - Limnol. Oceanogr. 36: 1301-1312.

(28) Gabriel W. and Lynch M. (1992):
The selective advantage of reaction norms for environmental tolerance. - J. evol. Biol. 5: 41-59.

(29) Gabriel W. and Bürger R. (1992):
Survival of small populations under demographic stochasticity. - Theor. Pop. Biol. 41: 44-71.

(30) Taylor B. E. and Gabriel W. (1992):
To grow or not to grow: optimal resource allocation for Daphnia. - American Naturalist 139: 248-266.

(31) Gabriel W. and Bürger R. (1992):
Aussterberisiko kleiner Populationen: Markov-Ketten und Monte-Carlo-Simulation als komplementäre Ansätze. - In: D.P.F. Möller and O. Richter (Eds.), Fortschritte der Simulation in Medizin, Biologie und Ökologie. Informatik-Bericht 92/6, pp 118-120, TU Clausthal.

(32) Lampert W., Gabriel W., and Rothhaupt K.-O. (1992):
Ecophysiological models: A tool for understanding interactions in freshwater communities? - Verh. Dtsch. Zool. Ges. 85.2: 95-110.

(33) Gabriel W. (1993):
Models on diel vertical migration. - In: J. Ringelberg (Ed.): Diel Vertical Migration of Zooplankton. - Arch. Hydrobiol. Beih. Ergebn. Limnol. 39: 123-136.

(34) Gabriel W. (1993):
Technologically modified genes in natural populations: some sceptical remarks on risk assessment from the view of population genetics. - In: K. Wöhrmann and J. Tomiuk (eds.), Transgenic organisms. Risk assessment of deliberate release. pp 109-116. Birkhäuser, Basel.

(35) Gabriel W. (1993):
Modelling approaches to evolutionary ecology. - Habilitation,Universität Basel.

(36) Taylor B. and Gabriel W. (1993):
Optimal adult growth of Daphnia in a seasonal environment. - Functional Ecology 7: 513-521.

(37) Gabriel W., Lynch M., and Bürger R. (1993):
Muller's ratchet and mutational meltdowns. -
Evolution 47:1744-1757. (issued June 1994)

(38) Lynch M., Bürger R., Butcher D., and Gabriel W. (1993):
The mutational meltdown in asexual populations. -
Journal of Heredity 84: 339-344.

(39) van den Bosch F. and Gabriel W. (1994):
Growth and development in copepods. - Limnology and Oceanography 39(7): 1528-1542.

(40) Gabriel W. and Bürger R. (1994):
"Extinction risk by mutational meltdown: synergistic effects between population regulation and genetic drift." In: V. Loeschcke, J. Tomuik and S.K. Jain (Eds.) "Conservation Genetics", pp 69-84, Birkhäuser, Basel.

(41) Matveev V. and Gabriel W. (1994):
Competetive exclusion in Cladocera through elevated mortality of adults. - J. Plankton Res. 16: 1084-1094.

(42) Gabriel W. (1994):
"Mutational Meltdown": Aussterberisiko durch Anhäufung schädlicher Mutationen. - Z. Ökologie und Naturschutz 3: 161-165.

(43) Gabriel W. (1996):
Obituary (Jürgen Jacobs). - J. evol. Biol. 9:1-4.

(44) van den Bosch F. and Gabriel W. (1997):
Cannibalism in an age-structured predator-prey system. - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 59: 551-567

(45) Gabriel W. (1998):
Drift. - In: P. Calow (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management. p. 204. Blackwell, Oxford.

(46) Gabriel W. (1998):
Environmental tolerance. - In: P. Calow (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management. pp. 243-244. Blackwell, Oxford.

(47) Boriss H. and Gabriel W. (1998):
Vertical migration in Daphnia: the role of phenotypic plasticity in the migration pattern for competing clones of species. Oikos 83: 129-138.

(48) Gabriel W. (1999):
Evolution of reversible plastic responses: inducible defenses and environmental tolerance. – pp 286-305. In: R. Tollrian and C.D. Harvell (Eds.) The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses. Princeton University Press. PDF

(49) Nürnberger B. and Gabriel W. (1999):
Continued hope for a general explanation of sex.
J. evol. Biol. 12: 1040-1042. PDF

(50) Gabriel W. and Bürger R. (2000):
Fixation of clonal lineages under Muller´s ratchet. - Evolution 54(4): 1116-1125, PDF

(51) Baake, E. and Gabriel. W. (2000):
Biological evolution through mutation, selection and drift: an introductory review.
Ann. Rev. Comp. Phys. VII (2000): 203-264

(52) Kopp M., Jeschke J., and Gabriel W. (2001):
Exact compensation of stream drift as an evolutionary stable strategy.
Oikos 92: 522-530. PDF

(53) Gabriel, W. and Férrière, R. (2004)
From individual interactions to population viability. Pages 19-40 in: R. Ferrière et al.(editors) Evolutionary Conservation Biology. Oxford University Press, PDF

(54) Gabriel, W. (2005): How stress selects for reversible phenotypic plasticity. - J.evol.Biol. 18: 873-883 PDF

(55) Gabriel W., Luttbeg B., Sih, A. and Tollrian R. (2005): Environmental tolerance, heterogeneity and the evolution of reversible plastic responses. American Naturalist 166: 339:353, PDF, appendix

(56) Kopp M. and Gabriel W (2006) : The dynamic effect of an inducible defense in the Nicholson-Bailey model. Theor. Pop. Biol. 70: 43-55

(57) Gabriel W., (2006) Selective advantage and reversible phenotypic plasticity. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 167: 1-20 PDF

(58)  Jeschke, J.M.; Gabriel, W.; Kokko, H. 2008. r-strategists / K-strategists. In: Jørgensen, S.E.; Fath, B.D. (Hrsg.). Encyclopedia of Ecology, S. 3113-3122. Elsevier, Oxford.