Dr. Anja Schwarz

Since 1997 teaching in botany and since 2009 in the degree program geoecology / environmental sciences, lectures, internships and excursions, supervision of theses

• ISDR International Society for Diatom Research
• DGL Deutsche Limnologische Gesellschaft

Peer reviewed publications

Ruthsatz, K., Schwarz, A., Gomez-Mestre, I., Meyer, R., Domscheit, M., Bartels, F., Schaeffer, S.-M., Engelkes, K. (2023). Life in plastic, it's not fantastic: Sublethal effects of polyethylene microplastics ingestion throughout amphibian metamorphosis, Science of The Total Environment 885, 163779, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163779. 

Echeverría‐Galindo, P., Rigterink, S., Massaferro, J., Pérez, L., Wünnemann, B., Hoelzmann, P., Kang, W., Börner, N., Schwarz, A., Laug, A., Peng, P., Wang, J., Zhu, L., Schwalb, A. (2023). Chironomid (Insecta: Chironomidae) community structure response to hydrological changes in the mid‐1950s in lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau. J. Quat. Sci. doi:10.1002/jqs.3517.

Martínez-Abarca, R., Bücker, M., Hoppenbrock, J., Flores-Orozco, A., Pita de la Paz, C., Fröhlich, K., Buckel, J., Lauke, T., Moguel, B., Bonilla, M., Rubio-Sandoval, K., Echeverría-Galindo, P., Landois, S., García, M., Caballero, M., Rodríguez, S., Morales, W., Escolero, O., Correa-Metrio, A., Wojewódka-Przybył, M., Schwarz, A., Krahn, K., Schwalb, A., Pérez, L. (2023). Evidence of large water-level variations found in deltaic sediments of a tropical deep lake in the karst mountains of the Lacandon forest, Mexico. Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-022-00264-7

Anslan, S., Kang, W., Dulias, K., Wünnemann, B., Echeverría-Galindo, P., Börner, N., Schwarz, A., Liu, Y., Liu, K., Künzel, S., Kisand, V., Rioual, P. (2022). Compatibility of Diatom Valve Records With Sedimentary Ancient DNA Amplicon Data: A Case Study in a Brackish, Alkaline Tibetan Lake. Frontiers in Earth 10(824656), https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.824656DOI

Neugebauer, I., Dinies, M., Plessen, B., Dräger, N., Brauer, A., Brückner, H., Frenzel, P., Gleixner, G., Hoelzmann, P., Krahn, K.J., Pint, A., Schwab, V.F., Schwarz, A., Tjallingii, R., Engel, M. (2022). The unexpectedly short Holocene Humid Period in Northern Arabia. Communications Earth and Environment, 3 (1), art. no. 47. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-022-00368-y

Anslan, S., Sachs, M., Rancilhac, L., Brinkmann, H., Petersen, J., Künzel, S., Schwarz, A., Arndt, H., Kerney, R., Vences, M. (2021). Diversity and substrate-specificity of green algae and other micro-eukaryotes colonizing amphibian clutches in Germany, revealed by DNA metabarcoding. Science of Nature 108(4), 29, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-021-01734-0

Kang, W., Anslan, S., Börner, N., Schwarz, A., Schmidt, R., Künzel, S., Rioual, P., Echeverría-Galindo, P., Vences, M., Wang, J., Schwalb, A., 2021. Diatom metabarcoding and microscopic analyses from sediment samples at Lake Nam Co, Tibet: The effect of sample-size and bioinformatics on the identified communities. Ecological Indicators 121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107070

Krahn, K.J., Schwarz, A., Wetzel, C.E., Cohuo-Durán, S., Daut, G., Macario-González, L., Pérez, L., Wang, J., Schwalb, A., 2021. Three new needle-shaped Fragilaria species from Central America and the Tibetan Plateau. Phytotaxa 479 (1): 001–022, https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.479.1.1

Laug, A., Haberzettl, T., Pannes, A., Schwarz, A., Turner, F., Wang, J., Engels, S., Rigterink, S., Börner, N., Ahlborn, M., Ju, J., Schwalb, A. (2021). Holocene paleoenvironmental change inferred from two sediment cores collected in the Tibetan lake Taro Co. J. Paleolimnology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00198-6

Echeverria-Galindo P., Anslan S., Frenzel P., Kunzel S., Vences M., Perez L., Börner N., Kang, W., Schwarz A., Wang J., Peng P., Zhu L., Schwalb A., 2021. High-throughput identification of non-marine Ostracoda from the Tibetan Plateau: Evaluating the success of various primers on sedimentary DNA samples. Environmental DNA 3: 982-996, https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.222

Schroeter, N., Toney, J.L., Lauterbach, S.,Kalanke, J., Schwarz, A., Schouten, S., Gleixner, G. (2020). How to Deal with Multi-Proxy Data for Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions: Applications to a Holocene Lake Sediment Record From the Tian Shan, Central Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 353.

Laug, A.,Schwarz, A., Lauterbach, S., Engels, S., Schwalb, A. (2020). Ecosystem shifts at two mid-Holocene tipping points in the alpine Lake Son Kol (Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia). Holocene 30(10), pp. 1410-1419.

Hollert, H., Crawford, S.E., Brack, W., Brinkmann, M., Fischer, E., Hartmann, K., Keiter, S., Ottermanns, R., Ouellet, J.D., Rinke, K., Rösch, M., Roß-Nickoll, M., Schäffer, A., Schüth, C., Schulze, T., Schwarz, A., Seiler, T.-B., Wessels, M., Hinderer, M., Schwalb, A. (2018). Looking back - Looking forward: A novel multi-time slice weight-of-evidence approach for defining reference conditions to assess the impact of human activities on lake systems. Science of the Total Environment 626 , 1036 - 1046.

Schwarz, A., Turner, F., Lauterbach, S., Plessen, B., Krahn, K.J., Glodniok, S., Mischke, S., Stebich, M., Witt, R., Mingram, J., Schwalb, A. (2017). Mid- to late Holocene climate-driven regime shifts inferred from diatom, ostracod and stable isotope records from Lake Son Kol (Central Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan). Quaternary Science Reviews 177, 340-356.

Costa-Böddeker, S., Thuyên, L. T., Schwarz, A. & Schwalb, A. (2017). Diatom assemblages in surface sediments along nutrient and salinity gradients of Thi Vai estuary and Can Gio mangrove forest, Southern Vietnam. Estuaries and Coasts 40 (2): 479-492.

Hübener, T., Adler, A., Werner, P., Schwarz, A. & Dressler, M. (2015). Identifying reference conditions for dimictic north German lowland lakes: implications from paleoecological studies for implementing the EU-Water Framework Directive. Hydrobiologia 742 (1): 295-312.

Ahlborn, M., Haberzettl, T., Wang, J., Alivernini, M., Schlütz, F., Schwarz, A., Su, Y., Frenzel, P., Daut, G., Zhu, L., Mäusbacher, R. (2015). Sediment dynamics and hydrologic events affecting small lacustrine systems on the southern-central Tibetan Plateau - the example from the TT Lake. The Holocene25, 508-522.

Turner, F., Pott, R., Schwarz, A. & Schwalb, A. (2014). Response of Pediastrum in German floodplain lakes to Late Glacial climate changes. J. Paleolimnology 52: 293-310.

Lauterbach, S., Witt, R., Plessen, B., Dulski, P., Prasad, S., Mingram, J., Gleixner, G., Hettler-Riedel, S., Stebich, M., Schnetger, B., Schwalb, A. & Schwarz, A. (2014). Climatic imprint of the mid-latitude Westerlies in the Central Tian Shan of Kyrgyzstan and teleconnections to North Atlantic climate variability during the last 6000 years. The Holocene 24 (8): 970-984. doi:10.1177/0959683614534741

Kasper, T., Frenzel, P., Haberzettl, T., Schwarz, A., Daut, G., Meschner, S., Wang, J., Zhu, L. & Mäusbacher, R. (2013). Interplay between redox conditions and hydrological changes in sediments from Lake Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau) during the past 4000 cal BP inferred from geochemical and micropalaeontological analyses. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol. 392: 261-271.

Dreßler, M., Schwarz, A., Hübener, Th., & Scharf, B. (2011). Use of sedimentary diatoms from multiple lakes to distinguish between past changes in trophic state and climate: evidence for climate change in northern Germany during the past 5,000 years. J. Paleolimnology 45: 223-241.

Hübener, T., Dreßler, M., Schwarz, A., Langner, K. & Adler, S. (2008). Dynamic adjustment of training sets (`moving windows` reconstruction) by using transfer functions in paleolimnology - a new approach. J. Paleolimnology 40: 79-95.

Book chapters

Lampe, R., Lorenz, S., Janke, W., Meyer, H., Küster, M., Hübener, T. & Schwarz, A. (2009). Zur Landschafts- und Gewässergeschichte der Müritz: Umweltgeschichtlich orientierte Bohrungen 2004-2006 zur Rekonstruktion der nacheiszeitlichen Entwicklung Forschung und Monitoring. Band 2. Nationalparkamt Müritz [Hrsg.].1-94. www.geozon.info/publikationen

Schwarz, A., Hübener, T. & Dörfler, W. (2000). Vergleich der Entwicklungsgeschichte zweier Seen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern anhand von Diatomeen- und Pollenuntersuchungen. Tagungsbericht der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) 1999 (Rostock). Band 1, S. 334-339.

Other publications

Schwarz, A., Dreßler, M., Werner, P.& Krahn, K. (2019). Second German Benthic Diatom Intercalibration Exercise 2014/2015, Report, TU Braunschweig, Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikatio, 110 pp. (link zum Download)

Schwarz, A., Dreßler, M., Krahn, K. & Werner, P. (2016). Zweiter Ringversuch benthische Diatomeen 2014/15 in Deutschland - Beitrag zur Qualitätssicherung bei der Umsetzung der EU-WRRL. Erweiterte Zusammenfassungen der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) 2015 (Essen). S. 179-183.

Dreßler, M., Werner, P., Adler, S., Kahlert, M., Verweij, G., Schwarz, A., v. d. Wal, J., Kistenich, S., Hübener, T., Fazzone, A. & Galbiati, M. (2014). First German Benthic Diatom Intercalibration Exercise. Universität Rostock, 203 pp.

Schwarz, A., Hübener, T. & Dörfler, W. (2000). Vergleich der Entwicklungsgeschichte zweier Seen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern anhand von Diatomeen- und Pollenuntersuchungen. Tagungsbericht der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) 1999 (Rostock). Band 1, S. 334-339.

Selig, U., Hübener, T., Schwarz, A. & Leipe, T. (2002). The environmental history of a postglacial dimictic lake in North Germany. Proc. Internat. Assoc. Limnol. (SIL) 28: 1340-1344.

Schwarz, A., Dörfler, W. & Hübener, T. (1999). Untersuchung des Pollen- und Diatomeenvorkommens in einem Sedimentkern des Schulzensees (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). Berichte des IGB. Heft 7, Sonderheft II, S. 52-53.

Schwarz, A. & Lenzenweger, R. (1999). Ein bemerkenswerter Fund von Staurastrum octodontum Skuja var. tetrodontum Scott & Grönblad im Dobbertiner See (Norddeutschland). Algological Studies 95: 73-79.

Academic research papers

Dissertation (University Rostock, 2005)

Schwarz, A. (2005). Rekonstruktion der Entwicklung des Schulzensees und des Tiefen Sees (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) seit dem Spätglazial mittels Diatomeenanalyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Trophiegeschichte. Dissertation, Universität Rostock, S. 1-164.

Diploma thesis (University Rostock, 1997)

Walter, A. (1997). Hydrologisch-ökologische Untersuchungen im Jävenitzer Moor im Raum Stendal/Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide. Diplomarbeit, Universität Rostock, S. 1-113.

Schwarz, A., Dalle, M., Daut, G., Schnetger, B., Wang, J., Schwalb, A. (2018). A diatom assemblage change in Lake Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau) caused by recent global warming? IPA-IAL, Stockholm, Sweden. Oral

Schwarz, A., Dreßler, M., Krahn, K., Werner, P. (2016). Why is quality assurance in diatom analysis important? – Results of the 2nd German intercalibration exercise benthic diatoms. 10th Central European Diatom Meeting, Budapest, Hungary. Poster

Schwarz, A., Dressler, M., Krahn, K., Werner, P., Meybohm, A. (2015). 2. Ringversuch benthische Diatomeen 2014/15 in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Qualitätssicherung bei der Umsetzung der WRRL. 30. Jahrestagung der DGL, Essen, Deutschland. Oral

Schwarz, A., Krahn, K., Daut, G., Wang, J., Schwalb, A. (2015). Seasonal diatom succession in Lake Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau) inferred from sediment traps. 9th Central European Diatom Meeting, Bremerhaven, Germany. Poster

Schwarz, A., Glodniok, S., Lauterbach, S., Plessen, B., Schwalb, A. (2014). Holocene climate-induced diatom and ostracod succession in Lake Chatyr Kol (Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan). 8th Central European Diatom Meeting, Zagreb, Croatia. Poster

Schwarz, A., Kasper, T., Frenzel, P., Haberzettl, T. & Schwalb, A. (2013). Changing diatom associations and preservation as Holocene palaeoclimate indicator in lake Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau). 7th Central European Diatom Meeting, Thonon-Les-Bains, France. Poster

Schwarz, A., Ptach, K., Lauterbach, S., Schwalb, A. & Prasad, S. (2012). Multi-proxy climate reconstruction from Central Asian lake sediments. 12th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Glasgow, UK, Poster

Schwarz, A., Klopschar, M. & Schwalb, A. (2012). Holocene Central Asian climate dynamics reconstructed from lake sediments. 6th Central European Diatom Meeting, Innsbruck, Austria. Poster