• Spatio-temporal dynamcis of size-structured populations and communities
• Trait-based interactions among individuals and populations
• Behavioural traits in fish and zooplankton
• Daily vertical migration of aquatic organisms
• Mathematical population models and statistical analysis of non-independent data

• Project management „Alternative Brown Shrimp Value Chain“

• 2018 – 2021: Scientist at Department of Biometry and Environmental Systems Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (GER)
• 2014 -2017: Marie-Curie- und IGB-Fellow at Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (GER)
• 2012 – 2013: NERC-Scientist at Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield (UK)
• 2009 – 2012: Swedish Research Council Fellow at Department of Aquatic Ecology, University Lund (SWE), und Department of Ecology and Evolution, University Leeds (UK)
• 2002 – 2008: PhD student at Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University Umeå (SWE)
• 2001 – 2002: Trainee at Department of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecology, Syngenta AG Basel (CH)
• 2001: Diploma in Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (GER)

Peer-reviewed journal articles (not Thünen-Institute)

• Würtz S, Schröder A & Wanka K (2021) Probiotics in fish nutrition – Long-standing household remedy or native, species-specific nutraceuticals? Water 13:1348-1367
• Arlinghaus R, Laskowski K, Alós J, Klefoth T, Monk CT, Nakayama S & Schröder A (2017) Passive gear-induced timidity syndrome in wild fish populations and its potential ecological and managerial implications. Fish & Fisheries 18:360-373
• Schröder A, Kalinkat G & Arlinghaus R (2016) Individual variation in functional response parameters is expained by body size but not by behavioural types in a poeciliied fish. Oecologia 182:1129-1140
• Arlinghaus R, Alós J, Klefoth T, Laskowski K, Monk CT, Nakayama S & Schröder A (2016) Consumptive tourism causes timidity, rather than boldness,syndromes: A response to Geffroy et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31:92-94
• Liess A, Rowe O, Francoeur SN, Guo J, Lange K, Schröder A, Reichstein B, Lefébure R, Deininger A, Mathisen P & Faithfull C (2016) Terrestrial runoff boosts phytoplankton in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon, but these effects do not propagate to higher trophic levels. Hydrobiologia 766:275-291
• Schröder A, van Leeuwen A & Cameron T (2015) Empirical support for different types of positive mortality effects. A reply to Abrams. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30:180-181
• Schröder A, van Leeuwen A & Cameron T (2014) When less is more: positive population-level effects of mortality. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 29:614-624
• Schröder A (2013) Density- and size-dependent winter survival of late Chaoborus flavicans larvae. PlosOne 8:e75839
• Reichstein B, Schröder A, Persson L & de Roos AM (2012) Habitat complexity does not promote coexistence in a size-structured intraguild predation system. Journal of Animal Ecology 82:55-63
• Schröder A, Persson L & de Roos AM (2012) Complex shifts between food web states in response to whole-ecosystem manipulations. Oikos 121:417-427
• Schröder A, Persson L & de Roos AM (2009) Culling experiments demonstrate size-class specific biomass increases with mortality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:2671-2676
• Schröder A, Nilsson KA, Persson L, van Kooten T & Reichstein B (2009) Invasion success depends on invader body size in a size-structured mixed predation – competition community. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:1152-1162
• Schröder A, Persson L & de Roos AM (2005) Direct experimental evidence for alternative stable states: A review. Oikos 110:3-19

Peer-reviewed book chapters

• Schröder A (2008) Inference about complex ecosystem dynamics. in: New Models for Ecosystem Dynamics and Restoration. Hobbs, R. and Suding, K. (eds.), pp. 50-62, Island Press, Washington DC, USA.

Books

• Dormann CF & Schröder A (2021) Marine Ecology Notes – Open Textbook Library
• Beck A, Cheeseman M, Evan C, Levene B, Paragreen J, Reeve H, Schröder A, Spencer S (2014) NO PICNIC: Explorations in art and research. – AND Publishing, ISBN 978-1-908452-43-6

Book reviews

• Schröder A (2022) Predator Ecology: Evolutionary Ecology of the Functional Response by JOHN P. DELONG, Oxford University Press – Basic and Applied Ecology 59:17-18