@phdthesis{Hellmanns2012,
  author    = {Hellmanns, Mark},
  title     = {Qualit{\"a}tssicherung von handgef{\"u}hrten Applikationsprozessen durch Nachverfolgung der Handhabungseinheit. (Fortschrittsberichte aus der Produktionstechnik ; 1)},
  publisher = {Aachen},
  address   = {Shaker},
  isbn      = {978-3-8440-1379-5},
  pages     = {XIV, 99 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Meliss1978,
  author    = {Meliß, Michael},
  title     = {M{\"o}glichkeiten und Grenzen der Sonnenenergienutzung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland mit Hilfe von Niedertemperaturkollektoren : Grundlagen - technische Systeme - Wirtschaftlichkeit. - (Spezielle Berichte der Kernforschungsanlage J{\"u}lich ; 25.)},
  publisher = {Zentralbibliothek der Kernforschungsanlage J{\"u}lich},
  address   = {J{\"u}lich},
  pages     = {V, 239 S. : graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1978},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Wahle1985,
  author    = {Wahle, Michael},
  title     = {Beitrag zur passiven Kontrolle schwach ged{\"a}mpfter elastischer Strukturen mittels dynamischer Schwingungsd{\"a}mpfer},
  pages     = {XIV, 305 S. : Ill., zahlr. graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1985},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Polaczek1995,
  author    = {Polaczek, Christa},
  title     = {Automatische 3-dimensionale FEM-Netzgenerierung f{\"u}r die Formf{\"u}ll- und Erstarrungssimulation. - (Fortschrittberichte VDI : Reihe 20, Rechnerunterst{\"u}tzte Verfahren ; 182)},
  number    = {Als Ms. gedr.},
  publisher = {VDI-Verl.},
  address   = {D{\"u}sseldorf},
  isbn      = {3-18-318220-3},
  pages     = {VII, 131 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1995},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Benner1984,
  author    = {Benner, Joachim},
  title     = {Experimentelle Untersuchungen des mechanischen Verhaltens drehnachgiebiger Wellenkupplungen und Entwicklung eines Ersatzmodells},
  pages     = {147 S. : graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1984},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Mueller2005,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Karsten},
  title     = {Strategien zur Zustandserfassung von Kanalisationen},
  pages     = {IX, 181, A-105 S. : graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Stellberg1991,
  author    = {Stellberg, Michael},
  title     = {Systematische Konstruktion von Spann- und Schnappverbindungen},
  pages     = {III, 166 S. : zahlr. Ill. und graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1991},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Dahmann1992,
  author    = {Dahmann, Peter},
  title     = {Untersuchungen zur Wirksamkeit von Filtern in hydraulischen Anlagen},
  pages     = {VI, 160 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1992},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Gerling1981,
  author    = {Gerling, Ulrich},
  title     = {Thermodynamische Untersuchungen im System Silber-Gold-Zink zur Erschließung der Assoziatgleichgewichte},
  pages     = {276 S. : graph. Darst.},
  year      = {1981},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Schieffer2012,
  author    = {Schieffer, Andre},
  title     = {Studies on diversity and coexistence in an experimental microbial community},
  pages     = {76 Bl. : Ill.},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Biodiversity and the coexistence of species have puzzled and fascinated biologists since decades and is a hotspot in todays' natural sciences. Preserving this biodiversity is a great challenge as habitats and environments underlying tremendous changes like climate change and the loss of natural habitats, which are mainly due to anthropogenic influences. The coexistence of numerous species even in homogeneous environments is a stunning feature of natural communities and has been summarized under the term 'paradox of plankton'. Up to now, there are several mechanisms discussed, which may contribute to local and global diversity of organisms. Several interspecific trade offs have been identified maintaining the coexistence of species like their abilities regarding competition and predator avoidance, their capability to disperse in space and time, and their ability to exploit variable resources. Further, micro-evolutionary dynamics supporting the coexistence of species have been added to our knowledge, and deriving from theoretical deterministic models, non-linear dynamics which describe the temporal fluctuation of abundances of organisms. Whereas competition and predation seem to be clue structural elements within interacting organisms, the intrinsic dynamic behavior - by means of temporal changes in abundance - plays an important role regarding coexistence within a community. The present work sheds light on different factors affecting the coexistence of species using experimental microbial model systems consisting of a bacterivorous ciliate as the predator and two bacteria strains as prey organism. Additionally, another experimental setup consisting of two up to five bacteria species competing for one limiting resource was investigated. Highly controllable chemostat systems were established to exclude extrinsic disturbances. According to theoretical analyses I was able to show - experimentally and theoretically - that phenotypic plasticity of one species within a microbial one-predator-two-prey food web enlarges the range of possible coexistence of all species under different dynamic conditions, compared to a food web without phenotypic plasticity. This was accompanied by non-linear (chaotic) population dynamics within all experimental systems showing phenotypic plasticity. The experiments on the interplay of competition, predation and invasion showed that all aspects have an influence on species coexistence. Under undisturbed controlled conditions all aspects were analyzed in detail and in combination. Populations showed oscillations which were shown by quasi-chaotic attractors in phase space diagrams. Competition experiments with two up to five bacteria species competing for one limiting resource showed that all organisms were able to coexist which was mediated by species oscillations entering a regime of chaos. Besides that fact it was found, that the productivity (biomass) as well as the total cell numbers - under the same nutrition supply - increased by an increasing number of species in the experimental systems. Up to now, the occurrence of non-linear dynamics in well controlled experimental studies has been recognized several times and this phenomenon seemed to be more common in natural systems than generally assumed.},
  language  = {en}
}