Biology, ecology, and distribution of gelatinous zooplankton organisms (e.g., cnidarians, ctenophores, pelagic thaliaceans, pelagic gastropods) in marine, brackish, and freshwater systems
Ecology of sponges and bivalves
Invasive species (Mnemiopsis leidyi, Craspedacusta sowerbii)
Experimental biology
ATSC 113 - Applied Meteorology (2019-2022)
EOSC 442 - Climate Measurement and Analysis (2019-2022)
*16 October 1989, Rostock, German Democratic Republic
Days at sea: 354
2023-present Postdoctoral research fellow, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
2018-2022 Ph.D. Oceanography, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
2015-2018 Research assistant, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
2012-2015 M.Sc. Marine Biology, University of Bremen, AWI, Germany and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
2008-2012 B.Sc. Biology, University of Bremen and Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany
Peer-Reviewed
Lüskow F, Balaji T, Pakhomov EA (submitted) Biased dry weight: The matter of residual water in seven pelagic tunicate species. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol
Lüskow F, Boersma M, López-González PJ, Pakhomov EA (2023) Genetic variability, biomass parameters, elemental composition, and energy content of the non-indigenous hydromedusa Craspedacusta sowerbii in North America. J Plank Res 45(1):82-98. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbac064
Marchessaux G, Lüskow F, Bejean M, Pakhomov EA (2022) Increasing temperature facilitates polyp spreading and medusa appearance of the invasive hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii. Biol 11(8):1100. doi:10.3390/biology11081100
Lüskow F, Galbraith MD, Kwong LE, Pakhomov EA (2022) Biology and distribution of salps in the subarctic Northeast Pacific. Mar Biol 169(6):84. doi:10.1007/s00227-022-04067-2
Lüskow F, Christiansen B, Chi X, Silva P, Neitzel P, Brooks ME, Jaspers C (2022) Distribution and biomass of gelatinous zooplankton in relation to an oxygen minimum zone and a shallow seamount in the Eastern Tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Mar Env Res 175:105566. doi:10.1016/j.marenvres.2022.105566
Kwong LE, Ross T, Lüskow F, Florko KRN, Pakhomov EA (2022) Spatial, seasonal, and climatic variability in mesozooplankton size spectra along a coastal-to-open ocean transect in the subarctic Northeast Pacific. Prog Oceanogr 201:102728. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102728
Lüskow F, Galbraith MD, Hunt BPV, Perry RI, Boersma M, Pakhomov EA (2022) Gelatinous and soft-bodied zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Phosphorus content and potential resilience to phosphorus limitation. Hydrobiol 849(7):1543-1557. doi:10.1007/s10750-021-04758-9
Marchessaux G, Lüskow F, Sarà G, Pakhomov EA (2021) Predicting the current and future global distribution of the invasive freshwater hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii. Sci Rep 11:23099. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-02525-3
Sigurðsson GM, Lüskow F, Gíslason A, Svavarsson J (2021) Summer phenology of the sub-surface gelatinous zooplankton assemblage in two North-Western Icelandic fjords. Pol Biol 44(11):2139-2149. doi:10.1007/s00300-021-02947-9
Lüskow F, Johnson S, Johnson J, Pakhomov EA (2021) Gelatinous zooplankton of the Marshall Islands, Central Tropical Pacific: An inventory. Mar Biodiv 51(3):56. doi:10.1007/s12526-021-01205-9
Lüskow F, López-González PJ, Pakhomov EA (2021) Freshwater jellyfish in northern temperate lakes: Craspedacusta sowerbii in British Columbia, Canada. Aquat Biol 30:69-84. doi:10.3354/ab00742
Lüskow F, Galbraith MD, Hunt BPV, Perry RI, Pakhomov EA (2021) Gelatinous and soft-bodied zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Organic, elemental, and energy contents. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 665:19-35. doi:10.3354/meps13663
Chi X, Dierking J, Hoving H-JT, Lüskow F, Denda A, Christiansen B, Sommer U, Hansen T, Javidpour J (2021) Tackling the jelly web: New insights into the trophic ecology of gelatinous zooplankton in oceanic food webs of the eastern tropical Atlantic assessed by stable isotope analysis. Limnol Oceanogr 66(2):289-305. doi:10.1002/lno.11605
Lüskow F, Pakhomov EA, Stukel MR, Décima M (2020) Biology of Salpa thompsoni at the Chatham Rise, New Zealand: Demography, growth, and diel vertical migration. Mar Biol 167(12):175. doi:10.1007/s00227-020-03775-x
Czudaj S, Giesemann A, Hoving H-JT, Koppelmann R, Lüskow F, Möllmann C, Fock HO (2020) Spatial variation in the trophic structure of micronekton assemblages from the eastern tropical North Atlantic in two regions of differing productivity and oxygen environments. Deep Sea Res I 163:103275. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103275
Lüskow F (2020) Importance of environmental monitoring: Long-term record of jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) biomass in a shallow semi-enclosed cove (Kertinge Nor, Denmark). Regional Studies Mar Sci 34:100998. doi:10.1016/j.rsma.2019.100998
Lüskow F, Neitzel P, Miller MJ, Marohn L, Wysujack K, Freese M, Pohlmann J-D, Hanel R (2019) Distribution and abundance of net-captured calycophoran siphonophores and other gelatinous zooplankton in the Sargasso Sea European eel spawning area. Mar Biodiv 49(5):2333-2349. doi:10.1007/s12526-019-00971-x
Lüskow F, Kløve-Mogensen K, Tophøj J, Haastrup Pedersen L, Riisgård HU, Eriksen NT (2019) Seasonality in lipid content of the demosponges Halichondria panicea and H. bowerbanki at two study sites in temperate Danish waters. Front Mar Sci 6:328. doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00328
Lüskow F, Riisgård HU, Solovyeva V, Brewer JR (2019) Seasonal changes in bacteria and phytoplankton biomass control the condition index of the demosponge Halichondria panicea in temperate Danish waters. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 608:119-132. doi:10.3354/meps12785
Yurtseva AO, Lüskow F, Hatton M, Doucet A, Lajus D (2018) Finfish vs jellyfish: Complimentary feeding patterns allow threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus and common jellyfish Aurelia aurita to co-exist in a Danish cove. Mar Biol 165(9):148. doi:10.1007/s00227-018-3407-y
Lüskow F, Riisgård HU (2018) In situ filtration rates of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) measured by an open-top chamber method. Open J Mar Sci 8(4):395-406. doi:10.4236/ojms.2018.84022
Larsen PS, Lüskow F, Riisgård HU (2018) Too much food may cause reduced growth of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) – test of hypothesis and new ‘high Chl a BEG-model’. J Mar Syst 180:299-306. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2018.01.011
Lüskow F, Riisgård HU (2016) Population predation impact of jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) controls the maximum umbrella size and somatic degrowth in temperate Danish waters (Kertinge Nor and Mariager Fjord). Vie Milieu 66(3-4):233-243
Riisgård HU, Goldstein J, Lundgreen K, Lüskow F (2015) Jellyfish and ctenophores in the environmentally degraded Limfjorden (Denmark) during 2014 – species composition, population densities and predation impact. Fish Aquac J 6(3):137-146. doi:10.4172/2150-3508.1000137
Riisgård HU, Zalacáin D, Jeune N, Wiersma JB, Lüskow F, Pleissner D (2015) Adaptation of brine shrimp Artemia salina (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) to filter-feeding: Effects of body size and temperature on filtration and respiration rates. J Crust Biol 35(5):650-658. doi:10.1163/1937240X-00002362
Pleissner D, Lundgreen K, Lüskow F, Riisgård HU (2013) Fluorometer controlled apparatus designed for long-duration algal-feeding experiments and environmental effect studies with mussels. J Mar Biol ID 401961. doi:10.1155/2013/401961
Riisgård HU, Lüskow F, Pleissner D, Lundgreen K, López MÁP (2013) Effect of salinity on filtration rates of mussels Mytilus edulis with special emphasis on dwarfed mussels from the low-saline central Baltic Sea. Helgol Mar Res 67(3):591-598. doi:10.1007/s10152-013-0347-2
Non-Peer-Reviewed
Lüskow F, Balaji T, Pakhomov EA (submitted) Elemental composition and residual water content of seven thaliacean (salps and pyrosomes) species from the world’s oceans. PANGAEA
Pakhomov EA, Bahl AA, Lüskow F, Pakhomova LG (2023) Salpa thompsoni population dynamics during early Austral spring in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. In: Klaas C (ed) Reports on Polar and Marine Research. pp 83–90
Lüskow F, Bahl AA, Konrad C, Marchant H, Pakhomova LG, Iversen MH, Pakhomov EA (2023) What we see is not what we catch: A comparison between the net and optical sampling. In: Klaas C (ed) Reports on Polar and Marine Research. pp 77–82
Pakhomov EA, Bahl AA, Lüskow F, Pakhomova LG (2023) Macrozooplankton and micronekton distribution and biomass during early Austral spring in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. In: Klaas C (ed) Reports on Polar and Marine Research. pp 70–76
Lüskow F, Boersma M, López-González PJ, Pakhomov EA (2022) Biomass parameters and elemental composition of the non-indigenous hydromedusa Craspedacusta sowerbii in Canada and the USA. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.947306
Sigurðsson GM, Lüskow F, Gíslason A, Svavarsson J (2022) Sub-surface gelatinous zooplankton assemblages and their seasonality in two Northwestern Icelandic fjords. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.942811
Lüskow F, Galbraith MD, Kwong LE, Pakhomov EA (2021) Biology and morphometrics of dominant salp species in the subarctic Northeast Pacific. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.934954
Marchessaux G, Lüskow F, Sarà G, Pakhomov EA (2021) Mapping the global distribution of the freshwater hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.936074
Lüskow F, Galbraith MD, Hunt BVP, Perry RI, Boersma M, Pakhomov EA (2021) Phosphorus content and elemental ratios of gelatinous and soft-bodied zooplankton from the Northeast Pacific. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.933356
Lüskow F, Galbraith MD, Hunt BPV, Perry RI, Pakhomov EA (2021) Gelatinous and soft-bodied zooplankton organic matter and elemental composition. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.929888
Lüskow F, Pakhomov EA, Stukel MR, Décima M (2021) Salp biology (Salpa thompsoni) at the Chatham Rise, New Zealand. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.930609
Chi X, Dierking J, Hoving H-JT, Lüskow F, Denda A, Christiansen B, Sommer U, Hansen T, Javidpour J (2020) Stable isotope analysis of marine plankton during Maria S. Merian cruise MSM49. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.911939
Lüskow F (2020) Jellyfish abundance and chlorophyll a data from a shallow semi-enclosed cove, Kertinge Nor, Denmark. PANGAEA. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.910153
Décima M, Nodder S, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez A, Stukel MR, Selph K, Lopes dos Santos A, Saint-Macary A, Meyers M, Deans F, Lüskow F (2019) Salp Particle expOrt and Ocean Production (SalpPOOP). 21 October – 21 November 2018. NIWA Voyage Report TAN1810. 94 pp.
Robert M, Galbraith M, Haag J, Sahota R, Shiller J, Anderson N, Arychuk M, Haskell W, Higley W, Livingston M, Lüskow F, Romaine S, Simpson K (2019) Pacific Region CCG Vessel - Post Cruise Report. Line P Program - Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 11 pp.
Christiansen B, Buchholz C, Buchholz F, Chi X, Christiansen S, Denda A, Fabrizius E, Hauss H, Hoving HJT, Janßen S, Kaufmann M, Kronschnabel A, Lischka A, Lüskow F, Martin B, Merten V, Silva P, Pinheiro N, Springer B, Zankl S, Zeimet T (2016) SEAMOX: The Influence of Seamounts and Oxygen Minimum Zones on Pelagic Fauna in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic – Cruise No. MSM49 – November 28 – December 21, 2015 – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) – Mindelo (Republic of Cape Verde). Maria S. Merian-Berichte, MSM49, 42 pp., DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie. doi:10.2312/cr_msm49
Lüskow F, Tang B, Riisgård HU (2015) Report on Odense Harbour Mussel Project – September 2015. University of Southern Denmark. 28 pp.
Ekau W, Baumann T, Bode M, Dixon SL, Du Plessis N, Eich A, Gachui SN, Green A, Hahn A, Herrmann N, Jacobs L-A, Kugel M, Lüskow F, Martens P, McQuaid K, Mill S, Mohrholz V, Nel A, Olivar Buera MP, Paubert MT, Pilgram K, Pretorius L, Sadasing O, Schirber S, Schlegel R, Weiser J, Wolf K (2014) Training and Capacity Building Cruise – Cruise No. M102 – December 6 – December 23, 2013 – Le Port (Ile de la Reunion) – Walvis Bay (Namibia). METEOR-Berichte, M102, 68 pp., DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie. doi:10.2312/cr_m102
Conference and meeting contributions
Bahl AA, Lüskow F, Décima M, Steinberg DK, Pakhomov EA (2023) Southern Ocean salps migratory patterns vary by stage and size (Poster). Gordon Research Conference: Polar Marine Sciences. 5–10 March. Ventura, USA
Lüskow F, Pakhomov EA (2023) Non-indigenous freshwater jellyfish in BC – small neobiota with large potential (Oral presentation). INVASIVES 2023, ISCBC’s Annual Forum & AGM. 28 February–1 March. New Westminster, Canada
Lüskow F, Pakhomov EA (2023) Freshwater jellyfish in British Columbia and beyond – knowledge gaps and current progress (Oral presentation). Victoria Natural History Society. 14 February
Lüskow F, Bahl AA, Décima M, Steinberg DK, Pakhomov EA (2022) Salp diel vertical migration patterns across the globe: Investigating size- and stage-specificity against environmental cues (Poster). Ocean Sciences Meeting. 27 February–4 March
Lüskow F, Boersma M, López-González PJ, Pakhomov EA (2022) Dietary value of the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii (Poster). Ocean Sciences Meeting. 27 February–4 March
Lüskow F, Pakhomov EA (2021) Widespread and unnoticed occurrence of Craspedacusta sowerbii in British Columbia – knowledge gaps and recent progress (Oral presentation). 2021 Invasive Species Research Conference. 6–7 October
Lüskow F, Galbraith MD, Hunt BPV, Perry RI, Pakhomov EA (2020) Squishy but not useless for energy balance: Energetic value of gelatinous zooplankton from the Salish Sea and adjacent waters (Poster). Salish Sea Ecosystem Virtual Conference. 21–22 April
Décima M, Stukel MR, Selph KE, Gutierrez-Rodriguez A, Safi K, Nodder SD, Lüskow F, Fender C, Meyers M (2020) Salp grazing effects on the lower food web and carbon export, in subtropical and subantarctic waters east of New Zealand (Oral presentation). Ocean Sciences Meeting. 16–21 February. San Diego, USA
Lüskow F, Pakhomov EA, Décima M (2020) Biology of Salpa thompsoni at the Chatham Rise, New Zealand: Reproduction, diel vertical migration and demography (Poster). Ocean Sciences Meeting. 16–21 February. San Diego, USA
Lüskow F, Goldstein J, Riisgård HU (2018) Feeding and growth of small single-osculum demosponge Halichondria panicea explants at various algal concentrations (Oral presentation). 5th Villum Sponge Project meeting. 12 April. Kerteminde, Denmark
Lüskow F, Riisgård HU (2017) Clearance rates of sponges (Halichondria bowerbanki) exposed to natural seawater using a new in situ method (Oral presentation). 4th Villum Sponge Project meeting. 26 October. Odense, Denmark
Lüskow F, Kumala L, Solovyeva V, Brewer JR, Riisgård HU (2017) In situ growth, feeding and condition of the breadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea, in relation to a seasonally changing environment (Oral presentation). 3rd Villum Sponge Project meeting. 24 April. Aarhus, Denmark
Lüskow F, Kumala L, Riisgård HU (2016) In situ growth, feeding and condition of the breadcrumb sponge, Halichondria panicea, in relation to a seasonally changing environment (Oral presentation). 2nd Villum Sponge Project meeting. 28 October. Kerteminde, Denmark
Lüskow F, Riisgård HU (2016) Population predation impact of jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) controls the maximum umbrella size and somatic degrowth in temperate Danish waters (Poster). 5th International Jellyfish Bloom Symposium. 30 May–3 June. Barcelona, Spain
Lüskow F, Kumala L, Riisgård HU (2016) In situ growth of the breadcrumb sponge Halichondria panicea in relation to the onset of spring bloom (Oral presentation). 1st Villum Sponge Project meeting. 4 March. Copenhagen, Denmark
Lüskow F, Tang B, Riisgård HU (2015) Presentation of the Odense Harbour Mussel Project (Oral presentation). AG Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Fishes meeting. 9 November. GEOMAR. Kiel, Germany
Lüskow F, Tang B, Riisgård HU (2015) Project report (Oral presentation). 2nd Odense Harbour Mussel Project meeting. 21 September. Odense, Denmark
Lüskow F, Tang B, Riisgård HU (2015) Introductory talk (Oral presentation). 1st Odense Harbour Mussel Project meeting. 26 June. Kerteminde, Denmark
Theses
Lüskow F (2022) Hidden diversity in gelatinous zooplankton assemblages from selected ecosystems around the Pacific Ocean. Doctor of Philosophy dissertation. University of British Columbia. 283 pp. doi:10.14288/1.0422471
Lüskow F (2015) When air for breathing becomes limiting: Insights in the tolerance to hypoxia and implications for competition between the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita (Scyphozoa) and the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus in the inner Danish waters. Master thesis. University of Bremen. 72 pp.
Lüskow F (2011) Investigation of feeding selectivity of polyps (Scyphozoa) in situ and under laboratory conditions. Bachelor thesis. University of Bremen. 75 pp.
Newspaper and radio contributions
Seetagebuch: Walther Herwig III, 465. Reise, April 2023, https://www.thuenen.de/de/themenfelder/meere/keine-fischereiforschung-oh...
Is that… a freshwater jellyfish? Invasive species council of BC, 15 December 2022, https://bcinvasives.ca/news/is-that-a-freshwater-jellyfish/
Researcher spotlight: Exploring Southern Ocean productivity. IMECaN, December 2022, https://myemail.constantcontact.com/IMECaN-newsletter-December-2022.html...
Invasive jellyfish making a new home in B.C. CBC, The Current, 27 June 2022, https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/15921629-inva....
These invasive jellyfish are the size of a thumbnail — and they're making a new home in B.C. CBC, The Current, 27 June 2022, https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-june-27-2022-1.65027...
Hydromedusa jellyfish could see explosive growth in B.C. June 2022. Alaska Highway News, https://www.alaskahighwaynews.ca/highlights/hydromedusa-jellyfish-could-...
Hydromedusa jellyfish could see explosive growth in B.C. June 2022. North Shore News, https://www.nsnews.com/highlights/hydromedusa-jellyfish-could-see-explos...
Local lakes included in study of invasive freshwater jellyfish. October 2020. Harbour Spiel 358, 1 p. https://www.harbourspiel.com/files/harbour-spiel-october-2020-issue.pdf
Invasive jellyfish found in Saanich lakes. September 2020. CTV News Vancouver Island, https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video?binId=1.1777488
Invasive jellyfish from China discovered in a small Saanich lake. August 2020. CHEK News, https://www.cheknews.ca/invasive-jellyfish-from-china-discovered-in-a-sm...
Freshwater jellyfish native to China spotted in Saanich lake. August 2020. Black Press Media, 1 p. https://www.vicnews.com/news/freshwater-jellyfish-native-to-china-spotte...
Invasive jellyfish reports on rise in Vancouver Island lakes. August 2020. Times Colonist, 1 p. https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/invasive-jellyfish-reports-on-r...
Invasive jellyfish turn up in tiny Saanich lake. August 2020. Times Colonist, 1 p. https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/invasive-jellyfish-turn-up-in-t...
Kertemindes ihærdige strandskraldsamler rejser væk. 2018. Kerteminde Avis, 3 pp.
Frivillig samler skrald på Kertemindes strande hver weekend. 2017. Kerteminde Avis, 3 pp.
Travel report to 5th International Jellyfish Bloom Symposium in Barcelona. 2017. Society for Experimental Biology, 1 p.
Seetagebuch: Walther Herwig III, 404. Reise, April 2017, https://www.thuenen.de/de/themenfelder/meere/keine-fischereiforschung-oh...