A5079979280- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Food Industry and Aquatic Biology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Polar Research and Ecology
University of Salzburg
2022
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
2021
Over the past decades, two key grazers in Southern Ocean (SO), krill and salps, have experienced drastic changes their distribution abundance, leading to increasing overlap of habitats. Both species occupy different ecological niches long-term shifts distributions are expected cascading effects on SO ecosystem. However, studies directly comparing salps lacking. Here, we provide a direct comparison diet fecal pellet composition using 18S metabarcoding fatty acid markers. Neither species'...
Abstract Zooplankton community structure is often characterized by using traits as a function of environmental conditions. However, trait-based knowledge on Southern Ocean mesozooplankton limited, particularly regarding size and elemental composition. Nine stations around the northern Antarctic Peninsula were sampled during austral autumn to investigate spatial variability in taxonomic composition, stoichiometry relation predictors, but also abundance krill salps. The communities South...
Abstract Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems (EBUE’s) are highly productive, and due to their extensive fisheries, of major economic importance. Compared oligotrophic systems, however, relatively little is known about the fate primary production in these systems. In order investigate role microzooplankton grazing Canary Current EBUE, experiments were conducted as part Meteor M129 expedition. Water for was taken from depths with highest chlorophyll a concentrations prescreened remove...