A5023119342- Marine and fisheries research
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Agricultural and Environmental Management
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research
2011-2023
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
2018-2023
Fahrenheit (Germany)
2011-2014
University of Bremen
2008-2011
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
2011
Tropical cyclones drive coastal ecosystem dynamics, and their frequency, intensity, spatial distribution are predicted to shift with climate change. Patterns of resistance resilience were synthesized for 4138 time series from n = 26 storms occurring between 1985 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere predict how ecosystems will respond future disturbance regimes. Data grouped by (fresh water, salt terrestrial, wetland) response categories (biogeochemistry, hydrography, mobile biota, sedentary...
Abstract Tropical cyclones play an increasingly important role in shaping ecosystems. Understanding and generalizing their responses is challenging because of meteorological variability among storms its interaction with We present a research framework designed to compare tropical cyclone effects within across ecosystems that: a) uses disaggregating approach that measures the individual ecosystem components, b) links response components at fine temporal scales meteorology antecedent...
The northern Benguela Upwelling System (nBUS) has been facing increasing temperatures and decreasing dissolved oxygen (DO) levels over the last decades. This implications for key processes trophic interactions within ecosystem including shifts in community composition, distribution ranges, levels, changes energy flows migration patterns with feedbacks to biogeochemical processes. Here we summarise results gained from GENUS project (Geochemistry Ecology of Namibian System) focussing on...
Abstract Microplastic pollution has been recognized as a potential threat to environmental and human health. Recent studies have shown that microplastics reside in all ecosystems contaminate food/water sources. exposure result adverse effects related endocrine disruption; however, data are limited regarding how current levels of during development may impact reproductive To determine the environmentally relevant, chronic, low‐dose microplastic fibers on fish health, juvenile Japanese medaka...
Abstract Early life history (ELH) traits are key to understand variable recruitment success and hence the stock size of marine fish. One currently most puzzling ecosystems in this regard is northern part Benguela Current upwelling system off Namibia. Here, populations formerly dominant pelagic species, sardine anchovy, failed recover during last three decades after a dramatic decline. In contrast, Cape horse mackerel, Trachurus capensis, maintained constant population size. Warming shoaling...
Microplastic pollution is of public concern for global environmental health, aquaculture, and fisheries. Toxicity studies have shown that microplastic ingestion may cause intestinal damage, microbiota dysbiosis, disturb the lipid energy metabolism in fish. To determine impact environmentally relevant, chronic, low dose fibers on fish medaka larvae, juveniles were exposed to five concentrations polyethylene (PE) 21 days through feed. Fish growth condition assessed overall health. identify...
AbstractPhysiological traits of five key fish species (Cape hake Merluccius spp., pelagic goby Sufflogobius bibarbatus, Cape horse mackerel Trachurus capensis, European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus and sardine Sardinops sagax) from the northern Benguela upwelling system (NBUS) were compared during their larval stage by measurements enzymatic activities metabolic enzymes (citrate synthase [CS] pyruvate kinase [PK]). Two distinct age classes (early larvae: 8‒14 days old; late 22‒29 old) for...
Abstract The ability of larval fish to find prey items in sufficient quantities plays an important role determining survivorship. To understand trophic niche partitioning and the potential for competition, we analyzed morphology digestive tract content larvae three co-occurring, sciaenid species: Cynoscion nothus, Larimus fasciatus Micropogonias undulatus. Larvae were collected north-western Gulf Mexico off Galveston, TX, at seven stations October/November 2017. Intra- interspecific diet...
Abstract Fall is an important time of year for fish recruitment in the Gulf Mexico, with many commercially and recreationally species spawning during this period. Changes temperature salinity regimes through seasonally abnormal freshwater input may change patterns displace larvae. Such event occurred off coast Galveston Bay, Texas, when a flood plume formed from unprecedented rainfall related to Hurricane Harvey at end August 2017. This study investigated effects large‐scale on larval...