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Overview

Michael L. Zettler is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on marine ecosystems.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Zettler's work extends into several subfields, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to aquatic and marine research:

  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Insect Science
  • Atmospheric Science

Key topics addressed in their scholarly contributions comprise a range of ecological and marine biological themes:

  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Mollusks and Parasites Studies

The scientist has coauthored extensively with several researchers, indicating collaborative work in related fields. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Mayya Gogina
  • Alexander Darr
  • Bernd R. Schöne
  • Xizhi Huang
  • Peter Feldens

Zettler has published numerous papers in a variety of scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • A combination of species distribution and ocean-biogeochemical models suggests that climate change overrides eutrophication as the driver of future distributions of a key benthic crustacean in the estuarine ecosystem of the Baltic Sea (2020, ICES Journal of Marine Science)
  • Macrofauna as a major driver of bentho-pelagic exchange in the southern North Sea (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Transcriptional response of key metabolic and stress response genes of a nuculanid bivalve, Lembulus bicuspidatus from an oxygen minimum zone exposed to hypoxia-reoxygenation (2021, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
  • Substrate Heterogeneity as a Trigger for Species Diversity in Marine Benthic Assemblages (2023, Biology)
  • Mn/Ca in shells of Arctica islandica (Baltic Sea) - A potential proxy for ocean hypoxia? (2021, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science)

Frequent publication venues demonstrate a focus on marine-related biological and environmental sciences, including:

  • Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Zootaxa
  • Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology

Best Publications

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Status of Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

    Henn Ojaveer;Andres Jaanus;Brian R. MacKenzie;Georg Martin

  • The use of benthic indicators in Europe: From the Water Framework Directive to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

    Gert Van Hoey;Angel Borja;Silvana Birchenough;Lene Buhl-Mortensen

  • Benthic biodiversity indices versus salinity gradient in the southern Baltic Sea

    Michael L. Zettler;Doris Schiedek;Bernd Bobertz

  • Benthos distribution modelling and its relevance for marine ecosystem management

    Henning Reiss;Silvana Birchenough;Angel Borja;Lene Buhl-Mortensen

  • Diversity and distribution of benthic macrofauna in the Baltic Sea Data inventory and its use for species distribution modelling and prediction

    Mayya Gogina;Michael L. Zettler

  • The Baltic Sea scale inventory of benthic faunal communities

    Mayya Gogina;Henrik Nygård;Mats Blomqvist;Darius Daunys

  • Distribution of benthic macrofaunal communities in the western Baltic Sea with regard to near-bottom environmental parameters. 1. Causal analysis

    Mayya Gogina;Michael Glockzin;Michael L. Zettler

  • On the myths of indicator species: issues and further consideration in the use of static concepts for ecological applications

    Michael L. Zettler;C. Edward Proffitt;Alexander Darr;Steven Degraer

  • Biodiversity gradient in the Baltic Sea: a comprehensive inventory of macrozoobenthos data

    Michael L. Zettler;Anna Karlsson;Tytti Kontula;Piotr Gruszka

  • Long-term exposure of several marine benthic animals to static magnetic fields.

    R. Bochert;M.L. Zettler

  • Functional changes in benthic communities along a salinity gradient– a western Baltic case study

    Alexander Darr;Mayya Gogina;Michael L. Zettler

  • Comparison of the performances of two biotic indices based on the MacroBen database

    A. Grémare;C. Labrune;E. Vanden Berghe;J.M. Amouroux

  • Long-term macrozoobenthos changes in a shallow boreal lagoon: Comparison of a recent biodiversity inventory with historical data

    Michael L. Zettler;Darius Daunys

  • Ecotoxicity assessment of natural attenuation effects at a historical dumping site in the western Baltic Sea.

    Thomas Leipe;Michael Kersten;Susanne Heise;Christa Pohl

  • Performance comparison of two biotic indices measuring the ecological status of water bodies in the Southern Baltic and Gulf of Lions

    Dirk Fleischer;Antoine Grémare;Céline Labrune;Heye Rumohr

  • Continental-scale patterns in benthic invertebrate diversity: insights from the MacroBen database

    P.E. Renaud;T.J. Webb;A. Bjørgesæter;I. Karakassis

  • Spatial macrozoobenthic distribution patterns in relation to major environmental factors- A case study from the Pomeranian Bay (southern Baltic Sea)

    M. Glockzin;M.L. Zettler

  • Invasion of the North Amrican Amphipod (Gammarus tigrinus Sexton, 1939) into the Cronian Lagoon, South-Eastern Baltic Sea

    Darius Daunys;Michael L. Zettler

  • Towards benthic ecosystem functioning maps: Quantifying bioturbation potential in the German part of the Baltic Sea

    Mayya Gogina;Claudia Morys;Stefan Forster;Ulf Gräwe;Ulf Gräwe

  • Macrozoobenthos diversity in an oxygen minimum zone off northern Namibia

    Michael Lothar Zettler;Ralf Bochert;Falk Pollehne

  • Distribution of benthic macrofaunal communities in the western Baltic Sea with regard to near-bottom environmental parameters. 2. Modelling and prediction

    Mayya Gogina;Michael Glockzin;Michael L. Zettler

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Degraer
Steven Degraer Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Antoine Grémare
Antoine Grémare University of Bordeaux
Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk
Maria Włodarska-Kowalczuk Polish Academy of Sciences
Jan Vanaverbeke
Jan Vanaverbeke Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Rafael Sardá
Rafael Sardá Spanish National Research Council
Paul J. Somerfield
Paul J. Somerfield Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Jonne Kotta
Jonne Kotta University of Tartu
Ioannis Karakassis
Ioannis Karakassis University of Crete
Gerard C.A. Duineveld
Gerard C.A. Duineveld Utrecht University
Christos Arvanitidis
Christos Arvanitidis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

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