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Overview

Michaela Schratzberger is affiliated with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on marine and coastal ecosystems. The scientist's work spans multiple subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, ocean engineering, oceanography, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law related to marine environments.

The main topics covered by Michaela Schratzberger's research include:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine and offshore engineering studies
  • Coastal and marine management
  • Marine biology and ecology research
  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution

Among their recent papers are:

  • The global impact of offshore wind farms on ecosystem services (2024), published in Ocean & Coastal Management
  • Effects of widespread human disturbances in the marine environment suggest a new agenda for meiofauna research is needed (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Trawl fishing impacts on the status of seabed fauna in diverse regions of the globe (2020), published in Fish and Fisheries
  • Ecological variables for deep-ocean monitoring must include microbiota and meiofauna for effective conservation (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Reconstructing three decades of total international trawling effort in the North Sea (2020), published in Earth System Science Data

Frequent collaborators of Michaela Schratzberger include:

  • Paul J. Somerfield
  • Anaëlle J. Lemasson
  • Antony M. Knights
  • Elena Couce
  • Stephen C. L. Watson

The researcher has published in various scientific venues with multiple contributions to the following journals:

  • Environmental Evidence
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Rapid bacterial colonization of low-density polyethylene microplastics in coastal sediment microcosms

    Jesse P Harrison;Michaela Schratzberger;Melanie Sapp;A Mark Osborn

  • Meiofauna matters: The roles of meiofauna in benthic ecosystems

    Michaela Schratzberger;Jeroen Ingels;Jeroen Ingels

  • Interactions between microorganisms and marine microplastics: A call for research

    Jesse Patrick Harrison;Melanie Sapp;Michaela Schratzberger;Andrew Mark Osborn

  • Functional diversity of nematode communities in the southwestern North Sea.

    M. Schratzberger;K. Warr;S.I. Rogers

  • The structure and taxonomic composition of sublittoral meiofauna assemblages as an indicator of the status of marine environments

    M. Schratzberger;J.M. Gee;H.L. Rees;S.E. Boyd

  • Impacts of trawling on the diversity, biomass and structure of meiofauna assemblages

    M. Schratzberger;T. A. Dinmore;S. Jennings

  • Effects of the intensity and frequency of organic enrichment on two estuarine nematode communities

    Michaela Schratzberger;Richard M. Warwick

  • Differential effects of various types of disturbances on the structure of nematode assemblages: an experimental approach

    Michaela Schratzberger;Richard M. Warwick

  • Impacts of chronic trawling disturbance on meiofaunal communities

    M. Schratzberger;S. Jennings

  • Effects of physical disturbance on nematode communities in sand and mud: a microcosm experiment

    M. Schratzberger;R. M. Warwick

  • Changes in North Sea macrofauna communities and species distribution between 1986 and 2000

    Ingrid Kröncke;Henning Reiss;Jacqueline D. Eggleton;John Aldridge

  • Effects of simulated deposition of dredged material on structure of nematode assemblages : the role of contamination

    M. Schratzberger;H. L. Rees;S. E. Boyd

  • Colonisation of various types of sediment by estuarine nematodes via lateral infaunal migration: a laboratory study

    M. Schratzberger;P. Whomersley;K. Warr;S. G. Bolam

  • Macrofaunal recolonization on intertidal mudflats: effect of sediment organic and sand content

    S.G Bolam;P Whomersley;M Schratzberger

  • The impact of seabed disturbance on nematode communities: linking field and laboratory observations

    M. Schratzberger;N. Lampadariou;P.J. Somerfield;L. Vandepitte

  • Effects of paint-derived tributyltin on structure of estuarine nematode assemblages in experimental microcosms

    Michaela Schratzberger;Caroline M. Wall;William J. Reynolds;Jacqueline Reed

  • Body-size dependent temporal variations in nitrogen stable isotope ratios in food webs

    Simon Jennings;Tracy A. D. Maxwell;Michaela Schratzberger;Steve P. Milligan

  • Patterns of nematode populations in the southwestern North Sea and their link to other components of the benthic fauna

    M. Schratzberger;K. Warr;S.I. Rogers

  • Impact of predation and sediment disturbance by Carcinus maenas (L.) on free-living nematode community structure

    Michaela Schratzberger;Richard M. Warwick

  • A Worm's World: Ecological Flexibility Pays Off for Free-Living Nematodes in Sediments and Soils.

    Michaela Schratzberger;Martijn Holterman;Dick van Oevelen;Johannes Helder

  • Response of intertidal macrofauna to multiple disturbance types and intensities - An experimental approach

    P. Whomersley;M. Huxham;S. Bolam;M. Schratzberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Somerfield
Paul J. Somerfield Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Stefan G. Bolam
Stefan G. Bolam Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Richard M. Warwick
Richard M. Warwick Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Stuart I. Rogers
Stuart I. Rogers Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Simon Jennings
Simon Jennings Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Ingrid Kröncke
Ingrid Kröncke Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Georg H. Engelhard
Georg H. Engelhard Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Jan Vanaverbeke
Jan Vanaverbeke Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Thomas Pohlmann
Thomas Pohlmann Universität Hamburg
Gerard C.A. Duineveld
Gerard C.A. Duineveld Utrecht University

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