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Renate Scharek is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Oceanography and Ecology.

The main topics of Renate Scharek's work include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Renate Scharek has contributed publications to several scientific venues. Notably, they have published in:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Progress In Oceanography

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Xosé Anxelu G. Morán
  • Néstor Arandia-Gorostidi
  • Anders K. Krabberød
  • Ramiro Logares
  • Ina Maria Deutschmann

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • "Novel Interactions Between Phytoplankton and Bacteria Shape Microbial Seasonal Dynamics in Coastal Ocean Waters," 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Dynamics of phytoplankton groups in three contrasting situations of the open NW Mediterranean Sea revealed by pigment, microscopy, and flow cytometry analyses," 2021, Progress In Oceanography

These publications investigate interactions within marine microbial communities and the behavior of phytoplankton groups in varying marine environments.

Best Publications

  • Seasonal and Regional Variation in the Pelagial and its Relationship to the Life History Cycle of Krill

    Victor Smetacek;R. Scharek;Eva-Maria Nöthig

  • Thick-shelled, grazer-protected diatoms decouple ocean carbon and silicon cycles in the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

    Philipp Assmy;Philipp Assmy;Victor Smetacek;Victor Smetacek;Marina Montresor;Christine Klaas

  • Spring development of phytoplankton biomass and composition in major water masses of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

    Ulrich Bathmann;R. Scharek;Christine Klaas;Corinna Dubischar

  • Diatom fluxes to the deep sea in the oligotrophic North Pacific gyre at Station ALOHA

    Renate Scharek;Luis M. Tupas;David M. Karl

  • Climate Influence on Deep Sea Populations

    Pere Puig;Francisco Sardà;Albert Palanques

  • Early spring phytoplankton blooms in ice platelet layers of the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica

    Victor Smetacek;R. Scharek;L. I. Gordon;H. Eicken

  • Nutrient anomalies in Fragilariopsis kerguelensis blooms, iron deficiency and the nitrate/phosphate ratio (A. C. Redfield) of the Antarctic Ocean

    de Henricus Baar;van Maria Leeuwe;R. Scharek;L. Goeyens

  • Protistan assemblages across the Indian Ocean, with a specific emphasis on the picoeukaryotes

    Fabrice Not;Mikel Latasa;Renate Scharek;Manon Viprey

  • Temporal variations in diatom abundance and downward vertical flux in the oligotrophic North Pacific gyre

    Renate Scharek;Mikel Latasa;David M. Karl;Robert R. Bidigare

  • Routine determination of plankton community composition and size structure: a comparison between FlowCAM and light microscopy

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  • Responses of Southern Ocean phytoplankton to the addition of trace metals

    Renate Scharek;Maria A. Van Leeuwe;Hein J.W. De Baar

  • Biogeochemical dynamics and the silicon cycle in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during austral spring 1992

    B. Quéguiner;P. Treguér;Ilka Peeken;R. Scharek

  • Routine quantification of phytoplankton groups— microscopy or pigment analyses?

    Harry Havskum;Louise Schlüter;Renate Scharek;Elisa Berdalet

  • Pigment suites and taxonomic groups in Prasinophyceae

    Mikel Latasa;Renate Scharek;Florence Le Gall;Laure Guillou

  • Coastal eutrophication: Causes and consequences

    Victor Smetacek;Ulrich Bathmann;Eva-Maria Nöthig;R. Scharek

  • Physical anatomy of fronts and surface waters in the ACC near the 6°W meridian during austral spring 1992

    C. Veth;Ilka Peeken;R. Scharek

  • Iron enrichment experiments in the Southern Ocean: physiological responses of plankton communities

    van Maria Leeuwe;R. Scharek;de Henricus Baar;J.T.M. de Jong

  • Losses of Chlorophylls and Carotenoids in Aqueous Acetone and Methanol Extracts Prepared for RPHPLC Analysis of Pigments

    Mikel Latasa;K. van Lenning;J. L. Garrido;Renate Scharek

  • Distribution of phytoplankton groups within the deep chlorophyll maximum

    Mikel Latasa;Ana María Cabello;Xosé Anxelu G. Morán;Ramon Massana

  • Deep sediment transport induced by storms and dense shelf-water cascading in the northwestern Mediterranean basin

    Albert Palanques;Pere Puig;Mikel Latasa;Renate Scharek

  • Growth, grazing and carbon flux of high and low nucleic acid bacteria differ in surface and deep chlorophyll maximum layers in the NW Mediterranean Sea

    Renate Scharek;Mikel Latasa

  • The transition from winter to early spring in the eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica: Plankton biomass and composition in relation to hydrography and nutrients

    Renate Scharek;Victor Smetacek;Eberhard Fahrbach;Louis I. Gordon

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikel Latasa
Mikel Latasa Spanish National Research Council
Albert Palanques
Albert Palanques Spanish National Research Council
Pere Puig
Pere Puig Spanish National Research Council
Ramon Massana
Ramon Massana Spanish National Research Council
Xosé Anxelu G. Morán
Xosé Anxelu G. Morán Spanish Institute of Oceanography
Eberhard Fahrbach
Eberhard Fahrbach Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Daniel Vaulot
Daniel Vaulot Station Biologique De Roscoff
Ulrich Bathmann
Ulrich Bathmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Louis I. Gordon
Louis I. Gordon Oregon State University
Leo Goeyens
Leo Goeyens Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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