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Ulrich Bathmann is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research contributions span environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on atmospheric science, ecology, aquatic science, and issues surrounding nature and landscape conservation.

The primary topics addressed in their research include marine animal studies, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, coastal and marine management, fish biology and ecology, and aquaculture nutrition and growth.

Ulrich Bathmann's publication record includes contributions to journals such as The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management Special Issue, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Revista Nerítica. Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by them are:

  • Generalised additive models to investigate environmental drivers of Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) spatial density in austral summer (2023) in The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management Special Issue
  • Editorial: Living Along Gradients: Past, Present, Future (2020) in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Advanced course on marine zooplankton ecology Pontal do Sul, Brasil: a summary (2022) in Revista Nerítica

Frequent coauthors include Bas W. P. M. Beekmans, Jaume Forcada, Eugene J. Murphy, H. J. W. de Baar, and Andrew Fleming. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary efforts within marine and polar research communities.

Best Publications

  • Importance of iron for plankton blooms and carbon dioxide drawdown in the Southern Ocean

    Hein J. W. de Baar;Jeroen T. M. de Jong;Dorothée C. E. Bakker;Bettina M. Löscher

  • Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom

    Victor Smetacek;Victor Smetacek;Christine Klaas;Volker H. Strass;Philipp Assmy;Philipp Assmy

  • 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

  • Grazing impact of copepods and salps on phytoplankton in the Atlantic sector of the Southern ocean

    Corinna D. Dubischar;Ulrich V. Bathmann

  • Basin‐wide particulate carbon flux in the Atlantic Ocean: Regional export patterns and potential for atmospheric CO2 sequestration

    Avan N Antia;Wolfgang Koeve;Gerhard Fischer;Thomas Blanz

  • Short-term variations in particulate matter sedimentation off Kapp Norvegia, Weddell Sea, Antarctica: relation to water mass advection, ice cover, plankton biomass and feeding activity

    Ulrich Bathmann;G. Fischer;P. Müller;Dieter Gerdes

  • The Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change

    E. Lewis-Brown;P.C. Reid;A. Andersson;R. Arthurton

  • Dissolved iron at subnanomolar levels in the Southern Ocean as determined by ship-board analysis

    J. T. M. de Jong;J. den Das;Ulrich Bathmann;M. H. C. Stoll

  • Copepod fecal pellets: abundance, sedimentation and content at a permanent station in the Norwegian Sea in May/June 1986

    Ulrich Bathmann;T. T. Noji;Max Voss;R. Peinert

  • Ecology and biogeochemistry of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current during austral spring a summary of Southern Ocean JGOFS cruise ANT X/6 of R. V. Polarstern

    V. Smetacek;de Henricus Baar;U. Bathmann;K. Lochte

  • Low dissolved Fe and the absence of diatom blooms in remote Pacific waters of the Southern Ocean

    Hein J.W. de Baar;Jeroen T.M. de Jong;Rob F. Nolting;Klaas R. Timmermans

  • Feeding and energy budgets of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba at the onset of winter—II. Juveniles and adults

    A. Atkinson;B. Meyer;D. Stuϋbing;W. Hagen

  • The interaction between benthic diatom films and sediment transport

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  • Changes of carbon dioxide in surface waters during spring in the Southern Ocean

    D.C.E. Bakker;de Henricus Baar;U.V. Bathmann

  • Carbon export during the spring bloom at the Antarctic Polar Front, determined with the natural tracer 234Th

    Michiel M. Rutgers Van Der Loeff;Jana Friedrich;Ulrich V. Bathmann

  • The association of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba with the under-ice habitat.

    Hauke Flores;Jan Andries van Franeker;Volker Siegel;Matilda Haraldsson

  • Distribution patterns of autotrophic pico- and nanoplankton and their relative contribution to algal biomass during spring in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

    A. Detmer;Ulrich Bathmann

  • A new vision of ocean biogeochemistry after a decade of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS).

    M. J. R. Fasham;B. M. Balino;M. C. Bowles;R. Anderson

  • Feeding and energy budgets of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba at the onset of winter—I. Furcilia III larvae

    B. Meyer;A. Atkinson;D. Stöbing;B. Oettl

  • Coastal eutrophication: Causes and consequences

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Michiel M Rutgers van der Loeff
Michiel M Rutgers van der Loeff Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hein J W de Baar
Hein J W de Baar University of Groningen
Volker Strass
Volker Strass Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ilka Peeken
Ilka Peeken Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Evgeny A. Pakhomov
Evgeny A. Pakhomov University of British Columbia
Angus Atkinson
Angus Atkinson Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Eva-Maria Nöthig
Eva-Maria Nöthig Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Peter G. Verity
Peter G. Verity Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Katrin Linse
Katrin Linse British Antarctic Survey
Raymond T. Pollard
Raymond T. Pollard National Oceanography Centre

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