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Overview

Uwe Piatkowski is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany, where the focus lies on marine biology and environmental science. Their research explores cephalopods and marine ecosystems, combining biological sciences with environmental methodologies.

The scientist's main fields of study include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with substantial work in specific subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography. Piatkowski's research topics emphasize Marine and fisheries research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Frequent coauthors contributing regularly alongside Piatkowski include José P. Queirós, Aurora Bartolomé, José C. Xavier, C. Perales-Raya, and Daniel Oesterwind.

Several venues frequently publish their work, notably Marine Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Biodiversity and Conservation, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers.

Uwe Piatkowski has been involved in multiple research papers, including:

  • Climate change-related changes in cephalopod biodiversity on the North East Atlantic Shelf, 2022, Biodiversity and Conservation
  • An Integrative Assessment Combining Deep-Sea Net Sampling, in situ Observations and Environmental DNA Analysis Identifies Cabo Verde as a Cephalopod Biodiversity Hotspot in the Atlantic Ocean, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Life history traits of the deep-sea pelagic cephalopods Japetella diaphana and Vampyroteuthis infernalis, 2020, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • Food fall-specific scavenging response to experimental medium-sized carcasses in the deep sea, 2021, Marine Ecology Progress Series
  • Trophic ecology drives trace element concentrations in the Antarctic octopod community, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • World squid fisheries

    Alexander I. Arkhipkin;Paul G K Rodhouse;Graham J. Pierce;Warwick Sauer

  • Severe tissue damage in Atlantic cod larvae under increasing ocean acidification

    Andrea Y. Frommel;Rommel Maneja;Rommel Maneja;David Lowe;Arne M. Malzahn

  • A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone

    Tracey T. Sutton;Malcolm R. Clark;Daniel C. Dunn;Patrick N. Halpin

  • Tracing Carbon Sources through Aquatic and Terrestrial Food Webs Using Amino Acid Stable Isotope Fingerprinting

    Thomas Larsen;Marc Ventura;Marc Ventura;Nils Andersen;Diane M. O’Brien

  • A review of cephalopod–environment interactions in European Seas

    Graham J. Pierce;Vasilis D. Valavanis;Angel Guerra;Patricia Jereb

  • The life cycle of Anisakis simplex in the Norwegian Deep (northern North Sea).

    Sven Klimpel;Harry W. Palm;Harry W. Palm;Sonja Rückert;Uwe Piatkowski

  • Zooplankton biomass in the ice-covered Weddell Sea, Antarctica

    E. Boysen-Ennen;W. Hagen;G. Hubold;Uwe Piatkowski

  • Impact of cephalopods in the food chain and their interaction with the environment and fisheries: an overview

    U. Piatkowski;Graham John Pierce;M. Morais da Cunha

  • Meso- and macrozooplankton communities in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

    Elisabeth Boysen-Ennen;Uwe Piatkowski

  • Egg and early larval stages of Baltic cod, Gadus morhua, are robust to high levels of ocean acidification

    Andrea Y. Frommel;Alexander Schubert;Uwe Piatkowski;Catriona Clemmesen

  • Stomach contents of sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus stranded in the North Sea 1990-1996

    M. B. Santos;G. J. Pierce;P. R. Boyle;R. J. Reid

  • The study of deep-sea cephalopods.

    Henk Jan T. Hoving;Jose Angel A. Perez;Kathrin S.R. Bolstad;Heather E. Braid

  • Cephalopod biology and fisheries in Europe

    G. J. Pierce;L. Allcock;I. Bruno;P. Bustamante

  • Organ damage in Atlantic herring larvae as a result of ocean acidification

    Andrea Y. Frommel;Rommel Maneja;David Lowe;Christine K. Pascoe

  • Nekton community of the Scotia Sea as sampled by the RMT 25 during austral summer

    Uwe Piatkowski;Paul G. Rodhouse;Martin G. White;Douglas G. Bone

  • Distribution of cephalopod paralarvae in relation to the regional oceanography of the western Iberia

    Ana Moreno;Antonina Dos Santos;Uwe Piatkowski;A. Miguel P. Santos

  • The swimming kinematics of larval Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua L., are resilient to elevated seawater pCO2

    Rommel H Maneja;Andrea Y Frommel;Howard I Browman;Catriona Clemmesen

  • Cephalopods in the north-eastern Atlantic: species, biogeography, ecology, exploitation and conservation

    Lee Clark Hastie;Graham John Pierce;Jianjun Wang;I. Bruno

  • Cephalopod paralarvae and upwelling conditions off Galician waters (NW Spain)

    Francisco Rocha;Ángel Guerra;R. Prego;Uwe Piatkowski

  • Catchability of pelagic trawls for sampling deep-living nekton in the mid-North Atlantic

    Mikko Heino;Mikko Heino;Filipe M. Porteiro;Tracey T. Sutton;Tone Falkenhaug

  • Variability in the macrozooplankton community off the Antarctic Peninsula

    V. Siegel;Uwe Piatkowski

  • Beak length analysis of the Southern Ocean squid Psychroteuthis glacialis (Cephalopoda: Psychroteuthidae) and its use for size and biomass estimation

    Joachim Gröger;Uwe Piatkowski;Heidrun Heinemann

Frequent Co-Authors

Catriona Clemmesen
Catriona Clemmesen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Arild Folkvord
Arild Folkvord University of Bergen
Graham J. Pierce
Graham J. Pierce Spanish National Research Council
A. Louise Allcock
A. Louise Allcock University of Galway
Thor H. Hansteen
Thor H. Hansteen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Ángel Guerra
Ángel Guerra Spanish National Research Council
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Ángel F. González
Ángel F. González Spanish National Research Council
Mikko Heino
Mikko Heino University of Bergen
José C. Xavier
José C. Xavier University of Coimbra

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