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Overview

Wolf Arntz is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research spans several interconnected fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing primarily on marine ecosystems and oceanographic processes.

The main fields of study associated with Wolf Arntz include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their work is further specialized in subfields such as:

  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change

The primary topics addressed in their research cover aspects of marine biology and ecology, with particular attention to marine and coastal plant biology as well as marine bivalve and aquaculture studies. These topics reflect a focus on biological interactions in marine environments and the potential impacts of environmental changes on these systems.

Main topics of Wolf Arntz's work include:

  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Wolf Arntz's publication record, while selective, includes contributions to notable research venues. A 2020 paper titled The benthos: the ocean's last boundary? was published in Scientia Marina. This publication addresses benthic ecosystems, which are critical to understanding oceanic boundaries and their ecological significance.

Details of this paper are:

  • "The benthos: the ocean's last boundary?", 2020, Scientia Marina

Wolf Arntz has collaborated with several coauthors throughout their career. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Josep María Gili
  • Begoña Vendrell-Simón
  • Francesc Sabater
  • Joandomènec Ros

Scientific work by Wolf Arntz is positioned within influential networks of marine ecological research, contributing to understanding oceanographic and environmental processes, especially in polar and marine contexts relevant to their institutional affiliation.

Best Publications

  • The humboldt current system of northern and central chile : Oceanographic processes, ecological interactions and socioeconomic feedback

    Martin Thiel;Erasmo C. Macaya;Enzo Acuna;Wolf E. Arntz

  • Do Antarctic benthic invertebrates show an extended level of eurybathy

    Thomas Brey;C. Dahm;M. Gorny;Michael Klages

  • Antarctic marine biodiversity an overview

    Wolf Arntz;Julian Gutt;Michael Klages

  • El Niño and similar perturbation effects on the benthos of the Humboldt, California, and Benguela Current upwelling ecosystems

    Wolf Arntz;V. A. Gallardo;D. Gutiérrez;E. Isla

  • CHALLENGING THE COLD: CRABS RECONQUER THE ANTARCTIC

    Sven Thatje;Klaus Anger;Javier A. Calcagno;Gustavo A. Lovrich

  • Meiofaunal distributions on the Peru margin:: relationship to oxygen and organic matter availability

    Carlos Neira;Javier Sellanes;Lisa A Levin;Wolf E Arntz

  • Benthos communities in oxygen deficient shelf and upper slope areas of the Peruvian and Chilean Pacific coast, and changes caused by El Niño

    Wolf E. Arntz;Juan Tarazona;Victor A. Gallardo;Luis A. Flores

  • The Role of Body Size in Complex Food Webs: A Cold Case

    Ute Jacob;Aaron Thierry;Ulrich Brose;Wolf E. Arntz

  • Benthos biomass and oxygen deficiency in the upwelling system off Peru

    Rotger Rosenberg;Wolf E. Arntz;Esmeralda Chumán de Flores;Luis A. Flores

  • Mega-epibenthic communities in Arctic and Antarctic shelf areas

    A. Starmans;Julian Gutt;Wolf Arntz

  • Quantitative investigations on macrobenthos communities of the southeastern Weddell Sea shelf based on multibox corer samples

    Dieter Gerdes;Michael Klages;Wolf Arntz;R. L. Herman

  • Changes in the structure of a shallow sandy-beach community in Peru during an El Nino event

    Wolf Arntz;Thomas Brey;J. Tarazona;A. Robles

  • How many macrozoobenthic species might inhabit the Antarctic shelf

    Julian Gutt;Boris I. Sirenko;Igor S. Smirnov;Wolf E. Arntz

  • Reproductive investment in the crab Cancer setosus along a latitudinal cline: egg production, embryo losses and embryo ventilation

    A. Brante;M. Fernández;Lars Eckerle;Felix Christopher Mark

  • Effects of spatial variability and colony size on the reproductive output and gonadal development cycle of the Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum L.)

    Georgios Tsounis;Sergio Rossi;Maria Aranguren;Josep-Maria Gili

  • Biomonitoring of TBT contamination and imposex incidence along 4700 km of Argentinean shoreline (SW Atlantic: from 38S to 54S).

    Gregorio Bigatti;Monica Angelina Primost;Maximiliano Cledón;Andres Averbuj

  • Depth-dependence in stable isotope ratio δ15N of benthic POM consumers: The role of particle dynamics and organism trophic guild

    Katja Mintenbeck;Ute Jacob;Rainer Knust;Wolf Arntz

  • Red Coral Fishery at the Costa Brava (NW Mediterranean): Case Study of an Overharvested Precious Coral

    Georgios Tsounis;Georgios Tsounis;Sergio Rossi;Josep Maria Gili;Wolf E. Arntz

  • Spatial pattern quantification of Antarctic benthic communities using landscape indices

    N. Teixidó;J. Garrabou;Wolf Arntz

  • Antarctic benthic diversity

    Thomas Brey;Michael Klages;Corinna Dahm;Matthias Gorny

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Brey
Thomas Brey University of Bremen
Julian Gutt
Julian Gutt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Josep Maria Gili
Josep Maria Gili Spanish National Research Council
Sven Thatje
Sven Thatje National Oceanography Centre
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi University of Salento
Michael Klages
Michael Klages Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hans-Otto Pörtner
Hans-Otto Pörtner Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Andrew Clarke
Andrew Clarke British Antarctic Survey
Joaquim Garrabou
Joaquim Garrabou Spanish National Research Council
Thomas Soltwedel
Thomas Soltwedel Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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