Dr. Michael L. Zettler

Address:

Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Biological Oceanography
Seestrasse 15
D-18119 Rostock
Germany

Phone:

+49 381 5197 236

Fax:

+49 381 5197 440

E-Mail:

Expertise

Leader of the Working Group on Ecology of benthic organisms
Guidance of research projects
Sampling of benthic organisms at Sea (North and Baltic Sea)
Examination of the benthos samples
Video and habitat mapping of the Baltic Sea
Teaching of diploma and phd students
Taxonomy and ecology of benthic organisms (Biodiversity and checklist of macrozoobenthos of the southern Baltic Sea)
Relationships between macrozoobenthos and environmental parameters (modelling and prediction of benthic patterns)
Characterisiation of NATURA-2000-sites (habitat types, macrozoobenthos) in the EEZ of the German Baltic Sea
Macrozoobenthos investigations off the coast of South-West Afrika (Namibia, Angola)
Assessment of habitats in terms of macrozoobenthos along a gradient in the southern Baltic Sea (mainly depending on water depth and salinity) in respect of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and Marine Strategy Directive (MSD)
- sensitivity / tolerance of macrozoobenthic species of the southern Baltic Sea (ES500.05-values)

1998, 2001 and 2003 successful attendance at the quality assurance courses within the Federation-Countries-Measuring-Program
Editorial Board: Lauterbornia (Dinkelscherben)
Chairman of Landesfachausschusses (LFA) Malakologie of NABU Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
taxonomy and ecology of freshwater molluscs (examples: Theodoxus, Marstoniopsis, Pisidium, Sphaerium, Unio, Anodonta, Pseudanodonta)
taxonomy and ecology of freshwater crustaceans (examples: Gammarus, Synurella, Pallasea, Dikerogammarus, Pontogammarus, Astacus)
monitoring of annex species of the EC Habitat Directive (molluscs: Anisus vorticulus, Unio crassus)

Gibbula massieri from Rolán & Zettler (2010)

Macrozoobenthos in the southern Baltic Sea (from Zettler et al. 2008)

Nuculana bicuspidata community of oxygen minimum zones off Namibia