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LEGRA: Live along the gradient: Analyse of the impact of environmntal parameters on the distribution, diversity and function of benthic communities and their habitats in the southern Baltic Sea and its implications within the European marine conservation directi

Duration:
01.01.2019 - 31.12.2024
Project manager:
Dr. Michael L. Zettler
Funding:
BfN - Bundesamt für Naturschutz
Researchfoci:
Focus 2: Basin-scale ecosystem dynamics
Focus 4: Coastal seas and society
Partner:
none

This project is settled in boith fundamental and applied since. Main aim is the better understanding of the dynamic of macrobenthic marine communities affected by natural and anthropogenic environmena changes. The focus is lying on natural gardients like salinity, oxygen, sediments and exposion.

Basing on the science the main tasks are devided into 4 working packages.

WP 1: Analyse of spatial variability

WP 2: Analyse of temporal variability

WP 3: Development and improvement of indicators

WP 4: Implementation of our results into the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the Habitats Directive

Publikationen

  • Gogina, M., S. J. Hahn, R. Ohde, A. Brandt, S. Forster, I. Kröncke, M. Powilleit, K. Romoth, M. Sonnewald and M. L. Zettler (2024). Baseline inventory of benthic macrofauna in German marine protected areas (2020–2022) before closure for bottom-contact fishing. Biology 13: 389, doi: 10.3390/biology13060389
  • Schaub, I., R. Friedland and M. L. Zettler (2024). Good-Moderate boundary setting for the environmental status assessment of the macrozoobenthos communities with the Benthic Quality Index (BQI) in the south-western Baltic Sea. Mar. Poll. Bull. 201: 116150, doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116150
  • Romoth, K. (2023). Living along gradients - spatiotemporal variability of macrobenthic communities in the western Baltic Sea, Cruise No. EMB319, 01.06. - 09.06.2023, Rostock (Germany) - Rostock (Germany). Begutachtungspanel Forschungsschiffe.
  • Romoth K, Schaub I, Zettler A, Zettler ML (2023): Monitoringbericht: Zustand benthischer Arten und Biotope in der deutschen Ausschließlichen Wirtschaftszone der Ostsee, Untersuchungsjahr 2022
  • Romoth K, Schaub I, Zettler A, Zettler ML (2022): Monitoringbericht: Zustand benthischer Arten und Biotope in der deutschen Ausschließlichen Wirtschaftszone der Ostsee, Untersuchungsjahr 2021
  • BLANO (2024): Indikatorblatt Zustand Weichböden-Makrofaunagemeinschaften (BQI), Anlage 1 zu: BMUV (Hrsg.) (2024): Zustand der deutschen Ostseegewässer 2024, https://meeresschutz.info/de/msrl/allgemeines.html?file=files/downloads/dokumente2023/oeffentlichkeitsbeteiligung/Indikatorblatt_GES_2024_Ostsee_Weichböden-BQI.pdf, https://meeresschutz.info/de/msrl/allgemeines.html?file=files/downloads/dokumente2023/oeffentlichkeitsbeteiligung/Indikatorblatt_GES_2024_Ostsee_Weichböden-BQI.pdf
  • Schaub, I., K. Romoth and M. L. Zettler (2023). Entwicklung und Anpassung von Indikatoren für ausgewählte Lebensräume: Fallstudie zu Schlick und Feinsand. BfN IOW. 95 S., https://meeresschutz.info/de/msrl/allgemeines.html?file=files/downloads/dokumente2023/oeffentlichkeitsbeteiligung/Ergänzendes-Grundlagendokument-zum-Indikatorkennblatt-BQI_2024_Fallstudie.pdf
  • Marx, D., A. Feldens, S. Papenmeier, P. Feldens, A. Darr, M. L. Zettler and K. Heinicke (2024). Habitats and biotopes in the German Baltic Sea. Biology 13: 6, doi: 10.3390/biology13010006
  • Romoth, K., A. Darr, S. Papenmeier, M. L. Zettler and M. Gogina (2023). Substrate heterogeneity as a trigger for species diversity in marine benthic assemblages. Biology 12: 825, doi: 10.3390/biology12060825
  • Beermann, J., L. Gutow, S. Wührdemann, R. Konijnenberg, K. Heinicke, T. Bildstein, S. Jaklin, M. Gusky, M. L. Zettler, J. Dannheim and R. Pesch (2023). Characterization and differentiation of sublittoral sandbanks in the southeastern North Sea. Biodivers. Conserv. 32: 2747-2768, doi: 10.1007/s10531-023-02629-4
  • Zettler, M. L. and A. Darr (2023). Benthic Habitats and Their Inhabitants. In: Southern Baltic Coastal Systems Analysis. Ed. by H. Schubert and F. Müller. Cham: Springer International Publishing (Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis ; 246): 97-102, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13682-5_8
  • Gogina, M. and M. L. Zettler (2023). Ecological Structure in Benthic Habitats of Offshore Waters. In: Southern Baltic Coastal Systems Analysis. Ed. by H. Schubert and F. Müller. Cham: Springer International Publishing (Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis ; 246): 141-145, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13682-5_14
  • Romoth, K., M. Gogina, K. Beisiegel, A. Darr and M. L. Zettler (2022). First record of the common sun star Crossaster papposus (L., 1767) in the Baltic Sea in over 100 years. Oceanol. Hydrobiol. Stud. 51: 143-148, doi: 10.26881/oahs-2022.2.02
  • Schöne, B. R., X. Huang, A. Jantschke, R. Mertz-Kraus and M. L. Zettler (2022). High-resolution reconstruction of dissolved oxygen levels in the Baltic Sea with bivalves - a multi-species comparison (Arctica islandica, Astarte borealis, Astarte elliptica). Front. Mar. Sci. 9: 820731, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.820731
  • Nygård, H., M. Lindegarth, A. Darr, G. E. Dinesen, O. R. Eigaard and I. Lips (2020). Developing benthic monitoring programmes to support precise and representative status assessments: a case study from the Baltic Sea. Environ. Monit. Assess. 192: 795, doi: 10.1007/s10661-020-08764-7
  • Greathead, C., P. Magni, J. Vanaverbeke, L. Buhl-Mortensen, U. Janas, M. Blomqvist, J. A. Craeymeersch, J. Dannheim, A. Darr, S. Degraer, N. Desroy, A. Donnay, Y. Griffiths, I. Guala, L. Guerin, H. Hinchen, C. Labrune, H. Reiss, G. Van Hoey and S. N. R. Birchenough (2020). A generic framework to assess the representation and protection of benthic ecosystems in European marine protected areas. Aquat. Conserv.-Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst. 30: 1253-1275, doi: 10.1002/aqc.3401