Name:
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Lothar Zettler
Profession: graduate biologist
Member of the Institute since:
1998, Leader of the WG
Ecology of benthic organisms
Tasks:
- 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
- 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)
Projects:
- BeoFINO
1 (2003-2005)
- BeoFINO
2 (2004-2007)
- WEA
(2002-2006)
- Monitoring in Nord- und Ostsee
(current)
- implimentation of the EC Water
Framework Directive (WFD) and Marine Strategy in offshore waters of the Baltic
Sea, Adaptation of the Benthic Quality Index (BQI) (current)
Miscellaneous:
- 1998, 2001 and 2003 succesful
attendance at the quality assurance courses within the Federation-Countries-Measuring-Program
- Assistant Editor:
Mollusca
(former
Malakologische
Abhandlungen
Dresden)
- 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)
Working
group on ecology of benthic organisms
"Ecological
studies on the neozoon Marenzelleria viridis (Verrill, 1873) (Polychaeta:
Spionidae) from a coastal water of the southern Baltic Sea." (pdf
in german language)