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Education

PhD, 2009, University of Vienna, Austria
   Title: Oxygen crises in the Northern Adriatic: effect on the structure and behaviour of the macrobenthos
   J. Ott (supervisor), RJ Diaz & R. Rosenberg (reviewers), RJ. Diaz, J. Ott, M. Zuschin (examiners), H. Rumohr (guest)

  
Research Interest 

• Marine benthic ecology
• Coastal ecology
• Effects of hypoxia & anoxia at the species level (e.g. behaviour, interactions), on community structure & ecosystem function; biodiversity, indicators, tolerance/thresholds, disturbance-recovery dynamics
• Climate change 
  
  

Research Activities

• 07/2009-06/2012
  FWF project/Austrian Science Fund (P21542-B17); PostDoc
  "Low dissolved oxygen events in the Northern Adriatic: in situ experimental insights into multi-level responses before, during and post-anoxia"
• 01/2010-12/2012
  OEAD/Austrian Academic Exchange Service
  "Scientific-Technical Cooperation" with France (Fr 13/2010); PI (together with Dr. E. Metzger, Univ. of Angers)
  
• 07/2010
  Short-term research stay (DET/sedimentgeochemistry) at the Laboratory of Recent and Fossil Bio-Indicators (BIAF), Univ. of Angers, France (Dr. E. Metzger)
• 11/2009
  Short-term research stay (foraminiferan, CTG analysis) at the BIAF, Univ. of Angers, France (Dr. E. Geslin)
  
• 01/2009-12/2010
  OEAD/Austrian Academic Exchange Service
  "Scientific-Technical Cooperation" with Slovenia (SI 22/2009)
  
• 03/2005-02/2009
  Project FWF/Austrian Science Fund (P17655-B03), PhD student
  "Oxygen crises in the North Adriatic: effect on the structure and behavior of the macroepibenthos"
  
• 09/2002 & 09/2000
  Field research for the project "Reaction of a Northern Adriatic benthic community to repeated disturbances"; Marine Biology Station (MBS) Piran, Slovenia
• 06-10/1999
  Laboratory work for the project "Marine Environmental Monitoring Program in the Persian Gulf 1999"; Texplor/Univ. of Vienna
  

Publications

Peer-reviewed

• Riedel B., Zuschin M., Stachowitsch M. Thresholds in tolerance of benthic macrofauna to hypoxia and anoxia in shallow coastal seas: a real-world scenario (in review)

• Pretterebner K., Riedel B., Zuschin M., Stachowitsch M. 2012. Hermit crabs and their symbionts: Reactions to artificially induced anoxia on a sublittoral sediment bottom. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 411: 23-33, DOI 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.10.027.
• Haselmair A., Stachowitsch M., Zuschin M., Riedel B. 2010. Behaviour and mortality of benthic crustaceans in response to experimentally induced hypoxia and anoxia in situ. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 414: 195-208, DOI 10.3354/meps08657.
• Sawyer J., Zuschin M., Riedel B., Stachowitsch M. 2009. Predator-prey interactions from in situ time-lapse observations of a sublittoral mussel bed in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 371: 10-19, DOI 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.12.010
• Riedel B., Zuschin M., Haselmair A., Stachowitsch M. 2008. Oxygen depletion under glass: behavioural responses of benthic macrofauna to induced anoxia in the Northern Adriatic. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 367: 17-27, DOI 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.08.007.
• Riedel B., Stachowitsch M., Zuschin M. 2008. Sea anemones and brittle stars: unexpected predatory interactions during induced in situ oxygen crises. Mar. Biol. 153: 1075-1085, DOI 10.1007/s00227-007-0880-0
• Stachowitsch M., Riedel B., Zuschin M. Machan R. 2007. Oxygen depletion and benthic mortalities: the first in situ experimental approach to documenting an elusive phenomenon. Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods 5: 344-352.

In other journal or books

• Stachowitsch M., Riedel B., Zuschin M. 2012. The return of shallow shelf seas as extreme environments: Anoxia and macrofauna reactions in the Northern Adriatic Sea. In: Anoxia: Evidence for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Strategies; Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology. Altenbach A., Bernhard J., Seckbach J. (eds.), Vol 21: 353-368, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1896-8_19
• Riedel B. 2010. Book review of "Ecology of Marine Sediments. From Science to Management" by John S. Gray & Michael Elliot, 2nd edition. Mar. Ecol. 31: 520-521.
• Riedel B., Zuschin M., Stachowitsch M. 2008. Dead zones: a future worst-case scenario for Northern Adriatic biodiversity. In: Climate warming and related changes in Mediterranean marine biota. F. Briand (ed.). CIESM Workshop Monograps 35: 73-77.
  
  

In preparation

• 7 manuscripts (macrofauna, meiofauna, sediment geochemistry) in preparation for a special issue "Coastal hypoxia and anoxia: a multi-tiered, holistic approach" (Biogeosciences).

Manuscript reviewer for: Marine Ecology, Marine Environmental Research

Selected Presentations

• 2012
  - 50th ECSA Conference, Venice, Italy, 3-7 June (talk submitted)
  - Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Annual Main Meeting, Salzburg, Austria, 29 June-2 July (planned)
  - 47th European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS), Arendal, Norway, 3-7 September (planned) 
• 2011
  - ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 13-18 February (talk)
  - 2^nd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB), Aberdeen, UK, 26-30 September (talk)
• 2010
  - ICES Annual Science Conference, Nantes, France, 20-24 September (talk)
• 2009
  - Laboratory of Recent and Fossile Bio-Indicators, Univ. of Angers, France, November 19 (invited talk)
• 2008
  - World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB), Valencia, Spain, 11-15 November (talk)
  - Researcher meeting in the framework of Eurasia-Pacific-Uninet, Vienna, Austria, 5 November (talk)
  - 43^rd European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS), Ponta Delgada, Azores/Portugal, 8-12 September (talk)
  - CIESM workshop (n°35; "Climate warming and related changes in Mediterranean marine biota"), Helgoland, Germany, 28-31 May (invited scientist, talk)
• 2007
  - 15^th meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS), Porto, Portugal, 7-9 November (invited Austrian scientist, poster)
  - International Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Arendal, Norway, 11-14 June (talk)
• 2006
  - Marine Biology Institute, Piran, Slovenia, Oktober 2 (invited talk)
  - 41^st European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS), Cork, Irland, 3-10 September, (talk)

Languages

German (native), English (fluent), Italian (proficient), French (un petit peu)

Memberships

• Marine Biological Association (MBA member; http://www.mba.ac.uk/)
• Society for Experimental Biology (SEB member; http://www.sebiology.org)
• Pro Mare (Austrian association to support marine science; advisor; http://www.promare.at/)

Further Education

2004-2006: Master-level studies “Landscape design & architecture“, Univ. of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria