Bettina Riedel

Laboratoire LPG-BIAF Bio-Indicateurs Actuels et Fossiles                                                                                       UMR CNRS  6112
Universite d'Angers, Faculte des Sciences
2 Bd Lavoisier, Angers 49045 CEDEX, France

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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
        Jörg Ott (supervisor), Robert J. Diaz & Rutger Rosenberg (reviewers)


Research Interest 

  • Estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems
  • Benthic ecology
  • Assessment of anthropogenic impacts in the marine environment
  • Disturbance effects from the species level (e.g. behaviour, interaction, sensitivity, tolerance) to community and ecosystem level (biodiversity, structure, function, critical thresholds, recovery dynamics)
  • Experimental in situ work

Research Activities

  • 12/2014-11/2015   PI
    Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Vienna (Austria); Co-funded by the European Commission (Marie Curie Action)
    Erwin Schrödinger scholarship: "Response of benthic meiofauna to hypoxia and anoxia in Marine Lake Grevelingen, the Netherlands, with special reference to foraminifera and nematodes" (J3632-B19)
    Cooperation partners: University of Angers, France; University of Ghent, Belgium

  • 07/2009- 06/2013   Research associate / PostDoc
    Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project (P21542-B17), Vienna (Austria)
    "Low dissolved oxygen events in the Northern Adriatic: in situ experimental insights into multi-level responses before, during and post- anoxia"
    Cooperation partners: University of Angers, France; University of Ghent, Belgium; National Institute of Biology (MBS), Slovenia

  • 01/2011-06/2013    PI
    Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD), Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF), Vienna (Austria)
    Bilateral project (Austria-France): "Experimentally induced anoxia in the Northern Adriatic Sea: meiofauna responses and changes in sediment geochemistry" (WTZ; FR 13/2011)

  • 01/2009- 12/2010   Research associate
    Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD), Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF), Vienna (Austria)
    Bilateral project (Austria-Slovenia): "Reaction of benthic organisms to hypoxia/anoxia in the Northern Adriatic" (WTZ; SI 22/2009)

  • 07/2005-12/2008    Research associate / Doctoral student
    Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project (P17655-B03), Vienna (Austria)
    "Oxygen crises in the North Adriatic: effect on the structure and behaviour of the macroepibenthos"
    Cooperation partner: National Institute of Biology (MBS), Slovenia


Research visits (< 3 mo)

Australia (Australian Institute of Marine Science, AIMS, Townsville), California/USA (Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay), Croatia (Centre for Marine Research, Rovinj), Egypt (Dahab Association for Environmental Development, Dahab), France (STARESO Reseach Institute, Calvi), Jordan (Royal Diving Centre, Aqaba)

 
Peer review Activities

  • Scientific journals: Marine Ecology, Marine Biology, Marine Environmental Research, PLoS ONE, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology
  • Granting agency: National Science Foundation NSF (USA), Maryland Sea Grant (USA) 

Teaching

  • SS 2012, 2011, 2008: lecturer/assistance: "Marine Turtle Field Course", 10ECTS
  • WS 2008, 2007: lecturer/assitance: "Introduction to Marine Biology", 3 ECTS

Publications (peer-reviewed)

  • Petersen J., Riedel B., Barras C., Pays O., Guiheneuf A., Mabilleau G., Schweizer M., Meysman F.J.R., Jorissen F.F. 2016. Improved methodology for measuring pore patterns in the benthic foraminiferal genus Ammonia. Mar. Micropaleontol. 128:1-13. DOI 10.1016/j.marmicro.2016.08.001
  • Taheri M., Grego M., Riedel B., Vincx M., Vanaverbeke J. 2015. Patterns in nematode community during and after experimentally induced anoxia in the northern Adriatic Sea. Marine and Environmental Research 110: 110-123. DOI 10.1016/j.marenvres.2015.08.004
  • Koron N., Ogrinc N., Metzger E., Riedel B., Faganeli J. 2015. The impact of reduced redox transitions on nutrient diagenesis in coastal marine sediments (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic Sea). Journal of Soils and Sediments. DOI 10.1007/s11368-015-1215-2
  • Riedel B., Pados T., Pretterebner K., Schiemer L., Steckbauer A., Haselmair M., Zuschin M., Stachowitsch M. 2014. Effect of hypoxia and anoxia on invertebrate behaviour: ecological perspectives from species to community level. Biogeosciences 11: 1491-1518, DOI 10.5194/bg-11-1491-2014
  • Metzger E., Langlet D., Viollier E., Koron N., Riedel B., Stachowitsch M., Faganelli J., Tharaud M., Geslin E., Jorissen F. 2014. Artificially induced migration of redox layers in a coastal sediment from the Northern Adriatic.Biogeosciences 11: 2211-2224, doi 10.5194/bg-11-2211-2014
  • Langlet D., Baal C., Geslin E., Metzger E., Zuschin M., Riedel B., Risgaard-Petersen N., Stachowitsch M., Jorissen F.J. 2014. Foraminiferal species responses to in situ experimentally induced anoxia in the Adriatic Sea. Biogeosciences 11: 1775-1797,DOI 10.5194/bg-11-1775-2014
  • Grego M., Riedel B., Stachowitsch M., De Troch M. 2014. Meiofauna winners and losers of coastal hypoxia: case study harpacticoid copepods.Biogeosciences 11: 281-292, DOI 10.5194/bg-11-281-2014
  • Blasnig M., Riedel B., Zuschin M., Stachowitsch M. 2013. Short-term post-mortality scavenging and longer term recovery after anoxia in the northern Adriatic Sea. Biogeosciences 10: 7647-7659, DOI 10.5194/bg-10-7647-2013
  • Langlet D., Geslin E., Baal C., Metzger E., Lejzerowicz F., Riedel B., Zuschin M., Pawlowski J., Stachowitsch M., Jorissen FJ. 2013. Foraminiferal survival after long-term in situ experimentally induced anoxia. Biogeosciences 10: 7463-7480, DOI 10.5194/bg-10-7463-2013
  • Grego M, Stachowitsch M, De Troch M, Riedel B. 2013. CellTracker Green labelling vs. rose bengal staining: CTG wins by points in distinguishing living from dead anoxia-impacted copepods and nematodes. Biogeosciences 10: 4565-4575, DOI 10.5194/bg-10-4565-2013
  • De Troch M, Roelofs M, Riedel B, Grego M. 2013. Structural and functional responses of harpacticoid copepods to anoxia in the Northern Adriatic: an experimental approach. Biogeosciences 10: 4259-427, DOI 10.5194/bg-10-4259-2013
  • Riedel B., Zuschin M., Stachowitsch M. 2012. Tolerance of benthic macrofauna to hypoxia and anoxia in shallow coastal seas: a realistic scenario. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 458: 39-52, DOI 10.3354/meps09724
  • 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 journals or books

  • Riedel B., Diaz RJ., Rosenberg R., Stachowitsch M. 2016. The ecological consequences of marine hypoxia: from behavioural to ecosystem responses. In: Stressors in the marine environment: physiological responses and ecological implications. Solan M., Whitely N. (eds.). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (peer-reviewed)
  • 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 (peer-reviewed)
  • 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.

 
Selected Presentations

  • Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Annual Main Meeting, Valencia, Spain, 2-7 July 2013 (talk)
  • ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 13-18 February 2011 (talk)
  • 2nd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB), Aberdeen, UK, 26-30 September 2011 (talk)
  • ICES Annual Science Conference, Nantes, France, 20-24 September 2010 (talk)
  • Laboratory of Recent and Fossile Bio-Indicators, Univ. of Angers, France, 19 November 2009 (invited talk)
  • World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB), Valencia, Spain, 11-15 November 2008 (talk)
  • Researcher meeting in the framework of Eurasia-Pacific-Uninet, Vienna, Austria, 5 November 2008 (talk)
  • 43rd European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS), Ponta Delgada, Azores/Portugal, 8-12 September 2008 (talk)
  • CIESM workshop (n°35; "Climate warming and related changes in Mediterranean marine biota"), Helgoland, Germany, 28- 31 May 2008 (invited scientist, talk)
  • 15th meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS), Porto, Portugal, 7-9 November 2007 (invited Austrian scientist)
  • International Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Arendal, Norway, 11-14 June 2007 (talk)
  • Marine Biology Institute, Piran, Slovenia, 2 Oktober 2006 (invited talk)
  • 41st European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS), Cork, Irland, 3-10 September 2006 (talk)


Languages

German (native), English (fluent), Italian (proficient), French (proficient)


Memberships


Further Education

  • 2004-2006: Master-level studies “Landscape design & architecture“, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  • 2012: Postgraduate course "European Environmental Law", University of Koblenz, Germany, 4 ECTS