Stachowitsch Michael

Books 

  • The Invertebrates: An Illustrated Glossary. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Wiley/Liss Division. New York. 1992. (676 pp.)  

In reviewed scientific journals

  •  Online First Article. Riedel B., Stachowitsch M., Zuschin M. (in press: Mar Biol) “Sea anemones and brittle stars: unexpected predatory interactions during induced in situ oxygen crises”. DOI 10.1007/s00227-007-0880-0
  •  Stachowitsch, M., Riedel, B., Zuschin, M. & R.Machan. 2007. Oxygen depletion and benthic  mortalities: the first in situ experimental approach to documenting an elusive phenomenon. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 5: 344-352. 
  • Zuschin, M. & M. Stachowitsch. 2007. The distribution of molluscan assemblages and their postmortem fate on coral reefs in the Gulf of Aqaba (northern Red Sea). Marine Biology 151 (6): 2217-2230. 
  • Ilgaz, C., O. Türkozan, A. Özdemir, Kaska, Y. & M. Stachowitsch. 2006. Loggerhead turtle nesting on Fethiye Beach, Turkey: long-term trend and implications for conservation and management. Biodiversity and Conservation 16 (4): 1027-1037.  DOI 10.1007/s10531-006-9049-2 
  • Kaska, Y., Ilgaz, C., Özdemir, A., Başkale, E., Türkozan, O., Baran, I. & M. Stachowitsch. 2006. Sex ratio estimations of loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings by histological examination and nest temperatures at Fethiye beach, Turkey. Naturwissenschaften 93: 338-343. 
  • Alwany, M., E. Thaler & M. Stachowitsch. 2005. Territorial behaviour of Acanthurus sohal and Plectroglyphididon leuconoza on the fringing Egyptian Red Sea reefs. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72: 321-334. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. & J. Herler. 2004. Die Korallenriffe Aqabas: Perle Jordaniens am Roten Meer. Denisia 14: 479-500. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. 2003. Viewpoint: Research on natural marine ecosystems: a lost era. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46: 801-805. 
  • Alwany, M., E. Thaler & M. Stachowitsch. 2003. Food selection in two corallivorous butterflyfishes Chaetodon austriacus and C. trifascialis, in the Northern Red Sea. P.S.Z.N.: Marine Ecology 23(4): 165-177. 
  • Clapham, P.J., Berggren, P., Childerhouse, S., Friday, N. A., Kasuya, T., Kell, L., Kock, K.-H., Manzilla, S., Notabartolo die Sciara, G., Perrin, W.F., Read, A.J., Reeves, R.R., Rogan, E., Rojas-Bracho, L., Smith, T.D., Stachowitsch, M., Taylor, B.KL., Thiele, D., Wade, P.R. and R.L.  Brownell. 2003. Viewpoint: Whaling as Science. BioScience 53(3): 210-212. 
  • Zuschin, M., Stachowitsch, M. & R.J. Stanton. 2003. Pathways and processes of shell fragmentation in modern and ancient environments. Earth Science Reviews 63: 33-82. 

  • Stachowitsch, M. Kikinger, R. Herler, J., Zolda, P. & E. Geutebrück. 2002: Offshore oil platforms and fouling communities in the southern Arabian Gulf (Abu Dhabi). Marine Pollution Bulletin 44 (9): 853-860. 
  • Kollmann H. & M. Stachowitsch. 2001. Long-term changes in the benthos of the Northern Adriatic Sea: A phototransect approach. P.S.Z.N. Marine Ecology 22(1-2): 135-154. 
  • Zuschin, M., M. Stachowitsch, P. Pervesler & H. Kollmann. 1999. Structural features and  taphonomic pathways of a high-biomass epifauna in the northern Gulf of Trieste, Adriatic Sea. Lethaia 32: 299-317. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. 1998. Biological filter stations: a new artificial reef concept to combat the effects of eutrophication. ANNALES (Annals for Istrian and Mediterranean Studies) (series historia naturalis) 13: 7-14. 
  • Nebelsick, J., B. Schmid, M. Stachowitsch. 1997. The encrustation of fossil and recent sea-urchin tests: ecological and taphonomic significance. Lethaia 30: 271-284 
  • Schinner, F., M. Stachowitsch, H. Hilgers. 1997. Loss of benthic communities: warning signal for coastal ecosystem management. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. Vol. 6: 343-352. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. & A. Fuchs. 1995. Long-term changes in the benthos of the Northern Adriatic. ANNALES (Annals for Istrian and Mediterranean Studies) (series historia naturalis) 7: 7-16. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. 1992. Benthic communities: Eutrophication's "memory mode". In: Marine Coastal Eutrophication (Eds. R.A. Vollenweider, R. Marchetti & R. Viviani), Science of the Total Environment, Suppl. 1992: 1017-1028.  
  • Stachowitsch, M. 1991. Anoxia in the northern Adriatic Sea: Rapid death, slow recovery. In: R. V. Tyson & T. H. Pearson (Eds.). Modern and Ancient Continental Shelf Anoxia, Geological Society Special Publication No. 58: 119-129. (1991) 
  • Stachowitsch, M., N. Fanuko, M. Richter. 1990. Mucus aggregates in the Adriatic Sea: an overview of stages and occurrences. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 11(4): 327-350. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. & A. Avcin. 1988. Eutrophication-induced modifications of benthic communities. UNESCO/UNEP Workshop on Eutrophication in the Mediterranean: Receiving capacity and long-term effects. UNESCO Reports in Marine Science 49: 68-80. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. 1988. The Gulf of Trieste: a sensitive Ecosystem. Nova Thalassia 8(Suppl. 3):221-235  
  • Stachowitsch, M. 1984. Mass mortality in the Gulf of Trieste: The course of community destruction. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 5(3): 243-264.  
  • Stachowitsch, M.  1980. The epibiotic and endolithic species associated with the gastropod shells inhabited by the hermit crabs Paguristes oculatus and Pagurus cuanensis. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 1: 73-101.  
  • Stachowitsch, M. 1979. Movement, activity pattern, and role of a hermit crab population in a sublittoral epifauna community. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 39: 135-150.
  • Stachowitsch, M. 1977. The hermit crab microbiocoenosis - The role of mobile secondary hard bottom elements in a North Adriatic benthic community. In: B.F. Keegan, P.O'Ceidigh & P.J.S. Boaden (Eds.), Biology of Benthic Organisms, Proc. Eleventh Europ. mar. Biol. Symp., Pergamon Press, London: 549-558. 
  • Fedra, K. E.M. Ölscher, C. Scherübel, M. Stachowitsch, R.S. Wurzian. 1976. On the ecology of a North Adriatic benthic community: distribution, standing crop and composition of the macrobenthos. Mar. Biol. 38: 129-145.  

Publications in other journals or books

  • Fellhofer, C. & M. Stachowitsch. (2005) Tourism impacts on loggerhead turtles at Fethiye beach, Turkey. Ölüdeniz Lagünü Sürdürülebilir Yönetim Sempozyumu Ölüdeniz (Ed. B. Öztürk):104-111. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. & P. Brakes. (2003). Review of secondary killing methods employed for whales   hunted under special permit, commercial whaling and aboriginal subsistence whaling. International Whaling Commission paper IWC/55/WK22 presented to the IWC Workshop on   Whale Killing Methods and Associated Welfare Issues, 7-9 June 2003, Berlin. 10pp. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. (2003). Foreword. In: Faszinierende Giganten der Meeres: ihre Gefährdungen und Schutzmaßnahmen,  S. Lüber (Ed.). ASMS (Schutz der Meeressäuger - Marine Mammal Protection) Special. p. 4. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. (2002). The end of research into natural marine ecosystems? In: Bright, M., Dworschak, P., Stachowitsch, M. (Eds.), The Vienna School of Marine Biology: A Tribute to Jörg Ott. Facultas, Vienna. pp. 161-172. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. (1995). The reaction of modern shallow-water ecosystems to oxygen deficiency: the North Adriatic as a case study. EUROPAL (European Paleontological Association Newsletter) No. 8: 41-43. 
  • Ott, J.A. & M. Stachowitsch. (1992). Die Lebensräume des Meeres und ihre Gefährdung. In: Die ökologische Bedeutung des Wassers und sein Schutz, (Ed. H. Franz).Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Humanbiologie 4, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: 13-32. 
  • Stachowitsch, M. (1992). Tourism and the sea: the world's largest ecosystem in danger. In: Strategies for reducing the environmental impact of tourism.  (Eds. W. Pillmann & S. Predl, Envirotour Vienna 1992, International Society for Environmental Protection: 30-36.  
  • Stachowitsch, M.  (1991). A biological strategy to combat the effects of  eutrophication in the Adriatic Sea. Symposium: Protezione Ecologica dell'Adriatico, Urbino, Italy, p.163-167.  
  • Stachowitsch, M. (1991). Eine biologische Strategie gegen die Eutrophierung der Nord-Adria. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Meeresforschung, Mitteilungen 4: 16-19.  
  • Stachowitsch. M. (1990). Das Mittelmeer: Ein gefährdetes Ökosystem. Österreichische Ärztezeitung, Vol. 3: 38-44.  Stachowitsch, M. (1989). Der Golf von Triest - Beispiel eines gefährdeten Ökosystems. ARDB (Association of Research Diving Biologists) Hydroskop 1.  
  • Stachowitsch, M. (1989). Eutrophierung der Nord-Adria: nur ein Schlagwort oder ernste Bedrohung?. Aquaria, Heft 5: 72-76.  
  • Stachowitsch, M.  (1985). Der Golf von Triest - ein empfindliches Ökosystem. Österreichs Fischerei, Vol. 7: 175-180. Stachowitsch, M. (1984). Von Menschen und Haien. Österreichs Fischerei, Vol. 11/12: 340-345. 
  • Vukovic, A., N. Fanuko, A. Malej, V. Turk, P. Tusnik, B. Vriser, M. Stachowitsch. (1984). A mass mortality of benthic fauna in the Gulf of Trieste. Bilten Drustva ekologa Bosne i Hercogovine, Serija B, III Kongres ekologa Jugoslavije, Sarajevo:477-479. (Slovenian with    Englisch Abstract + Poster) 
  • Stachowitsch, M. (1983). Das Meer als Lebensraum. Catalog to the Exhibition of the State of Lower Austria "Fisheries, Past and Present" (Orth an der Donau), p. 147-159.  
  • Stachowitsch, M.  (1983). Das Devon - Zeitalter der Fische. Catalog to the Exhibition of the State of Lower Austria "Fisheries, Past and Present" (Orth an der Donau) p. 34-46.  
  • Stachowitsch, M. (1983). Fischerei Einst und Jetzt - Leitfaden und Zielsetzung. Österreichs Fischerei, Vol. 8/9: 191-194.  
  • Stachowitsch, M. (1979). Die Einsiedlerkrebs-Mikrobiocoenose - Die Rolle mobiler Hartboden - Elemente in einer nordadriatischen Benthosgemeinschaft. Ph.D. thesis, University of Vienna, 162 pp.  

Editorships

  • Ott, J., Stachowitsch, M., Ölscher, E.M. 2007. Remote and inaccessible habitats, in situ research and biodiversity: a tribute to Rupert Riedl. Proceedings of the 40th European Marine Biology Symposium. In: Marine Ecology 28 (Supplement1): 187 pp. 
  • Stachowitsch, M., Parsons, E.C.M. & N. Rose. 2006. State of the Cetacean Environment Report (SOCER). International Whaling Commission. (also years 2001-2005) www.iwcoffice.org/commission/sci_com/screport.htm Annex K, Appendix 5, p.33-50 
  • Bright, M., Dworschak, P., Stachowitsch, M. (Eds.). 2002. The Vienna School of Marine Biology: A Tribute to Jörg Ott. Facultas. 200 pp. 
  • Uiblein, F., Ott, J., Stachowitsch, M. (Eds.). 1996. Deep-sea and extreme shallow-water habitats: affinities and adaptations. Biosystematics and Ecology Series 11. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. (386 pp.) 
  • Dworschak, P.C., Stachowitsch, M., Ott, J.A, (Eds.). 1996. Influence of organisms on their environment and the role of episodic events. Proceedings 29th European Marine Biology Symposium. In: P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 17 (1-3): 568 pp. Blackwell Science. 

Conferences

2007

  • 15th meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS), Porto, Portugal, 7-9 November (poster)
  • GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, Denver, Colorado, USA, 28-31 October (poster)
  • The International Conference and the 97th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung, Bremen, Germany, 1-5 October (poster)
  • 42nd European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS), Kiel, Germany, 27-31 August, (2 posters) 

2006

  • 41st European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS), Cork, Irland, 3-10 September, (3 posters)
  • 76. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Kiel, Germany, 28-30 August, (poster)
  • 26th International Marine Turtle Conference, Crete (poster)

2005

  • 40th European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS), Vienna, Austria, 21-25 August, (3 posters)  
 
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