Kay C. Vopel

Selected Publications

Vopel Kay, Vopel Angelika, Thistle David, Hancock Nicole, in press: Effects of spatangoid heart urchins on O2 supply into coastal sediment. Marine Ecology Progress Series,

Vopel Kay, Hawes Ian, 2006. Photosynthetic performance of benthic microbial mats in Lake Hoare, Antarctica. Limnology and Oceanography, 51, 1801-1812. PDF Version

Vopel Kay, Thistle David, Ott Joerg, Bright Monika, Roy Hans, 2005. Wave-induced H2S flux sustains a chemoautotrophic symbiosis. Limnology and Oceanography, 50, 128-133.

Teasdale Michael, Vopel Kay, Thistle David, 2004. The timing of benthic copepod emergence. Limnology and Oceanography, 49, 884-889.

Vopel Kay, Thistle David, Rosenberg Rutger, 2003. Effect of the brittle star Amphiura filiformis (Amphiuridae Echinodermata) on oxygen flux into sediment, Limnology and Oceanography, 48, 2034-2045.

Vopel Kay, Reick Christian H., Arlt Günter, Pöhn Martina, Ott Jörg, 2002. Flow microenvironment of two marine peritrich ciliates with ectobiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 29, 19-28.

Vopel Kay, Pöhn Martina, Sorgo Angelika, Ott Jörg, 2001. Ciliate-generated advective seawater transport supplies chemoautotrophic ectosymbionts. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 210, 93-99.

Vopel Kay, Thiel Hjalmar, 2001. Abyssal nematode assemblages in physically disturbed and adjacent sites of the eastern equatorial Pacific. Deep Sea Research II, 48, 3795-3808.

Pöhn Martina, Vopel Kay, Grünberger Eva, Ott Jörg, 2001. Microclimate of the brown-alga Feldmannia caespitula interstitium under zero-flow conditions. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 210, 285-290.

Soltwedel Thomas, Vopel Kay, 2001. Bacterial abundance and biomass in response to organism-generated habitat heterogeneity in deep-sea sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 219, 291-298.

Vopel Kay, Dehmlow Jens, Johansson Maria, Arlt Günter, 1998. Effects of anoxia and sulphide on populations of Cletocamptus confluens (Copepoda: Harpacticoida). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 175, 121-128.

Vopel Kay, Dehmlow Jens, Arlt Günter, 1996. Vertical distribution of Cletocamptus confluens (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) in relation to oxygen and sulphide microprofiles of a brackish water sulphuretum. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 141, 129-137.

Gamenick Ines, Jahn Andreas, Vopel Kay, Giere Olav, 1996. Hypoxia and sulphide as structuring factors in a macrozoobenthic community on the Baltic Sea shore: colonisation studies and tolerance experiments. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 144, 73-85.

Vopel Kay, Dehmlow Jens, Arlt Günter, 1996. Living in light exposed anaerobic systems - field and laboratory studies on the sulphide resistance of Cletocamptus confluens (Schmeil, 1894) (Copepoda, Harpacticoida). In: Fischer U, Grieshaber MK (eds) Processes and Structures in Marine Methane and Sulphide Biotopes. Shaker Verlag, Aachen.

Vopel Kay, Arlt Günter, 1995. The fauna of floating cyanobacterial mats in the oligohaline eulittoral zone off Hiddensee (south-west coast of the Baltic Sea). PSZNI: Marine Ecology, 16, 217-231.