Armin RoseBio Consult SH · Marine Mammals
Armin Rose
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Introduction
I am senior scientist at BioConsult SH, Husum (Germany), currently investigating the effects of offshore wind farms on marine mammals. Former research at Oldenburg University and Senckenberg Research Institutes (DZMB, Wilhelmshaven, Germany) covered different aspects of biodiversity, including the ecology and distribution of rove beetles (Coleoptera; Staphylinidae), as well as the polar diversity of harpacticoid copepods which was studied during several Antarctic expeditions.
Additional affiliations
April 1994 - December 2000
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- Ecology of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) on the East Frisian Islands and Northwestern Germany; Entomology; Island ecology; Island succession; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Faunistics of rove beetles in North-Western Germany; Multivariate statistics
May 1999 - November 2001
Museum für Natur und Mensch Oldenburg
Position
- Manager
Description
- Exhibition Management; Collection Management
January 2002 - December 2012
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Theoretical Biodiversity Research; Diversity indices; Antarctic ecology; Crustacean ecology; Harpacticoida (Copepoda); Climate Change Research
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Publications (81)
A methodology for comparing repeatedly sampled multicorer stations as to significant differences in alpha diversity of selected cores is presented. This is demonstrated for Harpacticoida of the Angola Basin which were sampled during the DIVA-1 campaign of RV ‘‘Meteor’’ in the year 2000 (M48/1). Two replicatedly sampled multicorer stations were comp...
Rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) on four Lower Saxony Waddensea National Park sand dune islands in different stages of succession were investigated. A list of all 556 species mentioned until now from the East Frisian Islands is given - including 55 species not found before on these islands. Flight activity is shown to contribute considerabl...
Since strong regional warming has led to the disintegration of huge parts of the Larsen A and B ice shelves east of the Antarctic Peninsula in 1995 and 2002, meiofaunal communities covered by ice shelves for thousands of years could be investigated for the first time. Based on a dataset of more than 230,000 individuals, meiobenthic higher taxa dive...
Acoustic monitoring of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena L., 1758) indicated a strongly reduced disturbance by noise emitted by pile driving for offshore wind turbine foundations insulated by a big bubble curtain (BBC). This newly developed noise mitigation system was tested during construction of the offshore wind farm Borkum West II (North Sea)...
Pingers and acoustic harassment devices (AHDs) are used by industries (e.g., fisheries, aquaculture, and offshore wind development) all over the world to mitigate harmful impacts on marine mammals such as the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). This review compares different devices and their effects specifically on harbor porpoises and gives reco...
The comic-style book (in German) shows 600 species of arthropods (insects, spiders, isopods, myriapods) found and photographed by the author and his childs in the own garden. 30 experts helped to identify the animals to the lowest possible taxonomic level. All the little creepy-crawlies tell about their lives in speech bubbles. They do it quite che...
Before piling of offshore wind farm foundations, acoustic harassment devices (AHDs) are used to drive harbor porpoises out of the area where they could suffer injuries. Until 2017, a combination of pingers and seal scarer devices (usually SPL = 174-193 dB re 1 μPa (rms) @ 1m at 1 to 20 kHz depending on the device) was prescribed for mitigation purp...
published in Abhandlungen aus dem Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde 100: 59-149.
Abstract: After the fauna and flora of a sand pit near Haltern-Flaesheim (Recklinghausen
district, North Rhine-Westphalia) has been summarized for the first time from
2014 to 2019 by a working group of 23 scientists (HANNIG 2020), an update of the
data situation bec...
All offshore wind farms (OWFs) built in German waters were accompanied by extensive passive-acoustic (CPODs) and aerial-survey-based monitoring programmes to assess potential adverse effects on harbour porpoises. Data collected during piling events of the period 2014-2016, when noise mitigation systems (NMS) reduced average broadband noise levels i...
The seasonal abundance and distribution of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the German North Sea shows a strong variation. However, on a more local scale the seasonal occurrence may follow a constant pattern in consecutive years. We conducted digital aerial surveys covering all seasons over several years to obtain abundance and distribution...
Effects of constructing the DanTysk offshore wind farm (German Bight, 80 turbines, 6 m diameter foundations) were studied by passive acoustic monitoring of pile-driving noise and harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena echolocation. An acoustic deterrence device (seal scarer) was used to protect porpoises from hearing loss and bubble curtains were used...
Numerous studies based on passive acoustic monitoring by Porpoise Detectors (C-PODs) showed negative effects of pile driving by hydraulic hammers for the construction of offshore wind farms on harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). We studied the efficiency of noise mitigation by two configurations of circular big bubble curtains (BBC1 & BBC2) regar...
The aim of this study was to evaluate compositional differences between harpacticoid (Crustacea, Copepoda) assemblages at two widely separated abyssal locations. During the DIVA 1 cruise of RV METEOR (July/August 2000) to the Angola Basin (Southeast Atlantic), two deep-sea stations, approximately
300 nautical miles apart (Stations 325 and 346), wer...
Unterwasser-Rammarbeiten zur Installation der Stahlfundamente von Offshore-Windenergieanlagen bewirken starke Schallemissionen, die zu Störungen oder Schädigungen von Meeressäugetieren führen können. Daher wird die Entwicklung von Schallminderungsmaßnahmen in Deutschland vorangetrieben. Im Projekt HYDROSCHALL-OFF BW II wurde das Schallschutzsystem...
The first German offshore windfarm (OWF) alpha ventus was constructed between September 2008 and August 2009 in the German Bight north of Borkum, North Sea. It comprises twelve offshore wind turbines on an area of 4 km² and is officially operating since April 2010. Using OWF alpha ventus as a test site, a major goal of this study, being part of pro...
Unterwasser-Rammarbeiten zur Installation der Stahlfundamente von Offshore-Windenergieanlagen bewirken starke Schallemissionen, die zu Störungen oder Schädigungen von Meeressäugetieren führen können. Daher wird die Entwicklung von Schallminderungsmaßnahmen in Deutschland vorangetrieben.
Im Projekt HYDROSCHALL-OFF BW II wurde das Schallschutzsystem...
In the Southern Ocean, that is areas south of the Polar Front, long-term oceanographic cooling, geographic separation, development of isolating current and wind systems, tectonic drift and fluctuation of ice sheets amongst others have resulted in a highly endemic benthic fauna, which is generally adapted to the long-lasting, relatively stable envir...
In the Southern Ocean, i.e. areas south of the Polar Front, long-term oceanographic cooling, geographic separation, development of isolating current and wind systems, tectonic drift, and fluctuation of ice sheets amongst others have resulted in a highly endemic benthic fauna, which is generally adapted to the long-lasting, relatively stable environ...
In the Southern Ocean, that is areas south of the Polar Front, long-term oceanographic cooling, geographic separation, development of isolating current and wind systems, tectonic drift and fluctuation of ice sheets amongst others have resulted in a highly endemic benthic fauna, which is generally adapted to the long-lasting, relatively stable envir...
DFG project RO 3004, proposed in the framework of the International Polar Year (IPY), makes use of a unique natural experiment caused by regional climate warming: the recent break-up of the Antarctic Larsen A and B iceshelves between 1995 and 2002.
Multicorer sampling took place in January 2007 during the ANT XXIII/8 expedition of RV Polarstern. F...
Strong regional warming led to the disintegration of huge ice shelves around the Antarctic Peninsula. Big parts of Larsen A and B collapsed in 1995 and 2002, offering the chance to study life beneath these former ice shelves in 2007 during the ANTXXIII/8 expedition of RV POLARSTERN.
Meiobenthos of Larsen B Antarctic shelf stations was investigated...
The marine ecosystem on the eastern shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula was surveyed 5 and 12 years after the climate-induced collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves. An impoverished benthic fauna was discovered, that included deep-sea species presumed to be remnants from ice-covered conditions. The current structure of various ecosystem components...
In this study, additional records of 27 species of Aleocharinae are given. Additional notes on most of them new to certain Turkish regions and provinces are given. Anaulacaspis laevigata Duvivier, 1883 is the first record for the Turkish fauna. A. pamphylica (Fagel, 1969) represents the first records since the description of the species.
The ROV operations had three objectives: (1) to check, whether the "Cherokee" system is suited for advanced benthological work in the high latitude Antarctic shelf areas; (2) to support the disturbance experiment, providing immediate visual Information; (3) to continue ecological work that started in 1989 at the hilltop situated at the northern mar...
Ten species are reported from Turkey for first time: Those are Acrotona clientula (ERICHSON 1839), Aloconota appulsa (SCRIBA 1868), A. eichhoffi (SCRIBA 1868), A. philonthoides (WOLLASTON 1854), Atheta
amicorum LOHSE 1973, A. amicula (STEPHENS 1832), A. nigra (KRAATZ 1856), Euryusa obtabilis HEER 1839, Myllaena kraatzi SHARP 1871, and Parocyusa ru...
A large-scale database concerning benthic copepods from the Arctic, Baltic Sea, North Sea, British Isles, Adriatic Sea and Crete was compiled to assess species richness, biodiversity, communities, ecological range size and biogeographical patterns. The Adriatic showed the highest evenness and the most species-rich communities. Assemblages from the...
Regional climate warming caused break-ups of the large Antarctic Larsen A and B
ice shelves during the last two decades. Harpacticoid copepods were investigated
on family level with respect to abundance, diversity, and compositional similarity
between stations sampled in these areas during the ANT XXIII/8 expedition of RV
„Polarstern’ (PS 69) i...
Owing to large-scale ice-shelf disintegration events, the Antarctic Larsen A and B areas recently became ice-free. During the ANT-XXIII/8 Polarstern campaign, this region was sampled for the first time. Our study is the first to investigate benthic communities in this area and their response to the collapse of ice shelves in the Antarctic. The nema...
Diversity, turnover, undersampling and scale are important issues in benthic studies. Their role is discussed examplified by benthic harpacticoid copepods sampled at the Larsen A & B iceshelf areas in Antarctica.
Regional climate warming caused break-ups of the large Antarctic Larsen A and B ice shelves during the last two decades. Harpacticoid copepods were investigated
on family level with respect to abundance, diversity, and compositional similarity
between stations sampled in these areas during the ANT XXIII/8 expedition of RV
„Polarstern’ (PS 69) in 20...
Records of 29 species of Paederinae new to certain Turkish provinces are given. Amongst those Astenus adonis Coıffaıt 1960, Astenus bulgaricus Coıffaıt 1971, Astenus rufopacus Reıtter 1909, and Lathrobium wrasei Schülke 1990 are the first records for Turkish fauna.
In this study, additional notes on 17 species of Tachyporinae new to certain Turkish provinces are given. Mycetoporus ignidorsum Eppelsheim, 1880 is the first record for the Turkish fauna.
This study examines whether or not biogeographical and/or managerial divisions across the European seas can be validated using soft-bottom macrobenthic community data. The faunal groups used were: all macrobenthos groups, polychaetes, molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, sipun- culans and the last 5 groups combined. In order to test the discriminati...
This study examines whether or not biogeographical and/or managerial divisions across the European seas can be validated using soft-bottom macrobenthic community data. The faunal groups used were: all macrobenthos groups, polychaetes, molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, sipunculans and the last 5 groups combined. In order to test the discriminating...
In this study, additional notes on 41 species of Staphylininae new to certain Turkish provinces are given. Amongst those Quedius cyprusensis Last 1955 is the first record for the Turkish fauna. Xantholinus marasicus Assing, 2007 represents the first record since the describtion of the species.
Records of 25 species of Oxytelinae new to certain Turkish provinces are given. Amongst those Ochthephilus andalusiacus (Fagel 1957), Ochthephilus lenkoranus (Scheerpeltz 1950), and Ochthephilus omalinus (Erichson 1840) are the first records for the Turkish fauna.
Abstract: Between June 2001 and December 2007 the beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the 1.800 ha sized, Haltern-Borkenberge Training Area (western North Rhine-West-phalia) has been researched through intensive day and night sampling methods. Furthermore historical data were considered. In total, 510 beetle species (excl. Carabidae) from 57 fami...
So far, 521 species of rove beetles (Staphylinidae) have been recorded from the East Frisian islands, 510 of which are assumed to be still present. The level of collection intensity varies considerably from island to island: Well studied are the islands of Mellum, Memmert, Lütje Hörn, Norderney, Borkum, Langeoog and Spiekeroog. In each of the vario...
We present the second part of two articles dealing with unpublished records and record data (museum collections, lists, letters and recent field trips from a total of 33 collectors) on rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the East Frisian Islands. Some corrections of literature data were made necessary as well. This second paper summarizes u...
Harpacticoid copepod assemblages from an intertidal sandflat in the Jade Bay (German Bight, North Sea) were investigated during a snapshot study, uncovering a relatively high small-scale organismic diversity: 1952 adult Harpacticoida of 32 species were recorded, belonging to 19 genera and 13 families. With 1232 adult specimens (63.1 %), Ectinosomat...
The rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the East Frisian Islands were investigated at different intensities for single islands so far. In two articles, unpublished records (museum collections, lists, letters and recent field trips of 33 collectors) of rove beetles collected from these sand dune islands are summarized. Furthermore, unpublish...
A class of nested circular transect sampling designs (NECTS) is presented that allows detection of the spatial structure of a variable over multiple contiguous spatial scales, with a minimum of sampling effort and similar accuracy over the whole range of sampling distance lags (SDL). Ordinary circular transect sampling, already allowing equal-frequ...
Within the framework of the DIVA-I campaign of RV “Meteor” (M48/1) in July/August 2000, experts for certain harpacticoid taxa joined forces to determine the overall harpacticoid species-level diversity for parts of the Angola Basin. It was the first time that a study of this extent was performed for a deep-sea area. However, due to the vast amount...
Meiofauna standing stocks and community structure are reported for the first time for abyssalsoft-sediment samples in Antarctic waters. At seven stations within a depth range of 2274–5194m a totalof 128 sediment cores were retrieved with a multiple corer (MUC) on board of the R.V. Polarstern during the ANDEEP-1 cruise (ANT XIX/3). The metazoan meio...
Between October 1993 and December 1994, a dissipative sandy beach at Runrún in the northwest of Chiloé Island (Chile) was sampled quantitatively to describe its harpacticoid taxocoenosis. The monthly samples contained only one single species, Sextonis mehuinensis (Mielke, 1985) (Harpacticoida: Leptastacidae). This is the first record of a littoral...
In the late eighties, the development of new concepts for the measurement of diversity attained a state of stagnation. It was not until the early nineties that new approaches came into use. These attempted to include the taxonomic structure of an investigated community in new measures of biodiversity (e.g. MAY 1990, VANE-WRIGHT ET AL. 1991, WILLIAM...
The rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae excl. Scaphidiinae, Dasycerinae et Pselaphinae) of the collection 'Georg Kerstens', with updated distributional status for all species of the Weser-Ems region. — 26,310 specimens of rove beetles belonging to 1,025 species from the collection of Georg Kerstens (1903-1982) are revised. 25,145 specimens (at...
Meiofauna standing stocks and community structure are reported for the first time for abyssal soft-sediment samples in Antarctic waters. At seven stations within a depth range of 2274-5194 m a total of 128 sediment cores were retrieved with a multiple corer (MUC) on board of the R.V. Polarstern during the ANDEEP-1 cruise (ANT XIX/3). The metazoan m...
In the DIVA 1 study approximately 11 % of the total metazoan meiofauna were harpacticoids and 85 % were nematodes (preliminary data). The multicorer samples from stations 325, 331, 342, and 346 of the DIVA 1 study contained a total of 16,561 individuals of Harpacticoida (5300-5500 m depth, transect of 491 km). Each of the 179 cores contained more t...
Remarkable and new records of beetles in the Weser-Ems region (NW Germany) (Coleoptera). -
19 species of beetles, remarkable for the Weser-Ems region, are presented. Nine of these species were recorded for the first time in the mentioned area. The other ten species have not been found for a long time, or they are very rare.
The rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of the collection F. & R. STRUVE from Borkum Island, German Bight: Between 1932 and 1946 F. & R. STRUVE collected insects of all orders on Borkum island, northern Germany. The STRUVE collection is kept in the „Westfälisches Landesmusetun für Naturkunde" in Münster. The rove beetles (Coleoptera; Staphylin...
In 1989 and 1990, 1285 rove beetles of 70 species were caught in pitfall traps on Luetje Hoern island, one of which (Stenus bohemicus MACH.) had never been recorded on the old East-Frisian Islands before. 24 species (34%) were considered to be indigenous even though the rescue effect may lead to misinterpretation. Compared to Northwestern Germany...
From 1984 to 1986, 5,874 rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) out of 159 species were collected from the 100 years old North Sea island Memmert (6 km2). Thus, 17-18% of the 900-950 rove beetle species of the Northwest German Lowland Plain, or 32% of the about 500 species recorded from the East Frisian Islands, were found on Memmert island. The...
Colonization of the young dune island Mellum by staphylinid beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). - Between 1984 and 1986, 9448 staphylinid specimens of 137 species were caught in pitfall traps and colour dishes on Mellum island, 19 of which had not been record-ed an the old East-Frisian Islands and two of which had not been found in Lower Saxony be...
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What is your opinion regarding the potential of plant extracts rich in polyphenols (like Cistus incanus) in mitigating the effects of the Covid-19 disease?
There is a paper by Rebensburg et al. (2016: Potent in vitro antiviral activity of Cistus incanus extract against HIV and Filoviruses targets viral envelope proteins; https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20394) which sounds quite promising for me regarding the potential of Cistus extracts in mitigating the effects of varius virus infections. Might this also be worth a try as a helpful medication in the early phase of Coronavirus Sars Cov2 infections?
Thanks for you opinions!
Hello,
my question is on trends over a time-series of some years. Colleagues of another lab conducted aerial surveys over a certain study area, with two surveys at two days per summer. The investigated species is highly mobile and variable in observed abundance in that area. By Bayesian analysis they found a significant declining linear trend over 17 years, even though the first year had nearly the same summer density as the last year and it was really a big up and down. Our lab grabbed a year and by own data had a completely different density in the chosen year (at different summer days and with more sampling effort). Obviously, by two days they only rarely hit the real mean of densities for the whole summer. Still, their Baysian analysis showed a significance of the trend (34 surveys over 17 years). I have the strong feeling that every statistical analysis can only be as good as the data in it. So I wonder how many years one roughly would need in case of a high day-to-day variability and only two sampling days in one season (with 4% area coverage) to get a reliable trend for that season over the years. What is your opinion?
Thanks
