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Dr. Florian Peine

florian[at]doc-flop.de
(spoken languages: english)
Tel. ++49 (0) 381-498-6053, Fax - 6052
Albert-Einstein-Street 3, room 126
18059 Rostock


Expertise

  • Benthic ecology; Macrozoobenthos; Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Among the marine plants and animals, there hardly is any taxon, which is not present in the benthos. The macrozoobenthos, i.e. all macroscopically recognizable animals (> 2mm) which live at the bottom of the sea, depends on food supply from the upper light-flooded layers of the sea. This so-called benthic-pelagic coupling is one of the most important processes in the global carbon cycle, since it contributes to the transport of CO2 fixed the sea surface by photosynthesis into the sediments at the bottom of the sea. Animals living at the sediment-water interface either catch particles from the water (suspension feeding) or they collect sedimented material from the surrounding sediment surface (deposit feeding). Their excretorial products are either released into the water (resuspension) or on/into the sediment (deposition). My principal interest is therefore 1. the quantification of the carbon buried in the sediments after having been processed by benthic animals, 2. how this is achieved (feeding behaviour, "autecology") and 3. the effects of their behavior on the environment, e.g. sediment transport; sediment stabilising or destabilising effects). To do so, I am working with individual species or biological communities (Biocenosis) in flume channels. I use a geographical information systems (GIS) for the visualisation of my results through spatial distribution patterns, but also for the detection of specific biological communities.

 

Short CV

 

Projects

  • 09/00-02/03: BMBF-Project DYNAS (Dynamics of Natural and Anthropogenic Sedimentation), University of Rostock. Measurements of biological effects on sediment and particle transport dynamics in Mecklenburg Bight.
  • 12/01-11/05: EU-Infrastructure network BIOFLOW (Flume Facility Co-operation Network for Biological Benthic Boundary Layer Research), University of Rostock. Participation in annual international conferences.
  • 01/04-05/05: BMBF-Project DYNAS 2 (Dynamics of Natural and Anthropogenic Sedimentation), University of Rostock. Parameterisation of the effects of biogenic benthic structures on sediment and particle transport dynamics for a numerical model of the southern Baltic.
  • since 06/05: DYNAS 2 - FWG (Dynamics of Natural and Anthropogenic Sedimentation), Baltic Sea Research Institute, Warnemuende.
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Publications

  • Peine F., Bobertz B., et al.; 2005. Influence of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis (Linnaeus) on the bottom roughness length (z0) in the south-western Baltic Sea. Baltica 18(1): 13-22
  • Peine F., Deutschmann R., Meier E., Pielenz H., Graf G. A laboratory flume study to investigate the influence of the tube dwelling polychaete Pygospio elegans (Claparède) on particle resuspension and deposition. Continental Shelf Research (submitted)
  • Peine F., Deutschmann R., Meier E., Pielenz H., Graf G. A lab to field comparison betwen annular flume and bottom water sampler measurements. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (in prep.)
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Reports

 

International conferences

  • Talk: Peine, Florian and Graf, Gerhard: Use of Geographic Information Systems to determine Macrofauna distribution at the eastern Baltic Coast of Germany (Mecklenburg Bight). The Seventh Marine Geological Conference "BALTIC-7", 27. April 2002, Kaliningrad, Russia
  • Talk: Peine, Florian and Graf, Gerhard: The resuspension and deposition potential of macrofauna comunities generating biogenous structures at Mecklenburg Bight, Baltic Sea. Second Bioflow Workshop 07.09-11.09.2003 Rostock, Germany
  • Poster: Peine, Florian and Graf, Gerhard: Spatial distribution of the roughness length from macrofauna sampling data using GIS. Second Bioflow Workshop 07.09-11.09.2003 Rostock, Germany
  • Talk: Peine, Florian and Graf, Gerhard: The influence of macrofauna, generating biogenous structures on the sediment transport at the sediment water interface in the south-western part of the Baltic Sea, Mecklenburg-Bight, East Germany. The Seventh International Conference on Nearshore and Estuarine Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes, 01.10-04.10.2003, Gloucester Point VA, USA
  • Talk: Peine, Florian and Graf, Gerhard: The resuspension and deposition potential of macrofauna communities generating biogenous structures, Mecklenburg Bight, Baltic Sea. - Influence of Pygospio elegans on the near bottom material transport. Third Bioflow Workshop, 22.08-26.08.2004, Venice, Italy
  • Talk: Peine Florian, Deutschmann Renate, Meier Elke, Pielenz Holger and Graf Gerhard: A mismatch between laboratory annular flume and field measurements of bioresuspension- and biodeposition. ASLO Summer meeting, 19.06-24.06.2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Talk: Peine, Florian: Influence of subtidal macrofauna organisms generating biogenic structures on the near-bottom particle transport. Fourth Bioflow Workshop, 05.09.-09.09.2005, List/Sylt, Germany
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Teaching

  • Practical training course assistance, examimation assistance
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Other stuff

  • Summer School: Coastal Seas System Analyis an Monitoring 01.-15.09.2002, Rostock Warnemünde
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