Dr. Barbara Santer

Wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit

• At present: Managing Editor Marine Biology
• Since 2008: Employment at the GEOMAR, Editorial Assistant to U. Sommer (Editor-in-Chief Marine Biology)
• 2006-2011: Free-lance consulting (Plankton Ecology)
• 1985-2007: Scientific assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology*, Plön, Germany (*since 2006 MPI for Evolutionary Biology)
  • 2000-2003: DFG Project: Impact of copepods and cladocerans on phytoplankton in marine and freshwater systems (Cooperation with U. Sommer, GEOMAR
  • 1991 Doctorate at the University of Kiel, Germany, “Life cycle strategies of cyclopoid copepods”
  • 1987-1989: Stay abroad at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Ausgewählte Publikationen

1. Santer, B., N. Sommerwerk & J. Grey (2006). Food niches of cyclopoid copepods in eutrophic Plußsee determined by stable isotope analysis. - Arch. Hydrobiol. 67: 301-316.
2. Zeller, M., R. Jiminez-Melero, & B. Santer (2004). Diapause in the calanoid freshwater copepod Eudiaptomus graciloides. - J. Plankt. Res. 26: 1379-1388.
3. Sommer, U., F. Sommer, B. Santer, C. Jamieson, C. Becker, T. Hansen (2001): Complementary impact of copepods and cladocerans on phytoplankton. - Ecol. Letters 4: 545-550.
4. Santer, B., E. Blohm-Sievers, C.E. Cáceres & N.G. Hairston, Jr. (2000). Life-history variation in the coexisting freshwater copepods Eudiaptomus gracilis and Eudiaptomus graciloides. - Arch. Hydrobiol. 149: 441-458
5. Santer, B. (1998). Life cycle strategies of free-living copepods in fresh waters. - J. Mar. Syst. 15: 327-336.
6. Santer, B. & W. Lampert (1995). Summer diapause in cyclopoid copepods: adaptive response to a food bottleneck? - J. Anim. Ecol. 64: 600-613