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Emeritus Professor, Division of Benthonic Ecosystems. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven, Germany)

wolf.arntz@awi.de

Wolf Arntz holds a doctorate in Fisheries Biology of the University of Kiel (1970) and a professorship (1984 till present) in Marine Biology in the University of Bremen. He has combined his professional activities with teaching, focussing on fisheries biology, the trophic ecology of fish, marine zoobenthos, the fauna of the North and Baltic Seas, the ecology of areas of algal blooms; marine ecology, whales, commercial invertebrates, Antarctic ecology, climate oscillations and their effects.

• Consultant on fisheries biology, in Malaysia and Mexico, among other countries. German leader in a bilateral of fisheries biology in Mazatlán, Mexico (1974).
• Assistant professor/Associate Professor at the Marine Sciences Institute in Kiel , fisheries biology section, teaching fisheries biology, benthos and commercial invertebrates. Follow up of research on demersal fish and the Baltic ecosystem. New studies on experimental manipulation of the infra-littoral ecosystem.
• Short-term consultant in fisheries biology for the GTZ (German Agency for Technical Cooperation) in Jordan, Philippines and Colombia.
• Co-Director of the "Cooperative Peruvian/German Programme on Fisheries Research" with the Marine Institute of Perú (Callao), working in the framework of GTZ. Evaluation of fish and invertebrate resources, benthonic ecology, impact of the "El Niño" phenomenon. Co-organization of a symposium on the effects of "El Niño", in Arequipa (1983).
• GTZ consultant for the INVEMAR Proyect in Santa Marta/Colombia. Invited professor by the University of Saint Marc in Lima, and offering several postgraduate courses in Colombia (DAAD), Peru and Chile (UNESCO).
• Director of the Dept. of Zoology in the Marine Sciences Institute in Bremerhaven in GFR and at the same time, Professor of marine biology and zoology I n the University of Bremen.
• Professor in a series of lectures in Chile on "El Niño", within the "Distinguished lecturers" scheme of UNESCO.
• Director of the Ecology Section, and later of the Division of Benthonic Ecosystems, at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.
• Director of the International Office for the Cooperation with Latin American Marine and Polar Sciences in Bremerhaven.
• Consultant for the GTZ for a feasibility study for a project "Marine Sciences" for thye Asia Development Bank (ADB) in Indonesia.
• Coordinator of a Workshop on "El Niño" in the Charles Darwin Scientific Station in the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador, with 60 Latin American participants.
• Visiting professor in the Oceanography Department of the University of Concepción, Chile.
• Inauguration of the first joint laboratory of two countries: The Argentine-German "E. Dallman" in the King George Island (South Shetlands).
• Chief Scientist of the "Magellan Cruiser" with the BIC "Victo Hansen" (Joint Cruise of Germany, Chile and Italy) in the Magellan Strait and Beagle Channel.
• Vice-President of the IOC/FAO/CPPS "El Niño" Group.
• Charged by the Ministry of Sciences (BMBF) for Cooperation in Latin America on Polar and Marine Sciences.
• Co-organizer with the University of Magellan (UMAG) in Punta Arenas, of an International Seminar / Workshop on relations between Magellan and Antarctica (IBMANT 97), with over 100 participants.
• Organizer of the EASIZ Symposium (Ecology of the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone) in Bremenhaven, Germany, with 130 participants.
• Co-organizer of the Symposium / Workshop on "Impacts of `El Niño' and Basin-Scale Climate Change on Ecosystems and Living Marine Resources: A comparison between the California and the Humboldt Currents Systems in Viña del Mar, Chile. 280 participants.
• Co-organizer of a Symposium / Workshop IBMANT II on Magellan- Antarctic relations with CADIC Ushuaia and the University of Hamburg in Ushuaia , Argentina, 117 participants.
• Participant in the cycle of classes on Marine Ecology at the University of Barcelona (UB), Spain.
• Invited Professor and Consultant in the Patagonian Institute (UMAG), Punta Arenas, Chile.
• Participant in the Course on Climate Global Change and its Consequences. Doctorate in Environmental Sciences, Pedro Ruiz Gallo Natl. University, Lambayeque. Peru.

• ARNTZ, W.E., 1977. Results and problems of an "unsuccessful" benthos cage predation experiment (western Baltic, 20 m depth). In: Biology of Benthic Organisms (B.F. Keegan, C.O. Ceidigh & P.J.S. Boaden, eds.), Oxford: 31-44.
• ARNTZ, W.E., 1980. Predation by demersal fish and its impact on the dynamics of macrobenthos. In: Marine Benthic Dynamics (K.R. Tenore und B.C. Coull, eds.), Univ. of South Carolina Press, Columbia: 121-149.
• ARNTZ, W.E., 1981. Biomass zonation and dynamics of macrobenthos in an area stressed by oxygen deficiency. In: Stress Effects on Natural Ecosystems (G. Barrett und R. Rosenberg, eds.), John Wiley & Sons: 215-225.
• ARNTZ, W.E. & H. RUMOHR, 1982. An experimental study of macrobenthic colonization and succession, and the importance of seasonal variation in temperate latitudes. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 64: 17-45.
• ARNTZ, W.E. & H. RUMOHR, 1986. Fluctuations of benthic macrofauna during succession and in an established community. Meeresforsch. 31: 97-114.
• ARNTZ, W.E., E. VALDIVIA & J. ZEBALLOS, 1988. Impact of El Niño 1982-83 on the commercially exploited invertebrates (mariscos) of the Peruvian shore. Meeresforsch. 32: 3-22.
• TARAZONA, J., H. SALZWEDEL & W.E. ARNTZ, 1988. Positive effects of "El Niño" on macrozoobenthos inhabiting hypoxic areas of the Peruvian upwelling system. Oecologia 76: 184-190.
• ARNTZ, W.E. & J. TARAZONA, 1990. Effects of El Niño on benthos, fish and fisheries off the South American Pacific coast. In: Global Ecological Consequences of the 1982-83 El Niño-Southern Oscillation (P.W. Glynn, ed.). Elsevier Oceanography Series: 323-360.
• ARNTZ, W.E., T. BREY & V.A. GALLARDO, 1994. Antarctic zoobenthos. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 32: 241-303.
• ARNTZ, W.E., GUTT, J., KLAGES, M., 1997. Antarctic marine biodiversity: an overview. In: Antarctic communities (Battaglia, B., J. Valencia & D. Walton, eds.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge: 3-14.
• THIEL, H., H.-O. PÖRTNER & W.E. ARNTZ, 1996. Marine life at low temperatures - a comparison of polar and deep-sea characteristics. In: Uiblein, F., J. Ott & M. Stachowitsch (eds.), Deep-sea and extreme shallow-water habitats: affinities and adaptations.-Biosystematics and Ecology Series 11: 183-219.
• ARNTZ, W.E., J.M. GILI & K. REISE, 1999. Unjustifiably ignored: Reflections on the role of benthos in marine ecosystems. In: Biogeochemical cycling in marine sediments (J.S. Gray, W. Ambrose Jr. & A. Szaniawska, eds.). Kluwer, Dordrecht: 105-124.
• OREJAS, C., J.M. GILI & W.E. ARNTZ, 2003. Role of small-plankton communities in the diet of two Antarctic octocorals (Primnoisis antarctica and Primnoella sp.) Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 250: 105-116.
• ARNTZ, W.E. & J.M. GILI, 2001. A case for tolerance in marine ecology:Let us not put out the baby with the bathwater. In: Gili, J.M., J.L. Pretus & T.T. Packard (eds.), A Marine Science Odyssey into the 21st Century. Scientia Marina 65 Suppl. 2: 283-299.
• TEIXIDO, N., J. GARRABOU, J. GUTT & W.E. ARNTZ, 2007. Iceberg disturbance and successional spatial patterns: the case of the deep Antarctic benthic communities. Ecosystems 10: 143-158.
• GILI, J.M., W.E. ARNTZ, A. PALANQUES, C. OREJAS, A. CLARKE, P. K. DAYTON, E. ISLA, N. TEIXIDO, S. ROSSI & P.J. LOPEZ-GONZALEZ, 2006. A unique epibenthic assemblage of sessile suspension feeders with archaic features in the high-Antarctic. Deep-Sea Res. II (EASIZ vol.), 53: 1029-1052.
• THATJE, S., S. SCHIEL & W.E. ARNTZ, 2003. Developmental trade-offs in Subantarctic meroplankton communities and the enigma of low decapod diversity in high southern latitudes. Mar.Ecol.Progr.Ser. 260: 195-207.
• TSOUNIS, G., S. ROSSI, J.-M. GILI & W.E. ARNTZ, 2007. Red coral fishery at the Costa Brava (NW Mediterranean): case study of an overharvested precious coral. Ecosystems, 10: 975-986.

• ARNTZ, W.E., A. LANDA & J. TARAZONA (eds.), 1985. El Niño. Su impacto en la fauna marina. Bol. Inst. Mar Perú-Callao, vol. extraord.: 1-222.
• ARNTZ, W.E. & E. FAHRBACH, 1991. El Niño. Klimaexperiment der Natur. Physikalische Ursachen und biologische Folgen. Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel: 1-264.
• ARNTZ, W. E. & E. FAHRBACH, 1997. El Niño - Experimento climático de la naturaleza. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico D. F. : 1-312.
• ARNTZ, W.E. & C. RIOS (eds.), 1999. Magellan-Antarctic. Ecosystems that drifted apart. Scientia Marina 63 Suppl. 1: 1-518
• TARAZONA, J., W. E. ARNTZ & E. CASTILLO DE MARUENDA (eds.), 2001. El Niño en América Latina. Impactos biológico-sociales. CONCYTEC, Lima: 1-423.
• ARNTZ, W.E: & A. CLARKE (eds.), 2002. Ecological studies in the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone. Results of EASIZ midterm symposium. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg: 1-277.
• ARNTZ, W.E., G. LOVRICH & S. THATJE (eds.), 2005. The Magellan-Antarctic connection: links and frontiers at high southern latitudes. Scientia Marina 69, Suppl. 2: 1-373.
• ARNTZ, W.E. (ed.), 2006. Macrobenthic studies at Bouvet Island. Polar Biol., 29 (special issue): 81-151
• CLARKE, A., W.E. ARNTZ & C. SMITH (eds.), 2006. EASIZ: Ecology of the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone. EASIZ Final Symposium. Deep-Sea Res. II, Topical Studies in Oceanography Vol. 53: 803-1140.

• "Humboldt-Mutis" Prize of the Spanish Ministry of Education, 1997
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the UMAG, Punta Arenas/Chile, 2001.
• Honorary Member of the National Academy of Science and Technology of Peru, 2005.
• Doctor Honoris Causa of the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque/Perú, 2007.