Heidrun Feuchtmayr

Dr Heidrun Feuchtmayr

Lake Ecosystem Group

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology,
Lancaster Environment Centre,
Library Avenue,
Bailrigg,
Lancaster,
LA1 4AP
Tel: 01524 595800
Fax: 01524 61536
E-mail: Dr Heidrun Feuchtmayr

Research interests

Whenever time as a database manager allows me to, my main research interests focus on plankton and their interactions within a food web as well as responses of lakes to a changing environment.

Brief CV

  • 2008-present: Database Manager at CEH, Lancaster, UK
  • 2005-2008: Postdoctoral research at Liverpool University (Euro-limpacs project)
  • 2004-2005: Postdoctoral research at Max-Planck- Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany
  • 2000-2004: PhD student at Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany
  • 1999-2000: MSc in Environmental and Biological Science studies at Lancaster University, UK
  • 1996-1999: Geo-ecology student at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

 

Recent publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive

Moss, Brian; Feuchtmayr, Heidrun; Moran, Rebecca; Atkinson, David; Harvey, Ian; Hatton, Keith; Connor, Les; Heyes, Tom. 2008 Climate change, eutrophication and shallow lakes: a prognosis. In: Kernan, M.; Battarbee, R. W.; Binney, H. A., (eds.) Climate change and aquatic ecosystems in the UK: science policy and management. ENSIS Publishing, 18-20.

Feuchtmayr H., McKee D., Harvey I., Atkinson D., Moss B. 2007). Response of macroinvertebrates to warming, nutrient addition and predation in large-scale mesocosm tanks. Hydrobiologia, 584: 425-432.

Becker C., Brepohl D., Feuchtmayr H., Zöllner E., Sommer E., Clemmesen C., Sommer U., Boersma, M. (2005). Impacts of copepods on marine seston, and resulting effects on Calanus finmarchicus RNA:DNA ratios. Marine Biology, 146: 531-541.

Feuchtmayr H., Zöllner E., Santer B., Sommer U., Grey J. (2004). Zooplankton interactions in an enclosure experiment: Insights from stable isotope analyses.Freshwater Biology, 49: 1495-1504.

Sommer U., Sommer F., Feuchtmayr, H., Hansen T. (2004). The influence of mesozooplankton on phytoplankton nutrient limitation: A mesocosm study with northeast Atlantic plankton. Protist, 155 (3): 295-304.

Becker C., Feuchtmayr, H., Brepohl D., Santer B., Boersma M. (2004). Differential impacts of copepods and cladocerans on lake seston, and resulting effects on zooplankton growth. Hydrobiologia, 526: 197-207.

Feuchtmayr H., Grey J. (2003). Effect of preparation and preservation procedures on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope determinations from zooplankton. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 17 (23): 2605-2610.

Sommer F., Hansen T., Feuchtmayr H., Santer B., Tokle N, Sommer U. (2003), Do calanoid copepods suppress appendicularians in the coastal ocean? Journal of Plankton Research, 25 (7): 869-871.

Jones R.I., Feuchtmayr, H. (2002). Nutrient limitation of bacterioplankton growth in three upland lakes. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Limnologie, 28: 97-101.

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