Klaus RuetzlerResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1766
• Fax: 202-633-0182
• E-mail: ruetzler@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Research Zoologist, Curator of Porifera (Sponges); Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems Program (CCRE), Director (1972-2009).

Recent Publications:
Alvizu, A., Díaz, M. c., Bastidas, C., Rützler, K., Thacker, R. W. and Márquez, L. m. 2013. A skeleton-less sponge of Caribbean mangroves: invasive or undescribed?. Invertebrate Biology, doi:10.1111/ivb.12015

Hill, Malcolm S., Hill, April L., Lopez, Jose, Peterson, Kevin J., Pomponi, Shirley, Diaz, Maria C., Thacker, Robert W., Adamska, Maja, Boury-Esnault, Nicole, Cárdenas, Paco, Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia, Danka, Elizabeth, De Laine, Bre-Onna, Formica, Dawn, Hajdu, Eduardo, Lobo-Hajdu, Gisele, Klontz, Sarah, Morrow, Christine C., Patel, Jignasa, Picton, Bernard, Pisani, Davide, Pohlmann, Deborah, Redmond, Niamh E., Reed, John, Richey, Stacy, et al 2013. Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes. Plos One, 8(1) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050437

Rützler, Klaus 2012. The Role of Sponges in the Mesoamerican Barrier-Reef Ecosystem, Belize. In: Becerro, Mikel A. and Uriz, Maria J., Advances in Sponge Science: Phylogeny, Systematics, Ecology. Elsevier, pp.211-271.

Berube, Melissa D., Dunbar, Stephen G., Rützler, Klaus and Hayes, William K. 2012. Home Range and Foraging Ecology of Juvenile Hawksbill Sea Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) on Inshore Reefs of Honduras. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 11(1): 33-43. doi:10.2744/CCB-0898.1

Diaz, Maria C. and Rützler, Klaus 2011. Biodiversity of sponges: Belize and beyond, to the greater Caribbean (In: Too Precious to Drill: the Marine Biodiversity of Belize). Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 19(6): 57-65.

Rützler, Klaus 2010. Demospongiae. In: Knowlton, Robert, McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. New York: McGraw Hill, pp.1-9.

Pisera, Andrzej, Rützler, Klaus, Kaz'mierczak, Jozef and Kempe, Stephan 2010. Sponges in an extreme environment: suberitids from the quasi-marine Satonda Island crater lake (Sumbawa, Indonesia). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 90(1): 203-212. doi:10.1017/S0025315409990968

Maldonado, Manuel, Riesgo, Ana, Bucci, Arianna and Rützler, Klaus 2010. Revisiting silicon budgets at a tropical continental shelf: Silica standing stocks in sponges surpass those in diatoms. Limnology and Oceanography, 55(5): 2001-2010.

Miller, Amber N., Strychar, Kevin B., Shirley, Thomas C. and Rützler, Klaus 2010. Effects of Heat and Salinity Stress on the Sponge Cliona celata. International Journal of Biology, 2(2): 3-16.

Lang, Michael A., Macintyre, Ian G. and Rützler, Klaus 2009. Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38: 1-529. doi:10.5479/si.01960768.38.1

Rützler, Klaus 2009. Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems: Thirty-Five Years of Smithsonian Marine Science in Belize. In: Lang, Michael A., Macintyre, Ian G. and Rützler, Klaus, Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,(Smithsonian contributions to the marine sciences (no. 38)) pp.43-71.

Diaz, Maria C. and Rützler, Klaus 2009. Biodiversity and Abundance of Sponges in Caribbean Mangrove: Indicators of Environmental Quality. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38: 151-172. doi:10.5479/si.01960768.38.151

Rützler, Klaus 2009. Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems: Thirty-Eight Years of Smithsonian Marine Science in Belize. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38: 43-71.

Rützler, Klaus, van Soest, Rob W. M. and Piantoni, Carla 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota. Vol. 1, Biodiversity. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, pp.285-313.



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