Invertebrate Zoology Staff
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feller, Ilka C. and Rützler, Klaus. Mangroves of the reef domain: a case study in Belize, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK. 2008.
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