Sandra Maier, Ph.d.

Maier SR, Brooke S, De Clippele LH, de Froe E, van der Kaaden A-S, Kutti T, Mienis F, van Oevelen D (2023) On the paradox of thriving cold-water coral reefs in the food-limited deep sea. Biol Rev 98:1768-1795

van der Kaaden A-S, Maier SR, Siteur K, De Clippele LH, van de Koppel J, Purkis SJ, Rietkerk M, Soetaert K, van Oevelen D (2023) Tiger reefs: Self-organized regular patterns in deep-sea cold-water coral reefs. Ecosphere 14:e4654

de Froe E, Maier SR, Horn HG, Wolff GA, Blackbird S, Mohn C, Schultz M, van der Kaaden A-S, Cheng CH, Wubben E, van Haastregt B, Moller EF, Lavaleye M, Soetaert K, Reichart G-J, van Oevelen D (2022) Hydrography and food distribution during a tidal cycle above a cold-water coral mound. Deep-Sea Res I: Oceanogr Res Pap 189:103854

De Clippele LH, van der Kaaden A-S, Maier SR, de Froe E, Roberts JM (2021) Biomass mapping for an improved understanding of the contribution of cold-water coral carbonate mounds to C and N cycling. Front Mar Sci 8  

De Kluijver A, Bart MC, van Oevelen D, de Goeij JM, Leys S, Maier SR, Maldonado M,  Soetaert K, Verbiest S, Middelburg JJ (2021) An integrative model of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in a common deep-sea sponge (Geodia barretti). Front Mar Sci 7

Maier SR, Jantzen C, Laudien J, Häussermann V, Försterra G, Cornils A, Niggemann J, Dittmar T, Richter C (2021) The carbon and nitrogen budget of Desmophyllum dianthus - a voracious cold-water coral thriving in an acidified Patagonian fjord. PeerJ 9:e12609

Maier SR, Mienis F, de Froe E, Soetaert K, Lavaleye M, Duineveld G, Beauchard O, van der Kaaden A-S, Koch BP, van Oevelen D (2021). Reef communities associated with ‘dead’ cold-water coral framework drive resource retention and recycling in the deep sea. Deep-Sea Res Part I 175: 103574

Rakka M,  Maier SR, van Oevelen D, Godinho A, Bilan M, Orejas C, Carreiro-Silva M (2021). Contrasting metabolic strategies of two co-occurring deep-sea octocorals. Sci Rep 11: 10633

Maier SR, Kutti T, Bannister RJ, Fang JKH, van Breugel P, van Rijswijk P, van Oevelen D (2020). Recycling pathways in cold-water coral reefs: Use of dissolved organic matter and bacteria by key suspension feeding taxa. Sci Rep 10: 9942  

Rakka M, Orejas C, Maier SR, van Oevelen D, Godinho A, Bilan M, Carreiro-Silva M (2020). Feeding biology of a habitat-forming antipatharian in the Azores Archipelago. Coral Reefs 39: 1469-1482.