Dr. habil. Anne-Nina Lörz

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As one of the most diverse, abundant and ecologically important crustacean groups the investigation of amphipod specimens is crucial for understanding marine biodiversity.
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Current Projects
Ice-AGE Amphipoda
Funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
The international IceAGE project (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology) focuses on the climatic sensitive region at the northernmost part of the North Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland and Nordic Seas reaching to the North Sea. So far, more than 100,000 amphipod crustaceans have been sampled during the IceAGE project at depths between 120 –4500 m. The extremely high sample coverage and the fact that amphipods are brooders with limited dispersal capabilities makes them the taxon of choice to identify ecological variables driving benthic community composition and limiting species distributions. This requires a secure taxonomic baseline. The main goal of this project is to assess the diversity, phylogenetic systematics and phylogeographical history of North Atlantic / Subarctic Amphipoda. Integrative taxonomy is the basis for documenting, understanding, and observing changes in deep-sea biodiversity. This project will augment knowledge of an important region in the Subarctic/ North Atlantic which faces extensive environmental changes in the future.
Publications
Peer-reviewed
Lörz, A.N., Nack, M., Tandberg, A. H. S., Brix, S., & Schwentner, M. (2024) A new deep-sea species of Halirages Boeck, 1871 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Calliopiidae) inhabiting sponges. European Journal of Taxonomy, 930(1), 53–78. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.930.2487
Timm, R., Kerbl, A. & Lörz, A.N. (2024) New insights into the functional morphology of calceoli in Amphipoda (Crustacea). Zoomorphology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-024-00645-8
Lörz, A.N., Schwentner, M., Bober, S. and Jażdżewska, A.M. (2023) Multi-ocean distribution of a brooding predator in the abyssal benthos. Scientific Reports, 13(1), p.15867. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42942-0
Hughes LE, Lörz A.N. (2023) Unciolidae of Deep-Sea Iceland (Amphipoda, Crustacea). Diversity. 15(4):546. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15040546
Kürzel, K., Brix, S., Brandt, A., Brenke, N., Enderlein, P., Griffiths, H.J., Kaiser, S., Svavarsson, J., Lörz, A.N., Frutos, I. and Taylor, J. (2023) Pan-Atlantic Comparison of Deep-Sea Macro-and Megabenthos. Diversity, 15(7), p.814. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070814
Lörz, A.N. and Rachael A. Peart, R. (2023) Amathillopsidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from New Zealand, including the description of a new species. In Festschrift in Honour of James K. Lowry, ed. P. B. Berents, S. T. Ahyong, A. A. Myers, and L. Fanini. Records of the Australian Museum 75(4): 459–470. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1885
Horton, T., De Broyer, C., Bellan-Santini, D., Coleman, C.O., Copilaș-Ciocianu, D., Corbari, L., Daneliya, M.E., Dauvin, J.C., Decock, W., Fanini, L. and Fišer, C…..Lörz, A.N et al. (2023) The World Amphipoda Database: history and progress. In Festschrift in Honour of James K. Lowry, ed. P. B. Berents, S. T. Ahyong, A. A. Myers, and L. Fanini. Records of the Australian Museum 75(4): 329–342. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1875
Lörz A.N.; Oldeland, J.; Kaiser, S. (2022) Niche breadth and biodiversity change derived from marine Amphipoda species off Iceland. Ecology and Evolution 12(4.) https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8802
Kürzel, K.; Kaiser, S.; Lörz, A.N. et.al. (2022) Correct Species Identification and Its Implications for Conservation Using Haploniscidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) in Icelandic Waters as a Proxy. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:795196. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.795196
Brix, S.; Kaiser, S.; Lörz, A.N.; et. Al. (2022) Habitat variability and faunal zonation at the Ægir Ridge, a canyon-like structure in the deep Norwegian Sea. PeerJ 10:e13394 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13394
Taylor, J.; Devey, C.; Le Saout, M.; Petersen, S.; Kwasnitschka, T.; Frutos, I.; Linse, K.; Lörz, A.N. et al. (2021) The Discovery and Preliminary Geological and Faunal Descriptions of Three New Steinahóll Vent Sites, Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:520713. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.520713
Uhlir, C.; Schwentner, M.; Meland, K.; Kongsrud, J.A.; Glenner, H.; Brandt, A.; Thiel, R.; Svavarsson, J.; Lörz, A.N.; Brix, S. (2021) Adding pieces to the puzzle: insights into diversity and distribution patterns of Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the deep North Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean. PeerJ 9:e12379 DOI 10.7717/peerj.12379
Lörz, A.N.; Kaiser, S.; Oldeland, J.; Stolter, C.; Kürzel, K.; Brix, S. (2021) Biogeography, diversity and environmental relationships of shelf and deep-sea benthic Amphipoda around Iceland. PeerJ 9:e11898 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11898
Lörz, A.N.; Hoton, T. (2021) Investigation of the Amathillopsidae (Amphipoda, Crustacea), including the description of a new species, reveals a clinging lifestyle in the deep sea worldwide. Zookeys 1031: 19–39. https://doi. org/10.3897/zookeys.1031.62391
Timm, R.; Schwentner, M.; Bober, S.; Lörz, A.N. (2021) Testing the impact of non-destructive DNA extraction on setae structure of Amphipoda (Crustacea). Zootaxa 4950 (1): 181–188. doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4950.1.10
Schwentner, M.; Lörz, A.N. (2021) Population genetics of cold-water coral associated Pleustidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) reveals cryptic diversity and recent expansion off Iceland. Marine Ecology, 42:e12625, doi.org/10.1111/maec.12625
Kaiser, S.; Lins, L.; Malyutina, M; Mills, S.; Lörz, A.N. (2020) Diversity and composition of asellotan Isopoda from two different New Zealand continental margin habitats - implications of habitat heterogeneity, productivity and depth. Deep Sea Research I, 165, doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103368
Lörz, A.N.; Brix, S.; Jażdżewska, A; Hughes, L. (2020) Diversity and distribution of North Atlantic Lepechinellidae (Amphipoda: Crustacea), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlaa024, 1–28. DOI 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa024
Hughes, L.; Lörz, A.N. (2019) Boring Amphipods from Tasmania, Australia (Eophliantidae: Amphipoda: Crustacea). Evolutionary Systematics 3 2019, 41–52.
Fuchs, L.; Coleman, CO.; Lörz, A.N. (2019) The genus Syrrhoe (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Synopiidae) from the North Atlantic. Evolutionary Systematics 3 2019, 85–108.
Lörz, A.N.; Jażdżewska , A.; Brandt, A. (2018) A new predator connecting the abyssal with the hadal in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, NW Pacific. PeerJ 6: e4887. DOI 10.7717/peerj.4887
Kaiser, S.; Lörz, A.N.; Bird, G.; Malyutina, M. (2018) Benthic boundary layer macrofauna from the upper slope of the Chatham Rise (SW Pacific. Marine Ecology: e12521. 1—19. DOI: 10.1111/maec.12521
Poore, A.; Gutow, L.; Lörz, A.N.; Thiel, M. (2018) Nest building by a small mesograzer limits blade size of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera. Marine Biology (2018) 165:184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-018-3444-6
Brandt, A.; Alalykinad, I.; Fukumorie, H.; Golovand, O.; Knieszc, K.; Lavrentevad, A.; Lörz, A.N.; Malyutina, M.; Philipps-Bussau, K.; Stransky, B. (2018) First insights into macrofaunal composition from the SokhoBio expedition (Sea of Okhotsk, Bussol Strait and northern slope of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench). Deep-Sea Research Part II 154: 106–120.
Lörz, A.N.; Tandberg, A.H.S.; Willassen, E.; Driskell, A. (2018) Rhachotropis (Eusiroidea, Amphipoda) from the North East Atlantic. In: Brix S, Lörz A-N, Stransky B, Svavarsson J (Eds) Amphipoda from the IceAGE-project (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology). ZooKeys 731: 75–101.
Brix, S.; Lörz, A.N.; Jażdżewska, A.M;, Hughes, L.; Tandberg, A.H.S.; Pabis, K.; Stransky, B.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; Sorbe, J.C.; Hendrycks, E.; Vader, W.; Frutos, I.; Horton, T.; Jażdżewski, K.; Peart, R.; Beermann, J.; Coleman, C.O.; Buhl-Mortensen, L.; Corbari, L.; Havermans, C.; Tato, R.; Jimenez Campean, A. (2018) Amphipod family distributions around Iceland. ZooKeys 731: 1–53.
Jażdżewska, A.M.; Corbari, L.; Driskell, A.; Frutos, I.; Havermans, C.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Lörz, A.N.; Stransky, B; Tandberg, A.H.S.; Vader, W.; Brix, S. (2018) A genetic fingerprint of Amphipoda from Icelandic waters – the baseline for further biodiversity and biogeography studies. In: Brix S, Lörz A-N, Stransky B, Svavarsson J (Eds) Amphipoda from the IceAGE-project (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology). ZooKeys 731: 55–73.
Verhaye, M.; Lörz, A.N.; d’Udekem d’Acoz, C. (2018) Epimeria cleo sp. nov., a new crested amphipod from the Ross Sea, with notes on its affinities (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea, Epimeriidae) Zootaxa 4369 (2): 186–196.
Lörz, A.N.; Jażdżewska , A.; Brandt, A. (2018) Abyssal Rhachotropis (Eusiroidea, Amphipoda) from the Sea of Okhotsk. Deep-Sea Research Part II 154: 320– 329.
Peart, R.; Lörz, A.N. (2017) Ampithoidae (Crustacea; Amphipoda) from New Zealand. ZooKeys 733: 25–48.
Lörz, A.N.; Jażdżewska, A. (2017) The status quo of the IceAGE project. Biodiversity Journal 8 (2): 523.
Lörz, A.N. (2015) An enigmatic Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from New Zealand. Zootaxa 4006 (2): 383–391.
Lörz, A.N.; Schnabel, K. (2015) A new amphipod Nicippe rogeri sp. nov. (Crustacea, Pardaliscidae) from New Zealand’s deep sea. Zootaxa 3995 (1): 84–90.
Schiaparelli, S.; Alvaro, M.C.; Kilgallen, N.; Scinto, A.; Lörz, A.N. (2015) Host-shift speciation in Antarctic symbiotic invertebrates: further evidence from the new amphipod species Lepidepecreella debroyeri from the Ross Sea. Hydrobiologia 761 (1): 143–159.
Pabis, K.; Jozwiak, P.; Lörz, A.N.; Schnabel, K.; Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M. (2015) First insights into the deep-sea tanaidacean fauna of the Ross Sea: species richness and composition across the shelf break, slope and abyss. Polar Biology 38 (9): 1429–1437.
Leduc, D.; Brown, S.; Bury, S.; Lörz, A.N. (2015) High intraspecific variability in the diet of a deep-sea nematode: Stable isotope and fatty acid analyses of Deontostoma tridentum on Chatham Rise, Southwest Pacific. Deep-Sea Research I 97: 10–18.
Lörz, A.N.; Coleman, O. (2014) Amazing new Amphipoda (Crustacea, Epimeriidae) from New Zealand’s deep-sea. Zootaxa 3838 (4): 423–434.
Lörz, A.N.; Myers, A.; Gordon, D. (2014) An inquiline deep-water bryozoan/amphip association from New Zealand, including the description of a new genus and species of Chevaliidae. European Journal of Taxonomy 72: 1–17.
Coleman, C.O.; Lörz, A.-N. (2014) Iphimediidae of New Zealand (Crustacea, Amphipoda). European Journal of Taxonomy 62: 1–18.
Jamieson, A.J; Lacey, N.; Lörz, A.N.; Rowden, A.; Piertney, S. (2013) The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea (Crustacea: Alicellidae) from hadal depths in the Kermadec Trench, SW Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II: 92:107–113.
Hughes, L.; Lörz, A.N. (2013) Family placement of the enigmatic Otagia neozelanica (Chilton, 1897) Haustorioidea: Otagiidae fam. nov. (Amphipoda: Crustacea) Zootaxa 3636 (3): 439–450.
Kaiser, S. et al., 30+ authors including Lörz, A.N. (2013) Patterns, processes and vulnerability of the Southern Ocean benthos - a decadal leap in knowledge and understanding. Marine Biology 160, (9): 2295–2317. DOI 10.1007/s00227-013-2232-6
Lörz, A.N.; Kaiser, S.; Bowden, D. (2013) Macrofaunal crustaceans in the benthic boundary layer from the shelf break to abyssal depths in the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Polar Biology. 36:445–451.
Knox, K.; Hogg, I.; Pildrich, C.; Lörz, A.N.; Hebert, D.; Steinke, D. (2012) Mitochondrial DNA (COI) analyses reveal that amphipod diversity is associated with environmental heterogeneity in deep-sea habitats. Molecular Ecology 21: 4885–4897.
Karanovic, I.; Lörz, A.N. (2012) A new subfamily and species of Ostracoda (Cylindroleberididae, Myodocopa) from the Chatham Rise (New Zealand). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 39: 265–290.
Lörz, A.N.; Linse, K.; Smith, P.; Steinke, D. (2012) High genetic diversity within Epimeria georgiana (Amphipoda) from the southern Scotia Arc. Marine Biodiversity 42: 137–159.
Jamieson, A.J.; Lörz, A.-N.; Fujii, T.; Priede, I.G. (2012) In situ observations of trophic behaviour and locomotion of Princaxelia amphipods (Crustacea: Pardaliscidae) at hadal depths in four West Pacific Trenches. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92 (1): 143–150.
Lörz, A.N.; Linse, K.; Smith, P.; Steinke, D. (2012) First evidence for underestimated biodiversity of Rhachotropis (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with description of a new species. PloS ONE 7(3): e32365.
Lörz, A.N. (2012) First records of Epimeriidae and Iphimediidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Macquarie Ridge, with description of a new species and its Juveniles. Zootaxa 3200: 49–60.
Knox, M.; I., H.; Pildrich, C.; Lörz, A.N.; Nodder, S. (2012) Abundance and diversity of epibenthic amphipods (Crustacea) in contrasting bathyal habitats. Deep Sea Research I 62(1–9).
Lörz, A.N. (2011) Pacific Epimeriidae (Amphipoda: Crustacea): Epimeria. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91(2): 471–477.
Lörz, A.-N. (2011) Biodiversity of an unknown New Zealand habitat: bathyal invertebrate assemblages in the benthic boundary layer. Marine Biodiversity 41(2): 299–312.
Jamieson, A.J.; Kilgallen, N.M.; Rowden, A.A.; Fujii, T.; Horton, T.; Lörz, A.N. ; Kitazawa, K.; Priede, I.G. (2011) Bait-attending fauna of the Kermadec Trench, SW Pacific Ocean: Evidence for an ecotone across the abyssal-hadal transition zone. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers 58(1): 49–62.
Lörz, A.N. (2010) Trench treasures: the genus Princaxelia (Pardaliscidae, Amphipoda). Zoologica Baetica 21: 65–84.
Lörz, A.N.; Kilgallen, N.M.; Thiel, M. (2010) Algal-dwelling Eophliantidae (Amphipoda): description of a new species and key to the world species, with notes on their biogeography. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 90(5): 1055–1063.
Lörz, A.N. (2010) Deep-sea Rhachotropis (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Eusiridae) from New Zealand and the Ross Sea with key to the Pacific, Indian Ocean and Antarctic species. Zootaxa (2482): 22–48.
Coleman, C.O.; Lörz, A.N. (2010) A new species of Camacho (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Aoridae) from the Chatham Rise, New Zealand. Zoosystematics and Evolution 86(1): 33–40.
Lörz, A.N.; Bamber R. (2010) Peracarid assemblages of the benthic soft sediments around Moreton Island, Queensland, in: Davie, P.J.F. & Philipps, J.A. (Eds), Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay, volume 2. Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 54 (3): 385–399. Brisbane.
Nielsen, J.F.; Lavery, S.; Lörz, A.N. (2009) Synopsis of a new collection of sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology 32(8): 1147–1155.
Lörz, A.N.; Bruce, N. (2009) Sphaeromatid isopod (Crustacea: Peracarida) assemblages in an algae-sponge association at North Stradbroke Island, southeastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 54(1): 253–255.
Lörz, A.-N. (2009) Synopsis of Amphipoda from two recent Ross Sea voyages with description of a new species of Epimeria (Epimeriidae, Amphipoda, Crustacea). Zootaxa (2167): 59–68.
Luetzen, J.; Glenner, H.; Lörz, A.N. (2009) Parasitic barnacles (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) from New Zealand off-shore waters. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43(2): 613–621.
Lörz, A.N.; Maas, E.W.; Linse, K.; Coleman, C.O. (2009) Do circum-Antarctic species exist in peracarid Amphipoda? A case study in the genus Epimeria Costa, 1851 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Epimeriidae). Zookeys (18): 91–128.
Schiaparelli, S.; Olivero, M.; Taviani, M.; Griffiths, H.; Lörz, A.N.; Albertelli, G. (2008) Circumpolar distribution of the pycnogonid-ectoparasitic gastropod Dickdellia labioflecta (Dell, 1990) (Mollusca: Zerotulidae). Antarctic Science 20(5): 497–498.
Lörz, A.N.; Glenner, H.; Lutzen, J. (2008) New records of Rhizocephala (Cirripedia) from New Zealand, including the first Rhizocephalan records from hot vents and cold seeps. Crustaceana 81(8): 1013–1019.
Lörz, A.N. (2008) Epimeriidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from New Zealand with a description of a new species. Zootaxa (1847): 49–61.
Lörz, A.N.; Maas, E.W.; Linse, K.; Fenwick, G.D. (2007) Epimeria schiaparelli sp nov., an amphipod crustacean (family Epimeriidae) from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with molecular characterisation of the species complex. Zootaxa (1402): 23–37.
Linse, K.; Cope, T.; Lörz, A.N.; Sands, C. (2007) Is the Scotia Sea a centre of Antarctic marine diversification? Some evidence of cryptic speciation in the circum-Antarctic bivalve Lissarca notorcadensis (Arcoidea: Philobryidae). Polar Biology 30(8): 1059–1068.
Gerken, S.; Lörz, A.N. (2007) Colurostylis castlepointensis, a new shallow-water diastylid (Crustacea: Cumacea) from New Zealand. Zootaxa (1520): 37–49.
Schiaparelli, S.; Lörz, A.N.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R. (2006) Diversity and distribution of mollusc assemblages on the Victoria Land coast and the Balleny Islands, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 18(4): 615–631.
Thatje, S.; Lörz, A.N. (2005) First record of lithodid crabs from Antarctic waters off the Balleny Islands. Polar Biology 28(4): 334–337.
Lörz, A.N.; Held, C. (2004) A preliminary molecular and morphological phylogeny of the Antarctic Epimeriidae and Iphimediidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(1): 4–15.
Lörz, A.N.; Brandt, A. (2004) Phylogeny of Antarctic Epimeria (Epimeriidae : Amphipoda). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84(1): 179–190.
Lörz, A.N.; De Broyer, C. (2004) Description and ecology of a spongicolous lysianassoid amphipod (Crustacea) from Antarctica. Journal of Natural History 38(7): 889–899.
Lörz, A.N.; Brandt, A. (2003) Diversity of Peracarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) caught in a suprabenthic sampler. Antarctic Science 15(4): 433–438.
Lörz, A.-N.; Coleman, C.O. (2003) Dikwa andresi, a new amphipod crustacean (Dikwidae) from the Scotia Arc. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83(4): 785–788.
Andres, H.G.; Lörz, A.N.; Brandt, A. (2002) A common but undescribed huge species of Eusirus Kroyer, 1845 (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiridae) from Antarctica. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 99: 109–126.
Lörz, A.N.; Coleman, C.O. (2001) Epimeria reoproi n. sp., a new amphipod (Epimeriidae) from the Antarctic. Crustaceana 74: 991–1002.
Lörz, A.N. (2001) Low diversity of spongicolous Amphipoda (Crustacea) observed in the Antarctic autumn. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 1(2): 133–138.
Lörz, A.N.; di Renzo, A.; Nickel, J. (1999) Comparative analysis of three sampling gear types for marine macrobenthos. Berichte zur Polarforschung 330: 134–151.
ENTIRE JOURNAL ISSUE / CHAPTERS
Lörz, A.N.; Coleman, O. (2013) The Marine fauna of New Zealand and the Ross Sea: Amphipoda, Synopiidae (Crustacea). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 127, pp 1–162.
Webber, R.W.; Fenwick, G.D.; Bradford, G.J.M.; Eager, S.G.; Buckeridge, J.S.; Poore, G.C.B.; Dawson, E.W.; Watling, L.; Jones, B.J.; Wells, J.B.J.; Bruce, N.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Larsen, K.; Chapman, A.L.; Olsen, J.; Ho, J.-S.; Green, J.D.; Shiel, R.J.; Rocha, C.E.F.; Lörz, A.N.; Bird, G.J.; Charleston, W.A. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda: subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters and kin. In: New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2: Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils /, pp. 98–232. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
Lörz, A.N. (2003) Studies on the biodiversity of Antarctic benthic Amphipoda (Malacostraca, Crustacea). Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung. 452, pp 1–148.
Lörz, A.N. (2000) Benthic Peracarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the Arctic Mellemfjord, West-Greenland. Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung. 363, pp 1–94.
Further publications, e.g. Internet and client reports
INTERACTIVE ONLINE KEYS
to Epimeriidae and Synopiidae, Amphipoda: http://www.marinespecies.org/amphipoda/idkeys.php
World Amphipoda Database. Access through: World Register of Marine Species.
- An interactive key to the Synopiidae, Amphipoda of the North Atlantic. Lörz, A.N. & Coleman, C.O., 2019
- An interactive key to the Epimeriidae, Amphipoda of the World, Lörz, A.N. & Coleman, C.O., 2015
- An interactive key to the Synopiidae, Amphipoda of New Zealand and the Ross Sea, Lörz, A.N. & Coleman, C.O., 2013
CLIENT REPORTS, GUIDES and POPULAR ARTICLES
Lörz, A.N.; Brix, S., Oldeland, J., et. al. (2021) Marine Amphipoda and environmental occur-rence around Iceland. PANGAEA. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.
Rowden, A, et al. incl Lörz, A.N. (2013) Benthic communities of MPL area 50270 of the Chatham Rise, prepared for Chatham Rock Phosphate Ltd. 102 p.
Lörz, A.N., Berkenbusch, K., Nodder S., Ahyong, S., Bowden, D., McMillan, P., Gordon, D., Mills, S., & Mackay, K. (2012) A review of deep-sea benthic biodiversity associated with trench, canyon and abyssal habitats > 1500 m depth in New Zealand waters, 153pp. New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity Report No 92. 133 p.
Ahyong, S.; Booth, J.; Bruce, N.; Lörz, A.N.; Naylor, R.; Schnabel, K.; Webber, R. (2007) Phylum Arthropoda. In: Trace, D.; Anderson, O.; Naylor, J.R. (eds). A guide to common deep-sea invertebrates in New Zealand waters, pp. 133–197. New Zealand Aquatic Environment and Biodiversity report No. 10.
Lörz, A.N.; Coleman, O. (2009) Living gems: jewel-like creatures from the deep. Water and Atmosphere 17(1): 16–17.
Nielsen, J.; Lörz, A.N.; Lavery, S. (2007) Putting Antarctic sea spiders in their place. Water and Atmosphere. 15(4): 12–13.
Lörz, A.N.; Bruce, N. (2004) NIWA's marine invertebrate collection: a treasure for biodiversity research. Water & Atmosphere 12(3): 21.
Former empoyment
July 2021 - Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science, University Hamburg, project Ice-AGE Amphipoda
Sept. 2018 - June 2021 Scientist at the Centre of Natural History (CeNak), University Hamburg
July 2015 - August 2018 Freelancer; contract work analyses and publication of data from deep-sea crustaceans
May 2003 - June 2015 Marine scientist in charge of the marine invertebrate collection at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand
Educational background
June 2020 Habilitation at the University of Hamburg, topic: Biodiversity of Deep-Sea Amphipoda
March 2003 Dr. rer. nat (equiv. Ph.D), thesis: „Untersuchungen zur Biodiversität Antarktischer Amphipoda (Malacostraca, Crustacea) mittels molekularer und morphologischer Charakterisierung“.
Feb 2000 Diploma (equiv. M.Sc.) in Zoology, Hydrobiology & Microbiology, University of Hamburg, thesis: „Benthische Peracarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) des Arktischen Mellemfjordes, West-Grönland“.
1997– 1998 “East/West Marine Biology Year” Northeastern University Boston autumn trimester: Friday Harbor Marine Labs, WA winter trimester: Discovery Bay Marine Labs, Jamaica spring trimester: Marine Science Centre Nahant, MA
1994–2000 Student of biology, University Hamburg