Trophic interactions in the microbial food web in a coastal upwelling system off central Chile {(_46536_347S) [Elektronische Ressource] / Daniela Böttjer

Centre for Oceanographic Research in the Southeast Pacific (COPAS) Concepción, Chile Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Bremerhaven, Germany Trophic interactions in the microbial food web in a coastal upwelling system off central Chile (~36°S) DISSERTATIONzurErlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.) am Fachbereich 02 Biologie/Chemie der Universität Bremen Daniela Böttjer Bremen 2007 First reviewerProf. Dr. Kai Bischof Dept. of Biology, University of Bremen, Germany Second reviewerDr. Carmen Morales Van de Wyngard Dept. of Oceanography and Centre for Oceanographic Research in the Southeast Pacific, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of the mystery that we are trying to solveMax Planck Acknowledgements There are many people I would like to thank for helping me in many ways to do this work. First of all I wish to thank my two advisors, Dr. Carmen Morales and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bathmann for their support in realising this thesis, for their encouragement, many helpful suggestions and advices but also for their patience. The possibility of working together with Carmen in Chile opened the “Microbial Food Web” world for me!