• RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Bravo M., Astudillo J. C., Lancellotti., Luna G.,Valdivia N., Thiel. 2011. Rafting on abiotic substrata: properties of floating items and their influence on community succession. Mar Ecol Prog Ser. Vol. 439: 1–17.
   
Dumont C. P., Gaymer C. F. & M. Thiel. 2011. Predation contributes to invasion resistance of benthic communities against the non-indigenous tunicate Ciona intestinalis. Biol Invasions 13:2023–2034.
   
Rothäusler, E., Gomez, I., Karsten, U., Tala, F. & M. Thiel. 2011. Physiological acclimation of floating Macrocystis pyrifera to temperature and irradiance ensures long-term persistence at the sea surface at mid-latitudes. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 405 (2011) 33–41.
   

Rothäusler, E., Gomez, I., Hinojosa, I.A., Karsten, U., Miranda, L., Tala, F. & M. Thiel. 2011. Kelp rafts in the Humboldt Current: Interplay of abiotic and biotic factors limit their floating persistence and dispersal potential. Limnol. Oceanogr. 56(5): 1751–1763.
   
Thiel, M., Hinojosa, I.A., Joschko, T. & L. Gutow. 2011. Spatio-temporal distribution of floating objects in the German Bight ( North Sea ). Journal of Sea Research. 65 (3): 368-379.
   

Thiel, M. 2011. The evolution of sociality: peracarid crustaceans as model organisms. In Asakura, A. (editor), New Frontiers in Crustacean Biology. Proceedings of the TCS Summer Meeting, Tokyo , 20-24 September 2009. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden , The Netherlands , 285-297.

   
Thiel, M., Bravo, M., Hinojosa, I.A., Luna, G., Miranda, L., Núñez, P., Pacheco, A.S. & N. Vásquez . 2010. Anthropogenic litter in the SE Pacific: An overview of the problem and possible solutions. Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management. Accepted.
   

Hinojosa, I.A., Rivadeneira M.M. & M. Thiel, 2011. Temporal and spatial distribution of floating objects in coastal waters of central-southern Chile and Patagonia fjord. Cont. Shelf. Res. 31: 172-186.

   
Rothäusler, E., Gomez, I. , Karsten, U., Tala, F. & M. Thiel. 2011. UV-radiation versus grazing pressure: long-term floating of kelp rafts ( Macrocystis pyrifera ) is facilitated by efficient photoacclimation but undermined by grazing losses. Marine Biology. 158:127–141.
   
Rothäusler, E., Gomez, I., Hinojosa, I.A., Karsten, U., Tala, F. & M. Thiel. 2011. Physiological performance of floating giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (phaeophyceae): latitudinal variability in the effects of temperature and grazing. J. Phycol. 47: 269–281.
   
Rivadeneira, M.M., M. Thiel, González, E.R. & P.A. Haye. 2011. An inverse latitudinal gradient of diversity of peracarid crustaceans along the Pacific Coast of South America: out of the deep south. Global Ecol. Biogeogr . 20 : 437–448.
 
Pacheco, A.S., Laudien, J., Thiel, M., Oliva, M. & O. Heilmayer. 2011. Succession and seasonal variation in the development of subtidal macrobenthic hard-bottom communities off northern Chile. Marine Ecology 32: 75–87.
 
Bauer, R. T., and M. Thiel, 2011. First description of a pure-search mating system and protandry in the shrimp Rhynchocinetes uritai (decapoda: caridea). J. Crust. Biol. 31(2): 286-295.
   
Wahl M, Link H, Alexandridis N, Thomason JC, Cifuentes M, et al. (2011) Re-Structuring of Marine Communities Exposed to Environmental Change: A Global Study on the Interactive Effects of Species and Functional Richness. PLoS ONE 6(5): e19514. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019514
 

 
Bers, A.V., Díaz, E.R., da Gama, B.A.P., Vieira-Silva, F., Dobretsov, S., Valdivia, N., Thiel, M., Scardino, A.J., McQuaid, C.D., Sudgen, H.E., Thomason, J.C. & M. Wahl. 2010. Relevance of mytilid shell microtopographies for fouling defence – a global comparison. Biofouling 26: 367-377.
 

Cerda, O., Hinojosa, I.A., & M. Thiel. 2010. Nest-Building Behavior by the Amphipod Peramphithoe femorata (Krøyer) on the Kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Linnaeus) C. Agardh From Northern-Central Chile. Biological bulletin 218: 248–258.

   

Hinojosa, I.A., Pizarro, M., Ramos, M., Thiel, M., 2010. Spatial and temporal distribution of floating kelp in the channels and fjords of southern Chile . Estuar. Coast Shelf Sci. 87, 367–377.

   

Lörz, A.N., Kilgallen , N.M. & M. Thiel. 2010. Algal-dwelling Eophliantidae (Amphipoda): description of a new species and key to the world species, with notes on their biogeography. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK. 90(5):1055-1063.

Pacheco, A.S., Laudien, J., Thiel, M., Oliva, M. & W. Arntz. 2010. Succession and seasonal variation in the development of subtidal macrobenthic soft-bottom communities off northern Chile . Journal of Sea Research 64: 180-189.

Pacheco, A.S., Laudien, J., Thiel, M., Heilmeyer, O. & M. Oliva. 2010. Hard bottom succession of subtidal epibenthic communities colonizing hidden and exposed surfaces off northern Chile. Scientia Marina 74: 147-154.

Rivadeneira, M.M., Hernáez, P., Baeza, J.A., Boltaña, S., Cifuentes, M., Correa, C., Cuevas, A., del Valle, E., Hinojosa, I.A., Ulrich, N., Valdivia, N., Vásquez, N., Zander, A. & M. Thiel. 2010. Testing the abundant-centre hypothesis using intertidal porcelain crabs along the Chilean coast: linking abundance and life history variation. J. Biogeogr. 37: 486-408.