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Dr Pape, Ellen
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Dr. Ellen Pape has been working in the field of deep-sea benthic ecology since 2007. For her PhD, she studied the biodiversity and ecosystem function of meiofauna (nematodes) in contrasting southern European deep-sea environments through field observational studies and experimental work. Most of her research focused on meiofauna, but she also co-authored scientific manuscripts on macro- and megafauna ecology. Since 2014, she has been coordinating the baseline biological and environmental studies in the exploration contract area of the Belgian company GSR (Global Sea Mineral Resources) in the Clarion Clipperton Fracture zone (northeast Pacific), a region of interest for deep-seabed mining for polymetallic nodules. She has also been involved in other research projects addressing ecological impacts of deep-seabed mining, i.e. MiningImpact I and II (JPIOceans) and DEEP REST. As of January 2023, she is a member of the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Seabed Authority. In February 2023 she was appointed as an assistant professor (10%) to develop and coordinate Lifelong Learning initiatives in marine and maritime sciences at the UGent campus in Ostend (Ostend Science Park, Bluebridge). Thesaurus terms: Anthropogenic disturbance; Biodiversity; Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone; Community structure; deep-sea benthic ecology; Deep-sea mining; Ecosystem functions; Meiofauna; Trophic relationships

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Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), more Function: Assistant Professor Direct contact at institute: Tel.: +32-(0)9-264 51 47 E-mail:

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Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more Function: Scientific assistant - OMES & Scheldemonitor Period: From 1st Mar 2007 till 30th Sep 2007 WoRMS Editorial Board (WoRMS editors), more

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BIOdiversity and ecosystem FUNctioning in contrasting southern European deep-sea environments: from viruses to megafauna, more Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact On European Seas, more Pilot study into the data management at NIOO-CEME, more

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Pape, E.; Campinas-Bezerra, T. & Vanreusel, A. (2007). Nematode and pore-water geochemistry data from the Darwin MV collected during the JC10 Cruise 2007 and processed by Ugent. Ghent University, Department of Biology, Marine Biology Section (MARBIOL), Belgium., more

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A1 Publications (26) [show]
Lefaible, N.; Macheriotou, L.; Pape, E.; Molari, M.; Haeckel, M.; Zeppilli, D.; Vanreusel, A. (2024). Industrial mining trial for polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone indicates complex and variable disturbances of meiofaunal communities. Front. Mar. Sci. 11: 1380530. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1380530, more Lefaible, N.; Macheriotou, L.; Purkiani, K.; Haeckel, M.; Zeppilli, D.; Pape, E.; Vanreusel, A. (2023). Digging deep: lessons learned from meiofaunal responses to a disturbance experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Mar. Biodiv. 53(4): 48. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-023-01353-0, more Simon-Lledó, E.; Amon, D.J.; Bribiesca-Contreras, G.; Cuvelier, D.; Durden, J.M.; Ramalho, S.P.; Uhlenkott, K.; Arbizu, P.M.; Benoist, N.; Copley, J.; Dahlgren, T.G.; Glover, A.G.; Fleming, B.; Horton, T.; Ju, S.-J.; Mejía-Saenz, A.; McQuaid, K.; Pape, E.; Park, C.; Smith, C.R.; Jones, D.O.B. (2023). Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7(9): 1388-1397. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02122-9, more Stewart, E.C.D.; Bribiesca-Contreras, G.; Taboada, S.; Wiklund, H.; Ravara, A.; Pape, E.; De Smet, B.; Neal, L.; Cunha, M.R.; Jones, D.; Smith, C.R.; Glover, A.G.; Dahlgren, T.G. (2023). Biodiversity, biogeography, and connectivity of polychaetes in the world's largest marine minerals exploration frontier. Diversity Distrib. 29(6): 727-747. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13690, more Bezerra, T.N.; Pape, E.; Hauquier, F.; Vanreusel, A. (2021). Description and distribution of Erebussau nom. nov. pro Erebus Bussau, 1993 nec Erebus Latreille, 1810 with description of a new specie, and of Odetenema gesarae gen. nov., sp. nov. (Nematoda: Desmoscolecida) from nodule-bearing abyssal sediments in the Pacific. Zootaxa 4903(4): 542-562. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4903.4.4, more Bezerra, T.N.; Pape, E.; Hauquier, F.; Vanreusel, A. (2021). Erratum: TANIA NARA BEZERRA, ELLEN PAPE, FREIJA HAUQUIER & ANN VANREUSEL (2021) Description and distribution of Erebussau nom. nov. pro Erebus Bussau, 1993 nec Erebus Latreille, 1810 with description of a new specie, and of Odetenema gesarae gen. nov., sp. nov. (Nematoda: Desmoscolecida) from nodule-bearing abyssal sediments in the Pacific. Zootaxa, 4903: 542–562. Zootaxa 4948(4): 600-600. https://hdl.handle.net/10.11646/zootaxa.4948.4.9, more De Smet, B.; Simon-Lledó, E.; Mevenkamp, L.; Pape, E.; Pasotti, F.; Jones, D.O.B.; Vanreusel, A. (2021). The megafauna community from an abyssal area of interest for mining of polymetallic nodules. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 172: 103530. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103530, more Ingels, Jeroen; Vanreusel, Ann; Pape, Ellen; Pasotti, Francesca; Macheriotou, Lara; Arbizu, Pedro Martínez; Sørensen, Martin Vinther; Edgcomb, Virginia P.; Sharma, Jyotsna; Sánchez, Nuria; Homoky, William B.; Woulds, Clare; Leduc, Daniel; Gooday, Andrew J.; Pawlowski, Jan; Dolan, John R.; Schratzberger, Michaela; Gollner, Sabine; Schoenle, Alexandra; Arndt, Hartmut; Zeppilli, Daniela (2021). Ecological variables for deep-ocean monitoring must include microbiota and meiofauna for effective conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5(1): 27-29. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01335-6, more Lins, L.; Zeppilli, D.; Menot, L.; Michel, L.N.; Bonifacio, P.; Brandt, M.; Pape, E.; Rossel, S.; Uhlenkott, K.; Macheriotou, L.; Bezerra, T.N.; Sánchez, N.; Alfaro-Lucas, J.M.; Martinez Arbizu, P.; Kaiser, S.; Murakami, C.; Vanreusel, A. (2021). Toward a reliable assessment of potential ecological impacts of deep‐sea polymetallic nodule mining on abyssal infauna. Limnol. Oceanogr., Methods 19(9): 626-650. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10448, more Pape, E.; Bezerra, T.N.; Gheerardyn, H.; Buydens, M.; Kieswetter, A.; Vanreusel, A. (2021). Potential impacts of polymetallic nodule removal on deep-sea meiofauna. NPG Scientific Reports 11(1): 19996. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99441-3, more Pasotti, F.; Mevenkamp, L.; Pape, E.; Blazewicz, M.; Bonifacio, P.; Riehl, T.; De Smet, B.; Lefaible, N.; Lins, L.; Vanreusel, A. (2021). A local scale analysis of manganese nodules influence on the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone macrobenthos. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 168: 103449. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103449, more Washburn, T.W.; Menot, L.; Bonifacio, P.; Pape, E.; Blazewicz, M.; Bribiesca-Contreras, G.; Dahlgren, T.G.; Fukushima, T.; Glover, A.G.; Ju, S.-J.; Kaiser, S.; Yu, O.H.; Smith, C.R. (2021). Patterns of macrofaunal biodiversity across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: an area targeted for seabed mining. Front. Mar. Sci. 8: 626571. https://hdl.handle.net/10.3389/fmars.2021.626571, more Ramalho, S.P.; Lins, L.; Soetaert, K.; Lampadariou, N.; Cunha, M.R.; Vanreusel, A.; Pape, E. (2020). Ecosystem functioning under the influence of bottom-trawling disturbance: An experimental approach and field observations from a continental slope area in the West Iberian Margin. Front. Mar. Sci. 7: 457. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00457, more De Smet, B.; Pape, E.; Riehl, T.; Bonifacio, P.; Colson, L.; Vanreusel, A. (2017). The community structure of deep-sea macrofauna associated with polymetallic nodules in the eastern part of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone. Front. Mar. Sci. 4(103): 1-14. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00103, more Pape, E.; Bezerra, T.N.; Hauquier, F.; Vanreusel, A. (2017). Limited spatial and temporal variability in meiofauna and nematode communities at distant but environmentally similar sites in an area of interest for deep-sea mining. Front. Mar. Sci. 4(205): 205. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00205, more Bernhard, J.M.; Morrison, C.R.; Pape, E.; Beaudoin, D.J.; Todaro, M.A.; Pachiadaki, M.G.; Kormas, K.A.; Edgcomb, V.P. (2015). Metazoans of redoxcline sediments in Mediterranean deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins. BMC Biology 13. dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0213-6, more Sabeel, R.A.O.; Ingels, J.; Pape, E.; Vanreusel, A. (2015). Macrofauna along the Sudanese Red Sea coast: potential effect of mangrove clearance on community and trophic structure. Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 36(3): 794-809. dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12184, more Pape, E.; Jones, D.O.B.; Manini, E.; Bezerra, T.N; Vanreusel, A. (2014). Correction: Benthic-pelagic coupling: effects on nematode communities along southern European continental margins. PLoS One 9(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/annotation/0db9ed4c-e8be-40cd-a04d-6d0d7928642d, more Bezerra, T.N.; Pape, E.; Hauquier, F.; Vanreusel, A.; Ingels, J. (2013). New genus and two new species of the family Ethmolaimidae (Nematoda: Chromadorida), found in two different cold-seep environments. Zootaxa 3692(1): 7-27. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3692.1.4, more Pape, E.; Jones, D.O.B.; Manini, E.; Bezerra, T.N; Vanreusel, A. (2013). Benthic-pelagic coupling: effects on nematode communities along southern European continental margins. PLoS One 8(4): e59954. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059954, more Pape, E.; van Oevelen, D.; Moodley, L.; Soetaert, K.; Vanreusel, A. (2013). Nematode feeding strategies and the fate of dissolved organic matter carbon in different deep-sea sedimentary environments. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 80: 94-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2013.05.018, more Pape, E.; Bezerra, T.N.; Jones, D.O.B.; Vanreusel, A. (2013). Unravelling the environmental drivers of deep-sea nematode biodiversity and its relation with carbon mineralisation along a longitudinal primary productivity gradient. Biogeosciences 10(5): 3127-3143. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3127-2013, more Pape, E.; Bezerra, T.N.; Vanneste, H.; Heeschen, K.; Moodley, L.; Leroux, F.; van Breugel, P.; Vanreusel, A. (2011). Community structure and feeding preference of nematodes associated with methane seepage at the Darwin mud volcano (Gulf of Cádiz). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 438: 71-83. dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09278, more Vanreusel, A.; Fonseca, G.; Danovaro, R.; da Silva, M.C.; Esteves, A.M.; Ferrero, T.; Gad, G.; Galtsova, V.; Gambi, M.C.; da Fonsêca-Genevois, V.; Ingels, J.; Ingole, B.; Lampadariou, N.; Merckx, B.; Miljutin, D.; Miljutina, M.A.; Muthumbi, A.; Netto, S.A.; Portnova, D.; Radziejewska, T.; Raes, M.; Tchesunov, A.V.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Van Gaever, S.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T.N.; Flint, H.C.; Copley, J.; Pape, E.; Zeppilli, D.; Martinez Arbizu, P.; Galeron, J. (2010). The contribution of deep-sea macrohabitat heterogeneity to global nematode diversity. Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 31(1): 6-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00352.x, more Van Dongen, S.; Lens, L.; Pape, E.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Raeymaekers, J.A.M. (2009). Evolutionary history shapes the association between developmental instability and population-level genetic variation in three-spined sticklebacks. J. Evolution. Biol. 22(8): 1695-1707. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01780.x, more Pape, E.; Muthumbi, A.; Kamanu, C.P.; Vanreusel, A. (2008). Size-dependent distribution and feeding habits of Terebralia palustris in mangrove habitats of Gazi Bay, Kenya. Est., Coast. and Shelf Sci. 76(4): 797-808. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2007.08.007, more
Book [show]
Gheerardyn, H.; Bezerra, T.N.; Cnudde, C.; Deprez, T.; Derycke, S.; De Troch, M.; Ingels, J.; Merckx, B.; Moens, T.; Pape, E.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M. (Ed.) (2010). Fourteenth International Meiofauna Conference, Aula Academica, Ghent, 11-16 July 2010. Book of Abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 44. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende. xxii, 237 pp., more
Thesis [show]
Pape, E. (2013). Biodiversity and function of nematodes in contrasting southern European deep-sea environments = Biodiversiteit en functie van nematoden in contrasterende zuid-Europese diepzeegebieden. PhD Thesis. Marine Biology, Ghent University: Ghent. ISBN 978-90-90274-53-9. 243 pp., more
Abstracts (11) [show]
Pape, E.; Bezerra, T.N.; Buydens, M.; De Clercq, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2019). Meio - and nematofauna living inside polymetallic nodules from the CCFZ, in: Adão, H. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts: SeventIMCO - Seventeenth International Meiofauna Conference, University of Évora, Portugal, 7-12 July, 2019. University of Évora, Special Publication, : pp. 59, more Vanreusel, A.; Hauquier, F.; Macheriotou, L.; Bezerra, T.N.; Pape, E.; Mevenkamp, L. (2019). Meiofauna research to understand the future impact of deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, in: Adão, H. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts: SeventIMCO - Seventeenth International Meiofauna Conference, University of Évora, Portugal, 7-12 July, 2019. University of Évora, Special Publication, : pp. 55-56, more De Smet, B.; Pape, E.; Riehl, T.; Bonifacio, P.; Colson, L.; Vanreusel, A. (2017). The community structure of deep-sea macrofauna in an area of interest for deep-sea mining, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Scientist Day. Brugge, Belgium, 3 March 2017. VLIZ Special Publication, 79: pp. 24, more Pape, E.; Kieswetter, A.; Bezerra, T.N.; Macheriotou, L.; Arbizu, P.M.; Vanreusel, A. (2016). Meiofauna in abyssal polymetallic nodule fields: seasonal variability and recovery following anthropogenic disturbance, in: Lampadariou, N. et al. 16^th International Meiofauna Conference, Book of Abstracts. pp. 34-35, more Danovaro, R.; Bezerra, T.N.; Corinaldesi, C.; Dell'Anno, A.; Gambi, C.; Mea, M.; Pape, E.; Pusceddu, A.; Vanreusel, A.; Zeppilli, D. (2011). Micro-scale patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in deep-sea sediments of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranea Sea, in: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2011. Our Oceans, Our Future: Digital Object Abstract Booklet. pp. 43, more Vanreusel, A.; Guilini, K.; Ingels, J.; Pape, E. (2011). Nematodes and their food: difficult customers in the deep sea?, in: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2011. Our Oceans, Our Future: Oral Abstract Booklet. pp. 118, more Bezerra, T.N.; Pape, E.; Hauquier, F.; Ingels, J.; Vanreusel, A. (2010). New genus of the family Ethmolaimidae (Nematoda: Chromadorida), found at the Gulf of Cadiz and Antarctica, in: Gheerardyn, H. et al. Fourteenth International Meiofauna Conference, Aula Academica, Ghent, 11-16 July 2010. Book of Abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 44: pp. 90, more Pape, E.; Bezerra, T.N.; Vanneste, H.; Heeschen, K.; Moodley, L.; van Breugel, P.; Vanreusel, A. (2010). Small-scale spatial heterogeneity in structural and trophic diversity of meiofauna associated with methane seepage at the Darwin mud volcano (Gulf of Cádiz), in: Gheerardyn, H. et al. Fourteenth International Meiofauna Conference, Aula Academica, Ghent, 11-16 July 2010. Book of Abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 44: pp. 60, more Van Campenhout, J.; Bezerra, T.N.; Fonseca, G.; Steyaert, M.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Ingels, J.; Braeckman, U.; Merckx, B.; De Groote, A.; Pape, E.; De Meester, N.; Maria, T.; Guilini, K.; Moens, T.; Vanreusel, A.; Deprez, T.; Vincx, M. (2010). NEMYS: an online nematode indication and taxonomical tool, in: Gheerardyn, H. et al. Fourteenth International Meiofauna Conference, Aula Academica, Ghent, 11-16 July 2010. Book of Abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 44: pp. 199, more Pape, E.; Bezerra, T.N.; Vanreusel, A.; Heeschen, K.; Moodley, L. (2008). The structural and functional biodiversity of the meiofauna in relation to geochemical conditions on the Darwin mud volcano in the Gulf of Cadiz, in: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Valencia, Spain, 11-15 November 2008: book of abstracts. pp. 1, more Vanreusel, A.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Raes, M.; Bezerra, T.; Van Gaever, S.; Ingels, J.; Merckx, B.; Gambi, C.; Danovaro, R.; Fonseca, G.; Radziejewska, T.; Muthumbi, A.; Lampadariou, N.; Milyutina, M.; Milyutin, D.; Portnova, D.; Esteves, A.; da Silva, M.C.; Venekey, V.; Genevois, V.; Netto, S.; Tchesunov, A.; Gad, G.; Ferrero, T.; Baban, I.; Galstova, V.; Zeppilli, D.; Pape, E.; Santos, G. (2008). Large scale patterns in the diversity and community structure of deep-sea nematodes, in: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Valencia, Spain, 11-15 November 2008: book of abstracts. pp. 1, more
Report [show]
Deneudt, K.; Pape, E.; Vanhoorne, A.; Hernandez, F.; Mees, J. (2007). Vooronderzoek databeheer NIOO-CEME. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ): Oostende. 17 + bijlagen pp., more
Other publications (2) [show]
Durden, J.M.; Billett, D.S.M.; Brown, A.; Dale, A.C.; Goulding, L.; Gollner, S.; Murphy, K.; Pape, E.; Purser, A.; Rolin, J.-F.; Smith, A.J.; Stewart, I.; Turner, P.J.; de Wachter, T.; Weaver, P. E.; van Dover, C.L.; Verlaan, P.; Jones, D.O.B. (2016). Report on the Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation (MIDAS) workshop on environmental management of deep-sea mining. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e10292. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/rio.2.e10292, more Pirlet, H.; Van Rooij, D.; Pape, E. (2015). Diepzeemijnbouw: de nieuwe gold-rush?, in: De Grote Rede 40. De Grote Rede: Nieuws over onze Kust en Zee, 40: pp. 13-19, more
Thesis supervisor (2) [show]
Podholová, P. (2022). Manganese nodule fields benthic communities and the challenges of monitoring deep-sea mining activities in poorly known remote habitats. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Antwerpen/Ghent University/Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Antwerpen/Gent/Brussel. 88 pp., more Buydens, M. (2019). The importance of polymetallic nodules for the mega- and meiofauna benthos of the Clarion–Clipperton fracture zone. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Antwerpen/Ghent University/Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Antwerpen/Gent/Brussel. 36 pp., more

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