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Born |
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| October 9, 1970 in Pasvalys,
Lithuania |
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Position |
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| Since 1994 assistant at Department of Ecology, Klaipeda University |
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Research thrusts |
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| Population ecology, hydroecology. Currently working on Curonian zooplankton
spatio-temporal heterogeneity. |
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Education |
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Vilnius University,
biologist, 1993
Thesis title: Growth, population dynamics and productivity of planktonic crustaceans |
Klaipeda University,
Ph.D. in ecology, 2000
Ph.D. thesis title: Seasonal dynamics and spatial heterogeneity of the plankton
crustaceans in the eutrophic coastal lagoon |
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Pedagogical activities |
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| Courses in Population Ecology
at the Klaipeda University (undergraduate level) |
| Supervising of BS student
projects in ecology |
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Professional societies |
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| Convener of the BMB (Baltic Marine Biologists) Working Group 29 on Zooplankton |
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Relevant training courses |
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| The Baltic Sea
Environment (international televised course), Uppsala University, Sweden, from 1991 to
1992 |
| World Wide Web
course, King's College, London, August 1996 |
| Coastal
Eutrophication: Effects, diagnosis and management, Kiel University, August 1997 |
| Introduction into
ecophysiology of aquatic animals, October, 1997 |
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Recent selection publications |
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| Arbaciauskas
K., Gasiunaite Z.R. Growth and fecundity of Daphnia after diapause
and their impact on the development of a population. Hydrobiologia 320:
209-222, 1996. |
| Gasiunaite,
Z.R., I. Olenina. Zooplankton-phytoplankton interactions: a possible explanation of the seasonal succession in the Kuršiu Marios lagoon.
Hydrobiologia, 363: 333-339, 1998 |
| Razinkovas, A., Z.R. Gasiunaite. The potential grazing by zooplankton and
nektobenthic species on phytoplankton in an estuarine system: the Kuršiu Marios
(Curonian) lagoon. Finnish Environment, 263: 44-51, 1999 |
| S. Olenin, I. Olenina, D.
Daunys, Z. Gasiunaite. The harbour profile of
Klaipeda, Lithuania. In: S Gollash, E. Leppakoski (eds.) Initial Risk Assessment of Alien
Species in Nordic Coastal Waters. Nord, 8: 185-202, 1999 |
| Gasiunaite, Z.R., A. Razinkovas. The role of plankton and
nectobenthic crustaceans in the primary production transformatios in the Kuršiu
marios lagoon. Ekologija (in press) |
| Gasiunaite, Z.R. Couling of the limnetic and brackishwater
plankton crustaceans in the Curonian lagoon (Baltic Sea). International Review of
Hydrobiology (in press) |
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