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1: Thiel, H. and G. Schriever (1989): The enigmatic DISCOL species: A deep sea pedipalp? Senckenbergiana maritima 20(3/4): 171-175.
2: Thiel, H. and G. Schriever (1989):Cruise-Report DISCOL 1, SONNE - Cruise 61, with contributions by C. Borowski, C. Bussau, D. Hansen, J. Melles, J. Post, K. Steinkamp and K. Watson. Ber. Zentrum Meeres- u. Klimaforsch. Univ. Hamburg 3: 91 pp.
3: Schriever, G. (1990): Cruise-Report DISCOL 2, SONNE 64. Ber. Zentrum für Meeres- u. Klimaforsch. Univ. Hamburg 6: 51 pp.
4: Thiel, H. and G. Schriever (1990): Environmental protection of the deep sea and the DISCOL project. Ambio 19(5): 245-250.
5: Foell, E. J., H. Thiel and G. Schriever (1990). DISCOL - a long term, large scale disturbance and recolonization experiment in the abyssal eastern tropical South Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston Texas, May 7-10, 1990. OTC Paper 6328, 497-503.
5a: Foell, E. J., H. Thiel and G. Schriever (1992): DISCOL: a long-term, large-scale, disturbance-recolonization experiment in the abyssal eastern tropical South Pacific Ocean. Mining Engineering Jan. 1992: 90-94.
6: Bussau, C. (1992): New deep-sea Tardigrada (Arthrotardigrada, Halechiniscidae) from a manganese nodule area of the eastern South Pacific. Zool. Scr. 21(1): 79 - 91.
7: Schriever, G., C. Bussau and H. Thiel (1991): DISCOL - precautionary environmental impact studies for future manganese nodule mining and first results on meiofauna abundance. Proc. Adv. Mar. Tech. Conf. 4: 47-57.
8: Bussau, C. and S. Lorenzen (1991): Die Nematodenfauna der ozeanischen Tiefsee - erste taxonomische Bestandsaufnahme. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 84(Jahresversammlung in Tübingen): 442 (Zusammenfassung).
9: Thiel, H. (1991). The requirement for additional research in the assessment of environmental disturbances associated with deep seabed mining In: J. N. T. Mauchline (eds.): Marine Biology, its Accomplishment and Future Prospect. , Hokusen-Sha: 133-144.
10: Thiel, H., E. J. Foell and G. Schriever (1991): Potential Environmental Effects of Deep Seabed Mining. Ber. Zentrum Meeres- u. Klimaforsch. Univ. Hamburg 26: 243 pp.
11: Thiel, H. (1992): Deep-sea environmental disturbance and recovery potential. Intern. Rev. ges. Hydrobiologie 77(2): 331-339.
12: Thiel, H. (1992). Deep-Sea Mining - a Challenge for Marine Scientists. Proceedings of the XV. Congreso Mundial de Mineria, Madrid, Spain 1992, 25/29 Mayo 1992. 1321-1330.
13: Schriever, G., H. Bluhm, A. Boetius, C. Borowski, C. Bussau and H. Thiel (1992). DISCOL - precautionary large scale environmental impact studies for future polymetallic nodule mining from the deep sea. Proceedings of the XV. Congreso Mundial de Mineria, Madrid, Spain 1992, 25/27 Mayo 1992. 1311-1319.
14: Thiel, H. and E. J. Foell (1993). Environmental risk assessment for manganese nodule mining and application of the precautionary principle In: A. Couper, E. Gold and P. S. Vanchiswar (eds.): The Marine Environment and Sustainable Development. Law, Policy, and Science. : 226 - 233.
15: Thiel, H. (1991): From Meseda to DISCOL: a new approach to deep-sea mining risk assessments. Mar. Mining 10: 369-386.
16: Thiel, H., G. Schriever, C. Bussau and C. Borowski (1993): Manganese nodule crevice fauna. Deep-Sea Res.I 40(2): 419-423.
17: Thiel, H. (1991): Environmental impact resulting from deep-sea mining and risk assessment. In. R. Wolfrum (ed.): Law of the Sea at the Crossroads. The continuing Search for a Universally Accepted Regime. Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Kiel Institute of International Law, July 10th to 14th, 1990. Veröff. Inst. Intern. Recht an der Univ. Kiel 113: 87-96.
18: Foell, E. J., G. Schriever, H. Bluhm, C. Borowski, C. Bussau and H. Thiel (1992). Disturbance and recolonization experiment in the abyssal South Pacific Ocean (DISCOL): an update. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston Texas, May 4-7, 1992. OTC Paper 6805, 25-34.
19: Thiel, H., H. Bluhm, C. Borowski, C. Bussau, A. J. Gooday, C. Maybury and G. Schriever (1992): The impact of mining on deep sea organisms. The DISCOL-Project. Ocean Challenge 3(1): 40-46.
20: Schriever, G. and H. Thiel (1992): Cruise Report DISCOL 3, SONNE cruise 77. Ber. Zentrum Meeres- u. Klimaforsch. Univ. Hamburg E 2: 59.
21: Schriever, G. and H. Thiel (1994). Marine Mining and Environmental Protection In: S. Kumar, V. V. Agadi, V. Keshava Das and B. N. Desai (eds.): Ocean Technology: Perspectives. Publication & Information Directorate CSRI: 722 - 731.
22: Thiel, H. (1993): Deep-ocean mining needs careful study. Forum 9(1): 50-52.
23: Thiel, H. (1992): Resourcen der Tiefsee: "Erbschaft" und Verantwortung der Menschheit. Gaia 1(5): 261-271.
24: Klein, H. (1993): Near-bottom currents in the deep Peru Basin, DISCOL Experimental Area. Deutsche Hydrographische Zeitschrift 45: 31-42.
25: Bluhm, H. (1993). Effects of deepsea mining for manganese nodules on the abyssal megabenthic community. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, May 3-6, 1993. OTC Paper 7134, 521-529.
26: Thiel, H., E. J. Foell and G. Schriever (1993). Economics and the environment: cooperative aspects of future deep-sea mining activities. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston Texas, Houston, Texas, May 3-6, 1993. OTC Paper 7102, 203-212.
27: Thiel, H. and G. Schriever (1993): Environmental consequences of deep-sea mining. International Challenges 13(1): 54-70.
28: Thiel, H. (1993): Tiefseeökologie und Tiefseebergbau. Biologie in unserer Zeit 23(5): 330-334.
29: Maybury, C. A. and I. Ap Gwynn (1993): Wet processing of recent calcareous foraminifera: methods for preventing dissolution. J. Micropalaeontol. 12(1): 67-69.
30: Thiel, H. (1993). Umweltschutz in der Tiefsee In: C. Östergaard (eds.): Symposium Maritime Umwelttechnik - Mariner Umweltschutz, Tagungsband, 19. April 1993, Berlin. Deutsches Komitee für Meeresforschung und Meerestechnik e.V., 22305 Hamburg: 1-12.
31: Borowski, C. (1994): Three new deep-sea species of Sphaerodoridae (Annelida, Polychaeta) of the eastern tropical South Pacific. Zool. Scr. 23(3): 193-203.
32: Bluhm, H. (1994): Comparison of megabenthic communities in abyssal manganese nodule sites of the Northeastern and Southeastern Pacific Ocean. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 4: 187 - 201.
33: Bluhm, H., G. Schriever and H. Thiel (1995): Megabenthic recolonization in an experimentally disturbed abyssal manganese nodule area. Marine Georesources and Geotechnology 13: 393-416.
34: Maybury, C. and K. Evans (1994): Pennsylvanian psylloid algae interpreted as shallow water xenophyophores. Lethaia 27: 29-33.
35: Bussau, C., G. Schriever and H. Thiel (1995): Evaluation of abyssal metazoan meiofauna from a manganese nodule area of the eastern South Pacific. Vie et Milieu 45(1): 39-48.
36: Bussau, C. (1995): New deep-sea Nematoda (Enoplida, Thoracostomopsidae, Oncholaimidae, Enchelidiidae) from a manganese nodule area of the eastern South Pacific. Zool. Scr. 24(1): 1-12.
37: Bussau, C. (in press?). Six new species of the family Microlaimidae (Nematoda, Chromadoridae) from a manganese nodule area of the eastern South Pacific. Zool. Scr. 37.
38: Thiel, H. and G. Schriever (1994): Environmental consequences of using the deep sea - exemplified by mining of polymetalic nodules. Nord-Süd aktuell 8(3): 404-408.
39: not published
40: Thiel, H., G. Schriever, H. Bluhm, C. Bussau and C. Borowski (1994): Abschlußbericht für die Bewilligung 03F 0010 F im BMFT-Projekt "Wiederbesiedlung nach der mechanischen Beeinflussung eines Manganknollenfeldes in der Tiefsee des Süd-Pazifiks". Ber. Zentrum Meeres- u. Klimaforsch. Univ. Hamburg E 2(Suppl. 1): 59 p.
41: Borowski, C. (1995): New records of Longosomatidae (=Heterospionidae) (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the abyssal Southeast Pacific, with the description of Heterospio peruana sp. n. and general remarks on the family. Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 92 (Suppl. 1): 129-144.
42: not published.
43: Thiel, H. and Forschungsverbund Tiefseeumweltschutz (1995). The German environmental impact research for manganese nodule mining in the SE Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the First (1995) ISOPE - Ocean Mining Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 21- 22, 1995. 39-45.
44: Schriever, G. (1995). DISCOL - Disturbance and recolonization experiment of a manganese nodule area of the southeastern Pacific. Proceedings of the First (1995) ISOPE - Ocean Mining Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 21-22, 1995. 163-166.
45: Maybury, C. (1996). Crevice Foraminifera from abyssal South East Pacific manganese nodules In: A. Moguilevsky and R. Whatley (eds.): Microfossils and Oceanic Environments. University of Wales, Aberystwyth. 1: 281 - 293.
46: Borowski, C. and H. Thiel (1996). Indicator taxa for dominant deep-sea animal groups in their importance for comparative biodiversity and environmental studies. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Deep Sea-bed Mining Technology, COMRA, Beijing, PR China, Oct. 18-20, 1996. C35 - C43.
47: Bluhm, H. and H. Thiel (1996). Photographic and video surveys for large scale animal and seafloor surface charting aiming at ecological characterization of habitats and communities. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Deep Sea-bed Mining Technology, COMRA, Beijing, PR China, Oct. 18-20, 1996. C15 - C23.
48: Anderson, M. E. and H. Bluhm (1997): Description of a new species of Pachycara ZUGMAYER, 1911, from the abyssal southeastern Pacific and rediscription of P. thermophilum GEISTDOERFER, 1994, with a new key to the species. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 51: 219-227.
49: Borowski, C. and H. Thiel (1998): Deep-sea macrofaunal impacts of a large-scale physical disturbance experiment in the Southeast Pacific. Deep-Sea Research II 45: 55-81.
50: Foell, E. J., H. Bluhm, C. Borowski, H. Thiel, A. Ahnert and G. Schriever (1997). German environmental risk assessments in the Southeastern Pacific Peru Basin: DISCOL revisited. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, May 5-8, 1997. OTC Paper 8345, 549-566.
51: Schriever, G., A. Ahnert, H. Bluhm, C. Borowski and H. Thiel (1997). Results of the large scale deep-sea environmental impact study DISCOL during eight years of investigation. Proceedings of the Seventh (1997) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 25-30, 1997. 438-444.
52. not published.
53: Foell, E. J., H. Bluhm and H. Thiel (in prep.) Results of Free-fall Benthos Observation System (FBOS) Deployments during the DISCOL Experiment in the Southeastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. Mar. Ecol.
54: Bluhm, H. (1997). Megafauna as indicators for the recolonization of abyssal areas impacted by physical disturbances. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Studies for Deep-sea Mining, Metal Mining Agency of Japan, Tokyo, November 20-21, 1997. 211-221.
55: Bluhm, H. and A. Gebruk (1999). Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) of the Peru Basin - Ecological and taxonomical remarks based on underwater images. Mar. Ecol. 20 (2): 167-195.
56: Borowski, C. (in prep.) Physically disturbed deep-sea macrofauna in the Peru Basin, S.E. Pacific, revisited seven years after the experimental impact. Deep-Sea Res. II.
57: Bluhm, H. (in prep.) Re-establishment of an abyssal megabenthic community after experimental physical disturbance of the seafloor. Deep-Sea Res. II.
58: Ahnert, A. and G. Schriever (in prep.) Response of abyssal Copepoda Harpacticoida (Crustacea) and other meiobenthos to an artificial disturbance and its bearing on future mining for polmetallic nodules. Deep-Sea Res. II.
59: Vopel, K. and H. Thiel (in prep.) Comparing abyssal nematode assemblages of physically disturbed and adjacent sites of the eastern equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Res. II.
60: Thiel, H., G. Schriever, A. Ahnert, H. Bluhm, C. Borowski and K. Vopel (in prep.) The large-scale environmental impact experiment DISCOL - reflection and foresight. Deep-Sea Res. II.
61: Thiel, H. and Forschungsverbund Tiefsee (in prep.) Evaluation of environmental impact studies in the Southeast Pacific. Deep-Sea Res. II.
62: Thiel, H. and Forschungsverbund Tiefsee (in prep.) Evaluation of the environmental consequences of polymetallic nodule mining based on the results of the TUSCH-Forschungsverbund. Deep-Sea Res. II.
63. Bluhm, H. (1999) Holothurians as indicators for recolonisation processes in environmental assessments. Proceedings of the Third (1999) ISOPE - Ocean Mining Symposium, Goa, India, Nov. 8.-10, 1999. 8pp.
64: Bluhm, H., C. Borowski, A. Ahnert, K. Vopel, G. Schriever, and H. Thiel (1999) Reaktionen benthischer Tiefsee-Lebensgemeinschaften auf mechanische Störungen der Sedimente. Deutsche Hydrographische Zeitschrift Supplement 10, 149-152.