2007 – 2010 University of Bremen – BSc Biology

2010 – 2012 Bangor University – MSc Marine Environmental Protection

2012 – 2016 Queen’s University Belfast – PhD Marine Ecology

2018              British Antarctic Survey – Postdoc

Research interests

I am a benthic ecologist with a focus on intertidal and shallow subtidal ecosystems. I am primarily interested in how species interactions are affected by abiotic factors, shaping community structure and altering ecosystem services. Currently I am aiming to quantify how species interactions such as competition and facilitation affect individual niches in a highly disturbed Antarctic shallow subtidal ecosystem and how this translates into food-web dynamics.

Zwerschke N, Hollyman PR, Wild R, Strigner R, Turner JR, King JW (2018) Limited impact of an invasive oyster on intertidal assemblage structure and biodiversity: the importance of environmental context and functional equivalency with native species. Mar Biol 165:1–13

Zwerschke N, Kochmann J, Crowe TP, Ashton EC, Roberts D, O’Connor NE (2017) Co-occurrence of native Ostrea edulis and non-native Crassostrea gigas revealed by monitoring of intertidal oyster populations. J Mar Biol Assoc United Kingdom:1–10

Zwerschke N, Emmerson MC, Roberts D, O’Connor NE (2016) Benthic assemblages associated with native and non-native oysters are similar. Mar Pollut Bull 111:305–310

Zwerschke N, Bollen M, Molis M, Scrosati RA (2013) An environmental stress model correctly predicts unimodal trends in overall species richness and diversity along intertidal elevation gradients. Helgol Mar Res 67:663–674

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

1. Persistence and brilliant engineering

   Nadescha Zwerschke is a marine biologist, who was travelling on the RRS James Clark Ross (JCR) as part of the ICEBERGS 2 cruise in December 2018. Having left Burdwood Bank […]

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2. Blog: A research cruise and my gateway to Antarctica

   ICEBERGS2 – a research cruise and my gateway to Antarctica Nadescha Zwerschke is a marine biologist travelling on the RRS James Clark Ross to Antarctica I’ve only recently started my […]

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1. Endangered native oyster helped by invasive species

   The presence of invasive oysters can support an endangered native oyster species in certain situations, a team led by a British Antarctic Survey scientist has found. The result was a […]

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