Code
01DI0816
Duration
01 September 2016 → 31 December 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Geology
- Animal biology
- Ecology
- General biology
- Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
- Environmental science and management
- Other environmental sciences
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Veterinary medicine
Keywords
ecosystem functioning
ecotoxicology
deep-sea mining
Nematodes
meiofauna
acidification
Project description
This PhD research deals with different aspects of anthropogenic disturbance of marine benthic ecosystems. On the one hand it targets ecological aspects of ocean acidification resulting from carbon sequestration in a mesocosm multi species experiment. And on the other hand different aspects of potential impacts of deep-sea mining on the benthic meiofauna are investigated by in-situ and laboratory experiments.