Project

Assessing the biological capacity for marine ecosystem resilience: Acclimation and adaptation in a rapidly changing environment

Code
01GA2617
Duration
01 January 2017 → 30 June 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Computer architecture and networks
    • Distributed computing
    • Information sciences
    • Information systems
    • Programming languages
    • Scientific computing
    • Theoretical computer science
    • Visual computing
    • Other information and computing sciences
    • Geology
    • Animal biology
    • Plant biology
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Biomechanics
    • Biomechanics
    • Biomechanics
Keywords
global climate change resilience warming
 
Project description

Global change alters marine ecosystems and the services they provide. Whether these services are at risk depends on the resilience of organisms, populations and communities. We use a tight interplay of laboratory experiments and simulation modeling to unravel the potential of marine organisms and communities to acclimate, adapt and/or disperse, and to retain ecological functioning under realistic future ocean scenarios.