Code
01D21620
Duration
01 November 2020 → 31 October 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Marine pollution
- Invertebrate biology
- Marine ecology
- Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution not elsewhere classified
Keywords
functional traits
ecosystem functioning
marine invertebrates
Project description
Copepods play a key role in benthic estuarine food webs. Impacts of environmental change on their abundance and functional traits can have important effects for benthic foods webs and the ecosystem services they provide. This PhD research aims to study environmental change effects (temperature and nutrient enrichment) on copepods and marine invertebrates functional traits and associated ecosystem functioning using biological trait analysis.