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Project

Marine ecosystem functioning under environmental change: a functional approach beyond species identity
Code
01D21620
Duration
01 November 2020 → 31 August 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • 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.