Project

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

Code

01GD2617

Duration

01 January 2017 → 30 June 2025

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Bernard De Baets

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields not elsewhere classified
- Computer architecture and networks not elsewhere classified
- Distributed computing not elsewhere classified
- Information sciences not elsewhere classified
- Information systems not elsewhere classified
- Programming languages not elsewhere classified
- Scientific computing not elsewhere classified
- Theoretical computer science not elsewhere classified
- Visual computing not elsewhere classified
- Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
- Geology not elsewhere classified
- Animal biology not elsewhere classified
- Plant biology not elsewhere classified
- Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution not elsewhere classified
Medical and health sciences
- Biomechanics not elsewhere classified
- Biomechanics not elsewhere classified
- Biomechanics not elsewhere classified

Keywords

resilience global climate change 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.