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Project

Understanding the mechanisms of recovery and resilience in marine soft-bottom assemblages
Code
3E022310
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Geology
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
Keywords
marine soft-bottom benthos resilience recovery
 
Project description
 

This project investigate the ecological mechanisms that underpin resilience or shifts between alternate states of marine soft-bottom assemblages. Feedback process that hold the system in a particular state or not will be identified by determining interactions between biofilms and benthos, the implications of variability in key species populations, and how spatio-temporal variability in assemblages interact with disturbance regime/recovery dynamics