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Project

Combined and interactive effects of climate change and chemical stress in Daphnia magna
Code
01N01211
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 October 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Geology
    • Animal biology
    • General biology
    • Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Veterinary medicine
Keywords
micro-evolution and genomics climate change ecotoxicology
 
Project description
 

Using the heavy metal nickel (Ni), we will investigate how the waterflea Daphnia magna is affected by combined climate change and chemical stress. Effects under laboratory conditions, as well on population dynamics under realistic seasonal trends of temperature, oxygen levels and toxic blue-green algae, three factors which are predicted to change in freshwater with climate warming, will be investigated.