Project

Approches expérimentales pour une fauture utilisation durable des substrats durs artificiels de la Mer du Nord

Acroniem
PERSUADE-2
Code
12K02318
Looptijd
01-04-2018 → 15-12-2021
Financiering
Federal funding: various
Promotor
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Law
Trefwoorden
Noordzee harde substraten
 
Projectomschrijving
 

Coastal areas are increasingly affected by a mixtures of global and local pressures. At the global scale, global chance, including the combination of both warming and acidification is a well-known phenomenon. According to the business-as-usual scenario from IPCC, sea-water temperature will have increased by 3°C, and the pH will have decreased with 0.3 units by the end of the century. Research on the effects of such changes has revealed that both food-web interactions and nutrient cycling will be affected. While warming and pH decrease are primarily effects measured in the water column, there is growing evidence that organisms in sediments, and sedimentary processes are affected as well.