AQUASHIFT The impact of climate variability on aquatic ecosystems: Match and mismatch resulting from shifts in seasonality and distribution
Coordinator: Ulrich Sommer, GEOMAR, Kiel
Duration: 2005-2012
Marine
Kiel plankton mesocosms
Dedicated to study the response of the spring succession of Baltic Sea plankton in joint experiments
U. Gaedke, K. Wirtz: Modelling match and mismatch processes within plankton communities during spring succession
U. Riebesell, A. Engel: Temperature dependency of carbon partitioning between dissolved and particulate organic matter in pelagic new production system
U. Sommer: Match and mismatch between phyto- and zooplankton during spring succession. An experimental analysis with Baltic Sea plankton
K. Jürgens, H. Hoppe: Coupling between phyto- and bacterioplankton during early spring bloom conditions
RECONN
A cluster to study the impact of climate change on the pelagic systems of the Baltic and the North sea under a fisheries ecology perspective
M. St.-John, M. Peck: Resolving Trophodynamic Consequences of Climate Change (RECONN 1): Simulating and Predicting Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Match-mismatch Effects on Key Trophic Players
C. Clemmesen- Bockelmann, G. Kraus: Resolving Trophodynamic Consequences of Climate Change (RECONN 2): Match-mismatch between Secondary and Tertiary Production in the Baltic Sea
Projects not attached to clusters
V. Brüchert: Contrasting strategies of anaerobic bacterial communities to adapt to long-term temperature changes in seasonally and permanently cold sediments
T. Reusch: Do seagrasses feel the heat? - assessing the potential for microevolutionary change in a marine keystone plant in response to global warming
J. Freund, K. Wiltshire: Match / mismatch of zooplankton interactions, based on existing long-term information in the North Sea
H. Hillebrand, K. Wiltshire: Long- and short-term effects of climate variability and physical forcing on the diversity of aquatic organisms
M. Simon: Algal-bacterial interactions and aggregation: Implications for the plankton succession in neritic seas of the temperate zone in the course of climate change
Freshwater
Saidenbach Reservoir
Impact of climate change on ecological and genetic processes in a lake ecosystem
J. Benndorf, S. Hülsmann: Influence of the year-to-year variation of water temperature on the coupling between benthic and pelagic food webs
T. Berendonk, M. Schlegel: Adaptation to environmental warming? Microevolution in the protists Paramecium and Coleps
R. J. Paul, R. Pirow, B. Zeis: Mechanisms, phenotypic plasticity and genotypic determination of thermal tolerance and related properties in Daphnia and Leptodora kindtii: consequences for temperature impacts on food web interactions
L. Paul, T. Petzoldt: Model-aided analysis of climate impacts on planktonic food webs based on long-term data of the Saidenbach Reservoir
Running waters
M. Weitere, H. Arndt: Impact of climate variability on the bentho-pelagic coupling in a large river
M. Mutz: Shift in the synchronisation of leaf decay processes in fragmented streams
O. Richter: Impact of climate change on life history patterns and food web interactions of benthic assemblages of running waters: modelling and experimental approaches
Projects not attached to clusters
S. Diehl,H. Stibor,S. Berger : Influence of temperature and stratification on spring succession of the plankton community in deep lakes
G. Kirillin,H. Behrendt : Climatic impact on temperature and mixing regime of polymictic lakes and its consequences for lake ecosystems
T. Mehner: The impact of climate variability on recruitment, life history, and physiology of sympatric pairs of ciscoes (Teleostei: Coregonus spp.) in lakes
F. Peeters, D. Straile: Modelling the impact of changes in the physical environment on plankton succession with special emphasis on Daphnia-algae interactions
M. Pfenninger: The impact of climate variability on the species ranges of European freshwater pulmonates
H.-P. Grossart: Effects of climate variability on interactions between cyanobacteria and associated microheterotrophs - consequences for development of toxic cyanobacterial blooms
R. Adrian, D. Gerten: Phase shifts within lake plankton communities in response toward climate warming: Implications for the match/mismatch of species interactions
H. Arndt: Temperature chaos and microbial food web dynamics
