News from Centre for Ocean Life
21 SEP
Vast amounts of carbon are stored in the ocean interior as dissolved organic matter. Bacteria and their extracellular enzymes are key for understanding the persistence...
21 SEP
Resulting from an interdisciplinary collaboration at the Centre for Ocean Life, “Size structures sensory hierarchy in ocean life” is now available online from Proceedings...
10 SEP
DTU Aqua, Center for Ocean Life and the European Environment Agency will host a workshop on Transatlantic Ocean Literacy funded by the Danish Research Council (INP), during...
10 SEP
DTU Aqua and Center for Ocean Life will host Assistant Professor Diana Payne, University of Connecticut, in the period 15 Sept – 15 Oct.
08 SEP
A new letter from the Centre in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences picks up the discussion.
04 SEP
Additionally to the ´biological pump´,the seasonal ´lipid pump´ is highly efficient at sequestering carbon into the deep ocean. It involves the vertical transport and...
03 SEP
"OCEAN LIFE- the battle for food and mates from plankton to whales" by Patrizio Mariani. Thursday, 3rd September, 19.30.
07 AUG
The Ocean Life project "Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales" is now available from Annual Reviews in Marine Science. The project investigates...
03 AUG
In a popular article in the online journal Videnskab.dk Thomas and Lasse have summarized some of their recent discoveries of feeding in flagellates. The article is illustrated...
13 JUL
A new paper out in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology by Anna Törnroos, Marie Nordström, Katri Aarnio and Erik Bonsdorffinvestigates the plasticity in...
22 JUN
Is the recruitment variability independent of the stock location? Which environmental variables impact the recruitment of fish stocks? New study demonstrates that the...
22 JUN
The 18th of June 2015, Ocean Life PhD Karin Olsson succesfully defended her PhD titled "Trait-based analysis of reproductive strategies among marine fish".
21 MAY
A new paper in Limnology and Oceanography by Rodrigo Gonçalves and Thomas Kiørboe revises the currently prevailing understanding of how copepods perceive their prey. This...
12 MAY
Thomas Kiørboe from Centre for Ocean life received the G.A Hageman Gold medal.
23 APR
What does it take for plankton to master stealthy swimming, and why are some breast stroke swimming plankton quiet swimmers? New study addresses these questions using...
09 APR
Curtis Horne is a new visitor in Centre for Ocean Life. He will be using the existing copepod cultures at DTU Aqua to study the effects of temperature on growth and development...
23 MAR
What is the key to the invasion success of the comb jelly Mnemiopsis (‘killer’ jelly) to European waters? New study demonstrates that even starving individuals reproduce...
09 MAR
Can we aggregate the 20’000 existing phytoplankton species to few groups with similar ecological niches? This new study characterizes the ecological niches of 133 taxa...
02 MAR
Do copepods senesce? And how fast? New study demonstrates that copepods with a risk-taking feeding- and mate-finding behavior senesce earlier and have much shorter average...
26 FEB
In this short story you can help "Otto the Copepod" to find his friends. Swim with him down to the ocean floor and meet all his friends and the other animals that also...
17 FEB
In a new study, researchers from the center describe how mixotrophic microorganisms make use of feeding currents to increase both prey encounter rates and the incoming...
21 DEC
We welcome two new PhD students at the Centre for Ocean Life, both beginning on 15 December 2014
18 DEC
Gedankenexperimente in ecosystem-based fisheries management.
17 DEC
A new study provides a mechanistic understanding of the food size spectra of the copepod Temora longicornis using an integrated approach including traditional feeding experiments...
08 DEC
Fish eggs are far smaller relative to the adult size than is the case for most other aquatic organisms. This is consistent with theoretical predictions of competition...
03 DEC
Sophia Xu is a new PhD-student in Centre for Ocean Life
03 DEC
Lise Marty, Ulf Dieckmann, Bruno Ernande: “Fisheries-induced neutral and adaptive evolution in exploited fish populations and consequences for their adaptive potential...
06 NOV
Interested in reading a bit about biodiversity in the Baltic Sea or life as a young researcher?
06 NOV
The comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi is an invasive comb species which has successfully established itself in European seas. We analyze numerous data on this species eco...
18 SEP
Navish Wadhwa has won the Young Scientist Award at the the 10th European Fluid Mechanics Conference in Copenhagen
11 SEP
During the PhD course “Fate of the Arctic spring bloom” organized by Torkel Gissel Nielsen in 2012, we went out to sample the zooplankton community day and night with...
11 SEP
"The invisible life in the ocean", "How many fish are there in the sea" and "Microscopic meat eating plants of the ocean", those are some of the subjects presented by...
04 SEP
In this latest contribution from Ocean Life, Sainmont and co-authors show that optimal breeding strategy is tied to size at maturity and varies with latitude and the duration...
29 AUG
We document the presence of a large highly migratory fish species, bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus, in east Greenland (Denmark Strait) waters during August 2012. This location...
07 AUG
Males of pelagic copepods are consistently smaller than the females. A new study from Centre for Ocean Life describes the patterns for 400 species and suggests a simple...
31 JUL
In a new paper in Ecology Letters, we use the diverse shape shifting abilities of pelagic invertebrates to test competing theories of how metabolism scales with body...
29 JUL
Zooplankton have developed propulsion mechanisms and swimming modes that minimise the fluid disturbance that they generate. New study from Centre for Ocean Life has discovered...
08 JUL
Thomas and Mie has published an article on sexual selection in zooplankton: 'Lækre lopper scorer bedst', and Nis has published one with the title "Fiskeyngel er fremtidens...
26 JUN
A new paper by Navish, Anders, and Thomas describes the hydrodynamic and energetic changes experienced by copepods, as they go through their development from nauplii...
23 MAY
A life-history evaluation of the impact of maternal effects on recruitment and fisheries reference points
Núria Calduch-Verdiell, Brian R. MacKenzie, James W. Vaupel...
09 MAY
A new article by an international research team explores the non-consumptive effects of predators in a coastal copepod.
J Heuschele, S Ceballos, CM Andersen Borg, O...
29 APR
One new PhD student and one new Postdoc will start their work on May 1st.
10 APR
Jan Heuschele and Erik Selander
The chemical ecology of copepods
Journal of Plankton Research. (2014) doi:10.1093/plankt/fbu025
04 APR
A new paper by Lika and coworkers in the Journal of Theoretical Biology quantifies where species lie on the supply-demand spectrum.
Konstadia Lika, Starrlight Augustine...
01 APR
Julie Sainmont will defend her PhD Thesis on Tuesday, 8th of April!
25 MAR
Sara Ceballos, Mie Hylstofte Sichlau, Jan Heuschele, and Thomas Kiørboe
Low fertilization rates in a pelagic copepod caused by sexual selection?
Journal of Plankton...
21 MAR
A new study about the importance of collective memory for fish migration was just published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface
14 MAR
Videnskab.dk discusses the new American Naturalist article
07 MAR
Thomas, Anders and Tomas explore in a popular science article in Aktuel Naturvidenskab the cross-disciplinary work of physicists and biologists.
27 FEB
Martin Lindegren is a new research scientist at the Centre for Ocean Life.
27 FEB
New article by Thomas Kiørboe and Andrew Hirst in American Naturalist: Marine organisms, from microscopic flagellates to large fish, are strikingly similar in their feeding...
13 JAN
The new annual report of the Centre for Ocean Life is now online available.
13 JAN
Jens Krause (HU Berlin) presents at the Kaffeklubben on the 23rd of January, 13:00 at DTU Aqua, Kavalergården 6, 2920 Charlottenlund: "Social Networks and Collective...
19 DEC
We are happy to announce that the annual retreat was a great success
04 DEC
A new article in Proceedings of the Royal Society B about the effects of balanced fishing from Nis Jacobsen et al. Click through if you want to know more
04 DEC
The Centre of Ocean Life has 2 new job openings!
27 NOV
The programme for the 2nd annual meeting of the Centre for Ocean life is ready. Learn more about it below
19 NOV
Samuel Hylander and Thomas Kiørboe have a new article about "copepod sunscreen use" on Videnskab.dk.
14 OCT
Hylander S, Grenvald JC and Kiørboe T (2013). Fitness costs and benefits of ultraviolet radiation exposure in marine pelagic copepods. Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111...
14 OCT
Lombard F, Guidi L, Kiørboe T (2013). Effect of Type and Concentration of Ballasting Particles on Sinking Rate of Marine Snow Produced by the Appendicularian Oikopleura...
27 SEP
The pictures of the "Trait based approaches to Ocean Life" workshop are now online on the conference homepage. Click here to go to the gallery.
25 SEP
T. Kiørboe. (2013). Zooplankton body composition. Limnol. Oceanogr., 58(5), 1843-1850
02 SEP
Last week the Centre for Ocean Life was happy to host the "Trait based approaches to Ocean Life" workshop
30 AUG
Tiselius P, Saiz E, Kiørboe T. (2013). Sensory capabilities and food capture of two small copepods, Paracalanus parvus andPseudocalanus sp. Limnol Oceanogr.58: 1657...
16 AUG
We are happy to welcome Danny Grünbaum at the Centre for Ocean Life. He is a Visiting Professor who is joining us from the University of Washington. Below he introduces...
06 AUG
AEF Prowe, M Pahlow, S Dutkiewicz and A Oschlies. Small diversity effects on ocean primary production under environmental change in a diversity-resolving ocean ecosystem...
02 AUG
New popular science article about mixotrophy and stolen chloroplasts by Lasse Tor Nielsen and Thomas Kiørboe
12 JUL
A number of 3-year PhD scholarships within the general topic of Marine Ecology are currently available at the Centre for Ocean Life.
06 JUL
New popular science article about "Havets dufte" (the scent of the sea)
25 JUN
Starrlight Augustine is a new postdoc in the Section at the Centre for Ocean Life. Below, she introduces herself
17 JUN
Erik Andreas Martens, Shashi Thutupalli, Antoine Fourrière, and Oskar Hallatscheka. Chimera states in mechanical oscillator networks.
23 MAY
Mark Payne. Fisheries: Climate change at the dinner table. Nature
22 MAY
Wednesday, May 29, 11:00 in Aud. 31, Building 306: Life at High Reynolds Number
01 MAY
As of March 1st 2013 Lasse Tor Nielsen has joined the center in a two-year post doc position examining traits and trade-offs in microzooplankton grazing
24 APR
02 May 2013 at Kavalergården 13:00: The impact of small-scale fluid turbulence on phytoplankton nutrient uptake rates and community structure - CANCELLED
24 APR
01 May 2013 at Kavalergården 13:00: Ecological niches of observed phytoplankton species in the global ocean
24 APR
Kiørboe, T (2013). Attack or Attacked: The Sensory and Fluid Mechanical Constraints of Copepods’ Predator-Prey Interactions. Integrative and Comparative Biology, pp...
12 APR
Ken Haste Andersen and Jan E. Beyer. Size structure, not metabolic scaling rules, determines fisheries reference points. Fish and Fisheries
02 APR
Elena Litchman; Mark D. Ohman; Thomas Kiorboe. Trait-based approaches to zooplankton communities. Journal of Plankton Research 2013; doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbt019
19 MAR
Barton AD, Pershing AJ, Litchman E, Record NR, Edwards KF, Finkel ZV, Kiørboe T, and Ward BA. The biogeography of marine plankton traits. Ecology Letters. Doi:10.1111...
19 MAR
F. Lombard, M. Koski and T. Kiørboe. Copepods use chemical trails to find sinking marine snow aggregates. Limnol. Oceanogr., 58(1), 2013, 185-192 | DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013...
19 MAR
Patrizio Mariani, Ken H. Andersen, André W. Visser, Andrew D. Barton and Thomas Kiørboe. Control of plankton seasonal succession by adaptive grazing. Limnol. Oceanogr...
12 MAR
Mary S. Wisz, Ph.D. Aarhus University: Cutting across disciplines to predict ecosystem change in space and time
28 FEB
On the 10th and 11th of December 2012 the Centre for Ocean Life and the FNU-network Trait-based Plankton Ecology joint for their annual retreat at Sømine station
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