News from Centre for Ocean Life
06 MAR
A new Ocean Life paper shows that overwintering of the copepod Calanus hyperboreus contributes significantly to the sequestration of carbon. We propose a general method...
06 MAR
In a new paper we reveal how the seasonal succession within plankton communities can be characterized in terms of a few key traits that govern the shifting trophic arrangements...
14 FEB
We compiled data to understand the ecology of marine copepods based on their fundamental traits, such as body size or growth rate, rather than based on species names...
07 FEB
What is the cost in terms of predation risk of different feeding behaviours in zooplankton? What feeding strategies are more risky? Are copepod males more susceptible...
31 JAN
Imagine you are a microscopic cell with two thin “arms” and want to survive in the ocean. How should you arrange and move those appendages to swim fast and efficiently...
24 JAN
Last Friday (20st Jan 2017) Philipp defended his PhD thesis with the title “Plankton biogeography – an exploration of patterns, drivers, functions, and predictability”...
06 JAN
We have studied a model of a size structured Daphnia population feeding on an algae resource that have a periodically varying growth rate. Depending on parameter values...
03 JAN
5-year evaluation report of the Centre for Ocean Life available for download.
21 DEC
How do copepods react to toxic prey and what’s the effect on survival of both prey and predator?
28 NOV
- and how should we fish them if we knew? New paper from Ocean Life.