News from Centre for Ocean Life
20 DEC
After a wonderful annual retreat and Christmas party, it is now time to wish everyone a lovely Christmas and for most, safe travels to their home country.
18 DEC
Do zooplankton traits matter? Scaling up trade-offs to the global scale. Taxa-transcending traits and trade-offs have been shown through lab experiments and literature...
14 DEC
Centre's annual retreat took place in Hohenwarte 10-13 December to summarize the scientific success of 2018 and discuss future directions.
22 NOV
When we look at nutrient poor (oligotrophic) and nutrient rich (eutrophic) ecosystem, we generally observe different species. We can therefore conclude that these ecosystems...
05 SEP
Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity on modelling of marine nitrogen fixation.
24 AUG
Copepods avoid eating most toxic dinoflagellates and thus the toxin efficiently protects the algae against grazing
15 AUG
Is toxin production in phytoplankton costly? How do environmental conditions affect the cost of toxin production?
13 AUG
Marine ecosystems are overwhelmingly complex. The trait-based method offers a simple way to describe, model, and understand complex marine systems. In a new paper we...
06 AUG
What zooplankton foraging strategy is more efficient in terms of volume of water cleared? What mechanism determines clearance efficiency of zooplankton foraging strategies...
01 MAY
After oil spills and dispersant applications, the formation of red tides or harmful algal blooms (HABs) has been observed, but the link between both phenomena was unknown...