We had 3 afternoon discussion sessions during the workshop. See outlines of discussion topics and comments
See book of abstracts
André W Visser: Behavioral traits and their trade-off in the plankton
Andrew Barton: Estimating the Response of North Atlantic Phytoplankton Communities to Climate Change
Anna Törnroos: Multiple traits and benthic functioning: from toolbox to application in a system rich in functions but poor in species
Christian Jørgensen: Optimization and evolution of traits in models of fish
Christopher Klausmeier: Trait-based approaches to species abundance distributions
Colleen Webb: Using Traits-based Approaches to Understand the Dynamics of Marine Biodiversity and Productivity
Daniel Falster: Trait-based approaches in plant ecology: successes and future challenges
Esteban Acevedo-Trejos: Emerging properties of phytoplankton community size structures in regions of contrasting environmental conditions of the Atlantic Ocean
Hans G Dam: Trait heritability: A Neglected Aspect of Adaptation Studies in Zooplankton
Inga Hense: Modelling phytoplankton life cycles
Kai Wirtz: Limits of predictability and mechanistic understanding exposed by trait-based models
Ken H Andersen: Characteristic sizes of life in the oceans -- from bacteria to whales
Kyle Edwards: Opportunities and challenges for quantifying functional tradeoffs
Marina Levy: Phytoplankton diversity affected by oceanic dispersal and mesoscale currents
Mark D Ohman: Risks and rewards in the zooplankton: nonlinear dependencies on body size
Nicholas R Record: Emergent copepod communities in an adaptive traitstructured Model
Stephanie Dutkiewicz: Modeling phytoplankton traits, trade-offs and biogeography
Ursula Gaedke: Interplay between evolutionary and phenotypic trait changes and biomass dynamics in multi-trophic food webs
Allison Smith: A role for bacterial quorum sensing in remineralization models
Anders Andersen: Hydrodynamics of Filter Feeding in Choanoflagellates
Andrew Hirst: Shape shifting resolves conflicts in major theories of metabolic scaling
Andrew Irwin: Testing the stability of the realized niches of phytoplankton in response to changing climate
Anna Hickman: Shedding light on phytoplankton biogeography
Artur Palacz: Distribution of plankton functional types in response to changes in their ecological niches
Benjamin Weigel: Does decreasing benthic biomass trigger shift in the functional trait composition over time?
Chisato Yoshikawa: An ecologically flexible type model applied to two contrasting time-series stations in the western North Pacific
Chris Lindemann: Towards an adaptive evolutionary and ecological trait-based model
Clinton Leach: Application of size-structured population models to explain the decline in mean body size on the Scotian Shelf
Daniel Grunbaum: Effects of unresolved spatial and temporal heterogeneity on diversity and productivity in trait-based consumer-resource models in marine environments
Elena Litchman: Eco-evolutionary responses of phytoplankton to global Change
Elizabeth Miller: Trait-wise investigation of phytoplankton communities reveals predictable responses to seasonal environmental variation
Erik A Martens: Trait-based modeling of trophic chains and seasonal forcing
Friederike Prowe: Zooplankton feeding traits and community composition in a global ecosystem model
Geir Huse: Modelling emergent life histories of Calanus finmarchicus
Harvey Tyler-Walters: Biological Traits Information Catalogue (BIOTIC)
Harvey Tyler-Walters: Harmonising Marine Species Traits for Mapping and Management
Houshuo Jiang: Why does the jumping ciliate Mesodinium rubrum possess an equatorially located propulsive ciliary belt?
James Clark: Environmental selection for small cell size in phytoplankton
Jan Heuschele: Female choice in eutrophied waters - an individual based model of sticklebacks
Jennifer Hammock: To Increase Utility, Add More Data; sharing and interoperability for marine trait datasets
Jessica A Bryant: Temporal Variation in Marine Microbial Trait Diversity
Johanna Yletyinen: Traits and species interactions affect the response and dynamics of marine social-ecological systems to multiple drivers
Julie Sainmont: Relative success of Income and Capital breeder in a seasonal environment
Karen Stamieszkin: A synthesis of copepod fecal pellet characteristics and implications for carbon cycling in the ocean
Karin Olsson: Offspring size as a strategic life history trait
Katharina Maj Ottosen: Spatial distribution of cod on the Faroe Plateau
Lasse Tor Nielsen: Traits and trade-offs in microzooplankton feeding modes: from filter feeding choanoflagellates to ambush feeding dinoflagellates
Lise Marty: Fisheries-induced neutral and adaptive evolution at the genotypic and phenotypic levels in exploited fish populations
Maria Huete-Ortega: Size-scaling of phytoplankton abundance and metabolism: a review of recent field and laboratory studies
Martin Hartvig: Food webs in a changing climate; inter- and intraspecific temperature dependencies
Meike Vogt: Observation-based plankton biogeography in the global ocean
Nathan Terseleer: Trait-based representation of diatom diversity in a Plankton Functional Type model
Navish Wadhwa: Size dependent flow structure changes in swimming copepods
Neil Banas: Large zooplankton in the warming Bering Sea: ecosystem and life history modeling approaches
Nis Sand Jacobsen: Comparing ecosystem models as fisheries management tools: a case study in the California current
Pieter Vandromme: A New Trait-Based Auto-Emergent Model for Zooplankton and Confrontation with Size-Structured Observations from the Bay of Biscay
Rebecca Holt: Climate-Induced Adaptations of Behaviour and Life History for Atlantic Cod
Rodrigo Gonçalves: Prey/predator size ratio in feeding of Temora Longicornis
Sachia Jo Traving: Extracellular enzymes: foraging strategy for free-living marine bacteria
Selina Våge: Trade-offs between defensive and competitive traits shape the marine microbial food web
Sofia Ferreira: Estimating phytoplankton phenology metrics from noisy, gappy data
Terje Berge: Mixotrophy in pigmented flagellates
Yury Zablotski: Sympatric speciation by optimal specialisation
Yvan Lagadeuc: Microscale nutrient fluctuations : what functional traits allowing to face?
Zair P Burris: Copepod sex-ratios may be female-biased at birth
Øystein Varpe: Optimal life-histories in seasonal environments: modeling copepod strategies