News from Centre for Ocean Life
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.
09 NOV
In a new study, environmental effects on the competition between fish and jellyfish are examined through a trait-based food web model.
24 OCT
A popular article discusses the findings of the recently published paper “Trait biogeography of marine copepods - an analysis across scales” by Brun, Payne and Kiørboe...
11 OCT
We have produced the first ever global maps of key traits of copepods, the dominant group of zooplankton, by combining geo-located observations of hundreds of taxa that...
05 OCT
Copepods leave chemical traces in the water in which they live. Some of these chemicals may be signals of conspecifics. Can we find the signal molecules among the thousands...
03 OCT
Coastal waters are among the most productive and biogeochemically active systems on Earth, and provide important ecosystem services in terms of biological productivity...