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2017
Philipp's defence
24 JAN

Philipp Brun defended his PhD thesis

Last Friday (20st Jan 2017) Philipp defended his PhD thesis with the title “Plankton biogeography – an exploration of patterns, drivers, functions, and predictability”...

Illustration forward and backward
06 JAN

New paper - Dynamics of a physiologically structured population in a time-varying...

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...

Annual Retreat 2016
03 JAN

5th Annual Meeting of the Centre for Ocean Life

5-year evaluation report of the Centre for Ocean Life available for download.

2016
Temora Longicornis rejecting Alexandrium pseudogonyaulax
21 DEC

New paper on behavior of copepods feeding on toxic algae

How do copepods react to toxic prey and what’s the effect on survival of both prey and predator?

Illustration of fisheries yield vs. minimum landing size limit for four types of emergent density-dependent regulation compared to stock-recruitment theory
28 NOV

When in life does density dependence occur in fish populations?

- and how should we fish them if we knew? New paper from Ocean Life.

Jellyfish
09 NOV

Global susceptibility of ecosystems to jellyfish – new paper

In a new study, environmental effects on the competition between fish and jellyfish are examined through a trait-based food web model.

Copepod
24 OCT

Ocean life article discussed on Videnskab.dk

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...

New paper on trait biogeography of marine copepods
11 OCT

New paper on trait biogeography of marine copepods

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...

Paper on the sex-specific metabolic footprints of a copepod
05 OCT

New paper on the sex-specific metabolic footprints of a copepod.

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...

A sample of sea water containing bacteria and viruses, stained with the fluorescent DNA stain SYBR Green. Photo: L. Riemann.
03 OCT

The function of bacterioplankton communities in coastal waters – new paper

Coastal waters are among the most productive and biogeochemically active systems on Earth, and provide important ecosystem services in terms of biological productivity...

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