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Cod larvae
08 DEC

Popular scientific article in Aktuel Naturvidenskab: Why do fish lay small eggs...

Fish eggs are far smaller relative to the adult size than is the case for most other aquatic organisms. This is consistent with theoretical predictions of competition...

New PhD-student in Centre for Ocean Life
03 DEC

New PhD-student in Centre for Ocean Life

Sophia Xu is a new PhD-student in Centre for Ocean Life

New original article in Evolutionary Applications
03 DEC

New original article in Evolutionary Applications

Lise Marty, Ulf Dieckmann, Bruno Ernande: “Fisheries-induced neutral and adaptive evolution in exploited fish populations and consequences for their adaptive potential...

Annas blog: sea
06 NOV

New blog on Biodiversity research in the Baltic sea & life as a postdoc

Interested in reading a bit about biodiversity in the Baltic Sea or life as a young researcher?

Left: Conceptual scheme of the full lifecycle model for the invasive comb jelly. Right: The food which is eaten is first assimilated into a reserve  before being mobilized to cover different costs for metabolism.
06 NOV

New Paper: Mechanisms behind the metabolic flexibility of an invasive comb jelly

The comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi is an invasive comb species which has successfully established itself in European seas. We analyze numerous data on this species eco...

Temora lonigicornis collage
18 SEP

Navish Wadhwa wins Young Scientist Award

Navish Wadhwa has won the Young Scientist Award at the the 10th European Fluid Mechanics Conference in Copenhagen

Inter and intra specific diurnal habitat selection of zooplankton during the spring bloom observed by Video Plankton Recorder
11 SEP

Inter and intra specific diurnal habitat selection of zooplankton during the spring...

During the PhD course “Fate of the Arctic spring bloom” organized by Torkel Gissel Nielsen in 2012, we went out to sample the zooplankton community day and night with...

Prorocentrum micans. Foto: Erik Selander
11 SEP

Ocean Life popular scientific talks about life in a changing ocean

"The invisible life in the ocean", "How many fish are there in the sea" and "Microscopic meat eating plants of the ocean", those are some of the subjects presented by...

Illustration inspired by the Jean de la Fontaine fable "the grasshopper and the ant" using copepod characters, where the grasshopper is described as enjoying the summer, relying on the food available at that time but does not have anything when the winter comes (as the income breeders relies on food availability to fuel their egg production but does not store reserve to survive the winter), while the ant works hard to store reserves during the summer but can rely on them to survive the winter (as the capital breeders store reserve to which allow them to survive the winter and spawn at a time that is disconnected with the timing of the spring bloom, and is beneficial for their offspring).
04 SEP

New Ocean Life article in American Naturalist: Capital versus income breeding...

In this latest contribution from Ocean Life, Sainmont and co-authors show that optimal breeding strategy is tied to size at maturity and varies with latitude and the duration...

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