June 25, 2015: FB3-Seminar

13:15 h, Lecture Hall, GEOMAR, Düsternbrooker Weg 20

Climate change in the marine environment can alter relationships between organisms and physical resources such as temperature, seawater chemistry, and nutrient availability.  As species respond differently to these stressors due to the different ways in which they interact with their environments, species interactions may change and lead to a disruption of ecological dynamics in marine communities.  One example is of changes in competition among a community of intertidal coralline algae in the Northeast Pacific over a 30 year time series.   Other examples and hypotheses come from ongoing work that explores carbon use in algae and potential nutritional changes in algae as a food source.