Staff

Cornelia Twining

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About Me

I am an ecophysiologist and I investigate how consumers adapt to their nutritional landscape, especially in the face of global environmental change. I have primarily examined how omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) move through and are modified by consumers within food webs. While aquatic primary producers are often rich in n-3 long-chain (LC) PUFAs, these compounds are extremely scarce at the base of terrestrial ecosystems. My findings have revealed the unique role that aquatic ecosystems play as sources of critical nutrients for both aquatic and terrestrial consumers and highlight the importance of understanding how processes like climate and land use change are altering the quality, quantity, and phenology of aquatic to terrestrial subsidies. 

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Projects

How will climate change alter the phenology, biomass, and nutritional quality of cross-ecosystem fluxes?

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Curriculum Vitae

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Address

E-Mail: cornelia.twining@eawag.ch
Phone: +41 58 765 2128
Fax: +41 58 765 1122
Address: Eawag
Seestrasse 79
6047 Kastanienbaum
Office: CA B08

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Expert on

ecology, evolution, climate change, rivers, fatty acids

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Research Group

Food Web Ecophysiology

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