Department Aquatic Ecology
Aquascope
We study plankton communities in their natural environment, with the idea of not interfering with species interactions and dynamics. Our objectives are to study bottom-up (e.g. water physics and chemistry changes like climate warming and eutrophication) and top-down (natural enemies like parasites and grazers) controls of plankton community change. We want to understand interactions and mechanisms that regulate community composition and relative abundances of species, and predict community dynamics across scales of space and time, including the forecasting of cyanobacterial blooms.
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Real-time underwater imaging for lake phytoplankton and zooplankton monitoring can be found here.
