DTU AQUA National Institute of Aquatic Resources
Centre for Ocean Life
Henrik Dams Allé
Building 201, room 262
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
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A new major project on marine biodiversity spans national borders and scientific disciplines. DTU is one of 31 European research partners to form the science based effort to understand and help the ocean over the next 4 years – BIOcean5D has been kicked off.
Senior researcher at DTU Aqua Martin Lindegren calls for action in this interview on ‘what is biodiversity?’ Dive into ‘functional biodiversity’, the EU project B-USEFUL and why protecting nature is crucial.
How can we combine coastal protection with greater biodiversity? A new DTU project aims to investigate this topic.
One of the most conspicuous features over much of the world’s oceans is the seasonal variation in environmental conditions (e.g. light, temperature, nutrients, food). In this new article from a large team of Ocean Life members (past and present), we seek to uncover patterns in life history strategies that marine organisms adopt to deal...
On 13 November 2020, Neil Maginnis will defend his PhD thesis. The defence can be watched online.
Marine fish are rapidly shifting their spatial distributions under climate change across the globe. Building the capacity to track species range shifts is essential for improving the management of impacted resources. How can this be achieved?
On 15 May 2020, Aurore Maureaud, DTU Aqua will defend her PhD thesis. Due to the corona pandemic the defence will take place online.
Is multi-trophic biodiversity leading to higher ecosystem functioning? Theoretical models simulating complex food webs can help identify mechanisms underlying ecosystem functioning. By means of a trait-based model, we show the importance of biodiversity and food web structure for multiple ecosystem functions and establish hypotheses to...
Why do species occur where they are found? Looking at the traits that species carry may provide the answer, since they determine in which type of environment and with which other species it may live. We studied here the distribution of more than 1,200 marine fish species in the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific to see if traits and...
On 27 September 2019, Esther Beukhof will defend her PhD thesis at DTU, Lyngby.
While the planet experiences unprecedented human-induced biodiversity loss, from marine to terrestrial realms, and from microbes to large mammals, evidence that biodiversity enhances ecosystem functioning is developing. In our new paper, we ask, what are the effects of biodiversity in fished ecosystems?
On 3 May 2019, Tim Spaanheden Dencker will defend his PhD thesis at DTU, Lyngby.
The North Sea fish community has a long history of intense fishing and environmental change. Scientific bottom trawl surveys, which have been ongoing in the North Sea since the 1980s, provide excellent data on the abundance and spatial distribution of fish species over time. But what if instead of species, we look at how traits have changed...
A new Ocean Life paper demonstrates a global mismatch in the protection of multiple marine biodiversity components and ecosystem services.
Biodiversity is a multifaceted concept, yet most biodiversity studies have taken a taxonomic approach, implying that all species are equally important. However, species do not contribute equally to ecosystem processes and differ markedly in their responses to changing environments. This recognition has led to the exploration of other...
Why do we find primarily large pelagic predators such as tunas and billfish in the tropics, while in boreal and temperate regions large demersal species of gadoids and flatfish dominate?
Can differences in behavior between genders lead to reduced male feeding rates?
What are the spatial patterns of fish life history strategies in the European Seas and what are their main drivers?
How are the bottom substrate and water column habitats linked? How does this coupling affect the functioning of the ecosystem and how sensitive is it to human pressures?