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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This year, the Villum Foundation is awarding multimillion-dollar grants to research talents in Denmark from the foundation's Young Investigator Program (YIP) - two of the selected in 2024 come from DTU Aqua, where they deal with respectively the impact of climate change on fish and gelatinous plankton
Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity and the dynamics behind successful invasions remain largely unresolved. Invasion genomics can be used to shed light on genetic diversity pattern during invasion events and to reconstruct the demographic history of invasion events.
Species invasions into marine coastal habitats continue at an alarming rate. One is a comb jelly associated with dramatic ecosystem impacts. DTU and an international research team have shed new light on the success behind the invasion, findings published in PNAS.
Four young DTU researchers will each receive DKK 10 million for their research. This takes place at the annual appointment of Villum Young Investigators, at which VILLUM FONDEN will award grants totalling DKK 205 million this year.
The brackish-water loving jellyfish Blackfordia virginica has been a new player in the Kiel Canal since summer 2016, shows an evaluation of regular biological monitoring cruises over the past ten years.
Based on the first comprehensive data collection on the occurrence of the invasive jellyfish, Mnemiopsis leidyi, in Europe, scientists now show that ocean currents play the major role for the successful invasion and spread of species in the marine realm.
The number of non-native species which are recorded in new habitats outside their natural range is steadily increasing. Though thousands of species are daily transported around the global, only a minute fraction manages to establish. A new study now answers why this can be the case.