Project Description

Understanding the response of marine ecosystems to climate change requires knowledge of processes that operate over long time scales. Over the last decades, abundant data have been generated on the change in the composition of marine microplankton assemblages across the last deglaciation. These data were used to reconstruct various aspects of the ocean and climate system during this climatic upheaval; however, their potential to evaluate biotic response to climatic forcing has been rarely explored.

A basic goal of the present PhD project “Rates of adaptation to environmental change extracted from the fossil record of marine plankton” is to benefit from the vast amount of plankton assemblage data that have been published in environmental data archives such as PANGAEA and NCEI and to utilize these data to better understand the variability in natural time scales. In particular, this PhD project aims to spatially and temporarily investigate the rates of adaptation of marine plankton to environmental change.

Duration:

1.12.2019-31.1201.20212022

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