BIO-C3

To address these issues, we are able to exploit unique long term data sets available from the project partners, including on fish stocks, plankton and benthos organisms, and abiotic environmental conditions. Data series are extended through an intensive research cruise program equivalent to 3 Mio. EURO in in-kind contributions, e.g., with the vessels RV ALKOR, Dana, and Baltica of our German, Danish and Polish partners, respectively. This work is complemented by extensive experimental, laboratory, and modeling approaches... BIO-C3 aims to increase understanding of both temporal changes in biodiversity - on all levels from genetic diversity to ecosystem composition - and of the environmental and anthropogenic pressures driving this change. The ultimate goals is then to use understanding of what happened in the past to predict what will happen in the future, under different climate projections and management scenarios... BIO-C3 wants to use the gained process understanding to design a..