ADVANCE

are the base of the aquatic food chain and promote ocean services such as ocean production, fisheries, oxygen and carbon cycling. Predicting changes to these services requires an improved understanding of how phytoplankton will react to the changes in habitat. Model representations of plankton responses are mainly based on short-term experiments, but these experiments do not provide information on the evolutionary potential of these organisms. ​ ​The ADVANCE project aims to understand evolutionary (long-term) responses to warming and acidification in marine phytoplankton, focusing on two model organisms: Skeletonema marinoi and Emiliania huxleyi. These are globally distributed algae, often producing very large blooms in coastal marine areas. The new knowledge of planktonic response to climate change will be incorporated into coupled climate-ecosystem models to provide key stakeholders, participating throughout the project to secure targeted scientific products, with relevant..

Primary location: Cluj-napoca Romania