Impact of increasing CO2 on trophic transfer efficiency in marine food webs

Project Information

CO2&TROPHICTRANSFER

Grant agreement ID: 23556

Project closed

Start date 1 September 2005

End date 31 August 2007

Funded under

• Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

DANISH INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESEARCH
Denmark

Objective

Current models predict a twofold increase in atmospheric CO2 and associated decrease in oceanic pH by about 0.4 units until the end of present century. How this drastic change will affect food webs and trophic transfer in the coastal ocean is unforeseen. We propose to study the effects of these changes on phytoplankton biochemical composition and concurrent effects of potentially altered food quality on secondary producers in the marine systems.

Keywords

• Increase of CO2
• food webs
• nutritional quality
• phytoplankton
• trophic transfer efficiency
• zooplankton

Programme(s)

• FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Topic(s)

• MOBILITY-2.1 - Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (EIF)

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-MOBILITY-5
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Funding Scheme

EIF - Marie Curie actions-Intra-European Fellowships

Coordinator

DANISH INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESEARCH

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Denmark
• Total cost: No data