Projektbeschreibung
Die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Korallenriffe vorhersagen
Korallenriffe nehmen 0,1 % der Weltmeere ein und bieten 25 % aller Meeresarten des Planeten ein Zuhause. Der Klimawandel bedroht diese Naturwunder. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt 4D_REEF wird Gebiete untersuchen, die Korallenriffen in Klimawandelszenarien der Zukunft helfen können. Es wird Analyse- und Überwachungsinstrumente entwickeln und damit aktuelle und vergangene Bedingungen vom Pliozän bis zum Holozän vergleichen. Die Ergebnisse werden unser Wissen über die biotische Reaktion auf Umweltveränderungen verbessern und wesentliche Grundlagen für die Vorhersage der Auswirkungen des anhaltenden globalen Klimawandels bieten. 4D_REEF wird führende Gruppen und Fachleute aus verschiedenen Forschungsfeldern zusammenführen und somit außerdem Schulungsmöglichkeiten für Nachwuchsforschende schaffen.
Ziel
Coral reefs are the economically most highly valued ecosystems in the world. However, ongoing anthropogenic environmental changes have severely degraded their environments. Analyses of fossil data show that reefs living in so-called turbid habitats, characterized by the influence of terrestrial run-off, played an important role in the origins and maintenance of reef ecosystems. Key questions addressed in 4D-REEF are: 1) What did pristine reefs look like?; 2) Can we predict which areas will most likely support coral reefs in future climate change scenarios?; 3) Is it possible to develop monitoring tools that can be used to compare current and past conditions? We will study examples from the Holocene, prior to significant anthropogenic impact, and the Pliocene, a future greenhouse analogue, and compare them with the present-day reef conditions. These new data will provide the essential baselines for predicting the impact of ongoing global environmental change.
4D-REEF will develop new techniques for data collection, analysis, and visualisation that can be applied in future data-intensive projects in the Earth and Life Sciences. The increasingly complex, large size and 3D nature of datasets calls for the application of innovative techniques to be developed and standardised through cross-sectoral collaborations between Earth and Life scientists and visualisation experts.
4D-REEF will bring together leading groups and experts from a range of research environments, including universities, natural history museums, an applied science institute, SME, and NGO. This will generate a training environment in which the ESRs can make informed decisions to pursue high-level careers in or outside academia, and modify their training programme accordingly. Because of our interdisciplinary approach, the current need to understand biotic response to on-going environmental change, we believe that this is an ideal topic for the training of a cohort of Early Stage Researchers.
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