Network of Leading Ecosystem Scale Experimental AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Oceans in Europe and beyond

Project Information

AQUACOSM-plus

Grant agreement ID: 871081

DOI

10.3030/871081

Project closed

EC signature date 2 March 2020

Start date 1 April 2020

End date 31 March 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Research Infrastructures

Total cost

€ 9 999 564,88

EU contribution

€ 9 999 563,00

Coordinated by

FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN EV
Germany

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (6)

Virtual Access to near real time data streams
Online training modules on open science
Online script and protocol library available (inlcuding processing and QA / QC scripts)

Online script and protocol library available including processing and QA QC scripts

TA portal and Project Tracker
Improved metadata portal
Website (updated)

Website updated

Documents, reports (33)

Catalogue of grand challenges
Roadmap for the future
Short and long-term climate change experiments
Delivery of report on quantity and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of Transnational Access delivered at all partner facilities M22-45
Success of JRA strategies in WP8.1 & WP8.3
Imaging instruments in identification of planktonic food web compartments
Minutes of workshop open science benefits
Unlocking innovation
Light-weight mesocosm raft system

Lightweight mesocosm raft system

Workshop on AI in imaging recognition techniques
Report on the workshop on international collaboration in mesocosm based research incl. associated partners from mesocosm.eu

Report on the workshop on international collaboration in mesocosm based research incl associated partners from mesocosmeu

": Report on ""online wikibook on various aspects of mesocosm science"" usage and impacts"

: Report on “online wikibook on various aspects of mesocosm science” usage and impacts

Strategy documentation
Report of the primary data portal status
Outreach Activities 2
Minutes of the second summer School for knowledge transfer
Report on international view of on mesocosms and water grand challenges
Outreach Activities and Education Materials
First Report on networking and training activities and their impact using social media
Outreach Activities
Expert contributor module on TA portal
Case-study on impact of mesocosm studies on contemporary environmental issues

Casestudy on impact of mesocosm studies on contemporary environmental issues

Delivery of report on quantity and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of Transnational Access delivered at all partner facilities for M10-21

Delivery of report on quantity and Key Performance Indicators KPIs of Transnational Access delivered at all partner facilities for M1021

Report on the specific training workshops on networking, communication, open data and hands on training encompassing river, lake/pond, marine and temporary waters

Report on the specific training workshops on networking communication open data and hands on training encompassing river lakepond marine and temporary waters

Report of centralized data portal launch.

Report of centralized data portal launch

Results of benthic mesocosm and raft system with chambers and sensors
Open mesocosm science evaluation
GHG hands-on Workshop

GHG handson Workshop

Minutes of the first summer School for knowledge transfer
Boundary conditions for winter mesocosms
JRA-TA partnership programme
Transferring Grand Challenges into Experimental Designs
Report on TA data open

Open Research Data Pilot (2)

Data management plan version 2
Data management plan version 1

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (5)

AQUACOSM-plus Open Access fund
Workflow for allocating DOI’s

Workflow for allocating DOIs

Plan for centralised data portal for mesocosm data
Self-flushing chamber and GHG sensor system

Selfflushing chamber and GHG sensor system

Prototype of affordable sensor system

Other (1)

Training video and guidance documentation for TA users

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (29)

Environmental variability in aquatic ecosystems: avenues for future multifactorial experiments

Author(s): Gerhard, Miriam; Koussoroplis, Apostolos‐Manuel; Raatz, Michael; Pansch, Christian; Fey, Samuel B.; Vajedsamiei, Jahangir; Calderó‐Pascual, Maria; Cunillera‐Montcusí, David; Juvigny‐Khenafou, Noël P. D.; Polazzo, Francesco; Thomas, Patrick K.; Symons, Celia C.; Beklioğlu, Meryem; Berger, Stella A.; Chefaoui, Rosa M.; Ger, Kemal Ali; Langenheder, Silke; Nejstgaard, Jens C.; Ptacnik, Rob
Published in: LIMNOLOGY and OCEANOGRAPHY Letters, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2378-2242
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10286

Omnivorous Carp (Carassius gibelio) Increase Eutrophication in Part by Preventing Development of Large-Bodied Zooplankton and Submerged Macrophytes

Author(s): Razlutskij, V; Mei, XY; Maisak, N; Sysova, E; Lukashanets, D; Makaranka, A; Jeppesen, E; Zhang, XF
Published in: Water, Issue 13/11, 2021, Page(s) 1497, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w13111497

Bimodality and alternative equilibria do not help explain long-term patterns in shallow lake chlorophyll-a

Author(s): Thomas A. Davidson, Carl D. Sayer, Erik Jeppesen, Martin Søndergaard, Torben L. Lauridsen, Liselotte S. Johansson, Ambroise Baker, Daniel Graeber
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36343-0

Marine primary producers in a darker future: a meta-analysis of light effects on pelagic and benthic autotrophs

Author(s): Striebel, M (Striebel, Maren) ; Kallajoki, L (Kallajoki, Liisa) ; Kunze, C (Kunze, Charlotte) ; Wollschlager, J (Wollschlaeger, Jochen) ; Deininger, A (Deininger, Anne) ; Hillebrand, H (Hillebrand, Helmut)
Published in: OIKOS, 2023, ISSN 0030-1299
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/oik.09501

Effects of an experimental terrestrial runoff on the components of the plankton food web in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon

Author(s): Courboulès, J; Vidussi, F; Soulié, T; Nikiforakis, E; Heydon, M; Mas, S; Joux, F; Mostajir, B
Published in: FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, 2023, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1200757

Functional and structural responses of plankton communities toward consecutive experimental heatwaves in Mediterranean coastal waters

Author(s): Soulié, Tanguy; Vidussi, Francesca; Mas, Sébastien; Mostajir, Behzad
Published in: Scientific Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2023), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35311-4

Phytoplankton Community Response to Nutrients, Temperatures, and a Heat Wave in Shallow Lakes: An Experimental Approach

Author(s): Filiz, N; Iskin, U; Beklioglu, M; Oglu, B; Cao, Y; Davidson, TA; Sondergaard, M; Lauridsen, TL; Jeppesen, E
Published in: Water, Issue 12/12, 2020, Page(s) 3394, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w12123394

Combined effects of eutrophication and warming on polyunsaturated fatty acids in complex phytoplankton communities: A mesocosm experiment

Author(s): Ursula, Strandberg; Minna, Hiltunen; Jari, Syväranta; Eti E, Levi; Thomas A, Davidson; Erik, Jeppesen; Michael T, Brett
Published in: Science of the Total Environment, Issue 30, 2022, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157001

Breathing space: deoxygenation of aquatic environments can drive differential ecological impacts across biological invasion stages

Author(s): James W. E. Dickey, Neil E. Coughlan, Jaimie T. A. Dick, Vincent Médoc, Monica McCard, Peter R. Leavitt, Gérard Lacroix, Sarah Fiorini, Alexis Millot, Ross N. Cuthbert
Published in: Biological Invasions, Issue 23/9, 2021, Page(s) 2831-2847, ISSN 1387-3547
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02542-3

Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world

Author(s): Cunillera-Montcusí, David; Beklioğlu, Meryem; Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Jeppesen, Erik; Ptacnik, Robert; Amorim, Cihelio A.; Arnott, Shelley E.; Berger, Stella A.; Brucet, Sandra; Dugan, Hilary A.; Gerhard, Miriam; Horváth, Zsófia; Langenheder, Silke; Nejstgaard, Jens C.; Reinikainen, Marko; Striebel, Maren; Urrutia-Cordero, Pablo; Vad, Csaba F.; Zadereev, Egor; Matias, Miguel
Published in: Cunillera-Montcusí , D , Beklioğlu , M , Cañedo-Argüelles , M , Jeppesen , E , Ptacnik , R , Amorim , C A , Arnott , S E , Berger , S A , Brucet , S , Dugan , H A , Gerhard , M , Horváth , Z , Langenheder , S , Nejstgaard , J C , Reinikainen , M , Striebel , M , Urrutia-Cordero , P , Vad , C F , Zadereev , E & Matias , M 2022 , ' Freshwater salinisation : a research agenda for a saltier world, Issue 8, 2022, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.005

Increased Water Abstraction and Climate Change Have Substantial Effect on Morphometry, Salinity, and Biotic Communities in Lakes: Examples from the Semi-Arid Burdur Basin (Turkey)

Author(s): Mehmet Arda Çolak; Barış Öztaş; İbrahim Kaan Özgencil; Melisa Soyluer; Mustafa Korkmaz; Arely; Ramírez-García; Melisa Metin; Gültekin Yılmaz; Serhat Ertuğrul; Ülkü Nihan Tavşanoğlu; Cihelio Alves Amorim; Can Özen; 8, Meral Apaydın Yağcı; Abdulkadir Yağcı; Juan Pablo Pacheco; Korhan Özkan; Meryem Beklioğlu; rik Jeppesen; Zuhal Akyürek
Published in: Water, 2022, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w14081241

Disentangling food-web environment relationships: A review with guidelines

Author(s): Mestre, Federico; Gravel, Dominique; García-Callejas, David; Pinto-Cruz, Carla; Matías, Miguel G.; Araújo, Miguel B.
Published in: instname:, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 1439-1791
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2022.03.011

Fine-tuning biodiversity assessments: A framework to pair eDNA metabarcoding and morphological approaches

Author(s): Pereira, CL; Gilbert, MTP; Araujo, MB; Matias, MG
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 12/12, 2021, Page(s) 2397-2409, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13718

The combined impact of low temperatures and shifting phosphorus availability on the competitive ability of cyanobacteria

Author(s): Briddon, CL (Briddon, Charlotte L.) ; Szekeres, E (Szekeres, Edina) ; Hegedus, A (Hegedus, Adriana) ; Nicoara, M (Nicoara, Maria) ; Chiriac, C (Chiriac, Cecilia) ; Stockenreiter, M (Stockenreiter, Maria) ; Druga, B (Druga, Bogdan)
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-20580-2

Microbial stowaways: Waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro- and microeukaryotic communities

Author(s): Szabo, B (Szabo, Beata) ; Szabo, A (Szabo, Attila) ; Vad, CF (Vad, Csaba F.) ; Boros, E (Boros, Emil) ; Lukic, D (Lukic, Dunja) ; Ptacnik, R (Ptacnik, Robert) ; Marton, Z (Marton, Zsuzsanna) ; Horvath, Z (Horvath, Zsofia)
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, 2022, ISSN 0305-0270
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14381

Phytoplankton Community Performance Depends on the Frequency of Temperature Fluctuations

Author(s): Kunze, C (Kunze, Charlotte) ; Gerhard, M (Gerhard, Miriam) ; Jacob, M (Jacob, Marrit) ; Franke, NA (Franke, Niklas Alexander) ; Schroeder, M (Schroeder, Matthias) ; Striebel, M (Striebel, Maren)
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.812902

Decadal changes in size, salinity, waterbirds, and fish in lakes of the Konya Closed Basin, Turkey, associated with climate change and increasing water abstraction for agriculture

Author(s): Yilmaz, G; Colak, MA; Ozgencil, IK; Metin, M; Korkmaz, M; Ertugrul, S; Soyluer, M; Bucak, T; Tavsanoglu, UN; Ozkan, K; Akyurek, Z; Beklioglu, M; Jeppesen, E
Published in: INLAND WATERS, 2021, ISSN 2044-2041
Publisher: Freshwater Biological Association
DOI: 10.1080/20442041.2021.1924034

Quality matters: Response of bacteria and ciliates to different allochthonous dissolved organic matter sources as a pulsed disturbance in shallow lakes

Author(s): Yalçin, G; Yildiz, D; Calderó-Pascual, M; Yetim, S; Sahin, Y; Parakatselaki, ME; Avci, F; Karakaya, N; Ladoukakis, ED; Berger, AS; Ger AK; Jeppesen, E; Beklioglu, M
Published in: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 2024, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170140

Novel physiological data needed for progress in global change ecology

Author(s): Salvador Herrando-Pérez; David R. Vieites; Miguel B. Araújo
Published in: Basic and Apllied Ecology, Issue 9, 2023, ISSN 1618-0089
Publisher: ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2023.01.002

From adverse to beneficial: Contrasting dietary effects of freshwater mixotrophs on zooplankton

Author(s): Vad, CF; Schneider, C; Fischer, R; Kainz, MJ; Ptacnik, R
Published in: Freshwater Biology, Issue 66/12, 2021, Page(s) 2272-2282, ISSN 0046-5070
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13832

Fish Size Structure as an Indicator of Fish Diversity: A Study of 40 Lakes in Türkiye

Author(s): Thomas Boll; Şeyda Erdoğan; Ümmühan Aslan Bıçkı; Nur Filiz; Arda Özen; Eti Ester Levi; Sandra Brucet; Erik Jeppesen; Meryem Beklioğlu
Published in: Water, Vol 15, Iss 12, p 2147 (2023), Issue 27, 2023, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w15122147

Activity and abundance of methane-oxidizing bacteria on plants in experimental lakes subjected to different nutrient and warming treatments

Author(s): Esposito, C (Esposito, Chiara) ; Nijman, TPA (Nijman, Thomas P. A.) ; Veraart, AJ (Veraart, Annelies J.) ; Audet, J (Audet, Joachim) ; Levi, EE (Levi, Eti E.) ; Lauridsen, TL (Lauridsen, Torben L.) ; Davidson, TA (Davidson, Thomas A.)
Published in: Aquatic Botany, 2023, ISSN 0304-3770
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2022.103610

What makes a cyanobacterial bloom disappear? A review of the abiotic and biotic cyanobacterial bloom loss factors

Author(s): Ted D. Harris a,$, Kaitlin L. Reinl b,$, Marzi Azarderakhsh c, Stella A. Berger d, Manuel Castro Berman e, Mina Bizic d, Ruchi Bhattacharya f, Sarah H. Burnet g, Jacob A. Cianci-Gaskill h, Lisette N. de Senerpont Domis i,j, Inge Elfferich k, K. Ali Ger l, Hans-Peter F. Grossart d,m, Bas W. Ibelings n, Danny Ionescu d, Zohreh Mazaheri Kouhanestani o, Jonas Mauch p, Yvonne R. McElarney q, Veronica N
Published in: Harmful Algea, 2024, ISSN 0304-3770
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2024.102599

Long-term acclimation might enhance the growth and competitive ability of Microcystis aeruginosa in warm environments

Author(s): Drugă, Bogdan; Ramm, Elisabeth; Szekeres, Edina; Chiriac, Cecilia; Hegedüs, Adriana; Stockenreiter, Maria
Published in: ISSN: 0046-5070, 1365-2427, Issue 22, 2022, ISSN 0046-5070
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.13865

Brownification in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: effect of simulated terrestrial input on the planktonic microbial food web in an oligotrophic sea

Author(s): Ktistaki G, Magiopoulos I, Corno G, Courboulès J, Eckert EM, González J, Kalantzi I, Middelboe M, Symiakaki K, Tsapakis M, Vidussi F and Pitta P
Published in: FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, 2024, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1343415

Spatial insurance against a heatwave differs between trophic levels in experimental aquatic communities

Author(s): Csaba F. Vad; Anett Hanny‐Endrédi; Pavel Kratina; András Abonyi; Ekaterina Mironova; David S. Murray; Larysa Samchyshyna; Ioannis Tsakalakis; Evangelia Smeti; Sofie Spatharis; Hanrong Tan; Christian Preiler; Adam Petrusek; Mia M. Bengtsson; Robert Ptacnik
Published in: Crossref, Issue 17, 2023, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16692

Mesocosm Design and Implementation of Two Synchronized Case Study Experiments to Determine the Impacts of Salinization and Climate Change on the Structure and Functioning of Shallow Lakes

Author(s): Korhan Özkan; Mustafa Korkmaz; Cihelio Alves Amorim; Gültekin Yılmaz; Meltem Koru; Yasemin Can; Juan Pablo Pacheco; Vildan Acar; Mehmet Arda Çolak; Gül Canan Yavuz; Lucía Cabrera-Lamanna; Onat Arıkan; Öykü Tanrıverdi; Serhat Ertuğrul; İrem Gamze Arık; Hande Nesli; İlker H. Tunur; Burak Kuyumcu; Zuhal Akyürek; Can Özen; Meryem Beklioğlu; Erik Jeppesen
Published in: Water; Volume 15; Issue 14; Pages: 2611, Issue 26, 2023, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w15142611

Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs

Author(s): Frederico Mestre; Alejandro Rozenfeld; Miguel B. Araújo
Published in: ECOLOGY LETTERS, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14107

Bimodality and alternative equilibria do not help explain long-term patterns in shallow lake chlorophyll-a

Author(s): Thomas A. Davidson; Carl D. Sayer; Erik Jeppesen; Martin Søndergaard; Torben L. Lauridsen; Liselotte S. Johansson; Ambroise Baker; Daniel Graeber
Published in: Davidson , T A , Sayer , C D , Jeppesen , E , Søndergaard , M , Lauridsen , T L , Johansson , L S , Baker , A & Graeber , D 2023 , ' Bimodality and alternative equilibria do not help explain long-term patterns in shallow lake chlorophyll-a ' , Nature Communications , vol. 14 , no. 1 , 398 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36043-9, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36043-9