in a Changing Climate Perspective

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The five year research programme EcoChange (2010-2014) is all about discovering and predicting what ecological consequences climate changes - e g increased temperature and precipitation – will have on the Baltic Sea, and how the Baltic Sea will respond to these consequences.

For years, the Baltic Sea has been affected by eutrophication and overfishing. Now, climate changes threaten to accentuate these human-induced effects leading to ecosystem changes of hitherto unprecedented magnitudes.
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Programme Summary

EcoChange is a research programme which intends to estimate and predict the climate change responses of the Baltic Sea. The programme is a collaboration of Umeå University (UmU), Linnaeus University in Kalmar (LnU), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and the Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM). The programme is hosted by Umeå University.

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Main Research Areas

The main goal in EcoChange is to describe and analyse key processes and factors of importance for the future structure and function of the Baltic Sea ecosystem. Human-induced change factors are important components in that complex picture.
Photo: Jerker Lokrantz/Azote

The research is divided into five integrated themes targeting different areas of the call.

Theme 1: Effects of changes of environmental drivers on the structure and productivity of the microbial food webTheme 2: Feedback of higher trophic levels and overharvestingTheme 3: Future changes in food web transport of legacy and emerging POPsTheme 4: Support for marine monitoringTheme 5: Integrated synthesis of the research

Page Editor: Andrea Gillgren
2011-11-02