Phytoplankton dynamics

Project description

Phytoplankton are the base of most marine food webs, but because they are microscopic little is known about their distributions and interactions over distances relevant to individual phytoplankton, despite this being the crucial ecological scale for understanding population and community dynamics. Scientists have hypothesized that the effects of changes in microscale interactions can cascade upwards, possibly to spatial scales of kilometres, thereby influencing an entire ecosystem. This hypothesis needs testing and students are welcome to discuss development of projects. The possible projects in this area range from observation of microscale distributions to experiments testing for cascade of change.

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