Changing life in lakes – human impacts on trophic interactions
Abstract: The Anthropocene is marked by swift environmental changes attributed to human activities. These activities have caused or intensified stress on ecological communities and their constituent species. Stressors, impacting survival and reproduction, lead to altered selective pressures affecting organisms. Adaptive responses to these altered pressures encompass a spectrum, ranging from physiological phenotypic flexibility to shifts in the microbiome and evolutionary adaptations. These responses can create a feedback loop influencing ecological processes at the population and community levels, thereby impacting the overall functioning of ecosystems. Adaptive reactions to stress play a crucial role in either preventing or promoting sudden shifts between alternative stable states within ecosystems. A profound understanding of the intricate interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes that constitute the communities’ responses in navigating their changing environment is essential for predicting, planning for, and managing the societal consequences of environmental change.
Join me here in exploring how ecosystem change can lead to evolutionary change in plankton communities of lake ecosystems.
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IGB strives to facilitate and accelerate the exchange of knowledge and ideas within and also outside of IGB. One element contributing to inter- and transdisciplinary exchange, and more (scientific) cooperation and innovation, is to open up IGB Colloquia to an interested external audience from science (other research institutes, universities, laboratories) as well as practice (i.e. conservationists, freshwater/land-use managers, authorities, associations). If you would like to join this IGB Colloquium as a guest, we ask you to register until the morning of the colloquium 10 o'clock the latest. After we have checked your registration, you will receive the participation link.