affected by climate change but - as an important economic region - also subject to numerous direct anthropogenic influences like tourism, fishery operations, shipping traffic, pollution & eutrophication from [...] set-up of wind farms at sea. With our focus on microbes these two aspects, climate change and anthropogenic pressure are under investigation in this topic. Vibrio are consistent members of the marine microbial

Gerdts, Matthew James Slater (ZAF)) AWI Strategy funding project OMAP - Oysters and mussels under anthropogenic pressure: Does microplastic limit the tolerance to climate change of ecologically and economically

international partners, we promote a better understanding of the causes and effects of natural and anthropogenic changes, like climate change. Together with the Helmholtz Association’s Earth and Environment

Anthropogenic climate change has, together with the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems through agriculture, fishing and industry, sparked an unprecedented loss of biodiversity that continues

Antarctic natural resources is currently (still) prohibited under the Antarctic Treaty. Hence few anthropogenic acoustic sources exist in this region while the sea ice cover absorps sound more efficiently than [...] reducing ambient sound levels further. Spectrogram of 20060829-2207_PALAOA (Photo: OZA AWI) Anthropogenic sound Ship noise Polarstern in sea ice (Photo: AWI) Twice a year, the German research vessel

Over the past 200 years, our planet’s oceans have absorbed more than a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As a result, their acidity has increased by nearly 30 percent their

of regional temperature fluctuations over the last 8000 years. The consequence: In addition to anthropogenic warming additional changes in regional climates are expected due to natural variability.

a research team led by Alfred Wegener Institute scientists investigated what long-term impact anthropogenic climate change will have on ocean eddies and their far-reaching effects. Using climate model

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Over the next few decades, anthropogenic climate change and the resultant changes in the global water cycle will produce a significant rise in drought frequency in the Northern Hemisphere

utilised seas, and in the past centuries it has undergone significant changes as a result of anthropogenic influences. The various uses have particularly affected the sea’s ecosystems: native species and