POF-IV in sub-topic 4.2 “ Coastal ecosystem sustainability against the backdrop of natural and anthropogenic drivers ”. Contact Lars Gutow

(ROV) as well as laboratory experiments in aquaria at AWI to address the effects of natural and anthropogenic stressors on CWC distribution, health and resilience. Our research contributes to POF-IV Subtopics

Our mission is to characterize the implications of anthropogenic underwater noise on marine invertebrates and ecosystems The increase of anthropogenic underwater noise (AUN) has altered marine acoustic

Anthropogenic impacts on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea [Translate to English:] Automatisierte in-situ Messung durch ein benthisches Absatzgestell. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] investigate the transport and accumulation of particulate organic carbon within the North Sea and how anthropogenic activities might alter the potential for carbon sequestration in marine sediments. Sediments deposited [...] ability to predict sedimentation processes is limited especially in the North Sea. Additionally, anthropogenic activities, such as bottom trawling, can alter POC sedimentation, releasing the deposited carbon

ecology of foundation species, their habitats and biogeochemistry, in response to natural and anthropogenic disturbance and climate change. Study areas include Arctic coasts, the North Sea, Patagonian fjords

POF-IV in sub-theme 4.2 " Coastal ecosystem sustainability against the backdrop of natural and anthropogenic drivers ". Contact Inka Bartsch Tosia Schmithüsen Ralph Kuhlenkamp (Phycomarin) Website: Code

management in the Weddell Sea. BEnToolsMaPs will generate and transfer knowledge on effects of anthropogenic stressors on the structure and function of Southern Ocean seafloor systems, facilitating deci

Fjords and West Antarctic Peninsula). Glacier melt and retreat are a significant influence of anthropogenic Climate Change on antarctic and subantarctic coastal habitats. As a consequence, increasing amounts

impacts and to better understand the structure and function of an ecosystem. Research AnthroTOP Anthropogenic uses in the North Sea: Impacts on marine top predators Human activities have various, mostly negative [...] when the ecosystem stress limit will be reached. Thus, understanding the cumulative effects of anthropogenic uses and estimates of the consequences of further expansions of uses is crucial. In AnthroTop [...] length determined. Over the years, we will be able to make statements about climate-related or anthropogenic changes, such as the direct and indirect influence of fishing in the Wadden Sea on the use of

centimetres – and in the future, it will continue to do so, and more quickly. This is chiefly due to anthropogenic climate change. The warmer atmosphere is heating the ocean, causing seawater to expand. In addition [...] replaced thermal expansion as the main cause. What the future looks like will above all depend on anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions. According to the IPCC’s climate projections, if emissions can be cut