adaptability in relation to environmental factors, which are affected or unaffected by increasing anthropogenic CO2 emission, as well as their role in biogeochemical cycles. The generated data will be used

ecological network approach to retrospectively analyse and forecast multilevel health impacts of anthropogenic stressors on the Baltic Sea ecosystem I. Eulaers, T. Härkönen, J.-P. Desforges, K. Hårding, F

important implications for Southern Ocean phytoplankton ecology. By the year 2100, the ongoing anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) will likely have increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations from

Ocean. Thus, this system provides a unique natural model system to study the consequences of anthropogenic warming on food web dynamics and concurrent direct and indirect effects on biogeochemical cycles

control on the global carbon cycle and is considered to be responsible for 40% of uptake of anthropogenic CO2, playing therefore a pivotal role in the global climate system. Southern Ocean phytoplankton

and thus miss a long-term perspective that is, however, crucial for distinguishing natural and anthropogenic triggers for climate change. The present interglacial period, the Holocene and the preceding

Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly under the influence of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. My research focuses on the dynamics of disturbances, their landscape-scale impacts

symposium, May 14-18 2012 in Levi, Finland was Polar regions in transformation; climatic change and anthropogenic pressures. ICRSS-2012 group photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 13th ICRSS 2014 (Reykjavík [...] symposium, 8-12 September 2014 in Reykjavík was Polar regions in transformation; climatic change and anthropogenic pressures. ICRSS-2014 Gulfoss (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 14th ICRSS 2016 (Homer, Alaska [...] September 2018 in Potsdam, Germany, was Polar Regions in Transformation - Climatic Change and Anthropogenic Pressures .

changes are also studied in such experiments. Large scale circulation changes as captured by anthropogenic tracers Contact: Michael Karcher The Arctic Ocean surface circulation is characterized by the [...] mark specific water masses on their paths through the Arctic. Such a tracer is 129 Iodine, an anthropogenic radionuclide which is dumped as waste into the Irish Sea and the North Sea by nuclear reprocessing

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In the Paris Agreement of 2015, Germany and the global community agreed to limit anthropogenic global warming to less than 2°C. But that goal can only be reached if both national and international