The Wadden Sea Over the Course of Time

Wadden Sea. Wadden Sea Station Sylt (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Lars Grübner) Figure 1 (Graphic: Wiltshire, Amorim et al. 2022) Figure 2 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Victor Odongo En

Water Meets Land – Coastal Hydrography and Geology

understanding of the Holocene formation and long-term evolution of coastal areas. Oyster reef (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Mathias Wegner) How exactly habitats and sediment structures form is highly dependent [...] lectures on Sylt - for example on 15 October 2024 at a lecture by Jasper Hofmann. Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Lasse Sander Physical geographer Dr Lasse Sander, expert on the topic of

Salt Marshes and Seagrass Meadows

salt marsh area of around 15% in the last 30 years. [Translate to English:] Mesokosmen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Esther Horvath) Seagrass meadows are often found in the sea adjacent to or in close [...] nutrient discharges would be needed in order to initiate a seagrass recovery here. Seegras (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Tobias Dolch Physical geographer Dr Tobias Dolch, expert on habitat changes

A belly full of jelly

assumed that jellyfish were a dead-end food source for predatory fish. However, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Thünen Institute has now discovered that fish in Greenland waters

Team

Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde before he went to the Wadden Sea Station Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in 2004. He did his PhD on the [...] effects between introduced and native organisms. Coralie Broquard Coralie_Broquard.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) I am interested in the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on aquatic organisms' [...] exposed to oyster farming (European project SPARE-SEA). Helen Spence-Jones HSJ.jpeg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) My interest in big-picture evolutionary questions has taken me from the behavioural

WG Community & Evolutionary Ecology

Evol Biol 27, 2297-2307. Microbial symbiont: the host as a habitat Microbiome_Graph.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Higher organisms are not only part of ecosystems - they also represent an ecosystem

Asymmetric development of the polar ice sheets changed ice age cycles

Pleistocene, around 2 million years before today: the so-called mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT). The Alfred Wegener Institute was involved in the study, which was published in the journal Science .

Research

and functional shifts in future climate scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic

Phytoplankton Ecophysiology

major drivers controlling phytoplankton productivity and species composition. Björn Rost (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Working group Prof. Dr. Björn Rost Dr. Sebastian Rokitta Dr. Clara Hoppe Dr. Sinhue

Coastal Waters Under Pressure

habitats that are so vital for humans could suffer as a result, warns a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. To better understand these critical de