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

provided by macroalgae cultivation, the development of sustainable macroalgae aquaculture, and the anthropogenic impacts on macroalgae. In addition, she is leading a new initiative (SeaStrains) for the development

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

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

extreme events à anthropogenic driver host prokaryota eukar yota viruses nutrients defense developm ent à key microbial taxa also change through environmental fluctuations & anthropogenic activity Thank

average annual temperature of the earth caused by different factors accelerated exponentially by anthropogenic effect” E “Every day there are more and more natural disasters due to not taking care of things

Global Carbon Budget - Ocean Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the “global carbon budget” [...] land sink have approximately balanced. The oceans are therefore the most important net sink for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. The ocean in the Global Carbon Budget Less than half of all CO 2 emissions remain [...] land sink have approximately balanced. The oceans are therefore the most important net sink for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. Each year, we collect estimates of the ocean carbon sink from global ocean bi

the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide and are thus closely coupled to climate variability. Anthropogenic intervention alters the natural climate variability and raises the question of how environmental

–for the last few years- area intensive usage by offshore wind farms result in an increase in anthropogenic stress on the environment. A state-of-the-art ecosystem management and modern environmental protection [...] scales, spatial as well as temporal, is an indispensable prerequisite for the distinction between anthropogenic and natural impacts. Key Activities We are investigating the distribution of the benthos on different [...] different spatial (local-regional) and temporal (seasonal-long-term) scales effects of natural and anthropogenic change on the benthic system, i.e., ecosystem shifts caused by environmental shifts the ecological