Adapting to change
We explore the possibilities as well as limitations of organisms to adapt to environmental change with its effects on population dynamics and community structures. Using empirical data, both from experiments and from long-term datasets available at NIOZ, we can study this interplay in detail, over large spatial and temporal scales. The empirical insights work in tight connection with theoretical models predicting resilience, state shifts, and evolution, which allows a comprehensive understanding of ecological interactions in a changing coastal system.
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NIOZ, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, is the national oceanographic institute and the Netherlands’ centre of expertise for ocean, sea and coast. We advance fundamental understanding of marine systems, the way they change, the role they play in climate and biodiversity, and how they may provide sustainable solutions to society in the future.
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NIOZ, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, is the national oceanographic institute and the Netherlands’ centre of expertise for ocean, sea and coast. We advance fundamental understanding of marine systems, the way they change, the role they play in climate and biodiversity, and how they may provide sustainable solutions to society in the future.
Due to earlier snow melt, red knot chicks often miss out on their favourite prey, crane flies. (photo: Job ter Horn/NIOZ)
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The international research project ACTNOW advances fundamental knowledge on the cumulative impacts of multiple stressors on European marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions, natural capital and the ecosystem services provided for human wellbeing. The project cooperates with environmental regulators and decision-makers to provide advice on actions needed to effectively combat biodiversity loss in coastal and marine habitats facing climate change and other local and regional pressures.
