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2017

14 FEB

New data paper on marine copepod traits

We compiled data to understand the ecology of marine copepods based on their fundamental traits, such as body size or growth rate, rather than based on species names.

24 JAN

Philipp Brun defended his PhD thesis

Last Friday (20st Jan 2017) Philipp defended his PhD thesis with the title “Plankton biogeography – an exploration of patterns, drivers, functions, and predictability”.

2016

24 OCT

Ocean life article discussed on Videnskab.dk

A popular article discusses the findings of the recently published paper “Trait biogeography of marine copepods - an analysis across scales” by Brun, Payne and Kiørboe on Videnskab.dk.

11 OCT

New paper on trait biogeography of marine copepods

We have produced the first ever global maps of key traits of copepods, the dominant group of zooplankton, by combining geo-located observations of hundreds of taxa that have been made throughout the past century with trait data compiled from the literature.

04 APR

How reliable are predictions of future plankton distributions? A new paper offers surprising insight

We find the reliability of predictions of distributional shifts of plankton made by commonly used ‘species distribution models’ to be worse than is commonly appreciated.

2015

08 SEP

How can phytoplankton evolution be measured in the field?

A new letter from the Centre in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences picks up the discussion.