Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Management

Heike Schwermer is working to enhance the system understanding to achieve a sustainable management of the Western Baltic Cod stock.
Find a description of her PhD project funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt here.

Saskia Otto and a team of Master and PhD students just released a software tool - the R package ‚INDperform‘ - that helps validating the performance of ecological indicators and assessing the ecosystem status based on a suite of indicators. The package is build on a framework recently published by Saskia and co-authors (Otto et al. 2018) and offers functions to

• identify temporal indicator changes,
• model relationships to pressures while taking non-linear responses and temporal autocorrelation into account, and to
• quantify the robustness of these models.

It can be installed from CRAN directly or from github as development version: https://github.com/saskiaotto/INDperform.

Saskia Otto has analysed the performance of 13 ecosystem indicators for the Baltic Sea health.

Read the Interview in the Hamburger Abendblatt.

A new method reveals the spatio-temporal dynamics of the North Sea fish community.

"Community ecology in 3D: Tensor decomposition reveals
spatio-temporal dynamics of large ecological communities"
PLoS ONE 12(11): e0188205.

Offshore Wind Farms act like small mixers in the summer - stratified North Sea.

“Pelagic effects of offshore wind farm foundations in the stratified North Sea”.
Progress in Oceanography 156. (2017): S. 154-173.

Romain Frelat has analysed the diversity of North Sea fish forms ...
...read the interview here !