Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry
Research
Research
Global Change Biology: One
thematic focus of several CEEB research groups are effects of global and
regional environmental change on biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems
(climate change, changes in nutrient fluxes, changes in management schemes).
Core strength of the CEEB is the establishment and use of rare ecological long-term
data series and mechanistic as well as evolutionary models for a number of lakes
in Switzerland and elsewhere, including Lake Baikal, Lake Victoria, Lake Kivu
and several tropical reservoirs. One
important long-term goal is to couple biodiversity and ecosystem models to
non-biological models of global and regional change.