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Cornelia Twining

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Über mich

I am an ecophysiologist and I investigate how consumers adapt to their nutritional landscape, especially in the face of global environmental change. I have primarily examined how omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) move through and are modified by consumers within food webs. While aquatic primary producers are often rich in n-3 long-chain (LC) PUFAs, these compounds are extremely scarce at the base of terrestrial ecosystems. My findings have revealed the unique role that aquatic ecosystems play as sources of critical nutrients for both aquatic and terrestrial consumers and highlight the importance of understanding how processes like climate and land use change are altering the quality, quantity, and phenology of aquatic to terrestrial subsidies. 

Projekte

Wie wird Klimawandel die Phänologie, Biomasse, und Ernährungsqualität ökosystemübergreifender Flüsse verändern ?

Curriculum Vitae

2024 - Present

Group Leader, Eawag, Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland

Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zürich, Switzerland

2021 - 2023 Marie Skłodowksa Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Eawag, Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
2018 - 2021 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany and University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
2012 - 2018 PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
2011 - 2012 MESc, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
2007 - 2011 BA, Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Key Publications

Twining, C. W., J. R. Shipley, and B. Matthews. 2022. Climate change creates nutritional phenological mismatches. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37:736-739.


Shipley, J. R., C. W. Twining, M. Mathieu-Resuge, T. P. Parmar, M. Kainz, D. Martin-Creuzburg, C. Weber, D. W. Winkler, C. H. Graham, and B. Matthews. 2022. Climate change shifts the timing of nutritional flux from aquatic insects. Current Biology 32:1342-1349.e1343.


Twining, C.W., J.R. Bernhardt, A.M., Derry, C.M. Hudson, A. Ishikawa, N, Kabeya, M.J. Kainz, J. Kitano, C. Kowarik, S.N. Ladd, M.C. Leal, K. Scharnweber, J.R. Shipley, and B. Matthews. 2021. The evolutionary ecology of fatty-acid variation: implications for consumer adaptation and diversification. Ecology Letters 24(8):1709-1731. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13771


Twining, C. W., S. J. Taipale, L. Ruess, A. Bec, D. Martin-Creuzburg, and M. J. Kainz. 2020. Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375:20190641. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0641


Twining, C. W., J. T. Brenna, P. Lawrence, D. W. Winkler, A. S. Flecker, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 2019. Aquatic and terrestrial resources are not nutritionally reciprocal for consumers. Funct. Ecol. 33:2042-2052.


Twining, C. W., J. R. Shipley, and D. W. Winkler. 2018. Aquatic insects rich in omega-3 fatty acids drive breeding success in a widespread bird. Ecology Letters 21:1812-1820.


Twining, C. W., J. T. Brenna, P. Lawrence, J. R. Shipley, T. N. Tollefson, and D. W. Winkler. 2016. Omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids support aerial insectivore performance more than food quantity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:10920-10925.


Twining, C. W., J. T. Brenna, N. G. Hairston, Jr., and A. S. Flecker. 2016. Highly unsaturated fatty acids in nature: what we know and what we need to learn. Oikos 125:749-760.


Adresse

E-Mail: cornelia.twining@eawag.ch
Telefon: +41 58 765 2128
Fax: +41 58 765 1122
Adresse: Eawag
Seestrasse 79
6047 Kastanienbaum
Büro: CA B08

Experte für

Ökologie, Evolution, Klimaveränderung, Flüsse, Fettsäuren

Forschungsgruppen

Food Web Ecophysiology