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Cornelia Twining


Dr. Cornelia Twining
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
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@cluttereawag.ch |
Telefon: | +41 58 765 2128 |
Fax: | +41 58 765 1122 |
Adresse: | Eawag
Seestrasse 79 6047 Kastanienbaum |
Büro: | CA B08 |