Research group Group Winder
We study drivers of food web interactions and community dynamics to better understand the ecological impacts of environmental change on ecosystem functioning.
The goal of our research activities is to understand underlying causes that regulate food web structure and community dynamics. We are particularly interested in how species interactions and environmental drivers regulate food web dynamics and how they may look like in the future. We address questions mainly in aquatic systems with a special emphasis on planktonic organisms.
Our research methods combine field surveys, experiments at multiple scales and analysis of long-term observational data. We work in lakes and marine systems, in temperate and tropical locations.
Ongoing projects:
- Consequences of environmental change on plankton species interaction networks and ecosystem function
- Plankton-fish interactions: an understudied link in Baltic Sea food webs and fisheries management
- Drivers and functions of protist parasites in plankton food webs
- Larval fish production and dispersal in critical habitats of coastal East Africa
- Sustainable management and governance of water and soil in Bolivia
Group members
Group managers
Monika Quinones Winder
Professor
Members
Neea Hanström
PhD student
Tianshuo Xu
PhD student
Noah Ngisiang'e
Doktorand
Kinlan Jan
Doktorand
