Evolutionary stress ecology of Daphnia magna: a stoichiometric perspective

The overall objective of my doctoral research project is to increase our understanding of individual and combined effects of pesticides and predator-induced stress under global warming, and quantifying these effectson individuals and genotypes up to communities and ecosystem functions.We focus on freshwater ecosystems and changes in ecological stoichiometry. Parallel research of individual, genotype, species and community traits will allow testing for parallel changes at these levels both under pesticide stress, predation risk and under global warming. Special focus will be on the impact of pesticide- and fear-driven shifts in herbivore genotype and species composition on ecosystem functions, thereby directly exploring eco-evolutionary dynamics (linking micro-evolutionary dynamics to ecosystem functioning).status: publishe