DarkLaDy - Effects of browning on lake dynamics: Who wins and who loses?
investigates how browning affects species diversity, ecosystem functioning, and carbon transfer in lake food webs at an ecosystem scale.
Project aims
Dark LaDy is a consortium project funded by the Research Council of Finland for 2025-2029 led by Syke, with Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä as partners. The project will link the quality of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (tDOM) and elemental loading to nutritional quality, biodiversity, functionality, overall biomass, as well as energy transfer and elemental cycles of aquatic food webs at ecosystem level. The top-down and bottom-up effects of browning are studied at different trophic levels combining biochemical and genetic analyses, stable isotopes, field and experimental studies and modelling. JYU research concentrates on studying ionomes (relative concentrations of all chemical elements in organisms), characterization of carbon quality, microbial production using fatty acid stable isotopes and water analyses.
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