Projektnummer

0050838

Zusammenfassung

Conservation of biodiversity and the impact of global change on ecosystems are among the key issues of a world increasingly influenced by mankind. The project will unravel the feedbacks between abiotic change, ecological traits and biodiversity in ecosystems in an evolutionary framework. Focussing on processes in deep time and applying a top-down approach, general principals of the interplay between earth system change and ecological evolution are extracted. Marine ecosystems over the entire Phanerozoic are the scope of the analyses. To analyze patterns and processes over large tempora...