Projects

Current Projects

UNRAVEL - Unraveling trophic interaction Networks: Responses to Anthropogenic and Environmental change in Lakes

Funding: Convocatoria Atracción de Talento “César Nombela” (Comunidad de Madrid, 2024-T1/ECO-31557)
PI: Zeynep Ersoy
Role: Principal Investigator


ACROSS - LAtitudinal gradients of species Richness and body-Size Spectrum in multiple trophic levels and ecosystems

Funding: Iberian Society of Ecology (SIBECOL) - Advanced ECR grant
PIs: Zeynep Ersoy, Ignasi Arranz, Charlotte Evangelista
Role: Co-Principal Investigator


ZooSize: Crustacean zooplankton community size distributions across a worldwide set of freshwater lakes

Support: GLEON (Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network)
PIs: Zeynep Ersoy, Rosalie Bruel
Role: Co-Principal Investigator


MacroSize: MACROecological body SIZE shifts under global change impacts in stream fish and other aquatic taxa

Funding: Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global, URJC
PIs: Ignasi Arranz, Pablo A. Tedesco
Role: Core team member


Worldwide FreshH20 Zoops: Synthesizing Patterns and Drivers of Zooplankton Community Dynamics Worldwide

Funding: ESIIL Working Groups
PI: Michael Meyer
Role: Core team member


FresH2O ZOOPS: Synthesizing patterns and drivers of changes in lake zooplankton community dynamics worldwide

Funding: French Foundation for Biodiversity Research, Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity
PIs: Rosalie Bruel, Jason Stockwell
Role: Core team member


Past Projects

DRY-Guadalmed (PID2021-126143OB-C21): Advanced tools for the assessment of the ecological status of Mediterranean temporary rivers during the dry phase

Funding: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Agencia Estatal de Investigación)
PIs: Núria Bonada, Núria Cid
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher


TRivers-P (ACA210/18/00022): Ecological status of temporary rivers: assessment methods of disconnected pools

Funding:Catalan Water Agency
PIs: Núria Bonada
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher


Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant of EU DRYvER (No. 869226) : Unravelling trophic interactions at the metacommunity scale in drying river networks

Hosting Institution: INRAE Clermont
PI: Zeynep Ersoy
Role: Principal Investigator


AdaptAlentejo (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030793) – Predicting ecosystem-level responses to climate change

Funding: Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal PI: Miguel Matias
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher


Recovery rate of zooplankton body size distributions after massive fish predation (mesocosm experiment)

Funding: Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Biology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) International Fellowship Programme
Role: PhD student


Funding: Carlsberg Foundation
PI: Erik Jeppesen
Role: PhD student


REFRESH - Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems (No. 244121)

Funding: EU
PIs: Meryem Beklioglu & Erik Jeppesen
Role: Master student