Christian Pansch-Hattich

Group Name: Experimental Ecology - Stress Ecology & Ecophysiology

Subject: Marine Biology

University: Åbo Akademi University

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Areas of Expertise

Climate change impacts on marine systems; environmental variability & extreme climatic events, heatwaves, climate change refugia, thermal microclimates
Area: Ecophysiology, thermal ecology, acclimation & adaptation, species interactions e.g., facilitation, mesocosm food webs, invasion ecology, macrophyte-grazer interactions
Systems: Bivalves, macrophytes (seagrass, Fucus), associated epi- and infauna, crustaceans (Gammarus, Idotea, mudcrabs), phytoplankton

PhD S. Rühmkorff: Resilience of Seagrass Ecosystems through Habitat Heterogeneity & Genetic Diversity
ÅA Stiftelse: SOS - Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science
Horizon: SEA-Quester - Blue Carbon production, export, & sequestration in emerging polar ecosystems
Res. Counc. Norway: NORSE - Biodiversity in Northern European Seagrass meadows – drivers, responses, & resilience
PhD L. Kraufvelin: Impacts of Heatwaves on the Functioning of Temperate Coastal Ecosystems

Combine ecophysiology, acclimation, and adaptation experimental studies with simplified community assessments in mostly experimental approaches
Using high-throughput incubation units and mesocosms
Simulating multiple and fluctuating climate change drivers
High-resolution coastal environmental monitoring

Funders: EU, Research Council Fi, Svenska Kulturfonden, Stiftelse Åbo Akademi, City of Turku
Collaborations: Tvärminne Zoological Station at Helsinki University, Turku, University of Applied Sciences – TUAS, Tjärnö Marine Laboratory at Gothenburg University, GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute for polar and marine research (AWI) – Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde – IOW

Small-scale thermal habitat variability may not determine seagrass resilience to climate change. Limnology and Oceanography. In press
The interplay of co-occurring ecosystem engineers shapes the structure of benthic communities – a mesocosm experiment. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2024. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1304442
Marine heatwaves and hypoxic upwelling shape stress responses in a keystone predator. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. 2023. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2262
Environmental variability in aquatic ecosystems: avenues for future multifactorial experiments. Limnology and Oceanography – Letters. 2023. DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10286
Editorial: Influence of environmental variability on climate change impacts in marine ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2022. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.994756