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Employee information:

Name: Sarina Jung
Department: Marine Ecology (MEE)
Email: Sarina.Jung(at)nioz.nl
Telephone: +31 (0)222 369 455
 
Current project(s): Impact biological invasions (I

About:

 

Alexa Sarina Jung

PhD Student

 

 

 

 

 Sarina Jung

Expertise

Marine Ecology -  Invasive species - Food web ecology 

 

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since 2012

PhD Student, Royal Netherlands Institue of Sea Research, Texel, Netherlands

2010

MSc Marine Ecosystem and Fischeries Science, University Hamburg, Germany

2008

BSc Biology, University Hamburg, Germany

 

 

Research Interests
The main issue of my PhD is to construct food web models with Ecological Network Analysis (ENA) for selected tidal basins, in my case this will be the Balgzand area, and to consider the impact of invasive species on them. This task includes the processing of available long term and monitoring data for dominant species of the Balgzand and estimating energy flow and assembling carbon budgets.

Invasive species have changed the species composition in the Wadden Sea in recent years. They will have an influence on the food web by altering the filtration potential, food spectra, changing food resources and altering predator prey interactions. Food web models may integrate changing trophic pathways and show the alterations more clearly. These food webs could be compared and could deliver scenarios of the changing environment of the Wadden Sea, especially due to temperature and biotic invasions. They could be useful tools for the management of the area and could be especially helpful in detecting indirect effects between components and trophic cascades of the area. Especially the future trends in the development of populations of invertebrates, fishes, birds and mammals could be proven from a trophic perspective and the influence of mussel, shrimp as well as flatfish fishery could be evaluated by an ecosystem based management concept.

 

Projects

Impacts of major invasions in the western Wadden Sea food-web structure since the 1970’s (PhD Project; Supervisors: Henk van der Veer, Katja Philippart; in collaboration with Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI; List, Sylt, Germany) and Senckenberg Institute (Wilhelmshaven, Germany))

 

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