| The Fisheries Science (FS – Prof. Axel Temming Prof. Christian Möllmann) group deals with the population dynamics of key fish species and their management. A key task of the FS group is the role of fish in marine food webs, i.e. to understand how "top-down" processes shape marine ecosystem structure and functioning.
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The FS group investigates the population dynamics of key fish species and the role of fish in marine food webs. A central research topic of the group is to clarify the mechanisms acting to influence recruitment of commercially and/or ecologically important marine fish species. The other main research area is to investigate “top-down” controls in marine ecosystems. This includes both piscivore and planktivore interactions as well as planktivore zooplankton interactions. The group applies both laboratory experiments and extensive field sampling campaigns, and uses the results of these in different modelling approaches. Research within the FS group examines a suite of topics from general ecology (trophodynamics) and physiology (ecophysiology) as well as aquaculture of key fish species. Data collected at the organismal level are included within a variety of simulation techniques to examine population- and community-level dynamics and responses to climate and fishing |
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Examples of Field Approaches
Examples of Laboratory Approaches
Examples of Modeling Techniques
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Members of the FS group have received funding from a variety of sources and have a number of ongoing EU and German national research programs including: :
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