Synthetic Ecology for the management and commercial exploitation of freshwater ecosystems

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Title
Synthetic Ecology for the management and commercial exploitation of freshwater ecosystems

CoPED ID
1956c64a-a177-43c2-b02c-fc74e75c80ed

Status
Closed


Value
No funds listed.

Start Date
Sept. 30, 2016

End Date
Dec. 31, 2020

Description

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Theme: Agriculture and Food Security

In collaboration with members of the Plant Sciences Department a concept paper (Kazamia et al., 2013) was developed on how we can use our understanding of ecosystem processes to push a system towards a desirable end-point. The aim is to seed a system with key components, which are therefore likely to stabilise towards a desirable end point. We have the potential to use bivalve moullscs, allelopathic substances, competitors and synergists, or limiting nutrients to intentionally alter communities. This might, for example, allow us to gain clear water (i.e. standard biomanipulation), move a system towards a lipid rich algal community for biofuel production, or create conditions that are particularly favourable or unfavourable for a threatened or invasive organism respectively. Studies can combine laboratory studies with scaled-up mesocosms and full scale trials with the water industry.

This project has the potential to utilise systems biology and modelling to emulate ecosystem interactions and predict the stable climax communities which may arise under a range of different environmental conditions and species diversities. The project will certainly require the use of statistical analysis and modelling which can be achieved by using programmes such as R Studio and MatLab.

David Aldridge SUPER_PER
Sam Reynolds STUDENT_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Ecosystems (ecology)
  2. Climate changes
  3. Modelling (representation)
  4. Enterprises

Extracted key phrases
  1. Synthetic Ecology
  2. Freshwater ecosystem
  3. Commercial exploitation
  4. Ecosystem process
  5. Ecosystem interaction
  6. Desirable end point
  7. Lipid rich algal community
  8. System biology
  9. Stable climax community
  10. Plant Sciences Department
  11. Food Security
  12. Use
  13. Different environmental condition
  14. Management
  15. Kazamia et al

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