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IMIS - Marine Onderzoeksgroepen

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PhD: Plastic pollution in a changing marine environment: assessing the combined effects of plastic pollution and global change in aquatic organisms
Principal funding codes: 2511 - OFI - Doctoral research scient. personnel within the assignment of the institution
Period: October 2024 till September 2028
Status: In Progress

Thesaurus terms Aquatic pollution; Marine pollution

The overall PhD project goal is to investigate the combined effects of microplastics and global change stressors (warming, acidification) on marine invertebrate species on a multigenerational scale, using a thorough research approach. The approach should answer fundamental primary research questions and will yield important data for a prospective risk assessment. The project results will overcome current limitations in the microplastics risk assessment, which do not account for multigeneration effects nor for combined effects with global change stressors.