RESEARCH SUMMARY
Under the leadership of Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu, Limnology Laboratory explores the ecological structure and function of lake ecosystems and how they are affected by global changes. The research projects of the limnology laboratory are funded internationally (EU-Framework and Horizon 2020) and nationally. The impact of hydrological changes, global warming, and land use are investigated in shallow lakes using experimental and other ecological research approaches. Laboratory and on-site in-situ mesocosm experiments are commonly used to investigate ecosystem processes mechanically. The long-term ecological monitoring and paleoecological methods, which increase temporal resolution by combining the "space for time" method, which increases spatial resolution, are commonly employed in the Limnology laboratory. In all these different research approaches, all trophic groups, including microbial loop (bacteria, heterotrophic flagellate, ciliate), phytoplankton, zooplankton, aquatic plants, and fish biomass and diversity (species diversity, character diversity, functional diversity, etc.) are within the research scope our Limnology Laboratory.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Jeppesen, E., Kronvang, B., Meerhoff, M., Søndergaard, M., Hansen, K.M., Andersen, H.E., Lauridsen, T.L., Liboriussen, L., Beklioglu, M., Özen, A. and Olesen, J.E. (2009), Climate Change Effects on Runoff, Catchment Phosphorus Loading and Lake Ecological State, and Potential Adaptations. J. Environ. Qual., 38: 1930-1941. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2008.0113
Coops, H., Beklioglu, M. & Crisman, T.L. The role of water-level fluctuations in shallow lake ecosystems – workshop conclusions. Hydrobiologia 506, 23–27 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:HYDR.0000008595.14393.77
Jeppesen, E., Brucet, S., Naselli-Flores, L., Papastergiadou, E., Stefanidis, K., Nõges, T., … Beklioğlu, M. (2015). Ecological impacts of global warming and water abstraction on lakes and reservoirs due to changes in water level and related changes in salinity. Hydrobiologia, 750(1), 201–227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-014-2169-x
Jeppesen, E., Kronvang, B., Olesen, J. E., Audet, J., Sondergaard, M., Hoffmann, C. C., Andersen, H. E., Lauridsen, T. L., Liboriussen, L., Larsen, S. E., Beklioglu, M., Meerhoff, M., Özen, A., & Özkan, K. (2011). Climate change effects on nitrogen loading from cultivated catchments in Europe: implications for nitrogen retention, ecological state of lakes and adaptation. Hydrobiologia 663, 1–21 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0547-6
Jeppesen, E., Meerhoff, M., Davidson, T. A., Trolle, D., Søndergaard, M., Lauridsen, T. L., Beklioglu, M., Brucet, S., Volta, P., González-Bergonzoni, I., & Nielsen, A. (2014). Climate change impacts on lakes: an integrated ecological perspective based on a multi-faceted approach, with special focus on shallow lakes. Journal of Limnology, 73(s1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2014.844
