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Professor Dr. Ulf Karsten

Address Universität Rostock
Institut für Biowissenschaften
Lehrstuhl Angewandte Ökologie und Phykologie
Albert-Einstein-Straße 3
18059 Rostock

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Biodiversity and biogeography of marine benthic diatoms in Antarctic and Arctic shallow water coastal zones to evaluate the degree of endemism using fine-grained taxonomy and eDNA metabarcoding (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - The effect of land use intensity on biodiversity and functional role of biological soil crust communities with an emphasis on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus - CRUSTFUNCTION III (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Algivorous Cercozoa shape the community composition of cryptogamic covers, the dominant vegetation in Polar Regions. (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Coordination Funds (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Methane production by microphytobenthos and its contribution to the benthic methane flux from the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea (Research Grants)
  - Exploring the potential of secondary metabolites derived from marine resources for UV-protection of the human eye/ UVISION 1.1 (Research Grants)
  - SeaWall: Understanding environmentally induced cell wall remodelling in the green seaweed Ulva sp. (Research Grants)
  - Molecular and physiological mechanisms of fungal parasitism and their ecological consequences in polar waters (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Vorkommen, Induktion und Metabolismus von UV-Schutzverbindungen in antarktischen Makroalgen (Research Grants)
  - Ökologische Interaktionen zwischen Zoo- und Phytobenthos der Polarmeere unter Berücksichtigung von Abwehrmechanismen gegenüber Fraßdruck (Research Grants)
  - Origin, acquisition and evolution of the unusual mannit metabolism in the atmophytic mangrove red alga Caloglossa leprieurii (Research Grants)
  - Grünalgen-dominierte Biofilme auf künstlichen Hartsubstraten: Phylogenetisch-taxonomische Analyse der artlichen Zusammensetzung und ökophysiologisch-funktionelle Charakterisierung der Lebensgemeinschaften (Research Grants)
  - Biomasse, Primärproduktion und Ökophysiologie des Mikrophytobenthos im arktischen Kongsfjord, Spitzbergen (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Intra-specific genetic diversity and ecophysiological performance of the aeroterrestrial green alga Klebsormidium (Klebsormidiophyceae, Streptophyta) in biological soil crusts along a gradient of land-use intensity (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Dark survival strategies in benthic diatoms from polar waters (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Comparison of genetic diversity and ecophysiological performance in the colony-forming polar prymnesiophyte species Phaeocystis antarctica and Phaeocystis pouchetii (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Cell wall properties and bioadhesion in different genotypes of the aeroterrestrial green algal genus Klebsormidium from alpine soils of the Austrian Alps (Research Grants)
  - Biologische Bodenkrustenalgen in den Polarregionen - Biodiversität, genetische Diversität und Ökosystem-Elastizität unter Global Change Szenarien (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Structure and function of biocrusts in weathering, soil formation and erosion processes (CRUSTWEATHERING). (Priority Programmes)
  - Climate change impacts on Arctic soil and lake microbiomes (Research Grants)
  - Seasonal kelp primary production at a rocky shore site: Integrating physiology and biochemistry into ecological modelling (Research Grants)
  - Ecological role of fungal parasites on benthic diatoms of polar coastal waters (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Spokesperson
- Current projects
  - SPP 1158: Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas - with renewal proposal 2025 - 2030 (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Participating Researcher
- Current projects
  - GRK 2000: The German Baltic Sea Coast as Terrestrial-Marine Interface of Water and Matter Fluxes (Baltic Transcoast) (Research Training Groups)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Quellen, Aufnahmewege und physiologische Nutzung von mycosporin-ähnlichen Aminosäuren (MAAs) aus phototrophen Organismen in marinen Evertebraten der Polarmeere (Research Grants)
  - Differential selection of photobionts and ecophysiological acclimation by the bipolar lichen Cetraria aculeata (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Antarctic phytoplankton in response to environmental change studied by a synergistic approach using multi- and hyper-spectral satellite data (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)

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