Course 5: Impact of Climate Change on Marine and Terrestrial Resources

 

Course Leaders:

• Prof. Vigdis Vandvik and Ass. Prof. John-Arvid Grytnes, Department of Biology, UiB
• Hjalmar Hatun, senior scientist, Faroese Fisheries Laboratory, Faroe Is.
• Tore Furevik, Professor, Geophysical Institute, UiB

General theme and objectives of the course

Man-induced climate change is affecting a number of natural resources, both on land and in the marine realm, and will have important consequences onto the ecosystems that they operate on as well as on human societies and communities that are depending on them.

This course will through a series of overview lectures make the participants familiar with the basics of the climate system, and how the marine and terrestrial ecosystems are tightly linked to the range of climate variables.

The course aims at providing the student with (i) a working knowledge of the past, present, and future climate change, (ii) examples of how climate change affects natural resources and biodiversity in the terrestrial and marine realms, and (iii) on how climate change impacts will interact with major global change drivers.

 

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