Name
The River Laboratory heated pond mesocosms
Legal name of organisation
Queen Mary University of London
Country
United Kingdom
Continent
Europe
Organisation address
QMUL
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Primary contact information (PI)
Years of Mesocosm Experiments
2006 - present
Description of Facility
- 20 pond mesocosms 2m diameter, arranged in pairs with one in each pair heated by 4°C relative to the other.
- 36 unheated pond mesocosms also available at the site.
Controlled Parameters
- temperature
Research Topics
- Climate change, Ecosystem metabolism, NEP, ER (e.g. Yvon-Durocher et al. 2010. Proc R Soc B, 365: 2117-2126: Yvon-Durocher et al. 2017. Nature Climate Change 7: 209-213)
- Body size, ecosystem functioning (e.g. Dossena et al 2012. Proc R Soc B 279: 3011-3019)
- Gas exchange, Methanogenesis (e.g. Yvon-Durocher et al.2011 Global Change Biology, 17:1225-1234)
Facility location(s)
50.6666667, -2.1666666666666665
Primary interests
- Climate change
- Ecosystem metabolism
Specialist areas
- Metabolic theory
- C and N dynamics
Equipment
- Continuous measurement of gas exchange
- temperature with data loggers
Lodging
available on site
Source of Information
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