UV-B and climate change (WG4)

This WG will generate knowledge about the interaction between UV-B regulated processes and effects of climate change. Most UV responses change dramatically (some synergistically) with alterations in other environmental parameters. On a global scale, such interactions are of key importance for agricultural and ecosystem productivity (food security, food web integrity). This work group will study UV-B plant photobiology in the context of climate change, and develop a vision on the importance of these interactions for agronomic practice, plant breeding, (protected)-crop management as well as habitat and conservation management. These studies will link organismal responses with those at the community and ecosystem level. Research in this WG has been organised to concentrate on three systems, the aquatic environment, foraging-dominated systems and communities of berry-carrying shrubs and trees.