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TUNU Euro-Arctic Marine Fishes (TEAM-Fish): Impact of climate change on biodiversity, adaptation, contaminant bioaccumulation. Comparison with the Antarctic. (ArctEcoTox)

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active Call year: 2017

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The proposal aims at enabling the applicants to continue their main role in a long-term international and multidisciplinary programme, led by scientists of the UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. This biology programme is the ''TUNU Euro-arctic marine fishes – diversity and adaptation''. The area includes Arctic Norway, Svalbard Islands, NE Greenland. TUNU is part of IPY, EBA, and the new SCAR programme Antarctic Thresholds-Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation (AnT-ERA).  Three-four Italian scientists, who had participated in the previous four cruises, are invited to be part of the TUNU expeditions. In view of the growing impact of climate change on biodiversity, contamination and adaptation, we propose to expand the network of collaborations so that it will be possible to work jointly. Integrated research will address relationships between protein-bound contaminant level. physiological performances, protein features, effect of stress at molecular (‘omics’) and organism/population level (ecotoxicology, ecomechanic). A basic task will be the comparison with Antarctic fish, e.g. Zoarcidae and Liparidae that thrive in both regions.

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TUNU Euro-Arctic Marine Fishes (TEAM-Fish): Impact of climate change on biodiversity, adaptation, contaminant bioaccumulation. Comparison with the Antarctic. (ArctEcoTox)