Zeynep Ersoy Ferhat

My research focuses on freshwater biodiversity and how climate change and other stressors such as eutrophication, salinization and drought influence the communities, food webs and ecosystem functioning. Particularly, I study functional structure (e.g, body size), and biological quality indices of the key elements(i.e., zooplankton, invertebrates) of inland waters ranging from lentic (i.e. lakes, ponds) to lotic (i.e. intermittent rivers). I combine different approaches (e.g., experiments, biomonitoring surveys, data compilation) across climatic and environmental gradients.