The TREC expedition, Traversing European Coastlines, lead by EMBL Heidelberg explores the biodiversity and molecular adaptability of microorganisms, model species and their habitats along land-sea gradients. Mobile labs and the Tara schooner are deployed across European seas. Plug-in projects of TREC are also part of the HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-03 project BIOcean5D with the aim of holistically exploring marine biodiversity at molecular and organismal levels – from viruses to mammals – across the 5 dimensions of space, time and human environmental pressures, enabling ecosystem-based management and long-term preservation.
We are responsible of the ecoacoustics tasks and will assess the acoustic biogeography and noise pollution of marine forests. We will investigate habitat-environment relationships using soundscapes and simultaneously collected data from other involved researchers of various European institutions.
