Seventh Workshop on Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life

Ecosystems are complex machines, and our ability to predict how multiple drivers and environmental forcings structure communities is limited. One way to represent and understand organisms, communities, and ecosystems is to think in terms of ‘traits’ rather than species, and how the dominant traits emerge in an evolutionary and ecological process from fundamental trade-offs. If we can identify and quantify the trade-offs between traits, we may have a tool for predicting trait distributions now and in the future. This workshop is the 7th edition of “Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life” initiated in Copenhagen in 2013.