Rosalie Bruel

My research focuses on how ecosystems are responding to climatic perturbations. I work on lowland and high-altitude lakes, at different temporal scales (millennial to sub-hourly resolution), on different responses (physical, chemical, biological). I am interested on quantifying lakes ecological vulnerability to climate warming. Basically I am questioning whether lake ecology is more affected by climate change depending on their exposure (the warmer they get, the stronger shall be the climate-driven ecological changes) or depending on how they have been already locally affected by human activities (lakes already under strong local human pressure will be m ore sensitive to ecological effects of climate warming).