Planktonic organisms play pivotal roles in aquatic food webs, therefore, global change-related shift in their communities can have far-reaching consequences for the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. Our lab primarily focuses on phytoplankton and zooplankton, their interactions, and their responses to anthropogenic stressors to understand the community and ecosystem-level consequences of environmental change. To achieve this, we study a wide range of inland waters (from freshwater to saline habitats), combine field data and experimental approaches to test ecological theories, and forecast changes by numerical modelling. Our lab deals with the following main topics: