Zofia Ecaterina Taranu, PhD
Research Scientist
Environment and Climate change Canada (ECCC)
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Research interests
My research program aims to understand how local stressors (e.g., nutrient enrichment, contaminants) interact with broader regional drivers (e.g., climate variability) to shape freshwater community dynamics and ecosystem stability.

​I am particularly interested in whether these interactions have intensified in recent decades, and uncovering the processes that explain heterogeneity across the landscape. To address these questions, I combine meta-analyses, landscape paleolimnology, environmental genomics, and numerical ecology to identify data gaps, evaluate long-term drivers of change, and clarify how water quality, community composition, and ecosystem functions respond to multiple pressures.