Restoring marine forests in the Mediterranean Sea: a scientific and management approach
ECOSEAS lab, Université Côte d'Azur
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Supervisors
Luisa Mangialajo, ECOSEAS, Université Côte d'Azur
Context
Mediterranean marine forests formed by large brown macroalgae (fucoids) are lost due to several human impacts. Conservation of the existing forests is a priority and ecological restoration the only option for those forests that are lost or under threat.
In the framework of the European project Afrimed (http://www.afrimed-project.eu/) a consortium of scientist is working in order to setup the tools for conservation and restoration of marine forests at the Mediterranean scale.
The Ecoseaslaboratory is involved in this project with several roles: providing data for modelling cystoseira distribution, participate to the restoration pilot projects and study the effects of climate change, create a business club with the aim of write the guidelines of large brown algae forest restoration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Objectives
The proposed immersive project will cover two of the abovementioned tasks and the student will both participate to the ongoing restoration projects (in the field and in the lab) and contribute actively to the creation of the business club.
This will potentially imply fieldwork (also in winter, following the experiments setup in sumer 2020), lab work (experiments in small tanks) and synthesis and communication actions (concerning the business club).
Status
Started Fall 2020
Current student involved: -
Previous students involved: -
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