Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Biological diversity plays a fundamental role in the capacity of marine ecosystems to maintain and keep the balance and regulate the climate, as well as increase the resilience of ecosystems. Knowledge of the structure and dynamics of primary producer communities, consumers and decomposers, determinant in the processes of storage and flow of materials and energy, is key in the sustainable use of marine ecosystems. A healthy ocean provides ecosystem services such as the production of food and marine bioproducts, among others.

Events
Climatic variavility and fishery in the Humboldt system. A look to the past from the sedimentary record

Thursday March 21th, Jorge Valdés, Senior Researcher from the University of Antofagasta (Chile), presented at the “Café con Sal” conference cycle the lecture “Climatic variavility…

Reorganization of marine biodiversity under climate change: new challenges and opportunities

Tuesday 26th of February, Professor Jorge Garcia Molinos from the University of Hokkaido (Japan), will present his work on climate change and marine biodiversity to…

Hakes of the world: clarifying the phylogenetic status of five candidate species

Next Tuesday, February 5th, María Fernández, predoctoral researcher of the Marine Genetic Resources group (ReXenMar) of the CIM-UVigo and the AquaCOV group of the Oceanographic…

Café con Sal IX Edition Opening

Tuesday 22th January the IX edition of the cycle of conferences “Café con Sal” kicks off at 11:00 at the ECIMAT. The inaugural act will…

Phytoplankton under future CO2 conditions

Thursday 13th December, Júlia Puig, predoctoral researcher from the Biological Oceanography Group from the CIM-UVIGO, presented in the last conference of the Café con Sal…

Parasites of deep-sea fish as indicators of connectivity in the Deep Ocean

A pouco máis de 300 km fronte á costa galega atópase a chaira abisal ibérica, con profundidades de ata 1500 metros. A presenza de zonas…

Comparative criopreservation of Molluscs

Thursday 8th November, Estefanía Paredes, responsible of the Marine Biological Funtional Preservation Service from ECIMAT, presented in a conference of the Café con Sal cycle,…

Thursday 27th of September, Alberto Gutiérrez, phD student from the University of Vigo, presented the conference “Response of bacterioplankton to anthropogenic nutrient enrichment in a…

Circadian clocks across multiple organs from Turbot

Thursday July 12 the researcher from the University of Vigo Dr. Rosa Ceinos gave the conference “Circadian clocks across multiple organs from Turbot“, in which she…

Shell color polymorphism in the sea snail Littorina fabalis: an evolutionary perspective

On Thursday June 14th, researcher and Genetics Professor at University of Vigo Dr. Emilio Rolán, given a talk under the conference cycle Café con Sal:…

New Approaches to Cryopreservation: Ultra Rapid Warming

12th April,  Fritz Kleinhans, Associate Professor of Physics, Emeritus from Indiana University -Purdue University, USA, inaugurated the VIII edition of the cycle of conferences “Café…

Integrated environmental assessment of anthropization processes in estuarine ecosystems

O xoves día 14 de decembro ás 11:00 h Marta Román, técnica de investigación do grupo de Oceanografía Biolóxica da Universidade de Vigo, presentou na…