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.

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Two CIM researchers participate in the documentary series Desafíos do océano: científicas ao mando

Celia Olabarría (Coastal Ecology) and Ana Bernabeu (Marine and Environmental Geology) participate along with four other Galician researchers in the documentary miniseries Desafíos do océano:…

UVigo and USC researchers conduct a global review of the marine grassland interactions with fishing and shellfishing

As part of the ZEUS project, they analyzed the impact of activities on the conservation of phanerogams. CIM-UVigo researchers Celia Olabarría and Elsa Vázquez are…

A mysterious disease has wiped out 70% of Galicia’s seagull population in 10 years

Researchers such as Álvaro Barros, from the Animal Ecology Group at the Marine Research Center, are asking for attention and resources to find out why…

UVigo participates in a new study on microbial ecology based on traces and guilds

They work with bacterial and phytoplankton databases from all over the globeo The microscopic marine organisms that make up the microplankton continue to hide many…

The EMBRedES project ends with the adhesion of the Spanish Bank of Algae to the European Marine Biological Resource Centre

The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) is a pan-european research infrastructure that was born in 2013 to coordinate and harmonize access to biological resources…

Seagrass and human activities, a possible coexistence?

Considering them as algae and not as plants that, like terrestrial plants, have roots and can reproduce by pollen and generate seeds, is a common…

The first phase of the Peiraos do Solpor project allowed the settlement of 187 species in the submerged structures

During 2020 researchers from the Marine Research Center of the University of Vigo participated, together with the Vigo Port Authority, in the first phase of…

The EBB project presents its proposals for the unified management of the main marine biobanks in Europe

After more than three years of work, the European Blue Biobank (EBB) project, led by the Marine Research Centre (CIM) of the University of Vigo…

The Environmental Biology group discovers two new species of hydrozoans in the seabed of the African coast

Researchers from the Environmental Biology Group of the Marine Research Center (CIM) of the University of Vigo, have just published an article in the scientific…

Sara Varela, researcher funded by the European Research Council, will join the CIM

Sara Varela, graduated in biology from the University of Vigo, joins the Marine Research Center of the University of Vigo after almost 20 years of…

The Encorat project seeks to reduce shag mortality caused by fishing gear

The Animal Ecology group (GEA) of the Marine Research Centre (CIM) of the University of Vigo has just obtained funding from the Biodiversity Foundation, dependent…

The Environmental Biology research group publish the catalogue of cephalopods that inhabit the northwestern coast of Africa

After several years dedicated to the taxonomic study of the biodiversity of the bottoms of the Northwest African coast, the Environmental Biology research group of…