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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Emilio Rolán leads a manifesto in aid of education on evolutionary theory

In the neighboring countries, the key contents on the theory of evolution begin to be taught in Primary Education on a compulsory basis and continue…

The project “Peiraos do Solpor” receives the award of the World Sustainable Ports Program

The project “Peiraos do Solpor”, launched by the Porto of Vigo and the Coastal Ecology group of the Marine Research Center of the University of…

Oceans Day 2020. By Daniel Rey

Reflections by the director of the CIM-UVigo Marine Research Centre and the Campus do Mar On June 8th we will celebrate World Oceans Day. We…

The University of Vigo becomes part of the international network of aquatic mesocosm facilities

At the time of carrying out studies on ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, estuaries and oceans, among the small-scale laboratory studies and those carried out…

The Ocimer project will improve the sea urchin culture and repopulate the overexploited areas of the Vigo estuary with 30,000 specimens

The sea urchin is a fishery of high commercial value and its consumption can be traced back to prehistoric times, but the overexploitation of natural…

DNA and molecular techniques to discover the secrets of deep ocean fish

71% of the Earth’s surface corresponds to the oceans and only 5% of the total is completely studied. These are figures that help to understand…

ECIMAT will work on the optimization of sea urchin sustainable culture

Sea urchins have evolved from a secondary species into a high-demanded product that has pushed the local fisheries to develop a exploitation plan for this…

Mitigación, adaptación e educación, claves para enfrontar o aumento do nivel do mar causado polo cambio climático

Pouco máis dunha semana despois da súa presentación oficial en Mónaco, o director de Investigación do Instituto de Hidráulica de Cantabria e un dos dous…

The first edition of “Malacodía” attracted experts on malacology to the Marine Science Faculty of the University of Vigo

O pasado día 19 de xullo celebrouse no salón de actos da Facultade de Ciencias do Mar da Universidade de Vigo a Xornada Malacolóxica “Malacodía”,…

Researchers from the CIM-UVigo discover that the Galician rias are fertilized with nitrogen from the air

O nitróxeno é un elemento esencial na biosfera, dado que é imprescindible para o crecemento das plantas en ecosistemas tanto terrestres como acuáticos. Selvas tropicais,…

Looking for a low-cost geospatial methodology for sustainable management of marine areas

Once investigadoras e investigadores do Grupo de Ecoloxía Costeira do Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, pertencentes ao  Centro de Investigación Mariña e do Grupo…

The possibilities of climate models to predict the distribution of species

O cambio climático é unha realidade desde hai varias décadas e os seus efectos mídense xa en termos de perda de biodiversidade. Conscientes desta realidade…