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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Parásitos de peixes de profundidade como indicadores de conectividade no Océano Profundo

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…

Maritime regions and Research Infrastructures from across Europe will join forces on blue bioeconomy

In mid-September, representatives of the regions of Crete, the Algarve, Brittany, Basque Country, Galicia, Occitania as well as Research Infrastructures such as European Marine Biological…

Europe recognizes the efforts of the Marine Research Center of the University to become an international benchmark

Vigo acoge hoy y mañana la 5ª Atlantic Stakeholder Platform Conference, una reunión anual en la que se reúnen decenas de agentes interesados en la…

Ocean Sampling Day is back – get ready for 21 June 2018!

The Ocean Sampling Day (OSD) is a simultaneous sampling campaign of the world’s oceans which first took place on the 2014 summer solstice (21 June)…

Paxaros con pais maiores teñen crías cunha vida máis curta

Desde hai tempo a comunidade científica ven observando en distintas especies, incluída a humana, que a descendencia de pais máis novos tende a vivir máis…

Especialistas do CIM-UVIGO e do CSIC desvelan que a fotosíntese mariña é máis sensible aos nutrientes que á temperatura

Un equipo de científicos e científicas do Centro de Investigación Mariña da Universidade de Vigo e do Instituto de Ciencias do Mar (CSIC) de Barcelona…

Taking the Blue Bioeconomy Forward

Brussels, 21. March. Marine biotechnology is high on the political agenda. Around 70 experts, company representatives and policy makers met at the European Parliament on…

The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC) is established

On the 20th of February 2018, The European Commission adopted the Implementing Decision to establish the European Marine Biological Resource Centre, as the 18th European…

O International Symposium on Marine Sciences converterá Vigo este verán na capital mundial das ciencias mariñas

O Seminario Ibérico de Química Mariña, o Encontro de Oceanografía Física, a Reunión Ibérica de Fitoplancto Tóxico, a International Science Conference do Campus do Mar,…

Unha nova especie de hidrozoo para a avoa Leonisa

Os investigadores do Centro de Investigación Mariña da Universidade de Vigo,  Fran Ramil e Marta Gil describen catro novas especies de Hidrozoos. Leonisa González nunca…

Thursday 14th of December the seventh edition of the Café con Sal program is closed with the conference “Integrated environmental assessment of anthropization processes in estuarine ecosystems”

El jueves día 14 de diciembre a las 11:00 h Marta Román, técnica de investigación del grupo de Oceanografía Biológica de la Universidad de Vigo,…

The project to create the largest and most diverse marine biobank kicks off in Vigo

The kick-off meeting for the European Marine Biological Resource Centre Biobank (EBB) project took place in Vigo on the 21st and 22nd of November 2017.…