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Marine Ecology, Climate Change and Food Webs

Short Title 
EccoWebs
Description 

The ECCOWEBS group investigates how marine food webs “echo” environmental change. We study the effects of environmental change on marine organisms, populations and food webs, from the sub-cellular to the whole-animal level, and complex trophic networks. Our investigation focuses mostly on the effects of warming on coastal organisms and their vulnerability status. Our target species are varied, including corals, mollusks, crustaceans, fish and cetaceans.

Coordinator 

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Main

Main themes addressed:

  • Coastal and estuarine ecology
  • Food webs
  • ​Thermal stress
  • ​Ecosystem health
  • ​Climate change

Where?

  • Estuaries, coastal lagoons and rocky reefs

  • ​Tropical, subtropical and temperate systems

What do we do?

  • Food web network models
  • Biodiversity - species identification 
  • Thermal biology experiments
  • ​Stable isotopic analysis
  • ​​Habitat quality biomarkers
  • ​Celular stress biomarkers
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Projects
Title Coordinator Time frame Funding CCMAR All
SARDITEMP Impacto das alterações climáticas na ecologia e dinâmica de pequenos peixes pelágicos Catarina Vinagre 07/01/2018 to 05/31/2022 FCT 8,055.41k€