Major topics
Climate change Session
- Impacts of climate change and variability on marine biodiversity and regional ecosystem resilience
- Changes in phenology in the ocean and the potential consequences across multiple trophic levels
- Past and forecast future changes in global or regional trophic interactions due to climate impacts on species biology
- Identification of mechanisms and prediction of the effect of climate change on the productivity and distribution of important marine species that sustain global or regional fisheries
- Impacts of climate change on coastal communities due to alteration in ecosystem services or direct physical stressors
- Linkage of climate change to marine management objectives
Marine invasions Session
- New distributional data/modelling
- Impacts of invasive species
- Population dynamics of invasive species – population genetics – country/region reviews
- Indicators: trends, ratio of NIS/native, new indicators
Indicators Session
- Indicators covering a variety of biological elements from biodiversity to food webs, fisheries, sea-floor integrity and biomarkers
- Linkage of indicators to stressors
- Integration across indicators and over spatial scales
- Cumulative, synergistic and antagonistic effects of pressures on marine biodiversity and ecosystem health
- Tools to investigate the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Transitional waters Session
- Biodiversity patterns across gradients
- Effects of human impacts to ecosystem resilience
- Assess ecological quality in transitional waters
- Key ecosystem processes supporting biological resources
- Management and conservation
Open Session
Presentations on Fisheries/Aquaculture and Integrated Coastal Zone Management are also encouraged.
Working language of the Symposium: English