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CCMAR integrates MarinEra project

 

The Research Group “Biogeography, Ecology and Evolution” is participating since January in the European project "Shifting: Marine phylogeographic Structuring during climate change: the signature of leading and rear edge of range shifting populations" integrated in MarinERA pilot call for international research projects on Regional Drivers of Ecosystem Change: Description, Modeling and Prediction co-financed by FCT.

This project aims to investigate the genetic structure of populations of marine species that, due to climate change, have changed its geographic distribution. Researchers expect that species with affinities for warmer water tendentiously extend to north and most sensitive species to heat disappear in the South. This project aims to examine the consequences of changes in geographical distribution of genetic diversity.

Internationally coordinated by Vítor Almada (ISPA), and at the CCMAR by the Research Group Biogeography, Ecology and Evolution, the project has the participation of several Portuguese, Norwegian, German and Spanish researchers, and has a total funding of approximately 900,000 euros.

For further information about this project see: http://biocongroup.eu/MarinEra