A MedRecover project

Biodiversity patterns in Mediterranean coralligenous outcrops

 

Welcome to medDiversa

Welcome to medDiversa

Marine biodiversity is a dynamic entity and is widely recognised as a critical factor for ecosystem maintenance. The aim of medDiversa (Global change on highly diverse Mediterranean coralligenous communities: Consequences for biodiversity conservation) is to investigate the current extent of biodiversity of the high diverse coralligenous outcrops of the Mediterranean Sea, detect its changes, and create a scientific platform in developing future scenarios of biodiversity response to global change across large spatial and mid- to long-term temporal scales. This quantitative information has been largely documented in several terrestrial and tropical marine ecosystems but has never been assessed in coralligenous outcrops on a true multidisciplinary platform.

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medDiversa

Funding

Total FoundationThe medDiversa project, funded by the Total Foundation for three and a half years from 2010 to 2013, was launched in April 2010. The Total Foundation aims at developing initiatives for the preservation of natural biodiversity in countries where is active, with a large number of studies and research partnerships, together with public-awareness, education and outreach programmes. We gratefully acknowledge the Total Foundation for funding medDiversa.

News

  • A new article on Rapid Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring Method of Coralligenous outcrops has been published "Kipson S, Fourt M, Teixido N, Cebrian E, Casas E, Ballesteros E, Zabala M, Garrabou J (2011) Rapid biodiversity assessment and monitoring method for highly diverse benthic communities: a case study of Mediterranean coralligenous outcrops. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27103 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027103"

  • A new article on decadal patterns for ten species that play key structural roles in coralligenous outcrops has been published “Teixidó N, Garrabou J, Harmelin JG (2011) Low Dynamics, High Longevity and Persistence of Sessile Structural Species Dwelling on Mediterranean Coralligenous Outcrops. PlosOne 6(8): e23744. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023744”.

  • MedRecover has published a database on species from Mediterranean coralligenous: corspecies.medrecover.org

  • 3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2012), 28 August-1 September, Glasgow, Scotland, Conference theme: "Conservation on the Edge" http://www.eccb2012.org/index.asp

  • 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, 9-13 July 2012, Cairns, Australia http://www.icrs2012.com/Default.htm