CLIMATE CHANGE AND MARINE BIODIVERSITY

In an article published by the prestigious journal Biological Reviews, an international team led by CIBIO-InBIO researchers, Sérgio Ávila, Carlos Melo, Ricardo Cordeiro e Lara Baptista presents a new predictive model to study marine island biogeography. The model explains that the impact of past climatic changes, and the resulting sea level fluctuations, on the evolution of marine and terrestrial species might have been different.

The paper, now highlighted by the media, is an important contribution to better understand the evolution of marine life on volcanic oceanic islands. It integrates, for the first time, historical and ecological biogeography of marine ecosystems with patterns of past glacial–interglacial cycles. It also can help to better predict the impact of current climatic change on marine biodiversity.

To know more about this topic, please follow the links below:

"Estudo conclui que espécies marinhas são resilientes às alterações climáticas" | Sapo 24 | January 04, 2019 (Information available in Portuguese)
“Espécies marinhas são resilientes às alterações climáticas” | Notícias ao Minuto | January 04, 2019 (Information available in Portuguese)
“CIBIO-inBIO alerta para impacto das alterações climáticas na biodiversidade marinha” | Notícias UP | January 05, 2018 (Information available in Portuguese)

To read the national press release for this study, please click here.

To access the original article, please click here.