Integrated Marine Ecology

All living beings, including underwater organisms, maintain an intricate relationship with their environment and with the other living beings around them. Discovering this complex network is essential if we are to move towards a sustainable society.

The Integrated Marine Ecology group, also known as INMARE, is a multidisciplinary group mainly focused on addressing ecological studies of marine organisms using complementary approaches. The topics studied cover a broad spectrum, from ecology, evolutionary biology, genomics and conservation to basic and applied research for the ecosystem-level management of marine resources that ensures biodiversity conservation. The group therefore takes a broad approach, ranging from studies with specific species to fishery-oceanographic research surveys and experimentation under confinement conditions.

This approach by the INMARE group requires several basic elements for the development of its research. On the one hand, the definition and description of ecosystems involving marine resources in terms of scale, extent, structure and functioning; and, on the other, the assessment of the state of marine ecosystems, defined in terms of environmental health or integrity and established as what is acceptable for society, as well as the assessment of threats.

In addition, it requires the conservation, protection and rehabilitation of marine ecosystems and the mitigation of impacts using adaptation strategies, as well as the study of biodiversity from an integrative approach.