The Systems Ecology Lab. has been working on benthic community ecology and biological invasions recently. Our main focus is to describe patterns in reef benthic assemblages in a macroecological scale and to investigate drivers in the geographical and time scales.
LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF BRAZILIAN OCEANIC ISLANDS (PELD-ILOC)
The Long Term Ecological Research of Brazilian Oceanic Islands (PELD-ILOC) is a network of Brazilian scientists from several universities and organizations engaged in long-term ecological research of marine biodiversity on the four Brazilian oceanic islands. The network unites researchers to monitor the marine wildlife all around the St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago, Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Rocas Atoll and Trindade Island and Martin Vaz Archipelago since 2013. The LabAR team works together with the PELD-ILOC, analysing temporal data of reef benthic communities from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago and Rocas Atoll.
SUBSIDIES FOR THE SUN CORAL (TUBASTRAEA COCCINEA LESSON, 1829) INVASION CONTROL PLAN IN THE ARVOREDO MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESERVE AND SURROUNDINGS: SPATIAL MODELLING AND STRUCTURE OF THE NATIVE COMMUNITY
Understanding the biological and ecological aspects of the sun coral invasion at its southern limit in the Brazilian coast (Santa Catarina) is extremely important and urgent in order to direct actions of monitoring, management and control. Our main goal is to understand the aspects of Tubastraea coccinea reproductive biology, habitat and niche, and thus, model the restrictions that limit its distribution and abundance in the region. In addition, the present study will describe the influence of management actions on the sun coral population in the Arvoredo Marine Biological Reserve, and the impacts on native community.
BRAZILIAN REEF SYSTEMS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: ESTIMATING THE IMPACTS OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS ON MARINE ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND SERVICES TO IMPROVE FUTURE MANAGEMENT AND LIVELIHOOD (SinBiose)
The project “Brazilian reef systems in the Anthropocene: estimating the impacts of biodiversity loss on marine ecosystem functioning and services to improve future management and livelihood” is part of SinBiose, the first ecological synthesis center in Brazil. The working group includes 19 researchers and managers from Brazilian, European and North American institutions. In this project the LabAr will contribute to unify extensive datasets collected systematically for reef organisms (fish and benthos) across various spatial and temporal scales in Brazil. The project aims to (i) deliver an integrative synthesis about the distribution of reef biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide along the Brazilian coast, (ii) model the responses and future trajectories of Brazilian reef communities to global change (e.g. rising SST), (iii) assess the effectiveness of the Brazilian network Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in safeguarding and offering services to local human populations.
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF THE ARVOREDO MARINE BIOLOGICAL RESERVE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS (MAArE)
The main goal of the project was to establish a continuous and systematic Monitoring Program based on biological indicators, associated with oceanographic parameters, which allow monitoring the environmental quality of marine ecosystems at the Arvoredo Marine Biological Reserve and its surroundings, seeking to subsidize the Marine Protected Area (MPA) management processes. The LabAR team contributes to the monitoring of sites recognized as being of relevant environmental interest in the areas of consolidated and unconsolidated seabeds of the Arvoredo Marine Biological Reserve and its surroundings. Protocols to monitor exotic and key species (fishing targets, ecosystem engineers, etc), in order to contribute to the MPA management.
NATIONAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH NETWORK (SISBIOTA-MAR)
In the International Year of Biodiversity (2010), the immense Marine Biome remained the least known and protected in Brazil, which continued as one of the countries that least know and protect its marine biodiversity. In this context, and in order to broaden the knowledge on marine biodiversity on a large scale in the short and medium term, the National Marine Biodiversity Research Network was developed. The Research Network encompasses research and conservation of Brazilian reefs biota and consists of three main nuclei, one in each region covering the distribution of reef environments in Brazil: South (nucleated at UFSC), Southeast (nucleated at UFES) and Northeast (nucleated at UFRPE).
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The Reef System Ecology Lab. is based at
Federal University of Santa Catarina, in the South of Brazil.
Federal University of Santa Catarina, in the South of Brazil.
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