Abiotic components are the geological, chemical, and physical factors that are active in a given environment. We study the relationships between the seafloor characteristics and the organisms, which can be characterized in habitat mapping studies. We also study the hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, and biogeochemical fluxes in key ecosystems and the effects of anthropogenic physical alterations (trawling, dredging, marine infrastructures) and their consequences.
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Life and Ecosystems
Abiotic components of the ecosystems
Research groups involved on this line
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Barcelona Center for Subsurface Imaging
Arantza Ugalde -
Ocean and Littoral Sedimentary Processes
Albert Palanques -
Ecology and Conservation of Marine Living Resources
Roger Villanueva -
Continental Margins Group
David Casas -
Functioning and Vulnerability of Marine Ecosystems
Mercedes Blázquez -
Laboratory of Seafloor and Subseafloor Geological Processes
Xavier Antoni García