We are interested on the structure, functioning and conservation of marine benthic communities dominated by macrophytes, seagrasses and macroalgae mainly. Macrophytes provide habitat to high numbers of species and participate in critical biogeochemical and geological coastal processes. They are considered foundation species in shallow aquatic ecosystems because they exert a strong control of population and community dynamics and modulate ecosystem processes. Macrophytes are essential in the provision of resources and ecological services that are directly used or beneficial to humans such as the maintenance of biodiversity, the filtering of coastal waters, the attenuation of waves and stabilization of sediment, and nutrient cycling and carbon burial. Macrophytes are also on the first line of impact and under serious threat from anthropogenic activities in coastal zones.
• Ecology of invasive species
• Fluid dynamics and macrophytes
• Nutrient supply and control by consumers in seagrass communities
• Ecology of seagrass seedlings and seagrass restoration
• Climate change effects on plant-herbivore interactions
• Tropicalization of marine communities
Inés Castejón Silvo | PostDoctoral researcher | Gema Hernán Martínez | PhD student, Govern Illes Balears | Laura Pereda Briones | PhD student, Govern Illes Balears |
Fiona Tomas Nash | Ramón y Cajal Fellow (Tenure track), Univ. Illes Balears |
Jorge Terrados Muñoz | Tenured scientist, CSIC |
Raissa Borgmann | Project Internship (2012). Van Hall Larenstein Univ. of Applied Sciences |
Daniel López Romero | Introduction to research CSIC studentship (2012). Univ. Complutense Madrid |
Lara Arroyo | Postdoctoral researcher (2011-2012) |
Francisco Javier Medina Pons | PhD (2012) Univ. Illes Balears Diversidad y funcionamiento de la comunidad epífita eucariota de las hojas de Posidonia oceanica |
Inés Castejón Silvo | PhD (2011) Univ. Illes Balears Grazing on the epiphytic community of Posidonia oceanica L. Delile: An assessment of its relevance as a buffering process of eutrophication effects |
Eduardo Infantes Oanes | PhD (2011) Univ. Illes Balears Wave hydrodynamic effects on marine macrophytes Presently postdoc at the University of Göteborg |
Marta Domínguez Álvarez | Postdoctoral researcher (2008-2009) Presently postdoc at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography |
Joan Miquel LLompart Pujol | Internship (2009), Univ. Granada |
Natàlia Comalada | Internship (2008), Univ. Barcelona |
Alba Ceballos | Internship (2008), Univ. Salamanca |
Antonio Box Centeno | Technitian (2006-2008) |
Cristina Alonso Morales | Internship (2006), Univ. Illes Balears |
Inmaculada Gamundí Boyeras | Internship (2005-2006), Univ. Barcelona |
Detailed lists of projects, publications and other activities of group members are available in their personal IMEDEA web pages.