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Vie 7th Feb
9:00 am
11:30 am
Sala de seminarios. Esporles
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Vie 7th Feb
12:00 pm
12:30 pm

Abstract



Ocean pollution is becoming a bigger and bigger problem with time.  To mitigate, manage and reduce this, it is important to understand the paths different types of pollution will follow in the Ocean.   Understanding ocean dynamics, namely ocean currents, is thus very important to determine the pathways of different pollutants.  The world's ocean currents have the potential to transport material like plastic over global scales, connecting continents, but the sources and sinks of that pollution have also been found to be sometimes very local.  Different oceanic scales affect these pathways, and thanks to new data we can start to understand how finer-scale process are affecting larger-scale ones. In this seminar, I will present the work I carried out during my previous postdoc as part of the parcels team at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), where we use ocean physics to understand different aspects of marine pollution in very different regions from the Netherlands to different areas of the Pacific Ocean like Japan.  The main tool we use for our Lagrangian ocean analysis simulations is the OceanParcels tool, which is open software. I will close by highlighting the importance of Open Science and the role this has in our research.


Sala de Seminarios del IMEDEA, Esporles
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Mar 11th Feb
Varios lugares
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Mar 11th Feb
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
Campus UIB / Edificio Mateu Orfila
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Vie 14th Feb
12:00 pm
12:30 pm



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Pollination is an essential process for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, as 87.5% of the flowering plants and one third of the human diet depend on it. However, this essential ecosystem service is severely threatened by pollinator losses, raising important challenges for biodiversity conservation and crop production. Among the many threats to wild pollinators today, land-use changes have been identified as one of the main causes of pollinator declines, and this effect is expected to be accentuated in the following decades as human population increases. I will present the studies conducted in my group to understand how landscape modifications related to land-use changes affect plant and pollinator communities, the structure of plant-pollinator interactions and the provision of pollination services to crops and wild plants. The results of these studies have important implications for the sustainability of anthropized landscapes and for the conservation of pollinators as a key ecosystem service.


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Vie 14th Feb
12:00 pm
12:30 pm



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Pollination is an essential process for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, as 87.5% of the flowering plants and one third of the human diet depend on it. However, this essential ecosystem service is severely threatened by pollinator losses, raising important challenges for biodiversity conservation and crop production. Among the many threats to wild pollinators today, land-use changes have been identified as one of the main causes of pollinator declines, and this effect is expected to be accentuated in the following decades as human population increases. I will present the studies conducted in my group to understand how landscape modifications related to land-use changes affect plant and pollinator communities, the structure of plant-pollinator interactions and the provision of pollination services to crops and wild plants. The results of these studies have important implications for the sustainability of anthropized landscapes and for the conservation of pollinators as a key ecosystem service.


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