Objective
In face of the worldwide over-fishing of marine resources, the development of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries is generally recognized as one of the major scientific task of the 21st century. More precisely, a general consensus has emerged in the community of fisheries scientists that studying trophodynamics is a major concern to improve understanding of marine ecosystems functioning, and to analyse and simulate the impact of fishing at the whole ecological communities scale. Canadian scientists have acquired on the matter a great experience. Thus, one of the widely used standard for ecosystem modelling is presently the software EwE (Ecopath with Ecosim), developed since the beginning of the 1990s at the Fisheries Centre of University of British Columbia. O n the other hand, within the "Pôle halieutique of Agrocampus Rennes" (PHAR, France), D. Gascuel developed a theoretical model of trophic flow, which is complementary to the Ecopath approach. The TROPHMOD project aims at inducing a synergy effect between th ese two approaches.
More precisely its objectives are:
(i) to achieve a major step forward in the development of trophic models of marine ecosystems, by connecting empirical and theoretical approaches;
(ii) to improve the use and the development of such models in Europe;
(iii) to contribute to the identification of the key factors driving the impact strength of marine ecosystems in the face of human disturbances.
The project includes a mobility period of one year at the UBC Fisheries Centre, Vancouver, for D. Gascuel. This project phase will be devoted to the coupling of both models and to comparative approach, for a selection of exploited marine ecosystems. Analyses will be continued on various ecosystems case studies during and after the return period at A grocampus Rennes. As the director of PHAR, D. Gascuel will be in charge to develop partnership with the Fisheries Centre (including jointed PhD and post-Doc), in the context of European programs (7th PCRD).
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FP6-2005-MOBILITY-6
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OIF - Marie Curie actions-Outgoing International Fellowships
Coordinator
CS 84215 RENNES
France
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