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Coral Reefscape Ecology and Mapping

Objetivo

Tropical coral reefs shelter a high rate of marine biodiversity and provide a sizeable amount of ecological services. These ecosystems of interest face tremendous and pervasive challenges from human demography skyrockets and inherent development pressures, as well as climate change and associated sea level rise. Prospects of coral reefs conservation, critically inevitable, will achieve through the growth of understanding their ecological mechanisms. The spatial distribution of coral reef plays a key role in ecological processes, including biodiversity structure, variability, connectivity and resilience. The current expansion and pluridisciplinarity of remote sensing technology fosters us to use it as the optimal tool (time- and cost-effective) to reliably and frequently monitoring reefscape features (geomorphic, oceanographic and ecological) across local and regional scales.
The goals of this project are to:
-couple multiscale and multiplatform remotely-sensed products, such as high-resolution spaceborne and airborne passive images and airborne bathymetric LiDAR active imagery, in order to define an on-line systematic classification scheme of tropical coral reef ecosystems based upon both structural and functional benthic mapping draped over 3D habitat;
-develop concepts and methods of the coral reefscape ecology, in order to (i) describe and quantify relationships between the structural complexity of these habitats and ecological characteristics of associated bentho-pelagic communities, such as the diversity, the mobility and the dispersion, and (ii) establish and temporally monitor a coral reef health index related to spectral and spatial proxies;
-predict the habitat suitability of species of interest (endangered or indicator taxa), of communities of interest, and to classify reefscape features by protection rank (facilitating the marine spatial planning), in modelling relationships between biotic and environmental variables, through remotely-sensed proxies.

Convocatoria de propuestas

FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG
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Coordinador

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
Aportación de la UE
€ 75 000,00
Dirección
RUE MICHEL ANGE 3
75794 Paris
Francia

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Región
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
Tipo de actividad
Research Organisations
Contacto administrativo
Stéphanie Martin (Ms.)
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