Cel 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. Dziedzina nauki natural sciencesbiological sciencesmarine biologysocial sciencessociologydemographyengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensingnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Program(-y) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Temat(-y) FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG - Marie Curie Action: "Reintegration Grants" Zaproszenie do składania wniosków FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania MC-IRG - International Re-integration Grants (IRG) Koordynator CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS Wkład UE € 75 000,00 Adres RUE MICHEL ANGE 3 75794 Paris Francja Zobacz na mapie Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Rodzaj działalności Research Organisations Kontakt administracyjny Stéphanie Martin (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych