CIIMAR’s Oceanus Seminar with John Griffin and Ruby George | Boca da Baleia
Understanding how environmental factors shape community structure and drive ecosystem functioning is key to predicting the impacts of environmental change. Rocky shores, with their natural environmental gradients, provide powerful model systems for addressing this challenge. In this seminar, we will present recent research from our group and collaborators. We will discuss several experimental manipulations of topographic heterogeneity, revealing cascading effects on ecosystem multifunctionality and stability. We will also introduce emerging work on macroalgal traits. Additionally, we will present a large-scale resilience study spanning rocky shores from northern Scotland to Portugal, testing how climatic stress affects ecosystem stability. Together, these studies highlight the value of rocky shores for understanding biodiversity and ecosystem function under environmental change.
John Griffin is an Associate Professor in Coastal Ecology and Biodiversity at Swansea University in the UK. He is particularly interested in the causes and consequences of biodiversity change and the application of trait-based approaches to macroalgae.
Ruby George is a PhD student also at Swansea University, where she is investigating Ecological Stability across Scales on Rocky Shores and is leading a large-scale study investigating resilience on NE Atlantic rocky shores.
In case of any questions, please contact CIIMAR’s Seminar team, Marta Monteiro, Miguel Semedo, & Paulo Oliveira, at seminars@ciimar.up.pt
External members of CIIMAR should send an email to slopes@ciimar.up.pt, requesting authorization to enter the Porto Cruise Terminal area
CIIMAR members can also access last seminars recordings through the LINK.
