Marine Biodiversity
Climate Change
AXA Projects
Ireland
Marine aliens and climate change
Currently Head of the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast, Professor Christine Maggs’s project aims to provide extensive and valuable knowledge on the status of coastal marine invasions in Europe, with a view to identifying and monitoring the impact of climate change and human pressure on the dynamics of coastal marine ecosystems. In the face of alarming rates of IAS spread in recent years, Professor Maggs’s initiative is an innovative response to biodiversity loss, as it brings together a consortium of multidisciplinary stakeholders, researchers and decision makers at the European level.
Indeed, Professor Maggs’s strategy, which has been further strengthened by collaborations with Spanish, French and British research institutions, manages to combine top-down (ecological theory-based) and bottom-up (collation of novel and historical data sets of invasion) approaches in a dual model-fitting view. This method facilitates comparison between different invasive species and has potential applications for managing invasions and policy-making.
In addition to reducing the threat of marine biodiversity loss, Prof. Maggs’s results could be crucial for the elaboration of management guidelines, in keeping with the European Strategy on IAS, to preserve biodiversity.
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Christine
MAGGS
Institution
Queen’s University Belfast
Country
Ireland
Nationality
Irish
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