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Climate Change
and Future Marine
Ecosystem
Services
and Biodiversity
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About FutureMARES
Our goal is to provide socially and economically viable actions and strategies in support of nature-based solutions and nature-inclusive harvesting for climate change adaptation and mitigation. We develop these solutions to safeguard future biodiversity and ecosystem functions to maximise natural capital and its delivery of services from marine and transitional ecosystems.
To achieve this, the objectives of FutureMARES are:
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Understand the links between ecological functions and ecosystem services
Deliver projections of future climate change hotspots and refugia
Explore climate
change impacts in
field and mesocosm experiments
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Project climate
change effects on
marine species and biodiversity
Conduct novel
socio-ecological
vulnerability
assessments
Perform economic analyses of different nature-based
solutions
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Test
implementation
strategies including
bio-economic analysis
Co-create our research activities with
decision- and
policy-makers
Communicate &
engage with a broad range of stakeholders
in our focus regions
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Discover our project
Universities
Laboratories
Managers
NGOs
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