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Under the title Climate Change and Biodiversity in Marine ecosystems, the port-Cros 2007 symposium, organized by the total Corporate Foundation, revealed the impact of climate change on the european marine and coastland environment.
Studies in the Northern hemisphere, an area more particularly affected by climate warming, help to understand the interaction of different factors disrupting marine ecosystems, such as overfishing and eutrophication. With Katja philippart from the royal Netherlands institute for sea research (NioZ). a key analysis developed by Fabien Blanchard and Jean Boucher, from the French research institute for exploitation of the sea (ifremer).
The overexploitation of fish stocks together with climatic variations have a direct impact on pelagic populations (tuna, salmon, herring and anchovy). With Jean-Marc Fromentin from ifremer.
The structure of the ecosystem in the east of the Nova scotian plateau has already changed radically. With Director of the Bedford institute, Dartmouth, Canada.
How to see into the future. plankton could act as a warning system signalling forthcoming changes. With philip reid,University of plymouth, sir alister hardy Foundation for ocean science
International organisations have an essential role to play in managing marine biodiversity. With elie Jarmache, representative of the General secretariat for the sea.
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