FISHGLOB: Fish biodiversity facing global change

CONTEXT AND PRESENTATIONS CONTENT
Global change, linked to climate and direct anthropogenic impacts, is causing redistribution of marine species worldwide, modifying fish population and stock structure, as well as community compositions. These changes may have strong impacts on fisheries and natural fish biodiversity as well as related ecosystem services. However, our capacity to assess and monitor short and long-term changes in species distribution and biodiversity is hampered by data availability and heterogeneity.

This conference organized by the FRB-CESAB will present activities of the FISHGLOB consortium which has collected and combined a unique data set of scientific bottom trawl surveys conducted regularly during the last decades across the globe. Topics will cover FISHGLOB consortium and data features, imputation method for missing species traits, Red list assessments, effects of marine heat waves, species assemblages’ homogenization/differentiation through time, consequences on fish stocks shared across countries and fishery management.

Finally, FISHGLOB aims to provide an infrastructure enhancing international cooperation and knowledge transfer among data providers, scientists and stakeholders in order to support biodiversity and fishery management adaptation in a time of global change.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Event in english
When: Thursday 5th of December 2024, from 2 to 6pm
Where: Amphi A, Building 36, Place Eugène Bataillon, Campus Triolet, 34090 Montpellier
How: In person or online via Zoom, by registering via the event page on the FRB website (see below for the link).
Registration is mandatory (for those attending in person, but also if you would like to receive information by email), and closes on the 17th of November 2024 at midnight CEST. The event is free, with a refreshment and an appetizer provided.

Event in partnership with the French Embassy in Canada, the Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution (CIEE) and the University of Montpellier.

More information on the event page on the FRB website: https://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/en/evenement/frb-cesab-fishglob-fish-biodiversity-facing-global-change/