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 Foundation for Research on Biodiversity’s Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (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.
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.
AGENDA:
2:00pm – 2:25pm | Introduction
- Philippe Augé (Director of the University of Montpellier)
- Nicolas Mouquet (Scientific director of the CESAB)
2:25pm – 2:45pm | Introduction to FISHGLOB & UN Ocean Decade
- Bastien Mérigot (University of Montpellier)
2:45pm – 3:05pm | FISHGLOB datasets, international community-building, and infrastructure
- Aurore Maureaud (Technical University of Denmark)
3:05pm – 3:25pm | Future of the FISHGLOB infrastructure
- Deng Palomares (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Robert Guralnick (Florida Museum of Natural History, US)
3:25pm – 3:45pm | Time-series, phylogenetic, and spatial extensions of structural equation models: imputing traits, analyzing ecosystem drivers, and identifying habitat associations
- James Thorson (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle)
3:45pm – 4:05pm | Coupling state‐of‐the‐art modelling tools for better informed Red List assessments of marine fishes
- James Thorson (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle)
- Aurore Maureaud (Technical University of Denmark)
4:05pm – 4:20pm | Break
4:20pm – 4:40pm | Life-history strategy compositions in North-Atlantic fish communities responding to changes in fishing pressure and temperature
- Laurène Pécuchet (Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway)
4:40pm – 5:00pm | Marine fish communities cycle between homogenized and differentiated states through time
- Zoë Kitchel (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
5:00pm – 5:20pm | Marine heatwaves and changes in biomass and composition of marine fish communities
- Alexa Fredston (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Malin Pinsky (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
5:20pm – 5:40pm | Global transboundary patterns and regional applied science for fishery management
- Juliano Palacios Abrantes (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Nancy Shackell (Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada)
5:40pm – 7:00pm | Appetizer
- Scientific conference in English
Admission is free, but prior registration is required through the form provided on the event page.
The event will also be available remotely via video conference. The link will be provided on the event page.