Acronym SOMBEE
Category
Fisheries
Title Scenarios Of Marine Biodiversity and Evolution under Exploitation and climate change Programme International Cooperation
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator NA Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
IRD - French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (France)
Institutions involved
NA - Azti (Spain) ,
CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
METU - Middle East Technical University (Turkey) ,
OUC - Ocean University of China (China) ,
IMARPE - Peruvian Marine Research Institute (Peru) ,
UNEP-WCMC - UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (United Kingdom) ,
UBC - University of British Columbia (Canada) ,
UHH - University of Hamburg (Germany) ,
Start year 2019 End year 2022 Funding (€) € 1,281,536 Website http://sombee.org/ Summary "Scenarios and models are invaluable tools to guide long-term strategic policies but although the degree of their realism has greatly improved, the Darwinian evolution of fish populations is still neglected in future projections.
Fish evolution and adaptation can mitigate the impacts of global change on fish populations and prevent their extirpation, an evolutionary rescue, but it can also push them towards evolutionary traps due to the erosion of their genetic diversity and thus reduction of their evolutionary potential and resilience.
SOMBEE addresses the role of eco-evolutionary dynamics and their consequences for the sustainable exploitation of fish resources in the future.
The key open question addressed is whether exploited fish populations have the capacity of adapting swiftly enough to global change to ensure their persistence and their sustainable exploitation.
Main activities:
1. Develop a cutting edge evolutionary ecosystem model with primary focus on fish
2. Project future changes in biodiversity and related fishing production under combined climate and fishing scenarios
3. Quantify the synergistic and antagonistic ecological, evolutionary and economic impacts of these drivers of change.
Current ecosystem models explore how fish communities respond to global change by focusing on some key ecological processes (production, migration, physiology and trophic interactions), either alone or in some limited combination.
SOMBEE will pioneer a modelling tool that includes all of these ecological processes and impacts on life-history trait composition, genetic diversity and evolutionary potential of marine fish, providing a step-change in our capacity to simulate changes in biodiversity in response to scenarios of fishing and climate change.
In addition, the coupling with a bio-economic model of fisheries will allow to project how eco-evolutionary changes impact fisheries economic profitability and sustainability."
Keywords
Fisheries management;
Climate change;
Fish;
Impacts;
Genetic;
Marine Region
49
Gulf of Lions (GSA 7)
59
Black Sea (GSA 29)
9
Western English Channel (27.VIIe)
4
Eastern English Channel (27.VIId)
4
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