Going to Antarctica to study the impact of climate change on marine invertebrates

 

The Antarctic polar ecosystems, which represent one of the unexplored frontiers in the planet, are once more the scenario of the new research campaign of the team coordinated by Professor Conxita Àvila, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and The Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IRBio).

From January 15 to March 20, 2017, with the austral summer weather, the experts will study the communities of invertebrates that are part of the marine benthos in the project Distantcom, which analyzes chemical ecology, phylogeny, taxonomy, philogeography and trophic ecology of these organisms in the Antarctic continent. The scientific team, which this year reaches its ninth campaign in Antarctic latitudes, counts with the collaboration of experts of the Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the University of Barcelona, and the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC).

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