1) ICZM

2) Hydrodynamics

3) Ecology

Main Approaches:

1. Trophic interactions
   Analysis of stable isotope signatures to establish the estuarine food web and evaluate its seasonal dynamics

2. Molecular Evolution
   Assessing evolutionary responses to climate change

3. Eco-physiology
   Laboratory experiments on physiological performance in relation to abiotic conditions, namely temperature, with organisms from widely separated populations along a latitudinal gradient

4. Dynamic Energy Budgets modelling
   To integrate information obtained from field and experimental studies across the species geographic distribution range, in relation to temperature and food conditions

5. Phylogeography studies
   Genetic analyses to evaluate the existence of a population structure along the species geographical distribution

6. Population dynamics modelling
   Mathematical application to ecological modelling to understand how the population dynamics of key estuarine species is affected by exogenous factors specially climate fluctuations, along a latitudinal gradient

7. ICZM
   Status and risk analyses in order to propose mitigation and adaptation measures in a climate change context

There will be a special issue of the Journal of Sea Research dedicated to the ECClima Congress. Manuscript submission date for this issue is the 30th of April 2011.
 

Congress Secretariat

Fabiana Freitas
ecclima.congress@xxxx.xx

River Minho (Portugal)

Skibotn, Tromsø (Norway)

Wadden Sea (The Netherlands)