Highest Degree
PhD in Fisheries Sciences
Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Data Management
Natural Resource Management
Subject Area
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Fisheries, Aquaculture
Activities
I focus my studies on:
- understanding the resilience of marine communities to different levels of disturbances in protected and already exploited areas;
- evaluate the effectiveness of management strategies to protect biodiversity, its functions (e.g., trophic integrity), and ecosystem services (e.g., biomass production); and
- study the association between habitats' structural complexity and functional diversity to identify highly resilient areas in the seascape that help managers to improve and adapt ecosystem-based management in changing environments.
I currently use functional diversity to monitor fish communities' ecosystem functions and services and assess their resistance and recovery to industrial fishing and habitat degradation in the Atlantic Ocean's tropical and temperate systems.
Sea regions of study
Caribbean Sea
South Atlantic Ocean
