Last week, (4-6 March) a large representation of our group attended to the Final Conference of the Cost Action “Seagrass productivity: from genes to ecosystem management” (posar link) that was held in Olhão, Portugal.
This conference, with the topic Seagrass in Europe: threats, responses and management, was an excellent opportunity to bring together researches and students from several European countries, and also from outside as Israel, Tunisia or Mexico, and to exchange recent findings and advances in our challenging topic.
Our contribution to the Final Conference was substantial. Teresa Alcoverro with and interesting keynote lecture talked about the seagrass indicators, status and management in Europe and what has been learned from the Action. Guillem Roca followed with an oral session about detecting water quality improvement in the Catalan Coast using seagrass indicators. Aurora M. Ricart presented some results of her PhD research about the importance of landscape configuration and the sources of organic matter into surface sediments of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows. Moreover, Jordi Boada presented a poster about his PhD research on the role of habitat complexity in top down and supply side for the Paracentrotus lividus population in NW Mediterranean ecosystems and Neus Sanmartí and Marta Pérez also presented a poster about the importance of root morphology on symbiotic relationship between lucinid bivalves and the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa.
Besides the excellent keynote lectures, communications and posters, there was also plenty of room to share many good times and also to taste the excellent Portuguese cuisine.
Some of us have the opportunity to visit Ria Formosa and see the intertidal meadows of Zostera noltei.
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