Two of our former members (with which we still collaborate on ongoing projects and publications) have been granted projects within the CEIMar.

Julio Bohórquez Ferrando will study the effects of organic exudates from polyunsaturated aldehyde (PUA) producing and non-producing diatoms on the composition and abundance of the bacterial community.
PUAs are phytoplankton-derived metabolites play an important role in chemically mediated plankton interactions, both. 

Sara Haro Páez’s project is titled “Contribution of the marshes of the Bahía de Cádiz Natural Park to blue carbon sequestration comparing natural marsh versus a restored marsh”. Sara is currently working on the project AQUA&AMBI and will use the experience of our group ( pub1, pub2) to determine the importance of salt marsh management in the sequestration of carbon. “Blue carbon” ecosystems such as tidal marshes, mangrove forests, seagrass meadows have been affected severely in the last decades by human activities, mainly in the form of change of land use. The role of blue carbon ecosystems in mitigating climate change has been long recognised. Therefore, protecting and rehabilitating these ecosystems is very important. This study will evaluate the benefits of increased carbon storage gains comparing a rehabilitated versus a natural tidal marsh sites.