Subject Area
Biological Oceanography
Marine Ecology
Physical Oceanography
Limnology
Skills
I would like research address the fundamental question: what are the mechanisms
responsible for the spatial variations in the structure of the near shore communities
(macrozooplankton, ichthyoplankton and benthic organisms) and particularly new theoretical and
integrative means to predict their variations in space. The main goal of research it is understand
the influence of physical processes (turbulence/currents) into spatial – temporal zooplankton and
ichthyoplankton patterns at different scales and his ecological implications for recruitment and
community and population permanence.
I interested on three kind of physical – biological processes.
1) The effect of currents and turbulence over zooplankton and ichthyoplankton
distribution and dynamics into Frontal Zone
2) The role of currents and turbulence into settlement processes for benthic organisms in
order to maintain population, community or fishery
3) The importance of currents and turbulence into development and structure of
zooplankton and ichthyoplankton patchiness
The ecosystems are complex and hierarchical in structure and what is know of the general
behavior of such systems also indicates the need to study small scale. I know that physical world
change with the scale. For small organisms (less than 2 cm) the physical world is advective, in
other hand the world is inertial for large organisms (bigger than 2 cm). Technical approach by
field quantification data and laboratory experiments.
