Project: Biodiversity of Marine Eukaryotes.

Marine unicellular eukaryotic organisms, in particular protists, are among the least explored compartments of biodiversity, yet they are suspected to profoundly impact marine ecosystem functioning, global biogeochemical cycles and climate. They can also offer unexplored functions and be used to propose new indicators of marine environments’ statuses. BioMarKs aimed at exploring this unknown compartment of life and assessing the taxonomic and functional complexity of protistan communities along the European coastlines, to: 1. Establish a baseline of protists biodiversity in European coastal waters, and apply this data to environmental and evolutionary questions on protists; 2. Assess new functions that can be derived from this unexplored taxonomic group and evaluate their use to monitor the health of marine environments.

Acronym BioMarks
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Network BIODIVERSA
Call Biodiversity: Linking Scientific Advancement to Policy and Practice

Project partner

Number Name Role Country
Joint Research Unit National Center for Scientific Research / Mediterranean Institute of Microbiology - Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory Partner France
Joint Research Unit National Center for Scientific Research / University Pierre et Marie Curie - Oceanography Laboratory Partner France
Joint Research Unit National Center for Scientific Research / University Pierre et Marie Curie - Roscoff Marine Station Coordinator France
Spanish National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences Partner Spain
University of Exeter - Department of Biosciences Partner United Kingdom
University of Oslo - Department of Biosciences Partner Norway