Incidental human impacts (e.g. oil spills, marine infrastructures) or increasingly frequent extreme events resulting from climate change (e.g. increasing frequency and severity of storms, marine heatwaves) are known to have profound and long-lasting impacts on the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. Such impacts can also alter recurrent connectivity pathways of marine organisms and/or alter the functional implications of connectivity.
This session calls for studies assessing the implications of incidental impacts and extreme events on connectivity processes. These may include studies that are field-, laboratory-, or model-based, or any combination of these. Research topics include, but are not limited to, movement ecology, behavioral ecology, biogeochemical cycles, food web studies, and the development of analytical methods and tools to investigate these processes.
