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Maria Grazia Pennino, will give the course “Modeling species distributions: methods and applications” in Barcelona, Spain, from 27th of February to 2nd of March 2018. The course describes some of the most prominent SDMs methods currently in use both from a frequentist and a Bayesian approach.

More information can be found here:

http://barcelona-ocean.com/professor/pennino-maria-grazia

Missions & Goals

The Fishing Ecology Management and Economics Group (FEME) is interested in exploring the interactions between ecosystem uses, specifically fisheries, and human societies from developing countries. Our main goal is to provide sound basis for fisheries management without compromising the livelihood of those who depend directly or indirectly on fisheries. This is not always an easy task, given the cultural, social and economic relevance of fisheries, especially the small-scale ones, for countries such as Brazil. Often, best biological management measures need to be adapted to fit social needs. We struggle to find an optimal point, where long-term impact to biodiversity and short-term losses to fishing groups are minimum. To do that, we focus on:

- Fishermen's behavior and decision-making process;
- Socioecological resilience of fishing places;
- Economic evaluation of natural resources;
- Spatial distribution of biological resources;
- Integrated biological and socioeconomic models.

Our group is based in Natal, a coastal city in the Brazilian northeast, within the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Here, we help to form students, we cooperate with the government in initiatives, such as the assessment of conservation status of different species, and we provide consultancy to different private and public companies assessing, for example, past and current impacts of development initiatives on fisheries.

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