The research mainly focuses on the following topics: The policy-oriented questions regarding sustainable fisheries, deep-sea mining of minerals, marine spatial planning and nature conservation constitute important elements in the valorisation of the fundamental research conducted by the group. At the same time, there has been a significant shift from the initial morphological taxonomic and descriptive ecological studies based on field observations towards process-oriented and functional studies with an experimental, biochemical and molecular approach. Since its foundation, there has been a geographical expansion of the study areas, from the Belgian coast, North Sea and adjacent estuaries to a wider variety of marine habitats, from the tropics to polar systems, including seagrass ecosystems, deep-sea ecosystems such as canyons, cold-water corals, chemo-synthetic-based ecosystems and abyssal plains. The MARBIOL research group performs ecological, taxonomic and phylogeographic research on marine ecosystems and species.
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