Dr. Lázaro Marín-Guirao
Present affiliation: Centro Oceanografico de Murcia (IEO), Murcia, Spain

My researches are focused on the context of integrative seagrass ecology with the aim to determine the capacity of marine plants to cope with and adapt to altered/changing environments. In my studies, I combine and integrates multilevel approaches including population, community and ecosystem analysis, ecophysiological/biochemical measurements and genetic and transcriptomic techniques. These holistic approaches are applied both in the field and in laboratory manipulative experiments to understand and predict the future of these key benthic foundation species under complex and unprecedented environmental scenarios of global change. These studies are of great value to explore the role that phenotypic plasticity and (epi-)genetic evolution play in the adaptation of foundation species to the ongoing global climate change and how their climatic threats interact with other increasing global impacts. I am also interested in exploring particular research perspectives including the identification of the mechanisms, thresholds and early warning indicators of regime shifts in seagrass ecosystems, to gain further knowledge about how resilience is built-up in this ecosystems and which mechanisms are compromised when they undergo regime shift.

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http://www.szn.it/index.php/it/personale/staff/401-marin-guirao-lazaro

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lazaro_Marin-Guirao
https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=aF7ocwUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao