MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation

Geographical locations

Mainland France

The UMR is present on three metropolitan locations:

SÈTE CENTER:

MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY:

PALAVAS IFREMER STATION:

French overseas territories and abroad

Several sites are established overseas and abroad: Southern Africa and Indian Ocean (South Africa, Reunion, Mayotte and Seychelles), West Africa (Senegal, Ivory Coast), North Africa (Tunisia, Morocco), Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia), Latin America (Peru, Brazil).

PNG

PERU - Imarpe:

SENEGAL - Labep-A0:

TUNISIA - IRD TUNIS:

SOUTH AFRICA - UCT:

MAYOTTE - CUFR:

REUNION - Sciences and Technologies University:

SEYCHELLES - SFA:

VIETNAM - IO, IBT, NIHE, VNUHCM:

INDONESIA - IRD Jakarta:

Who are we?

MARBEC MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation, is a research unit which includes the staff of 4 organizations: IRD, IFREMER, UM and CNRS. Its objective is the study of marine biodiversity in lagoon coastal and offshore ecosystems, at different integration levels, molecular, individual, population and community aspects and the way humans use this biodiversity.