Voices from biodiversity
Every voice offers a new perspective. These interviews bring you closer to the people who work every day to study, protect, and share biodiversity. Different backgrounds, diverse expertise, and stories that intersect. Listening to them means stepping into the heart of knowledge, where ideas take shape.
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The sea from above: the gaze of the marine ecologist
An NBFC project uses drones and multispectral cameras to investigate biodiversity
When it comes to assessing the health of everything that lives in the sea, marine ecologists come into play. Gennaro Ucciero is one of them, and his doctoral project (carried out between the University of Palermo, the NBFC office in the Sicilian capital, the Laboratory of Marine Ecology at the Federico II University of Naples and the PRISMA Lab at the same university) puts a twist on traditional survey methods.
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Precious algae: the case of the Cinque Terre
With her marine restoration projects, Mariachiara Chiantore’s team revives Cystoseira forests
Marine restoration is a key activity to restore ecosystems damaged by human activities or natural events. The goal is to restore the biodiversity, functionality, and resilience of these vital environments. This is precisely what Mariachiara Chiantore, full professor of Ecology at the University of Genoa and co-coordinator of Spoke 2 of the National Biodiversity Center, is concerned with.
