The Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems unit, created in 2003, is multi-topic (MNHN, CNRS, USORB, UNICAEN, IRD, UA) and multi-site. It is notably present in Paris, Caen, Luc-sur-Mer, Concarneau, Dinard, Montpellier, Pointe-à-Pitre and South America.
BOREA is a multidisciplinary unit whose objective is to study the biology and ecology of aquatic organisms and habitats in natural and constrained ecosystems. The aim is to understand, through a multidisciplinary and integrative approach, the origin, role and mechanisms of the evolution of aquatic biodiversity (from molecules to ecosystems), the interactions of organisms among themselves and with their living environments, and the responses to global, anthropogenic and climatic changes.
It is structured into 8 research teams:
Adaptation to Extreme Environments / Biodiversity, plasticity, adaptation and conservation: from species to communities / Functional ecology of coastal ecosystems / Environment, epi-genomes, determinisms and ontogenesis / Evolution of regulations and control of biological cycles / Physiology of aquatic animal species exploited by fisheries and aquaculture / Resilience of anthropized coastal ecosystems / Sources and fate of organic matter in aquatic environments.
The UMR is based on several life science disciplines at different levels of integration, from molecules to ecosystems and macro-ecology. This strong fundamental component is the basis for the development of concrete societal applications in biodiversity management and conservation (taxonomy and inventory, preservation and management of aquatic biodiversity, development of bioindicators of species and environments, development and diversification of aquaculture) but also in biotechnologies (bioactive molecules, nutraceuticals, biomaterials, traceability of fishery products).
