MSEL

Geoffrey Pope Building
Stocker Road
Exeter EX4 4QD
UK

The Marine Spatial Ecology Lab conducts several types of research, each of which has an explicit spatial focus. These are:

• Developing remote sensing as a tool to acquire spatial information in coastal areas.
• Make use of remote sensing outputs to investigate the physical and ecological processes determining health, dynamics and diversity of coral reefs.
• Improve the management of coral reefs through marine reserve design.
• Examine the spatial ecology of coral reef ecosystems from scales of millimetres (e.g. coral-algal interactions) to hundreds of kilometres (variations in beta diversity throughout the Caribbean).

  MSEL is also a partner with IMM Ltd in the Coral Ecosystems, Livelihoods and Policy Group (CELP), an inter-disciplinary partnership of specialists in coral reef resources, reef dependent people and poverty.