Biology and management of fisheries and wildlife resources

For an insightful management of biological natural resources, and therefore for their sustainable use by humans, a deep knowledge of the populations at stake is necessary. Of particular importance is the study of their properties, such as the biological characteristics, behaviour, abundance and spatial distribution. Through a continuous monitoring we are able to understand how these properties vary in time under the influence of the changing surrounding ecosystem, represented by climate, interacting species and human pressures. These scientific notions, continuously updated, are then provided to the managers as support in the development of politics and legislations aiming for a sustainable and adaptive use of the resources, at national and international levels.