Coastal Habitat Conservation

Dr. Free Espinosa Torre currently teaches in the Zoology Department at the University of Seville. He received his PhD in Conservation Biology of Marine Invertebrates from the University of Seville. His research expertise includes marine conservation, marine benthic invertebrates on rocky shores, intertidal ecology, marine protected areas (MPAs), marine environment monitoring, and marine endangered invertebrate and limpet biology.

1. Today’s impacts, evolution, pressure changes, and the current direction of marine conservation
2. Marine area-based conservation in the context of global change
3. Effects of coastal urbanization on marine species and habitat conservation
4. Marine bioinvasions in the Anthropocene
5. Biodiversity, aquaculture, and conservation of endangered species
6. Conservation of out-of-sight communities and dark habitats
7. A physiological approach to conservation using biomarkers and molecular approaches
8. Conserving marine biodiversity with ecological restoration
9. Citizen science, conservation policies, monitoring, and management