Wei-Jen Chen (Professeur à l'Institut Océanographique de l'Université Nationale de Taïwan)

In the past decades, human disturbances have extensively altered
oceanic communities that we rely on for food, transportation, and
recreation, but such kind of the attention has not been fully paid,
especially for the deep-sea ecosystems where there is a growing
interest to exploit oil, mineral or biological resources. Continuing
our wise use of the seas depends on a better understanding of the
marine biodiversity, the evolution of marine organisms and the
consequences of our intrusion on the workings of marine ecosystems. In
this context, my current research is conducted to fill the gap of our
knowledge of these regards by taking sampling strategy from two
international cooperation programs that I’m participating, the
phylogeography and systematics of emperors and large-eye seabreams and
other coral reef fishes and the Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos (TDSB), and
by the data analyses for the collected samples through an integrated
approach in systematic biology. In today’s talk, I’ll introduce the
advanced results and show the empirical studies for the test of
hypotheses that explain the marine biodiversity centered in the golden
triangle and for the investigations of the underlying evolutionary
mechanisms of species or genetic diversifications of the marine taxa
occurring in the IWP. To end my talk, I will present how the emerging
technologies and integrated approaches may help for today’s research
in marine biology and conservation.