The work consisted in interacting with the colleagues from the University Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) and the University Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) to develop an integrated spacialized approach to obtain key ecosystem information for Marine Spatial Planning (WP2).

Specific activities:

• standardization of small scale-fisheries historical database along the Coast. These data come from different sources and present different formats (Task 2.3.);

• development of a methodology to collect fishing effort on small scale fisheries and human activities based on Google earth (Task 2.3).

• Participation to the redaction of the Deliverable 2.1 (Report on tropical Atlantic marine ecosystem dynamics in the last decades)

• Support of Latifa Pelage (PhD student, UFRPE) and finalising the paper: Pelage, L., Domalain, G., Lira, A. S., Travassos, P., Frédou, T. 2019. Coastal land use in Northeast Brazil: mangrove coverage evolution over three decades. Tropical Conservation Science, 12, 1940082918822411.