Yanis Zentner

Yanis Zentner is a marine ecologist at the University of Barcelona. He is interested in how marine heatwaves are reshaping Mediterranean benthic communities, and in how conservation can keep pace with these changes. His PhD focused on octocoral-dominated coralligenous assemblages, combining long-term demographic monitoring of habitat-forming gorgonians with trait-based approaches to community functioning. Working across sites under different levels of protection, he examined how local pressures interact with climate change and explored conservation actions such as adaptive management and assisted recovery. His work aims to bridge population and community ecology to inform the management of coralligenous habitats in a warming Mediterranean

October 2026