Elisa Serviere-Zaragoza obtained her Bachelor of Biology, Master’s and Doctor of Science from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). She has been a titular researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico since 1994. Her interests include marine ecology, marine botany and trophic ecology in rocky reefs and, mainly, Macrocystis and Sargassum beds.