Assessing the environmental status of selected North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems
The deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales. Implementation of marine policies like the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and support for Blue Growth in th...
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The deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales. Implementation of marine policies like the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and support for Blue Growth in the deep sea are therefore hindered by lack of data. Integrated assessments of environmental status require tools to work with different and disaggregated datasets (e.g. density of deep-sea habitat-forming species, body-size distribution of commercial fishes, intensity of bottom trawling) across spatial and temporal scales. A feasibility study was conducted as part of the four-year ATLAS project to assess the effectiveness of the open-access Nested Environmental status Assessment Tool (NEAT) to assess deep-sea environmental status. We worked at nine selected study areas in the North Atlantic focusing on five MSFD descriptors (D1-Biodiversity, D3-Commercial fish and shellfish, D4-Food webs, D6-Seafloor integrity, D10-Marine litter). The objectives of the present study were to i) explore and propose indicators that could be used in the assessment of deep-sea environmental status, ii) evaluate the performance of NEAT in the deep sea, and iii) identify challenges and opportunities for the assessment of deep-sea status. Based on data availability, data quality and expert judgement, in total 24 indicators (one for D1, one for D3, seven for D4, 13 for D6, two for D10) were used in the assessment of the nine study areas, their habitats and ecosystem components. NEAT analyses revealed differences among the study areas for their environmental status ranging from “poor” to “high”. Overall, the NEAT results were in moderate to complete agreement with expert judgement, previous assessments, scientific literature on human-pressure gradients and expected management outcomes. We suggest that the assessment of deep-sea environmental status should take place at habitat and ecosystem level (rather than at species level) and at relatively ... |
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Assessing the environmental status of selected North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems |
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Assessing the environmental status of selected North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems |
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-04203216v1 2023-10-09T21:53:59+02:00 Assessing the environmental status of selected North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems Kazanidis, Georgios Orejas, Covadonga Borja, Angel Kenchington, Ellen Henry, Lea-Anne Callery, Oisín Carreiro-Silva, Marina Egilsdottir, Hronn Giacomello, Eva Grehan, Anthony Menot, Lenaick Morato, Telmo Ragnarsson, Stefán Áki Rueda, José Luis Stirling, David Stratmann, Tanja van Oevelen, Dick Palialexis, Andreas Johnson, David Roberts, J Murray Laboratoire Environnement Profond (LEP) Etudes des Ecosystèmes Profonds (EEP) Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) European Project: 652690,H2020,H2020-BG-2014-1,COLUMBUS(2015) European Project: 678760,H2020,H2020-BG-2015-2,ATLAS(2016) European Project: 308392,EC:FP7:ENV,FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage,DEVOTES(2012) 2020-12 https://hal.science/hal-04203216 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106624 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106624 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//652690/EU/COLUMBUS - Monitoring, Managing and Transferring Marine and Maritime Knowledge for Sustainable Blue Growth/COLUMBUS info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//678760/EU/A Trans-AtLantic Assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based Spatial management plan for Europe/ATLAS info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/308392/EU/DEVelopment Of innovative Tools for understanding marine biodiversity and assessing good Environmental Status/DEVOTES hal-04203216 https://hal.science/hal-04203216 doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106624 ISSN: 1470-160X EISSN: 1872-7034 Ecological Indicators https://hal.science/hal-04203216 Ecological Indicators, 2020, 119, 106624 (24p.). ⟨10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106624⟩ [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2020 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106624 2023-09-23T22:53:30Z The deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales. Implementation of marine policies like the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and support for Blue Growth in the deep sea are therefore hindered by lack of data. Integrated assessments of environmental status require tools to work with different and disaggregated datasets (e.g. density of deep-sea habitat-forming species, body-size distribution of commercial fishes, intensity of bottom trawling) across spatial and temporal scales. A feasibility study was conducted as part of the four-year ATLAS project to assess the effectiveness of the open-access Nested Environmental status Assessment Tool (NEAT) to assess deep-sea environmental status. We worked at nine selected study areas in the North Atlantic focusing on five MSFD descriptors (D1-Biodiversity, D3-Commercial fish and shellfish, D4-Food webs, D6-Seafloor integrity, D10-Marine litter). The objectives of the present study were to i) explore and propose indicators that could be used in the assessment of deep-sea environmental status, ii) evaluate the performance of NEAT in the deep sea, and iii) identify challenges and opportunities for the assessment of deep-sea status. Based on data availability, data quality and expert judgement, in total 24 indicators (one for D1, one for D3, seven for D4, 13 for D6, two for D10) were used in the assessment of the nine study areas, their habitats and ecosystem components. NEAT analyses revealed differences among the study areas for their environmental status ranging from “poor” to “high”. Overall, the NEAT results were in moderate to complete agreement with expert judgement, previous assessments, scientific literature on human-pressure gradients and expected management outcomes. We suggest that the assessment of deep-sea environmental status should take place at habitat and ecosystem level (rather than at species level) and at relatively ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Ecological Indicators 119 106624 |