Working Group on Comparative Ecosystem-based Analyses of Atlantic and Mediterranean marine systems (WGCOMEDA, outputs from 2022 meeting) ...

• Main Author: ICES
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: ICES Scientific Reports 2023
• Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; The sea and human culture and societies; Fisheries and aquaculture; Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean Sea ICES adjacent region; Western Mediterranean Sea ICES adjacent region; Atlantic, Northeast ICES Ecoregion; FAO area 27; Oceanic Northeast Atlantic ICES Ecoregion; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.22598164; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/Working_Group_on_Comparative_Ecosystem-based_Analyses_of_Atlantic_and_Mediterranean_marine_systems_WGCOMEDA_outputs_from_2022_meeting_/22598164

The ICES Working Group on comparative analyses between European Atlantic and Mediterranean Ecosystems to move towards an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries (WGCOMEDA) aims to facilitate integrative approaches to analyse and compare Atlantic and Mediterranean marine systems, with the goal of supporting integrated fisheries advice and marine management. WGCOMEDA is structured around four Terms of Reference (ToRs), focusing on functional biodiversity, ecosystem structure and connectivity, resilience and mechanizms of change, and integration between ecological and socio-economic dimensions and cultural systems. In the latest three-year cycle (2020–2022), the Working Group improved the knowledge on functional biodiversity and its resilience, standardized the use of traits, structured an overview of the inclusion of resilience concepts into foodweb modelling approaches, promoted methodological innovations in the field of resilience quantifications, and facilitated the dialogue among researchers from different ...