Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas
Practitioners and policy makers at European Union (EU) and Member States level are increasingly seeking spatially-explicit ecosystem service information to use in decision-making and the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. Whilst under the MAES Action, land-cover data has already...
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ftjrc:oai:publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu:JRC93906 2024-09-15T18:25:29+00:00 Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas COSTA TEMPERA Fernando LIQUETE GARCIA Maria Del Camino CARDOSO Ana 2016 Online https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC93906 https://doi.org/10.2788/165385 https://doi.org/10.2788/753996 eng eng Publications Office of the European Union JRC93906 2016 ftjrc https://doi.org/10.2788/16538510.2788/753996 2024-07-22T04:42:16Z Practitioners and policy makers at European Union (EU) and Member States level are increasingly seeking spatially-explicit ecosystem service information to use in decision-making and the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. Whilst under the MAES Action, land-cover data has already been used to map the distribution of several ecosystem services provided over the European land surface, a similar exercise exploiting existing seabed habitat data is still lacking for the European Seas. In this work we map the distribution of seabed-associated ecosystem services capacity by using a methodology that brings together (i) a geospatial dataset representing the broadscale distribution of permanently-submerged seabed habitats with (ii) information on each habitat capacity to provide ecosystem services. A compilation of EUNIS-harmonized broadscale seabed habitat maps based on EMODNET Seabed Habitats and UNEP GSGFM is exploited as the pan-European cartographic basis. The exercise extends out to the limits of the Extended Continental Shelf claims, achieving an areal coverage of approximately 8.7 million km2, i.e., more than 90% of the EU seafloor area in the Northeast Atlantic and adjacent seas. Alongside, expert-based assessments of each marine EUNIS habitat's capacity to provide CICES-harmonized Ecosystem Services are compiled from a literature review into a presence-only lookup table. Overall, the new seabed habitats versus ecosystem services lookup tables relate 33 ecosystem services to 67 EUNIS and 24 non-EUNIS seabed habitats. These results suggest that out of all marine habitats (n=974) in the EUNIS classification (EUNIS A1 to A7), only 14% (n=141) have so far been related to at least one ecosystem service. When all potential connections between the existing seabed EUNIS classes and CICES services are considered (n=104,218), results further show that only 2% (i.e., n=2,241) of the have been addressed qualitatively or semi-quantitatively. Based on this information, a total of 30 CICES ecosystem service ... Other/Unknown Material Northeast Atlantic Joint Research Centre, European Commission: JRC Publications Repository |
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Practitioners and policy makers at European Union (EU) and Member States level are increasingly seeking spatially-explicit ecosystem service information to use in decision-making and the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. Whilst under the MAES Action, land-cover data has already been used to map the distribution of several ecosystem services provided over the European land surface, a similar exercise exploiting existing seabed habitat data is still lacking for the European Seas. In this work we map the distribution of seabed-associated ecosystem services capacity by using a methodology that brings together (i) a geospatial dataset representing the broadscale distribution of permanently-submerged seabed habitats with (ii) information on each habitat capacity to provide ecosystem services. A compilation of EUNIS-harmonized broadscale seabed habitat maps based on EMODNET Seabed Habitats and UNEP GSGFM is exploited as the pan-European cartographic basis. The exercise extends out to the limits of the Extended Continental Shelf claims, achieving an areal coverage of approximately 8.7 million km2, i.e., more than 90% of the EU seafloor area in the Northeast Atlantic and adjacent seas. Alongside, expert-based assessments of each marine EUNIS habitat's capacity to provide CICES-harmonized Ecosystem Services are compiled from a literature review into a presence-only lookup table. Overall, the new seabed habitats versus ecosystem services lookup tables relate 33 ecosystem services to 67 EUNIS and 24 non-EUNIS seabed habitats. These results suggest that out of all marine habitats (n=974) in the EUNIS classification (EUNIS A1 to A7), only 14% (n=141) have so far been related to at least one ecosystem service. When all potential connections between the existing seabed EUNIS classes and CICES services are considered (n=104,218), results further show that only 2% (i.e., n=2,241) of the have been addressed qualitatively or semi-quantitatively. Based on this information, a total of 30 CICES ecosystem service ... |
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COSTA TEMPERA Fernando LIQUETE GARCIA Maria Del Camino CARDOSO Ana |
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COSTA TEMPERA Fernando LIQUETE GARCIA Maria Del Camino CARDOSO Ana Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas |
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COSTA TEMPERA Fernando LIQUETE GARCIA Maria Del Camino CARDOSO Ana |
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COSTA TEMPERA Fernando |
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Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas |
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Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas |
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Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas |
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Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas |
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Spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the European seas |
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spatial distribution of marine ecosystem service capacity in the european seas |
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Publications Office of the European Union |
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2016 |
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https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC93906 https://doi.org/10.2788/165385 https://doi.org/10.2788/753996 |
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