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A Catalogue of Marine Biodiversity Indicators
Teixeira, Heliana; Berg, Torsten; Uusitalo, Laura; Fürhaupter, Karin; Heiskanen, Anna-Stiina; Mazik, Krysia; Lynam, Christopher P.; Neville, SuzannaA Catalogue of Marine Biodiversity Indicators was developed with the aim of providing the basis for assessing the environmental status of the marine ecosystems. Useful for the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), this catalogue allows the navigation of a database of indicators mostly related to biological diversity, non-indigenous species, food webs, and seafloor integrity. Over 600...
Indicator-Based Assessment of Marine Biological Diversity–Lessons from 10 Case ...
Uusitalo, Laura; Blanchet, Hugues; Andersen, Jesper H.; Beauchard, Olivier; Berg, Torsten; Bianchelli, Silvia; Cantafaro, Annalucia; Carstensen, JacobThe Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires the environmental status of European marine waters to be assessed using biodiversity as 1 out of 11 descriptors, but the complexity of marine biodiversity and its large span across latitudinal and salinity gradients have been a challenge to the scientific community aiming to produce approaches for integrating information from a broad range of indicators. The Nest...
Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components whe...
Borja, Angel; Prins, Theo C.; Simboura, Nomiki; Andersen, Jesper H.; Berg, Torsten; Marques, João Carlos; Neto, João M.; Papadopoulou, NadiaAssessing the environmental status of marine ecosystems is useful when communicating key messages to policymakers or the society, reducing the complex information of the multiple ecosystem and biodiversity components and their important spatial and temporal variability into manageable units. Taking into account the ecosystem components to be addressed (e.g., biological, chemical, physical), the numerous biodive...