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Past and future grand challenges in marine ecosystem ecology
Borja, Angel; Andersen, Jesper H.; Arvanitidis, Christos D.; Basset, Alberto; Buhl-Mortensen, Lene; Carvalho, Susana; Dafforn, Katherine A.Frontiers in Marine Science launched the Marine Ecosystems Ecology (FMARS-MEE) section in 2014, with a paper that identified eight grand challenges for the discipline (Borja, 2014). Since then, this section has published a total of 370 papers, including 336 addressing aspects of those challenges. As editors of the journal, with a wide range of marine ecology expertise, we felt it was timely to evaluate research...
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...
Good Environmental Status of marine ecosystems: What is it and how do we know w...
Borja, Angel; Elliott, Mike; Andersen, Jesper H.; Cardoso, Ana C.; Carstensen, Jacob; Ferreira, João G.; Heiskanen, Anna-Stiina; Marques, J. C.The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires EU Member States (MS) to achieve Good Environmental Status (GEnS) of their seas by 2020. We address the question of what GEnS entails especially with regard to the level at which targets are set (descriptors, criteria, indicators), to scales for assessments (regional, sub-divisions, site-specific), and to difficulties in putting into practice the ...