Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status
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Resumo: | Assessing 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 biodiversity elements to be assessed (e.g., from microbes to sea mammals), the different indicators needed to be studied (e.g., in Europe, 56 indicators of status have been selected), and the different assessment scales to be undertaken (e.g., from local to regional sea scale), some criteria to define spatial scales and some guidance on aggregating and integrating information is needed. We have reviewed, from ecological and management perspectives, the approaches for aggregating and integrating currently available for marine status assessment in Europe and other regions of the world. Advantages and shortcomings of the different alternatives are highlighted. We provide some guidance on the steps toward defining rules for aggregation and integration of information at multiple levels of ecosystem organization, providing recommendations on when using specific rules in the assessment. A main conclusion is that any integration principle used should be ecologically-relevant, transparent and well documented, in order to make it comparable across different geographic regions. |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental statusecosystemsmarineindicatorsMarin Strategy Framework DirectivedescriptorscriteriaassessmentintegrationAssessing 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 biodiversity elements to be assessed (e.g., from microbes to sea mammals), the different indicators needed to be studied (e.g., in Europe, 56 indicators of status have been selected), and the different assessment scales to be undertaken (e.g., from local to regional sea scale), some criteria to define spatial scales and some guidance on aggregating and integrating information is needed. We have reviewed, from ecological and management perspectives, the approaches for aggregating and integrating currently available for marine status assessment in Europe and other regions of the world. Advantages and shortcomings of the different alternatives are highlighted. We provide some guidance on the steps toward defining rules for aggregation and integration of information at multiple levels of ecosystem organization, providing recommendations on when using specific rules in the assessment. A main conclusion is that any integration principle used should be ecologically-relevant, transparent and well documented, in order to make it comparable across different geographic regions.Thisworkhasbeendoneunder FrameworkcontractNoENV.D2/FRA/2012/0019(Coherentgeo- graphicscalesandaggregationrulesinassessmentandmoni- toringofGoodEnvironmentalStatus—analysisandconceptual phase), oftheEuropeanDirectorateGeneralofEnvironment;and DEVOTESproject(DEVelopmentOfinnovativeToolsforunder- standing marinebiodiversityandassessinggoodEnvironmental Status) fundedbytheEuropeanUnionunderthe7thFramework Program“TheOceanofTomorrow”Theme(grantagreement no.308392)(www.devotes-project.eu).JHAwassupportedby theWATERSproject(WaterbodyAssessmentToolsforEcological ReferenceconditionsandstatusinSweden).MaríaC.Uyarra (AZTI-Tecnalia)andMikeElliott(UniversityofHull)provided constructivecommentstothefirstversionofthemanuscript.This is contributionnumber674fromtheMarineResearchDivision (AZTI-Tecnalia).Frontiers Media S.A.2014info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/109431http://hdl.handle.net/10316/109431https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2014.00072eng2296-7745Borja, AngelPrins, Theo C.Simboura, NomikiAndersen, Jesper H.Berg, TorstenMarques, João CarlosNeto, João M.Papadopoulou, NadiaReker, JohnnyTeixeira, HelianaUusitalo, Laurainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-10-13T11:51:54Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/109431Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:25:37.760478Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status Borja, Angel ecosystems marine indicators Marin Strategy Framework Directive descriptors criteria assessment integration |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status |
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Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status |
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Borja, Angel |
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Borja, Angel Prins, Theo C. Simboura, Nomiki Andersen, Jesper H. Berg, Torsten Marques, João Carlos Neto, João M. Papadopoulou, Nadia Reker, Johnny Teixeira, Heliana Uusitalo, Laura |
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author |
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Prins, Theo C. Simboura, Nomiki Andersen, Jesper H. Berg, Torsten Marques, João Carlos Neto, João M. Papadopoulou, Nadia Reker, Johnny Teixeira, Heliana Uusitalo, Laura |
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Borja, Angel Prins, Theo C. Simboura, Nomiki Andersen, Jesper H. Berg, Torsten Marques, João Carlos Neto, João M. Papadopoulou, Nadia Reker, Johnny Teixeira, Heliana Uusitalo, Laura |
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ecosystems marine indicators Marin Strategy Framework Directive descriptors criteria assessment integration |
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ecosystems marine indicators Marin Strategy Framework Directive descriptors criteria assessment integration |
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Assessing 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 biodiversity elements to be assessed (e.g., from microbes to sea mammals), the different indicators needed to be studied (e.g., in Europe, 56 indicators of status have been selected), and the different assessment scales to be undertaken (e.g., from local to regional sea scale), some criteria to define spatial scales and some guidance on aggregating and integrating information is needed. We have reviewed, from ecological and management perspectives, the approaches for aggregating and integrating currently available for marine status assessment in Europe and other regions of the world. Advantages and shortcomings of the different alternatives are highlighted. We provide some guidance on the steps toward defining rules for aggregation and integration of information at multiple levels of ecosystem organization, providing recommendations on when using specific rules in the assessment. A main conclusion is that any integration principle used should be ecologically-relevant, transparent and well documented, in order to make it comparable across different geographic regions. |
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