List of Documents
Author(s): | Palialexis Andreas, Ana Cristina Cardoso, Francesca Somma |
Description: | JRC produced reference lists of species and habitats for the Marine Strategy Framework
Directive (MSFD), following the recommendations listed in the COM DEC 2017/848/EU and
shared them with the marine biodiversity experts proposed by the EU Member States, for
their evaluation. This task is part of the mandate to JRC (GES_18-2017-03) to facilitate
Member States data entry, as part of the MSFD reporting obligations, in the EEA reporting
web-forms, while increasing consistency and harmonization across Member States. The
scope of this technical report is: i) to describe the methodology applied for the synthesis
of the reference lists; ii) to provide directions to the experts to evaluate and update them;
iii) to provide Member States with the possibility to consult the reference lists (embedded
in this document) for any future MSFD related task. |
Keywords: | D1, MSFD, Biodiversity, species lists, habitats lists, criteria elements |
Type: | Report |
Published: | 14/03/2018 |
Inventory nb: | 201803194917 |
Author(s): | OSPAR Commission |
Description: | OSPAR's Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP) describes the strategy, themes and products that OSPAR Contracting Parties are committed to deliver. This guideline is dedicated to the observation of benthic communities. |
Keywords: | OSPAR, Eutrophication, Benthos, monitoring |
Type: | Report |
Published: | 2012 |
Inventory nb: | 201606234627 |
Author(s): | European Union and European Academies' Science Advisory Council |
Description: | The report has the aim of contributing to the governance
challenge of how to integrate the various aspects of marine
policy (fisheries management, biodiversity conservation and marine environmental protection) as part of a coherent
ecosystem approach. It considers how current science knowledge on marine ecosystems and the organisation of science can support an integrated approach to management of the seas. The report looks at a number of key aspects for sustainable development in changing oceans and seas, and particularly highlights the key scientific challenges in addressing these issues. The report presents both recommendations from science for policy development, and recommendations on policy for science. |
Keywords: | msfd, climate change, sustainability, fisheries, marine resources, biodiversity, food webs, pelagic, benthic, marine protected areas, mpa, ecosystems, ecosystem services, marine spatial planning, fisheries policy, pressures, ecosystem based management |
Type: | Report |
Published: | 01/2016 |
Inventory nb: | 201605032025 |
Author(s): | Chiara Piroddi. University of Barcelona, SPAIN. |
Description: | The European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) seeks to achieve, for all European seas 'Good Environmental Status' (GEnS, Borjia et al., 2011) by 2020; on the other hand ecological models are currently one of the strongest approaches used to predicting and understanding the consequences of anthropogenic and climate-driven changes in the natural environment. This presentation will highlight the results of a review conducted under an FP7 project called DEVOTES showing 1. current capabilities of the modelling community to inform on indicators outlined in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), with a special focus on the following three descriptors: biodiversity (D1), food webs (D4), non-indigenous species (D2) and seafloor integrity (D6); 2. which models are able to demonstrate the linkages between indicators and ecosystem structure/function and the impact of pressures on state and thus indicators; 3. gaps in model capability and needs for development.
In addition, in order to facilitate the implementation of management policies like the MSFD and explore future plausible scenarios, some preliminary results will be presented on spatial and temporal evolution of the Mediterranean marine ecosystem from 1950 to 2010 and structural and functional changes of the basin using specific model derived indicators. |
Keywords: | modelling, Good environmental status, GES, FP7, DEVOTES, MSFD, biodiversity, food webs, non-indigenous species, seafloor integrity, D1, D2, D4, D6, models, |
Type: | - |
Published: | 20/01/2016 |
Inventory nb: | 201604262200 |
Author(s): | Marilaure Grégoire, Arthur Capet |
Description: | We develop a three dimensional coupled circulation biogeochemical model of the Black Sea in order to assess the status, causes and mechanisms of hypoxia on the north-western shelf (BS-NWS) that was severely impacted by eutrophication in the 80's. Model simulations over the last 3 decades show evidences that hypoxia is still occurring seasonally on a non-negligible area of the bottom waters of the BS-NWS. This important finding (corroborated by the monitoring of local institutes) is in contradiction with the general idea that bottom hypoxia vanished with the reduction after 1992 of riverborne nutrient discharge. We found that the overestimation of recovering was due to the use of observations concentrated in areas and months not typically affected by hypoxia.
An index H which merges the aspects of the spatial and temporal extension of the hypoxic event is proposed to quantify, for each year, the intensity of hypoxia as an environmental stressor. In order to provide recommendations for the definition of policies aiming to avoid bottom hypoxia and to preserve the GES of the benthic habitat, a simplified statistical model has been derived to link the H index with the level of nutrients loads discharges by the Danube and specific climate drivers of hypoxia.
This approach allows establishing a cost of the local warming in terms of its impact on hypoxia. We find that the potential increase of water stratification in a global change context may promote the occurrence of seasonal hypoxia and this stresses that the definition of future management scheme of river discharges have to integrate the impact of climate change. |
Keywords: | biogeochemical, biogeochemistry, Black Sea, eutrophication, hypoxia, nutrient discharge, D5, Descriptor 5, modelling |
Type: | - |
Published: | 20/01/2016 |
Inventory nb: | 201604192610 |
Author(s): | Fernando Tempera |
Description: | A comprehensive coverage of permanently submerged seabed habitats (i.e., EUNIS classes A3 to A6) was achieved by bringing in, and harmonizing where needed, complementary EUNIS-compliant broad-scale geospatial information from the EMODNET Seabed Habitats portal and UNEP's Global Seafloor Geomorphic Features Map. |
Keywords: | Seabed, habitats, EUNIS, mapping, GIS, marine, environment, sea, oceans |
Type: | Report |
Published: | 05/2015 |
Inventory nb: | 201506030954 |
Author(s): | |
Description: | Report of the 2nd Workshop (WKGMSFDD6-II, Copenhagen, 16-19 February 2015) to review the 2010 Commission Decision on criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status (GES) of marine waters in what concerns Descriptor 6 (Sea-floor Integrity). Discussions are summarized focusing on consolidating the newly-suggested function-based approach to the descriptor and addressing relevant scientific comments and requests for clarification received on the earlier version of the MSFD review D6 manual. A new conceptual approach is proposed for D6 by establishing three overarching criteria (i.e. pressure, state and impact) that have manifest links with the existing criteria but still require further development. |
Keywords: | D6, review, Commission Decision 2010/477/EU |
Type: | Report |
Published: | 16/02/2015 |
Inventory nb: | 201504131527 |
Author(s): | ICES |
Description: | ICES as revised the MSFD Manuals of D3, D4 and D6 based on the results of three workshops and on feedback received from EU Member States, Regional Sea Conventions, NGOs, other stakeholders and the European Commission. |
Keywords: | fisheries, food webs, sea-floor integrity, MSFD, Commission Decission 2010/477/EU |
Type: | Report |
Published: | 20/03/2015 |
Inventory nb: | 201503251103 |
Author(s): | ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, MSFD |
Description: | Report of the 2014 Workshop to review the 2010 Commission Decision on criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status (GES) of marine waters in what concerns Descriptor 6 Seafloor Integrity (WKGMSFDD6). |
Keywords: | D6, review, Commission Decision 2010/477/EU |
Type: | Report |
Published: | 02/09/2014 |
Inventory nb: | 201502120850 |