Objective
Marine biodiversity sustains ecosystem services for planetary and human health. Recent surveys of marine ecosystems have unveiled our ignorance of the richness and functioning of marine life, which is changing in the Anthropocene at a faster pace than terrestrial life.
BIOcean5D unites major European centers in molecular/cell biology (EMBL), marine biology (EMBRC), and sequencing (Genoscope), together with 26 partners from 11 countries, to build a unique suite of technologies, protocols, and models allowing holistic re-exploration of marine biodiversity, from viruses to mammals, from genomes to holobionts, across multiple spatial and temporal scales stretching from pre-industrial to today. A focus is to understand pan-European biodiversity land-to-sea gradients and ecosystem services, including marine exposomes, notably with an expedition (TREC, 2023/24) that will deploy mobile labs, research vessels including the Tara schooner, and innovative citizen science tools, across 21 coastal countries and 35 marine labs from the Mediterranean to Arctic seas. New data will be harmonized with existing data into an open-access data hub, leveraging international infrastructures, and generating transformative, cross-technologies/cross-scales standard marine biodiversity knowledge at the socio-ecosystem level. Knowledge will inform and constrain (i) new theories and models of marine biodiversity ecological and evolutionary dynamics and drivers, at both taxonomic and functional scales, (ii) a portfolio of novel holistic indicators of marine ecosystem health, (iii) innovative methods and protocols for economic and legal valuations of marine biodiversity and services integrating the dynamical and functional complexity of marine life. BIOcean5D will create a unique opportunity to bridge molecular/subcellular biology to organismal biology, theoretical ecology and econometrics, and marine complex systems to social sciences, toward the sustainable preservation of our oceans and seas.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
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Participants (26)
75794 Paris
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29280 Plouzane
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75005 Paris
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9000 Gent
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81 712 Sopot
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27570 Bremerhaven
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04318 Leipzig
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48395 Sukarrieta
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5838 Bergen
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80121 Napoli
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1010 Wien
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75012 Paris
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28006 Madrid
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00196 Roma
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1165 Kobenhavn
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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75016 Paris
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75006 Paris
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80539 Munchen
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75015 PARIS 15
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35122 Padova
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69126 Heidelberg
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8400 Oostende
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37073 Gottingen
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66860 Perpignan
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44000 Nantes
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Partners (4)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
8092 Zuerich
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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SO14 3ZH Southampton
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PL1 2PB Plymouth
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