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MARine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning leading to Ecosystem Services

Descrizione del progetto

Oltre le cause e le conseguenze del mantenimento, della perdita e del guadagno di biodiversità

Gli oceani ospitano un’enorme quantità e varietà di specie ma le attività umane, tra cui lo sfruttamento eccessivo e l’inquinamento, stanno modificando l’ambiente marino. È perciò importante capire in che modo preservare la biodiversità e il funzionamento degli ecosistemi. Il progetto MARBEFES, finanziato dall’UE, intende riunire 23 istituti di ricerca di 15 paesi europei per valutare e descrivere i legami fra la biodiversità marina, il funzionamento degli ecosistemi, i servizi ecosistemici e i benefici e prodotti che ne derivano per la società nelle comunità costiere. Le indagini si svolgeranno in tutte le zone oggetto di studio in una serie di ampi transetti che partono dall’Artico, passano per il Baltico salmastro, attraversano le coste marine del Mare del Nord e dell’Atlantico, e giungono fino al Mediterraneo subtropicale.

Obiettivo

The European Union and its Member States (MSs) have a fundamental need to understand how biodiversity and ecosystem functioning must be maintained to ensure that they deliver ecosystem services, goods and benefits, which in turn must be sustainably used by society. Central to this, and as the raison d’ȇtre of this call, the MSs need to value these natural and social capital aspects of ecosystems. The overall aim of MARBEFES is to determine the links between the biodiversity and functioning of coastal and marine ecosystems and the resulting ecosystem services and societal goods and benefits. In this it will achieve ecological and socio-economic valuation through a validated set of innovative tools in a distributed toolbox (TRL 6) to enhance policy and governance to secure benefits for current and future generation. We will progress substantially beyond the current state-of-the-art understanding of the causes and consequences of the maintenance, loss and gain of biodiversity and ecological and economic value and the repercussions of this for the management and governance of European seas. Involving 23 highly experienced partners, the project outputs and outcomes are based on developing and validating a set of ecological, economic and socio-cultural valuation tools using existing and new information and data in 12 Broad Belt Transect case studies. These cover the breadth of European marine biodiversity, from the Arctic to semi-tropical areas, across dominant habitats and iconic species, and from shallow to deep areas and encompass a range of socio-economic contexts. As such, and through stakeholder co-creation for policy relevance, MARBEFES shows the tools to value different natural capital resources and inform planning from financial allocations to management and with monetary and non-monetary benefits. In this, the project advances our knowledge through linking marine biodiversity and its ecological structure and functioning to ecological and economic valuation.

Parole chiave

Coordinatore

INSTYTUT OCEANOLOGII POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 692 087,50
Indirizzo
UL. POWSTANCOW WARSZAWY 55
81 712 Sopot
Polonia

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Regione
Makroregion północny Pomorskie Trójmiejski
Tipo di attività
Other
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 692 087,50

Partecipanti (19)

Partner (3)