scholarly journals An integrated assessment of the Good Environmental Status of Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas

2022 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 114370
Author(s):  
Simonetta Fraschetti ◽  
Erika Fabbrizzi ◽  
Laura Tamburello ◽  
María C. Uyarra ◽  
Fiorenza Micheli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Good Environmental Status

scholarly journals Biodiversity Monitoring in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas: Scientific and Methodological Challenges

Diversity ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Carlo Nike Bianchi ◽  
Annalisa Azzola ◽  
Silvia Cocito ◽  
Carla Morri ◽  
Alice Oprandi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Spatial Modelling ◽  
Habitat Diversity ◽  
Ecosystem Change ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Genes To Ecosystems

Biodiversity is a portmanteau word to indicate the variety of life at all levels from genes to ecosystems, but it is often simplistically equated to species richness; the word ecodiversity has thus been coined to address habitat variety. Biodiversity represents the core of the natural capital, and as such needs to be quantified and followed over time. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a major tool for biodiversity conservation at sea. Monitoring of both species and habitat diversity in MPAs is therefore mandatory and must include both inventory and periodic surveillance activities. In the case of inventories, the ideal would be to census all species and all habitats, but while the latter goal can be within reach, the former seems unattainable. Species inventory should be commeasured to investigation effort, while habitat inventory should be based on mapping. Both inventories may profit from suitability spatial modelling. Periodic surveillance actions should privilege conspicuous species and priority habitats. Efficient descriptor taxa and ecological indices are recommended to evaluate environmental status. While it seems obvious that surveillance activities should be carried out with regular recurrence, diachronic inventories and mapping are rarely carried out. Time series are of prime importance to detect marine ecosystem change even in the absence of direct human impacts.

scholarly journals Science for MPA Management: Understanding the UN/EU Ecosystem Approach and the Role of MPAs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Kersting ◽  
C. Webster
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Marine Strategy Framework Directive ◽  
Ecap Process ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Good Environmental Status ◽  
Barcelona Convention

The objective of this issue of «Science for MPA Management» is to explore the process of the ecosystem approach adopted in 2008 by the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive of the European Union. In this context, Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are identified as a key element in the implementation of monitoring that aims to report on the progress made towards the achievement of the Good Environmental Status of the Mediterranean. Their role must nevertheless be strengthened, with in particular a potential support from the MedPAN network to coordinate monitoring in MPAs on different components related to the EcAP process on a Mediterranean scale.

Characterising essential breeding habitat for whales informs the development of large-scale Marine Protected Areas in the South Pacific

2016 ◽  
Vol 548 ◽  
pp. 263-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
RE Lindsay ◽  
R Constantine ◽  
J Robbins ◽  
DK Mattila ◽  
A Tagarino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
The South

Management of bivalve fisheries in marine protected areas

Marine Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 104357
Author(s):  
Pernille Nielsen ◽  
Mette Møller Nielsen ◽  
Ciaran McLaverty ◽  
Kasper Kristensen ◽  
Kerstin Geitner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas
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