Synchronous Regime Shifts Across European Seas

Project Information

SYNRESH

Grant agreement ID: 275790

Project closed

Start date 20 January 2012

End date 19 January 2014

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 272 980,00

EU contribution € 272 980,00

Coordinated by

SIR ALISTER HARDY FOUNDATION FOR OCEAN SCIENCE
United Kingdom

Objective

"Regime shifts are abrupt changes encompassing a multitude of physical properties and ecosystem variables, which lead to new regime conditions. Regime shifts can cause large-scale losses of ecosystem services with severe consequences for human well-being. Recently regime shifts have been documented for various marine ecosystems. Novel research has found that many of those occurred quasi-simultaneously, raising the question about global-scale environmental forcing. In particular, all European seas seem to have underwent regime shifts in the late 1980s (Conversi et al., 2010). Understanding such co-occurrence is key to differentiating the role of large/hemispheric scale (climate) impacts from local/basin scale (eutrophication, overfishing, etc) impacts. This differentiation is in turn essential for both addressing marine ecosystem protection strategies, and understanding the climate – biota relationship in global warming scenarios. The aims of this project are (i) to address, via a comparative, multi-basins approach, the large-scale synchrony in regime shift timing and its drivers, and (ii) to begin to address the development of prevention and mitigation strategies to be used in future ecosystem-based managements."

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › ecosystem-based management

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

SIR ALISTER HARDY FOUNDATION FOR OCEAN SCIENCE

• EU contribution: € 272 980,00
• Address: THE LABORATORY CITADEL HILL THE HOE PLYMOUTH ; PL1 2PB PLYMOUTH ; United Kingdom
• Region: South West (England) › Devon › Plymouth
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Total cost: No data