Marine Protected Areas Europe

Project Information

MPA Europe

Grant agreement ID: 101059988

DOI

10.3030/101059988

EC signature date 5 December 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 30 April 2026

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 2 682 228,25

EU contribution

€ 2 682 228,00

Coordinated by

NORD UNIVERSITET
Norway

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (11)

Paper on wave exposure index for all European coasts
Scoring system for carbon storage capacity in European marine biogenic habitats and beyond.
Marine ecosystem classification for surface waters of Europe
Depth integrated marine ecosystem classification for Europe.
Report on carbon storage within and beyond biogenic habitats
Paper on the marine ecosystem classifications for surface and near seabed waters of Europe
Compilation of marine environmental data ready for ecosystem classification analysis and distribution modelling
Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication plan

The dissemination, exploitation, and communication (DEC) plan will be elaborated (D7.1). Its performance will be evaluated and the DEC plan updated to also include plans for the dissemination and exploitation of project results also after the end of the project.

Data Management Plan
Report from the kick-off meeting
Marine ecosystem classification for near seabed waters of Europe

Data sets, microdata, etc (9)

Database of species and habitats conservation status.
Publish maps and models of biogenic habitat distributions in Europe on EMODnet
Map of carbon storage capacity for European marine habitats
Compilation of the layers of marine environment and ecosystem (created in WP2), species distribution and habitat (created WP3), and blue carbon (created in WP4) ready for prioritisation analysis.
Publish maps and models of species environmental niches and geographic distributions in Europe on OBIS
Database of carbon storage in European marine non-biogenic sediment habitats
Database of estimated carbon storage in European marine biogenic habitats
Compile additional data and publish it into OBIS

Compile additional data and publish it into OBIS.

Current connectivity map of European seas

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website and social media accounts

Publications

Other (13)

MPA Europe Deliverable 3.3 Publish maps and models of biogenic habitat distribution in Europe on EMODnet

Author(s): Principe, Silas; Appeltans, Ward; Provoost, Pieter; Addamo, Anna Maria; Burrows, Michael T.; Assis, Jorge; Costello, Mark John
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10422129

MPA Europe Report Deliverable 2.3 Marine ecosystem classification for surface waters of Europe

Author(s): Campoy, Ana; Assis, Jorge; Addamo, Anna Maria; Costello, Mark John
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10047113

MPA Europe Report Deliverable 3.1 Compile additional data and publish it into OBIS

Author(s): Principe, Silas; Provoost, Pieter; Appeltans, Ward; Heikes-Knapton, Sunni; Addamo, Anna Maria; Costello, Mark J
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8096273

Database on blue carbon in European seagrass and saltmarsh habitats

Author(s): Graversen, Anna Elizabeth Løvgren; Addamo, Anna Maria; Lønborg, Christian; Pedersen, Sidsel Gurholt; Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Lillebø, Ana I; Sousa, Ana I; Stevenson, Angela et al.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zendo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12665612

MPA Europe Deliverable 2.7 Current connectivity map of European seas

Author(s): Campoy, Ana N; Costello, Mark John; Addamo, Anna Maria; Assis, Jorge
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13135575

Baltic Sea Stakeholder workshop

Author(s): Bramley, Belinda; Smanis, Thanos; Urgeghe, Anna; Costello, Mark John; Addamo, Anna Maria; Principe, Silas
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10974715

MPA Europe Deliverable 3.2 Appendix 1 Publish maps and models of species environmental niches and geographic distributions in Europe on OBIS

Author(s): Principe, Silas; Appeltans, Ward; Provoost, Pieter; Burrows, Micheal T; Assis, Jorge; Addamo, Anna Maria; Costello, Mark John
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10058739

MPA Europe Report Deliverable 2.4 Marine ecosystem classification for near seabed waters of Europe

Author(s): Campoy, Ana N.; Assis, Jorge; Addamo, Anna Maria; Zhao, Qianshuo; Costello, Mark John
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10421632

MPA Europe Deliverable 5.1 Compilation of the layers of marine environment and ecosystem (created in WP2), species distribution and habitat (created in WP3), and blue carbon (created in WP4) ready for prioritisation analysis

Author(s): Addamo, Anna M.; Campoy, Ana N.; Principe, Silas C.; Graversen, Anna Elizabeth Løvgren; Assis, Jorge et al.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13622311

MPA Europe Deliverable 3.4 Database of species and habitats conservation status

Author(s): Principe, Silas; Lillis, Helen; Addamo, Anna Maria; Stewart, Eleanor; Appeltans, Ward; Provoost, Pieter; Costello, Mark John
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11075390

MPA Europe Report Deliverable 2.1 Environmental data preparation

Author(s): Assis, Jorge, Heikes-Knapton, Sunni, Addamo, Anna M, Costello, Mark J
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8095132

MPA Europe Deliverable 2.5 Depth-integrated marine ecosystem classification for Europe

Author(s): Campoy, Ana; Assis, Jorge; Addamo, Anna Maria; Zhao, Qianshuo; Costello, Mark John
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10718804

Black Sea stakeholder workshop

Author(s): Bramley, Belinda; Smanis, Thanos; Urgeghe, Anna Maria; Costello, Mark John; Addamo, Anna Maria; Principe, Silas
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12749872

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Fully protected Marine Protected Areas do not displace fisheries

Author(s): Mark John Costello
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2412543121

Ecologically representative Marine Protected Area planning can think globally and act locally

Author(s): Qianshuo Zhao, Mark John Costello
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue 40, 2025, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.TREE.2025.05.007

Kelp forest diversity under projected end‐of‐century climate change

Author(s): Jorge Assis, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Lidiane Gouvêa, Miguel B. Araújo, Ester A. Serrão
Published in: Diversity and Distributions, Issue 30, 2024, ISSN 1366-9516
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13837

Up to 80% of threatened and commercial species across European marine protected areas face novel climates under high emission scenario

Author(s): Milica Predragovic, Jorge Assis, U. Rashid Sumaila, Jorge M. S. Gonçalves, Christopher Cvitanovic, Bárbara Horta e Costa
Published in: npj Ocean Sustainability, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2731-426X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44183-024-00068-4

Marine ecosystem services of seagrass in physical and monetary terms: The Mediterranean Sea case study

Author(s): Anna Maria Addamo, Alessandra La Notte, Silvia Ferrini, Gaetano Grilli
Published in: Ecological Economics, Issue 227, 2025, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOLECON.2024.108420

A dataset of cold-water coral distribution records

Author(s): Viktória Balogh, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Ester A. Serrão, Jorge Assis
Published in: Data in Brief, Issue 48, 2023, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109223

Coastal oceanographic connectivity at the global scale: a dataset of pairwise probabilities and travel times derived from biophysical modeling

Author(s): Jorge Assis, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Ester A. Serrão, Miguel B. Araújo
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-025-05060-2

<scp>Bio‐ORACLE</scp> v3.0. Pushing marine data layers to the <scp>CMIP6</scp> Earth System Models of climate change research

Author(s): Jorge Assis, Salvador Jesús Fernández Bejarano, Vinícius W. Salazar, Lennert Schepers, Lidiane Gouvêa, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Frederic Leclercq, Bart Vanhoorne, Lennert Tyberghein, Ester A. Serrão, Heroen Verbruggen, Olivier De Clerck
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Issue 33, 2024, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13813

Systematic planning shows more than half of the most species-rich ocean region is needed to include all species in representative protected areas

Author(s): Qianshuo Zhao, Huimin Huang, Mark John Costello
Published in: Global Ecology and Conservation, Issue 53, 2024, ISSN 2351-9894
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03036

A global dataset of demosponge distribution records

Author(s): Ariadni Vafeiadou, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Jorge Assis
Published in: Data in Brief, Issue 53, 2024, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110200

A marine and salt marsh sediment organic carbon database for European regional seas (EURO-CARBON)

Author(s): Anna Elizabeth Løvgren Graversen, Christian Lønborg, Anna Maria Addamo, Sidsel Gurholt Pedersen, Silvia Chemello, Irene Alejo, Eugenia T. Apostolaki, Maria E. Asplund, William E.N. Austin, Dimitar Berov, Daniela Berto, Mats Björk, Kirsty Black, Nikola Bobchev, Stefano Bonaglia, Gunhild Borgersen, Tjeerd Bouma, Mark J. Costello, Martin Dahl, Elena Diaz-Almela, Panagiotis D. Dimitriou, Carlos M. Duarte, Carmen Leiva Dueñas, Pavlos T. Efthymiadis, Ines Mazarrasa Elosegui, Maria Recio Espinosa, Helena L. Filipsson, Marcos Fontela, Stein Fredriksen, Helene Frigstad, Karine Gagnon, Catalina A. Garcia-Escudero, Michele Giani, Anne Grouhel-Pellouin, Roberta Guerra, Martin Gullström, Hege Gundersen, Kasper Hancke, Claudia Majtényi-Hill, Corallie Hunt, Karina Inostroza, Ioannis Karakassis, Ventzislav Karamfilov, Stefania Klayn, Katarzyna Koziorowska, Karol Kuliński, Paul Lavery, Wytze K. Lenstra, Ana I. Lillebø, Ella Logemann, Paolo Magni, Núria Marbà, Candela Marco-Mendez, Marcio Martins, Miguel Angel Mateo, Briac Monnier, Peter Mueller, Joao M. Neto, Nafsika Papageorgiou, Carlos Eduardo de Rezende, Juan Carlos Farias Pardo, Jose Antonio Juanes De La Peña, Gérard Pergent, Nerea Piñeiro-Juncal, Joanne Preston, Federico Rampazzo, Gloria Reithmaier, Thorsten B.H. Reusch, Sarah Reynolds, Aurora M. Ricart, Rui Santos, Carmen B. de los Santos, Isaac R. Santos, Eduard Serrano, Oscar Serrano, Caroline P. Slomp, Craig Smeaton, Montserrar Soler, Ana I. Sousa, Timo Spiegel, Angela Stevenson, Jonas Thormar, Hilde Cecilie Trannum, Niels A.G.M. van Helmond, Sarah Paradis, Salvatrice Vizzini, Emma A. Ward, Yvonne Y.Y. Yau, Rym Zakhama-Sraieb, Imen Zribi, Olga M. Zygadlowska, Dorte Krause Jensen
Published in: Data in Brief, Issue 60, 2025, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DIB.2025.111595

Evidence of economic benefits from marine protected areas

Author(s): Mark John Costello
Published in: Scientia Marina, Issue 88, 2024, ISSN 1886-8134
Publisher: Editorial CSIC
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.05417.080

No clear relationships between environmentally classified ecosystems and species diversity

Author(s): Qianshuo Zhao, Huimin Huang, Mark John Costello
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Issue 764, 2025, ISSN 0171-8630
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Center
DOI: 10.3354/MEPS14877

Biophysical modelling and graph theory identify key connectivity hubs in the Mediterranean marine reserve network

Author(s): David Abecasis, Eliza Fragkopoulou, Bruno Claro, Jorge Assis
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 9, 2023, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1000687

Monographic books (1)

Biodiversity knowledge and threats on marine life: Assessing no-take zones as a refuge for marine species

Author(s): Appeltans W, Provoost P, Principe SC, Driedger A, Webb T, Costello MJ.
Published in: State of the Ocean Report, Issue 190, 2024
Publisher: UNESCO-IOC
DOI: 10.25607/4wbg-d349