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MARine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning leading to Ecosystem Services

Descripción del proyecto

Más allá de las causas y consecuencias del mantenimiento, pérdida y aumento de la biodiversidad

Los océanos acogen una variedad y número extraordinarios de especies. Sin embargo, actividades humanas como la sobrexplotación y la contaminación están cambiando el entorno marino. Es importante comprender cómo puede mantenerse la biodiversidad y el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas. El objetivo del proyecto MARBEFES, financiado con fondos europeos, es reunir a veintitrés institutos de investigación de quince países europeos para evaluar y caracterizar los vínculos entre biodiversidad marina, funcionamiento de los ecosistemas, servicios ecosistémicos y los consiguientes productos y ventajas sociales para las comunidades costeras. Las evaluaciones abarcarán todos los ámbitos de estudio en una serie de transectos de banda ancha del Ártico, a través del Báltico salobre, las costas marinas del mar del Norte y el Atlántico, hasta el Mediterráneo subtropical.

Objetivo

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.

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Coordinador

INSTYTUT OCEANOLOGII POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 692 087,50
Dirección
UL. POWSTANCOW WARSZAWY 55
81 712 Sopot
Polonia

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Región
Makroregion północny Pomorskie Trójmiejski
Tipo de actividad
Other
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Coste total
€ 1 692 087,50

Participantes (19)

Socios (3)