Descripción del proyecto
Datos abiertos para un uso sostenible de los recursos marinos
Los sistemas costeros subantárticos han sufrido graves daños debido al cambio climático y la actividad humana. Estos sistemas albergan comunidades bentónicas que desempeñan un papel fundamental a la hora de mantener el ecosistema y la calidad del agua. Sin embargo, estos sistemas requieren un seguimiento y una gestión estratégicos y se ven amenazados por los rápidos cambios que tienen lugar en la Patagonia Austral y la península Antártica Occidental. El proyecto CoastCarb, financiado con fondos europeos, propone una red multidisciplinar de expertos que crearán un sistema de información sobre conocimientos con un portal de acceso abierto y establecerán pautas de ecosistemas activos para hábitats de fiordos y estuarios. Los expertos emplearán los datos recabados por la red para analizar las relaciones entre los servicios ecosistémicos y las partes interesadas locales, y para detectar motivos de bloqueo o potenciación del uso sostenible de los recursos marinos.
Objetivo
Climate change and intensifying human resource use are causing massive changes to Subantarctic coastal systems and carbon cycling. At the same time, these systems house benthic communities of highest biomass and biodiversity, which sustain important ecosystem services and require strategic observation and management plans. Although they are just beginning to be appreciated by scientists and public, natural (climate mitigation) and cultural ecosystem services (e.g. local fisheries, tourism, sustainable aquaculture) are already jeopardized by the massive scale and velocity of the regional change in Southern Patagonia (SP) and at the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). The multidisciplinary network CoastCarb joins experts in Subantarctic coastal system ecology and ecological modelling to create a knowledge information system with open access data portal and produce dynamic ecosystem models for fjordic and estuarine environments. Using data on carbon budgets and flow (including benthic and pelagic food webs, microbes to megafauna) from across the network, specialists will analyse the relationships between ecosystem services, local stakeholders and communities, to identify barriers and enablers of the sustainable use of marine resources. Study areas along the fragmented SP/WAP coastline are intensively investigated. Data sets from more than 10 recent interdisciplinary research projects of CoastCarb participants, and from the scientific core programmes at coastal stations (ARG-GER Carlini-Dallmann, US Palmer, UK Rothera, PL Arctowski) will be used for knowledge compilation. The established network is based on German, Belgian, Dutch, British, Argentine, Chilean and US participants with new Polish and Canadian partners included. CoastCarb secondments foster capacity building in research and observation for a better understanding of complex ecosystem processes and major hazard scenarios (e.g. harmful algal blooms), and in targeted science stakeholder interaction events.
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MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)Coordinador
27570 Bremerhaven
Alemania