CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.
Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .
Deliverables
The experimental & field data from the project in an Access 2000 database including raw data files available in Excel.
The data includes field & experimental data from:
-Norway (Oslofjord) benthic samples (macrofauna, meiofauna), mesocosm experiment (nutrient flux, benthos)
-Crete raw data (Heraklion Bay) benthic samples (macrofauna, meiofauna), mesocosm experiment (nutrient flux, benthos)
-Poland raw data (Gdansk Bay) benthic samples (macrofauna, meiofauna)
List of papers accepted, in press or in prep.
Austen et al: The impact of trawl fishing on benthic-pelagic biogeochemical processes
Published papers
Austen, M.C. and Beaumont, N. 2003. Socio-economic Aspects of Marine Biodiversity. In Heip, C.H.R., Hummel, H., Van Avesaath, P.H. and Warwick, R.M. (Eds), High level scientific conference activity 'Biodiversity of coastal marine ecosystems. A functional approach to coastal marine biodiversity' Book of abstracts, Renesse, The Netherlands 11-15 May 2003. Netherlands Institute of Ecology Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology: Yerseke, The Netherlands, pp47-49.
Beaumont, N. & Tinch, R. 2003 Goods and services related to the marine benthic environment. CSERGE Working Paper ECM 03-14, ISSN 0967-8875
Widdicombe, S., Austen, M.C., Kendall, M.A., Olsgard, F., Schaanning, M.T., Dashfield, S.L., Needham, H.R. 2004. Importance of bioturbators for biodiversity maintenance: indirect effects of fishing disturbance. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 275: 1-10
Papers in press
M.J. Kaiser, Clarke, K.R., Austen, M.C.V., Somerfield, P.J., Hinz, H., Karakassis, I., (in submission) Recovery rates of benthos and habitats subjected to fishing disturbance. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Hiddink J.G., Jennings S., Kaiser M.J., Queiro's A.M., Duplisea D.E. & Piet G.J. in press. Cumulative impacts of seabed trawl disturbance on benthic biomass, production and species richness in different habitats. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Submitted papers
Olsgard, F., Austen, M.C., Schaanning, M., Widdicombe, S. & Kendall, M.A. Effects of trawling on ecosystem functioning. Submitted to Science, rejected, currently in preparation for resubmission to Journal of Animal Ecology.
Allen, J.I., Clarke, K.R., Effect of demersal trawling on ecosystem functioning in the North Sea: a modelling study. submitted to Marine Ecology Progress Series Sept 05
Petihakis, G. & Triantafyllou, G. Analysis of Fishing Effort Scenarios on Marine Pelagic Dynamics: Preliminary Results. Presented at the International Conference in Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2005 (ICNAAM 2005), Rhodes, Greece, September 2005. To be published in Applied Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics. November 2005
Schaanning, M.T., Widdicomb, S., Austen, M.C., Olsgard, F., & xnevad, S. Importance of bioturbators for nutrient cycling: indirect effects of fishing disturbance (submitted to Limnology and Oceanography, rejected, currently in preparation for resubmission to Marine Ecology Progress Series
Papers in preparation
Austen et al: The impact of trawl fishing on benthic-pelagic biogeochemical processes. To be submitted to Marine Ecology Progress Series
Austen et al Costing the Impact of Demersal fishing on marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: An ecosystem Approach. To be submitted to Conservation Biology
Dashfield et al: The impact of macrofaunal bioturbation on meiofauna. To be submitted to Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Drgas & Austen: The impact of trawl fishing on meiobethic nematode communities. To be submitted to ICES Journal of Marine Science
Graca B., Burska D., Ùukawska-Matuszewska K., Pryputniewicz D., Bolauek J., The Impact of bottom fishing on matter flux at the water-sediment interface in the Gulf of Gdañsk (Baltic Sea). To be submitted to Marine Ecology Progress Series
Petihakis, G., Triantafyllou, G., Smith, C., Sourlantzis, G., Papadopoulou, N., Pollani, A. & Korres, G. An ERSEM-POM based management tool for the description of the ecosystem functioning under different trawling scenarios. To be submitted to ICES Journal of Marine Science
Petihakis, G., Triantafyllou, G., Smith, C., Sourlantzis, G., Pollani, A. & Papadopoulou, N., Evaluation of fishery impacts on the marine ecosystem using models. To be presented at the PanHellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries, Thessaloniki, June 2006.
Smith, C.J. & Papadopoulou, N. Trawling impacts on sediment chemistry, nutrient and oxygen fluxes in the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean. To be submitted to Marine Ecology Progress Series
Smith, C.J., Papadopoulou, K.-N., Dafnomili, E., Zivanovic, S. The Impact of Trawling on Nutrient and Oxygen Fluxes in the Cretan Sea. To be presented and published at the PanHellenic Symposium of Oceanography and Fisheries, Thessaloniki, June 2006.
Contributions to:
Laffoley, D.d'A., Maltby, E., Vincent, M.A., Mee, L., Dunn, E., Gilliland, P., Hamer, J.P, Mortimer, D., & Pound, D. 2004. The Ecosystem Approach. Coherent actions for marine & coastal environments. A report to the UK Government. Peterborough, English Nature. 65pp.
This database contains data on the impact of disturbance on benthic biodiversity including details on the fauna assessed & provisional results from 81 different scientific papers that divides into 125 different types of study (i.e. one paper may contain the results of two experiments on different seabed types).
The COST-IMPACT impacts metadatabase contains two main tables. Table one "study desc" (study description) comprises vital information about the studies incorporated in the database e.g. type of study, methods used etc. The second table "study data" contains records extracted from studies i.e. mainly the response of species, taxa, diversity indices etc. to disturbance caused by some form of fishing activity. The table "study desc" is linked to the "study data" table via a unique identifier (ID) which will enable one to conduct a variety of queries. Seventy four scientific papers dealing with fishing impacts or related subjects have been entered into the database. Several of these studies have multiple entries as these studies encompassed several sub-studies with differences in site characteristics or methodology (i.e. different fishing impact manipulations). In total 120 studies & sub-study entries are available which contain 2475 response data points ("study data" table). The basic design of the database was adapted from the database used by Collie et al. (2000). Collie et al.'s (2000) database (studies 1-58) was incorporated into the COST-IMPACT database. Additional columns have been added to the original design that is described in the glossary. The glossary is not listed in alphabetical order but in the order in which the data columns are shown in Figure 1.
reference
Collie J.S., Hall S.J., Kaiser M.J. & Poiner I.R. 2000. A quantitative analysis of fishing impacts on shelf-sea benthos. Journal of Animal Ecology 69: 785-798.
Project website made available at www.cost-impact.org. The website is divided into two areas, a public & private, partner area.
A public area is used for disseminating project aims, objectives & details of the partners & work packages along with provisional results showing progress including workshop & cruise reports.
A private partner area is available for internal documents such as provisional databases (currently a meta-database of available data on impact studies & a bibliography on marine valuation), internal reports & a standard presentation for dissemination.
The project website will be maintained for a period of 2 years after the end of the project.
This online management support tool provides two types of information. Firstly, it clearly demonstrates all the costs & benefits of different trawl fishing scenarios, this information alone is expected to be useful in a management context. Secondly, the tool asks the user about their priorities, & using these priorities suggests the best management option, thus going one step further than simply communicating the information.
This online tool should be used in conjunction with the management support manual which can be also downloaded from the Cost-Impact website.
This tool is intended to be applicable in its current state, but it is really a prototype tool, to exemplify the potential value of decision support tools. It is applied here in the context of trawl fisheries, but the methodology is readily transferable to a variety of other areas & issues, including: all types of fisheries; marine protected areas; integrated coastal zone management; & coastal defence strategies.
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