Innovative and practical tools for monitoring and assessing biodiversity status and impacts of multiple human pressures in marine systems.
Environ Monit Assess
; 196(8): 694, 2024 Jul 04.
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ABSTRACT
Human activities at sea can produce pressures and cumulative effects on ecosystem components that need to be monitored and assessed in a cost-effective manner. Five Horizon European projects have joined forces to collaboratively increase our knowledge and skills to monitor and assess the ocean in an innovative way, assisting managers and policy-makers in taking decisions to maintain sustainable activities at sea. Here, we present and discuss the status of some methods revised during a summer school, aiming at better management of coasts and seas. We include novel methods to monitor the coastal and ocean waters (e.g. environmental DNA, drones, imaging and artificial intelligence, climate modelling and spatial planning) and innovative tools to assess the status (e.g. cumulative impacts assessment, multiple pressures, Nested Environmental status Assessment Tool (NEAT), ecosystem services assessment or a new unifying approach). As a concluding remark, some of the most important challenges ahead are assessing the pros and cons of novel methods, comparing them with benchmark technologies and integrating these into long-standing time series for data continuity. This requires transition periods and careful planning, which can be covered through an intense collaboration of current and future European projects on marine biodiversity and ecosystem health.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Environmental Monitoring
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Ecosystem
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Conservation of Natural Resources
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Biodiversity
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Environ Monit Assess
Journal subject:
SAUDE AMBIENTAL
Year:
2024
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Spain