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MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

SEAMAN Spatially resolved Ecosystem Models and their Application to Marine Management

Tildelt: kr 4,4 mill.

The sustainable use of the marine ecosystems set out for example in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) requires improved knowledge about the processes impacting the environment. Spatially explicit ecosyste m models are getting increasingly important to manage the challenges of natural conservation, sustainable use and economic exploitation. However, uncertainties in process formulations, conceptual challenges related to trophic coupling and fish behaviour and lacking model instruments to assess ecosystem stressors such as the advance of invasive alien species or the impact of anthropogenic pollutants throughout the various trophic level, limit the applicability of state of the art 3-d ecosystem models to m arine ecosystem management significantly. SEAMAN will advance spatially explicit marine models into new management tools to address an integrated ecosystem management approach. SEAMAN will focus on currently existing ecosystem model deficiencies, namely the insufficient process oriented calibration of lower trophic level models and the lacking trophic coupling and trophic closure of current state-of-the-art ecosystem models. Therefore, SEAMAN will combine novel observational approaches with model develo pment and application. SEAMAN developments will have significant impact beyond the pure scientific and open up for completely new and advanced approaches in marine management. The project brings together experts from different countries in Europe, focusi ng on different parts of the ecosystem from the physical environment, to plankton, fish, invasive species and pollutants. Comparative approaches for the North Atlantic and Mediterranean will be performed and new insights to similarities and differences in both seas will be provided. The comparative approach will facilitate an expansion from purely regional approaches to the benefits of both scientific and societal communities in the both regions.

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