Marine monitoring in transition: On the verge of technological revolution?
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Efforts to renew marine ecosystem monitoring to include advanced technology and cost-effective methods have been repeatedly called for. The current environmental legislation in European Union (EU) requires also ecosystem monitoring beyond the scope of ...
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Achieving coherence between the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive [PDF]
, 2023 Alignment and coordination of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) with other key policies is considered indispensable to accomplish its objectives.
C. Dallangelo +55 more
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A comparison of the degree of implementation of marine biodiversity indicators by European countries in relation to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) [PDF]
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2015 The degree of development and operability of the indicators for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) using Descriptor 1 (D1) Biological Diversity was assessed. To this end, an overview of the relevance and degree of operability of the underlying parameters across 20 European countries was compiled by analysing national directives, legislation,
Fernandez, Camino +46 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 In the last decades, climate change and human pressures have increasingly and dramatically impacted the ocean worldwide, calling for urgent actions to safeguard coastal marine ecosystems.
Alice Oprandi +17 more
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Comparative Multi-Marker Environmental DNA Metabarcoding of Marine Metazoan Communities: Water vs. Sediment. [PDF]
Mol Ecol ResourABSTRACT This study investigates the metazoan biodiversity in the Southern Adriatic Sea using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding. Sediment and adjacent water samples were collected from three sites (one pristine, two impacted by human activities) at three distances from the coast across two seasons.
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Semi-automated classification method addressing marine strategy framework directive (MSFD) zooplankton indicators [PDF]
Ecological Indicators, 2016 Abstract Semi-automated classification of zooplankton allows increasing the number of processed samples cost-effectively, albeit with a relatively limited taxonomic accuracy, partly because cost-efficiency trade-off but also due to technological limitations that might be overcome in the future.
Fernandes, Jose A. +5 more
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Cost-Effective Marine Protection--A Pragmatic Approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 This paper puts forward a framework for probabilistic and holistic cost-effectiveness analysis to provide support in selecting the least-cost set of measures to reach a multidimensional environmental objective. Following the principles of ecosystem-based
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Marine strategy framework directive [PDF]
, 2021 Marine Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) are animals and plants introduced accidently or deliberately into the European seas, originating from other seas of the globe.
Vidjak, Olja +16 more
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FUNDING MECHANISMS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE: EU EXPERIENCE
Фінансово-кредитна діяльність: проблеми теорії та практики, 2018 Over the past decade, there have been signs of improvement of the Black Sea. However, its unique water areas and coastline are still under serious threat.
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Marine ecosystem extent and condition pilot accounts for Finland [PDF]
One EcosystemEcosystem accounting provides a standardised framework for evaluating the economic value of ecosystems to society. Following the international accounting standard, System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA), we present ...
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