Group report: Global change and the European coast — climate change and economic development
In: Managing European Coasts; Environmental Science, S. 239-254
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In: Managing European Coasts; Environmental Science, S. 239-254
In: Tsiamis , K , Palialexis , A , Connor , D , Antoniadis , S , Bartilotti , C , Bartolo , A G , Berggreen , U C , Boschetti , S , Buschbaum , C , Canning-Clode , J , Carbonell , A , Castriota , L , Corbeau , C , Costa , A , Cvitković , I , Despalatović , M , Dragičević , B , Dulčić , J , Fortič , A , Francé , J , Gittenberger , A , Gizzi , F , Gollasch , S , Gruszka , P , Hegarty , M , Hema , T , Jensen , K , Josephides , M , Kabuta , S H , Kerckhof , F , Kovtun-Kante , A , Krakau , M , Kraśniewski , W , Lackschewitz , D , Lehtiniemi , M , Lieberum , C , Linnamägi , M , Lipej , L , Livi , S , Lundgreen , K , Magliozzi , C , Massé , C , Mavrič , B , Michailidis , N , Moncheva , S , Mozetič , P , Naddafi , R , Gladan , Ž N , Ojaveer , H , Olenin , S , Orlando-Bonaca , M , Ouerghi , A , Parente , M , Pavlova , P , Peterlin , M , Pitacco , V , Png-Gonzalez , L , Rousou , M , Sala-Pérez , M , Serrano , A , Skorupski , J , Smolders , S , Srébaliené , G , Stæhr , P A , Stefanova , K , Straeke , S , Tabarcea , C , Todorova , V , Trkov , D , Tuaty-Guerra , M , Vidjak , O , Zenetos , A , Žuljević , A & Candoso , A C 2021 , Delivering solid recommendations for setting threshold values for non-indigenous species pressure on European seas : Marine Strategy Framework Directive Descriptor 2, Non-Indigenous Species . Publications Office of the European Union, JRC . https://doi.org/10.2760/035071
Marine Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) are animals and plants introduced accidently or deliberately into the European seas, originating from other seas of the globe. About 800 marine non-indigenous species (NIS) currently occur in the European Union national marine waters, several of which have negative impacts on marine ecosystem services and biodiversity. Under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Descriptor 2 (D2), EU Member States (MSs) need to consider NIS in their marine management strategies. The Descriptor D2 includes one primary criterion (D2C1: new NIS introductions), and two secondary criteria (D2C2 and D2C3). The D2 implementation is characterized by a number of issues and uncertainties which can be applicable to the Descriptor level (e.g. geographical unit of assessment, assessment period, phytoplanktonic, parasitic, oligohaline NIS, etc.), to the primary criterion D2C1 level (e.g. threshold values, cryptogenic, questionable species, etc), and to the secondary criteria D2C2 and D2C3. The current report tackles these issues and provides practical recommendations aiming at a smoother and more efficient implementation of D2 and its criteria at EU level. They constitute a solid operational output which can result in more comparable D2 assessments among MSs and MSFD regions/subregions. When it comes to the policy-side, the current report calls for a number of different categories of NIS to be reported in D2 assessments, pointing the need for the species to be labelled/categorised appropriately in the MSFD reporting by the MSs. These suggestions are proposed to be communicated to the MSFD Working Group of Good Environmental Status (GES) and subsequently to the Marine Strategy Coordination Group (MSCG) of MSFD. Moreover, they can serve as an input for revising the Art. 8 Guidelines.
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PERSEUS project aims to identify the most relevant pressures exerted on the ecosystems of the Southern European Seas (SES), highlighting knowledge and data gaps that endanger the achievement of SES Good Environmental Status (GES) as mandated by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). A complementary approach has been adopted, by a meta-analysis of existing literature on pressure/impact/knowledge gaps summarized in tables related to the MSFD descriptors, discriminating open waters from coastal areas. A comparative assessment of the Initial Assessments (IAs) for five SES countries has been also independently performed. The comparison between meta-analysis results and IAs shows similarities for coastal areas only. Major knowledge gaps have been detected for the biodiversity, marine food web, marine litter and underwater noise descriptors. The meta-analysis also allowed the identification of additional research themes targeting research topics that are requested to the achievement of GES. 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license. ; peer-reviewed
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