A MSFD complementary approach for the assessment of pressures, knowledge and data gaps in Southern European Seas: The PERSEUS experience

Crise, A.; Kaberi, Helen; Ruiz, José Luis Martínez; Зацепин, А. Г.; Арашкевич, Е. Г.; Giani, Michele; Karageorgis, Aristomenis P.; Prieto, Laura; Pantazi, Maria; González-Fernández, Daniel; d’Alcalà, Maurizio Ribera; Tornero, Victoria; Vassilopoulou, V.; Madron, Xavier Durrieu de; Guieu, Cécile; Puig, Pere; Zenetos, Argyro; Andral, Bruno; Angel, Dror L.; Алтухов, Денис; Ayata, Sakina‐Dorothée; Aktan, Y.; Balcıoğlu, Esra; Benedetti, Fabio; Bouchoucha, Marc; Buia, María Cristina; Cadiou, J.-F.; Canals, Miquel; Chakroun, M.; Christou, Epaminondas D.; Christidis, M.G.; Civitarese, Giuseppe; Coatu, Valentina; Corsini-Foka, Maria; Cozzi, Stefano; Deidun, Alan; Dell’Aquila, Alessandro; Dogrammatzi, A.; Dumitrache, Cristiana; Edelist, Dor; Ettahiri, O.; Fonda-Umani, S.; Gana, Slim; Galgani, François; Gasparini, Stéphane; Giannakourou, Antonia; Gomoiu, Marian-Traian; Gubanova, Alexandra; Gücü, Ali Cemal; Gürses, Özgür; Hanke, Georg; Hatzianestis, I.; Herut, Barak; Hone, R.; Huertas, I. Emma; Irisson, Jean Olivier; İşinibilir, Melek; Jiménez, José A.; Kalogirou, Stefanos; Kapiris, K.; Karamfilov, Ventzislav; Kavadas, Stefanos; Keskin, Çetin; Kıdeyş, Ahmet E.; Koçak, Mahmut Hakan; Kondylatos, Gerasimos; Kontogiannis, C.; Kosyan, Ruben; Koubbi, Philippe; Kušpilić, Grozdan; Ferla, Rosabruna La; Langone, Leonardo; Laroche, S.; Lazăr, Luminița; Lefkaditou, Eugenia; Lemeshko, I.E.; Machias, A.; Malej, Alenka; Mazzocchi, Maria Grazia; Медінець, В. І.; Mihalopoulos, N.; Miserocchi, Stefano; Moncheva, Snejana; Mukhanov, Vladimir; Oaie, Gheorghe; Oros, Andra; Öztürk, Ayaka Amaha; Öztürk, Bayram; Panayotova, Marinela; Prospathopoulos, Aristides; Radu, Gabriel; Raykov, Violin; Reglero, Patricia; Reygondeau, Gabriel; Rougeron, N.; Salihoğlu, Barıș; Sánchez-Vidal, Anna; Sannino, Gianmaria; Santinelli, Chiara; Secrieru, Dan; Shapiro, Georgy; Simboura, N.; Shiganova, Tamara A.; Sprovieri, Mario; Stefanova, Kremena; Streftaris, N.; Tirelli, Valentina; Tom, Moshe; Topaloğlu, Bülent; Topçu, Nur Eda; Tsagarakis, Konstantinos; Tsangaris, Catherine; Tserpes, G.; Tuğrul, Süleyman; Uysal, Zahit; Vasile, D.; Violaki, Kalliopi; Xu, Jun; Yüksek, Ahsen; Papathanassiou, E.

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.03.024

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“…Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB), the potential effects of blooming taxa on the ecosystem could be investigated. Further analyses of the effects of natural and anthropogenic pressures on phytoplankton communities will help to identify the most effective mechanisms and the actions needed to maintain or to restore GES conditions (Crise et al, 2015).…”

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“…Several transnational projects and conventions have already highlighted the need for appropriate monitoring programs to feed biodiversity indicators and associated parameters. The PERSEUS project, for example, pointed out the lack of quantitative data on pressures and a lack of spatial coverage, in particular offshore data on nutrients, phytoplankton and dissolved oxygen (Crise et al, 2015). For more complete regional assessments, in particular, better acquisition of region-wide plankton data and coherent monitoring programmes will still be required (Caroppo et al, 2013;OSPAR, 2017d;Varkitzi et al, 2018).…”

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Changes in marine phytoplankton diversity: Assessment under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

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Aubert

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The Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires EU Member States to assess the Good Environmental Status (GES) of their marine waters in a coherent and strategic manner. For the regional assessment of biodiversity, the OSPAR Intersessional Coordination Group of Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring (ICG-COBAM) provides substantial advice. Through expert working groups, phytoplankton indicators are currently being developed to measure the state and the change in pelagic diversity, to quantify food web dynamics and to measure the extent of eutrophication impacts. We developed a multi-metric indicator that is compliant with the common OSPAR indicator "Changes in plankton diversity" (PH3). The aim was to describe the structure of the phytoplankton community (alpha diversity) and to detect significant temporal changes (beta diversity) to evaluate the health of pelagic habitats. In this pilot study, we used three coastal time-series in the Western Channel and the north of the Bay of Biscay (North Atlantic, France) to test the efficiency and the performance of several existing diversity indices. We validated two alpha diversity indices, namely the Menhinick Index (D) and the Hulburt Index (δ), based on their complementary ecological information, their strong relationship with habitat characteristics, and their relative ease of interpretation for stakeholders. Temporal shifts or rate of change in community structure were detected by the Local Contributions to Beta Diversity index (LCBD; a beta diversity measure). For the years where significantly high LCBD values were found, the Importance Value Index (IVI) was calculated to potentially identify the taxa (genus) responsible for the "unusual" community structure. For example, at the Ouest Loscolo site in 2008, an elevated LCBD (0.45) coincided with a high dominance value (Hulburt's Index) caused by the occurrence of a monospecific bloom of Leptocylindrus spp. (IVI = 73%) in July (2.2x10 6 cells L-1) and October (8x10 6 cells L-1). In this way, PH3 informs on different aspects of phytoplankton diversity from a community to a genus level. At the current stage of development, however, PH3 acts as a "surveillance" rather than an operational indicator since the relationship to GES is not directly tracked. In the future, by additional testing of PH3 and extending the geographical scope, the robustness of the assessment could be further determined across the OSPAR Maritime Area.

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Changes in marine phytoplankton diversity: Assessment under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

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Simon

Aubert

et al. 2019

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“…changes in ecosystem status) has been made in Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems (Crise et al, 2015). This research has highlighted important data and knowledge gaps; particularly, the poor coverage of biodiversity and food webs, including microbial loop, has been suggested as a possible cause of difficulties in the assessment of environmental status and set up of effective mitigation measures.…”

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Microbial community and its potential as descriptor of environmental status

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ICES Journal of Marine Science

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Planktonic communities hold a relevant role within the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). In view of reaching the Good Environmental Status of marine ecosystems, within this Directive the phyto-and zooplanktonic communities have received great attention, while Prokaryotes (Bacteria, Archaea, and Cyanobacteria) have been neglected. Indeed, the relevance of microbes (particularly of the faecal pollution indicators) as water quality indicators, the role that microorganisms play within the biogeochemical fluxes and in the whole ecosystem functioning, are all important features that deserve to be focused within the MSFD. The present study aims at reviewing the main issues where prokaryotic variables find useful application as descriptors of environmental status, trying to develop a panel of prokaryotic indicators suitable for the environmental quality assessment. From a survey of scientific literature and on field datasets, prokaryotic abundance and activities (enzymatic hydrolysis, prokaryotic production, and respiratory rates) are here chosen as early warning sentinels to detect changes in environmental quality, using an integrated approach with trophic (chlorophyll-a, particulate and dissolved organic matter) measurements.

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“…Likewise, changes in species abundance would not fully characterise the biotic response. Their trajectory mapped in the phase space, which reflects the rates associated with their activities and the consequent interactions, would instead be the best descriptor of how the system functions (Tett et al 2013, Crise et al 2015. A prediction of the shape of both trajectories in the time to come is the main scope of climate studies.…”

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Similarities, differences and mechanisms of climate impact on terrestrial vs. marine ecosystems

d’Alcalà¹

2019

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Comparisons between terrestrial and marine ecosystems are generally not in the main stream of scientific literature even though Webb (2012) listed several points for which the transfer of knowledge and concepts related to one or to the other system would benefit our understanding of both. Even sharing this view, the leading hypothesis behind this contribution is that the pelagic system, where the dominant biotic component by number and biomass is microscopic, has specific features which strongly differentiate it from the above-the-surface terrestrial systems. Due to this, climate change, i.e. changes in temperature, precipitation and most importantly in the dynamics of the two fluid media, atmosphere and ocean, act with different mechanisms which prevents proceeding with analogies in many cases. In addition, the non-linearity of most of the processes and responses to perturbations requires, in order to obtain reliable forecasts or hindcasts, a detailed analysis of the path followed by the system which is normally overlooked in the step-change simulations or projections.

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A MSFD complementary approach for the assessment of pressures, knowledge and data gaps in Southern European Seas: The PERSEUS experience

Cited by 44 publications

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Changes in marine phytoplankton diversity: Assessment under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Changes in marine phytoplankton diversity: Assessment under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Microbial community and its potential as descriptor of environmental status

Similarities, differences and mechanisms of climate impact on terrestrial vs. marine ecosystems

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