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North Atlantic basin-scale multi-criteria assessment database to inform management recommendations to protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

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North Atlantic basin-scale multi-criteria assessment database to inform management recommendations to protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4279776

Type: Dataset

Year: 2020

Citations: 0

AZORES DEEP-SEA RESEARCH
Dataset Open access November 2020

North Atlantic basin-scale multi-criteria assessment database to inform management recommendations to protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

Zenodo

10.5281/zenodo.4279776
Open DOI
Total authors
26
Involved team members
8
Citations
0
References
0

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ATLAS

Abstract

We applied the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) multi criteria assessment (MCA) method for identifying VMEs in the North-East Atlantic (ICES, 2016a,b; Morato et al., 2018) from ATLAS VME database to provide the first North Atlantic Ocean basin-scale VME assessment. This MCA is a taxa-dependent spatial method that incorporates the fact that not all VME indicators have the same vulnerability to human impacts, and thus should not be weighted equally. By including a measure of the confidence associated with each VME record, this methodology also considers some of the uncertainties associated with the sampling methodologies, the reported taxonomy, and data quality issues. Equally important, this dataset highlights areas in the North Atlantic that have been poorly sampled and that require further attention. Finally, this methodology also allows for the evaluation and comparison of the VME likelihood with spatial fisheries data that may directly generate significant adverse impacts on VMEs. In the data report, we made the “North Atlantic basin-scale VME index dataset” publicly, thus allowing its consultation and use by scientists, managers, or other relevant stakeholders.

Authors

8 involved team members
C
Chimienti, Giovanni
0000-0003-2581-3430

Department of Biology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

D
Durán Muñoz, Pablo
0000-0002-9618-4224

Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

E
Egilsdóttir, Hrönn
0000-0001-7732-1396

Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Reykjavík, Iceland

H
Hebbeln, Dierk
0000-0001-5099-6115

MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany

H
Henry, Lea-Anne
0000-0001-5134-1102

School of GeoSciences, Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

K
Kazanidis, Georgios
0000-0001-5114-6972

School of GeoSciences, Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

K
Kenchington, Ellen
0000-0003-3784-4533

Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

O
Orejas, Covadonga
0000-0002-2580-1002

Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Palma, Spain

R
Ramiro-Sánchez, Berta
0000-0002-9989-7270

School of GeoSciences, Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

R
Ross, Steve W.

Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA

R
Rueda, José L.
0000-0003-4632-1523

Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

S
Sacau, Mar
0000-0002-6529-3110

Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

S
Stirling, David
0000-0003-1219-2794

Marine Laboratory, Marine Scotland Science, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

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dataset
Language
EN

Keywords

Environmental resource management Scale (ratio) Ecosystem Marine ecosystem Marine protected area Structural basin Environmental science Geography Ecology Geology Cartography Biology Paleontology Habitat

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