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A MSFD complementary approach for the assessment of pressures, knowledge and data gaps in Southern European Seas : the PERSEUS experience
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.
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(Table 1h) Biomass of copepods at different depths in the Northwest Pacific at Station VITYAZ5635
(Table 3b) Biomass of copepods at different depths in the tropical Pacific at Station VITYAZ3689
(Table 1g) Biomass of copepods at different depths in the Northwest Pacific at Station VITYAZ5627
(Table 3d) Biomass of copepods at different depths in the tropical Pacific at Station VITYAZ5133
(Table 1d) Biomass of copepods at different depths in the Northwest Pacific at Station VITYAZ5617
Verical distribution of Copepoda biomass in the Northwest and tropical Pacific
Quantitative analysis of vertical distribution of copepod families revealed a pattern of variation with depth (from the surface to the greatest ocean depths) in the trophic structure of this taxocenosis in the pelagic Pacific
(Table 1a) Biomass of copepods at different depths in the Northwest Pacific at Station VITYAZ5603
(Table 1f) Biomass of copepods at different depths in the Northwest Pacific at Station VITYAZ5626
(Table 3a) Biomass of copepods at different depths in the tropical Pacific at Station VITYAZ3686-1
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