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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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Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica
Habitat modelling using geographic information systems and geostatistics: fish habitat as an example.
Coastal fish assemblages off Terre Adélie (East Antarctica): rote of iceberg scouring, glacier and innershelf depression.
ENVIRONMENTAL-INFLUENCES ON SPATIOTEMPORAL OCEANIC DISTRIBUTION OF ICHTHYOPLANKTON AROUND THE KERGUELEN ISLANDS (SOUTHERN-OCEAN)
International audienceIchthyoplankton of the oceanic zone surrounding the Kerguelen Islands (northern part of the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean) was studied. The results concerning both abundance and spatial distribution of fish eggs and larvae are discussed. Samples were collected during joint French-Soviet oceanographic cruises in summer, autumn and winter 1987 and summer 1988. The presence of the Antarctic Polar Front allowed us to show latitudinal distribution of the ichthyoplankton. Topography played an important role in separating mesopelagic and demersal species
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