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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 SouthernEuropean Seas (SES), highlighting knowledge and data gaps that endanger the achievement of SES GoodEnvironmental Status (GES) as mandated by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). A comple-mentary approach has been adopted, by a meta-analysis of existing literature on pressure/impact/knowl-edge gaps summarized in tables related to the MSFD descriptors, discriminating open waters from coastalareas. A comparative assessment of the Initial Assessments (IAs) for five SES countries has been alsoindependently performed. The comparison between meta-analysis results and IAs shows similaritiesfor coastal areas only. Major knowledge gaps have been detected for the biodiversity, marine foodweb, marine litter and underwater noise descriptors. The meta-analysis also allowed the identificationof additional research themes targeting research topics that are requested to the achievement of GES.

Marine Strategy Framework Directive ; Southern European Seas ; Good Environmental Status ; Initial Assessment ; PERSEUS project

Suradničke ustanove na radu: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy ; Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece ; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucia, Spain ; P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia ; Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, Italy ; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d’Etude et de Formation sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, France ; LOV UPMC CNRS Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France ; Institut de Ciencies del Mar, Spain ; Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’ Exploitation de la Mer, France ; University of Haifa, Israel ; A.O. Kovalevskiy Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, Ukraine ; Istanbul University, Turkey ; Universitat de Barcelona, Departement d’Estratigrafia, Paleontologia i Geociènces Marines, Spain ; SAROST SA, Tunisia ; Institutul National De Cercetare-Dezvoltare Marina, Romania ; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy ; Universitata Malta, Malta ; Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l