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Fishing for seafloor sustainability: navigating the impact of Belgian bottom trawling on benthic habitats using an integrative approach (Benthis Nationaal 2) Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Report of the Workshop on Effects of Offshore Windfarms on Marine Benthos - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic Region (WKEOMB) (Bijdrage J. Derweduwen) Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The workshop ‘Effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos – facilitating a closer international collaboration’ was held at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany. The workshop was attended by 19 experts, representing seven countries (Belgium, Germany, Estonia, France, Po-land, United Kingdom, Netherlands). Valuable remote contributions to the workshop were received from Denmark, Sweden and ...
Quantifying food subsidies to the benthos due to discards Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Discards generated from marine fisheries have significantly affected species populations and community composition of seabirds through mechanisms such as competition, predator–prey interactions and nutrient transfer. Our understanding of the fate of discards beyond seabird scavenging is fragmented, but it is likely that similar mechanisms come into play. This study contributes in resolving this knowledge gap by quantifying the amount and ...
Behavioural and ecophysiological responses of marine benthos to ocean acidification and warming Ghent University
A call for hypotheses‐based benthos research in offshore windfarm environmental impact studies Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Offshore windfarms are expected to affect substantially the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. Collision risks for migrating birds and noise impact on marine mammals and fish are issues of major public concern. Less charismatic organisms, however, from marine algae through to benthic invertebrates and demersal fish receive far less attention. We contend that the benthos deserves much greater attention owing to the numerous ecosystem ...
Benthos habitat quality assessment for the North Sea: joint GES assessments require a coordinated monitoring Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive aims at joint assessments of the good environmental status (GES) of our seas. Since monitoring programs and indicators are performed and developed on a national scale, it is a key challenge to maximize the compatibility between the separate national MSFD assessments, requiring harmonization and inter-calibration. Such a common assessment framework is being drafted for the benthic habitat within the ...
Target monitoring in offshore windfarms—the need to understand cause–effect relationships in the marine benthos Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In many European countries offshore windfarm projects are accompanied by obligatory environmental impact assessments, including baseline monitoring of the marine benthos and demersal fish. The effects of offshore windfarm developments on the benthic system are complex.
However, legal baseline monitoring merely allows for net effect descriptions but not for identifying and understanding the underlying processes. Instead, key processes ...
However, legal baseline monitoring merely allows for net effect descriptions but not for identifying and understanding the underlying processes. Instead, key processes ...