Acronym INSIDER
Category
Fisheries
Title Impact of an invasive species under scenarios of global climate change and anthropogenic contamination on coastal food chains Programme Nat. Programme (supported by ESIF)
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Maria Benedicta Agostinho Donas-Bôtto Bordalo e Sá Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (Portugal)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2018 End year 2022 Funding (€) € 239,893 Website https://www.cesam-la.pt/projetos/insider-impacto-duma-especie-invasora-sob-cenarios-de-alteracoes-climaticas-globais-e-de-contaminacao-antropogenica-em-cadeias-troficas-costeiras/ Summary Coastal areas are constantly being influenced by global changes (habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, diseases, invasive species) that force natural populations to adapt to new environmental conditions. The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008/56/EC), Biodiversity Strategy (EC, 2012) and Invasive Alien Species Regulation (EC, 2014) recognize the establishment and spread of Non-Indigenous Species as one of the main threats European biodiversity and ecosystem health. Since they can alter biotic interactions, monitoring the abundance and status of invasive species and their environmental impact on native ecosystems is critical to achieving MSFD targets by 2020 and needs to be a requirement for marine conservation management. In scenarios of climate change and other components of global change, such as anthropogenic pollution, invasive species can have unexpected effects on marine ecosystems. These challenges require a more integrated approach, focusing on mechanistic assessment of these combined effects along coastal food chains. It is vital to evaluate these pressures, as they are likely to increase in the near future and may be additive, synergistic or antagonistic. Including community ecology is vital to understanding and predicting multiple stressors in natural ecosystems. Such studies can analyze whether these factors, when acting alone or in combination, can not only directly alter the abundance, behavior and physiology of species, but also indirectly the interactions between species and the functioning of the ecosystem. To this end, multifactorial tests will be developed using key coastal species representing different trophic levels and taking into account different levels of biological organization. In this way, this project will provide advanced scientific bases for an integrative assessment covering the interaction of several stressors that can influence the response of species in a scenario of global change, which becomes vital for effective environmental conservation strategies.
Keywords
Anthropic activity;
Impacts;
Climate change;
Pollution;
Alien species;
Fish habitat;
Marine Region
38
Portuguese Waters (27.IXa,27.IXb)
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