Acronym ReDEco
Category
Fisheries
Title Regional Drivers of Ecosystem Change and its Influence on Deep-Sea populations in the Mediterranean Programme International Cooperation
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National-European Coordinator Nikolaos Lampadariou Coordinator email nlamp@her.hcmr.gr
Coordinator institution
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Institutions involved
NA - GCE Blue Maritime Cluster (Norway) ,
IMAR/MARE - Institute of Marine Research; Marine and Environmental Research Center (Portugal) ,
UA - University of Aveiro (Portugal) ,
UB - University of Barcelona (Spain) ,
UPRC - University of Piraeus Research Centre (Greece) ,
Start year 2009 End year 2012 Funding (€) € 109,860 Website http://www.vliz.be/projects/clamer/index0c55.html?option=com_clamerprojects&ProjectId=108 Summary The deep-sea floor ecosystem is one of the largest on the planet, covering roughly 60% of the Earth's surface. Despite this vast size, our knowledge of the deep sea is poor relative to other marine ecosystems and future effects of human activities, either indirectly through climate changes or directly through exploitation of deep-sea resources are difficult to predict.
This project focuses on key drivers of climate change (such as temperature changes, shifts in surface primary productivity, cold water cascading etc.) and examines their impact on deep-sea ecosystems. ReDEco will combine previously collected data with new information from a diverse array of study sites in the Mediterranean to allow insights into long-term change in deep-sea ecosystems on a large scale. This will enable a better understanding and prediction of decadal-scale fluctuations and their impact on biological communities and ecosystem functioning, which is essential for identifying vulnerable systems and pursuing options to enhance resilience and human wellbeing.
The principal objectives of the research programme are to:
• understand the effects of climate change on deep-sea ecosystems in relation to climate driven regional key factors and events;
• examine the variation of total particle flux to the seabed and understand how this may affect the micro-, meio-, macro-, and megabenthic communities;
• study benthic community responses to varying food supply;
• examine the effects of climate induced changes on deep-sea communities over shorter and longer (more than a decade)timescales;
• investigate historical demography and biogeography of selected species with distinctive dispersal capability and reproductive strategy;
• integrate available historical data, time series measurements and newly acquired data in a conceptual model to predict the impact of climate change on various physicochemical and/or biological parameters.
ReDEco will improve our understanding and prediction of decadal-scale fluctuations and their impact on biological communities and ecosystem functioning, which is essential for identifying vulnerable systems and pursuing options to enhance resilience and human well-being.
Keywords
Climate change;
Impacts;
Benthic communities;
Marine Region
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