PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF MARINE AREAS

摘要: The DAM Research Mission aims to develop and support options for sustainable use of marine resources and ecosystem services, and to promote good environmental status in marine systems. The mission will complement the ongoing research and fill identified research gaps to support the implementation in the second cycle of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. The Mission is founded on the existing expertise of the participating German research institutions and universities and on state-of-the art knowledge. The overall aims are to supplement ongoing and planned future German marine research, to fill existing gaps, and to facilitate closer scientific cooperation by combining different knowledge types and disciplines in synergistic processes, thus promoting the sustainable use of marine areas.Stressors on marine and coastal environments originate from naturally occurring changes superimposed to a combination of various human induced impacts. Human and environmental drivers (including changes in hydrographic conditions, physical disturbance and loss of habitats, non-native species, fish mortality, eutrophication, pollution, marine litter, sound from human activities) are highly variable both in type and on different temporal and spatial scales. Thus, this Research Mission will adopt a combination of long and short term regional and local approaches to assess overarching human and environmental drivers and their impacts on marine regions and land-ocean transition zones. The Mission will identify the various human use and planning scenarios in selected marine ecosystems and assess basin scale functionality and remote …