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

CRISE Alessandro;  KABERI Heleni;  RUIZ Javier;  ZATSEPIN Andrey;  ARASHKEVICH Elena;  GIANI Michele;  KARAGEORGIS Aristomenis P.;  PRIETO Laura;  PANTAZI Maria;  GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ Daniel;  RIBERA D’ALCALÀ Maurizio;  TORNERO ALVAREZ Maria Victoria;  VASSILOPOULOU Vassiliki;  DURRIEU DE MADRON Xavier;  GUIEU C.;  PUIG P.;  ZENETOS Argyro;  ANDRAL Bruno;  ANGEL D.;  ALTUKHOV Denis;  BALCIOG˘LU E.;  AYATA S.D.;  AKTAN Y.;  BOUCHOUCHA Mark;  BENEDETTI F.;  BUIA M.C.;  CADIOU J.F.;  CANALS Miquel;  CHAKROUN Mehdi;  CHRISTOU Epaminondas;  CHRISTIDIS M.G.;  CIVITARESE G.;  COATU Valentina;  CORSINI-FOKA Maria;  COZZI S.;  DEIDUN Alan;  DELL'AQUILA Alessandro;  DUMITRACHE Camelia;  DOGRAMMATZI A.;  EDELIST D.;  ETTAHIRI Omar;  FONDA-UMANI S.;  GANA Slim;  GALGANI Francois;  GASPARINI S.;  GIANNAKOUROU Antonia;  GOMOIU Marian Traian;  GUBANOVA Alexandra;  GÜCÜ A.C.;  GÜRSES Ö;  HANKE Georg;  HERUT Barak;  HATZIANESTIS I.;  HONE R.;  HUERTAS E.;  IRISSON J.O.;  ISINIBILIR Melek;  JIMENEZ J.A.;  KALOGIROU S.;  KAPIRIS Kostas;  KARAMFILOV V.;  KAVADAS Stefanos;  KESKIN Ç.;  KIDEYS A.E.;  KOCAK M;  KONDYLATOS Gerasimos;  KONTOGIANNIS Charilaos;  KOSYAN R.;  KOUBBI P.;  KUŠPILIC´ G.;  LA FERLA R.;  LANGONE L.;  LAROCHE Sophie;  LAZAR Luminita;  LEFKADITOU E.;  LEMESHKO I.E.;  MACHIAS A.;  MALEJ Alenka;  MAZZOCCHI M.G.;  MEDINETS Volodymyr;  MIHALOPOULOS N.;  MISEROCCHI S.;  MONCHEVA Snejana;  MUKHANOV V.;  OAIE Gheorghe;  OROS Andra;  ÖZTÜRK A.A.;  ÖZTÜRK B.;  PROSPATHOPOULOS Aristides;  PANAYOTOVA M.;  RADU Gheorghe;  RAYKOV V.;  REGLERO Patricia;  REYGONDEAU G.;  ROUGERON N.;  SALIHOGLU Baris;  SANCHEZ-VIDAL Anna;  SANNINO G.;  SANTINELLI C.;  SECRIERU D.;  SHAPIRO G.;  SIMBOURA Nomiki;  SHIGANOVA Tamara;  SPROVIERI M.;  STEFANOVA Kremena;  STREFTARIS Nikos;  TIRELLI V.;  TOM M.;  TOPALOG˘LU B.;  TOPÇU N.E.;  TSAGARAKIS Konstantinos;  TSANGARIS Catherine;  TSERPES G.;  TUG˘RUL S.;  UYSAL Z.;  VASILE D.;  VIOLAKI K.;  XU J.;  YÜKSEK A.;  PAPATHANASSIOU Evangelios; 

2015-09-01

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

JRC97074

0025-326X,   

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X15001691,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC97074,   

10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.03.024,