North Atlantic Basin-Scale Multi-Criteria Assessment Database to Inform Effective Management and Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

Morato, Telmo; Pham, Christopher K.; Fauconnet, Laurence; Taranto, Gerald H.; Chimienti, Giovanni; Cordes, Erik; Dominguez-Carrió, Carlos; Durán Muñoz, Pablo; Egilsdottir, Hronn; González-Irusta, José-Manuel; Grehan, Anthony; Hebbeln, Dierk; Henry, Lea-Anne; Kazanidis, Georgios; Kenchington, Ellen; Menot, Lenaick; Molodtsova, Tina N.; Orejas, Covadonga; Ramiro-Sánchez, Berta; Ramos, Manuela; Roberts, J. Murray; Rodrigues, Luís; Ross, Steve W.; Rueda, José L.; Sacau, Mar; Stirling, David; Carreiro-Silva, Marina

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North Atlantic Basin-Scale Multi-Criteria Assessment Database to Inform Effective Management and Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

2021
By Morato, Telmo ; Pham, Christopher K. ; Fauconnet, Laurence ; ...

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Frontiers in Marine Science
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Morato, Telmo ; Pham, Christopher K. ; Fauconnet, Laurence ; Taranto, Gerald H. ; Chimienti, Giovanni ; Cordes, Erik ; Dominguez-Carrió, Carlos ; Durán Muñoz, Pablo ; Egilsdottir, Hronn ; González-Irusta, José-Manuel ; Grehan, Anthony ; Hebbeln, Dierk ; Henry, Lea-Anne ; Kazanidis, Georgios ; Kenchington, Ellen ; Menot, Lenaick ; Molodtsova, Tina N. ; Orejas, Covadonga ; Ramiro-Sánchez, Berta ; Ramos, Manuela ; Roberts, J. Murray ; Rodrigues, Luís ; Ross, Steve W. ; Rueda, José L. ; Sacau, Mar ; Stirling, David ; Carreiro-Silva, Marina
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Ocean Exploration Program
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The identification of areas that fit the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) criteria to define what constitutes a Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) has been the main policy driver for the protection of deep-sea environments in Areas Beyond National Jurisdictions (United Nations General Assembly, 2006; FAO, 2009) in relation to bottom fisheries. At the same time, the Convention on Biological Diversity advocates for the implementation of representative networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the open ocean and the deep sea, and calls for the identification of Ecologically or Biologically Significant marine Areas (EBSAs; Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008, Decision IX/20). Although VMEs and EBSAs are conceptually different, Ardron et al. (2014) argue that the designation of VMEs, EBSAs, and large open-ocean MPAs should be aligned to ensure that VMEs are incorporated within area-based management tools.
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FY17 NOFO NOPP
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 8
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.637078
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2296-7745
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