Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (FutureMARES)

Description:

Marine and transitional waters support a large portion of the global biodiversity. Harbouring key climate-regulating processes and habitats, they contribute to worldwide food security, in addition to other valuable economic and well-being services and resources. The FutureMARES project will deliver new solutions to climate change challenges. This highly multidisciplinary project will investigate socially and economically viable nature-based solutions (NBS) for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Solutions will include the restoration of habitat-forming species that can buffer coastal habitats from climate change effects and improve seawater quality. Conservation actions and sustainable, ecosystem-based harvesting (capture and culture) of seafood are also a project priority. Overall, the aim is to safeguard these ecosystems’ natural capital, biodiversity and services.

Shifts in the distribution and productivity of keystone, structural and endangered species and the consequences for biodiversity will be projected within different climate change-NBS scenarios to reveal potential ecological benefits, feedbacks and trade-offs. Novel, social-ecological vulnerability assessments will rank the severity of climate change impacts on various ecosystem services and dependent human communities. Complementary analyses at real-world demonstration sites will inform managers and policy-makers on the economic costs and tradeoffs of NBS.

 

ECCA 2021 - Climate Adaptation solutions video - FutureMARES

Project information

Lead

UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG, Germany

Partners

AARHUS UNIVERSITET, Denmark;

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS, Greece;

FUNDACION AZTI - AZTI FUNDAZIOA, Spain;

CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADADOS EN ZONAS ARIDAS, Chile;

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS, UK;

CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINAR DE INVESTIGACAO MARINHA E AMBIENTAL, Portugal;

FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI, Italy;

AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY, Belize;

DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL, UK;

STICHTING DELTARES, Netherlands;

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET, Denmark;

CENTRO DE CIENCIAS DO MAR DO ALGARVE, Portugal;

HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL, Germany;

HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH, Greece;

ICETA INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS, TECNOLOGIAS E AGROAMBIENTE DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, Portugal;

ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIMITED, Israel;

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT, France;

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, France;

MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, UK;

NORSK INSTITUTT FOR VANNFORSKNING, Noway;

PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY LIMITED, UK;

CONSORZIO DI GESTIONE DELL'AREA MARINA PROTETTA DEL PROMONTORIO DI PORTOFINO, Italy;

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, UK;

STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET, Sweden;

SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS, Finland;

JOHANN HEINRICH VON THUENEN-INSTITUT, BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE RAEUME, WALD UND FISCHEREI, Germany;

WCMC LBG, UK;

UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy;

UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO, Spain;

STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH, Netherlands

Source of funding

LC-CLA-06-2019 - Inter-relations between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services