Evaluating ecosystem functioning of a long-term dumping site in the Bay of Seine (English Channel)

Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions

“…One study instead compared Ecopath models for the same time but constructed for different locations along a spatial eutrophication gradient (Patrício and Marques, 2006). Studies investigating other stressors compared Ecopath models, e.g., before and after the construction of a wind farm (Wang et al, 2019), for a sediment dumping site and a control site (Raoux et al, 2020), and for a heavily visited urban beach versus a nearby beach in a protected area (Reyes-Martínez et al, 2015). While most of these studies focused on single stressors, Akoglu et al (2014) compared four Ecopath models for the Black Sea spanning a 50-year period including eutrophication and a subsequent reduction in nutrient inputs, fisheries collapse, and biological invasions.…”

Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Scale Assessment of Marine Renewable Energy Structure in a Tidal System

“…Among the different trophic web modeling approaches currently available, the modeling tool Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) was used [29][30][31] to describe the initial state of both future OWF sites. This was a mass-balance, zero-dimension modeling approach, which had previously been used to analyze the impact of a wide range of anthropogenic perturbations on marine ecosystems such as fishing, sea dumping operations, new species introductions, and infrastructure development [32][33][34][35][36][37]. However, surprisingly few studies have combined trophic web modeling strength with OWF impact assessment [27,38].…”