Identification, definition and quantification of goods and services provided by marine biodiversity: Implications for the ecosystem approach

Beaumont, Nicola; Austen, Melanie C.; Atkins, Jp; Burdon, Daryl; Degraer, S.; Dentinho, Tp; Derous, Sofie; Holm, Poul; Horton, Tammy; Ierland, Ekko van; Marboe, Ah; Starkey, Dj; Townsend, Michael; Zarzycki, Tomasz

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2006.12.003

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“…Goods and services were classified based on an http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 10/05/2018 10:20:54 | adaptation of the categories proposed by MEA (2003) and Beaumont et al (2007), and rated into three major evaluation classes "High", "Low", "Negligible / Irrelevant / Unknown". No absolute metric was used to classify goods and services of each biotope into one of these classes; evaluation was based on expert judgement and the following guidelines: when the provision of a specific service is well documented in the scientific literature and is widely accepted as important, it was classified as High (e.g.…”

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Assessment of goods and services, vulnerability, and conservation status of European seabed biotopes: a stepping stone towards ecosystem-based marine spatial management

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The goal of ecosystem-based marine spatial management is to maintain marine ecosystems in a healthy, productive and resilient condition; hence, they can sustainably provide the needed goods and services for human welfare. However, the increasing pressures upon the marine realm threaten marine ecosystems, especially seabed biotopes, and thus a well-planned approach of managing use of marine space is essential to achieve sustainability. The relative value of seabed biotopes, evaluated on the basis of goods and services, is an important starting point for the spatial management of marine areas. Herein, 56 types of European seabed biotopes and their related goods, services, sensitivity issues, and conservation status were compiled, the latter referring to management and protection tools which currently apply for these biotopes at European or international level. Fishing activities, especially by benthic trawls, and marine pollution are the main threats to European seabed biotopes. Increased seawater turbidity, dredged sediment disposal, coastal constructions, biological invasions, mining, extraction of raw materials, shipping-related activities, tourism, hydrocarbon exploration, and even some practices of scientific research, also exert substantial pressure. Although some first steps have been taken to protect the European sea beds through international agreements and European and national legislation, a finer scale of classification and assessment of marine biotopes is considered crucial in shaping sound priorities and management guidelines towards the effective conservation and sustainability of European marine resources.

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Assessment of goods and services, vulnerability, and conservation status of European seabed biotopes: a stepping stone towards ecosystem-based marine spatial management

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“…The coastal zone is subject to many and varied changes resulting from human activities and natural processes (Aubry and Elliott 2006), which can impair the health and fitness of resident biota (Adams 2005) as well as the ability of the coastal zone to deliver ecosystem functions and the goods and services for human well-being (Beaumont et al 2007;Costanza et al 1997). In recent times, many estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems have experienced increasing degradation (Halpern et al 2008a).…”

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Medium- and Long-term Recovery of Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Patterns, Rates and Restoration Effectiveness

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Many estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems have increasingly experienced degradation caused by multiple stressors. Anthropogenic pressures alter natural ecosystems and the ecosystems are not considered to have recovered unless secondary succession has returned the ecosystem to the pre-existing condition or state. However, depending upon the scales of time, space and intensity of anthropogenic disturbance, return along the historic trajectory of the ecosystem may: (1) follow natural restoration though secondary succession; (2) be re-directed through ecological restoration, or (3) be unattainable. In order to address the gaps in knowledge about restoration and recovery of estuarine and coastal ecosystems, this special feature includes the present overview and other contributions to provide a synthesis of our knowledge about recovery patterns, rates and restoration effectiveness. From the 51 examples collated in this contribution, we refine the recovery from the list of stressors into six recovery mechanisms: (1) recovery from sediment modification, which includes all aspects of dredging and disposal; (2) recovery by complete removal of stressors limiting natural ecosystem processes, which includes tidal marsh and inundation restoration; (3) recovery by speed of organic degradation, which includes oil discharge, fish farm wastes, sewage disposal, and paper mill waste; (4) recovery from persistent pollutants, which includes chemical discharges, such as TBT; (5) recovery from excessive biological removal, related to fisheries and (6) recovery from hydrological and morphological modification. Drawing upon experience both from these many examples and from an example of one comprehensive study, we show that although in some cases recovery can take <5 years, especially for the short-lived and high-turnover biological components, full recovery of coastal marine and estuarine ecosystems from over a century of degradation can take a minimum of 15-25 years for attainment of the original biotic composition and diversity may lag far beyond that period.

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“…The Becosystem approach^has many definitions (Apitz et al 2006) but fundamentally requires a more holistic understanding of biotic and abiotic interactions that drive the ecological dynamics of a given habitat. This means including and understanding the interactions between the biology, physics, biogeochemistry and fluid mechanics of the system and the combination of these factors and processes which ultimately deliver goods and services valued by humans (Beaumont et al 2007). The need for research at this interface has been recognised early on by engineers, biologists, geomorphologists and sedimentologists, but there is still a need to coordinate disciplines requiring adoption of mutually accepted methods, approaches and scales of investigations (Hannah et al 2004;Rice et al 2010).…”

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Form, function and physics: the ecology of biogenic stabilisation

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Purpose The objective of this work is to better understand the role that biological mediation plays in the behaviour of fine sediments. This research is supported by developments in ecological theory recognising organisms as Becosystem engineers^and associated discussion of Bniche construction^, suggesting an evolutionary role for habitat modification by biological action. In addition, there is acknowledgement from engineering disciplines that something is missing from fine sediment transport predictions. Materials and methods Advances in technology continue to improve our ability to examine the small-scale 2D processes with large-scale effects in natural environments. Advanced molecular tools can be combined with state-of-the-art field and laboratory techniques to allow the discrimination of microbial biodiversity and the examination of their metabolic contribution to ecosystem function. This in turn can be related to highly resolved measurements and visualisation of flow dynamics. Results and discussion Recent laboratory and field work have led to a paradigm shift whereby hydraulic research has to embrace biology and biogeochemistry to unravel the highly complex issues around on fine sediment dynamics. Examples are provided illustrating traditional and more recent approaches including using multiple stressors in fully factorial designs in both the laboratory and the field to highlight the complexity of the interaction between biology and sediment dynamics in time and space. The next phase is likely to rely on advances in molecular analysis, metagenomics and metabolomics, to assess the functional role of microbial assemblages in sediment behaviour, including the nature and rate of polymer production by bacteria, the mechanism of their influence on sediment behaviour. Conclusions To fully understand how aquatic habitats will adjust to environmental change and to support the provision of various ecosystem services, we require a holistic approach. We must consider all aspects that control the distribution of sediment and the erosion-transport-deposition-consolidation cycle including biological and chemical processes, not just the physical. In particular, the role of microbial assemblages is now recognised as a significant factor deserving greater attention across disciplines.

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Identification, definition and quantification of goods and services provided by marine biodiversity: Implications for the ecosystem approach

Cited by 401 publications

References 32 publications

Assessment of goods and services, vulnerability, and conservation status of European seabed biotopes: a stepping stone towards ecosystem-based marine spatial management

Assessment of goods and services, vulnerability, and conservation status of European seabed biotopes: a stepping stone towards ecosystem-based marine spatial management

Medium- and Long-term Recovery of Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems: Patterns, Rates and Restoration Effectiveness

Form, function and physics: the ecology of biogenic stabilisation

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