Improved transdisciplinary science for effective ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning and conservation in European Seas (MarinePlan)
Food, Bioeconomy & Natural ResourcesHORIZON-RIAID: 101059407
EC Contribution
€35,878
Consortium Size
17 orgs
Start Year
2022
▶Summary
One of today’s most pressing challenges is to safeguard the loss of ecosystem biodiversity and functioning, while simultaneously allowing for their exploitation by those who depend on their services, goods and benefits. In Europe, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) is the main governance process to ideally integrate sustainability and exploitation. This requires tools and knowledge to align MSP and marine protected area (MPA) designation processes, which are lacking particularly regarding transboundary coordination and connectivity. Founded on a large amount of expertise and a solid theoretical basis, MarinePlan will co-develop with stakeholders a Decision Support System (DSS) for ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning (EB-MSP) together with best practice guidance to enhance the effectiveness of spatial conservation and restoration measures for marine biodiversity in European Seas. Tools will comprise operational criteria for ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSA), enabling the allocation of conservation and restoration areas at various scales in complex sea areas with multiple uses, while including the effects of climate change. The DSS will be developed and applied at eight European planning sites, from coastal ecosystems to open ocean and the deep sea and from local to trans-boundary scales. Applying and validating the DSS will incorporate realistic planning scenarios, key action points to achieve the EU Biodiversity Strategy, and policy recommendations how to enhance EB-MSP implementation in European Seas. MarinePlan will communicate results to decision-makers at horizontal (between sectors) and vertical (from local to European) levels and enable the transfer of knowledge to areas in differing socio-ecological settings. The improved natural and social science base will ensure effective policymaking to support a greater coherence in implementing environmental policies as well as to enable streamlined planning for marine industries.
Consortium (17)
🇩🇪 JOHANN HEINRICH VON THUENEN-INSTITUT, BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE RAEUME, WALD UND FISCHEREIDE
coordinator AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
partner🇪🇸 ASOCIACION ECOPATH INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVEES
partner DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
partner🇨🇦 Fisheries and Oceans CanadaCA
partner🇪🇸 FUNDACION AZTI - AZTI FUNDAZIOAES
partner🇩🇪 HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM HEREON GMBHDE
partner🇵🇹 IMAR - INSTITUTO DO MARPT
partner🇧🇪 INSTITUT ROYAL DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE BELGIQUEBE
partner🇬🇧 INTERNATIONAL ESTUARINE & COASTAL SPECIALISTS LTDGB
partner🇮🇪 MARINE INSTITUTEIE
partner🇬🇷 PANEPISTIMIO AIGAIOUGR
partner🇮🇹 STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRNIT
partner🇳🇱 STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCHNL
partner🇬🇧 THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFASTGB
partner🇮🇹 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO IIIT
partner🇩🇪 UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURGDE
partnerProject Results (59)
Source: CORDIS, the EU research results database.
▶Publications (37)
A review of alternative cost layers for spatial prioritization tools
Dimitra Dalla, Maria Papazekou, Katerina Konsta, Stelios Katsanevakis, Antonios. D. Mazaris
Assessment tool addresses implementation challenges of ecosystem-based management principles in marine spatial planning processes
Ibon Galparsoro, Natalia Montero, Gotzon Mandiola, Iratxe Menchaca, Ángel Borja, Wesley Flannery, Stelios Katsanevakis, Simonetta Fraschetti, Erika Fabbrizzi, Michael Elliott, Maria Bas, Steve Barnard, GerJan Piet, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Maren Kruse, Ben McAteer, Robert Mzungu Runya, Olga Lukyanova, Telmo Morato, Annaïk Van Gerven, Steven Degraer, Stefan Neuenfeldt, Vanessa Stelzenmüller
Deep-sea ecosystems of the North Atlantic Ocean: discovery, status, function and future challenges
A. Louise Allcock, Diva J. Amon, Amelia E.H. Bridges, Ana Colaço, Elva Escobar-Briones, Ana Hilário, Kerry L. Howell, Nélia C. Mestre, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Imants G. Priede, Paul V.R. Snelgrove, Kathleen Sullivan Sealey, Joana R. Xavier, Anna M. Addamo, Teresa Amaro, Gayathra Bandara, Narissa Bax, Andreia Braga-Henriques, Angelika Brandt, Saskia Brix, Sergio Cambronero-Solano, Cristina Cedeño – Posso, Jonathan T. Copley, Erik Cordes, Jorge Cortés, Aldo Croquer, Daphne Cuvelier, Jaime S. Davies, Jennifer M. Durden, Patricia Esquete, Nicola L. Foster, Inmaculada Frutos, Ryan Gasbarro, Andrew R. Gates, Marta Gomes, Lucy V.M. Goodwin, Tammy Horton, Thomas Hourigan, Henk-Jan Hoving, Daniel O.B. Jones, Siddhi Joshi, Kelly C. Kingon, Anne-Nina Lörz, Ana Martins, Véronique Merten, Anna Metaxas, Rosanna J. Milligan, Tina N. Molodtsova, Telmo Morato, Declan Morrissey, Beatriz Naranjo-Elizondo, Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, Steinunn H. Olafsdottir, Alexa Parimbelli, Marian Peña, Nils Piechaud, Stefan Ragnarsson, Sofia P. Ramalho, Clara F. Rodrigues, Rebecca E. Ross, Hanieh Saeedi, Régis Santos, Patrick T. Schwing, Tiago Serpa, Arvind K. Shantharam, Angela Stevenson, Ana Belén Yánez-Suárez, Tracey T. Sutton, Jörundur Svavarsson, Michelle L. Taylor, Jesse van der Grient, Nadescha Zwerschke
Democratizing deep-sea research for biodiversity conservation
Telmo Morato, Luís Rodrigues, Marina Carreiro-Silva, João Balsa, Inês Bruno, Inês Carneiro, Laurence Fauconnet, Guilherme Sampaio-Gonçalves, Marc P. Vilavendrell, Manuela Ramos, Gerald H. Taranto, Carlos Dominguez-Carrió
Ecological and socio-economic outcomes of area-based conservation and sustainable fisheries management in the Mediterranean Sea.
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries· 2025
Castro-Cadenas, M.D., Claudet, J., Ortega, M., Sbragaglia V., Coll, M.
Expansion of conservation areas should be informed by sectoral interlinkages.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution· 2025
Jung, M., M. Coll, A. Metaxas, S. M. Thomas, K. Tsuchiya, B. Oliveira, A. Popp and M. Rounsevell
Fishing activities within Spanish marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea
María D. Castro-Cadenas, Martín Barreiros, Maria Bas, Miquel Ortega, Joachim Claudet, Marta Coll, Valerio Sbragaglia
MapGES 2025 Cruise Report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the MT Physeter.
Zenodo· 2025
Balsa, J., Bruno, I., Sampaio-Gonçalves, G., Cardoso, G., Carneiro, I., Rodrigues, L., Vilavendrell, M. P., Gomes, M. A., Carreiro-Silva, M., Dominguez-Carrió, C., & Morato, T
MapGES 2025 Cruise Report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the RV Arquipélago.
Gonçalves, G., Balsa, J., Rodrigues, L., Bruno, I., Cardoso, G., Ramos, M., Vilavendrell, M. P., Carreiro-Silva, M., Dominguez-Carrió, C., & Morato, T
Operationalising Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas criteria for ecosystem-based conservation and management: The Bay of Biscay case
Olga Lukyanova, Sarai Pouso, Isabel García-Barón, Angel Borja, Maria Bas, Roland Cormier, Stelios Katsanevakis, Stefan Neuenfeldt, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Ibon Galparsoro
Policy Brief - Fostering Ecosystem-Based Marine Spatial Planning in the Western Mediterranean Sea
· 2025DOI
Flannery, W., Bas, M., Coll, M., Ortega, M., Elliott, M., & McAteer, B.
Spatial evaluation of Nature-based Solutions as tools for mitigating cumulative risk on key Mediterranean fish species.
· 2025
Espasandín, L., Castro-Cadenas, M. D., Ramírez, F., Calò, A., Di Franco, A., Desiderà, E., Fernández-Corredor, E., Bueno-Pardo, J., Ojea, E., Giménez, J., Bas, M., Albo-Puigserver, M., Ortega, M., Guidetti, P., Sbragaglia, V., & Coll, M.
Systematic evaluation of a spatially explicit ecosystem model to inform area-based management in the deep-sea
Joana Brito, Ambre Soszynski, Christopher K. Pham, Eva Giacomello, Gui Menezes, Jeroen Steenbeek, David Chagaris, Telmo Morato
The opportunity for climate action through climate-smart Marine Spatial Planning
Ana M. Queirós, Talya ten Brink, Maria Bas, Christopher J. Sweeting, Sian McGuinness, Hugh Edwards, Elizabeth Talbot, Patrick Berg Sørdahl, Christian Lønborg, Shayna R. Deecker-Simon, Michael Elliott, Rafael Sardá, Jose A. Fernades-Salvador, Christina Pretty, Riku Varjopuro, Elina A. Virtanen, Elena Gissi, Katherine Yates, Andrea Morf, Catarina Frazão-Santos, Inne Withouck, Matthew Frost, Marta Coll, Kira Gee, Caitriona nic Aonghusa
A Synthesis of Anthropogenic Impacts and Solutions in Estuarine and Coastal Environments
Elliott, M., Kennish, M.J.
Assessing the potential of Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) for contributing to conservation targets: A global scoping review protocol
· 2024DOI
Petza D, Amorim E, Ben Lamine E et al.
Drivers of trophodynamics of the open-ocean and deep-sea environments of the Azores, NE Atlantic
Joana Brito, Ambre Soszynski, Johanna J. Heymans, Simone Libralato, Eva Giacomello, Laurence Fauconnet, Gui M. Menezes, Telmo Morato
Dynamic marine spatial planning for conservation and fisheries benefits.
Vigo, M., Hermoso, V., Navarro, J., Sala-Coromina, J., Company, J. B., & Giakoumi, S.
Impactos acumulativos y plantificación marítima. Los proyectos GES4SEAS y MARINEPLAN. Primeros resultados.
Universidad de Alicante· 2024
Bas, M., Ortega Cerdà, M., Castro Cadenas, M. D., Lloret Lloret, E., Steenbeek, J., Ramírez Benítez, F., ... & Coll, M.
MapGES 2024 cruise report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the MT Physeter
Morato, T., Taranto, G. H., Balsa, J., Bruno, I., Carneiro, I., Navarro Engesser, M., Fauconnet, L., Gomes, S., Gomes, M. A., Sampaio-Gonçalves, G., Lacoste, R., Rodrigues, L., Vilavendrell, M. P., Carreiro-Silva, M., & Dominguez-Carrió, C.
MapGES 2024 cruise report: Exploration and mapping of deep-sea biodiversity in the Azores on board the RV Arquipélago
Morato, T., Sampaio-Gonçalves, G., Rodrigues, L., Balsa, J., Cardoso, G., Gomes, S., Lacoste, R., Navarro Engesser, M., Ramos, M., Taranto, G. H., Vilavendrell, M. P., Carreiro-Silva, M., & Dominguez-Carrió, C
Recommendations paper. This document results from the 2023-2024 joint work of MED-MSP-CoP members.
· 2024
MED-MSP-CoP Members
Spatial patterns of β-diversity under cumulative pressures in the Western Mediterranean Sea
Pennino, G. M. Zurano, J. P. Hidalgo, M. Esteban, A. Veloy, C. Bellido, J. M. Coll, M.
A review of the last twenty years of the maritime city. In Barcelona metròpoli empresa.
· 2023
Ortega, M.; Nogué, B., & Coll, M.
Azores deep-sea ecosystem: final report with protection recommendations uto de Investigação em Ciências do Mar - Okeanos, Universidade dos Açores, Horta, Portugal. 596.
· 2023
Morato, T., C. Dominguez-Carrió, L. Rodrigues, M. Ramos, G.H. Taranto, G. Gonçalves, I. Carneiro, L. Fauconnet, J. Balsa, T. Cerqueira, G. Edery, I. Bruno, M. Pladevall, A. Godinho, S. Gomes, I. Areosa, F. Porteiro, M. Carreiro-Silva
Contribution of area-based fisheries management measures to fisheries sustainability and marine conservation: a global scoping review
Petza, D., P. Anastopoulos, S. Kalogirou, M. Coll, S. Garzia, M. Kaiser, N. Koukourouvli, I. Lourdi, J. Rice, M. Sciberras and S. Katsanevakis
Current practices in marine systematic conservation planning: protocol for a global scoping review
Fabbrizzi, Erika; Giakoumi, Sylvaine; Petza, Dimitra; Katsanevakis, Stelios; Domínguez Crisóstomo, Esther; Colloca, Francesco; Elliot, Michael; Flannery, Wesley; Galparsoro, Ibon; Kruse, Maren; Ben Lamine, Emna; McAteer, Ben; Stelzenmüller, Vanessa; Fraschetti, Simonetta
Current practices in marine systematic conservation planning: protocol for a global scoping review- PRISMA-ScR Checklist
· 2023DOI
Fabbrizzi, E., Giakoumi, S., Petza, D., Katsanevakis, S., Crisóstomo, E. D., Colloca, F., … Fraschetti, S.
Identifying and prioritizing demersal fisheries restricted areas based on combined ecological and fisheries criteria: The western Mediterranean
Ortega, Miquel; Castro-Cadenas, María D.; Steenbeek, Jeroen; Coll, Marta
Managing marine resources sustainably – ecological, societal and governance connectivity, coherence and equivalence in complex marine transboundary regions
Elliott, M., Borja, Á., Cormier, R.
Modelling seabirds biodiversity through Bayesian Spatial Beta regression models: A proxy to inform marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea
Sarzo, B., J. Martínez-Minaya, M. Grazia Pennino, D. Conesa and M. Coll
Systematic evaluation of a spatially explicit ecosystem model to inform area-based management in the deep-sea
Brito, J., Soszynski, A., Pham, C.K., Giacomello, E., Menezes, G., Steenbeek, J., Chagaris, D., Morato, T.
Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?
Chatzimentor, A., Doxa, A., Katsanevakis, S., & Mazaris, A. D.
A new Western Mediterranean Sea EBSAs proposal based on quantitative information of key criteria.
Marine Policy
Bas, M., Ortega, M., Ramírez, F., Steenbeek, J., & Coll, M.
Report on EBSA metrics
Neuenfeldt, Stefan
Workshop on the Occurrence of VMEs (Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems) and Fishing Activities in EU waters of the Outermost Regions (WKOUTVME)
ICES Scientific ReportsDOI
R Aguillar; M Badreldin; J Baudrier; S Bonhommeau; L Bramanti; B Brisset; N Campbell; M Carreiro Silva; R Catarino; T Claverie; A Colaço; D Costa; H Evano; O Guyader; G Taranto; A Himes-Cornell, C Jac, A Kenny, E Kenchington et al.
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▶Other Results (1)
Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MarinePlan (Improved transdisciplinary science for effective ecosystem-based maritime spatial planning and conservation in European Seas (MarinePlan))